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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Passing on the right is never safe. This is one of many reasons why. By car or by bike. The biker was an idiot. Never pass a car on the right side.[/quote]

All you drivers have no idea of the unintended consequences of what you're asking.  The alternative is for the biker to take the lane, and all the cars wan stay behind her.  If everyone did that, drivers would lose their minds.  [/quote]

This. If you want a bike to behave like a car, you have to give them the space you'd give a car.

In this scenario I'd say the bike was technically right, bikes can ride on the right of cars in the absence of a bike lane and cars should not turn into cyclists continuing straight. If the car turned and hit the bike, i cant see the argument that the OP (driver) was actually in the right to do so. BUT the bike was also practically wrong, they were taking a risk that the driver of a much deadlier vehicle was fully aware of their presence, and [b]being technically right doesn't help much if you're dead[/b]. [/quote]

As a DC driver who never bikes, I agree with this 100%. And I would add, in reference to the bolded part, that the same goes for drivers—it doesn’t matter if you’re technically in the right if the result is a cyclist’s death. Even if you aren’t criminally responsible and even if you don’t face civil liability, you have to live with that forever. [/quote]

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