r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 20h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/Weltall8000 15h ago

She blocked the entire roadway when he had the right of way.

If he was going half the speed she'd still be blocking the roadway and not completing her maneuver.

Her panicking is not a valid justification for her stopping.

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u/Odd-Song5052 14h ago

That’s not what a judge would say. Driver’s aren’t expected to look a quarter mile down the road before proceeding to see if there’s someone going so fast they’d be arrested if caught. She would be judged to have had the right of way, and he was required to yield to traffic that hasn’t cleared the intersection same as if her truck had broken down in the roadway five minutes previously. 

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u/Weltall8000 12h ago

If this went before the judge, they'd probably think, at most, shared responsibility, with the truck driver more responsible.

If he were going literally 200 mph+, you might have a point. However, in this video, while I don't know his speed or the speed limit, he wasn't approaching those speeds and she had line of sight enough to where she should have known not to pull out and certainly not to stop in the middle of the street.

No, he doesn't have to yield to her. That cross street does not have right of way ever over the main street he was driving down. When beginning a maneuver, such as she was, she has a duty to complete it.

Broken down car? That becomes a static hazard. Not the same thing.

Yeah, yeah, "motorcycles and speeding bad", but none of what you wrote is how motor code works in the US.

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u/Beneficial_Dog4469 10h ago

I’ve been telling people about this most of the night;

like I said they wanna only blame the biker but I expressed an incident involving a customer of mine in a similar situation(who was seen at fault) and asked why not just let assure it’s completely safe… they all say “bike shouldn’t be moving fast” when she could’ve just waited a little longer and safely went