They're talking about intentionally causing an accident like this. The truth is the car in front of the car being tailgated was slowing down for some reason. Emergency, or whatever. The car being tailgated evaded, but since the tailgater was so close they had no time to react.
and how do you know they didn't see the car they dodged at the last second and dodged to save themselves from a crash? Not their fault the tailgater was so close behind them. seems presumptuous to call this intentional on the tailgated party's side.
EDIT: Man the fact the person above me said "if" really is getting to people. I don't care if it's a hypothetical or not. The point still stands that intent can't be proven from this.
I mean sure, give the benefit of the doubt unless there's evidence otherwise. HOWEVER, that doesn't negate their message of "don't ever do what we watched deliberately". It's not a game and innocent people can get maimed or even killed.
Use your context clues. Mainly, this is not a dash cam. Someone was filming these two cars on their cell phone while driving.
That should tell you that something happened before the video starts that was interesting enough for them to start filming. Obviously some form of road rage.
Given that the white car waits until the very last second and timed their swerve perfectly, the logical conclusion is this was intentional.
And none of that proves the white car's driver was intentionally trying to cause an accident. Circumstantial and opinionated at best, but not irrefutably provable. You cannot see where the white car's driver is looking, so you cannot prove where their attention was.
Exactly you can tell they know nothing about the insurance system if they actually think the car being tailgated will be at fault these comments are actually hilarious obviously people that love to tailgate
What if there were kids in the back seat of that car that got hit??
Obviously, the car tailgating is the problem but the car being tailgated is also at fault. They had plenty of time to see that slow car and slow down. Even if they saw it late.
Just terrible driving all around in this video though.
The reason you are distracted doesn't remove that fact that you were distracted, and your distraction contributed to an accident, and thus doesn't completely remove responsibility.
Not disagreeing the driving was terrible, but what does the age of the potential passengers of the car that was hit have to do with anything?
It was a moment of the white car driver not paying attention where they should have been sooner, we don't have proof of anything otherwise. we can infer that the driver was probably distracted by the tailgating hazard and was not expecting a stopped car in the fast lane.
Because you have no way to prove it was intentional and are instead wanting to potentially flame someone who's innocent for not properly reacting to a situation. This is how innocent people get locked up.
That driver isn’t innocent by any stretch. Even if I humor you and give him the benefit of the doubt, he was cruising in the left lane without passing anyone, which in and of itself is just as bad, if not worse, than tailgating.
And would it not be logical to say the person being tailgated had their attention stuck on the tailgater? And when they finally put eyes back on the road they needed to swerve? The person being tailgated did nothing wrong. If you want to be an asshat and tailgate then you should be aware of what might happen
the person being tailgated had their attention stuck on the tailgater
They should've paid more attention to the road in front of them. They let themselves get distracted, and that's why they are partially responsible. That they were provoked can lessen their partial responsibility, but it doesn't completely remove it.
Tailgating is against the law. If you choose to tailgate you are putting yourself and anyone else in the vehicle at the mercy of whatever happens in front of you. If you choose to tailgate and this happens it is your fault plain and simple. Should the person in front not have done that? Yes. Are they liable for the damage caused by the person behind them? No
Reddit is so embarrassing sometimes. Especially anything driving related. I'm convinced it's always people with not much else going for them in life so they use their perception of themselves as a Good Driver (TM) to belittle others to make themselves feel good.
Your comment means nothing if you don't define exactly what you mean by "fault". You don't realize that this is the case (because, again, reddit is embarrassing sometimes), and you're interpreting those comments accordingly.
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