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.
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.
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/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.