To the editor: Along with the issue of automobile doorways opening into cyclists, illegally tinted windscreens additionally trigger issues for cyclists. These home windows forestall each cyclists and pedestrians from making eye contact with motorists, which is paramount to the security of cyclists and pedestrians from being seen by motorists.
Just lately at a 4 method cease I continued on my bike when it was my flip to take action. Nevertheless, a driver in a pickup truck with tinted home windows started to drive by way of the intersection. I braked instantly and the fast cease on an incline threw me onto the pavement. Considered one of my ribs was damaged – the motive force won’t ever know what injury it induced.
I can not perceive why the tinted window legislation, which is totally mandatory for everybody’s security, isn’t enforced.
Corrine Van Dyk, Laguna Niguel
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To the editor: I used to be additionally knocked to the pavement by a driver opening a automobile door a few years in the past. After that second I made positive to verify the motive force’s mirror to see by reflection if a driver sitting within the automobile posed a hazard to me as I approached.
Over time I’ve contemplated options to the all too widespread incidence of “getting old”. However now with trendy know-how, it appears cheap that these crashes may be considerably diminished comparatively simply.
This may require all new vehicles to be fitted with a change triggered by a driver’s weight. When a driver is within the automobile and when the engine is off (the most certainly time a driver would open the door), the left rear flip sign will flash constantly.
Ed Grubbs, Spring Valley, California.
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To the editor: I used to be additionally hit by a motorist inflicting my shoulder to get replaced.
I used to be advised that the Dutch encourage drivers to make use of their proper hand to open the door. This enables the motive force to take a look at the facet mirror in addition to interact one’s peripheral imaginative and prescient.
Straightforward and safer.
Steve Peters, Van Nuys