Avoiding pedestrian collisions with bicycles, scooters on sidewalks in Colorado Springs

COLORADO Springs, Colo. (KRDO) — A viewer recently recalled her close call with a bicycle on Tejon Street, one of the few streets in town where bike riding is illegal.

Annie-Marie Young said that it had never happened to her before.

“I got out of my car, just like normal, and I popped up on the curve here,” she explained, re-tracing her steps. “And it startled me so much. As I got onto the sidewalk, I saw a bicyclist coming at me, fast! There was no way I could move quickly enough to get out of his way.”

But she said that somehow, she narrowly avoided the collision…

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