Forum Rider Down and/or notification of minor incidents

Last August I got doored while filtering in stopped traffic on Fulham Palace Road. . . . . . . .

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". . . . . .
Stodd
Reducing the number of Killed and Seriously Injured is the key performance indicator for the Met Police traffic command. It is great that they are beginning to take dooring seriously. In four years working on TfL's Cycle Safety Working Group we have made great progress putting the focus on HGV deaths but dooring and cyclists being hit from behind are areas where we need to make more progress.
Prosecutions for dooring are very rare, most car drivers don't even know it is a crime, nor do most juries, that's why people like Sam Harding's killer get to drive away free. In London about one cyclist a year dies in a dooring related crash, more than twice the rate of RLJ deaths. Dooring is always in the top group of causes of serious injury to cyclists. [table 12, page 17 of casualty report] We have constantly asked the police to take note of the casualty evidence and put real resources into cracking the dooring problem. It may be that they are beginning to take notice. We also need the legal changes so killing someone by opening a car door is treated the same way as killing them by dangerous driving.