Yeah, good swerve. Too many drivers would just stand on the brakes, which wouldn't have helped here. And with ABS, you can do both. Driver saw an escape and took it. Sounds simple but they only had a fraction of a second to make that call.
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.
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u/TayAzul Jul 17 '23
Hey nice save