The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that 51,000 individuals were injured while riding a bicycle. Six thousand people suffered serious incapacitating injuries in bicycle accidents.
New Jersey requires that every bicyclist must ride as near to the right side of the roadway as practicable, exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction. A bicyclist may move left under any of the following conditions:
- To make a left turn from a left-turn lane or pocket;
- To avoid debris, drains or other hazardous conditions that make it impracticable to ride at the right side of the roadway;
- To pass a slower moving vehicle;
- To occupy any available lane when traveling at the same speed as other traffic; or
- To travel no more than two abreast when traffic is not impeded.
See N.J. Stat. Ann. §39:4-14.2
New Jersey does not have a statute that specifically authorizes or prohibits the operation of a bicycle upon a sidewalk. Vehicles and horses generally cannot go on sidewalks, but bicycles are not vehicles under New Jersey law.
See N.J. Stat. Ann. §39:4-71; 39:1-1
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