Originally Posted by
njkayaker
There is no way that the data for that would ever be collected.
Bicycling safety experts appear to, near-universally, say not to ride in the door zone. They wouldn't recommend that if they thought it was more risky to ride out of the door zone.
Note that the particular example in the OP is, it seems, a slow (25 mph) street.
No data, as well as cherry picked data or manipulated data does not stop various self styled bicycling safety experts of the effective/vehicular persuasion from making up conclusions that suit their take- the-lane mantra. This has been a near universal technique for some of these "safety experts" and their acolytes for the last 45+ years.
Hence posted on BF as it were a fact written in stone -"you have a LOT LESS chance of being rear ended in the traffic lane than you do of being hit and deflected into that traffic lane after an opening door hits you."