sakman84
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Last year driving S197 on my way to work, on the weekend. I had the red car jump out in front of me making a very dangerous and illegal left hand turn. Keep in mind that the road I was on is a busy thoroughfare and people easily drive 40-50 MPH on it. I missed the offender by inches. Had I been going a little faster, or was a little slower on reaction, I would have hit that car hard.
Even after avoiding the car I wasn't out of the woods, because of the necessary swerve I was now barreling towards the curb, a telephone pole, and building! In real time I was cursing and downshift braking hard. The S197 was nose diving into the pavement ABS activating, tires screeching! By what felt like a miracle, I stopped just inches to from the curb, in my head I was thinking "not going to make this one, not enough distance!"
After I few seconds it dawned on me, had I not stopped in time, I would have careened right into this telephone pole and building with considerable force. This easily could have been a deadly accident or one with serious injuries. That aside, what really bugged me was, had I hit that property all that liability would have been ON ME! I never contacted the offending vehicle, their dangerous move would have been the actual root cause, but because I never hit them, they just drove off on their merry way likely wreaking havoc somewhere else down the road with their stupidity.
Any left turn here is dangerous, I would never do it, cars move too fast on this road. Traffic is usually too heavy anyways to allow such a turn. Anyways, this idiot decided to risk it and bolt out, when he clearly could not see any oncoming traffic because of parked cars, I couldn't see him until he was right up in my face. I watched a lot of youtube videos of dashcams after this, and this scenario is surprisingly common. Dangerous blind lefts....
This is one of the situations that comes up, where things were not your fault, but you would have been stuck with the liability anyways. Now if I had a dashcam, it would atleast show how the offending vehicle cut infront of me, and I swerved to avoid collision. I don't know exactly how that would play out insurance wise, but with no video evidence to back up my statement, I likely would have been screwed. This prompted me to look into a dashcam. I waited to get one until the M1 arrived, well its here and I need a camera. from the vids I have seen, blackvue looks pretty high quality.
This is my perspective view, albeit without the offending car in the frame of course. Street imagery is amazing.... Anyways as you see there is not a lot of room here, and on this particular day, there were parked cars along the right curb (bottom right of image), right up to the intersection, very dangerous. I ended up just inches from that telephone pole, the curb is ADA complaint there so it is slanted and level with the road, it wouldn't have helped me stop, it would have just been a ramp directing me into the building!
Even after avoiding the car I wasn't out of the woods, because of the necessary swerve I was now barreling towards the curb, a telephone pole, and building! In real time I was cursing and downshift braking hard. The S197 was nose diving into the pavement ABS activating, tires screeching! By what felt like a miracle, I stopped just inches to from the curb, in my head I was thinking "not going to make this one, not enough distance!"
After I few seconds it dawned on me, had I not stopped in time, I would have careened right into this telephone pole and building with considerable force. This easily could have been a deadly accident or one with serious injuries. That aside, what really bugged me was, had I hit that property all that liability would have been ON ME! I never contacted the offending vehicle, their dangerous move would have been the actual root cause, but because I never hit them, they just drove off on their merry way likely wreaking havoc somewhere else down the road with their stupidity.
Any left turn here is dangerous, I would never do it, cars move too fast on this road. Traffic is usually too heavy anyways to allow such a turn. Anyways, this idiot decided to risk it and bolt out, when he clearly could not see any oncoming traffic because of parked cars, I couldn't see him until he was right up in my face. I watched a lot of youtube videos of dashcams after this, and this scenario is surprisingly common. Dangerous blind lefts....
This is one of the situations that comes up, where things were not your fault, but you would have been stuck with the liability anyways. Now if I had a dashcam, it would atleast show how the offending vehicle cut infront of me, and I swerved to avoid collision. I don't know exactly how that would play out insurance wise, but with no video evidence to back up my statement, I likely would have been screwed. This prompted me to look into a dashcam. I waited to get one until the M1 arrived, well its here and I need a camera. from the vids I have seen, blackvue looks pretty high quality.
This is my perspective view, albeit without the offending car in the frame of course. Street imagery is amazing.... Anyways as you see there is not a lot of room here, and on this particular day, there were parked cars along the right curb (bottom right of image), right up to the intersection, very dangerous. I ended up just inches from that telephone pole, the curb is ADA complaint there so it is slanted and level with the road, it wouldn't have helped me stop, it would have just been a ramp directing me into the building!
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