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Watch the footage carefully and you'll see that the car actually tracks to the right immediately before impact. When centered there's about 20" between the sid
by markc 9y ago
Watch the footage carefully and you'll see that the car actually tracks to the right immediately before impact.
When centered there's about 20" between the sides of the car and the lane markers. (120" lane - 80" car) / 2.
At the moment of impact, the victim appears to be between 3' and 4' from the right lane marker. To avoid the fatality, the car would have only had to track left 2' from center.
So my question is - what was the last possible moment such an avoidance maneuver (veer left) could have been initiated?
I think that's an interesting factor in assessing whether this tragedy was avoidable or not. Certainly seems like a technical failure here here in that the car was easing slightly to the right and not braking or veering left.
- vesrah 9y agoCould have been getting into the right hand turn lane to head down Mill Ave that blends in right there.