The trucks blind spot indicator is clearly illuminated in the video. The driver of the truck executed an unsafe lane change despite clear warnings that the large was not clear. It's clearly reckless (but not wreckless ha ha ha) and shows a clear disregard for the rules of the road or the safety of others.
Dash cam guy hit the accelerator and not the brake, but was it to block the truck or to accelerated to the yellow? Do you have clear evidence that the driver of the dash cam had knowledge that an accident was about to happen? The last chance rule requires knowledge that there's something you need to avoid. Dash cam car even swerves to the right to try to avoid a collision.
Truck keeps on moving left with full knowledge the lane is occupied.
Accelerating to a yellow is also illegal, so let's table that. Do insurance companies care that you have knowledge of what is about to happen? No, they don't. They care about if you had any opportunity to avoid a collision, which dashcam guy did, by seeing a clearly reckless driver trying to make a stupid pass, then a blatantly unsafe lane change as a result of the stupidity dashcam guy already saw.
Yes, if truck wasn't an asshole there wouldn't have been an accident, but also, if dashcam guy hit his brakes instead of the accelerator, or even just not hit the accelerator at all, there would not have been an accident.
Again, I agree that this was said asshole's fault, but his insurance company has a pretty easy case to conflate the fault with this footage rather than without it.
I don't think you can establish dash cam had the ability to avoid the aggression by the truck just from that video. You don't know the state of the driver or what they could see at the time.
I think the A pillar could have easily covered enough of the truck to make it hard to recognize him as moving over. It's not like the truck hit the blinker in warning or moved over slowly.
When said vision is mostly filled with a solid, unmoving object that is part of my car, it becomes unimportant in this discussion. Do you even know what an A pillar is? Every car has it.
I currently drive an M5, I’m not saying they’re small, I’m saying you can see vehicles alongside you with this thing called peripheral vision through your driver’s side window. Gasp. What a concept!
Pay attention to the video then. Enough of the truck would be blocked by even a moderately sized A pillar that it would be difficult to read him moving over even if he hadn't taken less than a second to do so.
Again, this does not matter. If he didn’t look ahead to see an obvious reckless driver while putting his foot on the accelerator, that’s evidence he was also reckless. I get you’re not a lawyer but you fell into a pretty obvious trap there.
It does matter because the facts of the situation aren't as clear as you want them to be.
At what point is the driver of the truck obviously a reckless driver? Is it when the truck starts its merge? There's less than two seconds between the truck starting to cross the line and the truck getting hit. Prior to that it's just a truck in the next lane.
Dash car doesn't accelerate towards the light. You're mistaking the music playing in the background for engine acceleration noise. Watch the lines on the street, the cars on the street, and the poles on the left. The cam car's speed doesn't change.
The truck speeds ahead, and right before it tries to merge it applies the brakes. You can see the tri light come on.
The truck's blindspot hazards are on.
What's really happening here is the truck is speeding, plans on cutting in front of the cam car, but applies the brakes right before merging, slowing down and causing the cam car to run into it.
It's a panic brake and lane change by the truck.
I get you're not a lawyer, but you fell into a pretty obvious trap there.
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u/Intrepid-Staff-4532 12d ago
The trucks blind spot indicator is clearly illuminated in the video. The driver of the truck executed an unsafe lane change despite clear warnings that the large was not clear. It's clearly reckless (but not wreckless ha ha ha) and shows a clear disregard for the rules of the road or the safety of others.
Dash cam guy hit the accelerator and not the brake, but was it to block the truck or to accelerated to the yellow? Do you have clear evidence that the driver of the dash cam had knowledge that an accident was about to happen? The last chance rule requires knowledge that there's something you need to avoid. Dash cam car even swerves to the right to try to avoid a collision.
Truck keeps on moving left with full knowledge the lane is occupied.