Originally Posted by
wphamilton
Because Officer Know-it-all ordered OP off the road. So OP was riding where he was told to, across the street on the sidewalk contra-traffic, and almost paid a very high price for the Cop's ignorance.
Even when the intersection is controlled, it's a dangerous situation to be avoided. Uncontrolled, BOTH parties just doing what they're normally supposed to sets up an accident.
Regardless of Why he was on the sidewalk ... that is where he was. And ... I might have read the story wrong, but what is seem like is the OP rode up to the intersection at whatever speed (I assume somewhere between 10-20 mph) and took a glance back at the turn lane. But at that speed, looking across several lanes of traffic, and also looking more closely for more proximate traffic ... he didn't see an oncoming car.
If the OP had stopped and ridden across .... or Really slowed ...
In any case ... my idea is not blaming someone but in the OP (and me) seeing what went wrong and not making that same mistake again.
There are so many mistakes to make, why repeat?