Comments on: L.A. Mayor Leads Bicycling Effort after Bike Crash http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2010/08/l-a-mayor-leads-bicycling-effort-after-crash/ Blog for bikeleague Tue, 21 May 2013 20:05:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Elizabeth Kiker http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2010/08/l-a-mayor-leads-bicycling-effort-after-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-33181 Elizabeth Kiker Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:14:01 +0000 http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=3357#comment-33181 Thanks for the reminder, and you are right of course. We updated the post.

]]> By: ron durgin http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2010/08/l-a-mayor-leads-bicycling-effort-after-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-33179 ron durgin Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:47:14 +0000 http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=3357#comment-33179 Please stop referring to this incident as an “accident.” This was a no-contact crash that resulted from a careless taxi cab operator who broke the law by failing to yield before moving laterally. In this case, the taxi cut off the path of the cyclist traveling in a bike lane.

VC 22107. No person shall turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway until such movement can be made with reasonable safety and then only after the giving of an appropriate signal in the manner provided in this chapter in the event any other vehicle may be affected by the movement.

Just because the Mayor doesn’t want to press charges doesn’t mean a violation did not occur. By characterizing it as an accident the driver is set free to terrorize more people with his careless driving habits.

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