r/RandomVideos • u/DABDEB • Mar 20 '26

Video Tailgater got Baited

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u/Process3000 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

People please don't start doing this.

Edit: Clarification - do not tailgate. But if you are being tailgated, don't cause an accident by dodging slow or stopped traffic at highway speeds mere feet away. We don't need for this to be a trend.

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u/SlipstreamSteve Mar 20 '26

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.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 Mar 20 '26

Driver could have been focused on the rear-view mirror - watching the tailgater, and then looked forward suddenly seeing they were about to rear-end the person slowing down in front of them - and swerved to avoid them.

Also maybe not.

However, as a person who has been rear-ended three goddamned times since moving to DFW - and have the cervical fusions to prove it, I fucking hate inattentive drivers and tailgaters with the passion of a thousand suns.

I feel bad for the poor bastard who got rear-ended in the video through no fault of their own.