Originally Posted by
livedarklions
...I've had a couple of these passenger side door suddenly opening in traffic situations with cars--there's literally no reasonable strategy for avoiding that possibility.
I have posted myself about similar close occurences.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
+1 @
wphamilton.
Particularly in the urban environment you are squeezed in between a rock and a hard place....
As noted earlier in this thread I am readily aware of riding near stopped cars, but I have had car doors unexpectedly open next to me
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
I frequently post this basic rule for me, "Consider every stopped car like a weapon, loaded, with an occupant ready to exit, on either side." For example I think about that when filtering between cars stopped at a traffic light [or along the passenger side doors closer to the curb].
When I have had doors opened directly before me, I have found a scream causes the person to immediately retract back into the car like a turtle into its shell...
Last edited by Jim from Boston; 06-19-20 at 08:54 AM.