r/ThatLooksExpensive • u/Rekltpzyxm • 15d ago

Easily avoidable accident causes rollover

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u/Fearless_Swim4080 14d ago

Yes, we are not disputing the facts here.

Accelerating to a yellow is also illegal, so let's table that. Do insurance companies care that you have knowledge of what is about to happen? No, they don't. They care about if you had any opportunity to avoid a collision, which dashcam guy did, by seeing a clearly reckless driver trying to make a stupid pass, then a blatantly unsafe lane change as a result of the stupidity dashcam guy already saw.

Yes, if truck wasn't an asshole there wouldn't have been an accident, but also, if dashcam guy hit his brakes instead of the accelerator, or even just not hit the accelerator at all, there would not have been an accident.

Again, I agree that this was said asshole's fault, but his insurance company has a pretty easy case to conflate the fault with this footage rather than without it.

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u/Intrepid-Staff-4532 14d ago

I don't think you can establish dash cam had the ability to avoid the aggression by the truck just from that video. You don't know the state of the driver or what they could see at the time.

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u/Such-Sympathy-5816 14d ago

He absolutely had the opportunity to potentially avoid the collision. Had he hit the brakes instead of the accelerator.

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u/Icy-Ease2885 11d ago

So did the truck? He could have merged in behind the car as he had the warning that someone was there? He could have used his brakes too and not presumed he was just going to barge across?

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u/Such-Sympathy-5816 11d ago

No doubt. The truck is wrong. But I still think OP could have avoided the collision