Being Car doored

[Deleted member 1258]

What I do (and what I taught my children to do) is look for occupants in parked cars, look for smoke or vibration from exhausts, look for steering movement in the front wheel; essentially look for any sign that suggests a door might open or the car might move out into the traffic.

So far I've been lucky.

I do all that plus the use of primary, I was doored in the mid sixties when I was a teenager, the memory is not a pleasant one.

 

[HLaB]

I do all that plus the use of primary, I was doored in the mid sixties when I was a teenager, the memory is not a pleasant one.

Being a teenager in the mid nineties wasn't much better

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Being a teenager in the mid nineties wasn't much better

very good

 

[growingvegetables]

So far I've been lucky.

You may well have been lucky. My son wasn't - and that's not a phone call you want to get.

Actually he was indeed ******* lucky; he appears to have braked hard to protect his bike, went over the handle-bars, and landed, folded over the guy's door. Bruises on belly - but no damage to bike. Aye, I've brung him up good - he's got his priorities sorted!

But no possible sign of the occupant because of the head rest - until the door swung open, fast.

+1 for "stay out of the door zone". Just don't go there.