[s-cars] PSA on doorings: check your mirrors!

[Martin Kozaczek]

This happened to me twice in college.  People just don't pay attention.

Once the owner of the car actually tried to get me to pay for damages to his
car.  What an ass!!

Sorry to hear man!

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Brett Dikeman <brett.dikeman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Last night riding home from (oddly enough) a cycling club BBQ, I was
> "doored".  For those who don't know- this is when a driver opens a car
> door into the path of a cyclist, catching the body or bike.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_zone
>
> I got to spend 8 hours in the ER thanks to someone's carelessness in
> spending 2-3 seconds looking in their mirror; thankfully, no broken
> bones.  She claims she looked in her mirror and opened the door
> slowly, but reality is that she wasn't looking, opened it quickly, and
> I have the projector-beam-like 5W LED bike light which projects a
> focused, bright beam.  It's the kind of thing you don't miss if you're
> looking in your mirror.  This upstanding person also left me on the
> ground in pain and hid in the store; the cops had to go in and find
> her and bring her out.
>
> This kind of collision is completely, 100% the fault of drivers and
> completely, 100% avoidable.  PLEASE, check your mirrors before opening
> your door!  I lucked out in that I wasn't thrown into the road, more
> crash-landed straight, but people can be and are seriously
> injured/killed when they swerve / are knocked out / fall into traffic
> and struck or run over.  I've also seen people's hands permanently
> disfigured from catching the door edge, and heard stories from friends
> who ended up stuffed into the driver's footwell.
>
> -Brett
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-- 
-Martin