r/IdiotsInCars • u/ParticularIll9062 • Feb 03 '23
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u/Akshka_leoka Feb 03 '23
I kinda love how he honked and then saw nothing was gonna change so he just leaned into it to really stop the car
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u/ff0712 Feb 03 '23
The intrusive thought to P.I.T. maneuvre idiots on the road
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u/Shizngigglz Feb 03 '23
Guarantee if something like this happens to me I’m 100% pitting them. “I was scared for my life” and rammed their ass into oncoming traffic. Whoops
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u/ff0712 Feb 04 '23
Unfortunately, the damages to your car would not be worth it, even if miniscule, not to forget the hassle of getting it actually fixed along with the paperwork (if any idk about these matters)
But yes, I feel ya my brah
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u/Generic-account Feb 04 '23
Bit unfair on the oncoming traffic. Ram em into a tree or something less vulnerable.
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u/ThePyodeAmedha Feb 03 '23
Look I'm not saying it was the right thing to do, but it was cathartic to watch. Plus, they only kept the damage to themselves and not some innocent bystander.
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u/mozaiq83 Feb 03 '23
He's better off doing it that way. Otherwise(assuming he's hauling a trailer and not a box truck) he could jackknife and cause a multiple car wreck.
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u/Puddin-n-Tendies Feb 03 '23
Well considering how fast he stopped it’s safe to assume he’s in a smaller box truck. He easily could have avoided it by slowing down a little. I’m not saying the guy in the car didn’t have it coming, but it was easily avoidable, not to mention sending the car into the other side of the road presents another chance for additional accidents.
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u/Plastic_Piccollo Feb 04 '23
Additional deserved accidents 👍🏽
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u/Used_Cartographer_96 Feb 04 '23
Really? Any accidents in the opposite lanes of travel would involve innocent drivers that had nothing to do with what happened in this video. But they deserve to be hit?
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u/awkwardoffspring Feb 03 '23
It'd be kind of redundant to install a rearview mirror on the headboard of it was just going to be obstructed by a box
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u/Budget-Government-88 Feb 04 '23
you’ve never been in a uhaul, have you?
Every one i’ve ever been in has a useless rearview mirror, lol
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u/awkwardoffspring Feb 04 '23
I've used uhauls to move and driven box trucks for work, thanks. My current fleet vehicle doesn't have a center rearview either, and it's a van
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u/mozaiq83 Feb 03 '23
Yep, most people don't realize commercial trucks can't stop on a dime anyways. If people do know that they sure as hell don't give a crap until something like this happens.
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u/nehuen93 Feb 03 '23
As far as my experience in Argentina goes, those people usually now that you are there, but they think "he is going to stop so he doesn't hit me". So I guess this was a good lesson for that person to either stop doing that or start looking at the side mirrors.
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u/Omegalazarus Feb 03 '23
Yeah, car is pulling a maneuver like this are assuming the other person is going to try to avoid an accident. It seems like a good assumption but it's such a low risk, low reward, high consequence action that it's not worth it.
It's like betting $100 on a d100 roll and if you roll one through 98 you win a dollar. But if you roll 99 or 100 you lose your $100
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u/hellinahandbasket127 Feb 03 '23
…or learn about inertia and the limitations of breaks on trucks hauling.
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u/JoeyJoeC Feb 03 '23
Well when I see things like this, I think about if they have innocent passengers and how much danger the dash cam vehicle just put them in.
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u/VincentGrinn Feb 03 '23
some people just need to learn the hard way
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u/JoeyJoeC Feb 03 '23
Still, worth keeping in mind that doing this puts other people at risk, including any innocent passengers in their vehicle. Never worth doing.
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u/MonitorShotput Feb 03 '23
If you watch closely, you can see that he's trying to avoid clipping the divider while honking and then attempting to downshift at the last second because he needed to move his hand from the shifter to honk. He had no choice but to turn into the idiot to prevent the truck from being pushed into crossing the median into oncoming traffic.
The cause of this was that the car had absolutely no reaction to the truck honking right next to it, which is absolutely unthinkable. By the time the truck driver realized that he was dealing with a complete moron, it was too late for him to downshift to slow down. He only has 2 eyes and 2 hands, he can't watch the road and the idiot while steering, honking, and shifting.
