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nightmare3983 said:
I have confidence in myself, but I KNOW that people always swing wide on their left turns. I'd rather give up the right of way than be involved in an accident, even if I wouldn't be at fault.
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Like I said, you're moving at 10mph, get serious.

I ALWAYS make my right turn. I've been flipped off and honked at. Never even close to being hit.
 
It is not your right to give up your right of way. It's not your right to impede the traffic behind you so that you can violate the right of way laws. You have an obligation to the traffic you are affecting to follow the rules of the road. That is the safest, most efficient and most predictable way for traffic to operate.
 
Gameface said:
Page 12 of the 2016 Utah Driver's Handbook

https://driving-tests.org/utah/utah-drivers-handbook-online/

You are wrong.

You MUST turn into your corresponding lane.
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Sorry you appear right about turning into your corresponding land. I was mostly throwing out an interesting fact a lawyer told me a few weeks ago. That still seems to stand true when going straight through an intersection. Although maybe that lawyer was wrong about that. They were just telling me about how they got a few people off from tickets for changing lanes in an intersection, but I am guessing going straight through, not turning. That said, I quickly scanned that page and didn't see the wording you used but maybe I'll look more careful. I was trying to see if it said it as a law or as a suggestion which many things in that pamphlet are. I do agree about the annoyance though.
 
Broncster said:
It's not illegal in Utah to change lanes in the intersection despite what many think.

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Huh
I thought it was.
Good to know
 
Gameface said:
Like I said, you're moving at 10mph, get serious.

I ALWAYS make my right turn. I've been flipped off and honked at. Never even close to being hit.
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My FIL was sideswiped by a left turner while he was turning right. When the cops showed up she started in on how he shouldn't driving anymore because he's obviously too old and makes poor decisions. The cop let her know that this was on her because she swung wide and didn't stay in her own lane. She got the ticket and was listed as the cause.
 
Gameface said:
I know I've said this one before, but if you're turning right onto a multi-lane road and there is a green left-turn arrow feeding left-turners onto the road you're turning right onto MAKE THE DAMN TURN! It's the ****ing law! You have 10000000000% the right away to turn into the right lane. You have 0% the right to hold up people behind you because you lack driving confidence.

Turns at intersections happen at around 10-15mph. If someone turning left wanted to break the law and go into a non-corresponding lane they will have more than enough time to see that you are turning into YOUR lane and that they will need to turn into their lane. No one will die in horrible fender bender.

I take my turn 100% of the time and no one has ever decided to just go ahead and run into me even though they wanted to break the law and swing wide.

Bunch of scared, no-confidence, no-skill drivers out there who sit and watch left turners when they should be making their turn.

And if you are a left turner who swings wide, you're an *** and you're breaking the law.
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My friend got ran over by a UTA bus in this exact circumstance and the cop ticketed her. Many of the traffic officers in this state need a serious kick to the head. They're too dumb to do any good.
 
Also, GF, 3/4 of Utahans can't figure out how to turn right at a right hand turn arrow. I think you're expecting a bit much from modern humanity.
 
Gameface said:
I know I've said this one before, but if you're turning right onto a multi-lane road and there is a green left-turn arrow feeding left-turners onto the road you're turning right onto MAKE THE DAMN TURN! It's the ****ing law! You have 10000000000% the right away to turn into the right lane. You have 0% the right to hold up people behind you because you lack driving confidence.

Turns at intersections happen at around 10-15mph. If someone turning left wanted to break the law and go into a non-corresponding lane they will have more than enough time to see that you are turning into YOUR lane and that they will need to turn into their lane. No one will die in horrible fender bender.

I take my turn 100% of the time and no one has ever decided to just go ahead and run into me even though they wanted to break the law and swing wide.

Bunch of scared, no-confidence, no-skill drivers out there who sit and watch left turners when they should be making their turn.

And if you are a left turner who swings wide, you're an *** and you're breaking the law.
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I wish they would paint left hand turn lanes through the intersection more often. It seems to help prevent this.
 
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