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New York may add itself to the number of states requiring a 3-foot buffer zone for cars passing a bicycle from behind.
State Sen. Pete Harckham, D- Peekskill, recently introduced S.4529 in the state Senate to amend state Vehicle and Traffic Law Section 1122-a, which was last amended in 2010. A vehicle overtaking a bicycle from behind would be required to pass to the left of the bicycle at a safe distance of no less than 3 feet until safely clear.
“The majority of the accidents consisting of vehicles and cyclists involved driver inattention and failure to yield,” Harckham wrote in his legislative justification. “With the Department of Transportation actively installing bike lanes on state roadways through- out the state, this legislation is timely and necessary to support the increased bicycle traffic. A specific distance,three feet, was chosen in order to provide an easily understood distance for motorists. Specifying three feet as t ....

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