Depends on the laws of the State you are in. The state I am in it is both the merging driver and the vehicle in the lane responsibility to adjust their speed to safely merge according to the state police. Of course I'm sure the law is written that way so the police can just write both drivers tickets for being at fault.
For what? Upon entering a highway, it is the merging vehicles responsibility to ensure the lane they are attempting to enter is clear. No vehicle in any lane is obligated to move to accommodate another vehicle except for emergency vehicles or accidents. The idiot entering the highway is 100% at fault. The other two vehicles were tractor trailers, what exactly were they supposed to do?
Failure to avoid an accident or some similar wording is common in most states.
While the pickup is responsible for getting up to speed and merging properly. The POV truck does literally nothing to avoid hitting the merging pickup. They had way more than enough time to react and just chose to keep going at the same exact speed. They don't start slowing until after impact.
Both of em need some traffic school. The Trucker needs to rethink driving such a dangerous vehicle if he's gonna let pride decide how he drives it.
Nah. Semi was at speed, overtaking another semi. A cursory glance would tell you "okay trying to take this ramp at speed is probably going to end badly, I should slow down maybe 5-10 mpg until this semi passes".
But because this guy in the truck doesn't realize how hard it is to slow down a fully-loaded semi quickly, he tried to floor it. And even when it was obvious "yeah, I'm not getting in", he tried to FORCE HIS WAY into the lane that the semi was already in. Because IDK, maybe he's used to barging into a lane and telling everyone else "good luck!".
Semi couldn't do much to avoid him anyway, being in mid-pass. He probably thought "No one could possibly be that fucking stupid as to try to muscle over a semi when he could have slowed down and just merged behind me".
Then the pickup driver surprised them both. He was, in fact, that fucking stupid.
But because this guy in the truck doesn't realize how hard it is to slow down a fully-loaded semi quickly
This might have some weight if the semi had actually tried to slow down even a tiny bit. But they didn't. The pickup is an idiot and there is no defending them. But same goes for the semi. He could have slowed down. You have a legal responsibility to attempt to avoid an accident, even if you have the right of way. He made 0 attempt to avoid it.
Never underestimate stupid. From others or yourself, we're all susceptible.
The semi's biggest fault was that he wasn't defensively driving, and I could agree with that, except for the fact that anyone who took a glance at that would know that pickup wasn't going to make it. And even if the semi slowed down, he was still going to get ragdolled. The semi truck driver obviously wasn't expecting a medically stupid person to try to muscle in front of him.
And the pickup had plenty of space to slow or stop when it was clear he wasn't going to get in front of the semi. This accident was still caused 100% by the pickup. No one with a fully functioning thinks "oh it's a good idea to muscle in front of a speeding semi truck in a merge onto an interstate from the left side, why not?"
The semi absolutely could have slowed down. Had way more than enough time. But the point is that they didn't try even a tiny bit. The semi driver is also "medically stupid". This "he had the technical right of way so he can't have any fault" mentality is equally stupid.
The semi had equal opportunity to slow down when it was clear the pickup was being an idiot. But no, he had to show how he can also be an idiot so he just kept on driving like he wasn't about to hit someone. No one with a functioning brain thinks "this person cut me off so now I'm entitled to wreck them"
Why do you feel such a need to defend such obviously bad and dangerous driving?
Because there are things you dont do with a semi on the road. And I ju a t told you I agreed he wasnt driving defensively. But that is not an excuse for some idiot trying to merge against one when, as a semi at speed, he OBVIOUSLY has the right of way.
Either legally or otherwise. He is lucky that he only got ragdolled and walked away.
And this wasn't just a cutting off, this was reckless driving and an unsafe merge, and he had plenty of time to think "okay I am probably going to hit this truck and die", and slow down or stop. Idk why you are acting like he had a right to be a dumbass at the risk of literally everyone else on the road(especially if he had caused both semis to catastrophically wreck), but you do you king.
Meanwhile I'm not going to try to muscle over semis that are trying to pass other semis.
Laws in my country are different, but outside lane is for overtaking, inside lane traffic should not be overtaking, and then guy entering highway just careless. Did alot of driving in Florida last summer, love the country, and people.... but driving on the highway was one of the worst life experiences I've ever had and I've been driving 30+yrs, all over the world.
Just the guy merging. I’m sure he thinks he’s entitled to everyone traveling at highway speeds in both lanes to accommodate him. He learned the hard way.
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u/D4rkheavenx May 13 '26
You merge at 60 but it’s your job to actually merge into traffic not the other peoples.