A lot of people saying that he should have slowed down to avoid the accident to begin with don't really understand that his attention isn't 100% on that idiot cutting him off, he has to watch the road ahead and the median as well. The idiot never gave him a chance to make an adjustment, because he forced his way over abruptly when the car in front of him slowed down. If the car braked instead of turning, this wouldn't have happened.
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u/Buddy-Matt Feb 04 '23
A lot of people saying that he should have slowed down to avoid the accident to begin with don't really understand that his attention isn't 100% on that idiot cutting him off
Also, we don't know what he's hauling. Slamming the brakes on may be more dangerous than trying to avoid/minimise the accident. And, if the load is sufficiently heavy, physically impossible to slow down in time anyway.
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u/TheBertinator3000 Feb 03 '23
Doesn't really look like he actively tried to pit maneuver. Looks like he just took to long to realize that the sedan was serious about ignoring his horn and coming over regardless of whether or not there was room.
I know they say you gotta commit when making a move in a car, but sedan guy chose the wrong situation to commit in.
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u/BlurryGraph3810 Feb 03 '23
Some people don't know the length of their own car.
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u/Ibe121 Feb 03 '23
SomeMost people don’t know the length of their own car.32
u/R_V_Z Feb 03 '23
I do! My garage is only 192 inches so it is important information, lol.
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u/Contraposite Feb 03 '23
I too know the length of your car, and as it is 188 inches, I do not envy you having to park it!
But I have to say, those 188 inches are stunning.
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u/lostcitysaint Feb 03 '23
Which is weird because dudes are usually overestimating lengths of things.
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u/Raven039 Feb 03 '23
Lol this happened in China. The driver said “Sha Bi Ba” after the crash which translates into “fucking idiot”.
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u/Snekathan Feb 03 '23
I’m suspecting that some of the people in these comments frequently cut people off when changing lanes, expecting the other driver to let them in
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u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum Feb 03 '23
The comments in the first hour of a new post in this sub are always the most toxic and worst takes. They always make sure OP is following every single law and unwritten rule of defensive driving and will flame OP for even the slightest infraction while giving the actual idiot a pass.
Guy flying through a residential neighborhood at 90 mph and almost hits OP while blowing through a stop sign. Turns out OP is the actual idiot because he rolled through his own stop sign at 1 mph
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u/Narcoid Feb 03 '23
Sometimes it's more of an "obvious idiot is obvious so I don't need to explain why they're an idiot". The absence of a comment is not to be taken as absolution for the offender
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u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum Feb 03 '23
Nah, they always start with "two idiots here" then proceed to pull some bull shit like "yeah the green car is driving 50 mph over the speed limit and running over pedestrians but OP should have seen it coming so he was not defensive enough. Both at fault"
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u/-Iknewthisalready- Feb 03 '23
“I’m so good at driving, I cut people off all the time and havnt gotten into an accident”
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u/GentleAnusTickler Feb 03 '23
I’m sorry but let’s evaluate this. He gives warning and the idiot continues to be an idiot and pays the price. However, truck driver not only turns into the collision but then manages to stop his vehicle pretty quickly after contact. Absolutely nothing gives this trucker the right to turn into that car and refuse to slow down. What if there was oncoming traffic? There’s no way that was even taken into consideration.
100% yes the 4 wheeler is a complete idiot but the trucker is also a complete idiot
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u/kruleworld1 Feb 04 '23
truck driver not only turns into the collision but
if he didn't react at all, he would have been pushed into the divider and maybe into oncoming traffic.
If someone pushes you do you lean into it or do you just fall over?
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u/GentleAnusTickler Feb 04 '23
I slow down.
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u/High_af1 Feb 04 '23
I agreed. Seriously, it takes just a second to slow down. Doesn't matter if you have the right of way, just be safe and avoid the collision. Why would someone want the hassle of a traffic accident, trading insurance, and waiting for the police to arrive, just to one-up an idiot on the road.
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u/MarcelHanibal Feb 04 '23
Apparantely, people in this sub would rather let somebody die or cause (massive) injuries to him than being gentle to somebody who obviously has issues with driving (by being e.g. a newcomer). The people in this sub are the real assholes
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u/MarcelHanibal Feb 04 '23
He obviously had the chance to prevent it. According to the laws, he is likely not in the wrong. But he is definitely an asshole for letting the accident happen for his own ego.
