re: A-hole driver charged with aggravated assault (UPDATE) (double line enforcer)

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I have a question, that sort of indirectly involves this case...let's assume that the car was driving slower, and he was in fact attempting to make a left turn, would he be in the wrong for clipping the bike? I get that the bike had illegally passed in a no passing zone...but, he still gained possession of the lane first, and in Louisiana, if you're making a left turn and cause a collision with a vehicle passing to the left you are the guilty party, if it's deemed that the passing vehicle has possession of the lane first.

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Is that really the law in LA? If so, wow. Really dumb. I mean I understand its concept, but can you really see behind you fully while mostly worrying about oncoming traffic first and foremost? If some idiot on a bike, like in the video, did that, I do not understand how it would be the driver taking the left turns fault at all.