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Originally Posted by prudz
Are you trying to tell me that when you are making left hand turns you aren't paying attention or expecting cars to be passing you at different rates of speed? You should be assuming people are driving unsafe and most importantly watching what is coming towards you before you make that turn.
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Do you know what a red herring or a strawman argument is?
You just stated one should assume. Assumption is that you assume the cars approaching are speeding. Assumption isn't, "I assume that car is going 70 and that car is going 140."
It seems like you either don't drive, or one of those who follow all laws of the road making it dangerous for people around you so let me help you out.
Imagine going normal speeds on the highway but all of the cars around you are stationary. Then add in all the bumps, and buildings moving super fast in your peripheral vision.
Then imagine yourself being the turning car in this. There's a camouflaged car in the middle of the block ahead of you, you glance left, crash. A glance was all it took. This isn't even factoring in how the Audi was weaving through traffic. Good luck gauging that one with your road omniscience, keyboard warrior.
Yes, in theory he should have noticed how fast he was going. Yes, in theory he should have seen the Audi. Yes, in theory he should have should have should have.
But this is real life, a moment isn't fucking 90 seconds, you have other things to check for before making a quick turn, and you get used to driving around town with people going average of excess 20, not 90. If you constantly assume that anyone could be doing 140 anywhere at any given time while you're driving, you have issues. There's something called a norm. Look it up.
The accident happened because of an anomaly. It could have been prevented in theory. The conditions were just unfortunate enough that the anomaly was fatal.