Well actually the drivers who park there would be the ones to actually kill you but using bike lanes can cause you a great deal of harm.
My wife and I were on the second ride on our new tandem when a van driver opened his door right into what would have been our path had we been in the bike lane. If we had been using the bike lane, the door would have opened right in front of my handlebars. If my bars would have missed the door the second set of handlebars would have almost certainly been clipped by the door. In either case our speed combined with the extra length of the tandem would have been a very effective catapult and my wife and I would have almost certainly been thrown into the path of the car behind us.
Bikesafer
Jeff
