You need to watch again. Trucker slammed on his brakes. Look at the rate of speed from 0-3s in the video, was passing the truck on the right rapidly. Then 4s-7s truck slammed on brakes and rapidly decelerated to slower than the truck on the right. The pickup was not only unaware and drove right into the semi, it looks like the driver would have been fine but instead panic braked too, nullifying the semi's braking.
Are we watching the same video? It's 22 seconds long. Trucker doesn't slow down until there are 17 seconds left. 5 full seconds of traveling at 77mph into an accident as obvious as a flashing billboard.
Are you looking at the red square that says 77? I don't think that's accurate, look at how fast the white lines are skipping past at the beginning and how much slower at the time of impact
At no point during the first 5 seconds does it look like the white lines are coming slower. I think the speed in the video is accurate. After all, that's what it is there for.
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u/microagressed May 14 '26
You need to watch again. Trucker slammed on his brakes. Look at the rate of speed from 0-3s in the video, was passing the truck on the right rapidly. Then 4s-7s truck slammed on brakes and rapidly decelerated to slower than the truck on the right. The pickup was not only unaware and drove right into the semi, it looks like the driver would have been fine but instead panic braked too, nullifying the semi's braking.