Today, the D.C. Council was set to vote on changing D.C.’s contributory negligence law with respect to cyclists and pedestrians. What is contributory negligence you ask? Contributory negligence is a legal doctrine that makes it impossible for an injured...
Stile Products has announced a recall of its Tern folding bicycles due to a potential fall hazard. The company is recalling about 220 units for the Eclipse S11i and Verge S11i, X10, X20 and X30h models of Tern brand folding bikes. The company has already received four...
“Stop as Yield,” also known as the “Idaho Stop” is a controversial law that allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and a red light as a stop light. Idaho was the first state to pass such a law in 1982. Stop-as-yield laws are designed to allow...
There has been some recent chatter amongst DC attorneys and lobbyist groups concerning DC’s contributory negligence rule. As we have described in previous blog posts, contributory negligence is a legal doctrine that bars injured people from being compensated for their...
There has been a lot of discussion recently surrounding DC’s contributory negligence defense in personal injury actions and how it affects cyclists. The doctrine known as contributory negligence is recognized in only a handful of jurisdictions across the country...
A “sharrow”, or shared lane marking, is a symbol painted on roads to indicate that vehicles on the road should share the road with cyclists. Sharrows have been in DC since around 2008, but they have been used in Denver, Colorado since the 1990s. They were added in...
