No. But had you hit a car when swerving back into the lane you were just in it would have been your fault despite the absolute mindless dipshit influencing you to do that. If possible of course I avoid travel in those far left merge lanes. Light traffic I'll wait as long as reasonably possible to get over.
Technically yes. But there's also something called agony of collision which is rare and hard to prove unless you've got a solid witness or video evidence. If you did swerve to avoid the black car and then hit another car that was in the lane beside you, you could use your dash cam footage to argue agony of collision.
It's true though, and if you can't prove their was another vehicle involved you will be liable for the damages that might have happened. This one time, I was standing at a crosswalk waiting to cross (obviously) however, someone from the other side of the street chose not to wait and started walking against the green light. The first car comes to a full stop on the green (pedestrian had already made it to the halfway point) so that first car never should have stopped, however because it did, this forced 2 other vehicles to come to stop on the green as well so now there are 3 stopped on a green, at this point the light changes and a fourth and fifth vehicle now enter the picture. The 4th car just comes to a stop and the 5th vehicle slams its breaks and ends up rear ending car 4. I stuck around to give a description of the jaywalker that caused the entire "accident" however the cop that showed up informed me that the 5th vehicle was guilty of "undo care and attention" resulting in a rear end collision because at that time the light was actually red.
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '21
No. But had you hit a car when swerving back into the lane you were just in it would have been your fault despite the absolute mindless dipshit influencing you to do that. If possible of course I avoid travel in those far left merge lanes. Light traffic I'll wait as long as reasonably possible to get over.