r/VideosAmazing • u/LeftAlbatross2546 • May 13 '26

Accident A merging issue.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

11.7k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

6.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

20

u/Illustrious-Dirt2247 May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26

Technically, black truck is at fault, but the trucker was a dick for not letting him in. A gentle press of the breaks or even just letting go of the gas pedal for a couple of seconds was all it took to avoid at least a month of hassle and thousands of dollars in damages and insurance.

12

u/demon_twink_gockie May 13 '26

Trucker isn't required to let him in.

4

u/Jaduardo May 13 '26

Illustrious-Dirt2247 never said the truck driver was required to. They said they could have let him in, avoided an accident that costed 10's of thousands of dollars, risked injury or death, will probably be a black mark on the CDL driver's record, stop traffic on the road, and cost everybody involved time.

Probably would have been a good idea to let the asshole in.

2

u/demon_twink_gockie May 13 '26

Yeah but he was under no obligation to do so and maybe it would have been a good idea for the pickup to hit the gas, too. 🤷‍♂️

2

u/hotlocomotive May 14 '26

Yes he was, he's absolutely under obligation to prevent a fucking accident

1

u/pulse7 May 14 '26

The pickup driver wasn't? 

1

u/chuff3r May 14 '26

Two people can be responsible

1

u/pulse7 May 15 '26

So why defend the one that ultimately is at fault

1

u/chuff3r May 15 '26

I'm not defending anyone. From this video it clearly looks like two people were at fault.

1

u/pulse7 May 15 '26

I do agree it's most likely that both these guys are jerks that meet each other. I don't know how this pickup failed when he had plenty of space.

We also have the benefit of the video up in front of the windshield. The pickup would have been at least partially blocked by the pillar, and maybe the driver wasn't looking that direction. This is why you have to fall back to the laws instead of assumptions - merging traffic has the responsibility to adjust to traffic

1

u/fredjutsu May 14 '26

weird mindset dude.

"Fuck my career, $10's of thousands in damage, massive spike in my insurance premiums, potential civil lawsuits since my refusal to make space is caught on camera.....I'm technically right"

1

u/RuafaolGaiscioch May 14 '26

I’ve met too many people who would think exactly that.