How to Prevent the Most Common Bicycle-Car Accidents
When it comes to preventing auto accidents, there's plenty of good effective advice. Always drive at safe speeds, and don't drive under the influence of alcohol. However, you don’t come across easy advice on preventing bike accidents. That’s because bicyclists face unique challenges as they ride on New Jersey streets.
Bicycling Magazine has a list of the five most frequent bicycle-car accidents. The list includes the five most common bicycle crash scenarios, and also steps to prevent these.
The situations include a few that bicyclists in New Jersey frequently come across. For instance, a bicyclist may find that a motorist passes him on the left, and then tries to turn right into the bicyclist. Another frequent bicycle-car accident situation that often causes a bicyclist serious injuries, is when a biker is passing a line of parked cars, and one of the car doors is suddenly opened.
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