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

[Joe Pizzimenti]

 I think Denis Leary said it best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zHpoHFAPjY


On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:37 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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