<p>Engineer4life correctly notes that cars turn right from the rightmost travel lane. Just a reminder to drivers: that’s the rightmost travel lane. if you are driving on a road with a bike lane, you are not in the rightmost travel lane. **You must merge into the bike lane, yielding to cyclists already there, before you turn right. ** Drivers have a regrettable tendency to just make the right turn without merging, hitting a cyclist who had the right of way.</p>
<p>The accident we’re discussing was similar, in that the driver turned right and cut off the cyclist. However, in this case the driver almost certainly had the right of way. Sidewalk bicyclists rarely have the right of way over anyone.</p>