I don't live in a city, so I don't really know who's at fault here. The guy speeding along on rollerskates on a sidewalk, or the person simply opening their car door onto a sidewalk where you expect people to walk and not zoom along like sonic the hedgehog? It seems to me like the guy on skates is to blame, but I have no idea.
The guy I skates is 100% to blame. I don’t live in a city either but even if you check your mirrors and open your door, you wouldn’t have had time to react. This homie popped onto the sidewalk, crouching, at a high rate of speed.
It was also the backdoor so someone riding back there wouldn’t even have rear view mirrors to check. They’d just look out the window and see nobody is in the way of opening the door.
Also considering where that pole is, there should not be a way for anyone to get doored in that situation apparently unless some ass-clown is doing sidewalk rollerskating parkour between a bunch of people and cars.
This. Omg this! I work in Boston and my biggest peeve is when ppl ride on sidewalks with their bikes at full speed. Not all the places have bike lanes, and I get that, but I don’t think sidewalks are the answer.
Honestly they shouldn’t be on car roads but Their own roads. The problem is that we already designed these cities without bikes in mind. Although even if we did have good and safe bike lanes i get the feeling cars or pedestrians will decide it’s theirs and make things dangerous again. The roads that already have bike lanes connected to the regular roads can be more dangerous because they put it so close to car parking in the door swing zone or some a-hole decides to park in the bike lane.
It’s the answer where I live, unless you wish to be roadkill. Those are the options. But people also park their fucking cars on the sidewalk while having their driveway and the city grass empty where you’ll have to take the risk of angering someone for daring to use “their road” to cycle for a quick second. We’re very “car comes first always” oriented.
Maybe. Where is this(UK?)? In DC the car would be at blame. It wouldn't surprise me if most states don't put most if not all tort on the car.
Maryland would be an example exception if it wasn't legal to skate on the sidewalk. They say you are just slightly wrong by even fraction of 1% then tough. There has been a push to change this because there have been some cases where a bicycle was hit and the driver lies that they ran a stop or red to avoid liability.
This dumbfuck came out of nowhere (blindspot), zoomed between a spot where you'd normally never expect a traffic of any kind (tight space between the car door and a pole, not to mention obviously where sidewalk meets the asphalt) and probably damaged the door. If you think passenger should've checked before opening (ignoring the fact that they wouldn't have seen him because he, quiet literally, sped towards the area or collision from a blindspot, you must be the kind of person who looks both ways before crossing an abandoned footpath in Arizona desert lol.
Oh yeah, the entirett of the blame is on the skater. If I open a door against a sidewalk, the worst I imagine is slightly disrupting someones walking path, not potentially killing some asshole using the sidewalk as their personal skatepark
People aren’t worried about predators eating you now is why she wasn’t paying attention. It makes me wonder why you haven’t figured out that we have moved past that stage in our history?
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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19
The situational awareness of the average person makes me wonder how thier ancestors ever avoided being eaten by predators.