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Miami Beach · Bicycle accidents
Miami Beach has a growing bike lane network and a citywide bike share, which puts riders right next to car traffic.
The city has striped bike lanes on Alton Road south of 5th Street, on 16th Street from West Avenue to Collins Avenue, on the Venetian Causeway and on several streets farther north, such as Prairie Avenue and Byron Avenue. Citi Bike has been the city's bike share since 2009, with about 1,100 bikes on the street. That puts a lot of riders next to parked cars, delivery trucks and turning traffic. A Miami Beach bicycle accident lawyer can help when a driver's mistake puts you on the pavement. Tomas Robirosa also handles bicycle accident claims across Florida.
Many bike crashes happen at low speed but cause real injuries. A driver opens a door into the lane on a busy block. A car turns right across a rider going straight. A rideshare driver pulls into the bike lane to drop someone off. In each case the driver had a duty to look first.
Riders have duties too. The city's Ride Right guidance tells cyclists to stop at corners, ride with traffic and yield to people in crosswalks, and bicycles are only allowed on Lincoln Road between 2 a.m. and 9 a.m. An insurer will look for any rule you broke and use it to argue fault. Under Florida's modified comparative negligence rule, being more than 50% at fault generally bars recovery; 50% or less reduces it.
A cyclist hit by a car is often covered by PIP. That can be your own policy if you own a car, a household member's policy, or the policy of the car that hit you, depending on the policies. Initial treatment generally has to happen within 14 days to use PIP. Every case is different, so speak with an attorney to confirm the deadline that applies to you.
If you were on a Citi Bike, keep your ride history and the bike number. If the problem was the bike itself, such as a brake failure, that may raise a separate question about maintenance.
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Tomas Robirosa is the founding attorney of Robirosa Accident & Injury Law. He built his practice around careful preparation and personal attention: when you hire the firm, you talk to your lawyer, in English or Spanish, and you always know where your case stands.
He graduated cum laude from Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law, is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator, and is admitted to practice in Florida state courts and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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