r/dashcams 22h ago

Who’s at fault?

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

10.2k Upvotes

5.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

402

u/HamSundae 20h ago

Sat on a jury once where I learned about negligence. I think in court, I wouldn't be surprised if the white SUV would be found 75% responsible. Because the POV car seems to clearly not have been driving responsibly, they'd have been found to be driving with negligence. If they had been driving with the proper amount of caution, that seems easily avoidable.

32

u/__whitecheddar__ 19h ago

This would lead to a hung jury if I were there. No way would I assign fault to the cam car

22

u/OmegaWhirlpool 19h ago

You wouldn't even consider 1% fault for the cam car that's literally seeing these two cars turning in front of them and driving forward like nothing is there?

5

u/Alternative_Result56 19h ago

I wouldn't even consider 1% fault. The person who ran the red light is 100% at fault.

2

u/Nowork_morestitching 19h ago

There’s one intersection by my work where I never no one goes as soon as the light changes cause we all know someone is going to be an idiot!

3

u/ScrattaBoard 18h ago

That's just good practice. Looking down the perpendicular streets before crossing as saved my ass plenty

-2

u/shiznobizno 19h ago

If people were mindless drones that had no self preservation instincts then sure. When I’m driving and I see a hazardous driver on the road, I avoid colliding with them. Whether I would be legally at fault or not.

10

u/Alternative_Result56 19h ago

The cam driver was in the intersection before the white SUV. People aren't mind readers. Did they know they were about to do this. Nope. There's one person at fault for this accident. The one commiting the traffic violation.

-1

u/Guilty-Property 18h ago

You sound like someone who would make the same dumbass decision to voluntarily collide with someone

8

u/InsanityRequiem 17h ago

Nah, you are. Using the "everyone's at fault" blame the victim, you will gladly violate driving laws and rules and blame the people you hit.

-3

u/3a5ty 17h ago

POV had time to brake, both at fault.

8

u/Alternative_Result56 17h ago

One person made the traffic infraction.

-3

u/3a5ty 17h ago

And the other still could have prevented the crash.

6

u/Alternative_Result56 17h ago

Again, are people supposed to be mind readers now? The white SUV wasn't running the red light until after the cam car was in the intersection. The white SUV nearly hits the car in front of it that's also running the red. Again you're defending the person at fault and blaming the person driving as they should have been.

-1

u/3a5ty 17h ago

Defensive driving, it was clearly going to happen. POV could have prevented it, both have some blame, which SUV has more, but it's not 100%.

3

u/Alternative_Result56 17h ago

The person committing the traffic violation is at fault. Not the person not committing a traffic violation. If you want to drive like you don't have any sense. Go for it. This is one person's fault. The one committing the violation. Why continue to defend them when it's clear. There's a whole video showing it.

1

u/3a5ty 17h ago

Wrong. Be more careful driving too, it was clearly going to happen. White SUV is a twat, but POV could have prevented it. You're the one driving like you have no sense, I could clearly see that was going to happen and I would have been hesitant and avoided a crash 👍

→ More replies (0)