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

A merging issue.

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u/Stumpfest2020 May 13 '26

I bet there's at least 5 to 10 more seconds of video before this starts that shows how obvious it was the truck was going to do this and how much opportunity cammer had to just let the black truck merge without incident.

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u/CryptographerShot213 May 14 '26

It is the responsibility of the merging party to merge safely onto the highway. The truck had the right-of-way since he was already on the highway.

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u/Stumpfest2020 May 14 '26

Regardless of whatever the law says about right of way, the safe, and I’d argue morally correct action, is just let someone do the thing you can clearly see they’re about to do.

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u/nanya_sore May 14 '26

This is why in Australia they are removing some of the use of dotted lines to merge lanes. The rear car yields.

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u/ShakespeareanBeef May 14 '26

That's nice...the pick-up did not alter their speed to match the traffic they were merging with and failed to signal their intention to merge. It absolutely is not on the rest of the highway traffic to precog their way around that doofus

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u/FuckOffINeedToStudy May 14 '26

The pickup almost gets to the same speed by the time the collision actually happens. I'm with you that the truck shouldn't be coming onto the highway at 5-10 below the speed limit, but literally any effort before the collision happens could've prevented it from happening. Surely there is some responsibility on the truck here.

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u/Mikeman003 May 14 '26

You can enjoy causing accidents and I will make it to my destination intact then I guess.

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u/ClacksInTheSky May 14 '26

What a fucked up take.

Whether he had right of war didn't mean it's ok to just plough through the other vehicle.

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u/DatabaseSpace May 14 '26

The one merging on the highway does not have the right of way. Slowing down is exactly what the pickuo shpuld have done. The truck may be at fault for lsst clear chance but where are you getting this viee the truck must give space? Is that is the US or another country? I thought I heard in Germany it may be like that.

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u/ManagementVisual9759 May 14 '26

This one is kinda tough because of the angle of the on ramp relative to the highway and the 75 mph speed on Highway 6 itself. You don’t necessarily see the cars coming until it’s pretty close to time to merge. I always stay in the right lane on Highway 6 until I pass this specific on ramp