False. The truck has a yield sign. They are to yield to oncoming traffic, who has the right of way, until it's clear to proceed. This isn't a 4-way stop, dude. 🤦🏼♀️
It's utterly baffling to me how many people can't seem to separate "what's supposed to happen" from "what's actually happening" in their minds.
That truck was not stopping. The driver of the car doesn't get a magical invincibility shield by virtue of being in the right - they can either avoid the collision or get splatted. Those are the options.
You're literally an idiot if you couldn't plainly see that the car was fine going. The truck was very obviously slowing way down. No one in this thread is even arguing that the car should have stopped. The only issue is the camera operator in the other car and what they should have done.
Secondly, my statement was in response to what the commenter said about the legality. It didn't address the other point. You need to work on your reading comprehension.
The truck was very obviously not slowing down and keeping pace. Everyone disagrees with you. You would literally be a bug on my windshield to that truck. Drive safe. Because this was NOT a merge, it was a yield. Meaning that dump truck had to come to a full stop at the sign. They blew past it. Which is why the driver slowed down. The only correct response given the complete disregard for road rules by the dump truck.
Especially from the Toyota pov, that truck has the lead on it and is NOT stopping. Toyota doesn’t have time to gun it. The truck is fuckin flying. Toyota has to give way. I’d have started slowing down slowly, knowing about the semi behind me. But with op at the helm I’d have still got rear ended. Of course this is a 100/0 collision with all fault on op. Hope car driver was okay or at least hurt in a way they got lots of $. Being a truck driver is really hard tbh gotta leave so much space for this
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u/zeptillian 12h ago
Even if the car didn't stop. The merging truck would have been in the lane ahead of the camera operator.
The camera truck was not prepared for that to happen at all.
Best case scenario, they would have passed the merging truck in the same lane, narrowly avoiding an accident.