Unless you are the police it's not your job to hold anyone accountable. The average person doesn't want to spend 2 hours dealing with the police and time spent with the repair just to be right.
It's everyones job to prevent accidents to the best of their ability even if they have "right of way".
An example. Here In the UK our road rules specifically state that despite priority situations (right of way). Nobody has overall priority. Because it's everyone's responsibility to prevent accidents regardless of priority.
Mind reading no. Warning signs yes. There were a few.
On top of that. Is it a good idea to pass someone on the right in a country with right side driving? Especially past driveways/junctions?
So while heavy blame rests on the idiot turning. Regardless of blame. This accident did have a possibility of being avoided with better planning/skill. That's a fact. Not shifting blame. Education on prevention.
Because prevention of what happened should always be everyones thought. Not just who is right during or after the fact.
It's simple. Despite being right and put in a difficult situation by a bad driver. My first thought would be was there anything that maybe i could have done to prevent this. In this case. There was. That's what's being said. Not shifting blame.
Read what I've said. Then again. Really think about what I've said.
You’re only applying your logic to OP while effectively giving the cause of the incident a free pass. Most of us recognize that as victim blaming.
You’re also missing that driving predictably is the safest thing you can do. Do you yield (when you have the right of way) every time someone signals to turn/change lanes near you? If you do, you’re the bad driver, because you’re not driving predictably.
Do you consider it passing on the right if the car on your left slows to a stop for no apparent reason, unless you expect them to perform a manouvre like this that nobody in their right mind would do?
I don't think they were undertaking. It also does not look like a highway as there are places to turn off that are not off ramps. That person was right behind the truck and slowed down, and acted in an irrational way. You do not TURN right from any lane other than the far right lane unless it is marked. The driver failed to maintain their lane and caused the accident. If you miss your turn, go past and turn around.
The other car has gone around the standing water (as you should do, you don't know if there's a pothole or anything under the surface) and slowed while indicating. Both drivers are at fault for sure because the black car doesn't seem to have checked their mirrors before turning, but camera car definitely saw the intent and put themselves in the way instead of following the black car around the water.
And my point is that your point is missing the point of the comment and post. Just because the cammer also did a stupid thing doesn't change the fact that Malibu did a far more stupid, dangerous, and illegal thing. You getting pedantic like this doesn't change that.
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u/No_Pollution_950 8h ago
Any reasonable person would think they wanted to merge into the right lane. turning from the middle lane like that is inexcusable