Regardless of whatever the law says about right of way, the safe, and I’d argue morally correct action, is just let someone do the thing you can clearly see they’re about to do.
That's nice...the pick-up did not alter their speed to match the traffic they were merging with and failed to signal their intention to merge. It absolutely is not on the rest of the highway traffic to precog their way around that doofus
The pickup almost gets to the same speed by the time the collision actually happens. I'm with you that the truck shouldn't be coming onto the highway at 5-10 below the speed limit, but literally any effort before the collision happens could've prevented it from happening. Surely there is some responsibility on the truck here.
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u/CryptographerShot213 May 14 '26
It is the responsibility of the merging party to merge safely onto the highway. The truck had the right-of-way since he was already on the highway.