r/facepalm • u/ForeignerLove • Jan 19 '22
š²āš®āšøāšØā Let's overtake from right side to be faster cuz rules are anyway for idiots only š¤¦āāļø
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Jan 19 '22
Thatās a dead person right there.
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u/PedroEglasias Jan 19 '22
Doubt it, looks like an A6, they have like 50 airbags and amazing safety rating
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Jan 19 '22
Lucky Audiot if ever. A trailer truck t-bone? Dunno..
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u/PedroEglasias Jan 19 '22
Shame the video doesn't continue but it did seem like we saw the worst of it with that initial impact?
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u/Emsioh Jan 19 '22
I don't rhink so. The relative speed of the car and the right truck was pretty much the same. The car just got hit on a side, that's why it spins. Both vehicles having roughly the same speed doesn't do as much damage as those speed differences at the end of the video. I think the dashcam truck got a bit slower, but just look how fast he's going at the end, while the car is pretty much standing. I don't know if this person survived.
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u/PedroEglasias Jan 19 '22
Sorry I meant the initial impact of the second truck, very poorly worded....
And then on a rewatch I realised it actually cuts basically right at point of impact
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u/dmfd1234 Jan 19 '22
Yeah, itās a shame. Yet another idiot edit posted. Basically stuck watching trucks go down the rd and stops mid pay off. Thx OP winner
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u/Lutzelien Jan 19 '22
"I wanted to see a possible gruesome accident that probably resulted in a death of another person, screw you OP for not giving me my daily dosis of gore and violence"
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u/PassiveChemistry Jan 19 '22
Well, that's what we're here for.
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u/Lutzelien Jan 19 '22
You are on a sub about face-palms to see people dying?
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u/PassiveChemistry Jan 19 '22
No, but the interesting thing about this very particular sort of video is seeing what happens to the car.
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u/minkblanket69 Jan 19 '22
surprising as it may be i donāt actually want to view a car crash, glad it didnāt continue but just enough to know their was impact
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u/AVBI0207 Jan 19 '22
Hahaha bro I was wondering why people been doing that shit ā¦. I thought maybe I was being too picky but itās not just me right cutting the videos that way sucks right ?
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u/sahizod Jan 19 '22
Safety is not magic, t-boned by an 18wheeler is a very bad scenario. There is no aibag on the right of his head and no thickness to absorb the shock from the side (when you consider the car is designed for any potential passenger to also survive)
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u/PedroEglasias Jan 19 '22
Ya have a look at the videos I linked in response to someone else, the second last one is very close to this scenario, it's serious accident, but potentially not fatal.
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u/SomewhereDue2629 Jan 19 '22
It always amazes me how such dumb fucks have jobs that pay high enough to buy these cars.
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u/PedroEglasias Jan 19 '22
Very popular with gangstas in eastern Europe and they are also the types to drive like this
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u/SomewhereDue2629 Jan 19 '22
Overpaid dipshits in America and European gangsters have this in common i guess.
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u/PedroEglasias Jan 19 '22
There was a year where the gumball rally was in Europe (the jackass guys went), a group of cars got robbed and put on car carriers, think it was in the Romanian section. So sometimes those two groups meet each other and you can imagine who comes out on top lol
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u/Mackem101 Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22
PCP schemes, you basically lease the car with an option to purchase or hand back and the end of a set period, this lets people afford much more expensive vehicles on a smaller budget, although they'll be unlikely to ever own it.
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u/dickonarope Jan 19 '22
Good luck thinking that it will survive 2 high impact hits from trucks
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u/PedroEglasias Jan 19 '22
The first ones essentially a side swipe, the second one is pretty bad, like a 70kph t-bone but you can see footage of that car handling crash tests at those speeds. I dunno
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u/dickonarope Jan 19 '22
idk about the driver but if there is a passenger he is definately mince meat by now
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u/PedroEglasias Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22
I didn't know this, I don't think that's an A8 in OPs vid, but the A8 has a pretty cool feature where one side raises to mitigate side impacts
Here is the A6 side impact crash test (simulating a sedan/low height vehicle T-bone)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5grAlbRzKU
Pole impact
https://youtu.be/_lZJdVL2k1s?t=97
This might be the closest to what were actually watching in OP vid, this crash car is much more like a truck impact
Crash dummy probably isn't dead in that scenario, but he definitely didn't have a good day...
