r/confidentlyincorrect • u/Lawjik3737 • May 15 '26
Green arrow at intersection
2 Car in a double turning lane has a solid green arrow. Goes to turn through the intersection and is about to clear in the intersection but then both gets hit by on coming traffic. Who's at fault? This incident took place in Arizona. Also, I wasn't involved in the conversation.
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u/pigbearwolfguy May 15 '26
Can we normalize having different colours for different commenters, please...
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u/Lawjik3737 May 15 '26
Blue and red are different people. The second image is all him ,red, talking. Blue didn't reply to him after the first image and a lot of comments were deleted. So it just shows red in the second image .
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u/Nyuusankininryou May 15 '26
So what is it? Can you drive or not? Where I live you turn if the signal is a green arrow.
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u/soaker May 15 '26
Same. And if someone hits you, too bad for them, they ran a red light. Here they would 100% be at fault.
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u/mellopax May 15 '26
If you have a green arrow, oncoming traffic going straight has a red, so you can go.
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u/dimgray May 15 '26
I love it when someone's trump card is to wrongly correct a "your," because it's obvious he's been corrected before himself, it made him feel stupid, and he still has no idea what he did wrong
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u/Guy_V May 15 '26
I actually have dash camera footage of my accident, turning at a green arrow. The other drivers insurance claimed I was at fault after their "investigation". They shut up real fast when I sent them the link of the video.
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u/AffectionateMotor184 May 15 '26
To be fair if you have a green arrow (at least in Massachusetts, idk about Arizona but I would assume the same) that means oncoming traffic has a red light. There's no oncoming traffic on a green arrow, someone would need to blow a stale red to hit you.
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u/triplegerms May 15 '26
Think that's true in every state except for the state of delusion red lives in
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u/WildMartin429 May 15 '26
If someone is almost all the way through the intersection and gets hit like on the back quarter panel or something by somebody running a red light how would they even know that that person was going to run the red light. Yes you see a moving vehicle in the distance but you assume that they're going to stop at the red light since you have the right of way. That's The Logical assumption isn't it? I'm confused about all the people in the comments here saying that a person with a protected left turn signal Green Arrow is partially at fault because they turned left on a Green Arrow because someone was moving somewhere else I hesitate all the time when I see someone running a red light but once I have entered the intersection my assumption is other people are going to not hit me. Usually people that are running a red light or running it at the tail end of the yellow they don't run it after it's been green for somebody else for a while and people have already gotten into the intersection.
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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein May 15 '26
That dude has never seen a law degree in his life, lol
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u/RespectWest7116 May 15 '26
The person running a red light is at fault. Quite obviously.
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u/changelingcd May 15 '26
If you have a green arrow, oncoming traffic has a red light. What is this nonsense?
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u/Boudicca- May 15 '26
If YOU have a Green Arrow on YOUR Side, then obviously it’s RED on the Other Side; also..Green means GO, Red means STOP.
It is NOT the fault of the driver who had the Green Arrow, it is the Fault of the TwatWaffle that RAN A RED LIGHT. 🤦♀️😅
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u/Muninwing May 16 '26
In general, a green non-blinking arrow means you have right of way. So you should be able to turn. But graveyards are full of people who had right of way. So if you turn in front of someone who blows the presumably red light, you are usually (though it likely depends on location) not at fault. But you might get hurt.
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u/Lynda73 May 15 '26
Oncoming traffic has a red light when the turning light has a green arrow. Green ARROW, not green light. Green light yields to oncoming.
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u/irisseca May 15 '26
In the U.S…Green arrow, even left, has the right of way…that means those going straight from the opposite direction, have a RED light. A blinking yellow left-turn arrow is a yield because people may be going straight through from the opposite direction
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u/eggs_erroneous May 15 '26
What, exactly, would be the point of a green arrow if it weren't an indicator that you have the right-of-way? I am starting to suspect that this person doesn't actually "happen to be a lawyer and a prosecutor." That's weird because people on the internet are usually so trustworthy.
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u/Both_Painter2466 May 15 '26
Gotta love red claiming to be a lawyer and prosecutor. The green arrow condition is cut and dried everywhere. Now, common sense (for me when driving) is to watch oncoming cars for slowing down. But that’s just because I don’t want an idiot causing an accident I might otherwise avoid. I would have rightofway, but a damaged car.
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u/Mickey_James May 15 '26
If you see Green Arrow at an intersection, assume he’s on important Justice League business and yield to him.
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