I'm curious if anything has changed since this article was published. If not, further proof that insurance companies are pure scum.
https://cyclingmagazine.ca/advocacy/this-vancouver-cyclist-is-being-charged-thousands-to-repair-the-car-that-hit-him/
We don't know for sure who was at-fault. He says the car ran a stop sign. Maybe, ICBC sees it another way.
In Manitoba, if the car driver was at-fault, we would not bill the cyclist for the damages.
Even if the cyclist was at fault, would the cyclist get billed here in Manitoba?
I'm trying to think of the 'penalties' that a driver incurs when you have an at-fault accident - you pay a surcharge to renew your driver's license, and you lose discount on your insurance. I suppose if a cyclist also has a driver's license that they need to keep, (like myself and countless others, when we ride our bikes), they could impose the surcharge on our license when it comes time to renew.
But what about the cyclists who ride bikes because they don't have driver's licenses. To my knowledge, MPI would have zero recourse to go after them...?
Bubba, you would definitely know more about this than I do.