Another dooring. Serious to critical injury.
Boy, 14, struck while riding bicycle in Palmer Square neighborhood (2600 block of w. Armitage) around 8am Friday 4-6-18.
For the full article:
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-96364332/
Police said that the 34 year-old male driver of the 2017 Subaru was cited for opening his door without safely checking for traffic.
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We do not know exactly what happened. One thing I know and we all need to know is that there are times when the rider can do everything right and still be at risk. This is the reality of the gamble we take every time we get on our bike. We can minimize, but not eliminate risk. This happened to me a couple years ago. I was in hyper awareness mode riding home on a January evening looking into mirrors to see eyeballs and trying to give myself as much room as possible. Traffic was reasonably heavy as it was the evening commute. A door suddenly opened the second I was passing the car. There was no additional room to the left and even if there was, a blind move to the left can lead to being crushed by a truck as happened near the Payton School a number of years ago. I was thrown into the lane of traffic where a heroic taxi driver stopped short which allows me to be able to write this post.
I'm glad that taxi driver braked well and saved your life. I am similarly grateful to a woman who was driving behind me years ago when I was doored in Lakeview and flung out into the traffic lane in front of her car.
I learned a lesson last summer after missing being doored by inches. When riding with a strong wind from behind, be extra extra careful as the wind can catch a door being opened and fling it fully open, even pull it out from a drivers hand.
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