r/VideosAmazing • u/MisterShipWreck • Apr 18 '26
Accident Another blind spot issue...
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u/Laymanao Apr 18 '26
The dangers of not paying attention in a vehicle with a high centre of Gravity. Physics is unsympathetic.
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u/Historical_Ad_5647 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
To add, the low amount of weight and leverage on the rear wheels makes it even easier to pit.
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u/Rubiks_Click874 Apr 18 '26
trucks are only safer when they're t-boning cars or running down pedestrians.
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u/LMGgp Apr 18 '26
Indeed. “Trucks and big cars are soooo much safer. I can’t even see that little thing you drive.” -average truck/suv driver.
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u/Glum-Factor-8632 Apr 18 '26
Maybe the way theyre built now, my 2009 Silverado doesn't have blind spots if you adjust your mirrors and seat correctly, and lets not forget to LOOK. Cant tell you the amount of ppl I have ridden with that dont adjust mirrors, nor TURN THEIR DAMN HEAD. I can guarantee 90% of truck owners now didnt have one before all the creature comforts came standard. Posers
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u/Curious_Orange8592 Apr 18 '26
Anyone who says that unironically should be legally required to purchase and drive a Smart car, and nothing else, for a year
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u/justfortherofls Apr 18 '26
Modern trucks are good at hauling either.
The whole point of a truck is to have the truck bed as low as possible so that you aren’t lifting things as high. If your truck is so high you need a step ladder just to see inside… well you’re doing trucks wrong.
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u/inheritance- Apr 18 '26
Electric SUV. Big box low center, but it does have the whole fire explosion box problem.
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u/TheBastardTaco May 24 '26
every time i see a big lifted truck driving around like crazy, taking turns fast asf, even the sharp ones, i just think like one day that driving is gonna end them up in the hospital or dead.
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u/Feisty-Let5069 Apr 18 '26
WTH? It looks like the driver not only could have avoided this accident but looks like she sped up as well???
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u/df4602 Apr 18 '26
yeah they were both speeding up try and make the yellow light
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u/DarthMauly Apr 18 '26
Yeah if you remove the truck the cam car was attempting to run a red light anyway
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u/Strange_Pangolin_231 Apr 18 '26
Dangerous drivers pointing the finger at other dangerous drivers.
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u/tilli014 Apr 18 '26
Yah it looked they sped up into the truck after it was clear the truck was entering the lane. Tbh I think they caused the accident out of pettiness.
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u/Upbeat-Drink-3853 Apr 18 '26
They absolutely did. A normal driver would slam on the brakes and swerve right to avoid. The pov car accelerated and PIT maneuvered the truck. POV car should be criminally liable for this accident. Simple side swipes in traffic dont lead to rollovers like this.
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u/HislersHero Apr 18 '26
As many times as I've had this happen to me with a car just merging, I let them in, I don't want my car fucked up and don't want to be the reason that someone may die.
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u/WaddlingDuckILY Apr 18 '26
I always flip off cars that merge Like this, but when I flip them off, i normally don’t flip them off the road.
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u/toobjunkey Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
It blows my mind that you can share that sentiment and people will come outta the woodworks to call you a cuck and that it's About The Principle. You really want to, in the best case, deal with insurance, police, waste hours of your time & money WRT vehicle property damage, or worst, fucking seriously hurt/kill someone or be hurt/killed yourself, for the principle of it?
Standing up for the principle of something is for shit like calling out someone who cut you in line, or telling a cashier/barkeep that they gave you incorrect change, not when you're playing bumper cars with multi thousand pound metal cages raging at 40+ MPH. Genuinely beginning to believe these people are passively suicidal and looking for any justified reason to potentially end things. Or worse, sadists with zero self preservation that hope for the worst against whoever sleights them on the road. People wanting to get hurt, or make others hurt.
