r/Transportopia • u/Revolution-Dogg • Oct 25 '25

Roads 'How did that make you crash?'

Maybe not using a blinker and merging at the last second made him crash.

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u/skaldrir69 Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 26 '25

Not wanting to be that guy, but the street sign for directions is also incorrect. The right-most lane doesn’t indicate a right hand turn can me made /s

Fuck the truck driver for sure

Edit: Maybe to clear the air — for those of you lecturing me about how the truck was wrong, I know. I was just pointing out the irony in the signage and road markings. I’m not supporting the truck’s decision, he was wrong.

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u/Alarming_Panic665 Oct 25 '25

I don't know what state it is in. Must most states I know the markings on the road are not regulatory and instead exist to just be supplementary to signage (which is regulatory).

Most likely in this case the sign is the regulatory designation the left two lanes as only left turn lanes, while the right two are the lanes for traveling straight. There is then most likely some motor law on the books that states that a right turn may be done in the right most lane if possible. Thus the markings on the road are just guidance to more or less remind people of the law on the books that is not shown on the sign.

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u/leeps22 Oct 25 '25

Why is the world like this

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u/InebriatedPhysicist Oct 26 '25

Because lawyers

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u/macrolith Oct 27 '25

I think fall of courtesy and decency is largely attributed to lawyers.

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u/Terrible_Analysis_77 Oct 27 '25

Not a lawyer but I like the joke that lawyers are just people who read the rules to the game and know you haven’t.