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Originally Posted by Bilyclub
You're getting silly about things. It's just basic traffic law 101. No, an accident is not generally the fault of the last person with a reasonable chance to avoid it. As you say wrong, wrong, wrong. An accident is the fault of the person who does not have the right of way.
Trooper Steve says this:
Some drivers in that right lane tend to sometimes speed up and close that gap available for a merger, ultimately eliminating the space for a vehicle to merge. Would this be considered following too closely? Or maybe even careless driving? Possibly.
There are a few traffic violations that could occur if someone had malicious intended to prevent someone from merging. But at the end of the day the roadway belongs to the person in that lane and the individual wanting to merge is obligated to yield right away.
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Sorry, but
Right, right, right.
From HG law----"In most instances, any driver violating traffic law will be held largely responsible for a resulting car accident. If one of the drivers is issued a citation for speeding, running a light, or another violation, he or she will most likely be primarily at fault, and carry the heaviest burden of the resulting liability."
So, a car that is 150 feet behind a cart near the merge point where the speed limit is 20 that hits a cart was
SPEEDING and therefore
AT FAULT. PERIOD, no room for debate.
Next , the law does not assign a "right of way", it describes who must yield it
And third, if 2 miles is "silly" how far behind the merge point do you think a car must be in order to be required to yield?????