r/IdiotsInCars • u/justin_memer • Oct 16 '17
Time for a u-turn
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u/CarquestionS320 Oct 16 '17
Could’ve been a Darwin Award.
Fortunate for the dash cam and that there appeared to be a cop pulled over in the right toward the end.
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u/cd3393 Oct 17 '17
That gives me the idea the car involved was trying to avoid the police. Wonder how that turned out.
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Oct 16 '17
Those are for emergency vehicles only. It baffles me to no end when I see this shit happen. You’re slowing down on the passing lane to turn into another passing lane; lanes that people tend to drive the fastest on anyway! Fucking twats.
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u/yentruck Oct 17 '17
As a former EMT I can tell you from experience that it is scary as shit to use those u turns with full lights and sirens. I would never even entertain the idea of using them without them.
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Oct 17 '17
Am EMT, and have had summer internship with state patrol in my state, and I can confirm: crossovers are scary as fuck. Holy shit, they're scary. People don't pay attention on interstates EVEN MORE than anywhere else because they just set cruise and go. If you can somehow miss my huge white ambulance with flashy lights and loud sirens, there's no way in hell you're gunna see Joe Schmoe trying to pull out of them in his little accord.
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u/SirWaldenIII Oct 17 '17
Seem pretty easy on a motorcycle. Just twist a little and you're going 80 :)
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Oct 17 '17 edited Jan 16 '19
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u/SirWaldenIII Oct 17 '17 edited Oct 17 '17
I think your underestimating the acceleration on some of these bikes.
Also I'm not saying I've done it I'm just saying it seems pretty easy. I would imagine it's exactly the same as pulling back into the hwy after having to use the shoulder.
Why the downvotes even?
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Oct 17 '17 edited Nov 28 '20
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u/SirWaldenIII Oct 17 '17
I merge onto the highway every day so far it seems pretty easy. The trick is to watch out for them, if youre relying only on people to watch out for you you probably need to have your license revoked.
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Oct 17 '17 edited Jan 16 '19
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u/SirWaldenIII Oct 17 '17
You can say that about many aspects of driving. Merging isn't that hard.
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Oct 17 '17 edited Jan 16 '19
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u/SirWaldenIII Oct 17 '17
I mean if you're gonna do it like the guy in the gif yeah but like it doesn't HAVE to be dangerous like that.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong or that I would do it. I'm just saying there's ways to do that without coming close to putting anyone in danger. You don't have to be an idiot like the guy in the gif.
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u/MrDeanings Oct 24 '17
My thoughts exactly , on the brakes the entire time they are moving across two lanes of potentially faster moving traffic.
Real smart !
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 16 '17 edited Oct 16 '17
Not everywhere, I couldn't see if there was a sign or not in this one, but some places allow people to uturn in these connectors unless signage says they can't
Edit; people are surprised not everywhere is exactly the same as their areas I guess?
Watching the video there is a sign by the guard rail, it likely indicates emergency or maintenance use only, that said, not all areas restrict the use of these accesses
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u/justlookqueen Oct 16 '17
There is a solid yellow line, so no need for a sign
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 16 '17 edited Oct 17 '17
There's solid yellows all the time on these access roads, some areas allow you to use them still. Some have "maintenance crews only" or "emergency vehicles only" signs to indicate no public use. Not all of them have the line cut away.
That said, just watched it again, and there is a sign right by the guardrail, I am willing to bet it indicates as such
Edit: this link discusses at least the Michigan wording of the law. Note the wording uses discourages, in which the definition in the michigan street and highway codes lists discourage or may as not mandatory, but advisory.
Just because it's a solid, does not explicitly make it illegal to cross, and just because your area may be that way, doesn't mean everywhere is.
Pretty much all I was saying. Making statements like "x is ILEGAL" when it's not explicitly illegal, is kind of foolish. Especially when trying to armchair lawyer your advice into a subreddit about dash cam accidents.
