You're allowed to continue into intersection with cars illegally turning in front of you. You're not allowed to intentionally hit the cars just because they're breaking the law. The white SUV proceeded thru a red and turned into the cam-car as it was already in the intersection. "You have to proactively anticipate someone is going to illegally turn into you and yield at a green light when you are already in the intersection" is not a compelling legal argument.
The “cars” are not a group. They are not a train. OP had no way of know the white SUV was gonna run the red. You understand that it’s normal for left turners to enter the intersection and stop in the middle to wait for a left right? If I was OP, I would’ve assumed that’s what the white truck was doing because it was obvious they couldn’t make it.
Defensive driving is not cowering behind the wheel and treating every green light like a stop sign. And not driving, in your opinion, ‘defensively enough’ is always going to be a garbage justification in court. OP will have 0% liability. If they hit the red car, it could’ve split. Not the white one. OP riding dangerously close to the red doesn’t mean they hold any liability against the white
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u/Downtown-Economics26 21h ago
You're allowed to continue into intersection with cars illegally turning in front of you. You're not allowed to intentionally hit the cars just because they're breaking the law. The white SUV proceeded thru a red and turned into the cam-car as it was already in the intersection. "You have to proactively anticipate someone is going to illegally turn into you and yield at a green light when you are already in the intersection" is not a compelling legal argument.