I have mixed feelings of "Would I have been at fault", I'm hunting for the video off my dashcam, but this was easily the closest I've ever come in my life to hitting a pedestrian of any kind.
I was pulling into the entrance of a parking garage with an obscured view on my right side due to a tour bus, and at the last possible second a cyclist on a Diivy came tearing out in front of me doing easily 15-20mph on the sidewalk from the opposite side of the tour bus.
I feel that I was going at a slow enough speed that even with the obscured view I would have been able to stop had a pedestrian suddenly come out into the crossing, but with the speed of the cyclist there was no way I could have approached it slow enough to have reacted.
So Just generally curious, was I pulling into the lot too fast with my view obscured (once I have the footage up)? Or was the Bicyclist doing that rate of speed ON a sidewalk potentially illegal/wreckless?
Thankfully nothing happened, just kind of looking back at it in the "What if I had hit him" sense curious if I would have been at fault.
I was pulling into the entrance of a parking garage with an obscured view on my right side due to a tour bus, and at the last possible second a cyclist on a Diivy came tearing out in front of me doing easily 15-20mph on the sidewalk from the opposite side of the tour bus.
I feel that I was going at a slow enough speed that even with the obscured view I would have been able to stop had a pedestrian suddenly come out into the crossing, but with the speed of the cyclist there was no way I could have approached it slow enough to have reacted.
So Just generally curious, was I pulling into the lot too fast with my view obscured (once I have the footage up)? Or was the Bicyclist doing that rate of speed ON a sidewalk potentially illegal/wreckless?
Thankfully nothing happened, just kind of looking back at it in the "What if I had hit him" sense curious if I would have been at fault.