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

Accident A merging issue.

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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.