| Polar Bear |
12-23-2016 04:54 PM |
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Originally Posted by rubicon
(Post 1337246)
Polar Bear
what you share "depends" On any road in any city or state the vehicle overtaking another vehicle on the left has the primary responsibility. A second situation is when a driver is backing up.
I believe you will find that most cops will tell you with both situations the drive over taking and /or backing has the greater share of responsibility.
In The Villages our streets are designed with additional lanes called diamond lanes and used primarily by golf carts. Everyone of these diamond lanes has markings to indicate merging with auto traffic at stop lights and at village gates.
Now we come to the "depends"as expressed above. the depends , depends on the position of the vehicles involved. In my situation I was the lead vehicle and properly signaled looked merged and completed my merge when overtaken. Contrast that to the poster who stated he was side by side with a golf cart when the driver of the cart began to merge from the diamond lane.
when it comes to fault most accidents involve contributory negligence, less so with backing and overtaking which are about absolute
I have certainly been guilty of some mistakes while driving and when I have motioned to the opposing driver my mea culpa.
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I have zero doubt, rubicon, that you encountered a driver behaving poorly in the scenario you described. But...
Sorry...we're not talking about vehicles overtaking other vehicles on a highway or backing. (I'm not even sure what you're referring to when you speak about "backing".) We're talking about a vehicle merging when that vehicle's lane is being terminated. Two totally different situations.
In a lane-termination merge situation, the primary responsibility will always be with the vehicle who needs to merge. Of course all vehicles in the vicinity are responsible to acknowledge and reasonably accommodate the merging vehicle. But that merging vehicle has the primary responsibility to merge safely, no matter where you are or what type of vehicle you are driving. There is no "depends". |
