Originally Posted by
Bob N.
NYT article says they were riding on shoulder. Graphic shows them riding in the lane.
Which is it? Whoever got it wrong deserves a dressing down.
The NYT article I posted was one of the first national news reports. It is hard to get everything right in the first report. I haven't followed that closely, but it sounds like it is still ambiguous whether the cyclists were in the right lane or the shoulder.
Although this is an important detail for purposes of assigning blame and/or liability, the main point of the news story is that 5 cyclists were killed. The veracity of that claim has nothing to do with what lane they occupied.