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Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:31 am to Placebeaux
Car. When merging you have the responsibility to yield.
Driving down I-10 daily though, its amazing how many people don't practice this. They don't use the merge lane to gain enough speed and rather than gaining speed and entering the travel lane at the end of the merge lane, they enter at just as the solid line breaks. Then they enter the hwy at 60 mph and expect you in the right lane to either get over, slow down or speed up.
People use center turn lanes illegally as merge lanes, but can't figure out how to use merge lanes.
Driving down I-10 daily though, its amazing how many people don't practice this. They don't use the merge lane to gain enough speed and rather than gaining speed and entering the travel lane at the end of the merge lane, they enter at just as the solid line breaks. Then they enter the hwy at 60 mph and expect you in the right lane to either get over, slow down or speed up.
People use center turn lanes illegally as merge lanes, but can't figure out how to use merge lanes.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:32 am to Placebeaux
The car is 100% at fault. The car should have yielded because it lost the right of way
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:33 am to gorillacoco
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When they pass the last white line dividing the two lanes, the car is in front of the truck and they are now in the same lane. So I say technically the truck is at fault.
Do you think they had a sign that said "right lane ends. merge left" or "left lane ends. merge right"?
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:33 am to Placebeaux
Look at the bottom right corner, the truck maintains speed at 100km/h. The car slows down for some reason, then tries to speed up and merge but it's too late. I say the car is at fault.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:33 am to LSUfan4444
I've sat on a jury for a similar type of wreck and the car is wrong.
When a lane is merging into your lane, you have zero responsibility to yield to anyone in the merging lane.
When a lane is merging into your lane, you have zero responsibility to yield to anyone in the merging lane.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:34 am to Placebeaux
The car is at fault... just before the video starts there is probably a sign that says "RIGHT LANE ENDS MERGE LEFT"... The car did not heed this caution sign and tried to squeeze in. Bravo to the trucker for not letting the idiot in or causing an accident behind him from braking..
Black car was probably on the cell phone and realized at the last second that he/she was running out of lane.
Black car was probably on the cell phone and realized at the last second that he/she was running out of lane.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:34 am to lsufan251875
this
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:34 am to Ingeniero
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Look at the bottom right corner, the truck maintains speed at 100km/h
Truck is in the wrong for using the Metric System.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:36 am to reggo75
yes there two of those signs at this interchange letting you know well in advance of what is about to happen.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:36 am to reggo75
A whole lot of "probably's" in your scenario.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:37 am to lsufan251875
The amount of responses stating the truck is in the wrong is concerning and also shows why you can't ever really fix traffic problems. You can't fix stupid.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:37 am to tigerpimpbot
Drivers Ed instructor here. Car at fault 100%.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:37 am to LSUfan4444
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When merging you have the responsibility to yield
Exactly!
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:38 am to Placebeaux
That car should have accelerated into the space to merge into traffic. It appears that the car slowed down before attempting to merge.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:38 am to tigerpimpbot
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The car is 100% at fault. The car should have yielded because it lost the right of way
think back a few seconds before video. Black car has a blue semi in front of him.....he's maintaining the same speed as the blue semi and is at speed to merge with highway traffic.
Now an aggressive truck approaches both the blue semi and the black car at a rate higher than they are driving and the flow of traffic, and then positions himself in a manner to either run the car off the road, cause the car to need to brake hard, or get into an accident.
Who "caused" the accident, and who "could have avoided" the accident?
This post was edited on 5/5/16 at 8:40 am
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:39 am to Placebeaux
IMO, the black car is at fault
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:40 am to Kujo
link to video of what happened before?
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:41 am to Placebeaux
Was going to follow that red 18 wheeler to see where it eventually wound up, but about a mile or two down the road, the google recording jumps from Feb 2016 back to Oct 2015 
Posted on 5/5/16 at 8:42 am to Indigold
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it's the car's fault. Had plenty of time to merge left, like the sign says, but didn't
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