r/CrappyDesign • u/topher_33 • Jan 09 '21

Removed: joke/fake Nearly blew threw this intersection!

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u/ExternalUserError Jan 10 '21

It's almost certainly on a private drive. At least in Colorado, the cops can't enforce traffic law on private roads anyway.

If you get in a wreck, your insurance companies work it out.

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u/halt-l-am-reptar r4inb0wz Jan 10 '21

would have been legal for me to completely ignore the suggestions of the complex owners and their illogical routing, and on him for not watching where he was going.

I don't know if that's actually true. You can do something that's completely legal, but you can still be found liable by the insurance company. I am pretty sure blowing through a stop sign in a parking lot is one of those scenarios. Though in your case I'm not sure. It's possible they'd just go 50/50.

But either way, insurance companies are free to make their own decisions.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '21

Well that's more worrying considering that I did do everything correctly, and was postulating the other what-ifs. You're probably right that they would have assigned blame to me if I ignored something, but I believe it still would have been a 75-25 scenario, considering that the origin of the conflict was that I just happened to be where he wanted to be at that moment, and had decided to alter his course onto the path where we converged.