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According to Santa Barbara City Ordinances:
10.52.130 No Bicycles on Sidewalk.
No person shall ride a bicycle on any sidewalk except at a driveway; provided, that a person may ride a bicycle on any area designated by the City Council as a bikeway.
So, unless this was a designated "bikeway," you were clearly in violation of at least one law. I'm a little ...
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Consider for a moment that you walked away with your life, instead of being killed by that car, and call it a victory. Some people don't walk away with theirs.
From what you said, you crossed the street without a walk signal, that right their is worth a citation, so it's reasonable that you ended up with 1 citation. It also sounds ordinary that you'll have ...
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The usual disclaimer: none of us are lawyers.
It does sound possible that what you were doing doesn't meet the definition for the citation you were given, depending on the details. But you may well have been technically breaking another law; I don't know enough about your local laws (or law in general) to say for sure. So fighting one citation could just ...
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