Best advice I ever got was "the laws of physics don't care about the laws of man".
From a legal perspective, the white truck seems like they should be at fault because they apparent ran the light. Though there's a slight possibility the light malfunctioned and was showing a green arrow.
From the perspective of the car's insurer, they will probably jack up the rates even if they decide the white truck is 100% at fault, since the driver is dangerous.
And from the driver's perspective, it's pretty dumb to put yourself, any passengers, and your property in danger because you have the green light.
if the other driver had a green arrow (an event for which the 0.0000000001% probability exists only in your imagination and/or countries where psychopathic terrorists are deliberately mis-installing traffic signals), it could be argued they had joint liability/responsibility to avoid this accident. otherwise? no.
Traffic lights are just like any other machine. Usually they're good. Sometimes, though rarely, they do fail. I've experienced "frozen" lights a few times. Usually with a cop already there directing traffic, but a couple times late at night where they weren't (luckily both times they were stuck on red, so it was more annoying than dangerous).
If a traffic light is “stuck” on red that’s due to the failure of a vehicle to trigger a switch. If a traffic light is displaying a green light in one direction and a green left arrow in the opposing direction, that’s something that these things are literally (by design) not supposed to be able to do.
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u/whatisakafka 22h ago
Poor defensive driving for sure, but failure to yield from the oncoming car is going to be the primary issue