Statistically that's actually the most dangerous type of accident because you can easily be 'thrown' into traffic that way. So you should feel a bit lucky that you made it out ok.

I would say that I personally have to be a little bit more careful about being in the 'door zone' myself, as it's easy to get pressured by our ******* South Florida drivers. They literally honk you to death until you get in the door zone or try to squeeze by you and run you off the road. It pretty much sucks here for cycling.

A woman even hit 3 bicycle cops today, even though they had a support vehicle in front of them with flashing lights. http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/M...130781548.html