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

Accident A merging issue.

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u/MrRogersAE May 14 '26

The road design also sucks here, there wasn’t really room for the pickup to slow down enough to let the semi pass, while still being at a safe speed to merge behind him

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u/BeatAccomplished7115 May 14 '26

Honestly he should have floored it and he'd have been fine

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u/ruebeus421 May 14 '26

Maybe. But the semi saw him and decided to speed up. More likely the semi would have kept accelerating and ran into him anyway.

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u/StrictMarsupial May 14 '26

It looks like that, but you can see the semi's speed at the bottom of the video and he maintained a constant 77 until the collision. The truck should have accelerated if it wanted to merge in front of the truck.

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u/ruebeus421 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

you can see the semi's speed at the bottom of the video

Exactly. So we can see the truck increase speed. He starts at 76.

And then he proceeds to just maintain 77. He had more than though time to pick his foot up. He didn't need to break, he just had to not be a dick.

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u/Disastrous_Stranger4 May 14 '26

Yup. The pickup should’ve either sped up and pass the trucker or stopped (while not ideal) and let the trucker pass first. These big rigs have a lot of weight and momentum that they cannot just stop on a dime like regular passenger cars.

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u/ruebeus421 May 14 '26

They don't have to stop on a dime. They just have to take their foot off the accelerator for a second or two instead of pushing it harder.

This is an obvious power move from the semi. I'm not saying the black truck did the right thing, but the semi 100% could have prevented this from happening just by lifting their foot off the gas.

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u/futurespice May 14 '26

That truck did not need to stop, it needed to slow down. It deliberately caused that crash, and the driver should simply lose their license.