PSA - Look before you open your car door.
Dec. 5th, 2018 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishSeriously, please, just LOOK out the window before you open the car door.
A school aged girl nearly doored me tonight on my way home, in the bike lane, with a headlight on and everything, because SHE DID NOT LOOK BEFORE SHE OPENED THE CAR DOOR.
So she opened car door into the bike lane a couple feet in front of me, and by the grace of God and good brakes and the fact that I was suspicious of the car not having any turn signals on approaching a T-intersection, I managed to stop before I hit the car door headfirst with her between me and the door.
Just say, "Check for bikes!" to your passengers before they leave the car. That's all you have to do. Literally, you can save someone's life with this one, very simple thing.
But *you* have to do it. The person on the bike cannot do it for you.
A school aged girl nearly doored me tonight on my way home, in the bike lane, with a headlight on and everything, because SHE DID NOT LOOK BEFORE SHE OPENED THE CAR DOOR.
So she opened car door into the bike lane a couple feet in front of me, and by the grace of God and good brakes and the fact that I was suspicious of the car not having any turn signals on approaching a T-intersection, I managed to stop before I hit the car door headfirst with her between me and the door.
Just say, "Check for bikes!" to your passengers before they leave the car. That's all you have to do. Literally, you can save someone's life with this one, very simple thing.
But *you* have to do it. The person on the bike cannot do it for you.
