Toys4RJill

Makes no diff what happened before the truck entered the BMW lane, the evidence shows that truck entered the BMWs lane. That is all that matters.

Jewcano

iTrader: (4)

I guess the same logic can be applied if someone posted up a video of someone breaking really hard and rear-ending the car ahead of them, you'd automatically assume that the car inback is at fault right? Afterall there are never situations where someone is cut off and brake checked....

Toys4RJill

The car in back would be at fault. It does not matter how hard the car in front braked or what caused the car in front to brake.

Give me an example of where the car in front would be at fault?

doge

brake checker

chikoo

made for each other. I am sure they had a riot night at the motel a mile down.

SW17LS

You wouldn't only automatically assume that...the person in the back would in fact be at fault. Its the responsibility of the person in the rear to always maintain enough distance to reach to things that happen ahead of time.

The law is the law.

mmarshall

IMO the girl was guilty of disorderly conduct, which, as a misdemeanor, means she could be arrested and, in most jurisdictions, locked up for up to a year.

Jewcano

iTrader: (4)

Y'all must not drive in FL, GA, TX, or CA.....

If I'm happily putting along at 45mph, in the right lane in a business district, and someone pulls from a parking lot onto the main road and I can't move over into the other lane and end up rear ending them, that'd be my fault? Similar situation happened to my mom, the other party was found to be at fault (old driver).

Kinda hard to maintain a safe distance with a vehicle that 2 seconds ago wasn't in front of you.

Again I'm not siding with the truck driver here at all, I'm just stating that we aren't seeing the entire story and judging the situation based on what we see is wrong too.

grabber2

idoit truck driver vs. jerk BMW driver = popcorn time

SW17LS

Thats an entirely different situation. If someone enters your lane without ceding you the right of way and causes an accident they are at fault, whether you were in the rear or not. Thats what occurred here in that video.

If someone is also traveling in your lane ahead of you and they stop short, and you were following too closely to react and avoid an accident...YOU are at fault. If its deliberate on the part of the person stopping? Good luck proving that without...a dash cam.

mjeds

if you are traveling behind someone and rear end them, the person that rear-ended is at fault.


if someone pulls out in front of you and fails to yield right of way and you hit them/rear-end, they are at fault.




2 entirely different incidents.

tex2670

So let's just say, for the sake of argument, that there was some type of altercation before the video, or the BMW cut off the truck, or the BMW was tailgating, or flipped off the truck. So what? If you saw that on the video, would you then conclude it was perfectly ok for the truck to sideswipe the BMW?

That's why it's irrelevant.

It's not like both cars were moving in traffic, and the video comes on mid maneuver and you don't know if the BMW sped up to keep the truck from merging. The BMW was at a dead stop, at a light, and slowly started pulling up, as the truck merged in from a left turn only lane--not a get up as far as you can until you merge lane, or a don't pay any attention what the lane is for and then fly into the lane you actually want lane.

tex2670

This is all well and good, but show me where in this particular video someone pulled onto a main road from a parking lot? No, I do not drive in FL, GA, TX or CA--maybe in those states you can pull out of a parking lot from the left side into a middle lane.

You just change all the facts to set yourself up to win the argument.

Stormwind

more reasons to get a dash cam.

SW17LS

I seriously am tempted to get dash cams. Had we had one when that pile of leaves set the van on fire we'd know who flicked the cigarette or set them off.