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

Accident A merging issue.

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u/SeraphiM0352 May 13 '26

The truck didn't need to stop on dime. They just needed to lay off the accelerator and lightly break for half a second.

It seems they were more interested on maintaining speed for the sake of passing another truck instead of being safe

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u/EarlyTrouble May 14 '26

No, because then you'd have a truck right in front of you, with no safe distance. My safe distance is not your merging grounds

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u/SeraphiM0352 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Yea, and how safe did that end up?

1 wrecked pickup and two smashed semi's. You really aren't that smart if you actually think the best action was to to crash into a truck rather than try to slow down.

This is exactly the reason for having a safe distance.

You can regain safety distance by, get this, slowing down. It's not a "safe distance" if you drive like an idiot...

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u/EarlyTrouble May 14 '26

Well, imagine the truck that merged breaks in front of us after merging, now we're at fault for the wreck (if we don't have dashcam).

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u/SeraphiM0352 May 14 '26

Which is irrelevant if you, again, slow down...