ShareTheRoad PSA2 -- Open Door to Disaster

On the road it's called "dooring", the open door to disaster. The driver of a parked car opens the door without looking behind for approaching bicyclists. The biker either hits the door or swerves into the traffic lane, either option can be lethal. In a cooperative world the biker would see the driver in the parked car, signal to the traffic behind him and then take the lane to avoid the "door zone". The message in this short video is simple: Watch for doors, Signal, Take the lane, ShareTheRoad.
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• Bicycle
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[mcBikie]

This video seems to give a choice between hit the door, or swerve! I'd let the pickup go ahead, then move left into the lane WELL BEFORE I was anywhere near the SUV.

I do NOT look for a driver in the vehicle, I NEVER ride in the door zone!

[ShareTheRoad]

Exactly! Plan ahead, signal your intent and make your move.

STR

[vinilla]

every road should have cycle lanes

[saberswordsmen1]

may have just been the angle, but that seemed like an unsafe change to primary position. Should have either merged sooner or waited to for the truck to pass.

[Scottypowpow]

Hahaha the pickup is like shi!!!.. Fyck you u ceazy asshole get off the god damn road!!! Bang bang die bitch!!

[SwingingDickOfDoom]

HAHAHAHAH that will teach you Lance Armstrong wanna be obnoxious mother fuckers!!! STAY OUT OF TRAFFIC!!! or get on the sidewalk. Make all the rules and laws you want.. a 4000 pound car will ALWAYS win in a collision with a spandex clad asshole!! Go ride in a park, or off road somewhere.. OR peddal your ass off so you can keep up with the flow of traffic, streets are for MOTOR VEHICLES! If you hit a parked car you shouldnt be riding your gay little bike any fuckin way!

[rexregum]

the door gift isn't juz a hazard for bicycles, motocycles too...

[p1q0]

Any biker that doesn't keep a sharp eye out for this is a fool.  Expecting people to look front and back every time they open a door is ridiculous.

[WholeTruth]

Good job, parked driver!

[ramtes1971]

mcevoy, are you from USA? Normally that ideas come from americans, however, I know some few good people from US.

[ramtes1971]

I have to say the same that hartleymarting.

[hartleymartin]

When I see a parked car, I anticipate this by changing lanes into the main lane of traffic well before I reach the vehicle and then move back over to the side of the road. Most motorists realise that I am only avoiding a hazard and that losing 3 seconds on their trip isn't much of an inconvenience, but there are plenty of idiots who try to over-take you as soon as you signal a merge because they don't want to wait those extra 3 seconds.

[svref]

Merge into the vehicular flow only when there are at least two seconds of reaction time for the overtaking motorist to slow down. The video shows an atypical situation of a motorist travelling in lock-step speed to a cyclist in a wide lane. Typically, motorists will be quite a bit faster, and if the cyclist were to swerve out in front of the motorist with that little lead room, it could be bad.