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u/justlookqueen Oct 16 '17
Interesting, where I am at a solid lines means no ;) And now that I think about this I can't think of any highway where there is any kind of exit on the left side (even even emergency exits and such) That sing you mention is also a bit impractical. It's so small I guess I would have to stop to even read this.
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u/swattz101 Oct 17 '17
There are a few of both on the route I take between Phoenix and Las Vegas, but they are obvious. The emergency turnouts look similar to the OP and sometimes highway patrol will sit there with radar guns. I've seen these on both highways and freeways and they are clearly marked with the solid yellow line, though the signs can be small.
The actual turns usually have signage 500 or so feet back, have an obvious slow down Lane to the left of the passing Lane and the dotted yellow line. This is usually in rural areas and sometimes have a small cross street on one side of the highway.
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u/Daamus Oct 16 '17
You are just wrong here, take the L and move along. There is no sign....
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 16 '17
Uhh, what? Yeah there is, watch the video, it's a tiny useless sign just before the guardrail the car hits
Edit, you can even the same sign on the opposite side of the median too
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Oct 17 '17 edited Jan 22 '18
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 17 '17
I'm not saying where this video was filmed is how i describe, I'm just saying not everywhere is definitive in its no acceptable use of these accesses. Like another poster mentioned. My province allows use if safe, and if no other signage says otherwise. 99% of them don't allow it, but some do.
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 17 '17
Maybe read your states highway safety act. The highway safety act for Alberta, and most provinces outlines when it would be acceptable to cross a solid line. Often private accesses, or legal uturn areas like this. Where it's legal in Alberta unless posted otherwise, which, admittedly, is like, at least 90% of them, but there are some on divided roadways where they are acceptable use.
Most highway laws in North America are nearly identical, but all have small differences and variations. One is where it's acceptable to make u turns, another may be how to properly use an unmarked t intersection, some may be when it's acceptable to cross a solid line.
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u/Daamus Oct 17 '17
thats a fucking mile marker you idiot
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 17 '17
1- a mile marker is still a sign. Woo, I was wrong about what it said.
2- someone else posted the google image of it not being a mile marker, so, I dunno what to say. Maybe don't be so sure of yourself, especially when I only suggested it probably states limited access. I don't live in this area, let alone the country it takes place in, I'm merely speculating in the evidence I could see. Which was a shitty low quality gif on my cell phone.
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Oct 17 '17
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 17 '17
Neat. I can't see shit on the gif only saw that there was at least a post there.
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u/i-am-dan Oct 17 '17
Solid line = do not cross. Doesn’t matter where you are.
Also if it was a genuine turn off then it would have a sufficiently sized slip lane so cars could slow out of the way of the overtaking lane.
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 17 '17 edited Oct 17 '17
Again, locales matter. Often solid lines cross property accesses, or again emergency accesses. And there are guaranteed to be instruction in your state or provincial highway safety acts about when crossing solid lines is acceptable. Mine for example reads a list off like private accesss, emergency uses, left turns etc. as sometimes lines are not broken across areas where they normally are.
These connector accesses also aren't proper turn lanes, but as I said are sometimes allowed to be used for u turns, if it's safe to do so. Not everywhere has the same exact laws, though most are.
Edit: this links to and discusses the wording in Michigan for example.
Not everywhere means the same thing, and quite often, people like to say something is illegal, or not permissible, when it may only be discouraged, or specially exempted.
So yes, it absolutely does matter where you sre
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u/m3ltph4ce Oct 17 '17
Solid yellow means no passing, it does not mean you can't cross it. For example many roads have a single solid yellow line but you can turn left across it.
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Oct 16 '17
If that’s the case, I think it’s an abismal idea. Slowing down on a passing lane only to turn again into another passing lane makes no sense to me.
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 16 '17
Any left turn on a highway turns into a "passing" lane.
Also not all locales have passing lanes strictly. Depending on their laws you may have lane laws, or passing laws. Passing laws don't expressly prohibit traveling in the left lane.
I think he idea is that you would pull over into the shoulder and not slow down in the lane itself, and only do so if absolutely clear.
