{"id":141554966,"date":"2009-06-27T08:49:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T08:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=141554966"},"modified":"2009-06-27T08:49:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T08:49:26","slug":"you-want-to-get-a-ticket-or-dontcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=141554966","title":{"rendered":"You want to get a ticket or dontcha?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Baltimore Spokes: I am placing this in the Bike Baltimore section as we recently had a cyclist doored and the police refused to write a ticket because &#8220;he was not a motor vehicle&#8221; and is now experiencing difficulties trying to get his damaged bike replaced by the insurance company. Calls to our Police Liaison have yet to be returned, so perhaps sending them a copy of this might solicit a response.]<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Tuscon Bike Lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tucsonbikelawyer.com\/you-want-to-get-a-ticket-or-dontcha\/\">writes about the typical cyclist experience following a bike vs car collision<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div> A cyclist gets hit by a car, and is lying in the pavement dazed.  Assuming the cyclist is not suffering a serious injury, the officer will then try to determine fault.  As I have written many times before, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclelicio.us\/2008\/04\/bike-lawyers-on-media-and-police-bias.html\">\u201ccarhead\u201d tends to point toward the cyclist<\/a> being at fault.<\/p>\n<p>If the officer determines the cyclist was at fault, he will then often give the cyclist a choice: you can leave here and forget about all this, or you can stay and get a ticket.  Which do you pick?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> I&#8217;ve never been threatened with a ticket, but the first time I called the police, the motorist was very clearly at fault: she completely blew through a stop sign without slowing; I escaped with my life because I did an emergency swerve but I still got a glancing blow and a damaged bike. <\/p>\n<p>I was riding completely legally on a residential street with almost no traffic, but  witnesses and the responding police officer all lectured <i>me<\/i> about my bike riding, and the cop made it very clear that my call was a huge imposition of his time.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<br \/>\nLaw enforcement&#8217;s reticence <a href=\"https:\/\/bicyclecolo.org\/page.cfm?PageID=615\">prompted Colorado cyclist advocates<\/a> to lobby for a law <b>requiring<\/b> law enforcement agencies to take bicycle accident reports.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclelicio.us\/2009\/06\/whats-your-experience-with-filing.html\">https:\/\/www.cyclelicio.us\/2009\/06\/whats-your-experience-with-filing.html<\/a>oldId.20090627084926190<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Baltimore Spokes: I am placing this in the Bike Baltimore section as we recently had a cyclist doored and the police refused to write a ticket because &#8220;he was not a motor vehicle&#8221; and is now experiencing difficulties trying to get his damaged bike replaced by the insurance company. Calls to our Police Liaison have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=141554966\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You want to get a ticket or dontcha?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141554966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141554966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141554966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141554966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141554966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141554966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141554966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}