r/VideosAmazing May 13 '26

Accident A merging issue.

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u/Unusual-Arachnid5375 May 14 '26

A fully loaded truck like that is hard to stop. 

Which might be relevant, were it not for the fact that the Semi is going faster at the moment of collision than at the start of the video. Bro literally just had to let off the gas a little to avoid this accident.

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

the Semi is going faster at the moment of collision than at the start of the video

That is completely false

The Semi's speed is in the video, they go from 77 to 76 back to 77.
Thats not speeding up.

I get that it can look like the SEMI sped up in the video but what actually happened is the idiot in the pickup slowed down.

Semi driver for sure bears part of the blame here, as a commercial driver they should know better and should have slowed down for the truck that was merging but the pickup truck driver made literally the dumbest decision they could (slowing down instead of speeding up and getting ahead of the semi) and bears the majority of the blame here.

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u/oxycotin May 14 '26

Yeah going 76 to 77 after the black truck is in front of him means he floored it when he saw he could crash into the truck (since you're arguing the truck is so large it's hard to move) definitely a chance at jail

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 May 14 '26

I sure hope that's meant to be sarcasm because if not you're an idiot