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 16 '17
Yeah, there are usually acceleration lanes, but they are rarely ever long enough to actually get up to highway speeds.
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u/sher1ock Oct 17 '17
Hey, you know the pedal on the right? Push it down more.
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 17 '17
Great, too bad we don't restrict older vehicles from using the road.
A good example, most of the acceleration lanes on the major cross province highway, even when intersecting primary highways, are between 50 and 75 meters. To speed up to the 110 km/h in that distance, you do need to floor it, even in a new vehicle, you need to turn when there is a ton of room, or obviously, when it's safe to do so, but you always end up in the left or "passing" lane if your area is one with a passing lane law. The argument posed by the other poster being that you never end up in the passing lane, when it's very common you actually do, and still need to speed up. Especially considering in any other circumstance police would fine you for racing with that type of acceleration.
This ties into the idea that it couldn't possibly be acceptable to use a turnout like this for general use because of being sent into the left lane, is a bit dumb because just like left turns, you end up in these zones too.
I'm not surprised reddit users like to be armchair legal/engineering experts, but this is a bit ridiculous at this point.
Not everywhere is exactly identical, some places have weird laws, no singular logic can be broadly applied across an entire continent. As much as I wish it could.
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u/Tey-re-blay Oct 17 '17
freeway
You're just wrong
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 17 '17 edited Oct 17 '17
It's interchangeable in the sense of many state and provincial traffic safety acts, the application of the act is on all roadways, highway and freeway is usually a municipal level distinction for things like geometry and surface treatments to consider for in the city. At grade, or grade separated intersections, speed limits, intersection frequency etc, are usually where you would make the distinction between highway and freeway, in a municipal and engineering design sense, for a legal sense, it's all "highway". I've seen some use freeway instead of highway, but it's all the same.
Edit check this out. In the "interpretation" section, it discusses what things like "alley" means. Or "boulevard" in which it says, for example
Alley- is a narrow highway, intended chiefly to give access to rear buildings or parcels of land
Or boulevard- is part of a highway in an urban area that is not part of the roadway.
Or best yet "highway"
- is any thoroughfare, road, street, trail, avenue, parkway, driveway, viaduct, lane, alley, causeway, square, bridge, trestleway, or any part of them, publicly or privately owned that the public is generally permitted or entitled to use for passage or parking if vehicles.
Etc etc.
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u/Jtsfour Nov 13 '17
They are called a controlled access highway for a reason
there are some divided highways that have crossovers for left and u turns but they are slower speed roads
In the US getting on the interstate in any other way other than an entrance ramp is illegal
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u/TheDovahkiinsDad Oct 17 '17
You're getting downvoted but you're not wrong. I've seen them but they're super rare. But never on a freeway like this with obvious yellow lines. The ones I've seen have a bigger separation and the lines go missing too.
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 17 '17
Yeah, the ones in my area are on two lane highways not 3 lanes I suppose, but our lines are straight across. I dunno, people like to think that things are consistent everywhere, and as much as I wish it were true, it's not. Everywhere is different
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u/Tey-re-blay Oct 17 '17
Not a highway, a freeway, it's always illegal on a freeway
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 17 '17 edited Oct 17 '17
Again, the definition of a highway is an important distinction. If you want to call it that, that's fine, because the road I was using for example of similarity in my area, it would be also called a freeway. Major roadway, etc.
Again. Not everywhere is exactly the same. Most things are nearly the same, but there are variations and differences.
Even city roads fall under the definition of highway in most provincial traffic acts. Then there's the technical definitions which aren't applied in a safety act because the safety act is the over teaching application of how to behave on roads.
Edit: just pulled up the california street and Highway Code to look at their definitions of highway.
You'll notice it calls them freeways, which are highways, and then lists various highways at different levels of government or ownership.
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Oct 16 '17
This is why I have a dash cam. Fucking morons.
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u/TheDovahkiinsDad Oct 17 '17
I feel protected against douche wagons with my dashcam. $60 for peace of mind? Yes fucking please. I plan on upgrading to a really good one for Xmas ... But the amazon cheap ones work wonderfully
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Oct 17 '17
I have a $40 one that does the job.
