Originally Posted by JKfromPBurgh
Suppose you were in a car and she was a five year old on a bike ... No question who gets cooked on that one!
Suppose you are in a car turning into a driveway and a bicylist is crossing the sidewalk to get to the street ... You're cooked again!!
Suppose you are on a bike turning from the street across a sidewalk into a driveway and you collide with a cyclist on the sidewalk who was accessing the street ... just baste and heat!
When you turn from the street into a driveway, YOU are responsible for not colliding with someone using the sidewalk.
Interesting analysis. Now I can't decide which way to go. In Minnesota, it is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk in a commercial area, which we assume this was since the person was going to work. Furthermore, if there had been a collision, the person on the sidewalk would have hit the person turning off the street, instead of being hit (if I followed the description correctly). Therefore, the person turning off the street into the driveway gets hit by someone breaking the law, and gets the blame for it. That doesn't seem quite right. I wonder if there is some shared responsibility.