{"id":203,"date":"2011-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/dooring-bicycle-accidents-now-being-recorded-in-illinois\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:11:16","slug":"dooring-bicycle-accidents-now-being-recorded-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/dooring-bicycle-accidents-now-being-recorded-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDooring\u201d Bicycle Accidents Now Being Recorded in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/firm-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Firm News<\/a> | April 29, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Effective this past Monday, Illinois is now tracking deadly &#8220;dooring&#8221; accidents occurring across the state. &#8220;Dooring&#8221; accidents, or getting &#8220;doored,&#8221; are terms that cyclists coined for bicycle accidents occurring when a parked motorist carelessly opens their car door into the bike lane, making contact with the cyclist or the bicycle itself. Such accidents are common in crowded, bike-heavy metros such as Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s encouraging to see Illinois officials take a serious interest in these bicycle-v-car-door accidents. In these collisions, the best-case scenario is when the cyclist flies to the ground and suffers scrapes and bruises. However, the &#8220;dooring&#8221; action often causes a much bigger problem: the cyclist being launched out of the bike lane and into traffic. This will often cause serious trauma and crush injuries, leading to traumatic brain injuries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/personal-injuries\/catastrophic-injury\/spinal-cord-injuries\/\">spinal cord injuries<\/a>, broken bones, and internal organ injuries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/dooring-bicycle-accidents-now-being-recorded-in-illinois\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading \u201cDooring\u201d Bicycle Accidents Now Being Recorded in Illinois\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm News | April 29, 2011 Effective this past Monday, Illinois is now tracking deadly &#8220;dooring&#8221; accidents occurring across the state. &#8220;Dooring&#8221; accidents, or getting &#8220;doored,&#8221; are terms that cyclists coined for bicycle accidents occurring when a parked motorist carelessly opens their car door into the bike lane, making contact with the cyclist or the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firm-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Dooring&quot; Bicycle Accidents Now Being Recorded in Illinois<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effective this past Monday, Illinois is now tracking deadly &quot;dooring&quot; accidents occurring across the state. ... 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