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You were just involved in a bicycle accident where you were seriously injured. My name
is Dallin Fuchs. I'm a trial attorney and a partner at Queller, Fisher, Washor, Fuchs
& Kool and we practice personal injury and trial litigation in the state of New York
and I want to talk to you about your bicycle accident. And in fact, we're seeing a lot
more bicycle accidents lately especially as a result of this new bike sharing program
that is going on around the city. In fact, this bike sharing program where there's a
share of bikes everywhere in the city - by the time it's done it's going to be the biggest
bike sharing program in North America. So we're seeing a lot of accidents relating to
bicycles and we have a couple clues as to why we think that is happening. We have all
of these new bicycle lanes in the city and they're really sometimes in places where drivers
don't expect. They're on either side of the roadway. For example, a car is in the left
hand lane planning to make a left hand turn there might be a bike lane on their left and
they're not used to that. So an automobile planning to make a left turn doesn't have
to look into their side view mirror looking for a bicycle because there's never been a
bike lane there before. So we're seeing a lot of accidents happen like that. Same thing
with the car making a right hand turn from the right lane. A bike lane is there, they're
not used to thinking that anything can be on their right, they're not checking and we're
having a lot of accidents like that. So a couple tips also for safety. It's not enough
that you see the driver. Try to make eye contact with the driver to make sure that you know
that the driver sees you. Another tip is we're seeing an awful lot of accidents involving
bicyclists slamming into open car doors. Beware, anticipate that car doors are opening and
your bicycle may slam into the door causing serious injury. It's very likely that your
particular accident was caused by one of these types of situations. I'm Dallin Fuchs. Thank
you so much for watching and give me a call if you have any questions regarding your particular
bike accident that you had.