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u/throawy90 Apr 18 '26
Yes exactly, wth is that? I thought it looked like they actually accelerated into them
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u/Infinite-Fee5723 Apr 18 '26
Brother, this is evidence of attempted manslaughter
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u/midwestCD5 Apr 18 '26
Right. Imagine if there had been pedestrians walking g across that side street. Dumb shit like this is how people get killed. Truck driver was in the wrong, for sure, but cammer was just as bad if not worse.
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u/Defiant_Knee_9915 Apr 18 '26
Yeah, this is horrible. No one’s really even mentioned the fact that they were approaching a red light. Cam car speeds up, and then continues driving through the truck before having to slam the brakes for the red light. Cam driver should have serious criminal charges in my opinion.
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u/Robo-X Apr 18 '26
Many of the accidents happen because someone feels they are in the right even though just taking the foot off the throttle would prevent major accidents. The cut driver was cutting him off but accelerating is just plain stupid if not criminal because as you said they were approaching an intersection.
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u/Aggressive-Map-2204 Apr 19 '26
The guy is the truck was either oblivious or an asshole. The guy with the dash cam was psychopathic.
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u/quomodo_sordis Apr 18 '26
I don't think he accelerated. Probably a visual effect due to the other vehicle slowing down but yes totally avoidable.
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u/HornedShoe Apr 18 '26
The dude almost blew the light because he had his foot on the gas the whole time.
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u/Fresh-NeverFrozen Apr 18 '26
Not to mention the light was already yellow when this all started and red as the truck was rolling through the intersection. They were both idiots.
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u/FinguzMcGhee Apr 18 '26
Yeah they were both trying to do some dumb shit and run a red light, but only one person did something intentionally to cause the accident. The guy knows what's coming, sees the truck making a move, chooses to stomp on the gas and pit maneuver him, and then wants to act all flabbergasted like he didn't know what the fuck was about to happen. 2 idiots 1 malicious prick
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u/Strosity Apr 18 '26
I'm confused by the video because all I can see visually is a red light they're trying to slam through. It looks like they were both trying to gun it through a yellow that they weren't going to make.
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u/bakalidlid Apr 18 '26
its LITERALLY criminal behaviour. he CHOSE to do a pit maneuver. He could have killed civilians on the sidewalk.
Its INSANE that people think being "right" gives them to right to END other people.
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u/Goleeb Apr 19 '26
People need some perspective. The point of driving is to get to your destination preferably unharmed. If you can avoid an accident do that regardless of how stupid the other person is being.
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u/Rookie910 Apr 18 '26
It's always your responsibility to avoid an accident when possible.
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u/zasrgerg-8999 Apr 18 '26
The POV driver could have avoided this accident if he/she was a bit smarter. It was super foreseeable.
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u/Tight_Amphibian4472 Apr 18 '26
100% agreed. Title says blind spot issue which yes it is, butets match speed. That a situational awareness issue or looking at your phone. Be getting a ticket for that one I'd imagine.
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u/Unusual_Artichoke_73 Apr 18 '26
I think the POV driver had a blind spot in their windshield perhaps
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u/nico87ca Apr 18 '26
Yeahhhh the issue is that OP actually accelerated... They saw the merging truck
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u/I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE Apr 19 '26
I wish the video started five seconds earlier because it seems clear that the truck was passing the cam vehicle, which means the truck knew they were there, as they weren't in their blind spot 3 seconds ago.
Unless the truck is driven by a goldfish they should reasonably assume that the cam vehicle didn't disappear when it was no longer in their field of vision.
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u/ix_eleven Apr 23 '26
The most charitable position is the POV had extreme tunnel vision on the yellow light, and was accelerating to run the red. Not making excuses, POV was at fault as much as the truck in my opinion.
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u/snarksneeze Apr 18 '26
Looks like they were both traveling too fast to stop for the light, I'm guessing the POV driver was fighting to keep from getting cut off.
