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  • There is also a law prohibiting opening a vehicle door into moving traffic, helping to prevent those dreaded "doorings."

    Keith Ecker: Bikers vs. Drivers vs. Pedestrians: The War Wages On Keith Ecker 2011

  • There is also a law prohibiting opening a vehicle door into moving traffic, helping to prevent those dreaded "doorings."

    Keith Ecker: Bikers vs. Drivers vs. Pedestrians: The War Wages On Keith Ecker 2011

  • "Well sir, of course I don't mean real English cabbage stumps and potato parings, same as we has at home, but what answers for 'em here, and coky-nut huxes and shells, and banana rinds, and a nasty bad smelling kind o 'fruit as they calls doorings."

    Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Why Billy Mustard says -- and this here's a fack -- as the smell o 'them doorings."

    Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870

  • At one level, the Wisconsin statute makes sense, because it places the burden for avoiding doorings on the cyclist ─ in other words, it legally empowers the cyclist to ride outside of the door zone ─ at least theoretically.

    VeloNews | The Journal of Competitive Cycling 2008

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