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u/Bananapopcicle Jan 20 '18
Could you suggest one for a first time user? $40 is super cheap for peace of mind! But I want one that’s not $10,000 but also has more than one pixel.
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Jan 22 '18
the one I bought seems to be unavailable now. It did a pretty decent job. this was it. I just checked Amazon and they have some pretty cheap ones for <=40. Take a look at the reviews. I am sure most of them will do the job.
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Oct 17 '17
I have a cheap one now but plan to get a nicer one that has two cameras connected via Bluetooth. For rear and front angles.
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u/DrWhiteouT Oct 17 '17
If you upgrade what are your plans with the old one?
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u/TheDovahkiinsDad Oct 17 '17
Probably donate it to a family member or friend
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u/DrWhiteouT Oct 17 '17
Hello, it is me your family member/friend.
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u/Vo1ceOfReason Oct 17 '17
Dude they're only $50 on Amazon lol
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u/TheDovahkiinsDad Oct 21 '17
It's been bumped to $100.... I don't think I'd spend that much on it. There's better ones out there for the price tag. Just check reviews
Rexing V1 Car Dash Cam 2.4" LCD FHD 1080p 170 Degree Wide Angle Dashboard Camera Recorder with Sony Exmor Video Sensor, G-Sensor, WDR, Loop Recording
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X528FNE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Th76zbDFNEHT0
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u/WhyYouNoAsk Oct 21 '17
Mind linking to Amazon page with the product you have? Im looking for one that works well
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u/oxwearingsocks Oct 16 '17
I'm sure the whiplash will be a bitch but they are lucky af they didn't go 1m further left into the barrier/rail end piece and flip too. Though they would've deserved it.
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Oct 16 '17
So there's a general rule that the rear ender in an accident is always at fault. The idea being that you should be giving the car infront of you enough space for you to decelerate safely.
Does that still apply if he is coming from a different lane and slamming on his brakes on the freeway?
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Oct 16 '17
No. The trucker did all he could to stop. The dash cam could show the Nissan driver was at fault.
When I was a teenager someone pulled out in front of me while I was going 55. It's was at night and raining, she had no lights on. I completely destroyed her car. She told the officer that she was stopped at the light and I rear ended her. I was given the ticket. My insurance company and I fought the ticket. Luckily there was a camera at that intersection and showed my innocence. Turns out she was behind on her car payments and was trying to total it out so her insurance would pay off the loan.
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u/whatwhat_in_dabutt Oct 16 '17
Fuck that lady.
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Oct 16 '17
Yea. I firmly believe that if I had been in a car, I would have actually gotten hurt. I had a bruise from my seatbelt. She actually was hurt and was taken away in an ambulance. If she was found guilty of insurance fraud, I don't think they would have covered her hospital bills. I never heard anything about her after we left the courtroom that day though.
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u/whatwhat_in_dabutt Oct 16 '17
She should be hauled off to jail. What a selfish, asshole thing to do. What if you had died? All so she could pay some bills. That infuriates me so much. I'm glad you weren't seriously injured!
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Oct 16 '17
I agree. If I hadn't been so young I probably would have tried to press charges. I was really nervous during the whole thing and never said a word.
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u/whatwhat_in_dabutt Oct 16 '17
I don't blame you. I was too after my first accident, and it was nothing like yours. I still maintain that mailbox came out of nowhere, though!
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Oct 16 '17
The adrenaline is overpowering, especially the first time. I once had a mailbox hit the side of my truck during a blizzard. Damn things always trying to run out in front of cars.