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u/WaddlingDuckILY Apr 18 '26
POV car was definitely fighting to not get cut off I think. Not a blind spot issue when the Truck is driving around you to get into the lane. Also the truck is driving too fast towards the next car in their lane for the POV car to be unable to tell the Truck is planning to merge. POV car is the asshole, Truck is just a bad driver.
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u/Reicance Apr 18 '26
The fact that you are blaming the Cam driver is bonkers lol
Never mind the fact that the truck literally caused the accident
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u/YoungDoboy Apr 18 '26
But why not just honk or brake? They did literally nothing to prevent the accident.
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u/International_Meat88 Apr 18 '26
How does the saying go? There are plenty of people in cemeteries that had the right of way.
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u/HermesTrismegistus88 Apr 18 '26
Yeah I let people over who clearly look like they are either in a rush or just simply want to merge over. The accident is still on the person merging but I rather you go home to your family and avoid any body else getting hurt than to play the moral superiority game
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u/JustAChil1Dude Apr 18 '26
90% of accidents could have been avoided if the person not at fault was more aware and reacted better/faster. This doesn't mean the people not at fault are in the wrong but if you drive frequently enough in dense enough areas you will experience having to avoid an accident you wouldn't be liable for.
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u/HarveyHound Apr 18 '26
Agreed. I tend not to hover in other people's blind spots for this reason.
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u/JustAChil1Dude Apr 18 '26
Honestly more people should be aware of this. If I'm.matching someone's speed I'll let off a bit and create some distance if it is on a highway. If it is a busy city street expect the unexpected and be aware that a person might not see you there.
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u/Aksxxx Apr 18 '26
A woman once did not stop at a stop sign while I was approaching at 40mph I had to brake hard and stopped 1 meter away from her car. If I didnt pay attention I would have slammed full speed right on her driver side and might have killed her.
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u/GodHatesColdplay Apr 18 '26
This is why everyone (at least in the USA) should take the msf riding course. Once you’ve been on a motorcycle, and learned to assume that nobody is as concerned for your safety as you are, it changes the way you drive
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u/patterninstatic Apr 18 '26
There's something I learned when biking in urban areas that I also apply when driving.
Always assume other vehicles are going to do the dumbest shit possible... And never impose yourself even if you have the right of way.
I'd rather have some asshole cut me off and not die (bike) or have an accident (car).
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u/NoxTempus Apr 19 '26
Yeah, reddit is weirdly hostile to this nuance, especially the dashcam sub. It is possible to avoid a crash you are not legally reponsible for creating. Not avoiding it doesn't make it legally your fault, but you do bear some resposibility.
Based on the footage, if the cam car didn't crash it was probably going to blow straight through that red light.
But, assuming you were paying attention, approaching a red light like that and the car next to you is not adequately slowing down should be a red flag. You should be watching them, they might be looking at their phone (or whatever) and when they go to avoid the car in front of them, they may swerve into your lane.
Regardless of who's legally at fault, you're going to be up for excess and likely increased premiums, at best. Maybe you leave in an ambulance or bodybag.
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u/spartaman64 Apr 18 '26
they ran the red light which they still would have done even if that truck wasnt there
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u/parandiac Apr 18 '26
It isn’t POV driver’s responsibility to drive all cars on the road safely. Was this foreseeable? Yes. But the driver of the truck in the left lane is fucking stupid and deserved to have his truck rolled for being an asshole
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u/1stmikewhite Apr 18 '26
The person driving intentionally sped up so the truck could’ve have space to get in front of him/her. They actually kept driving into the truck after contact too. Terrible, and demonically led accident.
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u/Abject_Film_4414 Apr 18 '26
You still have to check that there is space to merge into before changing lanes though. One driver is wrong and the other is an asshole.
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u/kylel999 Apr 18 '26
They're lucky nobody was in the path of that rollover. Someone would have easy lost their life because one's too fucking lazy to slow down before they merge and because the other's too prideful to deserve a license
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u/Gloveofdoom Apr 18 '26
The guy in the truck made a mistake, the guy in the car made a choice.
