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Scenario: You are called to an accident scene where car (A) made a lane change to the right and collided with car (B) that was already in that lane.
Your local knowledge: The traffic in the right lane backs up every morning becuase cars are turning right onto a freeway. Impatient drivers will tend to drive past the 1/2 mile backup in the left lane and muscle their way in just before the ramp. Drivers already in the correct lane will tend to bunch up in an attempt to keep the impatient drivers out.
Driver (A) states that she signalled several seconds in advance and that driver (B) should have allowed her in because they were almost at the ramp that she wanted. She further states that (B) went to great lengths to keep her out of the lane, even moving far right in his lane so he could drive around her when she was already 1/4 way in the lane. She believes (B) should have let her in once she started her lane change and that he was just being an idiot.
Driver (B) said he had been waiting in this line of traffic for 5 minutes and refused to let driver (A) 'jump the line'. (B) acknowledges moving to the far right of his lane when (A) began to make the lane change but stayed within the lane (there is a curb to his right so he couldn't have strayed out of his lane). He did this in an attempt to avoid a collision. (B) agrees he did not slow down to allow (A) to complete the lane change because he believes that he had no duty to let (A) in. Plus, she jumped the line and that's just plain old arrogant - "she should have waited her turn like everyone else, dangit."
Who gets tickets?
Your local knowledge: The traffic in the right lane backs up every morning becuase cars are turning right onto a freeway. Impatient drivers will tend to drive past the 1/2 mile backup in the left lane and muscle their way in just before the ramp. Drivers already in the correct lane will tend to bunch up in an attempt to keep the impatient drivers out.
Driver (A) states that she signalled several seconds in advance and that driver (B) should have allowed her in because they were almost at the ramp that she wanted. She further states that (B) went to great lengths to keep her out of the lane, even moving far right in his lane so he could drive around her when she was already 1/4 way in the lane. She believes (B) should have let her in once she started her lane change and that he was just being an idiot.
Driver (B) said he had been waiting in this line of traffic for 5 minutes and refused to let driver (A) 'jump the line'. (B) acknowledges moving to the far right of his lane when (A) began to make the lane change but stayed within the lane (there is a curb to his right so he couldn't have strayed out of his lane). He did this in an attempt to avoid a collision. (B) agrees he did not slow down to allow (A) to complete the lane change because he believes that he had no duty to let (A) in. Plus, she jumped the line and that's just plain old arrogant - "she should have waited her turn like everyone else, dangit."
Who gets tickets?
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