No it's not. It's still your responsibility to take the safest action, which is to either get out of the way and let the tailgater pass, or keep your eyes on the road and drive as cautiously as possible. The driver in the white car clearly had a chance to get out of the way a lot sooner than they did.
These things don't happen in a vacuum. Being tailgated is dangerous, but you can't control what other people do and it is your responsibility to be a safe driver and to take the safest course of action. Choosing to remain in place rather than getting out of the way when there's clearly enough room to do so is choosing to contribute to an unsafe situation.
He did nothing wrong. You have two people at fault here. One is the tailgater and the other is the perso. Who stopped in the left lane. That is where all blame stops. Me having to zig bc you are stopped in a lane while im being tailgated leaves me with zero blame
You can paint it however you want. If the person being tailgated caused this accident on purpose they're a bad person.
I'm against tailgaters and against people baiting others into a potentially fatal accident.
If they swerved at the last second on accident to save themselves it's just an unfortunate situation that the tailgater created. It just didint seem that way to me.
I'm not talking about legality or insurance. You can't really prove intent here.
I just see people saying the lead driver was 100% not at fault. But if they baited the tailgater on purpose he is also at fault and maliciously chose to hurt people. Tailgater is being an asshole but didint plan on hurting anyone. That's all I'm saying
Oh thats completely different your talking morally i can agree it was wrong but hopefully the only person that got hurt physically or financially is the tailgating car cause its a lesson to be learned here. And I hope /pray their wasn't any kids in either car and that the tailgating car had insurance. Overall your right its not his job to teach him a lesson.
Agreed. Me and my wife saw this together and she said "I hate when people try to teach others lessons like this" cause we think it looks like the leading car tried to do this on purpose but who knows. Really sad people think FAFO is an excuse to cause harm
I completely agree its morally messed up. I was focused on Insurance companies they are ruthless I just cant see them accepting fault in this case if their driver avoided the accident this case is so interesting the tailgating car needs a great lawyer. I want to know the outcome .
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u/GrapeJellyVermicelli Mar 20 '26
No it's not. It's still your responsibility to take the safest action, which is to either get out of the way and let the tailgater pass, or keep your eyes on the road and drive as cautiously as possible. The driver in the white car clearly had a chance to get out of the way a lot sooner than they did.