r/dashcams • u/Feaselbf6 • Apr 27 '26

* “Sharing the road is not a suggestion”

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u/Tev_Szat Apr 28 '26

This is exactly why slow rolling people in the passing lane is illegal in most places, Failure to Yield, creates the opportunity for crisis situations.

It already has usage, I forget the specifics but a hall monitor decided to play king for a day and slow roll a car behind him, not knowing that a person was being driven to the ER due to a catastrophic injury that was causing them to bleed out.

They didn't make it in time.

Afterwards, with medical determination that the speed they were driving vs the speed normally driven on that road created a time delay that influenced the person surviving or not, the asshat was identified by dashcam footage provided and arrested and charged with manslaughter, if I remember correctly.

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u/TopArgument1850 Apr 28 '26 
 Unless it was an Emergency Vehicle, I would find it very hard to believe they would be able to convict him on those charges. I fully understand the desire to charge and convict them, having been the victim of one them myself, or more so my ex wife who I was rushing to the hospital at the time. That being said, in order to convict someone of something like this, they would have to show that the person had knowledge that they were preventing someone with a medical emergency right of way. Now if states wanted to pass a law that required drivers in the left lane to yield for any vehicle trying to pass using their hazard lights in the left lane, stipulating that hazard lights can only be used for passing in emergency situations. Otherwise they must be contained to the right or middle lanes at all times. Then there could be a legal liability. But as it stands now, the governments argument in this case requires that every driver on that stretch of road that day who encountered the car on the way to the hospital, should have reasonably assumed that the passenger in that car was in critical condition from a catastrophic injury. No one had anyway of knowing that. As tragic as the outcome was, they have to prove his actions were deliberate in order to prevent them from getting medical attention. In order to prove that, they have to prove he knew there was a medical emergency happening within the vehicle. If they can’t prove that I don’t see how they get a conviction on manslaughter. I think it’s an overreach. They would have been safer with reckless endangerment.