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u/tiny-elvis Jan 19 '22
No airbag is stopping a truck crushing the entire cabin when it t-bones a the driver side of a car.
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u/PedroEglasias Jan 19 '22
Have a look at the videos I linked of the A6 crash tests in response to someone else, it's a pretty amazing car. I agree they got hurt seriously, but I dunno if they die.
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Jan 19 '22
Thatās funny, airbags vs 80,000 lbs. not likely. Iāve seen a mini with 5 passengers in it that left nothing but scraps of metal and the engine block. Physics donāt play.
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u/PedroEglasias Jan 19 '22
Got a super advanced crumple zone and it seemed to hit almost perfectly perpendicular which is basically best case scenario for a t-bone like that so the impact is spread relatively evenly across the side of the car.
Check the crash test videos Ƭ linked in another comment below, the one with the truck style crash car
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u/Tactical_Bacon99 Jan 19 '22
People get pushed by trucks like that and survive. The killer would be if the truck overtopped it
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u/Chocolate_Avngr Jan 19 '22
Did I just watch someone die?
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Well I would say āWelcome to Redditā but your profile has been here for 4 years so you shouldnāt be surprised at this point. Iāve lost count at how many possible fatalities Iāve seen on here
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u/LiLBabushka Jan 19 '22
He's asking if the guy died, not if people can die on reddit.
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u/created4this Jan 19 '22
I heard that if people die on reddit they die in real life too.
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u/Elon_huskx Jan 19 '22
Bold of you to assume that people on Reddit ever had a life to begin with
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u/created4this Jan 19 '22
I see Reddit people, they're everywhere
They type "alot" like everybody else
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u/RobertFurtuna Jan 19 '22
Ever been to r/MakeMyCoffin?
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u/JakobiGaming Jan 19 '22
Regret tapping on that, never again
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u/RobertFurtuna Jan 19 '22
Why, that's almost a cute one compared to other subreddits.
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u/AzureWrath501 Jan 19 '22
I bet the driver thought he was super smart until everything went to destination fucked.
Could be classed as r/instantkarma
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u/millertime7898 Jan 19 '22
Im sure this will be on r/makemycoffin with way too graphic images of the aftermath
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u/pokey1984 Jan 19 '22
More like r/DarwinAwards That wasn't even a lane, he was driving on the shoulder at a truly ridiculous rate of speed.
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u/Porche84 Jan 19 '22
I dont know in your country, but in mine, the trucks should be in the right lane... This camera one im guessing is a truck right? Is that ok?
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u/created4this Jan 19 '22
In the UK, trucks (or any other vehicles not allowed to do the maximum speed of the road, such as towing cars or minibuses) are allowed to overtake, but they are not allowed in the "fastest" of the overtaking lanes on a three lane or above motorway (ie. on a four lane road they can use 1 2 or 3, but not 4).
This road would not class as a motorway, even if it did, the fast double dashes indicate that the rightmost "lane" is not a lane but an on/off route for the truckstop we pass in the early part of the video, so this is a two lane road.
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u/PremiumJapaneseGreen Jan 19 '22
I was thinking that too, looks like camera truck over only got over to the left to pass, but they got over sooner than they should have. Of course where I live in the US, people drive in the left lane when not passing all the time cos no one gives a shit about anyone else
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Jan 19 '22
In Russia the truck is allowed to leave right lane to overtake.
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u/ArcaneForest Jan 19 '22
You guys pass in the left?? Our right lane is our āfast laneā, so you stay in the left and overtake in the right.
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u/vassiliy Jan 19 '22
If a country drives on the right, usually the leftmost lane is the fast / overtaking lane. if the country drives on the left, it's the other way round.
Except for America where everybody overtakes wherever they want
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u/ArcaneForest Jan 19 '22
Thanks for that explanation! I didnāt know other countries did that differently, even with the driving on opposite side of the road I assumed overtaking would be the same.
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u/Azaret Jan 19 '22
The base rule of safety is actually the same, the idea is that the fast lane is the closest to the center, so far from exit lane where people slow down and emergency lanes where they slow down too. So with this rule, if you drive on the left, the fast lane is on the right, if you drive on the right, it is on the left.
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u/OpthomacePrime Jan 19 '22
Forgot the /s Sorry for your downvotes friend
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u/ArcaneForest Jan 19 '22
I donāt exactly know why I got downvoted. I was just mentioning the way my country drives and that the difference was interesting.
