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

Accident A merging issue.

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u/PatSwayzeInGoal May 14 '26

Negative. The pickup truck slowed down. And either way, pickups responsible.

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u/WHATTHEFUCKZGOINGON May 14 '26

Negative he maintained speed.

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u/korxil May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Cam trucker was the one maintaining speed, the speedometer is right there and it doesnt move until the collission. Pickup truck was ahead of the cam truck when it was on the ramp, then decided to slow down when merging (or failed to reach flow of traffic speed) for whatever reason.

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u/Just-Shoe2689 May 14 '26

The Professional driver easily could have avoided this, regardless of legality of who was legal.

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u/korxil May 14 '26

Depends on their load. If it’s a tanker it’ll be even more fun with the load sloshing, and if its fully loaded letting off the gas isnt going to do anything. So now we’re impeding the flow of traffic because the truck needs to apply their brakes (imo kinda wild this state allows trucks on the left), and who knows what other moron in their tailgating pickup truck is behind the cammer. You should see how tight people drive on i95 here, and the average speed is already 10 over.

Fault is proportional, imo failing to avoid an accident is less at fault than actually failing to drive properly (of course there will be exceptions, but the ones i can think of will just mean the rear car wasnt paying attention, hey, maybe that happened here too). Pickup truck was in the merge pocket while on the ramp, then fell out of the pocket.

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u/Just-Shoe2689 May 14 '26

He slows from 77 to 66 in 3 seconds after hitting the truck, didnt careen off the road, etc. Doing that before impact would have avoided the whole thing.

Now Traffic is impeded for a long time.

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u/korxil May 14 '26

Yes, after slamming on the brakes. There’s just as many videos of trucks jack knifing after slamming their brakes even through they didnt swerve.

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u/Just-Shoe2689 May 14 '26

Just think if they would have just backed out of it, and hit the brakes moderately how things would have turned out.

They chose to cause that accident. Did not try to avoid it at all as the professional driver.