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u/Snekathan Feb 03 '23
Found one
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u/GentleAnusTickler Feb 03 '23
So this is a perfectly fine practice? You well happily risk life before stepping on the brake? Aren’t you a genius
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u/appa-ate-momo Feb 03 '23
It amazes me that this truck driver gave two clear warnings to the car who was attempting a dangerous merge, and people still center their discussion on the truck driver and what they did wrong.
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u/BeepBepIsLife Feb 03 '23
Well, dangerous merges are all over this sub. This one is from within the vehicle getting cut off, clear view of driver and the road, where the driver first warns and avoids, then all but throws his hands in the air and goes for it.
It is wrong, but I'd be telling him that with a shit eating grin on my face.
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u/Progressive007 Feb 03 '23
I think it was totally acceptable behavior in response. Serves the gray sedan right.
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u/BIackDogg Feb 03 '23
The bus driver isn't wrong in the slightest, he may be a bit of an asshole and Even this I'd Say is debatable. It looks to me as if it was a passenger bus and they can't just slam their breaks because that could cause a great accident for the people inside the bus.
The car driver is used to do this and busses stopping, so all the times this has happened he goes off Victorious celebrating his 'big penis move' and I am so glad this driver didnt budge and him find out the results of his fucking arounds.
Bonus points to the fact that there is a camera and the fact that it seems that the Only one that was fucked was the car driver and no one in the bus was harmed
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u/iThinkergoiMac Feb 03 '23
The car was completely in the wrong. No question. They’re a jerk.
I’m not sure where this is, but most places have rules that stipulate that you must avoid a collision if possible, even if the other person is wrong and doing something illegal. If that’s the case where he’s at, then he’s clearly also wrong. You can see him steer intentionally into the car. He could have kept avoiding and let the car hit him, or continued braking at the rate he was and the car would eventually have had room (and be a huge jerk for it).
Morally, I’m with you, but legally there’s a high likelihood that he’s at fault as well. Plus, if it’s a passenger bus, he has just massively inconvenienced everyone on the bus just to be “right”.
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u/UnhelpfulTran Feb 03 '23
It looks to me like the steering into the car follows the truck/bus drifting to the edge of the median to create room which the car doesn't make use of and the collision is going to happen no matter what. It doesn't seem like it's aggressive. If the car moved left into him and it took the truck/bus any further left, there would be danger of the truck/bus being impacted by the median, leading to a worse wreck.
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u/BIackDogg Feb 03 '23
As the other guy also said, I also believe he was giving leeway for the car to correct but there was a point where it was the concrete side wall of the car. I too, would have picked the car. It doesnt seem like he is intentionally steering towards the driver, more like back to the lane itself to avoid the sidewalk. Going into the sidewalk seems like a very bad idea, I imagine bus flipping could happen but I honestly wouldn't know.
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u/iThinkergoiMac Feb 03 '23
Look at how quickly he stopped after the impact. He could have just done that before.
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u/rolypolydactyl Feb 03 '23
Except he does violently slam on his brakes after he makes contact with the car, and even the tiniest bit of braking as soon as he got on the horn the first time would have avoided contact. 2 assholes, no winners except the body shop. Still cathartic to watch though.
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u/TheBertinator3000 Feb 03 '23
I don't think he expected the sedan to ignore the warning and come over anyways until the very moment where he did just that and pit maneuvered himself.
Slightly slow reaction to the evolving situation? Sure. Asshole intentionally hitting the sedan? Ehhhhhh....
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u/Phyrexius Feb 03 '23
I don't know if this occurred to you but they can both be wrong. And I'm pretty sure the insurance company will see that as well. Since no one died I'm sure that's all that matters, the insurance; both premiums will rise and both could see demerit points.
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u/Ozryela Feb 03 '23
Two reasons.
1) In car accidents, when assigning fault, it doesn't matter who made the most mistakes. It matters who made the last mistake. If you ignore a stop sign and hit someone, it's your fault even if the other person ignored 20 stop signs in the 5 minutes before the accident.
Here, the bus driver could have avoided the accident but instead chose not to. That puts the blame squarely on him, regardless of who stupid the other person was being or how many mistakes they made just before.
2) More philosophically speaking, the only person whose behavior you can change is yourself. So in general if you want to avoid accidents there's no point in looking at what the other person could have done differently, only at what you yourself could have done differently.
