| > According to the article this was a 4 lane road, and she was in the furthest lane to the left of the Uber driver. No, she was turning left from a perpendicular street, from the leftmost lane in her original direction of travel into the rightmost lane in the new direction of travel. Pop > The Uber driver was in furthest right lane, with a left turn signal on, preparing to change lanes. The last part is a disputed claim, per the article. > So, she cut across two lanes to crash into oncoming traffic I'm not sure how you figure that; she ran into crossing (not oncoming) traffic, and I don't see any way of counting where it works out to cutting across two lanes. > I'm not sure of the Pittsburgh driving laws, but generally you're supposed to get into your left-most lane before taking a left. She was making a left turn from the leftmost lane; that's not in dispute. > I don't think she has a hope in court I don't either, but that's because making a car making a left into crossing traffic, unless the crossing traffic is violating a control (stop sign, signal, etc.) or speeding, is almost always at fault because of right-of-way |
From the article: "McLemore was on a four-lane road called Liberty Avenue, heading Northeast, while the Uber vehicle was approaching from the opposite direction."
This description, led me to believe, they were on the same road approaching each other from opposite directions. As you can't really be going in opposite directions unless you're on the same road, or a parallel road.
If that's not the case, I guess the direction they're referring to is the direction in which she was turning to go?
Also from the article: "'I was not expecting someone to turn from the far left lane into my lane,' the Uber safety driver said."
Based on my understanding of the cars heading in opposite directions, I assumed he was referring to the lane furthest to his left. And he's claiming he was about to change lanes to the left, which would place him in the furthest right lane and her in the furthest left lane.
I had assumed that she tried to turn left at the intersection, from the wrong lane, and hit the car in the process.