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Permalink Reply by Bob Kastigar on September 7, 2018 at 2:37am

The Tribune no longer allows comments, and I can't find this story on their Facebook page.  I'd like to see public comments, I think there would be more focus on the no-helmet than on the motorist opening, and keeping open the door for unloading.

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on September 7, 2018 at 4:51am

When I watched the crash scene video (excellent work by the Arlington Cardinal) and read the words of the neighbor witness I noticed that there was a moving truck (2 men & a truck moving co.) in the residential driveway. With the male driver near the curb loading things into his car (moving out/in?) on the traffic street side, not the curb side. The neighbor witness said the cyclist looked over his shoulder at traffic and then HE crashed into the car door.

I get the feeling that this healthy 'mature' cyclist was moving along at a normal speed, doing his normal thing, he'd seen the typical driver open door behavior and perhaps anticipated the driver was getting in the car next, perhaps there was also oncoming traffic and kept his line and the door was still open where he had no margin for error (which every cyclist needs to have) and then the crash. It still is the fault of the driver. See Illinois Vehicle Code above.