Originally Posted by
Bmach
There should be some blame placed on the cyclist also. In a perfect world, neither the driver and passenger would not have done what they did. This is not a perfect world, so why would any cyclist fly by the SUV? I know I would been going a lot slower then he was.
When I was younger, I used to fly by a line of cars parked overnight down a lonely stretch of road on the way to the pier to go fishing. But that was at 4am and the likelihood of getting "doored" was practically nil. Would never have attempted the same thing during normal hours.
Dangerous stuff, when folks don't look before they "leap." Painful, too, when going on the assumption everyone's going to behave reasonably and with forethought. Hopefully both learned a valuable lesson, in the OP encounter.