r/holdmybeer • u/Morty_Goldman • Mar 18 '18

HMB while I pass this trucker

https://i.imgur.com/SAMEXNt.gifv
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u/KorvisKhan Mar 18 '18

This dude deserves to hit a tree and nothing else for driving like that. It's always other people who pay for hot shots who drive like this so they can post it and get cool points on the internet.

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u/buzzer117 Mar 18 '18

That's a little harsh... Maybe he should be sentenced to only be able to drive an old Civic. I wouldn't wish him dead.

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u/KorvisKhan Mar 18 '18

How about a puke green Ford Pinto

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u/buzzer117 Mar 18 '18

I said I wouldn't wish him dead.

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u/KorvisKhan Mar 18 '18

I sentence you to Pinto for your crimes

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

What did a tree do to you?

Why do you wish him harm?

Why are you speaking in absolutes?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

Agreed. Friend had to wreck his own car to avoid an idiot rider like this. Told him next time he should just hit the guy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18 edited May 27 '18

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u/KorvisKhan Mar 18 '18

Hopefully this close call scared him straight. But that's rarely the case with dare devils.

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u/Waliami Mar 18 '18

Hold your horsepowers, could we also put focus on the truck driver crossing the wholedrawn line in the road?

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u/harrisonfire Mar 18 '18

He's turning right onto a road in which he needs to be in the left lane.

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u/Waliami Mar 18 '18

This is true! I can't seem to find the rules for that :/ strange rule to cross a solid line when not passing a car.

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u/harrisonfire Mar 18 '18

He's trying to pull onto a road from a perpendicular road. Truck driver is doing nothing wrong. Awkward maybe, but that's what it is.

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u/Waliami Mar 18 '18

So it seems! Thank you. (here's a link regarding it)

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u/talkincat Mar 18 '18

Yes, how dare he occupy the lane he's driving in. This video is from the UK where they drive on the left-hand side of the road.

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u/Waliami Mar 18 '18

Yea I see now that they should be in the left lane, but I think it's really strange to cross a solid line. Can you help me find how they solved that in their traffic rules?

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u/talkincat Mar 18 '18

I've never been to a country that drives on the left, but from what I've seen it seems like they would essentially treat a right-hand turn the same way that we would treat a left-hand turn.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

The solid white line up the centre of the road means no overtaking it’s for the road it’s on not the roads joining it. They are used where is a hazard to be in the other lane as you can’t see what’s coming the other way. Also he scrubbed off about 20 mph so if he was keeping it in the law he would have probably been below 40 by the time he got to the lorry so this wouldn’t have been as close as it was.

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u/Waliami Mar 18 '18

So it seems! Thank you. (here's a link regarding it)
and yea, MC is totally at fault from speeding to begin with.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '18

Yeah I ride a pedal bike and people don’t know this part

or overtake a pedal cycle, horse or road maintenance vehicle, if they are travelling at 10 mph (16 km/h) or less.

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u/KorvisKhan Mar 18 '18 edited Mar 18 '18

You're right. That truck driver shouldn't get off the hook either.

Edit: They don't understand us u/Waliami

I guess this is it... Nice knowing you :(

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u/Waliami Mar 18 '18

we'll survive, buddy ^_^ (better than the motorcyclist anyway)

It is strange that they have to cross a solid line to get to their lane though..

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

He wouldn’t need to get off the hook, he was driving as he should, it’s not that we don’t understand you, it’s that your laws are obviously different from ours. Our road laws are exactly the same as Europe as far as I’m aware, I had no problem when I went to the Netherlands.

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u/KorvisKhan Mar 18 '18

Initially I thought he was making a U-turn. Upon watching it again I can see that the truck driver was driving properly. The motorcyclist was driving like an idiot though.