Originally Posted by
FrenchFit
Lincoln Municipal Code says a bicycle rider needs to dismount and walk the bike on a crosswalk, which is the law everywhere I've lived. It says nothing about shifting accident liability to the bike rider which violates the Code, though if you hit a pedestrian in that crosswalk I suspect violating this section would create a presumption of negligence. Nebraska is a modified comparative negligence state, meaning your negligence in operating your bicycles reduces your recovery until you are 50% or more at fault, then you get nothing. The issue is whether your riding in the crosswalk contributed to the accident.
Do some reading.
Sounds like weaseling out of responsibility. Where the state legislature ignored the comparative negligence position of the state. In favor of making it look like it is always the cyclist's fault.
Which is sort of like saying in a fatal accident between a 18-wheeler, and a Ford Pinto(remember, the car that would explode if it was rear-ended). That it is always the fault of the driver driving the Ford Pinto. Never the larger vehicle.