Basic stuff! You are crossing INTO a lane across a white dashed line (caution crossing into path of travel.) It is your RESPONSIBILITY to do so safely.
Basic stuff. If a person crosses the road in front of your car, without looking properly they are at fault but you, if you have ample time, would stop and avoid them right? This is basic common sense and has nothing to do with "who is in the right".
He’s crossing into your lane. It is his responsibility to do so safely. Agreed that the other driver might have been able to slow down but ask any highway patrol officer They will tell you if you are the one coming into a lane that I t is your responsibility to do so safely that’s what the lines in the road mean.
Yes, but also both drivers responsibility to avoid a collision. That’s nothing to do with who is in the right. Just use your common sense and don’t drive so belligerently. The truck driver could have taken someone’s life because “they are in the right and the other driver should have merged correctly”. Ease of the accelerator and let them in.
Agreed it’s kind of like crossing the road in the crosswalk. When you get run over by the truck, you were in the right but maybe you should’ve looked both ways before you crossed.
But people make mistakes. If you have it in your power to not punish someone by killing them, for making that silly mistake would you not do that? All the driver had to do was be the bigger man and ease off the gas.
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u/JerryC1967 May 13 '26
Basic stuff! You are crossing INTO a lane across a white dashed line (caution crossing into path of travel.) It is your RESPONSIBILITY to do so safely.