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BIKES ARE VEHICLESAs a driver, it is your responsibility to operate your vehicle safely and lawfully. In Ohio, bikes are vehicles and people on bikes have the same roadway rights and responsibilities as other vehicles. When you learn to drive a car, you learn to drive a bike! When in doubt: treat bikes as vehicles!

Bikes belong on the road. Two bikes may ride side-by-side in a lane.

People on bikes may use the full lane. Common reasons include: to avoid hazards in the roadway or when lanes are too narrow to ride alongside other vehicles.

Change lanes to pass a slower moving vehicle. Under Ohio law, drivers must wait to pass a person on a bike until they can ensure at least 3 feet of space.

Drivers may cross a solid yellow line to pass a “slow-moving” vehicle, like a bike, when it is safe to do so.

Expect people biking on or along the road. Scan the road ahead of you and obey speed limits.

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Drivers making a turn must look for and yield to bikes that are continuing straight through the intersection.

If there’s a bike lane, yield to bikes and then merge right into it before turning.

Drivers cannot pass a vehicle within 100 feet of an intersection. Do not pass any vehicle, including a bike, that is in or near an intersection.

Turning left or right? Look for, and yield to, people on bikes!