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dooring

dooring

1 8.5
An accident when a car door opens into a bike rider's path causing a crash
  • noun
  • Jargon
translation icon : accidente de puerta
  • Riders should be aware of parked cars to avoid the dangers of dooring while cycling.

She thought she was opening a window to to shout at them, but she opened the door and knocked him clean off his bike.

Examples

  • Cyclists, drivers, tourists, children, and pedestrians all play a part in making our city streets safe against dooring crashes.

    Blog text (18)

  • You provide your own safe "out" for dooring by not riding in the door zone, no matter what the paint stripes and code books say.

    Blog text (11)

  • She thought she was opening a window to to shout at them, but she opened the door and knocked him clean off his bike.

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  • Our mission is reaching out to everyone to prevent dooring crashes and fatalities.

    Blog text (18)

  • The LOOK! safety campaign has been extended to combat the dangers of "dooring"—when a car door is opened into the path of a bicyclist—with new taxi decals and a Taxi TV video urging passengers to keep an eye out.

    Blog text (25)

  • A cyclist was injured in a dooring accident when a driver opened a door unexpectedly.

  • Many cities are implementing policies to reduce dooring incidents and improve cyclist safety.

Synonyms

accident
vsdooring
∞ 1.0

An unexpected event that causes harm or damage

is a specific harm caused by opening a vehicle side into a cyclist path
crash
vsdooring
∞ 2.3

A violent collision of vehicles like cars or planes that causes damage

is a specific opening event that may cause a collision but not always violent

Surface Forms

dooring singular
doorings plural

Morphology

dooring = door (semi-transparent) = door + ing

Formed by the regular -ing nominalization/gerund of the verb 'to door', a predictable morphological derivation.

Etymology

Dooring comes from the everyday word door plus the action ending -ing, and it paints a simple picture of a door being opened 'into the path of' a cyclist. So a dooring is the accident when a car or passenger door swings open and hits or blocks a rider.