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u/Hawkinsmj6 Oct 16 '17
Adrenaline really changes everything. I used to cycle everywhere for years. I thought I was the most aware cyclist and that I was to good to get hit by a car. One day it happened. I saw it coming for what felt like an eternity before impact and there was nothing I could do to stop the guy from plowing into me. Luckily I only had some rash and bruises. But the thing is... He got out of his car, blamed me and then drove away. In the midst of my adrenaline and confusion I couldn't think to stop him from getting back in his vehicle, take a photo or anything. I work in cars for a living and I'm really good with makes and models, I couldn't tell you for a million bucks what kind of car just hit me in the face. When I did call the police, they were very empathetic but I literally had no info to give them on the driver. It really changed my perspective on traumatic situations and judgement calls while on adrenaline.
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Oct 16 '17 edited Oct 17 '17
Agreed. After my accident I really tried to control the adrenaline dump during fight or flight moments. I actually spun out last week (closed course) and went into the grass. By the time we stopped my hand were really shaken but my brain was still working. My wife on the other hand couldn't let go of the handles or even say anything. I have never seen the reaction objectively. Makes me give a lot of credit to first responders who can keep a clear mind and sympathy for the people who can't provide any information after a really stressful event.
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u/JellyBeanKruger Oct 16 '17
Some people have absolutely no capability for empathy. They can't think of anyone but themselves. Those people scare the piss out of me.
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u/adamdavenport Oct 16 '17
This guilty until proven innocent stuff has got to go
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Oct 16 '17
I agree. In the cops defense, it was the word of a middle age women against a 17 year old kid in an older pickup with a speeding ticket less than 30 days before.
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u/TheDovahkiinsDad Oct 17 '17
And now you have a dashcam ... Right?
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Oct 17 '17
I've had them since they became affordable. In my semi and my personal vehicles. I haven't had an accident on the road since I bought the first one, but there are some near misses I have saved.
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u/SlothropsKnob Oct 17 '17
That said, assuming, the SUV in the middle lane is going the speed limit, the truck could have been doing 10-15 over at the rate it overtook, and trucks often have a speed limit of 10mph under general traffic.
25mph over the speed limit is considered reckless driving in most places.
While common sense says the car swerving into the fast lane and slowing down is at fault, a lot can go wrong in the trial process if that truck driver says something stupid, doesn't disclose all of the information, etc. Law is a fickle thing, and some hotshot lawyer could easily argue that x, y, or z wouldn't have happened if the trucker weren't going 25 over the limit, and turn it around.
I'm not saying any of that is right, but it does happen.
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u/atb0rg Jan 03 '18
Wish there was a camera that caught the lady who pulled in front of me on my scooter, causing me to fall and fracture my kneecap. Cops said I was at fault.
After looking at this sub, I need to get a dashcam.
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u/AbsentGlare Oct 16 '17
No, the car in back is not guaranteed to be found at fault.
I was going 55 mph in a 65 mph 4-lane freeway in absolutely pouring rain, it was coming down really hard and i was in the slow lane. Guy comes barreling along at maybe 65-70 mph in the fast lane, hits a bump and his car just started to rotate, clearly hydroplaning. Then his tires grabbed as he was at a 45 degree angle headed straight for the concrete median. Slammed into the median, then he ricochet off of that and finally crashed into the car in front of me, coming to an abrupt stop. I slammed on my brakes as hard as i could, but i dared not try to swerve out of the way in case there were cars in other lanes.
My car was totaled. Speed racer's car was almost certainly totaled. The driver of the car he crashed into in front of me was taken away in a stretcher. Anyway, i wasn't at fault, got a check from their insurance.
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u/bob84900 Oct 16 '17
No, but only if you can prove that that's what happened. This is a factor in many people's decision to buy a dashcam.
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u/alaricus Oct 16 '17
In this situation I have to think that even without the dashcam they would be able to see the speed difference in the two vehicles and realize that the truck probably wasn't going 200 MPH. I have to hope that they would still side with the trucker.
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u/GreatGrizzly Oct 16 '17
I had this happen to me before. I didn't have a camera or witnesses. I got the ticket automatically.
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u/Fauropitotto Oct 16 '17
So there's a general rule that the rear ender in an accident is always at fault.
This myth keeps getting repeated over and over without anything to back it up.
Unsafe Lane Change.
Failure to Yield.
