That's what the law says in France, at least. People are supposed to cross on crosswalks, but if they don't and a car hits them the driver is at fault regardless. I can try to find a source in english if that's important to you.
Anyway, context is king here and what I didn't specify in my post above is that the space where it happened was quite crowded and ambiguous (especially for an alien like me who had seldom seen a bike lane at the time)
Yea, exactly my point. I'm not denying that I should have been aware of the presence of the bike lane but it falls on the guy on a vehicle to be acutely aware of his surroundings and wary of potential collisions. I say this as a driver and a bicycler
Neither (or both?), it was an overcrowded walkable canal bank in the height of summer with faint paint marks to delimit the path of the bike "lane". I was in the wrong in any case, what I'm complaining about is the dude's reaction. My point is you have to be able to share the space and safely navigate what is inevitably going to be a crowded area at that time of year, especially when riding a bicycle which can be dangerous in its own right.
Well, I don't know anything more than that.
Sorry I should really make it a habit of quoting my source anytime I make a claim... there is so much disinformation in the air
Mediapart.fr
edit my bad... it was Courrier International, relaying AFP info, itself coming from the PCD (Palestinian Civil Defence, rescue organization), which AFP said they could not independently verify (quoting the article). And it was 76 people not 72 although I don't think at this point it makes much of a difference.
Yet compared to Trump she seems like a fresh spring onion
yea, but it's imaginable
no worries, I read Mediapart which is a trustworthy journal
That was the case when I was a teen, too