If your hand is on door handle, eye should be on cyclists’ path

By Tony Lovell
YOUR ARTICLE on Boston’s bicycle safety report notes that 22 percent “of the collisions between cars and cyclists occurred when a vehicle door opened unexpectedly on a cyclist” (“With crash data, city tries to make bicycling safer,” Page A1, May 15).
Car doors do not open “unexpectedly”; they open when people in the vehicle work a handle and push them open.
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