ROAD SHARING SAFETY FOR ALL!

The Dutch Reach is just one of many road sharing measures we must adopt.

Below you will find texts, graphics & videos which teach novice drivers and retrain adult drivers better practices to share the road more safely with bicyclists and other vulnerable road users.

Find more road sharing guidance under Videos> Road Sharing, Ride Share...

Find road signage & graphics for cyclists at Sign Bike Safety

Quick Flick for Urban Cyclists

WeLoveCycling.com, 9 April 219

Road Sharing Tips for Drivers, Bicyclists

8 Ways to Share the Road with Bicyclists, info graphic with tips for drivers & bicyclists. View full graphic &/or download here. Credit: Safe Routes to School - Massachusetts.  Click image to enlarge.

Road Users: Learn New Bike Signage.

Know and Obey These Common Bicycling Road Markings, Signs, and Signals - Safe Routes to School - Massachusetts. pdf here. Click image to enlarge.

Sharing the Road with Bicyclists from Royal Society for the Prevention of Accideents UK which includes Dutch far hand reach to avoid dooring cyclists.

Click for RoSPA site.

Teach Drivers Road Sharing Practices

Bicycle Friendly Driver Program of Fort Collins CO teaches how to share road safely with cyclists. Course with slides & training.

Bike Friendly Driver Program || City of Fort Collins. Click image for site.

Guide to Improve Bike Safety

A text dominated graphic advertises the Governors' Highway Safety Associations' State Farm funded study of national crash data and safety research regarding bicycle fatalities due to vehicular collisions with bicycles. Titled A Right to the Road, Understanding and Addressing Bicyclist Safety the study includes promotion of the Dutch far hand technique for safe opening of car doors by drivers & passengers.

Click image for pdf of A Right to the Road: Understanding & Addressing Bicyclist Safety (2017)
Governors' Highway Safety Association, USA.

Driver Education Fails Bike Safety

What do states teach drivers about biking? Not much., Ken McLeod, League of American Bicyclists, May 2020. Read the report.

Test your bike safety knowledge!

Ride Illinois' Bicycle Safety Quiz Challenge website currently offers 4 quiz modules to educate and re-train bicyclists & drivers.

The Challenge has been used to train over 75,000 people in Illinois, including tens of thousands of drivers, and it is included in Illinois' state’s driver’s manual, and is used in high school drivcr education classes.  Ride Illinois recently added a 5th module for Truck Drivers, and a Dutch Reach question to the Driver Education set.

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, UK

Sharing the Road Together: Drivers and Cyclists  - Web version (with Reach}.

2015 pdf version w/o Dutch Reach: Sharing the Road Together: Drivers and Cyclists

Note:  Pointers apply in general but written for 'left-driving' UK.

Topics in NYS Video Part I:
Bicyclists' Right to the Road
Dooring
Taking the Lane
Passing
Intersections
Right Hook
Left Hook


Large Vehicle Urban Driving Safety Program
Fleet training video & program by San Francisco MTA, SF Bicycle Coalition & SF Vision Zero;. CA, USA.

Road Sharing Guides

Cambridge Street Code - Rules and Etiquette for Getting There Together (2016)
City of Cambridge, MA, USA.

Training for For Hire Drivers - Vision Zero NYC

Training video for drivers of for-hire vehicles, complete with advice for accommodating cyclists - Vision Zero NYC.  Learn more at TransAlt & scroll down.  Far hand 'reach' taught at 1 min. 49 sec.  Article & stills from video here.

Share the Road's [Large Vehicle] Blind Zone Workshop - New Zealand

Understanding the 'blind zone' key to cyclist survival

View Article & Video by Newshub, NZ.  14 Feb 2018

Safer Trucking in Changing Cities (2018)


c/o Joe Lavins Fund for Bicycling Safety.

ROAD SHARING ANIMATIONS - MASSACHUSETTS DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION

MassDOT: “Scan the Street for Wheels and Feet”

Scan the Street Campaign: The "Dutch Reach"

Scan the Street: 30 Second Version

California Driving: Road Sharing Tips & Dutch Reach

Road safety driving Tips: Horns, signaling, signage, dooring car dooring, hzarrd for cyclists, avoidance, close pass safe pass, road rage, speed, drive slowly. by Robert Bernstein.

Driving & Bicycling Concerns, Santa Barbara, CA. Edhat, 2 Oct 2018. Road sharing advice includes Dutch Reach /video. Road sharing videos vhere.

People Biking - Best Practices Course by WSDOT

People Biking, an online introductory tutorial on bike & multi-modal transport best practices by Washington State Dept.of Transportation.

BICYCLE ACCIDENT PREVENTION ANIMATIONS - 12 LESSONS

12 GIF animations of the most common bicycle - motor vehicle crashes, with pointers and advice how to avoid crashes.

Click here or image to view 12 gif animated road-sharing safety lessons for cyclists & motorists.

Defensive Biking Advice to Avoid Bike v Vehicle Collisions

Top 10 Ways How Not to Get Hit by a Car while Biking: #1: Right Cross #2: Door Prize #3: Crosswalk Slam #4: Wrong-Way Wreck #5: Red Light of Death #6: Right Hook #7: Right Hook: Part 2 #8: Left Cross #9: Rear End #10: Rear End: Part 2. Explanations & diagrams how to avoid, reduce risk, bike defensively, to avoid bike crashes with cars, trucks, & other vehicles.

Top 10 Ways How Not to Get Hit by a Car while Biking, Courtesy of Hoole & King Law Offices. Click here or image to view article.

Safety Graphic - Bike Houston, TX

We Can Share the Road, infographic for bike safety by Bike Houston, Texas, USA. Includes Dutch Reach, Right & Left Hooks, Taking the Lane, Safe Pass, etc. as taught in Bike Friendly Driver Program.

Achtung Radfahrer! Parken

Do not rip the car door. Tip: open the car door with your right hand open. Cyclists get into the field of vision.

Parken mit Holländischer Griff, Autotür nicht aufreissen. Tipp: Öffnen Autotür mit der rechten Hand öffnen. Radfahrer gelangt damit ins Blickfeld. WISO.

UK: THINK! Campaign

Achtung Radfahrer! Radfahrer gleichberechtigte verkehrsteilnehmer

Four dangerous situation for bicyclists, how to avoid safety includes dutch reach.

Achtung Radfahrer! Radfahrer gleichberechtigte verkehrsteilnehmer. Überholen Abstand, Abbiegen, Parken. WISO.

FMCSA Road Sharing/Safety re: Trucks

Learn How to Operate Around Large Trucks and Buses at:  Our Roads Our Safety
c/o FMCSA, the US DOT agencywhich regulates the truking industry and includes  truck driver credentialing and crash prevention It has a storehouse of educational, PSA, graphics, and social media materials online - More at right > >

Share Our Road Safely - Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration

Advice for VRU vulnerable road users & light vehicle operators for avoiding crashes or collisions with trucks.

FMCSA's Our Roads, Our Safety Program Toolkit - to educate drivers, pedestrians, & bicyclists operate safely around commercial motor vehicles. Visit website. Toolkit as PDF.

Adjust Your Mirrors...Often!

New York City Infrastructure Design Gif