Operation Door Knock - campaign against car dooring
It would seem that there will be a campaign to raise awareness of car dooring with drivers in Victoria in 2012 http://www.bv.com.au/general/bikes-and-riding/93916/. It would be great if a similar campaign could be run in SA.
Being car doored is one of the hazards which concerns me most on the roads as there often no time to react if someone flings a car door in front of you at the last minute. Of course I try to take the appropriate precautions to avoid being in a door zone in the first place, but sometime where space is tight or the door is large, one can still get caught out.
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Permalink Reply by David Bowler on -
Unfortunately I missed the tv news today. i was hoping one of the channels might have put it up on the web, but all I could find was a reference in the 7news twitter:
"Coming up @TimNoonan7 has video shot by a cyclist showing a collision with a car door - but you won't believe what the driver did next."
Nor would you believe the apparently pathetic police response.
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Permalink Reply by heather on -
I think a caution is insufficient for a hit-run injury. Martin has stated the same on post at http://www.adelaidecyclists.com/forum/topics/15-mar-2012-6pm-on-ch-...
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Permalink Reply by David Bowler on
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A caution for the dooring - maybe as it was clearly careless rather than deliberate. Deliberately leaving the scene of the accident when there were clearly injuries sustained deserves the full weight of the law. Heavy fines and even jail terms can apply for this offense and the police are clearly not doing their job properly at protecting the community if a real penalty is not applied for the callous act.
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Permalink Reply by David Bowler on
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I don't know if what they showed on the news last night differs from what is on the link posted by Paul, but the video on the link makes no mention of being cautioned
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Permalink Reply by Juz on -
With reference to the news reports on the dooring, I'm getting very sick of hearing these kinds of dooring incidents being reported as "cyclist slamming into a car door". Utter Bollocks - the door has been opened into the cyclists path. No cyclist deliberately aims themselves at a car door, hoping for an injury. Ugh. The lack of intelligence in reporting subtly biases the population against cycling far too effectively.
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Permalink Reply by Just another psycho-list on -
If this wasn't such a serious topic...
maybe just a cartoon animation of cyclists deliberately slamming into car doors, hoping for an injury ...
That notion is so stupid, it's hilarious!
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Permalink Reply by Dario Gautama on -
Luckily it never happen to me until now, but still I need extra care when get pass through (just) parked car.
But what happened to Paul is simply a silly accident with horrible result.
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Permalink Reply by Martin Turner on -
Silly but avoidable...the passenger didn't do any sort of risk analysis before flinging the door open.
If you watch the video in it's entirety....you can see Paul pass the four wheel drive on at least 2 occasions before the accident. If I was the driver I would have noted the cyclist was somewhere behind me and on my left and I would have noted also that if I was to stop then the cyclist would catch up with me and pass me on my left. But then again Im a motorist who's also a cyclist so I guess my risk analysis always involves cyclists.
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Permalink Reply by Phil Crick on -
And the person flinging open the door wasn't the driver either. Caution for the passenger, fair enough, I can see how they justified that (I wouldn't have been particularly happy about it but I don't think she deliberately tried to hit Paul), but the driver should have had the book thrown at them.
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Permalink Reply by Dario Gautama on
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I am a motorist too, so i know the difficulties to spot cyclist on the road.
i cannot say the woman is 100% guilty because passing car from the left is illegal.
when there is no bike lane and there is a queue, i am just simply wait behind other cars
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Permalink Reply by Matt Jones on -
Filtering stationary traffic is perfectly legal.
AUSTRALIAN ROAD RULES - REG 141
141—No overtaking etc to the left of a vehicle
(1) A driver (except the rider of a bicycle) must not overtake a vehicle to the left of the vehicle unless:
(a) the driver is driving on a multi-lane road and the vehicle can be safely overtaken in a marked lane to the left of the vehicle; or
(b) the vehicle is turning right, or making a U-turn from the centre of the road, and is giving a right change of direction signal and it is safe to overtake to the left of the vehicle; or
(c) the vehicle is stationary and it is safe to overtake to the left of the vehicle.
Offence provision.
Note—
"Bicycle", "centre of the road", "marked lane", "multi-lane road", "overtake", "right change of direction signal" and "U-turn" are defined in the dictionary.
(2) The rider of a bicycle must not ride past, or overtake, to the left of a vehicle that is turning left and is giving a left change of direction signal.
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