Advocates say some of the crimes have been caught on dashcam video, as cars try to knock down cyclists on the street by opening their passenger doors.
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Ellie Mead from Oakland went to the hospital with bruises and a deep cut above her eye, after she says a driver "doored" her in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood on Feb. 10. She believes it was no accident. "For me, it was silver car door opens and I'm on the ground, as they drove away I heard them laughing," said Mead.
Advocates from the East Bay Bike Party club say about two dozen cyclists were targeted last week in Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville. Fourteen of them were hit and two suffered serious injuries. "The fact there are people out there hunting us down intentionally for whatever they are doing this for, is terrifying," said cyclist Carter Lavin.
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