Accident Video

I watched this accident video on YouTube. The white truck is in the inner left turn lane, and the red truck is in the outer left turn lane. Since the white truck was using the inner turn lane to make left turn, I would have thought that it would have been his fault. According to the Volvo driver, the other guy was ticketed. Your thoughts?

I watched the video, and the only thing I can figure out is that the cop must told the driver of the red truck that he didn't go straight far enough before starting his turn, and if I was the person in the Volvo, I never would've entered the intersection with a trailer turning in front of me like that.

I just passed my NYS CDL A road test, they would have failed me if I was in the left lane when there are two left turning lanes. It was part of my road test, and I stayed in the right lane to make my turn.

So, I would really like to know what the reasoning behind the ticket is. What exactly was the driver in the red truck at fault for, because I would think that you are absolutely correct, that the driver of the volvo should have gotten the ticket instead.

Maybe it depends on what state this happened in.

It looks like there was 2 left hand turn lanes.. so he should be in the outside lane correct? next what is he doing trying to squeeze between a truck and the curb? as a fellow truck driver you would think he would be smart enough not to do that. give him the space he needs. I have only ever driven a 50 foot school bus so i probably dont have much credibility here. but thats my opinion on what i saw. He could have just caused a fellow driver his job and his way to support a family just to prove a point that "he had so much more room to make a turn" like he said a 100 times in the video.

I'm not a big fan of that drivers youtube page , I have never made it through an entire vid as I find him annoying .

That aside he was in the wrong lane . Always turn from the right most lane .

Yes , the other driver had enough room to be farther forward before turning , and or could have turned softer . He could have also looked in his mirror as he turned to make the turn to maybe adjust his turn to avoid the hit .

Trucker guy could have also given him the turn and hung back 5-10' instead of putting himself in a worse position than being in the wrong lane to begin with .

~S~

That idiotic steering wheel holder, No he is not a driver because any smart competent driver would have been in the outside turn lane. That he is trying to prove a point just makes it even worse. The guy took a wide turn, ya he could have gone a little wider. But who expects that a steering wheel holding super trucker is going to do something like that to prove a point. The guy that got hit by the idiot trying to turn into the right lane should have his CDL yanked. We don't need idiots out there like that. We get it enough from 4 wheelers

Regardless of what lane each truck was in the person that actually cause the damage is at fault.

Regardless of what lane each truck was in the person that actually cause the damage is at fault.

So with you saying that wouldn't it be the guy in the right lane since he proceeded to still try and turn even tho he knew he couldn't make it and would hit the other truck.

Regardless of what lane each truck was in the person that actually cause the damage is at fault.

So with you saying that wouldn't it be the guy in the right lane since he proceeded to still try and turn even tho he knew he couldn't make it and would hit the other truck.

He stopped. His truck was completely straight. No evidence that he turned his truck except to pull forward. The moment he stop is the moment the red truck had the responsibility to watch his mirrors and not hit the other truck even if the white one did wrong and since the red one hit the white truck the red truck is at fault.

"What a maroon!"

To quote the estimable Bugs Bunny!

Jopa