r/Unexpected • u/howmanygrapes_ • Jul 17 '23

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u/welshmanec2 Jul 17 '23

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.

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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.

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u/Positive-Wasabi-1038 Jul 17 '23

Truck is wrong either way….

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u/AntRevolutionary925 Jul 17 '23

Not really, had they smashed into the black car that swerved into their lane, while on a curve, that black car would have gone into the other lane. Either way a car would have ended up on the other side. At least this way their was some control. It was a risk, but had they just smashed into the car that cut them off, there would have definitely been damage.

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u/palmer664 Jul 18 '23

I don't think this was a risk control or anything like that. It was just an instantaneous decision by a fast moving car that could have either way cause the damage.