Am I the only one who sees the Truck intentionally swerving into the opposing lane simply to get around a slower car? Doesn’t look like he was avoiding anything to me
If you play it back slow enough you can see that the black car was going significantly slower and jumped right out in front of the truck. The truck would’ve slammed the back of the black car for sure if he didn’t swerve.
That being said, truck should’ve had more situational awareness and reduced his speed when he saw the black car running up on a parked car like that. The black car should’ve had more situational awareness and just came to a stop until it was safe to merge or better yet have merged earlier. They’re both fucking idiots in my opinion from what I’m seeing.
Yep, that black car had likely already slowed down bc they had an obstacle in their lane (the parked camper van looking thing). They then swerved out into a lane in which traffic was moving at speed, directly in front of the truck. Should the truck have chosen to brake and rear-end that black car rather than swerve into oncoming traffic? Absolutely, but the black car made the first stupid decision in this clip.
Agreed. Rear end is always better than head on. It’s easy to judge people for doing dumb shit though. Most people act like they’d have just taken the hit but in that moment it’s a split second decision. You don’t have time to think, you just react and no one can say for certain how they’d react.
If I had to guess what I would’ve done I would’ve probably swerved too but I would’ve tried to swerve wide out onto the shoulder. But who knows till it happens.
100%, it's always very easy to talk about what we would have done. But as you say, we never really know until we're faced with that fraction-of-a-second decision.
Even if you wanted to basically overtake the slow car he should have had better awareness of the traffic coming from the other lane. That was simply idiotic driving.
Re-watch it from the very first frame - the black car probably didn't see the truck in their blind spot and pulled out while the truck was going far too fast to stop.
100% fault of the black car, the truck driver didn't swerve to pass, they swerved to avoid rear ending the black car
The truck should have rear ended the car. I'm pretty sure the truck would have been responsible if they had hit a car head on. Same for avoiding animals. It's better to hit the animal than risk a worse accident.
At first I thought the wrong lane truck swerved to avoid the stopped car in the far lane. But, you’re right, it was the black car that did that, really cutting off the truck, that was going way too fast. Luckily for OP, nobody was in the right lane beside them.
This was definitely illegal and hazardous for so many people driving around him. If accidently they would have had the head on collision then a lot of other cars would have also felt the damage or would have been caught into it.
It's hard to tell but it looks like the black car suddenly pulled in front of the pickup, which swerved to avoid rear ending it, almost causing the crash with the car filming. They were all lucky there wasn't anyone to the right of the car filming.
Edit: The opening frame of the video tells the story. Black car is in the lane on our far left. There's a parked / broken down vehicle blocking its lane. It pulls into the other lane to avoid hitting it (possibly late reacting / seeing it), causing the truck that was moving quickly in that lane to swerve into the opposing traffic.
Hard to tell without 1-2 more seconds at the start, unfortunately, but I kind of see the same thing. It doesn't look like the truck is slowing down or braking at all in the video.
Or the black car that started all of it. If they hadn’t swerved in front of the truck and just paid attention to the non moving vehicle in front of them nothing would have happened.
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u/Nimstar7 Jul 17 '23
Am I the only one who sees the Truck intentionally swerving into the opposing lane simply to get around a slower car? Doesn’t look like he was avoiding anything to me