In this crash type, the bicyclist pulls out of a street through a stop sign or flashing red signal and fails to yield to a motorist traveling through the intersection. In approximately two-thirds of the crashes the cyclist is hit in the first half of the road and 15 percent are riding the wrong way against traffic. One third of the cyclists are hit in the second half of the road and a further 8 percent of riders are riding the wrong way against traffic.
Almost one in ten crashes involving a bicyclist and a motor vehicle involves a bicyclist, typically a child aged 14 or under, riding into an intersection and failing to Stop and yield to a motorist passing through the intersection. Although riding on the sidewalk and the wrong way against traffic are certainly factors in many of the crashes, more than two-thirds of cyclists are riding with traffic on the roadway. Crashes of this type usually happen in daylight hours on local streets with 2 lanes.
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