Scooter changes lane in front of accelerating car, then hits his brakes

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coldmeat

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lol it knocks his shoe off.

Oh, it was just a flipflop.
 
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jpeyton

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Hahaha, guy got pwned.
 
SandEagle

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yay. another liveleak post by you know who. and lo and behold....laughing at the expense of other's misfortunes
 
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Eli

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That dude got lucky. That could have been 100x worse.

Numenorean said:
That guy in the car is at fault. You are not supposed to pass in the right hand lane.
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Uh, what? We don't know any details, but.. if you're on a multiple lane road, and there's some dude going 45 in a 55 in the left lane, are you saying you can't switch to the right lane and pass them? lol

While not advised, I don't think passing on the right is illegal. I could be wrong, though.. It's been a while since I've looked at the drivers manual, and passing on the right situations don't come up very often. :p
 
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Bartman39

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That dude got lucky. That could have been 100x worse
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Lucky and stupid...? Bet he still got some rash for that one but is better than being hash... :rolleyes:

Just noticed no signal of any kind for the lane change from the scooter...
 
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Well maybe I'm wrong. I thought that you were not supposed to do that in the farthest right lane for exactly this reason - someone not figuring that you are accelerating in that lane to pass.
 
Regs

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This is one of those laws I hate to bring up because it depends mostly on foreseeable events, conditions up to the accident, and state laws and statues. In New Jersey, rear ending anyone usually means the driver riding behind assumes most if not all the liability because the driver behind has more control over the ensuing events that lead up to the accident. Then you have courts and insurance companies that would break it up into ratios of liability or comparatively negligent ratios.

Before we try - please - lets not discuss this in absolutes.
 
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Regs said:
This is one of those laws I hate to bring up because it depends mostly on foreseeable events, conditions up to the accident, and state laws and statues. In New Jersey, rear ending anyone usually means the driver riding behind assumes most if not all the liability because the driver behind has more control over the ensuing events that lead up to the accident. Then you have courts and insurance companies that would break it up into ratios of liability or comparatively negligent ratios.

Before we try - please - lets not discuss this in absolutes.
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Yeah. If anything, that is why the guy in the car would be found at fault. And he probably would, without any witnesses.

He has one big thing going for him, though.. That footage. It is obviously not his fault by looking at that. It was physically impossible for him to stop. He shouldn't be found at fault based on that. The guy on the scooter made a judgment call, and it turned out to be a bad one.
 
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Eli said:
Yeah. If anything, that is why the guy in the car would be found at fault. And he probably would, without any witnesses.

He has one big thing going for him, though.. That footage. It is obviously not his fault by looking at that. It was physically impossible for him to stop. He shouldn't be found at fault based on that. The guy on the scooter made a judgment call, and it turned out to be a bad one.
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But the footage shows him passing on the right, which could make it his fault depending on the local laws. I still swear I've seen a law about that, but depends on where I guess.
 
Bignate603

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While the scooter driver should have been more careful the car driver isn't without fault either. Passing on the right isn't always illegal but it's usually not advisable and he was doing it significantly faster than the traffic around him. The scooter driver could have glanced in their mirror, saw that the car was a good distance back (if it was going anywhere near the speed of the rest of the traffic) and moved over. The car was going significantly faster than the rest of traffic and closed that distance in the time it took the scooter driver to move over.

Scooter driver shares part of the blame for not noticing the speed of the car behind it and the car driver shares part of the blame for driving significantly faster than the rest of traffic and passing on the right.
 
HardcoreRobot

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I don't see the lanes for traffic going the other direction, and there is a mountain where US Americans would expect them to be. Its entirely possible they are in a place that drives on the 'wrong' side of the road, which effectively makes the right hand lane the passing lane. I can't say conclusively but its a possibility.

In general though, as far as passing on the right goes, its really the responsibility for the people in the LEFT lanes to be passing. If they are not passing people, they are in the wrong lanes. Of course the guy could just be a douche and weaving out of every lane, im just saying that IMO its often idiots going slow in passing lanes that are at fault for people needing to pass on the right.
 
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