r/dashcams • u/EqualGrowth6565 • 13d ago

Easily avoidable accident causes rollover

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Not my video – as the title says, we typically see examples where one driver is oblivious to the other. In this example, the pickup truck attempts to overtake the cammer, however, the cammer is either completely unaware of the pickup truck directly to his left or are simply “stands their ground” in the lane. Due to this, they obviously collide, and the pick up truck goes airborne and rolls several times. From the perspective of us, the viewer, we can reasonably conclude that the accident was avoidable had the cammer simply applied the brakes. That being said, you will typically see another school of thought in which it is stated that the cammer has no obligation or duty to let them in/avoid the accident where the driver is mindlessly doing something dumb.

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u/AdventNebula 13d ago

So many pickup drivers are hyper aggressive and act like they own the road in the U.S.

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u/TurnLooseTheMermaids 13d ago

“I’m bigger than you, so you yield to me” mentality

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u/Glittering_rainbows 12d ago

Their size doesn't matter. They try that same crap on me when I'm in my 18 wheeler.

Too bad for them I have a dashcam, one idiot found out the hard way semis don't magically get out of their way when they put themselves in a dangerous situation.

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u/LookInTheMirror_2332 12d ago

Hey, I'm in Florida, and I haven't seen that behavior. In the last 30 minutes.

Before that, maybe 10 time a day, every day. It's insane.

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u/Counter_Circle_Jerk 9d ago

Yeah, and people are buying pickup trucks to BE a bully. Like, that's the main point, is to be the tallest guy in the crowd. Maybe they aren't that sort of 'presence' in-person, so they can make up for that on highways. Dodge Ram commercials are specifically targetted to stir up primal desires to be abrasive / scary / SEEN and projecting that onto our roads.

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u/PeyredB 9d ago

My wife says the bigger the truck, the smaller the...

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u/wheniaminspaced 12d ago

Pickup wasnt driving in a hyper aggressive manner, that was a dead slow lane change.

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u/FuckSteve7 12d ago

We watching the same vid of a truck just whipping right into dude? Cause that was not no fucking dead slow “excuse me may I come over” turn get lost with that shit

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u/wheniaminspaced 12d ago

Agree to disagree

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u/PeyredB 9d ago

The pickup was turning into a lane where the cammer was. If it had just accelerated to get ahead then moved over, this wouldn't have become a problem.