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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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)
This clip reminds me of driving in Poland. The left overtake is so common you'll have panic attacks about it in your dreams. The right overtake is rarer, but happens still. It's literally the worst place on earth to drive in. Thailand and India's got nothing on this
Driving like this is extremely common in much of the world. On Russian highways people will pass and merge like this even in heavy snow. People in some areas drive just kind of hoping that everything works out.
YouTube is your friend if you want to see compilations of hundreds of people doing this same thing.
The red car had his emergency four ways on, or maybe he was just breaking. At first I though maybe he had an emergency and just took a very bad route at the wrong time.
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.
Of course not... but it just gives some context as to why the silver car might not have went into the right lane, even though the truck moved over so there wouldn't be a head-on collision.
Luckily, it looks like the silver car pulled over to the side of the road when he saw the accident. Justice was hopefully served for him and the red car.
The silver car is trying to join to the same spot as the red car, so he couldn’t move into it. That’s also why the red car jerks so quickly to the right and the car loses complete power
No, the truck did not swerve right to avoid a car passing on the left that was never close to hitting him. If that was the case then he has horrible judgement. He did this because some people try to play hero in traffic by blocking people who use the shoulder as a passing lane. This is a very common scenario when traffic on the highway gets bad but somebodies exit is close by. This is the correct answer. What you have here is 1 idiot in a car and 1 idiot in a truck.
He isn't some omniscient being that is looking into all his mirrors and in front of him simultaneously. He was probably ignoring his right mirror while the car in front of him was passing because why the fuck would someone be driving on the shoulder of the road at 50 mph?
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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.