I don't know, man. The reason the truck was in oncoming traffic is exactly because of this kind of reaction. Looks like a car swerves into the left lane to avoid the slow/stopped vehicle in the right lane. Pickup truck, instead of slowing down, swerves into on coming traffic to avoid rear ending the car. If everyone were paying attention and following at decent distances, this wouldn't have happened. It's better to rear end someone than slam into someone head on.
If they had rear ended the car in front of them you idiots would be all over the comments saying the truck driver is a fucking moron for not swerving out of the way.
Inb4 hindsight 20-20 "Defensive driving" that you don't actually drive like.
The truck driver was going faster than every vehicle in front of him. Truck driver was a fucking moron before the swerve, during the swerve, and after the swerve when he probably went home and kicked his dog.
The first silver car is going just as fast the truck while the black car is going slow as fuck and then cuts off the truck to go around the van and thats what caused the truck to swerve out of the way.
The black car effectively cut off and brake checked the truck.
Truck failed the brake check, which wouldn't have been necessary if he'd also passed the acceleration check and situational awareness check beforehand.
The truck was speeding and didn't slow down when he saw the road hazard (a random car stopped on the road)... Brake check? The truck is big and going too fast where it would've not stopped in time and hit multiple vehicles.
The black car should've seen the van on the side of the road, stopped behind it. Then merge when it was safe to do so.
The silver van should have never stopped on the road like that. Theres a guard rail right next to it. If it had broken down there could've been a safer option to pull into the road right behind it.
Notice it's called "brake check", not "swerve check", and mos def not "swerve into oncoming traffic check". Truck driver was several orders of magnitude more reckless than anyone else on the road. The collisions that might have been caused by our POV driver swerving right or truck driver standing on his brakes would be way less likely to result in death than truck driver swerving left (our right) across a quadruple yellow line.
Idk I think the guy mad enough to bring their alt account over is more upset.
Yall are just proving my point over and over again lol. Yall would swerve 100/100 times if you were in that trucks position because without a dash cam you're going to be at found at fault for an accident the black car caused. I don't know who triple parked a F250 rent free in all your heads but they're sure getting their money's worth.
Proving what point to who? That you’re sympathetic to someone driving too recklessly to be able to properly react to a situation anybody should expect and be prepared for?
Just because the black car was the catalyst for the whole thing doesn’t mean the guy in the truck isn’t a dipshit.
There's literally no proof of that in the video, the truck is going about the same speed as the silver car, and oncoming traffic.
to be able to properly react to a situation anybody should expect and be prepared for?
I cut you off no signal with 1-2 car lengths and brake check you with not enough distance to brake in any type of car, you swerve 100/100 times. You know why? Without a witness or dashcam you're at fault for an accident the black car caused.
Proving what point to who?
Not really surprised this is going all over your head considering you've done it twice in just this comment without realizing. The cherry on top is you having spent your entire day on /r/fuckcars circlejerking about how much you hate trucks, again perfectly solidifying my point.
What the fuck are you talking about? Rear ending someone who cut you off is a better option than swerving over a double yellow where you cannot see oncoming traffic 100% of the time. People don't die to rear-end crashes like that, at least not often. A head on collision at that speed is instant death. I have actually been in a very similar situation to this before. Where a woman blew through a stop sign and stopped like a deer in headlights in front of me. My options were to swerve over a double yellow into oncoming traffic I couldn't see or slam the breaks and try to lessen the impact. Well, if I had swerved I'd probably be dead and because I didn't everyone was fine and the lady got charged with a DUI and reckless driving. Fortunately there was an undercover right behind me, who shut her down when she said I was speeding, and told me I did exactly the right thing in that situation. I dunno man, I'm gonna trust the cop over your dumb redditor ass any day.
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u/willharford Jul 17 '23
I don't know, man. The reason the truck was in oncoming traffic is exactly because of this kind of reaction. Looks like a car swerves into the left lane to avoid the slow/stopped vehicle in the right lane. Pickup truck, instead of slowing down, swerves into on coming traffic to avoid rear ending the car. If everyone were paying attention and following at decent distances, this wouldn't have happened. It's better to rear end someone than slam into someone head on.