Originally Posted by sggoodri

We recently had a cyclist critically injured by a right-hook collision in a bike lane in Durham. The cyclist attempted to overtake a slowing dump truck on the right, just before it turned. The police decided that the cyclist was at fault for overtaking on the right, because they believed the truck driver was not required to merge into the bike lane, and could not be expected to monitor his blind spot while concentrating on executing the turn.

Predictably, the local bike lane advocates responded to the incident by trying to promote public education of motorists to yield to bike-lane cyclists in their blind spot, rather than promoting proper destination positioning for turning and speed positioning for overtaking.