Originally Posted by
howeeee
I was riding on the sidewalk on my 48 Autocycle that weighs in at about 75 pounds..i am about to cross the street this guy doesnt stop or even slowdown behind the stop sign but stops blocking the entire sidewalk,,my brakes work but not on a dime,,anyway I run pretty hard into the side of this guy,,i hurt the knuckle on one hand,,,and that is about it,,bike didnt get hurt at all lol and I put 2 dents in the side of his van. One with the tire and one with the handle bar lol.
Man... I probably have to stop and block the sidewalk 25% of the time to make a turn onto another street in general, but 100% of the time coming out of my street onto the main road as I can't see what's coming without being right out at the intersection... Cars stopping and blocking the sidewalk seem quite common to me. The difference here was that you were going faster than a pedestrian who could have easily stopped but you couldn't. Now legally he should have stopped at the stop sign but lots of people do that and then still stop blocking the sidewalk before proceeding through, depending on a lot of different conditions... Bottom line to me and it seems a lot of others is that when you are using a sidewalk you need to use it like a pedestrian and not like a bicyclist...
