Originally Posted by
CB HI
... I could see traffic stopped for a pedestrian half-way across, The cyclist seeing the pedestrian and stopped traffic and proceeding. Then getting hit from an empty lane that a motorist did not stop when the traffic in the next lane is stopped at a crosswalk. From what I have seen from this type of mid-block crosswalk, that is the most common way pedestrians get hit.
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TheWashCycle: Fatality
In the fatal crash on the Capital Crescent Trail last month, the one that prompted Montgomery County police to hold a press conference during which they lectured trail users about exceptions to the right-of-way rules, the cyclists appears to have had the right-of-way and the driver was at fault, according to one report.
Bystanders said they saw one car stop before the crosswalk. This car might have blocked the view of the second motorist in the adjoining lane.
The law requires that a driver stop in the adjacent lane when a vehicle in an adjoining lane has stopped, but the custom is not to stop or even to slow down. Drivers don’t want to be rude to cars behind them, and stopping might cause a rear-end collision.