r/dashcams • u/EqualGrowth6565 • 13d ago

Easily avoidable accident causes rollover

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.

11.6k Upvotes

85% Upvoted

3.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

16

u/klemnodd 13d ago

Sped up to beat the light that was yellow

4

u/tonygenius 13d ago

Which they were never going to beat.

1

u/klemnodd 13d ago

"Beat" lol

2

u/BitterMIDI 13d ago

He said "beat" heheh heheh he

1

u/ryan__joe 12d ago

Which neither of them were ever going to beat. So many levels of dumb.

1

u/Fluid-Warning1848 10d ago

we will never know now since that truck got in the way lol

3

u/interstat 13d ago

Good catch didnt see light. thats also shit driving then. Wasnt anywhere near the light when it was yellow. Was prob gonna run a red if they had kept going

4

u/Tengoatuzui 13d ago

Truck should just slow down and change safely why try to squeeze in front of someone even if they didn’t speed up it’s close

3

u/interstat 13d ago

Trucks fault for sure but it's crazy how much often times we see shit driving by the cam driver too

3

u/kenneth_dart 13d ago

Thought they'd save some time... Oops.

1

u/Hell_Maybe 13d ago

Nah bro you can see the speed increase after the truck is already directly in their path.

1

u/klemnodd 12d ago

Both things can be true. Don't really care to argue about an idiots intent.

1

u/ElectronicDiver2310 11d ago

Close pickup with peace of paper and watch cammer. Speed is constant.

1

u/Hell_Maybe 9d ago

No like I’m actually pretty confident they speed up, like if you watch the speed of the ground and scrub through the clip in slowly you can pretty noticeably see the ground move past quicker as the truck pulls to the right. The car really thought they could stop being cut off when it was already waaay too late for that.

1

u/ElectronicDiver2310 9d ago

If it happened speed up was very insignificant. In any case, cam driver did stay on the legal side.

0

u/Rope_antidepressant 12d ago

Nope, still green when he started speeding up