[USA][CA] Cammer hits indecisive Prius
Posted Jan 9, 2019, 6:01 PM UTC
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move completely into the other lane when overtaking people, not just "enough" space between you and the other car.
i'm guilty of this as well sometimes
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Yep. Cammer made a "punish pass" and punished himself.
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It looks like his "punishment pass" scared the driver enough to assume the horn blast right at his car was coming from the lane he was turning into, making him swerve the wrong way to avoid it, and therefore causing the accident.
Having a camera helped me stop doing stupid shit like "buzzing" people or late braking/riding up etc. The scrutiny of recording your own driving should help you stop doing stupid shit like this, since by fact all you are doing is setting up a device to record yourself actively not avoiding collisions.
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What's surprising here is that the YT video title suggests that Cammer uploaded this video to provide to his insurer, as if it would somehow relieve him of any fault.
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Cammer is probably still convinced that hit was all the fault of the Prius, and that his insurance company is just being dicks.
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Yeah, just look at the comments.
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Comments now disabled of course.
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No surprised, there were two different guys saying that he was in the right. I commented saying that he must be mad if he thinks that he's in the right when he didn't even went to the other lane to pass the prius. I guess that the comments were fine when people were on his side. The prius wasn't exactly correct in this situation but the cammer fucked everything up.
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Looks like the toll plaza for the Bay Bridge.
With the number of cars I see crossing the lanes in the solid white lines last minute there, I'm surprised there aren't more accidents.
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Yep, that’s exactly right: https://goo.gl/maps/xZVMuYB1GGH2
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One of the many things I drill into my kid's head while we're out on the road is to give indecisive drivers wide berth. Invariably they will make a sudden last-minute move.
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Sucks for Cammer. Looks like it's 50/50 and his rates will be going up.
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Nah. The Prius never left their lane – not even almost. Cammer caused the crash by trying to pass the Prius in the Prius's own lane. That's going to be 100% (or damn close to it) on Cammer.
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Why did he call 911 for a Nonemergency?
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This will be fun for the insurance companies. One one hand, you could argue the Prius is fully at fault for trying to illegally merge and then abruptly moving into the cammer. On the other, the cammer passed in the same lane extremely close.
I'm putting most of the blame on the cammer here. He had no business trying to share the lane with the Prius and if he hadn't this accident would not have happened. You're not responsible for checking the lane you're still in to make sure it's clear before you continue to be in that lane.
Agreed. It also looks like cammers horn caused the Prius to abort his move and recenter in his lane, impacting the cammer that was splitting lanes with them.
If you see drivers like this Prius driver, use caution, not aggression.
I really want this to be the Prius's fault, but I agree with your analysis. Cammer should have either stopped or changed lanes.
Is that an illegal merge though? In most states a solid white line is "use extra caution when crossing" not "you can't cross". The Prius also never actually leaves their original lane, just kisses the far side of the white line. I'd say this is 100% on the cammer for trying to pass a car in the same lane as them without ever leaving the lane. They also failed to slow at all during the maneuver, so you could argue failure to try to avoid an accident as well.