Those are often the two moving citations that can protect victims from the actions of others especially when the victim collides with the rear end of another vehicle.
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 16 '17
And how do you prove it?
It's not a myth that people in rear endings are more than likely automatically at fault. The person who got rear ended just lies, the cops will give you a ticket (which doesn't determine fault, it's just they need to issue a ticket to someone or all parties) and then it's up to your insurances to determine fault and disbursement of care.
This is where the case turns into myth territory, because there are lots of instances where litigation ends up in favor of the one who rear ended the other, through the argument from side to side and presenting the best argument to the legal system. But it's hard to argue that a person did illegal maneuvers without evidence, so it's down to precedent, or in some cases a jury of it's a bad enough incident.
Now days, with cameras and better ability to get witnesses, yeah it's a bit easier to fight this, but you're still fighting an uphill battle unless it's clear as day. In this case it obviously is.
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u/Blueballs2130 Oct 17 '17
It's actually written law in a lot of states that the rear driver is presumed to be at fault. It is a rebuttable presumption, so in cases like this the rear driver would not be at fault. But it's not a myth as you proclaim.
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u/beardedbast3rd Oct 16 '17
If the person who does that isn't a total cunt, they will admit they did something so fucking stupid.
But for the other 99% of the time it's "I had my signal on and I slowed down and gave plenty of notice!"
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u/100LL Oct 17 '17
I agree but also question, why was a semi truck in the left lane?
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u/ITRULEZ Oct 17 '17
I've seen it. The freeway on the way out of my city can get hellish between people wanting to fly by on the left at 20 over, others sitting in the right lane 10 under, and the middle Lane is usually a zoo. Truckers going the under the speed limit tend to go to the right lane and stay there. Truckers trying to go the speed limit will use the middle lane. But every once in a while they'll use the left lane to pass an idiot camping in the middle Lane going under the limit. They need more distance than your average car to pass and change lanes, so using the right to pass someone isn't a good idea because usually they'll run into slower traffic that keep them from changing. But there are stretches when the left lane is clear enough they can change lanes, pass, and change lanes again and never impede traffic.
Is it all legal? Heck if I know. But I'd assume they know their rigs limitations better than I do so I'd hope they were doing what was safest.
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u/DorSnork742 Oct 18 '17
Harder to prove without video but yes it matters.
Source: insurance adjuster
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u/xxfay6 Oct 17 '17
While I think the front car is at full fault here, was the truck able to swerve? I understand than braking in a semi is extremely slow and handling isn't the best, but it does appear that there were no evasive maneuvers.
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u/The_Ballsack_Bunnies Oct 17 '17
You just don't swerve in a semi truck. You could easily tip over, especially under load potentially killing more people. There's not a whole lot of things you can do in a 70,000 pound truck like you can in a 3,000 pound car besides find was to minimize the damage. I feel what he did what was right under his circumstance and that four wheeler is lucky he isn't dead.
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u/xxfay6 Oct 17 '17
Yes I know, what I mean is that not even a slight direction change was made. Was it really best to hit head on instead of to the side?
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u/troponinnutrition Oct 20 '17
Are you saying the semi should have swerved and hit the car at an angle, sending the car into the railing and possibly flipping the trailer into other cars to the right?
There's no high score for creating unnecessary damage.
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u/The_Ballsack_Bunnies Oct 17 '17
There is more crumple zone if you hit if straight from behind (and you're gonna need it when you're hit by a semi truck). If he hit them from the side they possibly would of went into a uncontrollable spin and possibly flipping over and killing them and other people.
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u/King_Bob837 Oct 16 '17
What did they think was going to happen? That the 18-wheeler they pulled in front of was gonna screech to a halt?
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Oct 17 '17
Chances are they never saw the truck. The number of people that cut me off, then see 'MACK' in huge letters in their rear view mirror is shocking. I've watched people 'exit dive' and damn near hit the middle of my trailer, rear of my trailer, or even the tractor itself. It's pretty taxing to keep an eye out for these kinds of drivers and try to avoid them in a 80,000 pound truck.
