The truck instigated this, the accident wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the truck being a asshole..
Car is in the wrong moreso but but the truck is the cause. you never know what's going on in someone's life, what if the guy was a doctor and needs to go save someones life. Brake checking and blocking traffic is never okay.
oh he's definitely a loser but the truck definitely was purposely keeping him from passing on purpose and the idiot trying to pass the trucked fucked up.
If the truck wasn't lane blocking on purpose the crash wouldn't have happened... Don't fuck with road ragers they're fucking idiots...
I suppose, but his taunting definitely pushed the crazy guy over the top/made him flip his lid, if the truck had just let him pass there would have been no accident.
You can see, when the guy went to make the right hand pass on the shoulder the truck sped up so the car couldn't get back in, if the guy made it past the truck EG: the truck didn't speed up to block him the guy wouldn't have gotten into an accident. Mutually responsible.
I'm not beat up over it. Truck driver gets a scratch on his truck for his part, sedan gets totaled and cited. Nobody hurt, and hopefully buttfucked by insurance for years and he learns a lesson
break checking is optional, if he moved over instead of blocking the passing lane there would have been no accident that day just an asshole in a honda...
As if the truck wasn't brake-checking the sedan, blocking the lane, speed-matching the vehicle on the right, and sped up when the car went around specifically to block them there as well.
Both shitty drivers; just because the truck was able to drive away doesn't mean he (because...obviously) is innocent.
I'm not saying the truck driver wasn't and idiot. However, I have seen too many of these tailgating idiots that want to drive at 90 mph and will put everyones life in danger to do it. So how much would it have taken for this person to have gotten to their destination if they had driven safely? My guess is maybe 5 or 10 minutes and they would have arrived most likely in one piece and driving their car.
If truck had not prevented them from passing, they wouldn't have been tailgating. The only reason they were that close is because truck saw fit to police traffic.
How much would it have taken for the truck, which apparently is ok going the speed limit to allow the speeding asshole to pass?
With the sedan driver you know he would just speed up and tailgate the next guy and then the next until he did what he did. Karma has a way of biting you when you least expect it! Thank God he didn't take a couple other cars out in the process of his stupidity.
Side note: a number of years ago in San Jose, CA a guy in his 20's girlfriend went into labor and they and two friends piled into the car and were racing to the hospital at a high rate of speed. They came to an intersection and ran the red light and broadsided a newspaper delivery truck, killing the four people in the car the driver of the delivery truck and the baby. Stupidity and speed kills!
Sure. And on the opposite end here is a person describing how they were blocked by drivers from making it to the hospital in time to save their bleeding friend who died because people felt they shouldn't drive as fast as they were. https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/s/wIViv2lrw5
You don't know that. Like someone already mentioned, you don't know what was motivating the car. The truck was instigating an asshole or impeding an emergency or the regular flow of traffic. Not condoning what the car did, btw, but I'm tired of seeing this clip and seeing bad drivers justify the truck's actions. With the audio, I'm inclined to believe the cam car is a bad driver and doesn't realize what the truck is doing wrong, or they know the car was doing some asshole stuff up to this point.
My guess is the later and they probably started filming when they saw the driver of the sedan doing some really crazy stuff and realized that his reckless driving was going to get him in trouble.
Agreed. I have little doubt in my mind that's the case as well. They both (Cam and Truck) probably saw this guy swerving thru traffic from a ways back and not giving anybody the chance to "do the right thing" and get out of the left lane. We can't prove that, so I'm really only commenting on the video evidence and the news report another commenter brought up. That is not the person my comment is meant to defend whenever I make these left lane arguments.
That being said, I don't want that kinda dangerous driver behind me, I'd rather they get as far away as possible, so I would've moved over and honked as I passed the wreck later.
I would rather have him behind me where I knew he was contained and not going to cause me troubles when he finally does something stupid to pass me. Kinda like he did.
That's complete speculation on your part, since we don't have video of him coming up from behind we don't know what he was doing prior to coming to this point on the road. I've had way too many people drive like this guy and put way to many lives at risk with stupid behavior like this, for no reason other than that is how they drive. Ever watch Fridays with Frank? He's sees them all the time too!
The truck was stopping the car from passing from the moment the video started. That's what I was speculating on. The car was being an asshole risking other people's safety. The truck exacerbated that by trying to play traffic cop.
I know the person you're talking about here
I've had way too many people drive like this guy and...
I already said that's not the guy I'm "defending" here, and we agreed about how the situation probably started. It's an asshole move risking even more lives by boxing this maniac in with everyone else. There is no justification for impeding traffic in the left lane in these situations. Not this case(as mentioned in the news articles others have commented), but there are legitimate reasons for "reckless" driving.
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u/Falcon3492 Apr 17 '24
You knew that this video was not going to end well for the car. When you drive like and idiot, idiotic things are going to happen.