There can be but only after you have already been inattentive or negligent leading up to the situation. My teen is less than a year into his license. The other

There can be but only after you have already been inattentive or negligent leading up to the situation. My teen is less than a year into his license. The other night he was driving us in an unfamiliar area and missed a sign indicating that the 3 lanes were merging into 2. He found himself at the merge point completely blocking a car trying to merge. Yes, the merging vehicle is obligated to yield but speeding up for a few seconds with open road in front of him was the safer move than braking hard or maintaining speed and hoping the merging vehicle yielded appropriately before it ran out of pavement.