{"id":310,"date":"2012-12-16T11:13:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T11:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2023-03-14T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T08:03:26","slug":"who-would-be-at-fault-if-two-vehicles-change-to-the-same-lane-and-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/blog\/who-would-be-at-fault-if-two-vehicles-change-to-the-same-lane-and-collide","title":{"rendered":"Who would be at fault if two vehicles change to the same lane and collide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YqK58Kv_cIk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>What would happen if the above video ended in two vehicles colliding? From the video you can see I&#8217;ve started to change lane before the other driver even indicates, it&#8217;s only a matter of milliseconds but if you look at the position the van is facing you&#8217;ll see it&#8217;s changed from straight on, to a little to the left. The rules of the road state you must give way to somebody who is completing a turn or maneuver so I&#8217;d say I&#8217;d be in the clear, but it&#8217;s a close call and I&#8217;m not sure if everyone, in particular an insurance assessor, would see it the same way?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Man with a van collides with other driver while changing lane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boards.ie\/vbulletin\/showthread.php?p=82251845#post82251845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click for discussion thread on boards.ie!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would happen if the above video ended in two vehicles colliding? From the video you can see I&#8217;ve started to change lane before the other driver even indicates, it&#8217;s only a matter of milliseconds but if you look at the position the van is facing you&#8217;ll see it&#8217;s changed from straight on, to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[136,48,137,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vantasks.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}