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What this video doesn't show is a driver inside a southbound car, stopped in the center lane waiting to take a left into Funspot, who is waving the entering car through the stopped center line of traffic, as reported by the July 4 LaDaSun-No Deaths in Looney Bin Crash, just before the entering car collided with and deflected the Acura in the 40-mph travel lane. The entering car from Funspot got waved through, only to smack collide with the Acura in the 40-mph travel lane, sending it into the Looney Bin. So, there were two cars and a hand signal, wave-through, from a third car, not shown thru the windshield due to glare, to make this accident happen.

Does this wave-thru driver have any culpability?

If you look at the location of Funspot, the Looney Bin, and Endicott St on Google Earth you see that Endicott St, driving south, has a third center lane for two hundred yards or so, to accommodate southbound cars making a left turn into Funspot Lane plus cars exiting Funspot Lane, taking a left onto Endicott St, going south.

These third center turning lanes in a congested commercial area are inherently dangerous and require drivers to be extra vigilant. There was a head-on collision, last fall, on Tenney Mt Hgwy, Plymouth, close to NuCar Ford-Plymouth with both large cars having lots of damage. There's a lot going on, there, and the driver needs to be extra careful because their vision can be blocked by traffic that is stopped and waiting to turn into Funspot.

The point being that temporary third center lanes in a congested commercial area like this 40-mph, top-of-the-hill, acceleration zone, commercial congested area is inherently dangerous and drivers should be extra cautious, there.

You know if the Looney Bin had one or two Jersey concrete barriers, or a few steel bollard posts covered with plastic tubes, out front their restaurant/bar, it could have made a difference.