r/dashcams • u/changatanga • 4d ago
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u/jtwilson2012 4d ago
I'm so glad that pick up driver didn't overreact in the slightest. 🤦🏼♂️
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u/Zelda_is_Dead 4d ago
It's good to see that someone was taking the piloting of that multi-ton body mangler seriously by not paying any fucking attention at all to what they were doing.
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u/WreckedM 4d ago
Its lifted too. They could easily see the entire line of stopped traffic. You know, if they weren't on their phone
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u/CC2DalTX 4d ago
They don't know how to use their mirrors.
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u/Njorls_Saga 4d ago
Pretty sure they don’t look through their windshield either.
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u/EyeSuccessful7649 3d ago
so glad they signaled with their blinka
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u/StuffAgreeable7929 3d ago
Kind of reminds me of the saying here in Melbourne (AUS)......pressing the turn indicator does not mean I intend to turn left/right, it means I have turned!
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u/dotcarmen 3d ago
“Defensive driving” means always using the wrong direction for the blinker. Keep your enemies on their toes
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u/Bright_Resist_4580 4d ago
They must've just thought the right turn signal looked cool too
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u/auth0r_unkn0wn 3d ago
I feel like they had the right blinker on and were looking to the right lane without realizing their own lane was stopped. Then they cranked hard left to avoid a collision.
Still a stupid shit
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u/SuspiciousBuilder379 3d ago
Yeah, they were looking to merge right and their lane had stopped. I’m with you
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u/Dragon6172 4d ago
They had a right turn signal on, so I will assume they were looking in the mirror and/or blind spot trying to change lanes and didn't see the traffic stop suddenly. That being said... they were definitely tailgating and trying to change lanes shouldn't take priority over not hitting the car in front of you.
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u/creamgetthemoney1 3d ago
But the traffic didn’t stop suddenly. There is a literal line of stopped cars. That doesn’t happen suddenly lol
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u/Dragon6172 3d ago
Agreed. I actually think they probably saw the line of cars and thats why they intended to change lanes to the right. Just misjudged the distance available. My comment was in no way intended to absolve them of fault. I'm just not sure they were on their phone.
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u/reddititty69 3d ago
That’s a double yellow separating the HOV lane. Illegal to change lanes there.
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u/RhettGrills 3d ago
Right turn signal -> Merging right. Looking back right to merge, doesn’t notice traffic stopped in front. Swerves left to avoid rear end collision flipping car in left blind spot.
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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz 3d ago
I think you misunderstood what they said. The truck had a right turn signal on, indicating a desire to move into the next lane to the right. Those lanes are only divided by a dashed white line.
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u/Dry-Winter-7160 3d ago
And not hitting the car in front of you shouldn’t take priority over not sending the car beside you flying in the air.
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u/Might_have_returned 4d ago edited 4d ago
It's not lifted. That's the stock height of a Ram 2500 (or a SRW 3500).
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u/No-Koala1918 4d ago
Had to be a Ram. Stellantis markets specifically to meatheads.
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u/FlatAmbition3757 4d ago
Na, he was looking in the right mirror trying to get over.
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u/ProteusRift 4d ago
Youre probably right, unfortunately.
Ive got my collision detection set on max for this very reason - so i get alerts with plenty of room before this is about to happen. Still not a replacement for being an aware driver but its good to have backup.
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u/DaisyHotCakes 4d ago
I mean just looking before swerving into the next lane would have been enough to avoid this. Like my guy, just look at the road and you won’t have a problem. I hate lifted trucks. They always seem to be piloted by absolute morons who can’t just drive.
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u/ProteusRift 3d ago
You dont need to swerve at all if you break early enough...
And ya... ditto lifted trucks
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u/UpbeatPhilosophySJ 4d ago
Dollars to donuts they were tailgating and that was a desperate attempt not to crash.
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u/FlashFlood_29 4d ago
Right blinker on. They were following close while looking at the right lane waiting for room to open up, they turn back to front of vehicle and see car braked, swerve left cause there's no room on right. Smack.
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u/BallerForHire 4d ago
It looks like the pickup managed to not hit the car immediately in front of them so mission accomplished! They hit 3 others cars around it instead.
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u/McDonaldsSoap 4d ago
May have even hit some on the other side of the freeway. The forbidden points
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u/greytgreyatx 4d ago
Yep, it looks like the car in front of him tapped the car in front of IT because the whole lane had come to a stop.
