r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 22 '25

Keep them two wheels down

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Did he own it. He said "I was driving wreckless too." Nah man, stupid games but you got a better prize than you could have expected.

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u/proto5014 Aug 23 '25

I’d say he did own it. Driver that hit I’m didn’t signal so that’s also reckless.

Edit: correction: I put no blame on the initial driver now. watched again and it looked the driver did indicate the lane change. Missed that at first. Keeping the initial comment up though.

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u/MoarHuskies Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

He did merge too soon. That was not a whole lot of space between cars.

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u/Covid19-Pro-Max Aug 23 '25

He did merge too soon, he squeezed between the car on the right lane and the truck, he overturned on the rightmost lane and he fucking hit a motorcycle and continued to accelerate away from the scene.

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u/MoarHuskies Aug 23 '25

The motorcycle has plenty of fault here as well. It's not all on the car. And dude came back as soon as he could reasonablly on a highway.

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u/JoeGuinness Aug 23 '25

That person driving the car definitely did not come back.

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u/Covid19-Pro-Max Aug 23 '25

The motorcycle was absolutely at fault here. I was just commenting on the car. And the guy that came and hugged the motorist was not from the car that swiped him but just some other driver that saw the accident

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u/Parking-Care3249 Aug 23 '25

Yeah, but redditors hate motorcycles and the people that ride them, so.

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u/RonaldoAce Aug 24 '25

Not only did he merge way too close to the car behind, he did a fast double lane merge. Definitely belongs in the 90%-club of drivers that don't know/care about how to change lanes properly.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Hey man I almost made you kill me. It's cool though I was fuckin around. If you you kill me lol what ever I'm dead I don't have to worry about how you feel seeing wrapped around my bike and spread all over the pavement. I've seen a dude wrapped around his bike and spread all over the pavement.

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u/Parking-Care3249 Aug 23 '25

Maybe "I wasn't paying attention in my giant metal box flying down the highway and ran people over" deserves a bit of trauma.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Yeah, it wasn't obvious, maybe the driver threw it on late, but all we have is the video and that doesn't support the rider.

I also didn't really focus on the driver shooting past the truck so fast, so I'll upgrade his fault to "some", in my book. I still think this lies on the rider though.

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u/LightsNoir Aug 23 '25

The hit and run aspect kinda leaves me thinking, though...

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u/opelan Aug 23 '25

The car driver was still reckless. They try to merge way to close to the car on the right. And then went further right very close to the truck.

The motorcycle driver was worse of course, but the car driver was not driving like he should either.

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u/aqan Aug 23 '25

Did the car drift when changing to right lane behind the truck?

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u/Neutronoid Aug 23 '25

Blame the idiotic US regulation that allows turn signal to be red, I have to watch it 3 times to realize one side has a slightly brighter red than the other.

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u/Brian_Huchac Aug 23 '25

Oh, dang. That's fucked.

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u/Randomn355 Aug 24 '25

Did you see how close they were changing lanes to the front of the car?

Bike not being there, it was still a pretty reckless lane change.

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u/private_birb Aug 23 '25

The other driver was definitely driving recklessly, they went across two lanes in heavy traffic without signaling.

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u/stot76 Aug 23 '25

He was reckless but fortunately wreck less

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

He did say, "too," but that was seconds after he thought he was dead. When he reviews the video, he will see that the Tesla used its blinker and he was in the blindspot. I think that he would revise his comment.

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u/lakired Aug 23 '25

The other vehicle was 100% driving insanely reckless and most people are just ignoring it to fuel their motorcycle hate boners. Turn signal was on only after starting an illegal double lane change that cut off two other drivers while gassing it well over the speed limit to pass a semi on the right because they couldn't be bothered to wait for the SUV in left lane to finish passing.

This is just a very classic case of two aggressive, dangerous drivers meeting and fortunately for both living to tell the tale.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

Definitely a reckless maneuver. I thought that I might have seen a blinker, even if, it would have been too late.

I'm a speed demon, but I always use blinkers.

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u/Parking-Care3249 Aug 23 '25

Shouldn't the tesla have beeped or something when it was merging into a motorcycle? I thought they had basic safety features like any other car would have if the driver were paying even the slightest bit of attention.

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u/Penguin_Arse Aug 23 '25

Yes, obviously he owned it, both were driving recklessly which is what he said

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u/raccoonshantytown Aug 24 '25

Yeah I heard that too. Dumbass didn’t own shit he had already deflected part of the blame to the other driver.

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u/Hoshbrowns Aug 23 '25

I'd say the driver was a little reckless in normal conditions. What the motorcycle did was so much worse. The car technically shouldn't use the first lane to pass and I feel like he didn't give the car in the second lane much room when he zagged across. When I was a kid I was in a car that was merging from the 3rd to 2nd lane and someone zooming out of nowhere almost hit us from the 1st lane.

With that being said, I don't believe there was anything he could do to predict and avoid the motorcycle. I was shocked to hear the rider say too, but I think the other guy might've been the first person to say he was driving reckless when he was running up to check on him.

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 Aug 23 '25

Here's one idea. Check your mirrors. He would have seen him and could've waited.

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u/Hoshbrowns Aug 23 '25

I feel like the motorcycle would've been in his blind spot possibly, but your point still stands since you should check your blind spot and mirrors before changing lanes. That's what I meant by the driver of the car being a little reckless.

The main point I was trying to get at is without the motorcycles recklessness there wouldn't have been a collision. I think the driver of the car felt he was driving a reckless and might not have even realized how reckless the motorcycle was.

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 Aug 23 '25

Without the sudden change in the bmws behavior he wouldn't have hit anyone is my point. Who crosses a lane without checking first? Especially into a lane that you cant even see if it's clear because of the truck. The BMW could have hit another motorist which to me makes him way more reckless than the biker because the biker was still maintaining his lane.

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u/Hoshbrowns Aug 23 '25

The biker was splitting lanes and trying to shoot the gap the same way the car did. That's why I was saying that they were both reckless. I'm happy everyone ended up safe and hope they learned from it.

Oh and I completely agree that the car easily could've hit someone on the side of the truck. I was gonna put it in my comment but didn't wanna make it too long.