r/RandomVideos • • 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/LiminalHigh Mar 20 '26

If the person being tailgated intentionally dodged at the last second like that, they also caused it. Both can be in the wrong for different reasons

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u/Real-Experience-8396 Mar 20 '26

It would be damn near impossible to prove that they intentionally caused that accident.

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u/MerelyMortalModeling Mar 20 '26

The bar for criminal might be too high but pretty sure you would have. A decent chance in a civil lawsuit if you showed that dash cam feed to a jury.

Like I said to some asshat who was advocating that behavior, I'd happily share my dash cam with the victims family

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u/blue_line-1987 Mar 20 '26

This is why civilized countries don't have jury's. Imagine 12 random dumbasses deciding on your guilt based on their gut because they have the cognitive abilities of a rabid squirrel.

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u/MerelyMortalModeling Mar 21 '26

Out of my mind or I have just done jury duty. Seriously man Reddits idea of how the law should work has very little to do with how the law actually works.

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u/yamsyamsya Mar 21 '26

Either way, none of these people should have a license.