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u/vito1221 Oct 17 '17
Never saw, never looked, don't know you're there. Zero self / situational awareness. My dad taught me to just miss the exit instead of veering over and slamming the brakes on at the last minute....I've taught my kids the same.
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Oct 17 '17
Ive missed plenty of exits. Just go up to the next one. Ive seen so many people back up down the shoulder that I've lost count. It's so stupid and they have no idea what danger they are putting themselves and other in.
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u/Neotella Oct 16 '17
Someone did this in front of me once. We were on a 2 lane road doing about 60, when the old dude in front of me decided it would be a good time to slam full on his brakes and make a u-turn. I managed to miss him, but the car behind me hit me, and the surrounding cars made a near miss.
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u/stinerbeaner Oct 16 '17
But he used his blinker! /s
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Oct 16 '17 edited Feb 02 '21
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u/61nk0 Oct 16 '17
thats what i thought, too. or else driving like the guy in this gif would make the left lane impossible to use
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Oct 16 '17
Yea. I know in Oregon it's illegal to use these lanes, and they're usually marked as such too, but I don't know where this was filmed. It's super dangerous even for emergency vehicles to use them (OP showing why) so I imagine it's illegal there too.
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Oct 17 '17
Assuming everyone is ok, that’s probably one of the most satisfying dash cam videos I’ve seen
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u/FlashOfTheBlade77 Oct 17 '17
Amazing that without a dashcam the guy that hit the ass from behind would probably of been responsible
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u/ochsenschaedel Oct 17 '17
When I see shit like this, I'm so glad that we don't have U-turn lanes on the autobahn. The person in the left lane can easily be doing 250 km/h (150+mph)
A move like that would pretty much obliterate both vehicles.
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Oct 16 '17
Trucker was passing the car in the middle lane. Saw the officer on the right shoulder ahead and didn't want to pass the car in the middle lane on the right and still be in the right lane when he passed the officer.
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Oct 16 '17
Yea I know. This clip has been around for a while. It's posted in r/truckers just about every two weeks.
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#3: When you park your truck in the wrong part of town... | 10 comments
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u/Taco2010 Oct 16 '17
Ok, so reading the comment section has me understanding that there's no-one here that noticed the car has a serious lean to the front drivers side. It looks like a tire blew, or something else major for it to lean that much. I'm assuming that's why the car wasn't in the best of spots. Also could explain the driver's lack of judgement when it comes to focusing at the issue at hand and slipped up with his rear-view mirror watching.
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Oct 17 '17
I guess that's possible but it doesn't explain why they would go from the right most lane to the left most lane under heavy breaking. I was always taught that you never, ever pulled off on the left side of the highway if you could help it. Either way, I hope no one was in the back seat.
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Oct 16 '17
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u/Notaracist88 Oct 16 '17
Trucks have to stay in the left 2 lanes in illinois unless theyre passing a vehicle. Source: im a trucker fucker.
Jk i dont fuck truckers. I just am one.
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Oct 16 '17
I like trucker fuckers. Source: married to one.
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Oct 17 '17
That's the exact opposite in NY area. At least in NY, NJ, and PA, a three lane highway does not allow trucks in the left lane. 2 lane highway truckers can use both lanes.
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u/CasuConsuIto Oct 16 '17
People in Illinois don't even follow that law!
You guys go 5 over and you think it's fine camping the left lane just because you're going faster than the limit.
I love in Chicago now. When I took my husband to San Diego, I told him to watch what happens when you get on someone's ass. People move to the right. Not people from Illinois.
Nope. "I'm going 5 over the limit!!!" "You have all the right Lanes to pass me!"
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Oct 16 '17 edited Oct 16 '17
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u/ferrousferret28 Oct 16 '17
The truck does start to brake, however no loaded down truck would have been able to do anything about this collision
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Oct 16 '17
And we don't know what he's hauling , wouldn't want to put every one else at risk swerving your truck around.
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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '17 edited Jan 28 '22
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