Bicycle Accident

A cyclist hurt on a Portland street can still make an Oregon injury claim. Drivers who overtake a bicycle generally must pass at a safe distance, meaning a distance sufficient to prevent contact if the rider fell into the driver’s lane, under section 811.065, with the exceptions that section spells out. Drivers also have yield duties on a bicycle lane and on a sidewalk under sections 811.050 and 811.055. Those duties are evidence in a comparative-fault analysis, not automatic verdicts.

Ask which PIP policies might apply, request the crash report, and watch the two-year period in section 12.110. Our pedestrian and bicycle guide and our fault guide cover the next steps.