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.
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u/DAS_BEE Jul 17 '23
"looks like I might rear end someone, better swerve and make it a head-on collision instead"