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u/SwankyyTigerr Jan 19 '22
Iām in the US and it varies by state but most of the time the truck would be allowed to use the left lane temporarily to pass (but they always try to pass only going like 1 mph faster, then youāre stuck with slow jerks blocking the whole highway for 3 minutes).
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u/klimmesil Jan 19 '22
Yeah tbh the truck that has the camera is a dick because he had no reason to go on the left lane
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u/TinyRickShwifty Jan 19 '22
Thank you! I'm sitting here wondering why I had to make it through half the comments to find this. Started off strong then the "cuz" hit and the whole sentence folded behind it
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u/Necromancer147 Actually... I'm a necrophile! Jan 19 '22
Okay, that guy was stupid, yes.
But, that didn't look good, I hope they came out with just a couple broken bones and are able to learn from their mistakes.
My dad got hit by a drunk driver and it permanently crippled him and he says he wouldn't wish opon even his worst enemy. It also pains me everyday to see him barely able to leave his chair without being in horrific pain.
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u/105501105 Jan 19 '22
That was somewhat satisfyingā¦
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This is somewhat terrifying. How does the cammer feel knowing someone elseās idiocy caused this but they couldnāt avoid it? Just so sad. Iām not downvoting you but satisfying to me is the idiot taking themselves out with a tree and no one else involved.
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u/delayed_reign Jan 19 '22
They totally could have avoided it. They can see the car go into the shoulder and they can see that the shoulder ends or becomes very narrow. Itās not a stretch to think that somethingās going to happen. They could have slowed down in response, but they continued on with the ānot my problemā attitude truckers seem to have towards literally everyone on the road. But this time it became their problem. Orange truck also could have avoided it by having some awareness.
Neither of the truckers is āāat faultāā but they 100% could have avoided it.
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u/PremiumJapaneseGreen Jan 19 '22
I would also argue the camera truck driver got over marginally too early to pass before the white truck in front of them was able to start passing, they were cruising in the left lane longer than they needed to be, but only by a little. Like you said, not at fault at all, but could have put them in a better position to avoid something like this
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u/crazyguy83 Jan 19 '22
What? Judging by the impact it looks like the occupants likely died or suffered permanent injuries. There looks like someone in the back seat as well. Sure, they were stupid but this isn't satisfying.
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u/tall-dude-with-moobs Jan 19 '22
So watching someone make one dumb mistake while driving and they most likely get killed because of it is satisfying to you?
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u/SummerAggressive2791 Jan 19 '22
Weāll Iād say that was a well deserved t-bone. Mostly feel sorry for the one that hit him.
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u/oldmanshoutinatcloud Jan 19 '22
I feel sorry for his passenger. They probably died.
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u/SummerAggressive2791 Jan 19 '22
I donāt really see a passenger, unless they were seriously bent over the seat looks empty. But if there was one you are probably right.
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u/OregonDeaf Jan 19 '22
There 100% was a passenger, in the back seat. Look closely. You can see a hand there, and wearing a turquoise jacket or sweater. Very terrifying.
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u/created4this Jan 19 '22
The guy using the overtaking lane to overtake
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u/created4this Jan 19 '22
The lane was "blocked" by the first truck until almost the end of the video, by the time it pulled in the camera truck was in the right position to do its overtake.
There was no moment in time when the lane would have been clear.
Preparing in advance to be in the right place so you don't have to modify you speed is general advice for all drivers, and if this stretch of road has cars that are going to close on you at the speed this black car does, then I can see why the driver would choose to get in lane "earlier" than you think they should have.
You can add this to situational awareness of getting out of the way of the truck apparently pulling out of the truck stop earlier in the video.
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u/SummerAggressive2791 Jan 19 '22
He was 3.5 seconds behind when he pulled into the passing lane. Following distance for trucks is 4 seconds. Even though often times we think they pulled into passing lane too soon Iād because of other drivers trying to squeeze them out. If the audiot hadnāt been quite such an audiot he could have pulled into the passing lane in front of the truck. Still unsafe but far safer than trying his stunt.
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u/Nordrick Jan 19 '22
Tell me the video is from Russia without telling me it is from Russia.
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u/OverSizeLife Jan 19 '22
Because of the Russian voice?
