Not stated in the article, as far as I saw, there is the possibility right lane was mandatory right turn and left lane optional right turn. Where I live we have a number of intersections with two turn lanes. Several times I have almost been hit by people in the inside lane changing to the outside lane during the turn.
Just because the Honda driver wasn’t charged at the scene doesn’t mean she won’t be charged eventually. It also doesn’t mean she wasn’t at fault. She turned across traffic to make a right turn. She’ll have a hard time explaining that to Morgan’s insurer, and her own insurance company too. It shouldn’t cost more than a few hundred grand to fix.
The turn was made onto a quite wide one way street, the video shows cars passing the stopped Bugatti on the right. If that indeed is a double right tru\orn intersection, it may be the Bugatti that turned into the wrong lane.
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I guess another reason to have a couple million umbrella policy. I can see where she would have had a hard time seeing the car in her mirrors, regardless of being on the phone. The car is very low to the ground and the CR V is high up. Having had to pick up a few new cars, I wonder how he got to the dealer. Was he dropped off, drove a trade-in, took the bus? Just wondering. Our last one was 60 miles from home.
From what I saw…it looked like the Bugatti was in it’s lane, and the CRV turned right a little too far and right into the Bugatti.
That can happen when you spend too much time looking at your phone instead of driving. If she had her turn signal on, she would easily have seen the Bugatti in the right outside mirror camera. The view is much wider than the mirror itself. That is, assuming she looked at the center screen instead of her phone.
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Car Talk has a guide for eliminating blind spots.
When driving in large, unfamiliar metropolitan areas I have straddled two lanes to allow myself the option to turn or continue straight ahead and luckily I have avoided being ticketed or shot at, When the streets are full of drivers who refuse to give an inch or wait a few seconds to allow me to see what lies ahead before committing to which way to proceed there’s not much else to do but take my half out of the middle and I wonder if that situation was at the bottom of that collision?