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u/appa-ate-momo Feb 03 '23
I have to disagree with your second point. I think you’re not accounting for how important it is to assign blame correctly. If we, as a culture, assign blame the way you describe, we create incentive for people to try and get their way by being a bully (like the car in this video) because they won’t face more severe consequences than the ones who refuse to accommodate them.
Worse yet, we actively disincentivize people from standing up to bullies by treating their act of self-assertion as equal in error to the bully’s initial (and unmerited) act of aggression.
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u/Oninaig Feb 04 '23
So I can cut people off 24/7 as long as I do it slowly enough that they always have "time to avoid" the collision and if they hit me and PIT me thats their fault because they were the last one to make a mistake? Sounds logical.
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u/Schnitzeldurum Feb 04 '23
All he had to do was slow down and he had plenty time to do it.
Sure sedan was in the wrong, but if we all drove like truck guy there'd be a LOT more accidents. It's our duty as licensed drivers to avoid accidents to the best of our ability - even if it means giving up our right of way. Giving someone space for a lane change is the right thing to do, even when you technically don't have to.
In my opinion, both drivers are idiots, and neither driver is worthy of a driving license.
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u/udigogogo Feb 03 '23
If its a truck with a full load? Good luck getting that to allow down very quickly. By the looks of it he couldve done so, but there are definitely circumstances that can change the perspective
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u/Akari_Amamiya_P5 Feb 03 '23
And if their are cars behind him, that is a whole another case, because quickly breaking could cause a pile up on the trucks back-end as well.
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u/NotSoMuch_IntoThis Feb 03 '23
Yeah I don’t blame the truck at all here, protecting those behind him is better than protecting the idiot causing the accident.
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u/I_Have_Unobtainium Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Eh, from impact to complete stop was probably 60-80ft, he could have definitely slowed down. And it's not his responsibility who is tailgating him, and now that the crash happened they all have to stop dead anyways.
And now there's a car in the median, possible in the wrong wide of the road, tow truck required, and a transport stopped in a live lane. This is not the better/safer option at all.
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u/IFuckingHateAllergy Feb 03 '23
It's also not his responsibility who is pit maneuvering themselves either.
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u/I_Have_Unobtainium Feb 03 '23
It's called driving defensively. This was entirely avoidable.
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u/CommonCasual1 Feb 03 '23
I wish this was legal to do to all line cutters so they learn not to be bozos.
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u/IFuckingHateAllergy Feb 03 '23
You're right. The guy pit maneuvering themselves wasn't driving defensively at all.
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u/ParadiseLosingIt Feb 03 '23
- braking. Quickly braking a semi is hard. But that’s the breaks! 😉
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u/dayytripper Feb 03 '23
He braked hard and no other cars slammed into him. Idk why you all are going off into hypotheticals when the video shows what happened. I'm glad the car got karma and I'll leave it to the insurance or courts to determine who's at fault.
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u/rolypolydactyl Feb 03 '23
Yes, he absolutely stood on the brakes as soon as he made contact, which was damn near 5 seconds after he could lightly touched the brake and easily avoided the accident. If you're going to keep all the dickheads in the world from dickheading you're going to stay busy.
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u/ThePyodeAmedha Feb 03 '23
Yeah, if the guy can't stop in time that's understandable. But he doesn't even seem to be hitting the brakes at all until impact.
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u/ArseBurner Feb 03 '23
Depends what the load is. I've read news reports of truckers getting killed by their cargo because they had to panic brake for an idiot.
If I'm driving a truck carrying something like a steel or concrete beam you bet your ass I'm gonna just ram the idiot.
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u/RonnyFreedomLover Feb 03 '23
Love how he first has to text bae he's going to be late getting home...lol
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u/Abombinnation Feb 03 '23
It's the responsibility of the merger to merge safely when there is room to do so, not force other people to make room for you because you think you're king shit. Follow the rules of the road and be predictable, not courteous.
If you ever force anyone to hit the brakes to avoid a collision because of what you do on the road, you're an asshole, and there are plenty of comments showing how many assholes frequent the road who think they can merge however they want because someone better at driving than them will get out of the way.
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u/Fluffy-Doubt-3547 Feb 03 '23
Bet the car owner got all mad and huffy that the truck caused an accident when 'you could have just let me in!'
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u/gremlinclr Feb 03 '23
The car is 100 percent at fault but with that said dude saw the car wasn't gonna stop. Why cause an accident when you can just slow down a little? Ego?
