crash_reports: 22000200

THE OPERATOR OF MV 1 STATED SHE WAS IN THE PROPER LANE ON CENTRE AVE (RIGHT LANE) MERGING ONTO CENTRE ST WHEN MV 2 (WHO WAS IN THE MIDDLE LANE OF CENTRE AVE) ALSO TRIED TO TURN ONTO CENTRE ST, BUT BECAUSE MV 2 WAS IN THE WRONG LANE, MV 2 SIDESWIPED HER ON THE DRIVERS FRONT SIDE. MINOR DAMAGE SUSTAINED TO MV 1 AND NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. THE OPERATOR OF MV 2 DID NOT SPEAK ENGLISH (ONLY SPANISH SPEAKING), HOWEVER HER SIDE OF THE STORY WAS EXPLAINED TO ME THROUGH HER DAUGHTER WHO WAS USED AN INTERPRETER. SHE STATED THAT SHE WAS IN FRONT OF MV 1 MERGING ONTO CENTRE ST FROM CENTRE AVE, WHEN MV 1 CAME FROM BEHIND HER AND TRIED TO PASS HER ILLEGALLY ON HER RIGHT HAND SIDE CAUSING THE COLLISION. MINOR DAMAGE TO THE PASSENGER FRONT SIDE AND NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. BASED ON MY INVESTIGATION IT APPEARS THAT MV1 WAS IN THE PROPER LANE WHEN MERGING AND MV 2 MAY HAVE BEEN AT FAULT FOR THE MINOR COLLISION. BOTH PARTIES SWAPPED INFORMATION AND WERE SENT ON THEIR WAY.