This is what happens when a driver illegally uses a shoulder and a turner blindly assumes the road is clear.
Westchester County-area driver and Redditor /u/Many-King-8177 shared head-shaking dashcam footage from this busy Yonkers intersection from earlier in 2024 (Apr 25, 2024) to the /r/Roadcam subreddit, showing a left turner blindly turning across McLean, only to end up getting T-boned by a driver illegally passing on the shoulder.
Here’s what happened below, with the original Reddit thread linked here.
The accident happened at the T-intersection of McLean Ave. and E Sanford (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As the dashcam shows, OP is stopped on Sanford, ready to turn onto a traffic-backed McLean.
A driver in a red VW GTI insists on turning onto Sanford from McLean, aided by a driver in a white Honda Passport who backs up to give the left-turner some space.
Despite McLean being a one-lane street going both ways, another goofball in a white Nissan Altima is using the shoulder to illegally overtake cars at a high rate of speed.
Here’s what McLean looks like on maps.
Not expecting another driver, let alone a cyclist who, with no bike lane, is allowed to use the shoulder, the VW GTI driver mashes it towards Sanford.
The driver in the Altima T-bones the passenger fender of the GTI, sending the VW spinning 90 degrees, and the Altima is forced to come to an abrupt stop thanks to a power pole.
“I have a simple rule: just never take up a driver who is “letting you go,” one of the top comments from /u/Lex99 reads.
“I’ve gotten in standoffs with these polite, helpful idiots who try to wave me through.”
“This is why you don’t speed past vehicles that are stopped. People really have no sense,” /u/Historical-Green-463 added.
In Yonkers, speeding past vehicles using the shoulder typically incurs a base fine of around $50 plus an $88 surcharge ($138 total) along with 2 license points.
Blindly turning across a lane of traffic is classified as an unsafe lane change, which carries a fine of up to $150 plus an $88–$93 surcharge and adds 3 license points.
