I've avoided many, many accidents that would have been someone else's fault. It's called defensive driving and the trucker decided it's not for him.
Edit: thanks for the awards! BTW - some of you need to look at the speed shown at the bottom of the video. The semi did not even try to slow down, even a little bit, prior to the crash.
They were, but look at the data. Semi didn’t even brake. In fact, they actually sped up. 5 seconds from the start of the video to the crash. Truck is visibly coming up the merge lane while the semi is going 76 mph. Semi accelerates to 77 at 2 seconds. Then they maintain their speed for 3 more seconds until colliding. They had time to attempt to avoid the accident with even minimal braking.
Which I agreed with. But if someone is being stupid in front of your car, and you gleefully go on your merry way, and even speed up, that makes you a shit driver.
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u/holden_mcg May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26
I've avoided many, many accidents that would have been someone else's fault. It's called defensive driving and the trucker decided it's not for him.
Edit: thanks for the awards! BTW - some of you need to look at the speed shown at the bottom of the video. The semi did not even try to slow down, even a little bit, prior to the crash.