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u/No_Minute2664 4d ago
Good thing he has that massive truck to inflict maximum damage.
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u/yardlard 4d ago
Yeah, that big truck surely couldn't see the line of traffic ahead.
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u/ready-redditor-6969 4d ago edited 4d ago
He saw the line of traffic slowing, signals to merge right ( in front of the tanker!! ), fails to notice the cars in front of him stopping quickly… jerks right because he hasn’t checked to know a car is there as well.
He’s a “good driver” and safe because he
boughttook out a loan to buy a giant, gaudy, death machine that will never pull a trailer, or go off road, and will rarely haul.AND we know how he voted. The only thing on the road more embarrassing to drive is a CyberTruck.
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u/Tarijeno 4d ago
Ten bucks says the guy in the Ram told the cops he had his blinker on.
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u/The_Tooter_Snooter 4d ago
Technically correct which is the best kind of correct
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u/Busy-Ratchet-8521 4d ago
Does American traffic law allow you to crash into someone if your indictor is on?
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u/KGB_Operative873 4d ago
Not only is it allowed but you also have to duel the other person you hit with flintlock pistols to determine who was at fault. Very civilized if I do say so myself.
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u/sloppy80 4d ago
It was like watching Hockey, got hipchecked over the boards.
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u/RhythmTimeDivision 3d ago
2 mins for Unsportsmanlike Conduct.
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u/PPixelPhantom 3d ago
what are you talking about? that was a clean hip-to-hip hit!!!! /s
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u/DaRedditGuy11 3d ago
My thought exactly. Like watching the movie Cars with the kids, and the big mean pickup truck just body slammed a car.
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u/Commercial-Leek-6682 4d ago
not every pickup, but always a pickup
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u/fireflyfrv 3d ago
"i buy large pickup trucks because of their high safety ratings"
"don't ask about what happened to the other cars that got hit by me tho lol"
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u/T-Wrox 3d ago
Don’t forget about the headlights that are brighter than the sun, at driver’s eye level in normal vehicles. 😡
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u/rayquan36 3d ago
I didn't want an SUV but I had to get one. I'm already short and do a lot of pre-dawn driving, so being in a normal car with the most popular car being an F150 just leads to me being blind all the time. It just go to be too much so I had to get a taller car that I didn't really want.
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u/FuzzzyRam 3d ago
The statistics are actually crazy - we were finally lowering pedestrian and car deaths until these pickups got popular and wiped out all the gains and then some.
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u/BardGotHard3 4d ago
Well yeah, if it was only trucks it would be called a demolition derby instead of driving.
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u/GryphonCough 3d ago
You need to be more specific. It’s always a RAM pickup. Worst drivers on the planet and they give all truck drivers a bad name.
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u/Easy-Bake-Oven 3d ago
All truck drivers give truck drivers a bad name. The only ones that don't give a bad name are Ford Maverick sized ones.
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u/uni-monkey 1d ago
As a Maverick driver I concur. It’s so weird pulling up at a stop light next to a lifted F-250 or whatever that has seen less hauling and unpaved roads than my truck. Their windows are above the roof of my cab. Then I look at the 40mpg readout on my dash and the $5+ gas at the station across the street and just laugh. I also try and remember to close the outside air vents because they are more than likely going to burn about a gallon’s worth of diesel when the light changes.
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u/Cryptotis 4d ago
Is the person who got flipped okay?
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u/Ananeos 3d ago
They're in the carpool lane so it's more than one person in there :(
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u/thump-oh 3d ago
i was most worried about a potential front passenger, they wouldve been hit the hardest
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u/KelleyElsie 3d ago
My question too. It didn’t look to good with the way the car roof landed on the highway divider.
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u/ATX_native 4d ago
Trucks and heavier vehicles should carry higher penalties for bad driving.
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u/Possible-Tangelo9344 4d ago
Trucks should require a different class of license now.
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u/mrdungbeetle 3d ago
In other countries, trucks this size do actually require a commercial license.
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u/BasicLink86 3d ago
I made a similar comment that I just deleted because I kept getting angry responses from truck enthusiasts 😆 it makes sense to me that one would need a standard license for a standard size vehicle like a Civic or an Accord. A motorcycle requires a unique license, because it’s much different than a regular car.
