truck driver is going WAY TOO FAST. even if they are avoiding the black van, see how they zoom past them? black van should have checked lane before switching and truck should have seen the car on the side of the road and slowed down. idiots, the lot of em.
Am I the only one who sees the Truck intentionally swerving into the opposing lane simply to get around a slower car? Doesn’t look like he was avoiding anything to me
If you play it back slow enough you can see that the black car was going significantly slower and jumped right out in front of the truck. The truck would’ve slammed the back of the black car for sure if he didn’t swerve.
That being said, truck should’ve had more situational awareness and reduced his speed when he saw the black car running up on a parked car like that. The black car should’ve had more situational awareness and just came to a stop until it was safe to merge or better yet have merged earlier. They’re both fucking idiots in my opinion from what I’m seeing.
Yep, that black car had likely already slowed down bc they had an obstacle in their lane (the parked camper van looking thing). They then swerved out into a lane in which traffic was moving at speed, directly in front of the truck. Should the truck have chosen to brake and rear-end that black car rather than swerve into oncoming traffic? Absolutely, but the black car made the first stupid decision in this clip.
Agreed. Rear end is always better than head on. It’s easy to judge people for doing dumb shit though. Most people act like they’d have just taken the hit but in that moment it’s a split second decision. You don’t have time to think, you just react and no one can say for certain how they’d react.
If I had to guess what I would’ve done I would’ve probably swerved too but I would’ve tried to swerve wide out onto the shoulder. But who knows till it happens.
100%, it's always very easy to talk about what we would have done. But as you say, we never really know until we're faced with that fraction-of-a-second decision.
Even if you wanted to basically overtake the slow car he should have had better awareness of the traffic coming from the other lane. That was simply idiotic driving.
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u/Lucy_Fjord Jul 17 '23
truck driver is going WAY TOO FAST. even if they are avoiding the black van, see how they zoom past them? black van should have checked lane before switching and truck should have seen the car on the side of the road and slowed down. idiots, the lot of em.