Originally Posted by
Schweinhund
Are you SURE about that. In my state, California, it is. I would bet it is in your state as well.
No, not sure and I do not know what NY law is. It seems logical that a moving vehicle (in this case a bicycle) has right of way in the lane that it is traveling (in this case a designated bicycle lane). This is pretty common vehicle law that a vehicle changing lanes or turning (which describes what the truck was doing) must yield to a vehicle/bicycle in that lane. The truck does not have right-of-way. For whatever reason, the truck driver did not check to ascertain if the turn and lane change was a safe move. The burden is completely on the driver of the truck to do so.