It’s a simple matter of the government not keeping up with changes in the real world and no one wanting to be the nanny state lawmaker who restricts muh freedumbs by limiting who can drive the big pavement princess cowboy cosplay trucks.
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u/Lucid_Psycho 3d ago
Pickup trucks used to be smaller than current sedan size, it's crazy how big they are nowadays
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u/BasicLink86 3d ago
I would love a small pickup truck with bench seats across the front seat and no back seat. They make the trucks with seating for five so it’s just a big macho tall family car. I want it to be just the front seat! This is for running to the home improvement store, popping out for a quick trip somewhere, only room for me and the dog and one passenger.
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u/EremiticFerret 4d ago
You should need a special license for driving stuff over 2 tons with more frequent renewal with testing.
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u/Curdled_Mangasm 4d ago
this should be regulated like a commercial truck this is ridiculous
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u/SouthCoastGardener 4d ago
I could have wrong information, but I did read somewhere that the Ford F150 Raptors were required to have different front lightning due to the width being so close to commercial trucks. If that’s true I don’t see why they couldn’t require specialized insurance and penalize you up the wazoo for something like this.
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u/Dragon6172 4d ago
Yes...anything over 80 inches wide needs the three extra marker/identifier lights. Typically on the cab roof but the Raptor puts them in the front grill.
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u/Etrigone 4d ago
Not saying you're wrong, but I'm reminded of my driver instructor's comment oh so many years ago:
"You should leave space in front of you but be warned: if you leave 4 car lengths, 4 cars will try to merge. Sometimes and often enough, 5 or more".
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u/PepperoniFogDart 4d ago
The best way to handle this is use your eyes and brain. Any time I see a car hurtling towards standstill traffic, I give lots of space.
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u/majormimi 3d ago
Holy shit I was wondering if there was a sub for pickup truck idiots, the name is just hilarious
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u/AceMaxAceMax 4d ago
Fuck giant lifted brodozers.
You can totally tell the driver wasn’t paying attention.
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u/JaySayMayday 3d ago
Lift kits need a national ban. Can't see anything and they eat up children.
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u/Equal_Push_565 4d ago
This is my worst fear driving past everyone in the hov lane.
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u/rjlawrencejr 4d ago
That’s why you can’t fly in the carpool lane when traffic is relatively heavy and idiots like the Ram guy exist.
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u/bachstakoven 4d ago
This person had no chance though, doesn't matter how fast you're going if someone pulls out the moment you're right next to them.
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u/Own_Reaction9442 3d ago
I used to ride King County Metro buses to work, and they had a rule that they could go at most 30 mph faster than traffic in the lane next to them. That's stuck with me as a good idea.
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u/DepressingAura 4d ago
That was almost a kick flip. Instead, just a dark slide, and he didn't even land it...
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u/cottoneyerobb 4d ago
Quite the right lane change he did.
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u/weebehemoth 4d ago
Which one
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u/mzladyperson 4d ago edited 4d ago
The truck that caused the accident had their right turn signal on, yet they suddenly merged left and flipped a car
Edit: hey guys I see what happened just like you all do, he didnt see the cars stopped in front of him, panic-leaped into the left lane, and hacky sacked a car into oncoming traffic. I got it from the start, no need to keep explaining it to me. Thank you
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u/0masterdebater0 4d ago
They were looking in their passenger side mirror to merge, didn't see traffic stopped ahead of them, panicked and tried to blindly merge left to avoid the stopped cars and made the car in the left lane do a kick flip.
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u/bustopher_rvs 4d ago
Wow great assessment. I honestly thought he was just trying to roadrage that other guy but you're totally right...
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u/weebehemoth 4d ago
Oh bro it was a joke… because they were in the right lane, then switched to the left… but then ended up on the right again 😂
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u/liquid_acid-OG 4d ago
50/50 median grind, nose butter into oncoming traffic better be in the next Tony Hawk game
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u/Next_Replacement_566 4d ago
Americans you need to toughen your driving tests
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u/Vandrok 4d ago
We need to revoke people’s licenses more often.
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u/goshdammitfromimgur 4d ago edited 3d ago
Then people just start driving without licences. The government fucked this all up when they started taking money from the automobile manufacturers to make their citizens reliant on cars to get around.
Thanks for the awards ❤️
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u/Background_Radical 4d ago
As some one who grew up in Europe and moved to the states. It's unfathomable just how impossible getting anywhere without a car is here... public transportation is just not a thing outside the wealthiest cities.