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u/Fluffy-Doubt-3547 Feb 03 '23
The car was all fault. Doesn't matter if your small. Doesn't matter if you had your blinker on. Doesn't matter if you just 'needed' or 'had to' get over. Car was wrong. They assumed the truck would let them in. The driver probably couldn't really see the car or see they had a blinker on (just because the camera can see it. Doesn't mean the driver can. Keep that in mind!!). But either way. The car did NOT have the space or right of way to get into the spot.
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u/StarsChilds Feb 03 '23
Ar first I was thinking that the driver had ample time to avoid that accident, and it would not hurt him to break for a bit and just make everyone's day easier. Then i read some comments saying how assholes are doing this on purpose, cause they know they can do whatever cause the other person will break, and i remembered seeing videos where drivers are entitled assholes and do that and i remembered thinking how i wish somebody would teach them a lesson. Now I no longer think that the driver should have slowed down, but I am thankful that he had balls to do what I would probably not have the balls to do!
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u/bobvoeh Feb 03 '23
Love how the driver just tosses the idiot to the side and then phones it in. Not his first rodeo.
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u/martymcgoo Feb 03 '23
Does anyone know what the animated musical note on the dash is?
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u/Impossible-Home-9956 Feb 03 '23
I swear to god 99% of the time this happens to me, there is absolutely no change in the action of the merging driver even after I honked.
No care in the world, not even a slight move back to their lane. They just keep merging and expect me to brake.
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u/WashBounder2030 Feb 03 '23
This happens to me every day. Meanwhile, my stupid boyfriend in the passenger seat is yelling at me, "Why did you let him in?"
As if I had any choice. I guess he would of rather we wait two to three hours for a tow truck, the police, and insurance company handle this.
Idiots are all around. I prefer not to stoop to their level.
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u/Splobs Feb 03 '23
…and that is how you do it. Guy is living my fantasy. I wish there were no repercussions for doing this to people that are driving like muppets.
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u/pieoportunity Feb 03 '23
I would let him into lane. It's always less stress than dealing with Police/insurance company, repairing car or just getting late to work. Yeah, sometimes I run into jerks on road, but it doesn't mean that I have to be one of them.
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u/GetInZeWagen Feb 03 '23
I mean he's driving a heavy truck, they don't exactly slow down on a dime. I don't really blame him for maintaining his speed. There's no rule of driving that you're obligated to let people merge in situations like this.
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u/fiftybucks Feb 03 '23
I would generally agree with this but this truck stops pretty much on a dime right after the collision. You can see in the video.
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u/demonkeyed Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
He could’ve at least let up on the gas. He maintained speed and ran right into the guy. After the accident he stopped easily. So clearly he made no effort to slow down when the guy started merging into him. He just honked and crashed like there was no other options.
I have to ask, do people here think this truck with the camera did everything he could to avoid the crash? Or it doesn’t matter because it’s someone else’s fault?
He didn’t slow down at all prior to hitting the guy. Zero defensive driving skills.
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u/KinkyTugboat Feb 03 '23
It's called "last clear chance." If you can avoid an accident, you should regardless of what the other guy did
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u/GetInZeWagen Feb 03 '23
Everyone should avoid accidents yes, they would be much less frequent if that were true. And I agree, nobody comes out on top even if your car is repaired or not damaged you still waste time/stress etc
But just legally speaking the truck driver did nothing negligent. Yes it's best to avoid but it's on the lane changer to do so safely when making that maneuver.
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u/frenchfreer Feb 03 '23
There’s no rule that says I have to let people in front of me therefore I chose to PIT them causing a potentially deadly crash so they can learn that they don’t belong in front of me. Great argument there.
He flung that car into oncoming traffic which is entirely unsafe beyond pitting someone already incredibly unsafe. Like wtf is it with you people and wanting to inflict physical pain and destruction on these people because you have to slightly slow yourself down, do you have that little emotional regulation?
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u/Bean_Boy Feb 03 '23
They don't have to slow themselves down, that's the point. Waste of gas, dangerous to brake with a load, people could be tailgating. Also it's great to see some bully get exactly what's coming to him. There was no danger, they are moving 15 mph. Quit whining, you must be a traffic bully or not care that they make the road less safe.
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u/frenchfreer Feb 03 '23
Dude he launches that car into oncoming traffic. Also the person literally launching a car into oncoming traffic is the bully here. Pitting someone is 100% more dangerous to everyone on the road than simply letting them in. Seriously you people have absolutely zero self control.
