Your asessment of this accident:

[Robert Maxwell]

Not sure how I missed this thread originally. I must have been out of town.

This does seem like a split-fault situation. Left turns are supposed to yield to pretty much everything, but you're not supposed to change lanes while making a turn, either. Failing to yield on a left turn seems more generally egregious, though, and certainly more likely to cause an accident (as happened here.) Just glad no one was hurt.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I think the weird thing is that the other's driver's poor driving increased Trekker's culpability. If the guy had his turn signal on, then I don't think it's a failure to yield situation at all. Both drivers can turn into their own lane without any issue (unless the guy makes an illegal lane change, like he did). It's that he didn't signal when turning that means he could have been going straight and it could have been a failure to yield situation.

 

[SPCTRE]

I think the weird thing is that the other's driver's poor driving increased Trekker's culpability. If the guy had his turn signal on, then I don't think it's a failure to yield situation at all. Both drivers can turn into their own lane without any issue (unless the guy makes an illegal lane change, like he did). It's that he didn't signal when turning that means he could have been going straight and it could have been a failure to yield situation.

That is pretty weird, yeah.

 

[Trekker4747]

Again, I just didn't *see* his signal, that doesn't necessarily mean he didn't have it on as the position of his car meant I couldn't get a good look at where the turn signal of his car is. But the position of his car made it obvious and clear what he was going to do. It wasn't like he was sitting flush and straight with the intersection his car was clearly angled for a right turn. For him to turn straight or left himself (which wouldn't have caused an accident) he'd have to do some pretty fancy maneuvering and basically would be making a wide turn inside an intersection, essentially doing a u-turn in the middle of a road. Going straight would mean having to realign his car in the middle of the road because they way he was pointing there was no way he was going straight.

 

[MacLeod]

Might all depend on what the police report says

 

[SPCTRE]

I'm glad that my front turn signals are brighter than the sun. Really, I have no clue how they can be legal in this country, for oncoming traffic it must be like staring at the surface of a pulsating star.

 

[Alpha Romeo]

I'm pretty sure we have beaten this horse into the next world. Trekker you have two lawyers indicating the answer here and still you argue. I dare you to take this argument to the judge and see how he/she takes it.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Well, there's no citation and I'm sure the insurance companies will decide what to do next. Probably isn't the best idea to keep posting on this in a public message board, though.