Burbank, California
Cyclists in California have the rights and duties of drivers (Vehicle Code § 21200), and a driver who fails to yield, turns across a rider or passes too closely is responsible for the result. Burbank is unusually rideable for the Valley — the Chandler Bikeway runs on a former rail alignment across the city and the Burbank Channel bike path follows the channel toward the airport — but riders still have to mix with freeway-bound and studio traffic at the crossings.
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Most bikeway collisions happen where the path meets a street. The controlling questions are the traffic control at that crossing, who had the right of way, and whether a driver turning across the crossing looked for a rider approaching at path speed rather than walking pace.
Where a crossing's markings, signal timing or sightlines are themselves part of the problem, a claim against the public entity responsible for the crossing may exist, and it runs on the six-month claim deadline in Government Code § 911.2 rather than the general two years.
Vehicle Code § 21760 requires at least three feet when passing a bicycle, and where that is not possible, slowing and passing only when it will not endanger the rider. Section 21202 lets a rider leave the right edge to pass, turn left, avoid hazards including the door zone, or occupy a lane too narrow to share.
Vehicle Code § 22517 governs doorings. Helmets are required only under 18 (§ 21212), and California reduces recovery by a share of fault rather than barring it, so a contested case is still a case.
Usually the driver who failed to yield at the crossing. If the crossing's signal timing, markings or sightlines contributed, a claim against the public entity responsible for it may also exist — and that one generally requires a written claim within six months (Government Code § 911.2).
Not by itself. Approach speed is measurable from the physical evidence, and drivers turning across a bike lane or crossing are required to yield. California also applies pure comparative fault, so a disputed share reduces a recovery rather than ending it.
Most California injury lawsuits must be filed within two years of the injury (Code of Civil Procedure § 335.1). If a city, county, or state agency is a defendant — a municipal vehicle, a dangerous roadway condition, a public sidewalk — you generally have six months to present a written government claim first (Government Code § 911.2). Talk to a lawyer early so a deadline never decides the case for you.
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