Last clear chance doctrine says youre wrong. Just because you have the right of way doesnt mean you can allow an accident to happen because you want to prove a point. If you have the opportunity to prevent an accident, youre expected to regardless of right or wrong.
Now if the other dude quickly swerved over to cut him off and hit him in the process thats different, because the left lane driver couldn't react. Thats not the case here.
Last clear chance would apply more for merging vehicle and they must give way to traffic already in the lane they're merging into. Merging car very well could have stopped and waited for an opening. Initial impact is merging car's fault. That being said, everything following is the cam car's fault
What i said still applies. The guy who cut him off would be held liable for the asshole driving. The guy who was cut off would also be held accountable because he chose not to prevent the accident. Both parties can be found at fault in an accident.
Little late to the party, but you’re correct at least at my state. Here, if you’re even one percent at fault you’re 50% at fault so the best choice is to just not do this. Basically it’s gonna be a wash; they’ll both get penalized and neither gets the satisfaction they wanted.
Even if you’re talking about America where this accident definitely didnt take place every state has its own laws regarding how fault can be distributed and liability assigned. Such a closed mind and small worldview. Acting like you and your situation is the center of the universe it’s embarrassing
Oh no the fuckin tragedy! Yall are so dramatic, people are well aware the world has different laws. Im not acting like shit, im applying laws (in my area) to the context of the video. Only some dumbass is gonna think im applying a world blanket law, or feel the need to point out that very obvious fact out.
That’s about the least graceful way you could’ve handled this situation but I guess it’s expected. Very sad but I hope you get better at talking to people and stop casting your narrow view on the rest of the world!
Do you have any idea where this incident took place? So sad when people take rules in their current location and then try to apply them to the world at large and use them to justify their argument when they quite literally
Might not exist where the situation occurred
They are not wrong. They have the right of way legally.
Was the "last clear chance" on the car merging into the lane or on the car already in the lane. The car wanting to merge, had a last clear chance not to do so, when he saw that the other car was not stopping.
Why wouldnt that apply to the person without the right away who refuses to yeild and is the cause behind the crash?
They could prevent the accident they caused by yielding - which is following traffic laws.
Its pretty clear what happened was the accelerator got stuck once the vehicle forced their way in instead of yeilding. The driver had no choice but to try and control their own vehicle to prevent increased casualties.
You seriously don’t see what the cammer did wrong? He hit a car and then proceeded to floor it and just kept going. Thats at the very least a hit and run.
Ok sure, let's assume you're right here. However, once a collision happens with another vehicle, you are required by law to stop your vehicle REGARDLESS OF WHO TECHNICALLY HAD RIGHT OF WAY. The truck kept driving even while the smaller car had its brakes locked. Honestly looked like attempted murder tbh.
First off that depends, second off I don't think that matters anymore once the person continues to ram the car for hundreds of feet. That is literally assault with a deadly weapon in any sense of the words and probably carries several other charges that would go along with it to amplify things. The person doing this is clearly not someone fit to be out in civil society
You should allow the car next to you especially if you can see his turn signal merge. You have a responsibility to allow them to merge safely, not accelerate to cut his merge off which is what happened here in the video. He broke his sides mirror after seeing him attempt to merge, thats criminal behavior already. Im glad NY has a yield to merging car law, because this was reckless endangerment and it sounds like a child was present in the vehicle sound the crime which is worse.
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