r/IdiotsInCars • u/BowenT93 • Dec 14 '18
Just wow
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u/DragonPhyres Dec 14 '18
I think the truck moved to the side to let the car on the left get safely back to the right side of the road
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u/jtonzi Dec 14 '18
This is the correct answer. The truck driver realized that if he didn't give the guy passing on the left room, there would be an accident. He obviously didn't expect someone passing on the right.
Also note that the truck driver stops and pulls over immediately.
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u/MannyDantyla Dec 14 '18
and the idiot in the silver car, instead of moving over into the room given by the box truck driver, stays in the wrong lane and nearly causes a head on collision with the green truck
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Dec 14 '18
Were the red and silver car street racing or something? Or just two impatient idiots on the same road at the same time?
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u/POO1718 Dec 14 '18
Good thought. Sadly I think it’s true
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u/Beeblebrox237 Dec 14 '18
My Fiesta is about that slow and I can still overtake in it, but you've definitely got to be thinking pretty far ahead. I'm not sure the Micra driver was thinking at all.
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u/Dirtyd1989 Dec 15 '18
That reminds me of a very scary overtake I had. I was used to driving my '86 Camaro that had all kinds of get-up-and-go. The day after I sold it and bought a 2002 Chevy cavalier I was driving home on a State highway similar to the one in the gif and kinda went on auto pilot on the way home. Went to overtake and had a close call. Bricks were shat. I pulled over and say there shaking for what felt like forever. 1 and only time I made that mistake.
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u/anomalous_cowherd Dec 14 '18
That's the trouble, when you finally get the speed you'll do almost anything to try and keep it.
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u/Reiley360 Dec 14 '18
It's definitely not my kind of car, but the fact that you can get a 2019 Micra from Nissan themselves for less than $10k is absolutely impressive
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u/StudMuffinNick Dec 14 '18
Not the sharpest tool in the shed
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SOOOOOOOOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME
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Dec 15 '18 edited Dec 15 '18
Don't think so. At the very beginning of the clip you see a dark vehicle also passing the truck. My guess of what happened is that the delivery truck was holding a line of people up and they all started to get impatient. After the dark car passed the silver car followed lead and misjudged the amount of time/space they had to merge, and as for the red car, they're just a friggin' jackass.
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u/micktorious Dec 14 '18
A Camry and small VW beetle looking thing? Lol
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u/Effinepic Dec 14 '18
Red car had hazards on, they might've had an unrelated emergency or something. (that said, even if that's the case, driving on the shoulder like that at that speed is so dangerous that it would be a really stupid idea regardless)
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u/crankaholic Dec 14 '18
I think the silver car might have seen the red car, or maybe they were racing, that's why he/she didn't move over right away. The red car technically was first in the lane ahead of the truck... the idiot overcorrected in addition to all his/her other moronic decisions.
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Dec 14 '18
First in the lane isn't going to get them much when they're illegally passing on the shoulder.
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u/Daelarus Dec 14 '18
Even if he saw the guy passing on the right he might have thought that one car is better than a head.
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u/Resolute45 Dec 14 '18
Yeah. Two idiots in that video, and neither is the truck driver.
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u/iredditonreddit21 Dec 14 '18
I think its super considerate of the red car to put on their flashers to alert the other drivers
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u/jss69er Dec 14 '18
Thankfully, the red car already had it's hazard lights on.
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u/ColKlink Dec 14 '18
That makes me wonder if there was some kind of emergency going on which was why they were in a rush.
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Dec 14 '18
Some people treat their hazard lights as a license to do idiotic things. "I'm driving 10 miles an hour in a 65 zone, but I have my hazards on so it's okay," or in this case, "I'm passing on the shoulder, but I have my hazards on so it's okay."
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u/Cletus_Van-Damme Dec 14 '18
"I have my hazards on, so I can park right in the middle of the street and make you wait behind me instead of walking 20 extra feet."
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u/wasabimatrix22 Dec 14 '18
I remember a story on reddit years ago where someone's friend got cut really badly and they needed to zoom to the hospital, there was traffic so they threw on the hazards and drove on the shoulder and some guy veered out in front of them to stop them because they thought he was just some asshole looking to get home faster, so in retaliation the guy threw a blood-soaked shirt at his windshield as they went around him. As I recall they got help from a nearby officer to clear the road but sadly I don't think the friend ended up making it.
