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FAtal Negligence by Passenger & Cabbie

35% of UK Motorists Negligent When Exiting

Drivers bad habits cause doorings. Drivers ignorant of traffic laws regarding bicyclists & road sharing.

35% of drivers don’t look before opening their car door:  A survey by eBikes Direct of 1,000 drivers from across the UK found negligent exiting practices & marked ignorance of cyclists' road rights. Bike Radar, 25 May 2017.

VIETNAM -- TINHTE

Hướng dẫn mở cửa ô tô đúng cách, tránh nhiều tai nạn đáng tiếc.  Guide to open the car door properly, avoid many unfortunate accidents. Xe ô tô, 25/6/17  ; 25 June 2017.  Go to full report with videos in Vietnamese.  Use search engine translation function (eg. Google, Bing) for rough translation.

British Columbia Road Safety Reform

View position paper. (Yet to include 'Reach').

 

CHINA - SOHU.COM NEWS

"荷式开门"：一个小动作 可能挽救一条命

Composite graphic with graphics & chinese character headlines for linked article on Dutch Reach anti- dooring method for use in China.

Open the Door:
A little trick may save a life. Chinese media report on the viral Dutch method. Montage above created by DR Project to share Sohu coverage. on Twitter by @DutchReach. Click image to view.  Use browser to approximately translate. 2017-02-24 

FAIR DINKUM -- USE GEAR SHIFT HAND! -- Australia

Bayerischer Rundfunk - Bavarian Radio, de

Holländischer Trick rettet Leben > [Hör mal zu.
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Eine holländische Technik könnte auch in Deutschland Leben retten - das von Radfahrern. Lernen müssten sie allerdings Autofahrer. Sie heißt "Dutch Reach...
Video. Jun 20, 2017

 

Dutch Reach now Official in MA

2017 Driver's Manual, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. New green cover design shows roadway, waterway & distant Boston skyline.

2017 Driver's Manual, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA.MassDOT

5/30/ 17  -   Press Release:  New Bicycle Safety Sections
How to Add Dutch Reach to yourState's Driver's Manual

Dutch Reach now in Massachusetts' Driver's Manual

Front page diagram in the Boston Globe, 5/31/2017, A1, titled: A Safer Way to Open Up. Provides cut-away diagram of Dutch Reach anti dooring method which Mass. DOT now includes in 2017 Driver's Manual. Use of far hand to open prevents suddenly flung open doors, which can result in death or serious injury to bicycliests. Main story continues in Metro Section, B2, by Steve Annear.

Boston Globe: MassDOT adds ‘Dutch Reach’ to driver’s manual,  5/30/2017 (online);  A Safer Way to Open Up, A1 [above] & To reach a door, do like the Dutch, B2, 5/31/17 (print). By Steve Annear, Globe Reporter.

MassDOT: “Scan the Street for Wheels and Feet”

Scan the Street Campaign: The "Dutch Reach"

Scan the Street: 30 Second Version

NPR National Public Radio Logo with letters N, P, R in white with red, black & blue backgrounds respectively.

"Approved by RoSPA" emblem to note the RoSPA endorsed the Dutch Reach in an advisory issued February 1, 2017 in UK.

Dutch Reach approved by RoSPA February 1, 2017. See RoSPA's advisory here.

Cambridge Street Code teaches the Dutch Reach. Click image; see page 9. Doors are Dangerous. Avoid dooring by staying outside the Door Zone. Dirvers use your far hand to exit more safetly.

Cambridge Street Code teaches the Dutch Reach. Click here for Code, see page 9.

mage of car bumper with sticker reading "Reach with Your Right, Look Out for Cyclists". A school teacher in Oregon starts her own campaign backed on the far hand anti dooring method, August 2017.

An Oregon school teacher made this (Dutch) Reach anti dooring bumper sticker to share in her community. [Aug. 2017]

Massachusetts RMV Adds Dutch Reach - 22News wwLP

RMV Bike Safety, May 31, 2017.

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Over the background of a cyclist beside a vehicle, is a table of contents for the Sharing the Road video produced by New York Bicycling Coalition in conjunction with Albany Police Academy & the Governor's Traffic Safety. Committee in 2017.

Road Sharing issues for drivers addressed in Part 1 of NY Bicycling Coalition video.

New York State teaches 'Dutch Reach' in new Road Sharing Video!

Sharing The Road (Part 1) - Bicycle Law in New York State from New York Bicycling Coalition on Vimeo. (29 July 2017 release date).

BUZZFEED VIDEO TREATS UBER / LYFT DOORING HAZARD

BuzzFeed pitches Dutch Reach caution to ride-share users.

Videographer Allyson Laquian.
Posted: August 20, 2017 on Twitter (left).  Retweeted @DutchReach with montage graphic by Dutch Reach Project (right). 
Click either image or here to view video.

"There is a safer way to open your car door" twitter video by BuzzFeed News video tech Allyson Laquian. Video focuses on risk posed by careless Uber Lyft rideshare or taxi passengers when exiting vehicles and the hazard of dooring bicyclists. Image is of BuzzFeed News' twitter post with a live video feed. Video presents & explains benefit of the Dutch Reach far hand method to avoid injuring cyclists.

BuzzFeed News' Dutch Reach video by Allyson Laquian addresses the 'Uber / Lyft Effect' -- doorings by heedlessly exiting passengers of ride-share services.

@DUTCHREACH TWEET FOR BUZZFEED VIDEO

Alternative graphic to promote BuzzFeed's "Dutch Reach" video on ride-share dooring hazard which advised the far hand method. It is comprised of subtitle quotations taken from the BuzzFeed video overlaying a screenshot of the interior of ride-share users at night in an Uber or Lyft, preoccupied with their electronic devices. Captions describe dooring risk. Inset of the narrator (Allyson Laquian) in lower right.

