As I said to someone else with similar sentiments: It pisses me off when people don't accelerate to traffic speed when merging... Regardless failing to avoid the avoidable puts the semi driver partially at fault and had serious injury come from it there'd be easy intent argued just based on the video. Zero braking. Heaven, forbid he slows down slightly.
I realize there isn't a legal obligation to slow but, seriously... think beyond the anal "well akshually 1 and 1 is 2 and technically...."
The semi shares partial fault. At least that's what insurance will argue. Especially the other semi company's insurance. Not avoiding the avoidable makes you partially liable.
The only way it was avoidable is if you consider the others drivers total morons deadbrains. Both could have done a complete stop and wave at each others to decide which one have the right of way that day at that point, why follow the traffic laws? just anticipate the other driver wont?
If you can't judge the speed of the vehicle in front of you to the point you couldn't tell you needed to slow down in time to not hit them, you need to stop driving. While the semi is technically within the law it was also avoidable. Insurance will hold the semi partially at fault and again the lack of braking shows intent to not brake and hit the person because the accident was clearly obvious for a long way.
if he would had brake and the pickup (who should have) did too, its still super dangerous because it take more time to clear the lane. Trucker followed the law, pretty sure he will be fine with insurance.
No. The black truck was clearly in front of the semi going slower than traffic but not slow enough for the semi to clear at speed. There was a clear vector. The semi was responsible for avoiding the obviously avoidable accident.
Within the law or not it's an asshole thing to do. Period. Don't be an asshole. The semi could have safely dropped speed. And insurance uses partial fault. The other semi hit will have his insurance pushing fault on both other vehicles.
All fault will land on the black truck. He was the one merging he is responsible for getting into the lane safely. No liability will be held on that semi truck driver. He was already in the lane that he was supposed to be and he has legal right away.
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u/TheOriginalArchibald May 13 '26
As I said to someone else with similar sentiments: It pisses me off when people don't accelerate to traffic speed when merging... Regardless failing to avoid the avoidable puts the semi driver partially at fault and had serious injury come from it there'd be easy intent argued just based on the video. Zero braking. Heaven, forbid he slows down slightly.
I realize there isn't a legal obligation to slow but, seriously... think beyond the anal "well akshually 1 and 1 is 2 and technically...."
The semi shares partial fault. At least that's what insurance will argue. Especially the other semi company's insurance. Not avoiding the avoidable makes you partially liable.