Originally Posted by nycm'er
The stories are very clear, she was avoiding being doored, in NYC you door someone, you do not have "control over your vehicle" and you are at fault.
I think the larger point some of the city riders were making, is that these trucks don't need to be there, nor do they need to be such a protected sacred cow.
IMO, they don't deseve such respect.
Exactly! They don't sail large supertankers into shallow harbors, they don't run a 100,000 volt trunk int the middle of the city, they don't run a 16 lane interstate superhighway through densely populated city, and they sure as hell shouldn't have 18 wheelers in dense urban traffic.