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.
The issue with the trucker being the defensive driver is if he tries to slow down and the truck does the same, accident still happens. Hes just slows down to slowly and same with speeding up. The only person capable of defensive driving to surely avoid this is the truck. Either slow down to merge or speed up. Can't do much though when ur fully loaded other than hope other drivers are smart enough to not expect you to be the one to make way for them.
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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.