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> But don't we normally consider drivers responsible for crashing into objects towards which they're travelling? No. If you are traveling a highway at posted s
by massysett 3y ago
> But don't we normally consider drivers responsible for crashing into objects towards which they're travelling?
No. If you are traveling a highway at posted speed and have a green light, and someone makes a left turn across your path, you’re not responsible if you can’t stop in time. The turning vehicle must yield to all oncoming vehicles close enough to be a hazard.
Similarly no, you are not responsible if you hit a truck that simply pulls straight out onto a street with no regard for the oncoming vehicles, which have the right of way.
- wldcordeiro 3y agoBigger vehicles love utilizing "physics right of way" to get what they want and it sounds like that's what happened here. Even pick-up truck drivers do stuff where they basically put you in situations where you give them what they want or they run into you and take no damage. Big vehicles on the road are an absolute problem at all levels.
- sokoloff 3y agoThat position is commonly held (and matches common sense), but I think doesn’t match the law. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VvRPzvh-ZOE&t=100 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VvRPzvh-ZOE&t=100 as an example that I recall watching with some outrage. Less outrageous is the requirement in many jurisdictions for vehicles to avoid collisions when possible and providing a general principle that a vehicle with the right of way but still having the last clear chance to avoid a collision is at fault for failing to do so.
- AdamN 3y agoThat would probably be no-fault in most US states (meaning both people are at fault). Basically unless you are hard stopped, each driver has some fault in any given accident.