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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even though the BMW driver has a bad record, it still does not mean that he or she was in the wrong. The simple fact is that the Volt driver did NOT have the right of way. The witnesses have said that he paused when he should have gone, and bolted out when he should have yeilded. [/quote]

I drove a volt for a while. Not a fan.  Sounds like the driver could have hit the gas, and the car took too long to respond.[/quote]

I wondered about that.

Looking online there is a history of a delay in acceleration happening with volts going from idle to movement.

Isn't this a general problem with hybrid cars? My husband rented one once and complained about this when it switched from idle to moving.[/quote]

The westbound traffic crests a hill just east of the impact. I've made that turn many times and it's not really possible to see over that hill.  At 45 mph you see the oncoming car for about 8s before it would hit you if you were in the intersection. It probably takes 2-3 s to cross both lanes. It's certainly possible that a small lag from the hybrid system switching modes, combined with a significantly greater closing speed from the westbound car, would eat up the entire margin of safety engineered in by MSHA (for non locals River is a state maintained road).

Given all of this I wish powers would stop blaming the Volt driver at least until the accident reconstruction is complete. Even if they misjudged, the outcome should not be three fatalities and another critical. [/quote]

I am wondering how negligence is decided in MD if both parties are technically at fault (assuming both speed on one part, and bad acceleration or something on the other part)?

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