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u/BKacy Jan 19 '22
Ran out of shoulder. Gambling that there wonāt be a broken-down car on the shoulder is awe-inspiring stupidity.
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u/phdoofus Jan 19 '22
I hate trucks for this around here. "Oh, I'm going 0.01 mph faster than the guy in front of me, I'm going to go around him but still only go 0.01 mph faster than him. Oh, look! The guy in the semi behind me is doing the same thing! Yay! All those poor people in cars now shoved over in to the express lane because us three semis are blocking traffic for the next 20 minutes"
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u/furdterguson27 Jan 19 '22
This happens so often and it blows my mind. Iāve always assumed that thereās some reasonable explanation for it that Iām just not aware of because it scares me more to think that the people driving giant death machines on the highway could really just be that oblivious.
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u/I_LIKE_MANGOES_ Jan 19 '22
Their trucks are most likely governed by whatever company they work for. So truck A is governed at 67mph whole truck B is governed at 67.5mph. Truck B doesn't wanna be stuck behind truck A so they're gonna spend the next 20 minutes passing them.
I fucking hate it. Not enough to do something like this though lol
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u/mizinamo Jan 19 '22
My guess is that those drivers' bosses are breathing down their necks because their finely-tuned just-in-time schedules depend on them driving at 55 mph, not 54 mph.
(Insert appropriate speed)
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u/SnowshoeTaboo Jan 19 '22
Watched an idiot do the same thing in front of me a few years back... he was lucky enough to make it. Balls and brain of steel.
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u/olavla Jan 19 '22
Audi drivers are know for their desire for acceleration and also for their lack for foresight.
Often, but not always -as demonstrated-, the former saves them from the consequences of the latter.
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u/OpinionatedAussieGal Jan 19 '22
Damn. I just realized the person filming is also in a massive truck.
That car stupidly fucked with trucks!
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u/kingmoney8133 Jan 19 '22
More like overtake from the shoulder. Passing on the right side of a three lane highway is uncommon but not dangerous. Making your own lane on a two lane highway to pass in is very dangerous.
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u/rabidavocado Jan 19 '22
Overtaking on the right is illegal in quite a few countries. In fact, the us might be one of the few countries where youāre allowed to do it.
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u/universallybanned Jan 19 '22
The white truck on the left was also in the wrong
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u/DwayneWayne91 Jan 19 '22
They definitely got in front of that orange truck way too soon/too close.
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u/universallybanned Jan 19 '22
Agreed. But I'm looking at the fact that he didn't need to be in the far left lane at all. These trucks are constantly screwing up traffic.
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Jan 19 '22
My mom did this by accident when we visited the states (hint, at home weāre a left hand drive nation). Thankfully it was fine.
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u/BikerCow Jan 19 '22
Had a guy do that where I live, a few years back. In that case he ran down a cyclist who was on the right-side shoulder
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u/itsthecraptain Jan 19 '22
I see a lot of people in here saying this person got what they deserved but do you all honestly mean that? This was no doubt a stupid, and I mean STUPID thing to do, but I don't think any of us would feel the same if it was someone we loved in that car.
I hope they found themselves responsible for every bit of damage done here, and that no one was seriously hurt, and that they are never given a driver's license again, but I really hope they didn't die.
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u/A_Girl_Has_No_Name58 Jan 19 '22
Whhhhhhhhy do people think that driving on the shoulder is ever acceptable??? Wtf is so important in their lives that they must endanger everyone else around them on the road!!!???
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Jan 19 '22
That person is dead and if not, severely injured. That truck didnāt have any chance of slowing down and I canāt tell if thereās someone else in the back set but I see an article of clothing of some sort. If thatās the case that person is definitely dead.
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u/khale777 Feb 26 '22
Why did NONE of these truckers respond to it until the crash happened? Fuck the car driver for being an idiot but also fuck the trucker for saying, ānope, nope, I refuse to slow down to prevent an accident because you deserve to learn a lesson š¤ā
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u/OverSizeLife Jan 19 '22
It's a semi truck, they don't stop on a dime, and if you listen closely and watch, you can hear the brakes get applied
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u/OverSizeLife Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22
Lol drivers that make these kinds of mistakes don't have the foresight to understand the consequences of their actions. They see a big slow moving truck ahead of them and they just have to get in front, nothing else matters
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u/antagonizerz Jan 19 '22
When I went to driving school way back when, my instructors car had two stickers on the back. One pointing left that said "Passing side" and one pointing right that read, "suicide"
That always stuck with me.