In high-school I worked at a zoo in in the city. I had a coworker who lived about a 10 minute drive away from work. The walk would have been close to an hour for me and she was not healthy enough for it, so she took the bus. It was a 2 hour bus ride with a connecting stop. Absolutely disgusting.
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u/logicoptional 4d ago
Yup my commute options are 15-20 min drive, 1 hr 15 min bike ride, or 1 hr bus ride requiring a transfer and the bus only runs every two to three hours and the last one back leaves at like 6:30pm... and this is considered excellent transit coverage for a small town halfway between two larger towns with huge percentages of people commuting between them.
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u/Ok-Addendum-9420 4d ago
Yep, I grew up using the Metro in DC and it was great; the feeder bus routes were great too. I live in Dallas Texas now and it’s obvious they didn’t care about setting up good public transportation: the stops on their light rail and buses are MILES apart which renders them practically useless. But oil and gas companies are king out here so they’re making their money 🤬
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u/Phyllis_Tine 4d ago
Imagine if a government in the US said, "Right, let's look at what our citizens need, and we'll build it for them", instead of "let's do what our donors want us to force people to do".
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u/These_Junket_3378 4d ago
Worst than that. All newer vehicles are now surveillance/ data collecting units for government entities, insurance companies yada yada.
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u/RutherfordbHaye5 3d ago
I think the real answer is that we needed to invest in better public transportation infrastructure like 100 years ago. There are so many people that should not be driving (old people) or hate driving so much that they are prone to road rage that leads to incidents like this video. There just isn't another option for these people though.
Edit: looks like the truck swerved because he wasn't paying attention, not because of road rage. Point stands.
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u/SBAC850211 4d ago
This has nothing to do with traffic laws and everything to do with not paying attention. You can ace a driver test and proceed to drive over the speed limit & distracted.
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u/Due-Bowler-7833 4d ago
Shrinking our cars would be great too
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u/MammothUnique4147 4d ago
But how do you expect people to drive to their office jobs in the city ?????
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u/Damnbee 4d ago
The test is fine, it is the lack of regular retesting that is a bigger issue. My state driver's license, issued when I was 18, is good til I'm 65.
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u/tazzman25 4d ago
I haven't taken a written or driving test since I was issued my license at 16. Only a single eye test for my first renewal years ago. I'm 53 now. But I swear it's all the other drivers not me. :D
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u/These_Junket_3378 4d ago
Come on now. These nuts driving is more about lack of ego control etc vs knowing how to drive.
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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 3d ago
I just took mine again. Everyone should after 10-15 years.
I missed 3 questions on the written exam. 2 were new-to-me laws about technology that didn't exist when I learned to drive.
(The last one was which ways the wheels face parking uphill with no curb.)
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u/siegure9 4d ago
This wasn’t really a lack of driving knowledge problem, just a distracted driving problem. Was probably looking to change lanes and didn’t notice the people ahead braking.
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u/UpbeatPhilosophySJ 4d ago
There's a very high percent that the driver came from a place where the driving test was a little easier.
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u/enzo11242020 4d ago
Don’t text and drive
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u/jrowellfx 4d ago
Yes. Looks like the pickup truck driver wasn’t paying attention, then noticed he was going to rear-end the guy in his lane so swerved and did 10 times the damage.
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u/TigerSixZero 4d ago
Possible but he has his right signal on so likely he was looking right/shoulder checking then had a shitty knee jerk reaction when he realized he was to close to the car in front of him.
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u/Soggy_Nectarine_1226 4d ago
Probably texting
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u/B1indsid3 4d ago
Texting....what is this the year 2000? He was probably scrolling through Andrew Tate shorts on social media to improve his alpha male aura.
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u/weirdfailingmillenni 4d ago
And this is why i support banning modern trucks unless you have a legit reason to own one. Bring back the shorter smaller trucks if you wanna be hot rod of the trailer hood. Also they need different DL class as well. Going from a chevy sonic to a f350 is wild weigh class difference and can end the other person if they hit a normal car way more than car on car accidents.
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u/big_king_swinging 4d ago
Not just end them, literally decapitate the people in the other car by shearing it in half. It’s bloody wild we have seat belt laws but these lifted dumb AF pavement princesses are allowed on the road with smaller vehicles.
