When is it Safe to Cross the Center Line in Palm Beach?

The simple answer is, it’s never safe to cross the center line-but sometimes it’s necessary.

Here are a few reasons Florida drivers may cross into the opposing lane:

• Tight spaces. City streets are often so narrow that they are only two car-widths wide. If a cyclist is on the side of the road, the driver has no choice but to give him a wide berth-and spend a few tense seconds in the other lane.
• Turning vehicles. It’s easy to tell where the lanes are on the roads, but those lines don’t continue into the intersection. Some vehicles turning left have wide interpretations of their lane limits, causing them to crash into stopped traffic.
• Avoiding an accident. When something unexpected comes into your lane-an animal, a bicycle, even a car driving the wrong way on a one-way street-the instinct is to avoid it. Unfortunately, drivers may not have time to check that the lane is clear.
• Street parking. Streets lined with parked cars are hard to navigate-especially if you drive a larger vehicle. Avoiding parked cars on the right will often cause drivers to steer into oncoming cars on the left.
• Steering failure. Most journeys into the opposing lane are unintentional. A tire blowout or a steering failure will often cause a car to spin out of control into oncoming traffic.

As trusted Palm Beach personal injury attorneys, we know that these types of accidents often have many victims. Sometimes a driver will hit another car head-on, or the driver swerving to avoid an accident will hit another motorist to his left. A simple case of wrong-way city driving could easily have as many injured victims as a highway pile-up-all because of someone else’s two-second mistake.

If someone you love is suffering after a Palm Beach car accident, we can get them the compensation they deserve. Call Fetterman & Associates today.