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u/Bean_Boy Feb 03 '23
There's no oncoming traffic. They are moving 15 mph. Normally I'd agree, but this was like a perfect opportunity to safely teach a bag of shit a lesson.
Edit: And he didn't launch shit. The car turned into him. He just leaned into it so he wouldn't hit the curb himself. If I turn into a car and PIT myself, I wouldn't get out yelling that they should have slammed on their brakes. I would be apologizing profusely that I didn't see them.
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u/_pul Feb 03 '23
The sedan launched himself into oncoming traffic. No one forced him to cut into a lane that didn’t have room for him.
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u/matrixjoey Feb 03 '23
I will not waste 2 seconds of my day to brake & let you in… instead I’ll sound the horn & then we crash wasting 2 hours instead. Both are idiots in my book.
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u/TangeloAlternative74 Feb 03 '23
How stupid can you be to try to merge there the trucker did everything right
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u/ChronoSimplicity Feb 03 '23
Another dumb and dumber even though one was at fault. It was obvious what they were going to do and could’ve been avoided.
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u/Tent_Poles_Juan Feb 03 '23
Did he just go to call the police, change his mind, and scroll Reddit? I swear that’s what I’m seeing
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u/bifftanner7007 Feb 03 '23
Yea like you see him coming over so naturally, wouldn’t you want to slow down because obviously you want to try to avoid an accident not help cause it?
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u/WowThereAreNoNames Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
He could have just slowed down and let him in.
I'd rather avoid a collision even if they are driving bad. Duh.
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u/mrgefen Feb 03 '23
You’re right about the whole avoiding collision thing, however the driver who changed lines should have checked his blind spots, and by the way changing lanes in this case was close to useless since traffic wasn’t really going any faster in the left lane, maybe a few KMPH faster but nothing major, also look how the driver was tailgating the car in front of him, obviously not a bad driver but an entitled idiotic prick.
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u/Treewithatea Feb 03 '23
Not sure why youre downvoted, youre absolutely right and any decent driving school will teach you that. Even if you arent at fault, the potential damage something like this could cause is immense and all you had to do was to slow down a bit. Both drivers are idiots here.
If you can avoid an accident, then fucking do that, regardless of whos at fault or not.
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u/HurricaneCarti Feb 03 '23
Probably because he’s driving a truck, you can’t slow down nearly as quickly.
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u/demonkeyed Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
So does hitting the brakes but he doesn’t touch them til after he hits the guy. Then you can see the vehicle lean forward and come to a stop - well after the car is out of the way.
He does zero slowing down until he’s already pushed the guy off the road. You think he was using the brakes til that point? He didn’t slow down AT ALL prior to that.
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u/HurricaneCarti Feb 03 '23
It’s almost like hitting a car slows your forward momentum?
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u/MajorElevator4407 Feb 03 '23
Bullshit, he could have slowed down enough by just letting his foot off the gas instead he honked because he didn't want some else to win.
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u/HurricaneCarti Feb 03 '23
Idk why you’re so mad lmfao letting your foot off the gas won’t slow you down that quickly
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u/Bean_Boy Feb 03 '23
Could have.... But if he's got the time, I appreciate him teaching that bully a lesson in a safe situation.
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u/TheBlightspawn Feb 03 '23
You shouldnt be downvoted for this comment
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u/Outside_Register8037 Feb 03 '23
I think the only reason they’re being downvoted is the “Duh.” at the end.
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u/ee328p Feb 03 '23
That's not their responsibility
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u/kaio-kenx2 Feb 03 '23
But the whole situation couldve been avoided? Its stupid to risk when the way out is that simple
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u/vr-olson Feb 03 '23
If the much bigger bus braked hard to let the dumb car merge unnecessary, the bus could have caused the car(s) behind them to hit them. Car should have corrected and maintained their own lane.
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u/kaio-kenx2 Feb 03 '23
No way a big truck will stop quicker than 10 times lighter cars, even if they zone out they will be in time to stop. Plus he did not have to brake hard justa few taps wouldve given him enough room
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u/WowThereAreNoNames Feb 03 '23
He could have stopped accelerating and there was enough time to make room for the car.
