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I nearly smeared some poor guy on a bicycle when opening my car door on Landells Road last night. Being a bit shocked he stopped which allowed me to apologise for not checking my mirrors. He had the kindness to accept and reminded me to check my door mirror before opening the door.


It takes two seconds to do but its a good habit to get into round here with lots of side street parking.

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Good on you for confessing to your mistake, and to warn others.


Rather annoyingly, the wing mirrors of my car cannot fold in after turning the ignition off, so I sometimes have to open the door into the road without the benefit of wing mirrors. A daft design if ever there was one!

Why? It's a fair comment. I do check before I get out of my car but it helps if cyclists make themselves more visible, especially at this time of year.


rahrahrah Wrote:

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> Salsaboy, that comment is ridiculous.

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I'm both a cyclist (although mostly former as I don't commute to work by bike these days as I now work from home) and a recently passed driver.


I see it from a whole other perspective now and whilst I'm very careful around cyclists, agree that they should, especially on these dark nights, be as visible as possible. I suppose this doesn't add much to the original post, but I suppose it is a little bit of a case of developing a mutual understanding for one another. Now the nights are drawing in pedestrians crossing the road in random places are much harder to see.

Salsaboy Wrote:

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> I'm not sure either. Surely in the interests of road safety cyclists would want to make sure they

> are visible to other road users?


I think it's the "no one must say anything that even sounds like it criticises cyclists, ever" rule.

Although I try to always check my mirrors before opening the car door, there's been a couple of near misses - these are usually when it's raining/the mirror has raindrops on it and the cyclist's light is one of those tiny LED flashing affairs. The sort of lights that even without rain or a mirror you'd do well to see them.

It's inviting danger IMO.


It's a good reminder from the OP, but I do worry for the safety of cyclists who use those weak, blink-and-you'll-miss-it bicycle lights.

If a car parks between cars on the right side of the road with the driver are on the pavement side, the driver's view of oncoming traffic may well be obscured by the car in front. As the car pulls out the driver is blind to oncoming bikes / cars /motorbikes.

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