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The charges against the driver were dropped because his dashcam showed he swerved to give the cyclist room.
Not really. It was a shoulderless 2 lane residential street, with an oncoming vehicle that passed almost simultaneously. Not condoning actions of cyclist, as I said, but dick move by the driver. He could easily have waited until the oncoming car passed, and given more room.
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The cyclist behaved poorly here.

They say the driver's ticket was dropped based on dashcam footage.

However the dashcam only shows that the driver moved over. It didn't show how much room he gave to pass.

I can't think of a single ride I've been on where there weren't a number of drivers who moved over to pass me but did not move over ENOUGH to pass me safely or legally. Indeed, if they hadn't moved over at all I'd be run over. Here we have a 3 foot passing law for cyclists, but I am almost never given three feet by passing cars. There should be better education and more enforcement.
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Old b*stard is lucky he didn't get the grand prize for jerking open someone's car door. Kid didn't even close pass him to boot.
I can't help but think if the driver had been a grown up that guy would have gotten decked.
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