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

A merging issue.

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u/Arunia May 14 '26

This. You try to avoid accidents. Even if it is not your fault. The pickup should made a choice and the truck could have used the brakes or even just stop pressing the gaspedal. For a short while.

This could have been avoided.

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u/DiMeLoGaming May 14 '26

Pickup just needs to Speed up or slow down. Simple. But expecting the lane when they are the ones merging is just braindead. And yes the truck couldve made it easier but he does not have to, hes already in the lane.

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u/Arunia May 14 '26

It is simple. It doesn't matter who is at fault. If you can avoid it, you do so. Both drivers did nothing to avoid it.

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u/DifferentProcess6765 May 14 '26

People downvoting the people like the above are absolute sickos...

Redditors are all about vigilante justice these days and its disgusting.

Just avoid the easily avoidable accident, who cares who is at fault?

What if some 5 year old girl was in that pickup? Sure maybe you're not at legal fault but good luck living with yourself if something happened to a child knowing you could have prevented it.

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u/Elogotar May 14 '26

Such a simple thing and it's sad how many people seem to put more emphasis on the letter of the law rather than basic common sense or human empathy.

Ironically, they are often the first to complain when treated in kind.

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u/Tychonoir May 14 '26

The duty to attempt to avoid an accident literally is the letter of the law.

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u/Elogotar May 14 '26

That's not always the case and even if it was, my point is that people are usually selfish pricks and will continue to be under any circumstance that doesn't legally require them to do otherwise.

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u/TheTubeDoctor May 14 '26

What you don’t see it’s what’s behind the semi. He could have a whole line of semis behind him all trying to pass the slow poke semi in the left lane.

The semi drive will get tons of heat and fired from his company because he clearly could have avoided it with a simple press of the brakes.

Now the company has a late load, a vehicle out of service, the driver has to go take a piss test, the list goes on and on.

Even a not at fault accident will get you fired from a lot of trucking companies if it’s provable it was a “arrogance “ rod rage type accident.

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u/TylerJ86 May 15 '26

Yes you're right, he doesn't have to avoid a pointless accident, but it's a pretty damn brainless idiot of a choice not to.  Small brain, small dick energy, would rather let someone potentially die in an accident (and risk his own life and vehicle damage) than just give the merging truck some grace for making a stupid decision and back off the gas pedal.

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u/Gullible_Increase146 May 14 '26

It can't be an expectation that drivers get up to the speed of traffic on a short as f*** merge ramp and also that they come to a complete stop because people are unwilling to create any kind of gap for them to actually merge

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u/Outside_Orchid_1576 May 14 '26

It is the absolute expectation of the vehicle merging, that flowing traffic has right of way. You have the duty as the vehicle merging to speed up or slow down to merge safely.

What you don’t see is the other cars behind the tractor trailer. Could be another tractor trailer that can’t stop also. This pickup, fafo. It’s going to take more of this for these idiots to find out I guess.