LogFAQs > #899071008

I am not an expert at traffic laws but this is my take on it.

Yield signs usually will mean whoever had the sign is responsible for an accident.

The problem though is if someone had already passed the sign, before the other party entered the picture (Arrived at their stop sign for instance).

A truck would be a prime example of this happening, since trucks take significantly longer to accelerate.

So if you have two people one has a yield sign, the other a stop sign, and both leave at the same time, the person with the yield sign will be at fault. If you have a truck though which accelerates significantly slower, that pulled up to the yield sign, saw nobody at the stop sign (yet), and started accelerating. Then another car pulled up to the stop sign, quickly braked then accelerated to try and get past the truck (we all do that), it would actually be the driver of the cars fault.

Since this is a very likely scenario, even if it didn't actually occur, it could be hard to prove that it didn't. Since a truck does not have nearly the control over it's speed or ability to stop/slow down etc, I believe the fault will still usually go to the driver of the car.

I might be wrong, but that makes the most logical sense. Don't mess with a truck basically.
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