Re: Take that lane!

On 4/19/2024 2:59 PM, AMuzi wrote:

 My daughter was doored ten days ago on Devon Avenue (north side Chicago) and dumped into the traffic lane. Fortunately traffic stopped for her. She's banged up but wasn't crushed to death with a 65mph impact.

I'll mention again: Dooring is a very dangerous type of crash, because it often hooks the right handlebar, suddenly throwing the rider leftward, possibly right in front of a car.
But dooring data is poorly captured. Most accident report forms treat it the same as if the cyclist ran into something like a telephone poll. It's not considered a crash with a "vehicle in transport."
And I'm told that Chicago did choose to record doorings - even though many of their bike lanes actually promote dooring crashes, since they're painted in the door zone. They found that something like 20% to 25% of their car-bike crashes were doorings.
Don't ride in the door zone.
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- Frank Krygowski