[SDCBC] Dooring Re: Add another accident to our total today.

[Jim Baross]

A sad reminder about dooring.

 From the April 17 SD U-T:

BICYCLIST HIT BY DOOR, THEN RUN OVER BY SUV
PACIFIC BEACH: A 66-year-old bicyclists suffered major injuries 
yesterday when he was knocked off his bike by an opening SUV door, 
then run over by another SUV, police said.
The victim, Luis Lopez Farias, was hospitalized with an open fracture 
to his thigh, other broken bones, and head and internal injuries.
San Diego Police said the man was riding east on Ganet Avenue about 
5:50 p.m. when someone in a Ford Escape parked on the right shoulder 
opened a door, hitting him. He was knocked to the pavement and run 
over by a Chevrolet Suburban.

At 09:06 PM 4/16/2007, you wrote:
>Dear SDCBCers:
>         Whilst shopping at about 5:45 PM today, I came acroas two 
> police cars,
>a down cyclist and a bunch of sidewalk rubberneckers on Garnet Avenue
>just east (by about 30 feet or so) from Ingraham. I don't know the
>rider's condition, but judging from a) the debris around the mostly
>whole bike and b) the conversation between the police officers and
>bystanders, it was a dooring -- as in "ran into the door." It also
>seemed from that debris the rider was carrying groceries.
>         I am quite sure none of you would be surprised to hear that folks on
>the sidewalk were commenting on the rider's lack of a helmet....
>         I hope he recovers fully and promptly.
>
>Robert Leone