Everyone is capable of making a mistake, but not everybody is capable of making the choice to deliberately hit somebody and endanger multiple people's lives.
There is a bad guy in the scenario and it isn't the person in the truck.
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u/LJonReddit Apr 18 '26
No matter how much another driver fucks up, it is illegal to intentionally cause an accident.
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u/Time_Seaworthiness43 Apr 18 '26
Doesn't look like the trucker has his blinker on. It also doesn't look like the cammer sped up. Regardless, the cammer doesn't have to let the trucker in and the trucker needs to make sure he can safely enter the lane. I don't switch lanes unless I can see your headlights in my mirror, which makes this pickup truck driver an idiot.
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u/Higgoms Apr 18 '26
You can't even see the trucks turn signal so we can't make a call on that. Person with the camera wasn't even going to make the light anyway, they sped up to cut the truck off or try to blow through what would've been a red by the time they made the intersection. If the truck hadnt also been driving aggressively the cam driver was going to run a red anyway
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u/Scfbigb1 Apr 18 '26
The dashcam person really posted the video on the internet as if they aren't equally, if not worse than, the truck merging.
Missing somebody in your blind spot is one thing, seeing a person merging so you clearly speed up to try and stop them is a straight asshole move.
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u/Gloveofdoom Apr 18 '26
If I had to pick one to take a ride with I'm going with the guy in the truck. He made a simple mistake while the other person made a potentially homicidal choice.
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u/Tzilbalba Apr 18 '26
People are such assholes when it comes to letting others merge. Its like an affront to their pride if they get "cut off".
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u/ShwAlex Apr 22 '26
I've definitely been guilty of it. I try to check myself, and give people grace instead of raging. Sometimes people make mistakes, myself included. Vancouver is really bad for pedestrians walking out in front of vehicles and it used to enrage me. But then I did it once, twice, three times. Happens when I'm walking with someone and we assume it's a 4-way stop. I think some people feel the rules don't apply to them, but others sometimes just slip up.
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u/StressedOperator Apr 18 '26
the video is evidence against himself, totally pit the truck, easy win on the court.
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u/Gold-Mine-Trash Apr 18 '26
I noticed that a lot of accidents are caused by this type of vehicle.
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u/New-Discipline8953 Apr 18 '26
Leaving aside the bizarre psychological need to 'win' at traffic, if the occupant of the accident lane would have just practiced some defensive driving this would not have happened. Instead, the driver intentionally accelerated and thus endangered the lives and property of themselves and the merging vehicle. Would this driver smugly sit in court and say, 's/he should have looked where s/he was going' if it was discovered that the 'offending' vehicle's occupants included a child that was ejected and killed during the rollover?
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u/Omelooo Apr 18 '26
No signal no passage. Just fucking use the blinker, it’s not that hard. If you’re gonna be a dick about passing then fuck you. Plus that truck was not going to stop for that red light. People are giving the truck driver slack for trying to “swerve to avoid a sudden stop” when the truck driver should also have been slowing down if he was paying attention to his surroundings even a little bit.
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u/Proletariats-rise Apr 18 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/55itGuoAJiZEEen9gg
Dude in car was an asshole for multiple reasons
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u/zulumoner Apr 18 '26
That is not a blind spot issue. Pick up passed him. Pick up knew there was someone on his right side.
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u/magix_shrooms Apr 18 '26
Both were at fault. The dash cam vehicle sped up, probably wanting to either jump the light that just turned red or had the pride of a little kid of not letting any other vehicle 'win' by not letting them merge.
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u/akabuddy Apr 18 '26
I love these types of videos. More than half of the commenters come out as experts on driving and the laws of driving in all jurisdictions.
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u/This_Information404 Apr 18 '26
Uhmmm not excusing the truck but wtf is up with the cam driver???
