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Are you serious?

1. Always wear a helmet.
*2. Wear high visibility clothing. Wear safety vest.
*3. Your bike must have a white front and red back light. Those must be turned on.
*4. Your bike must have reflectors on the front and back wheel.

* is for when visibility is not blue skies, 100% daylight like early in the morning, in the evening, when it's rainy, foggy etc.

[b]Anything else IS negligence.[/b]
There is a reason these rules exist for cars - and as long as you participate in traffic on the street the same rules should apply. Not sure how far along the law in the US is (don't think far along at all) but yeah...it saves lives. And there is zero reason not to do these things except stupidity. And no that cannot be put in any nicer words.[/quote]

The law in Maryland, DC, and Virginia is contributory negligence. (In other places, it's comparative negligence.) What contributory negligence says is: if you were at fault at all, even only a tiny little bit, you can be denied all compensation.

So when you say that it's negligent to not wear a safety vest, or it's negligent to not have lights on your bike that are turned on, this is what you're saying: if a speeding driver on a cell phone hits a person who is riding a bike without a safety vest, and the person ends up in the hospital with severe injuries, the driver is not liable for the bicyclist's injuries, because the bicyclist was also negligent.

Is that something you approve of? [/quote]

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