(b) When operating on a highway or street, an operator of a motor vehicle shall pass the vulnerable road user at a safe distance while decelerating speed as is reasonably and safely possible.
(i) for the purpose of subsections (b)(i), a safe distance is achieved by:
(A) Vacating the lane which the vulnerable road user is traveling if road conditions and state law permits; or,
(B) If vacating the lane in this manner is not possible or permitted by state law, maintaining at minimum of a three-foot space between the side of the motor vehicle and the vulnerable road user.