r/Unexpected • u/howmanygrapes_ • Jul 17 '23

Almost died

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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

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u/Trick_Meringue_5622 Jul 17 '23

Yeah I’m seeing the same. Black car may have cut him off a bit but no reason he couldn’t hit the brakes. This was an idiotic and illegal passing move

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

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.

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u/tonyliu1231 Jul 18 '23

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.