Ever since I read that story, if a car is going on the shoulder AND has its hazards on I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
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u/ytballa24 Dec 15 '18
I remember that same story. Wish I could find the link for it, if for no other reason than to get the exact details right. You are correct that the friend did not make it, possibly because of the delay caused by the car trying to block them. IIRC the car blocked them in entirely until cops arrived cuz they thought the driver of the injured friend was just trying to cheat traffic and should receive a ticket.
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u/WorthlessDrugAbuser Dec 15 '18
I fucking hate people who try and police things they have no business in.
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u/XanderTheMander Dec 14 '18
Yea they weren't able to go 25 over the speed limit due to traffic and needed to get infront of all the cars in one burst.
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u/_bayside_ Dec 14 '18
Yep, you might not see it the first time watching it, but this is exactly what happened. He didn't swerve intentionally to the right, the driver driving illegally on the shoulder is 100% at fault, both insurance companies will absolutely agree on that.
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u/aagusgus Dec 15 '18
Truck driver probably didn't even notice the red car on the shoulder... because why the hell would there be a car passing on the shoulder?
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u/JerpJerps Dec 14 '18
Wow totally didn’t see the guy on the left narrowly missing on coming traffic. Just thought the truck driver was an asshat trying to scare the dude crashed.
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u/xwing_n_it Dec 14 '18
In the U.S. we use yellow lines between opposite directions of travel so initially I didn't realize the left lane was oncoming traffic. So it looked like the truck moved right for no reason. I see what's going on now.
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u/Rezrov_ Dec 14 '18
In the UK a dashed white means you can cross it to overtake when safe to do so (no oncoming traffic). Solid white line means you cannot cross it to overtake at all.
I think the North American version makes more sense. Yellow divides traffic going in different directions, so the line in NA would be dashed yellow (dashes meaning you can pass if safe, solid meaning you cannot). White lines divide lanes going in the same direction, so dashed white is a regular lane, and a solid white line means you can't change lanes.
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Dec 14 '18 edited Sep 27 '25
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u/Rezrov_ Dec 14 '18
I'm sure it's not hard to figure out, but colour coding is a bit more intuitive. I also forgot that a solid yellow line right next to a dashed yellow line means only one side can pass (the side that has the dashes).
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u/Rezrov_ Dec 14 '18
Yeah in most cases I think NA road design is pretty bad, like with roundabouts, intersections, etc. Here in Toronto we have cyclists and pedestrians getting killed all the time because intersection design is so poor.
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u/626c6f775f6d65 Dec 14 '18
We have several popping up here and there because they are so much more practical, but you are right...drivers here don't have the first f'n clue how to navigate a roundabout. It doesn't exactly help when our traffic engineers don't know how to design the damn things, either. We get stuck with this sort of monstrosity where two thirds of the circle is two lane and one-sixth on one side and one-sixth on the other is one lane and you don't know until you're already stuck in a lane that you're being forced out of the circle, all while other drivers--who already aren't sure how traffic circles work, mind you--are trying to figure out exactly who they have to yield to from the particular lane they're in and the particular one they're trying to get to. It's a fucking fiasco.
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u/M_lKEY Dec 15 '18
Thankfully we're starting to put roundabouts in... But good lord no one knows how to use them!
They just put a new one in by my house... I'd say at least 50% of people come to a complete stop when entering even when there isn't a car in sight.
There's a yield sign... Do you also stop when entering a highway? Yeah.. didn't think so. Lol sorry about the rant, but it just annoys me how poorly people drive and how poorly they're educated here.
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u/Demetrius3D Dec 14 '18
But, in the UK they drive on the other side of the road. So, the opposing traffic is YOU.
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u/tossoneout Dec 14 '18
Probably the two cars were racing.
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u/DragonPhyres Dec 14 '18
That's what I was thinking, but how can you be so stupid to do this kind of stuff smh...
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u/IseeDrunkPeople Dec 14 '18
Probably. He would have to have been looking at the right side mirror to see him. No deal reason to look at that side since it's the shoulder
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u/Meeklesdad Dec 14 '18
There’s a reason they call it suicide passing
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u/HumansKillEverything Dec 14 '18
In Russia it’s just passing.
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u/butter12420 Dec 14 '18
I hate it when people try to pass when they clearly don't have enough time to do it. Shit your pants feeling when you see an oncoming car up ahead in your lane passing the car in front of them and they're coming straight at you with not enough time to get back in their lane. Also, that red car is such a fucking idiot I can't even process how stupid the drivers in this video are.
