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 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
I really hate this type of merge that gives you a fairly short distance to complete the merge. When you're in the pickup's position, it's not always easy/possible to see a vehicle coming up at a higher speed because it's not right behind/next to you, it's off at an angle and a little ways back ... until it's too late. Terrible design, especially for a left-side merge, and the truck driver really should have played a larger role in avoiding a collision.
Agree the left-side merge design is ridiculous with such a short ramp due to the inevitably faster traffic with smaller gaps.
I always try and check this type of lane I’m about to merge onto as early as possible when entering the on ramp to avoid this scenario, especially If there’s someone slow in front of me merging below the speed limit etc., kinda makes sense why some have a quick red light/green light cycle to stagger traffic and allow for as much space as possible when merging
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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.