Current through L. 2024, ch. 259
Section 28-735 - Overtaking bicycles; civil penaltiesA. When overtaking and passing a bicycle proceeding in the same direction, a person driving a motor vehicle shall exercise due care by leaving a safe distance between the motor vehicle and the bicycle of not less than three feet until the motor vehicle is safely past the overtaken bicycle.B. If a person violates this section and the violation results in a collision causing:1. Serious physical injury as defined in section 13-105 to another person, the violator is subject to a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars.2. Death to another person, the violator is subject to a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars.C. Subsection B of this section does not apply to a bicyclist who is injured in a vehicular traffic lane when a designated bicycle lane or path is present and passable.