Dutch Reach Project's graphic to promote BuzzFeed's "Dutch Reach" video on ride-share dooring hazard which advises the far hand method.  See it as a tweet here.

Cleveland, OH, USA - WKYC Channel 3 News

Investigator | Do the Dutch Reach to avoid dooring

An in-depth report on the growing occurrence of 'dooring' & a lesson on the Dutch Reach.

Cyclist viewed in left side mirror from WKYC Investigator news report on Doorings. Twitter image for Investigator | Bicyclists, car doors collide with painful results. July 10, 2017 WKYC Channel 3 News. Cleveland, OH, USA.

Investigator | Bicyclists, car doors collide with painful results. (Photo: Mike Leonard/Phil Trexler, WKYC) July 10, 2017.

New Jersey Bike Ped Resource Center, USA

New Jersey Bicycle & Pedestrian Resource Center post on Dutch Reach - montage includes image of cyclist about to be doored & inset on Dutch Reach instruction page from 2017 Massachusetts Driver's Manual. Article titled The Dutch Reach: A Doorway to Safer Streets.

"A Doorway to Safer Streets": New Jersey Bicycle & Pedestrian Resource Center reviews & recommends the Dutch Far-Hand 'dooring' countermeasure, 6/27/17.

Barcelona, Spain - El Periodico Deportes touts 'Dutch Reach

El Periodico Deporte describes & illustrates the Dutch Reach to prevent dooring crashes, injury or death of cyclists, using GIF animation contrasting the use of the near versus the far hand to open the car door.

[Composite of screen shots from animation which compares near to far hand demonstrating Dutch Reach safety advantage.] "Dutch Reach": la forma de abrir la puerta del coche que puede evitar la caída de un ciclista
El método, con la mano contraria a la puerta, fuerza a mirar atrás para comprobar si viene alguien, evitando el punto muerto del retrovisor. - El Periodico Deporte: 19 June 2017, by ASIER JIMÉNEZ LARZÁBAL / Barcelona, Spain. Click image to enlarge.  Click here to view article, animation & video.

GERMAN TV REPORT - SR-Mediathek

SR-Mediathek's Current Report topical news program broadcast interviews with road safety experts and produced demonstration videos on the Dutch Reach, 13 March 2017

SR-Mediathek's Current Report topical news program broadcast interviews with road safety experts and produced demonstration videos on the Dutch Reach, 13 March 2017. Coverage starts with report on dooring fatality as cyclist traveled in bikelane turned deathzone.

Segment on Hollandaise Gribft starts at 3 min. (second report).

 

Segment on Hollandaise Gribft starts at 3 min. (second report).

https://www.sr-mediathek.de/index.php?seite=7&id=48810

Berlin, Germany: Dooring homicide charge evaded by Saudi diplomat

Anger as Saudi official escapes prosecution over cyclist death because diplomatic immunity

A SAUDI Arabian diplomat has escaped prosecution after he opened his door while parked in a cycling lane and killed a passing biker.

Dooring crime scene, Berlin June 2017. Saudi Porche driver killed cyclist, claims diplomatic immunity, spurs outrage.

The Saudi Arabian diplomat opened his door while parked in a cycling lane which killed a cyclist.

By ALAN HALL IN BERLIN

 

German news service issues 'Dutch Reach' video; follows Berlin fatality

BR24.de

Do you know the "Dutch reach"? This is a simple trick to avoid accidents when opening the car door with pedestrians or cyclists.

Kennt Ihr den "Dutch Reach"? Das ist ein einfacher Trick, um beim Öffnen der Autotür Unfälle mit Fußgängern oder Fahrradfahrern zu vermeiden.

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The 'Dutch Reach' not ...

The 'Dutch Reach' not to be confused with the 'Dutch Oven'

Accident Commission of South Australia - Apr 30, 2017

Claims Journal - 5/12/17

Separate Lanes, Laws Aren’t Enough to Stop Bicycle Dooring Incidents

Despite dooring laws in 41 states and designated bike lanes in cities across the country, dooring incidents continue to cause concern.

Excerpts:

Active Transportation Alliance spokesman Jim Merrell says the data is a sign more needs to be done to prevent such crashes.

Though there’s a lack of data in dooring accident statistics, cities make up a significant portion of bicycle crashes, said Ken McLeod, policy director of The League of American Bicyclists.

Dooring laws are important, he said, because they increase public awareness of the problem and because bicyclists can’t really prepare and avoid a car door opening in front of them.

“There is also a campaign by private citizens called The Dutch Reach which advocates people opening doors with their right hand, so they are prompted to look behind themselves,” McLeod said.

Jaipur Explore, Blog - India

Scene of fatal dooring in Chicago. Caption reads "There are solutions" accompanied by the Dutch Reach Logo and website URL. Photo by Chris Smith.

Illinois DOT's latest Chicago bicycle crash data (2015) shows a steep increase in 'doorings.' See: WTTW Chicago Tonight, 4/21/17. This follows a similar striking jump in doorings reported in Toronto for 2014-16. Scene is of fatal dooring in Chicago in 2016. Photo: Chris Smith.

Chicago 'doorings' rose 50% in 2015, caused 17.5% of bike crashes.

Chicago Tribune

Number of Chicago cyclists caught by car doors on the rise, IDOT data show

Leonor Vivanco Chicago Tribune, April 26, 2017

More than 300 cases of cyclists crashing into open car doors on the streets of Chicago — deemed America's Best Bike City — were reported in 2015, an almost 50 percent increase from the previous year.