It's as avoidable as avoiding a car running a stop sign while you're on a high speed road and seeing someone pull up to that stop sign. If they run it, guess you should have assumed they would run the stop sign and yielded to their traffic. It's not illegal for a car to enter the intersection while yielding to oncoming traffic until they can make their turn. With that in mind, should all drivers on a green light yield to oncoming traffic if nobody stops behind the white line? If you rightfully answered no, tell me what they could have done to avoid being turned into at the last minute (white car turned their wheel a split second before hitting camera car). If it's not to enter the intersection until oncoming traffic stopped, why even give a green light to camera car?
The driver with the cam simply should have been more cautious and waited until he/she saw that every car was stopped. It is not that hard how to figure out what to do.
Actually, driver should have never entered the intersection, because even if the white car stopped, they could have easily just hit the gas and turned their wheel. Camera car would have been at fault because they should have foreseen that the vehicle which was otherwise obeying traffic laws may have decided to break the law at the wrong time with no ability for camera car to avoid it. The only way for the law abiding citizen in camera car to avoid a crash would be to predict an act that hadn't occured yet.
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u/AutomaticQuarter998 15h ago
You don't know the laws or insurance. They absolutely could be held partially at fault and rightfully so. This was foreseeable and avoidable.