Cammers light was solid green... there's some chance the other cars driver had a heart attack while waiting at their red, but they're probably just another useless self-centered fuckin moron
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
The comment below yours is actually arguing that the cammer deserves a ticket for going too fast for the conditions. Someone will always argue against the obvious.
As someone who hasn’t t-boned or ran over anyone ever, I think there’s a case for maybe don’t fly past a bunch of vehicles stopped on the side in case someone is trying to cross.
80% red light runner
20% uncautious driver
After all, I’ve only heard “drive defensively” all of my life.
You and I are unpopular in threads like this, but I agree with you. I felt super nervous watching the cammer drive that fast past a canyon of stopped cars blocking vision. You never know what kind of pedestrians or motorcycles, or animals or whatnot might pop out of the gaps.
This time it was a car and it ruined the cammers day and possibly their automobile.
I’m not surprised. I used to work in insurance and occasionally you would get people that would try to blame everything around them instead of accept they were at fault.
Slow is an understatement. Three cars go through the intersection before the cam car does. This isn't just trying to beat a yellow, they were straight up just ignoring the traffic lights.
Easily your fault. You had the green light, and they were running the red. Your insurance will find you 100% guilty, drop you from coverage, and send you to prison for doing this.
but yeah, slow down when you're entering an intersection when you can see nothing, sightlines are blocked. slow down when traveling into stopped traffic
graveyards full of people with the right of way and all that
The car that drove out into the path of the video car is to blame.. however the driver could have avoided this incident by driving a little bit more defensively.. entering an area where lots of stationary/slow moving vehicles like this you should really be reducing your speed and raising your awareness of the other vehicles around you, especially since you are approaching a junction and don't have a clear view of what traffic may conflict with your intended path.
I just saw a thread somewhere that was basically people bitching about some drivers slowing down when approaching intersections even when they have a green light. I wish I could remember where so I could link this video, because it’s a perfect example of why I always slow down for intersections where I don’t have a viewer view of all traffic at the intersection.
Having the green light (and being not at fault) won’t prevent you from being dead, or from killing someone else.
There is no way in hell I’m carrying speed with two lanes of basically stopped traffic on either side of me.
But if you are quickly passing a long stream of cars who are stopped up at an intersection...this should give some hints to slow down as there may be a reason they are moving very slow. The way the car was slowly moving suggests a mechanical or medical problem.
An insurance adjuster will more than likely split the liability with a substantial portion going to the cross traffic driver. The underlying principle is that drivers are supposed to avoid causing and attempt to prevent collisions. Passing those other cars which limits your forward view matters, especially reactive to your speed. Add that the other car may have become trapped in the intersection in the midst of a legal passing and the whole matter will be decided by talking with both drivers and any witnesses.
Damn, if you can flip a minivan onto its side by running into it going less than 40 miles per hour, I think the manufacturer of that minivan needs to rethink their design.
In Pa it would be your fault because the front of your vehicle hit another driver. They say some bullshit about always being in control of your vehicle. I came over a blind hill to enter 95 and what I saw once over the hill was a drunk driver who reversed into a cab full of drunks completely blocking the shoulder and an active right lane on 95. All I could do was slam on my brakes and slide into the back of the cab. None of these assholes had any flashers or any lights whatsoever,at 11:30 at night. So I got sued for damages to the cab because I was the last one to crash. It didn’t matter that the only choice I had was do what I did(crash into the cabbies trunk) or mow down a bunch of idiots blocking the road.
Are you joking lemmme gues the ol my light was green shenanigans. The person whose fault it is is the person whose fault it was that caused such a. Fault to be had
Well, this guy went speeding past all the vehicles and didn't look both ways. It wasn't his fault, but I am sure he could've slowed up at the light and not had to spend a week of his time with talking to insurance and trying to buy a new car. Just drive defensively. There are a lot of distracted morons out there. Stay safe.
The car under the speed limit and with the greenlight is likely to be found legally right. But….: There’s a huge gulf between being right and being wise. Anytime you’re the only vehicle moving at speed through a canyon of cars you’re asking for trouble.
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u/smithc555 8d ago
“Well isn’t that dandy?” Seriously though, the red light crawler is a POS.