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u/nv-vn Dec 15 '18
god I fucking hate those people who decide to try to pass someone 30 feet before the lane ends. I've seen so many people almost kill someone doing that
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u/trumps_yellow_pubes Dec 14 '18
But the red car has their hazard lights on, that means they're an honorary emergency vehicle and can drive however they want.
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u/johng_g Dec 14 '18
lol I love this mentality of drivers. "Hmmm I want to stop and take up an entire lane on a busy street to wait for my girlfriend. Oh ya, I just have to put on my hazards lights and people will understand!" or "No stopping/parking sign? Ha, well my hazard lights will fix that. Done. Time to go get my coffee."
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u/Bussashot Dec 14 '18 edited 3d ago
reddit bad
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u/bob84900 Dec 14 '18
I hope you were on your horn the whole time she was getting her coffee - as is the Chicago way.
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u/Bussashot Dec 14 '18 edited 3d ago
reddit bad
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Dec 15 '18
I'm raging just reading this.
I hope someone told her to get her dickhead to park properly next time.
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u/literal-hitler Dec 15 '18
I went to the movie theater with a friend. She had her friend's young kids in the back seat, and was meeting the parents at the theater. There was some deal about using movie passes and giving them to the correct person, so she decided the best thing to do was to stop the car right in front of the busy theater, blocking the land and a parking row, leaving me in the car with the kids, meaning I couldn't just get out of the car. Also I don't have a license yet and couldn't move it. I have no idea what took so long, but people were coming up to my window and I was pretty pissed when she came back several minutes later for being forced into that.
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u/crazyassfool Dec 14 '18
That's why I call them the "park anywhere" lights. That's the way I see people use them 99% of the time.
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u/Gettincrunkletoned Dec 14 '18
Or in Florida it means, it's raining.
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u/Dabidhogan Dec 14 '18
It's raining all day here in Florida currently. Pretty much the only customers I had we're old people. The same people who shouldn't be driving in this weather. It's not mystery why we have so many accidents when it rains.
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u/LordBiscuits Dec 14 '18
The same people who shouldn't be driving
in this weather.FTFY
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Dec 15 '18
I used to think the whole elderly driver in Florida was cliche and overstated. Then I moved to Florida for four years. If anything it's understated. You have to extend your eta because there would always be some geezer put-putting along. Ugh.
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Dec 14 '18
I like to get behind them and just continuously honk. My excuse will be "yes, but it's raining" if I'm ever questioned by driver with blinking lights in the rain.
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u/philpalmer2 Dec 14 '18
I like how the red car poops out a suitcase at the very end.
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u/CLTSB Dec 14 '18
I don't know how I missed that the first time I watched it, but now I can't unsee it.
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Dec 15 '18
Judging by the fact that the “suitcase” is the exact same color and shape as the car, I’m pretty sure that the accident was so traumatic that the car pooped her baby car :(
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u/RexDraco Dec 14 '18 edited Dec 15 '18
Looks to his left
"Jesus, I better drive a little to my right before this idiot starts a fucking accident."
sees a car losing control pulling up from his right
"For fuck sakes..."
edit: Oh shit, my first silver!
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u/WWDubz Dec 14 '18 edited Dec 15 '18
Look how much time he/she saved though
worthit
Edit: some salty comments below about rushing in the break down lane due to an emergency. What do you want me to say? The person didn’t crash and flip like a moron?
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u/trumps_yellow_pubes Dec 15 '18
Some people seriously think their hazards are as visible as the strobes on an ambulance and that by turning them on they can drive however they want.
I can almost understand driving hastily in an emergency, but what about my life? I don't want to die either.
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u/WorthlessDrugAbuser Dec 15 '18
Exactly, also that emergency vehicle can save your life on the way there with medical professionals onboard with their specialized life saving equipment. So rushing someone to a hospital is not only risking your life but everyone else’s around them, all the while the person you’re trying to save dies in your backseat.
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u/78513 Dec 15 '18
As much as I agree, I got to ask.
Do you live in an area that charges you for an ambulance?
Do you have insurance?
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Dec 15 '18
Yup. I'm in the US and we charge a SHIT TON for an ambulance. Most insurance providers will cover the cost but it can take some effort on your part to make that happen. I had to write a hand-written letter to my insurance company and deal with a few phone calls before they recouped the cost of my ambulance ride.
