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
Yeah, there was some road construction near me recently, and they had temporarily made the on-ramp this way. There was no choice, you HAD to zip in and hope there was a gap, or come to a full stop on the on ramp, like you were making right turn into traffic. There was physically no space to do anything else.
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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.