Another Accident

dannyfrankszzz said:

Not much explanation needed for this one today:

Cycling along, minding my own, when the driver of a parked mini
suddenly flings her door open with impeccable timing and wipes me out.
I hit the door with such force that the glass on the driver's door
window shattered and also the door is damaged.

I've now got a huge gash on my arm, multiple bruises, not to mention
all the damage to clothing and bike.

When will they ever learn.... 😠

Doorings can be extremely serious so you're lucky to have got away with
relatively minor injuries. The driver is clearly responsible for your
accident but the wise cyclist stays clear of the door zone.

--
Dave...

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dannyfrankszzz said:

When will they ever learn.... 😠

Doorings can be extremely serious so you're lucky to have got away with
relatively minor injuries. The driver is clearly responsible for your
accident but the wise cyclist stays clear of the door zone.

Things is both parties never learn. One of the things that was drilled into
me when learning to ride a motor bike 30 + years ago was to check for
vehicle occupancy when overtaking stationary vehicles. It's stood me in
good stead and it's kept me clear of doorings and just managed to save me
from an impact with a chap that decided to move his car from one side of the
road to the other by driving 50m or so down the road. He was oblivious to
me, white knuckled, sphincter puckered alongside him for most of his short
journey. I was very restrained when I remonstrated with him.

Glad you've escaped major injury. Hope it's your only encounter with a
stationary vehicle.

-=V=-

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dannyfrankszzz <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Not much explanation needed for this one today:

Cycling along, minding my own, when the driver of a parked mini
suddenly flings her door open with impeccable timing and wipes me out.
I hit the door with such force that the glass on the driver's door
window shattered and also the door is damaged.

I've now got a huge gash on my arm, multiple bruises, not to mention
all the damage to clothing and bike.

When will they ever learn.... 😠

'They' don't need to learn - they're not the ones biting a car door.
Look at the cars you're passing, if there's anyone in them who might
open a door then leave extra space.

vernon said:

One of the things that was
drilled into me when learning to ride a motor bike 30 + years ago was
to check for vehicle occupancy when overtaking stationary vehicles.

Better is to assume all vehicles are ocupied and overtake all of them with
enough room for a door to open. It's good to stick to the habit even when
the vehicle is clearly empty. It'll save you making a mistake about
occupancy one day.

~PB

dannyfrankszzz said:

Not much explanation needed for this one today:

Cycling along, minding my own, when the driver of a parked mini
suddenly flings her door open with impeccable timing and wipes me out.
I hit the door with such force that the glass on the driver's door
window shattered and also the door is damaged.

I've now got a huge gash on my arm, multiple bruises, not to mention
all the damage to clothing and bike.

You could have avoided the incident, but that does not change the fact that
the driver was in the wrong and has committed an offence by not checking
anyone was coming before opening the door. You should report the driver to
the police and claim compensation for your injuries and expenses from the
driver or the driver's insurance company.

Yes the latter is possible, before anyone says it isn't.

~PB

Pete Biggs said:

vernon said:

One of the things that was
drilled into me when learning to ride a motor bike 30 + years ago was
to check for vehicle occupancy when overtaking stationary vehicles.

Better is to assume all vehicles are ocupied and overtake all of them with
enough room for a door to open. It's good to stick to the habit even when
the vehicle is clearly empty. It'll save you making a mistake about
occupancy one day.

Indeed.

While cycling up a high street one day, and empty car flung its door
open with explosive force, just as I went past. Turns out the
driver's method of opening the door was to lie down across the seats
(thus being below window level) and kick it open with both legs
with all his might.

Quite how someone comes up with such a stupid procedure, I don't
suppose I will ever know.

regards, Ian SMith
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dannyfrankszzz said the following on 01/12/2006 22:48:

Quoted message said:

Not much explanation needed for this one today:

Cycling along, minding my own, when the driver of a parked mini
suddenly flings her door open with impeccable timing and wipes me out.
I hit the door with such force that the glass on the driver's door
window shattered and also the door is damaged.

I've now got a huge gash on my arm, multiple bruises, not to mention
all the damage to clothing and bike.

When will they ever learn.... 😠

You weren't on one of these door-zone psycle-paths were you? One of my
routes takes me around the sea-front of Weston-super-Mare. I quickly
learnt that these oldies who sit there gumming sarnies and reading the
paper have a habit of randomly and suddenly flinging doors open, or
suddenly pottering away from the kerb without warning. Bugger following
traffic - if I'm passing said parked cars I keep well clear.

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

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Quoted message said:

vernon said:

One of the things that was
drilled into me when learning to ride a motor bike 30 + years ago was
to check for vehicle occupancy when overtaking stationary vehicles.

Better is to assume all vehicles are ocupied and overtake all of them with
enough room for a door to open. It's good to stick to the habit even when
the vehicle is clearly empty. It'll save you making a mistake about
occupancy one day.

~PB

To be honest, these days, I find it very difficult to tell whether the car
is occupied or not because of the head rests which disguise an occupants
head very adequately.

I try and stay well clear all the time.
--
Trevor A Panther
In South Yorkshire,
England, United Kingdom

Ian Smith <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quite how someone comes up with such a stupid procedure, I don't
suppose I will ever know.

Unfortunately, it's one of the few ways that works when the car's so badly
corroded or beaten up that the door no longer fits properly. I wonder
whether the driver stopped off to pick something up on the way to the
scrapyard?

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Quoted message said:

Not much explanation needed for this one today:

Cycling along, minding my own, when the driver of a parked mini
suddenly flings her door open with impeccable timing and wipes me out.
I hit the door with such force that the glass on the driver's door
window shattered and also the door is damaged.

Glad you are OK. I even nearly got caught out going up the inside of
stationary cars when the passenger door was flung open when there was nobody
in the passenger's seat. The driver had seen his mate up the road who he was
going to give a lift to and decided to save him the huge effort of opening
the door himself.

--
Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

In article said:

Glad you are OK. I even nearly got caught out going up the inside of
stationary cars when the passenger door was flung open when there was nobody
in the passenger's seat. The driver had seen his mate up the road who he was
going to give a lift to and decided to save him the huge effort of opening
the door himself.

I've had passengers open doors in front of me when they apparently decided
it was quicker to walk than to sit in the stationary queue of traffic.

Quoted message said:

I've now got a huge gash on my arm, multiple bruises, not to mention
all the damage to clothing and bike.

I'm not a lawyer but this should be a straight forward case for
compensation. The person in the car has a responsibility to make sure
they're not going to 'door' anyone (or anything).

Clothing, damage to bike plus injuries to your body will all be compensated
for if you wish to pursue it.