Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

And to update, the cyclist has been charged with riding in a crosswalk. WRPS did not provide many details about the incident. It seems like either the driver entered the crosswalk while waiting at a red and struck the cyclist, or the cyclist blew through a red during rush hour cross traffic.

That’s a strange charge. It seems to me that either the driver should be charged with running a red (in your first alternative), or the cyclist should be (in the second). It’s hard to see how riding in a crosswalk, in itself, would be the cause of a collision with a motor vehicle (maybe a pedestrian, but not a motor vehicle). That’s not for sure — if the cyclist was going at bicycle speeds they could cut in front of somebody in the middle of a legitimate turn, for example, who would never have hit a pedestrian — but I’d like to know more about the facts.