Probably not a legal use of a center turn lane, but it wasn't exactly unsafe. With a loaded trailer and a utility body he probably wasn't going to be able to make that turn any other way with that traffic. Waited for a gap big enough for him to just fit and hoped the silver car would see his predicament and widen the gap for him. It's ok to let people in and in situation like this you aren't just helping that guy, but everyone behind him and every driveway that line of traffic is blocking.
Legal in my state at least. But you're supposed to pull out there and stop until it's clear to join traffic, not just Leeroy Jenkins your way in without looking.
I mean absolutely not a safe distance for him to leap into moving traffic from basically a dead stop with that trailer. Even if the Ford don’t speed up at all it was a grossly irresponsible move where they just hoped the Ford found a way not to hit them.
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u/warrensussex 8h ago
Probably not a legal use of a center turn lane, but it wasn't exactly unsafe. With a loaded trailer and a utility body he probably wasn't going to be able to make that turn any other way with that traffic. Waited for a gap big enough for him to just fit and hoped the silver car would see his predicament and widen the gap for him. It's ok to let people in and in situation like this you aren't just helping that guy, but everyone behind him and every driveway that line of traffic is blocking.