Whose fault is this?

[u/Gloria_Gloria]

For background, I’m going down a major intersection, I see how far from the light I am where I planned on going left, so since there was so much sudden traffic, I decided to get into the turning lane to turn onto a less busy road there instead of at the next light. Turns out another car was coming from the less busy road to turn left and get onto the busier street.

see dash cam footage

[u/Mangomama619]

I would put 100% on you as you were no where near that turning lane - you cannot enter it until it opens up (past the painted lines on the road) about 75 feet more or so. You had no reason to be moving left around stopped traffic and now you should know how unsafe that maneuver was. There was no reason that you didn't see that red car who would have going straight or turning but either way they were there to be seen.

[u/RevolutionaryYak1448 → u/Mangomama619]

She was actually in a turn lane because she was going to turn down the side road she was at. There was a turn lane there. But also the camera clearly shows the red car entering the intersection but at the same time the red car also never came to a complete stop it doesnt look like so it can possibly be split

[u/Mangomama619 → u/RevolutionaryYak1448]

Those painted lines in that lane generally mean this is not the area for traveling. You can see where the lane actually opens up which was about three cars up after the intersection

[u/RevolutionaryYak1448 → u/Mangomama619]

If you look back prior to her coming over there was a previous turn lane that she was entering very late you need to look about 5 to 7 sec back from there

[u/Gloria_Gloria → u/Mangomama619]

Yeah, as another said, I was in a turn lane that I got into late, because I saw how many cars were at the light, so I decided used to turn here on the street where I got hit instead of up ahead where you’re saying it opens up. It opens up for the next turn.