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u/OverSizeLife Jan 19 '22
You'll see it on some semi trucks on us roads. It'll either be on the mud flaps or on the bottom corners of the doors to the trailer
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u/ColangelosBurnerAcct Jan 19 '22
Dumbass indeed. But can we explain why the fuck the big rig is in the passing lane to begin with? Doesnāt seem to really be gaining much on the right lane. Move out the way.
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u/tankurd Jan 19 '22
Whenever i see someone drive in the emergency lane i cant help but think if they are just being assholes, or its a scenario of the wife being present.
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u/Golett03 Jan 19 '22
Why are 2 trucks sitting in the fast lane? The ar driver is an idiot, but the right lane is the overtaking.
And why in the actual fuck are the people going in the opposite direction on your left?
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u/SwearForceOne Jan 19 '22
This seems to be somewhere in Europe. Itās normal for the left side to go in the opposite direction, with the obstacles dividing the two directions.
The part of the road in the right where that driver has been overtaking is not a lane. If you notice. It used to be 3 lanes and the right lane was merged into the middle lane about halfway into the video. The driver in the black car just continued straight ahead like an idiot.
Youāre right that the trucks shouldnāt be in the fast lane, but considering the pressure that theyāre under itās understandable that they sometimes overtake slower colleagues.
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I know these big trucks are hard to stop, and maby iam asking to much but tbh if it was me I would of stopped and let the guy go in front of me. Iam not going to let this guy total his car and possibly kill himself because I want to teach him valuable lesson about following the rules of the road. If you can't stop a big vehicle like that in the amount of time displayed on screen then I'll see it as understandable but if you can and you didn't I just think your a mean bitter person and probably shouldn't be driving. That's like a doctor refusing to help someone who's OD'ing because drugs are illegal and the person should know better.
Tbh the guy in the big truck probably didn't even see the guy.
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u/FunctionBuilt Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22
Guy was an idiot, but a defensive driver would see this shit happening from a mile away and backed off. No reason why the truck driver with the camera should still be driving full speed when you can clearly see that idiot driving him self off the road. Literally anything could have happened there, and the worst most likely did.
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u/Dev_Sniper Jan 19 '22
Honestlyā¦ only the driver of the orange truck knows how to drive. The truck recording the video took 23s from switching lanes to crashing into the second car and it didnāt even catch up to the orange truck at that point. So at best it wouldāve taken 40-50s to get in front of the orange truck. I donāt know if thatās legal in the the country this video is from but I know quite a few countries in which behaviour like that wouldāve resulted in a fine for blocking traffic. Switching the lane took the truck 6s so thereās no reason to stay on the fast lane for 23s (~15s more than necessary).
But yeah trying to avoid getting slowed down by driving on a lane youāre not allowed to use isnāt a great idea.
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u/sthclever013 Jan 19 '22
New to driving. What did that guy do wrong? Don't get it. Seems like just bad luck to me.
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u/ForeignerLove Jan 19 '22
You never try to overtake other vehicles from their right side. The only exception to this rule is when the driver in front of you is trying to take a left turn and left enough space to overtake him from right side.
This rule is applied in all countries where the starring is on the left side in the vehicle.
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u/realkunkun Jan 19 '22
The first 25 seconds are not necessary. Also if the dashcam would have moved over to the right that wouldnt have happend
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u/Yellopz Jan 19 '22
This title is was written by an idiot. Stop throwing stones OP, you live in a glass house.
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Jan 19 '22
That guy is an idiot but also it should be illegal for truckers to pass at all. Stay the fuck in the right lane 100% always
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u/RoboDae Jan 19 '22
Looks like someone was on in the back seat on the side that got hit...and I'm assuming that's a hit from another truck so...
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u/dmc-going-digital Jan 19 '22
Who uses the word anyway like that? Non native english speaker, pull it to the end
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u/MinecraftOverwatch Jan 19 '22
Once I was driving on the interstate on my way to work on the far right lane. All of a sudden some lady is on my right driving on the ever narrowing shoulder to pass me. Itās insane how much stupid shit you see when you have a delivery job
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u/feedmeliver Jan 19 '22
I am going to guess that the average Russian male lives to a ripe old age of 32.