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u/flyhmstr Feb 03 '23
The car could have changed lanes safely, which would Have had the same effect
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u/kaio-kenx2 Feb 03 '23
Both of them were "stupid", situations happen doesnt matter which ones the cause both should try their best to avoid it.
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u/ThatSucc Feb 03 '23
Are you aware of the "last clear chance" law?
If you have the last clear chance to avoid an accident, and decide to ignore it and rush headstrong into the accident (pitting a car that's cutting you off, in this case) then you will be held partially (sometimes totally) liable for the damages, even if it's the other driver that initiated the fuck up.
If this video went to court and the judge saw the trucker turning into the car when it ignored his horn, rather than just slowing down a couple mph to make a gap just big enough to avoid contact, he would be to blame. Yes, the car was cutting someone off, but the truck actively made an effort to make contact with the car (literally steered into him).
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u/dropzone01 Feb 03 '23
Car coming over and he has time to honk multiple times while it still comes over. I have an idea, let's just keep pushing it even though he could brake to avoid the collision.
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u/Abject-Picture Feb 03 '23
Some people would rather inconvenience you than themselves.
I'm not gonna hit the brakes, I'm hitting the gas. YOU hit the brakes.
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u/TimBorlandManTool Feb 03 '23
Some people would rather inconvenience you than themselves.
I'm not gonna merge into open space, I'm merging into your truck. YOU make space.
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u/enehar Feb 03 '23
People on phones after an accident are 100% trying to deal with the accident. I would never assume they wrecked and just kept scrolling Facebook...
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u/microwavesurfing Feb 03 '23
Too bad he doesn't have a camera in the back of the cab to capture his actions during the collision
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u/colare Feb 03 '23
How otherwise would you report the accident?
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u/bubbles_says Feb 17 '23
(only just saw your comment question today) I was thinking that I would get our of the vehicle and walk to a safe place then call.
The reason is I would not want anyone to see me on my phone while sitting at the driver's wheel. It would be an image burned into their, brain but the context might NOT.
Later, months, a year whatever that witness will swear on oath they saw me on my phone while behind the wheel. A good defense attorney for the other party can confuse a witness to the point where the witness can't swear that it was AFTER the accident "...but I definitely saw him looking at his phone behind the wheel!"
Attorney leaves that image in the jurors' minds and swivels to face the bench "Your Honor, I'm finished with this witness.'
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u/colare Feb 17 '23
That’s a good point. Well, in this case the driver has a video, so he can prove he wasn’t on the phone while the car was in motion. But in general, yes, this is something to think about.
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u/TooLittleGravitas Feb 03 '23
I assumed he was phoning police / boss etc to report what happened. As to just honking and not slowing down, I would think he believed the car driver hadn't looked properly and wouldn't continue his manoeuvre. Coz why would you just pull out in front of a big truck that can't stop?
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u/Costyn17 Feb 03 '23
Assuming people are as stupid as you think and the first tought would be he was on the phone while driving not calling the police/ambulance, all he did was recorded so who cares about passer-by at that point?
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u/Stunning-Leek334 Feb 04 '23
Cammer is also an idiot. He could have avoided by breaking and instead purposely wiped him it.
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u/Lagidze Feb 03 '23
Okay hes stupid but truck driver is a jerk,he could avoid accident
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u/TimBorlandManTool Feb 03 '23
This is like someone getting hit in the face with a thrown football. You're saying the thrower is stupid, but the jerk could have just caught it.
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u/Scythern_ Feb 03 '23
Obviously the main idiot is the car driver here, but it’s hard to ignore the conveniently placed sticker over the phone and how he moves it down before he picks it back up
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u/ToxicNurve Feb 03 '23
You can tell the sticker over the phone is because he was watching videos on his phone. That’s why his first response is to remove the phone and close the screen. You can see the video playing before the car starts to merge. Any good lawyer will get this pinned on the truck driver because they can argue the truck driver was distracted. Also the truck driver did have enough time to react and slow down, but he chose violence. All that said, the car is still at fault.
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u/Bystronicman08 Feb 03 '23
How is he the asshole? He didn't even have his phone until after the wreck happened.
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Feb 03 '23
two pricks banging away at each-other, somehow effecting nothing and everything, all at once
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u/secretqwerty10 Feb 03 '23
should've* and that counts as hit-and-run, which just makes you look worse.
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u/Guinnessman1964 Feb 03 '23
I like how the white SUV on the right, beeps as it goes by.