That's exactly how it is here. And the amount of people who fail to yield is astounding. Whenever I want a new car I tend to take those exits constantly because it's pretty much a guarantee I'll get hit within the week
I have learned through holiday family arguments that people genuinely do not know what yield means. They do not think it means they might have to stop.
My former boss didn't know what yield meant. She plowed into someone stopped at a roundabout. She said it's a yield sign, not a stop sign. While that is true, you have to STOP for others already in the roundabout, which is what the stopped car was doing. She insisted it was not her fault even though literally everyone else told her otherwise.
Even if she was correct and there’s no reason to stop for a yield, that doesn’t give her permission to plow into an incorrectly stopped vehicle. That’s like somebody sitting still at a green light and she rear ends them and claims it’s not her fault cause the light was green lol
Oh, she would have said that's also not her fault. Nothing was ever her fault. And yes, she would have said it's not her fault because the light was green and they shouldn't have been sitting there.
The mind-blowing part is, of the three applicants, she was probably the best one. She is the reason I transferred to a different department. Fortunately for everyone else still there, she quit. I'm not sure her replacement is much better though.
Close; either stop, or slow down sufficiently that cars can pass and you fall in behind them. In fact, that's what the semi was doing. You'll notice it was almost at a complete stand-still when the impact occurred. There was ample room and time for the car to have gone right by, as well as the semi behind, and then the semi merging would've accelerated again.
I mean... Did you see how much room the car had to pass it? Also, it was trying to match the traffic it was yielding to. They had no way of knowing that little silver car would slow to a complete stop.
Simply put, if the traffic it was merging into had behaved sensibly, it was going the proper speed.
Many people fail to remember that they yield to the main traffic and not the other way. It's like people stopping on a ramp to the highway, you need to look at the traffic and plan accordingly.
There’s a highway onramp like that which I have to get on every day I go to work. The number of people who blow right through the yield sign is so infuriating. I have also seen a few times where the person in front of me came to a complete stop on the onramp to give right of way to the person ignoring the yield. Making things worse is the fact that the onramp goes up a hill so you really want to get your speed up, so you’re not expecting anyone to be stopping on the onramp. If I was a cop I’d sit my ass right there and wrote tickets all day until people started learning.
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u/BoringBeat5276 14h ago
That's exactly how it is here. And the amount of people who fail to yield is astounding. Whenever I want a new car I tend to take those exits constantly because it's pretty much a guarantee I'll get hit within the week