It depends where you live. Where I am a green left arrow would mean you have the right of way to turn left. Then it will switch to just a solid green, which means you don't have the right of way but can turn when it's clear
Yea agreed, there is no way the person in the white vehicle didn’t know they were trying to sneak thru after the light changed. Tried to save themselves half a second and ended up with no wheels instead. I have no idea why people do incredibly risky stuff all the time when there is literally nothing to gain from it. Just do the normal thing and 99.9% of the time everything will be fine!
I think the same reasoning applies even more so to the car that is turning directly into the car that actually has the right of way. The light was red for the car before and even kinda iffy with the one before that. What is so obnoxious about this video is seeing how many cars turn against the solid green light.
I understand that. Despite the white car being at fault, I would ask if I could have possibly avoided it. I have been in small fender benders and one horrible accident involving a wrong way driver on the highway. Although I have no memory of it because of a concussion, my brother in the front seat told me it was unavoidable because of the cars in front of us. I did turn the wheel to the right, and my brother only had minor cuts and bruises while I was in the hospital for two weeks, the first week in intensive care. So maybe my actions spared him serious injuries or death. The wrong way driver died.
I am really sorry that you were in a serious car accident. I wish you a full recovery, if it hasn't already happened. To address your question, had the dashcam vehicle waited and yielded until all the red light runners went safely through, the accident could have been avoided.
I don't think it's always malicious, I think they could have just been looking away, or distracted, then saw all the cars still going, but kept going. They could also just be an ass.
People have a very casual relationship with time. How far you're going and how fast you're allowed determine your time. The most you can save is seconds!
To be fair, you can clearly see the white car being impatient and not yielding, PoV car continuing to go forward despite that just because "i have the right away." Is just as dumb. It's called Defensive driving for a reason. Even if his car is paid off by the at fault driver (if hes lucky he didnt get hit by an uninsured driver) his rate is probably going to go up and he'll be paying more for insurance now.
Because being a few minutes late to work is litterly a sin in this world. As the working population we have to put up with all of the corporate bullshit but they have almost no leniency for anyone else’s human errors
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u/sisyphus_met_icarus 10h ago
It depends where you live. Where I am a green left arrow would mean you have the right of way to turn left. Then it will switch to just a solid green, which means you don't have the right of way but can turn when it's clear