5 Things to Do When You’re in a Bike Crash Assess the Situation – The first thing you want to do is make sure you are okay. Check yourself out and only try to move if it is safe to do so. If you feel that you may be seriously injured, do not try to leave the scene on...
“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...
