Originally Posted by Roody
When it comes to sidewalk riders, motorists should watch for them. But would you rather be right, or rather be safe? If you ride on the sidewalk, you must look in all four directions every time you cross a driveway or side street. Motorists don't look where they don't expect to see you, and there is nothing you can do to make them look. Our safety is in our own hands.
No argument with this. Of course the above statement is quite different than those other posters who are claiming that "wrong way sidewalk cyclists" or sidewalk cyclists "crossing over" ?? are in the wrong and are essentially legal targets for motorists to run into because motorists have no need to yield right of way when crossing sidewalks/crosswalks when a bicyclist is present.
No one presented any evidence that the injured cyclist in the article cited by OP sped into an unsuspecting motorist at some reckless speed; only that the motorist "never saw him". That is an excuse/claim worn out by being cited by almost every motorist who hits a cyclist, no matter what the circumstances. Why do so-called bicycling advocates jump at every chance to blame a cyclist for his injuries WHEN the cyclist doesn't fit the advocates' preferred profile?