Suicide Doors

I feel really bad having a blog called "suicide doors and whitewalls" and having nothing whatsoever about suicide doors on it. Especially since a substantial number of hits from Google are people Googling "suicide doors" or "why they're called suicide doors" or things like that. So here's the lowdown.

What are suicide doors?

Suicide doors are doors on cars that opens away from the front-end of the car. See examples below:

Why are suicide doors called suicide doors?

Legend has it that suicide doors are so called because the doors make it much easier to fall out of the car if it accidentally opened while driving (Source: Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary, LA Times). Thankfully, car safety has come a long way since the name was coined, and these days there are such things as seat belts.

And now you know.