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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
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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
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"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
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"Why Billy Mustard says -- and this here's a fack -- as the smell o 'them doorings."
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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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.
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