doing a bit of googling I see it mentions in the ,dry doing only 30mph, it’s going to take 1 foot of travel for every mph just for thinkng about to stop
here’s a chart I came across
and by looks of things by the time they were noticeable that they were pulling out I don’t think there was much more than around 50 feet left for you to stop but at the same time they were then shortening the distance between you and them by driving towards you making the stopping distance needed even shorter,
it OK for people to say you should of driven at a speed that you know you can stop, but if that was the case even when the road ahead of you is empty then the speed limit needed would have to be around 20mph to allow for people pulling out on you.
their fault 100% for pulling right out in front of you due to their driving without due care and attention (all IMHO that is)
But the thing is if you watch the video before the taco pulls out she could have saw me if she actually stopped instead of faking a stop. I wasn't behind any bends or trees during when the taco pulled out because if you freeze the video at 0:06 while the taco was in the middle then you could have saw that she could have looked at both directions of traffic instead of pulling out like her friend did. The taco actually stops because he has no choice but if you look right after the taco pulls out then you can see she barely even looked at the stop sign and at a T intersection the traffic crossing has right of way. I just don't get why she had to rush just to be behind her friend. If you slowed down the video 0.05 speed you can clearly see she jumped the stop sign. I know I was in the right and she was in the wrong but I was just getting of work so I was pissed and now I might not have a job on monday because theres no extra company car. If that does happen then I will be sure damn pissed alright.It is clear who was at fault, but a couple of comments on your driving that might help in the future:
With a junction like that where there is a possibility of someone not seeing you, or misjudging your speed/intentions, and pulling out at the wrong time, I will normally drive through it with my foot on the brake pedal, saves half a second if you do need to press it, maybe a bit more if you weren't ready, and in this case even quarter of a second would have avoided a collision. There are far more near misses than accidents, and you can move a lot of potential accidents into the near miss category by being ready to act.
You said "I tried to swerve to the right" - a vehicle will always slow faster in a straight line, there are situations where it makes sense to turn, but in this case I think it would have been best to just press the brake as hard as possible, let the ABS take care of the braking, and keep straight to give the ABS best grip. That should always be the first action, only turn once you have had time to think and have worked out that it will help. In this case, once you had time to think you didn't have time to act so best to just continue full braking in a straight line. If you had turned immediately then you would have had less braking available and the collision would have been worse, also the other driver may have seen you and hit the brakes, even though that would have made things worse, in that case you could not have avoided a collision and the slowest collision possible would have been preferable - brakes first.
Not your fault so don't feel bad about it.
Why did she drive off? Should have stopped immediately, and then maybe agreed on somewhere safer to move to sort things out!
If you want to stay safe, and with an undamaged vehicle, it is not sensible to assume that everybody else will always drive either perfectly or legally!But the thing is if you watch the video before the taco pulls out she could have saw me if she actually stopped instead of faking a stop. I wasn't behind any bends or trees during when the taco pulled out because if you freeze the video at 0:06 while the taco was in the middle then you could have saw that she could have looked at both directions of traffic instead of pulling out like her friend did. The taco actually stops because he has no choice but if you look right after the taco pulls out then you can see she barely even looked at the stop sign and at a T intersection the traffic crossing has right of way. I just don't get why she had to rush just to be behind her friend. If you slowed down the video 0.05 speed you can clearly see she jumped the stop sign. I know I was in the right and she was in the wrong but I was just getting of work so I was pissed and now I might not have a job on monday because theres no extra company car. If that does happen then I will be sure damn pissed alright.