{"id":2754,"date":"2015-10-21T00:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2015-10-21T00:39:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:39:42","slug":"dont-door-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/dont-door-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t Door Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dooring accidents are far too common and serious, or even deadly.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GcVa1D4dFkw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yet, in much of the USA we don&#8217;t count this specific type of injury accident in a way that can best yield data to improve safety infrastructure and awareness.  In most states opening a door into a cyclist, pedestrian or even another car is a traffic code violation, yet enforcement is rare and fines are often very low amounts.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011 Chicago Bicycle Advocacy won a huge victory and got the state of Illinois DOT to officially start tracking and recording dooring incidents.<br \/>\nIn 2012, after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/pr2012\/pr12_49.shtml\">7 bicycle dooring fatalities in 5 years, NYC DOT<\/a> started a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/pedestrians\/look.shtml\">media dooring awareness campaign<\/a> as well as safety improvements to the sidewalks and taxi cab windows to try and raise awareness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2011-03-20\/classified\/ct-met-getting-around-0221-20110320_1_dooring-clinton-miceli-bicyclists\">Bikers call for state to count &#8216;dooring&#8217; accidentsAdvocacy group says untracked collisions are most common<\/a><br \/>\nChicago Tribune<br \/>\nMarch 20, 2011<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;]  A Tribune request for violations data showed that since 2008, Chicago police issued no tickets for opening a vehicle door into the path of a bicyclist or turning in front of a bicyclist. [&#8230;]  Excluding dooring accidents from crash counts likely decreases reported vehicle-bike accident numbers by at least 15 percent statewide, said Dan Persky, director of education at the Active Transportation Alliance. [&#8230;] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoist.com\/2014\/05\/16\/1_in_5_bicycle_crashes_in_chicago_i.php\">1 In 5 Bicycle Crashes In Chicago Is A Dooring<\/a><br \/>\nChicago-ist<br \/>\nMay 16, 2014<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] The city passed an ordinance in 2008 that addressed doorings.  [&#8230;]  That was followed in 2011 when IDOT, after lobbying by Active Trans, began counting doorings and crashes and tracking them.  [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dooring accidents are far too common and serious, or even deadly. Yet, in much of the USA we don&#8217;t count this specific type of injury accident in a way that can best yield data to improve safety infrastructure and awareness. In most states opening a door into a cyclist, pedestrian or even another car is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/dont-door-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#039;t Door Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visionzero","category-transportation-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}