Bicycles passing on the right?
Early this afternoon, I was driving north on Morse Blvd going to join some friends for lunch at Mallory Country Club. There was a man on a bicycle in the right lane. I pulled into the left lane to pass him: giving him plenty of room. After I passed him, I returned to the right lane. When I approached the roundabout near Mallory the cars were backed up. I waited my turn and was concentrating on looking left to see a clear spot to enter the roundabout. As I started to enter the roundabout, low and behold the biker was on my right. He was not turning right as I was and I nearly hit him. (Thank God I saw him in time!!) He had passed all the waiting cars at the roundabout on the right and moved up to the front. Is this legal for a bicyclist to pass cars waiting at a roundabout or a red light to pass on the right? Would I have been ticketed if I had hit him? I’m still shaking after this one.
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