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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only innocent party here is driver #1

All those other drivers should have been keeping enough of safe distance from the car in front of them so as to avoid this.  
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unless #1 cut in late in front of car #2 and swallowed up car #2 stopping distance and car #2 had no no other options but to hit car number 1

this happened to me.  i was car #2,  car #1 made a late lane change into the turn lane. and then stopped,  I was unable to to stop in time.  and I had a witness to back up my sid eof the story.

driver #1 was charged with unsafe lane change.

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You should still have had more space.  Yes Driver #1 has some fault, but if you were driving defensively, and staying aware of what was happening, you would have started braking the second driver #1 started the unsafe lane change.  And maybe you would have had to stop short, but unless driver #1 side swiped you, you made some driving errors in this situation too.[/quote]

This is not necessarily true at all. If a reckless driver is driving fast either in the next lane or is merging fast and cuts in front of you at close range, straightens out and for any reason slams on their brakes or let's say as they were merging from the right, another car was merging from the left ahead of them responsibly, that car driving recklessly could easily cut in and by doing so irresponsibly cut off all your safe stopping distance in a heartbeat.

When you're driving and paying attention, you still don't expect and aren't responsible when someone suddenly makes an irresponsible and hazardous move that changes your safety options all of a sudden.  But in most cases, yes, if there is safe stopping distance before someone does something dumb, hopefully there is space to still respond safely.

Also, a driver suddenly doing something reckless and idiotic can startle a responsible driver which can also cause a problem if suddenly the responsible driver has to split second evaluate their space options in an effort to avoid hitting the reckless driver.  A sudden state of surprise is never a good place from which to have to react, but of course we have to react to that all the time when we drive. Still, it's not the safe driver's fault.[/quote]

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