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@Stodd
Don't know how much interest there will be in this but will post anyway...
Last August I got doored while filtering in stopped traffic on Fulham Palace Road. The traffic was at a standstill and while I was traveling down the cycle lane, the passenger door of a van in the line of suddenly opened into my path. Queue hitting inside of door, straight over handlebars, over door and into road. Both myself and the passenger who opened the door were pretty shaken up, police were called by witnesses and I went off to A&E to be checked out.
Doctors thought I may have fractured my radial head, so was in a sling for a week before on review they thought better of it. So in the end I was fine, bike was fine, clearly a lucky miss, and I didn't think much more of it
That was until I got a letter in the post this morning saying that the police had taken the guy to court, fined him £150, and thanked me for "helping [them] try to achieve [their] objectives of reducing the number of killed and seriously injured on London's road".
Have other people had experiences like this? Clearly I was lucky not being seriously hurt, but I can't help to think that it seems harsh as it was an 'accident'. I hadn't pressed for prosecution and if the police hadn't been called by the public then that would have been the end of it.
However, is it a sign that the police are listening to concerns over cyclist safety, and so are coming down hard on those who are a threat?
I hope everyone is as lucky as me and those who are involved in accidents heal up soon.
Stodd