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Originally Posted by techweenie
I'm gonna go with this 'respect' theme and say the blue car's driver needed to have respect for the living and not stop in the middle of a road.
Most places I've lived, all the vehicles in a funeral procession turn their headlights on.
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It might actually be illegal to stop for a funeral procession where that happened. However, given the ability of many of those cars to keep in their lane...I might think about stopping/slowing myself...
However you look at it, the truck should not of hauled into the stopped car. Without this, there would of been no wreck. The truck should of been paying enough attention to slow down. Its not like the car and bike came to a stop suddenly, there was a gradual slow decel when coming upon the procession, followed by a second gradual and slow decel following the GMC running the Nissan off the road.
Had I been behind that, I'd of noticed and slowed up meself...
I can't really fault the Nissan for slowing up to "nervously" pass the bikers. When I pass pedal bikes on skinny roads I don't blow them off the road at 55MPH when the opposite lane is clogged....I slow up until I have a safer chance.
Driving can be dangerous, and sometimes you just need to take a chill pill when some one slows up and stops. Doesn't matter whether they are right or wrong.
If you assign 50% to the Nissan, that means you have to assign less than 50% to the black pick up? The GMC caused the original slow down... Majority would pretty clearly go to the pick up. The car had been at a reduced rate of speed for a long period of time, the truck should of been slowing down.