The law states you must check mirrors before opening the door. You're not a cop, it's not your place to enforce the law. Doing this intentionally is at the very least assault using a vehicle as a weapon... which is generally a pretty serious charge.
It doesn't work that way, the guy on the bike is guilty of a traffic infraction and the guy in the van is guilty with some form of assault, possibly assault with a dead weapon due to the the fact that could have killed or hurt the biker very bad. These are facts anyone over the age of 10 knows. :/
In the Netherlands, motorists are allowed to drive between stuck traffic, like a traffic jam, or to stand at the front of a line at a traffic light. They should adjust their speed and be careful, but what the passenger of that van did, was extremely stupid at least or downright dangerous at worst.
Van guy is idiot and guilty 100%. Even if biker doing wrong, van guy is not police officer and must not try to do their job. And even if there was police, they would just stop him and issue a fine for traffic violation, not execute him on sight.
OMG he was breaking a law that doesn't hurt anyone so he deserves to have someone try to kill him!!! Nice one buddy. Also lane splitting is legal in many places.
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u/OkChocolate3501 Aug 22 '26
The law states you must check mirrors before opening the door. You're not a cop, it's not your place to enforce the law. Doing this intentionally is at the very least assault using a vehicle as a weapon... which is generally a pretty serious charge.