Opening doors and leaving a parked vehicle

Never open the door of your parked vehicle without first making sure that you will not endanger any other person or vehicle or interfere with traffic.

A good practice is to use the Dutch reach method: open the driver's door with your right hand, which will force a shoulder check at the same time. Take extra precautions to avoid opening a door in the path of cyclists, who often ride close to parked cars. When you must open a door next to traffic, keep it open only long enough to load or unload passengers.

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