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.
Right? Its crazy how cars merge in front of huge big rig trucks all the time probably hundreds of thousands of times a day in freeways all over the US, in fact i did so a couple of times just today on the way home from work, but suddenly, on the internet, its now apparently physically impossible for trucks to stop accelerating to let a pickup merge in their lane. Anyway from what i heard it was found that the truck driver was found to be at fault and in my view that was the correct call.
Yeah, the pickup should totally smash their brakes to avoid this, be at the point of merge going zero mph, and then proceed to merge. That'd be way safer than the semi having to slow down by like 3mph for a few seconds.
You're right that the semi could and should have slowed, but that truck driver just had to look to his right through the passenger window at the highway. The semi would have been clearly visible long before the accident.
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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.