Sep 28, 2017: Dearborn, MI. City Council votes YES on new traffic safety ordinance created to give bicyclists 5ft clearance from passing motor vehicles.

THE CITY OF DEARBORN ORDAINS TO: Amend Chapter 18 of the Code of the City of Dearborn by adding Sec. 18-322 to read as follows:
Chapter 18 TRAFFIC AND MOTOR VEHICLES *** ARTICLE II. TRAFFIC CODE ***
Division 7. Meeting; Overtaking; Passing; Right of Way; Marked Lanes ***

Sec. 18-322 Minimum distance when overtaking or passing a bicycle; penalty. (a) When overtaking or passing a person operating a bicycle proceeding in the same direction, the driver of a motor vehicle shall exercise due care and may only overtake or pass a bicyclist when there is a safe distance, which shall minimally require allowing the bicyclist at least five (5) feet separation between the right side of the driver’s vehicle, including all mirrors or other projections, and the left side of the bicyclist at all times. (b) A person who violates this rule is responsible for a civil infraction.

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