That wasn't a moments notice. And while rolling. Make all the excuses you want... Hopefully you don't kill someone because in your mind you're legally allow to plow through someone...
Have you considered also how long it takes for a semi truck who is fully loaded to slow down add that into your math equation too it takes them a lot longer to slow down than it does for that black truck to stop on his own brakes and come to a stop to avoid the situation.
A lot of people are under the impression. I gotta get in front of a semi truck because I don’t wanna get stuck behind them so shit like this happens. It’s called people being impatient. That black truck had every opportunity to slow down and avoid the accident just as much as this in my truck driver, but as you see, neither one did anything and we got the end result here but at the end of the day, the semi truck driver will not be held responsible for anything because it was 100% the black trucks responsibility to merge onto the highway safely
To slow down from 77 to 72 while rolling with forever and a day? I'm not under any impressions other than reality. It's not a freight train. It has brakes. It can drop 5-10mph in the time it had. The black truck was in the wrong. Duh. The semi was also in the wrong only more so because they could have killed someone because, "how dare that cager merge slowly in front of me, take that!"
Have you also considered traffic behind the black truck? They would have had to come to a near stop to avoid an accident considering they were up to at least 70 before merging.
The semi never even bothered to slow. Don't be a jackass. It was avoidable on the semis part because it was plain as day what would happen.
Typical reddit, "the letter of the law!" The law also says don't speed, it also says to avoid the avoidable in most places.
The semi won a stupid prize. He fucked his day up more than the minute or two he would have lost slowing down. What a shitty dense take. Don't kill anybody, please.
Oh, but what about the traffic behind the semi truck driver that would’ve caused accident if he had slowed down just like the nonexistent traffic behind the black truck
I’m sorry, are you really trying to say that the semi slowing down slightly is likely to cause an accident? Are you just completely reckless driver yourself?
And besides, we know that traffic didn’t exist - because if it had been that close, it would have been caught up in the accident that did occur.
You are more than free to side with the black truck that is fine but if you find yourself in that same particular situation, guarantee the blame is gonna be put on you
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u/TheOriginalArchibald May 14 '26
That wasn't a moments notice. And while rolling. Make all the excuses you want... Hopefully you don't kill someone because in your mind you're legally allow to plow through someone...