Originally Posted by
colleen c
About the only other thing you could have done was to waive him to continue through when he made eye contact. Even with that, there would have still be no gaurantee the other car will not have hit him.
I would NEVER do that. Once you start messing with the right of way, things go downhill fast. The rules are there for a reason and it's not a good idea to unilaterally change them. Not sure about Illinois, but in some states, if you cause an accident, you're supposed to stop and wait for police to come, even if you are not hit and are not in the wrong. I think Cali was like that when I lived there in the 80s.