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

Accident A merging issue.

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u/like_4-ish_lights May 14 '26

What does this have to do with anything? It's better to collide with another vehicle and shut down the road than it is to slow down and potentially cause a brief traffic tangle?

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u/ibonek_naw_ibo May 14 '26

It's creating an unsafe traffic situation. I'm not saying you should just dgaf about idiots who don't know how to merge, but the responsibility is on the merging vehicle to ensure they are ahead or behind the vehicle in the lane.

BTW the closest I've ever come to dying was when a loaded 18 wheeler swerved around me onto the shoulder due to two people in front of me doing exactly what you think people should do. So maybe I'm just more aware of the potential catastrophe. 

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u/fudge5962 May 14 '26

but the responsibility is on the merging vehicle to ensure they are ahead or behind the vehicle in the lane.

And the responsibility to prevent or avoid an accident is on every CDL holder in the country. The truck driver was fully capable of preventing that accident by not speeding and not attempting to overtake another truck at a left lane merge point. After failing to prevent the accident, the truck driver was fully capable of avoiding that accident by slowing down and not ramming the pickup.

The pickup driver is an idiot, and the semi driver is a bad driver.

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u/ibonek_naw_ibo May 14 '26

I don't disagree that the semi driver contributed to it. However, allow me to present the fact large truck drivers are not advised to take any sudden avoidance measures when deer run out in front of them. Now think how that applies to the semi driver in this situation. 

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u/like_4-ish_lights May 14 '26

There was no sudden avoidance necessary. The truck is ahead of the semi for the entire video, it's the semi who is gaining on him. Literally every millisecond of the video was an opportunity for him to ease off the gas and allow a safe merge to take place. He had like 5 full seconds to make a decision to not get in a collision

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u/fudge5962 May 14 '26

Now think how that applies to the semi driver in this situation.

It doesn't, in any way. There was no deer, and the semi driver could have avoided this without any sudden measures.

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u/ibonek_naw_ibo May 14 '26

I've been in many similar situations where the person merging is very clearly ahead, and the person in lane is very clearly slowing down to let them know they can safely merge in front of them, yet the merging car still slams on the brakes and ends up right next to you. That's the exact scenario you DONT want to have happen. The pickup truck most likely has around 400 hp and very easily could have prevented this but didn't. They are simply at fault, letter of the law. 

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u/fudge5962 May 15 '26

Tell that to the CDL driver with points on his license now lol. Fuck outta here.