Near Miss of the Day 149: Cyclist almost doored by car passenger at roundabout

If the appalling conditions of the roads in Bournemouth don't kill you... a car passenger will or the next driver turning without indicating... or the pedestrian not looking when crossing or... (complete)

Have had a couple of close calls on my Suzuki, despite barely legal can - not to mention headlights and hi-viz!

A mate of mine that works shifts used to turn the ignition off on his Ducati and coast the last couple of hundred metres home at night, so as not to wake the kids

It is technically easy to  put the driver in control of the passenger doors of a vehicle, using the central locking system.  Most cars have this already - my 11 year old Skoda has a "lock all the doors" function.  Then the driver - who's legally in charge of the vehicle - can control when it's safe for passengers to get out.   Adequaty penalties for "dooring" offences might change behaviour of taxi drivers?

Years ago, I knew someone that had a taxi open it's door (can't remember if driver or passenger) when he was cycling past.

The corner of the door made quite a mess of his shoulder, not to mention the road rash when he hit the floor and further injuries when his mate behind then ran him over!

There's a painted cycle lane near me that runs past a line of parked cars and is nicely the width of a car door. I won't use it - and sod any car drivers that don't like it. It was supposed to have been removed a couple of years ago.

I got driven into on Thursday evening.  No injuries.  Police not involved.

Waiting in the ASL here - https://goo.gl/maps/DTQ7SCgLD3K2 - to turn right.  There were a couple of vehicles in the right lane (red light) with a people-carrier type taxi at the front.  The traffic on the left was moving so I went to the front, swooped in front of the taxi and waited by the foremost white line of the ASL.

Suddenly, there's a crunchy sound and a bump, and I look over my shoulder at where the taxi has run into my back wheel.  It's still a red light.  He called out that he hadn't seen me.  I called  back that it was a red light so why was he moving at all??  Still a red light.  A bit of shouting, and then the light finally goes green, I shake it off and head off down Baldwin Street on the shiny new cycle path.

Bike seems fine: it was so low speed that all he'd done was touched me, squashed my rear mudguard a bit.

But: he clearly thought he knew the timing of the traffic lights, so had started rolling into the ASL (a violation) without even looking right in f-ing front of him (carelessness?).  And this guy would claim to be a professional driver??

the only poor pass I had today was by two police motorcyclist bombing past at high speed without giving me enough space, empty lane on the other side, nope, we'll just overtake you at 60mph within the same lane and less than the required distance for me to feel safe oh and no indicating to the vehicles behind who all overtook rather better...arseholes! Putting in a complaint tomorrow.

When plod can't be fucking arsed to do it right and set a good example how can we expect joe public, except today on world bike day they were the stand out knobbers!

Just up the road from my brother's flat... Also, right outside a massive Police station.

That roundabout is hideous, there are a load of cycle lanes going into it and a cycle lane that goes all around the roundabout, I've never ridden there but I can't see how it makes things anything other than much worse for cyclists.

Still, a complete cretin opening the door like that.

I'm sure the video will soon appear on Daily Fail online with the caption "Cyclists nearly crashes into car, but who do YOU think is to blame?!".

Happened to me a few years ago when I was still on my old MTB before I got into road bikes. Bombing along a quiet road about to pass a car and the girl in the drivers seat flung the door open right in front of me. I managed to swoop around the door luckily and the girl was so startled I'd be surprised if she didn't wet herself or worse. Still, she might think of checking the mirror next time, eh  ?

Dooring is the worst kind of cycling hazard as it can be devastating with very little warning (for the cyclist) and it's so easy to prevent.

As well as including the Dutch Reach in the Highway Code and tests, we could do with some public education as well. Including prominent stickers in taxis is an extremely good idea - very low cost to implement and will almost certainly prevent some incidents.

Got knocked off today.  While following behind some cars there was a jam in front.  The van I was behind suddenly stopped and started reversing to make room for an on comming car.  I could see the driver in the wing mirror but they did not look before reversing.  Went straight back into me.  I was stationary and they were doing 1 - 3 mph but that was all it took to push me to the ground just behind the right side rear wheel.  I thought I was going to be slowly run over.  Shouted out all sorts of s**t and the dozy bint claimed not to have seen me.   

JHC, when will it ever stop?  Bearing in mind that the vids featured here are a tiny proportion of what happens to cyclists every day, we need some radical action, not another bloody consultation which achieves nothing beyond cyclists registering their concerns.

Mind you, when ministers of transport knock of cyclists and nothing happens, perhaps we shouldn't expect too much.  Certainly not justice.

Please keep up the campaign Cycling UK, something has to change, and we need advocates to make a lot of noise.