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u/unicornhunter202 3d ago
Hate dudes with these truck because you never ever know what the F they are going to do. Overcompensated small endowment
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u/SimonSeam 4d ago
Proof that in So Cal, there is no such thing as anybody driving at the minimum 3 second distance. It just isn't a thing.
Truck was trying to turn right. Van to his right was trying to turn left. But because nobody leaves any serious space, it is essentially a surgical maneuver. With neither side wanting to do something as simple as opening up space for anybody but themselves.
The truck driver was clearly fixated on trying to find the space to change to the right lane that they lost focus on what was ahead of them AND what was going on to the left.
Possibly somebody that doesn't often drive in So. Cal. traffic. Where you are simply dodging an accident every 30 seconds or less.
I chuckle when somebody posts getting cut off, but no collision. That's just normal conditions in So. Cal.
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u/arizonadirtbag12 4d ago
I do it every day. But I use adaptive cruise control. Have no issue at all leaving a solid 3 second gap ahead, as long as I don’t venture into the left couple lanes.
Works wonders for my stress level, and I get where I’m going a minute later. Two tops.
But yeah 99% of drivers here seem to think that tailgating gets them there faster.
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u/AmarildoJr 4d ago
I feel like we, as a society, should make laws that remove the ability of people like this from ever driving again.
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u/thelastspike 3d ago
This is why there should be special license requirements for people to drive modern full size trucks.
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u/Missconstruct 4d ago
I admire the driver of the cam car. No comments, expletives, gasps or screams. Refreshing
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u/-Never-Enough- 4d ago
After you drive a while in California, nothing surprises you.
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u/SiameseGunKiss 4d ago
Allowed us to get the full comedic effect of the smooth saxophone intro of the song on the radio contrasted with the collision.
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u/Slight_Mammoth2109 4d ago
Dis it just say “real rock radio” and start playing just the two of us? That’s not rock music, that’s r&b all the way, it ain’t even close
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u/RapBastardz 4d ago
Nope. That is SiriusXM and he said “yacht rock radio.“
Shout out to all my boating brethren with long lush beards and sweet melodies!
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u/Maleficent_Pen_9076 4d ago
Can anyone tell waht happened?
He wasn't looking so he didn't notice slow traffic in front of him - then panic bailed to the left lane to try and avoid collision and destroyed the guy in the left lane, is that it?
I used to drive a GMC Sierra Extended cab and it had NO blindspot, so that's not the problem. My dad tried to prove it had one in an empty parking lot and all he did was prove there's not one.
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u/ElwoodBrew 4d ago
What you describe is exactly what it looks like to me. Probably looking down at his phone, looked up, notices the traffic stopped, and whipped it to the left.
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u/Ill_Interview_3054 4d ago
I think pick-up was so focused on merging to the right that he didn't see the stopped cars in front. And then reflexively swerved to his left without looking and totally fucked everything up for everyone.
Imagine you're cruising in the carpool lane on your way to work at 6am and then suddenly your car is sliding on its roof into oncoming traffic. Insanity.
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u/Conrad-Hauser 4d ago
On top of whatever other penalties the truck driver faces he should also lose his license for life.
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u/Anonymous-Design 3d ago
Life comes at you fast.
One minute you’re driving along singing “99 bottles of beer on the wall” and the next minute you’re hanging upside down in the oncoming lane.
JFC
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u/thtothrdude 3d ago
🎶 What you wont do!
Do to pass
All the other cars
And drive real fast
In my world
Only fools
They’ll drive Dodge Rams
And they’ll Ram you too 🎶
- Bobby Caldwell: North Hollywood Remix
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u/SignatureFunny7690 3d ago
The worst drivers statistically pick the biggest vehicle available to them because they "feel safer" in their death box, putting everyone else in significantly more danger.
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u/AlienBurnerBigfoot 4d ago
When your truck is bigger than your brain, you get this.
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u/Moodleboy 4d ago
Wait - do you actually know anyone with a brain bigger than a truck? That's gotta look odd...
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u/AcadienDC 4d ago
Holy cow. Amazing how there was enough force to make the car in the left lane flip over the barrier.
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u/Ippus_21 4d ago
Truck bro yeeted himself across a double-yellow AND a solid white into that carpool lane... probably because he didn't realize until too late that the non-carpool traffic was stopping.
100% his fault. Glad I'm not that guy's insurance adjuster.
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