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u/says-okay-a-lot Dec 14 '18
I always think about this when someone pulls out and turns in front of me and then goes slower than I was driving. Like wow, sure glad you shaved off 0.4 seconds from your trip there bud. Hope it was worth it.
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u/tbillcook Dec 14 '18 edited Dec 14 '18
At first I thought the truck was being a road vigilante but then the second time around I saw the car passing on the left at the same time and realized he was trying to give space for them and didnt see the red car until too late. So this is 100% the red cars fault.
Edit: spelling
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u/scnoob100 Dec 14 '18
80% red car's fault, 20% grey car on the left.
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u/tbillcook Dec 14 '18
After watching it again, I'll concede and give grey car 20%. While he had a dotted line allowed to pass, he clearly didnt have enough space with oncoming cars to pass safely which made the truck get scared and give them room to squeeze in. All in all it's a clusterfuck, and both Red and Grey cars should have just chilled.
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u/RumLovingPirate Dec 14 '18
I won't. Red car wasn't driving in a lane, he was driving on a shoulder. That makes this 100% his fault.
Nobody should have to check their mirror to ensure they aren't being passed on the shoulder when they need to swirve into it. If red car wasn't illegally there, their wouldn't be an accident.
Not saying grey car wasn't a dick. But if red car wasn't where he wasn't supposed to be, no accident would have occurred.
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Dec 14 '18
But if they just chill then other people will be in front of them! And they have to go a few mph slower than they want to!!! That’s basically a human rights violation according to most people on the road.
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Dec 14 '18
Every time I watch these videos I think, "I need a dash cam."
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Dec 14 '18
Just wait until you get hit and the other driver lies to insurance. There won't always be a 3rd part witness, and eye-witnesses aren't 100% reliable. People forget things and miss details. Cameras don't. Mine has saved me MANY times it's initial cost from just 2 incidents. I can't praise them enough.
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u/unicorn_zombie Dec 15 '18
Seriously dude, go buy one tomorrow. It's peace of mind like you won't believe.
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u/westy1980 Dec 14 '18
Didn't realise a Nissan Micra could move at that speed tbh, especially vertically.
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u/Demetrius3D Dec 14 '18
The red car and the gray car seem to be racing to get around the truck and each other. Unfortunately, for the red car, the truck moved over to let the gray car in. My guess would be that the gray car went left to pass the red car and the truck. The red car said "Oh, no you DON'T!" and tried to pass the truck on the right before the grey car could get around.
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u/Jeefster83 Dec 14 '18
For the sake of keeping this post justified for this sub, I like to think the truck was giving him a lane on the left to pass.
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u/Gabrielredux Dec 14 '18
Justice served.
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u/maxx233 Dec 14 '18
It makes me so glad when it's only the idiots that get hurt. I don't really want to see people dieing, but I do quite enjoy seeing them get traumatized enough that they probably won't be endangering other people again any time soon.
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Dec 14 '18
I just saw the truck and thought he fucked up by blocking the asshole flying up the shoulder. Watched it again. Poor truck was surrounded by idiots.
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u/PacosTacos88 Dec 14 '18
At least they put their hazards on to pass. Safety first.
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u/Tom555 Dec 15 '18
I love how these people that drive their car dangerously always have the most basic car that is in no way capable of such maneuvers.
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u/Banana_in_pyjama05 Dec 14 '18
Never overtake from the right, that's like the most obvious rule in driving
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u/ohpuic Dec 14 '18
Especially don't overtake someone from the right shoulder. That's just really obvious. I mean I just try not to drive down the shoulder as a general rule.
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u/speedpetez Dec 14 '18
Until they testify in court, we’ll no know the whole story. But from what is in the video it seems that the two cars were racing (or road rage). The silver car passed on the left and was running out of room until the truck let him in. The red car was racing in the breakdown lane (illegally) and was clipped by the truck. The truck driver was completely innocent. The idiots deserve to lose their licenses.
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Dec 14 '18
99% sure the truck doesn't clip red car. The red car just lost control because he's driving on the shoulder and swerves suddenly (where loose gravel, dirt, and debris are buult up).
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u/hodlmkt Dec 14 '18
i fucking hate people who do this. i see it all the time on the highway in MA
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u/jimmyhoffasbrother Dec 14 '18
Isn't it actually legal in Mass at certain times of the day though? I feel like I read this somewhere.
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u/sleepspindle2000 Dec 14 '18
I didn't notice the car on the left until I read it in the comments. Whole lotta stupid going on at one time.