And another bad driver will not be looking at the road and plow into multiple people.

Here’s a source from People magazine.

Drivers involved in the crash suffered bumps and bruises but no life-threatening injuries, [Fox 8] reported. Their vehicles were extensively damaged.

  • stevestevesteve@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Tbf a stopped car in the middle of the road on a sunny fucking day also shouldn’t cause a collision, either. Guy in the grey van fucked up worse than anyone but they’ll be blaming the stopped car instead of their own inattentive driving

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      2 months ago

      Guy in the gray van was blocked in on at least one side, possibly both.

      No. The moron in the first car fucked up the worst; NONE of that would’ve happened without that dork stopping.

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        2 months ago

        Guy in the gray van could’ve seen the cars in front of him stopped and then also stop. It’s still also his fault.

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      The red car is still the cause here.

      The gray van is a consequence of that cause. It would happen regardless. Even if the person in the gray van was paying attention, someone else would not be paying enough attention and still wreck.

      You’re confusing proximate cause and root cause. The van is a mechanism of failure, the red car is the cause of failure.

      This is still the red car’s fault, entirely. The van of course is holding my ability for being the proximate cause, but at the end of the day blaming the van for not paying attention doesn’t actually prevent situations like these from occurring.

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      There’s a minimum speed on highways because it is dangerous to slow below that limit, the stopping distance for 70mph is around 240 feet and 2.5 sec for perception & reaction.