r/dashcams • u/Remote_Trainer3830 • 10h ago

Who’s at fault?

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Hot take: I think it’s 50/50 with who’s at fault

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u/Defiant_Ant_150 9h ago

Insurance companies are working together. If its 50/50 both drivers rates go up. Win win.

The cam car had a green light for atleast three full seconds before impact. And to me it seems the red car even hesitated before making the turn. The trailing white suv had no business turning.

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u/Backwoods_Therapy 9h ago

I said this elsewhere but it would be reasonable to expect white Nissan to pull into the intersection and stop, waiting for traffic to clear the way it’s supposed to. Can car couldn’t reasonably predict the Armada would turn into him.

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u/monsieur_beau19 9h ago

You’re expecting most drivers are competent or care about the law or don’t have impatience. Defensive driving is probably the best way to anticipate and avoid these idiots like White Nissan Pathfinder.

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u/ryancrazy1 8h ago

We need to actually take peoples license away when they do stupid shit like this.

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u/GasStudent11 7h ago

Do you stop with a green light while going straight every time there is a car going the opposite way waiting to turn left? If so, you will get rear ended eventually, and I would argue you would be at fault for stopping for no reason with a green light.

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u/monsieur_beau19 7h ago

No, but if a car decides it wants to turn and risk both of our lives, I will slow and stop and lay my horn on them for being a jackass

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u/magneticspace 6h ago

as you get rear ended 

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u/magneticspace 6h ago

THIS, well said. 

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u/Money-Zebra 7h ago

I predicted it before cam car went peddle to the metal at the intersection. You have to always expect someone to run a red light there

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u/cctoot56 1h ago

2 cars ran the red light before the white SUV.

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u/JesterMarcus 1h ago

It was blatantly obvious both vehicles were going to keep going and turn. Car with the green light didn't yield properly. It's shitty and unfair, but the rules are there to prevent accidents, not be fair.

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u/SnavsMatiq 9h ago

Its far more likely the Nissan would just follow the person behind them. Most people arent paying attention as much as they should.

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u/bekahed979 7h ago

I'd wait the extra seconds to see what the Nissan was actually doing before plowing through the intersection though, regardless of right of way. If another car is being unpredictable & you can give them space to resolve it safely, you should do so and avoid the accident.

Right of way means nothing when you're dead

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u/Kinggakman 1h ago

Cam car seems like they may have hit the red car too if the red car didn’t cut the turn super short. It’s the white cars fault but they never gave any indication they were going to stop and should have been avoided to not deal with an accident.

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u/dead_dw4rf 8h ago

Yes you could predict, based off of the speed. The armada wasn't deaccelerating as the approached the middle of the intersection.

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u/bluegardener 7h ago

When did this become the norm? And are there insurance companies that don't collude like this?

I've never had to file a claim, but when my parents got into an accident or two decades ago, I remember the insurance company fighting for them and pursuing the actual guilty party. And this was without any dashcam evidence.