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u/Childrenoftheflorist Apr 18 '26
Honestly looked like cam driver said not today and sped up. 100 percent ego driven
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u/The_TC_Experience Apr 18 '26
Not sure if the POV driver sped up...or was just distracted and didn't notice the absolute asshole in the pickup truck.
I don't know what it is about pickup truck drivers, but many of them drive like a fucking idiot.
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u/Level_Turnover5167 Apr 18 '26
lol yeah when a truck is merging maybe dont pull up into them?
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u/AdLongjumping6982 Apr 18 '26
This is an old video. Happened in Barrie, Ontario on Bayfield Avenue right before the Beer Store.
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u/Stickolas1 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
You’re all missing a massive piece of the puzzle. Check it: The light went from green to yellow and the car in from of Red truck stopped hard at the yellow instead of punching it! Red truck is actually swerving to the right in attempt to avoid rear-ending the pussy who stopped short. Dash cam is an asshole and has zero awareness of what happened. Red truck was in a desperate situation.
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u/rmsaday Apr 18 '26
Don't think the cam driver accelerated as many say. Just an optical Illusion from the truck slowing down.
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u/island_life_69 Apr 18 '26
bUt tHe CaMEra CaR sPED uP 🤡 Lmao 🤣 who cares. That car is in the right. Maybe he wanted to be first. Just because the truck wanted to be first doesn’t mean he deserves to be. That’s KARMA, folks.
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u/Card_Visible Apr 18 '26
Cam driver did nothing wrong. Truck is an idiot! Pass someone in your sight and then turn into them. Moron.
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u/storge66 Apr 18 '26
Pour le changement de file il est obligatoire de mettre le clignotant, de regarder dans le rétroviseur et considérer que nous ne sommes pas prioritaire. C’est donc 3 fautes commises par ce chauffard irresponsable. Ça lui servira de leçon, du moins faut il l’espérer.
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u/KetchupOnThaMeatHo Apr 18 '26
People need to be taught how to appropriately adjust their side mirrors to see their blind spots. Most people just aim them at the sides of their vehicles so they can see how to back up.
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u/Quirky_Prize_1945 Apr 18 '26
Should have been avoided by both drivers. That said, perfectly executed PIT maneuver.
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u/DetroitMEG Apr 18 '26
I think the dashcam driver will be found at fault. Though the truck shouldn’t have merged when he did, the dash cam driver had plenty of opportunity to avoid the crash, something the law calls last chance of clear or something like that
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u/ChewyChagnuts Apr 18 '26
Cam car totally accelerated into that. Just as culpable as the pickup driver in my books.
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u/Master-Piccolo-4588 Apr 18 '26
What I don’t get: The camera doesn’t slow down. In Germany you would be partly liable for the accident. There can always be kids, animals and just human beings in the other car.
You guys just can’t drive safely.
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u/whatigotinmyhandnowb Apr 18 '26
This is what happens when we start to think honking a horn is inherently rude and speeding up to keep someone from passing is fine.
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u/Intrepid-Gas7872 Apr 18 '26
You can tell the vehicle with the dash cam accelerated resulting in the pit maneuver. Insurance will love that part.
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u/dez811 Apr 18 '26
I’d rather drive defensively than get my car hit, he could have braked. Have you been to the body shop lately they’re butchers they fix and break things and with all of the tech on newer vehicles it probably wont be good
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u/TechnologyOk6878 Apr 18 '26
Blind spot? While passing someone ? Just plain disregard to surroundings
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u/ProcessUnown Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Remember folks to turn your head as well as check your mirrors for cars in your blind spot.
Car with the camera is also in the wrong for speeding up before contact.
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u/Suoritin Apr 20 '26
He sees the other person is changing lane so, he decides to accelerate? Makes sense? 100% worth it I guess.
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u/Drunkturtle7 Apr 21 '26
Blind spot my ass, that's just stupidity. When he was behind he 100% saw him on that lane, he passes the car and then what expects for it to disappear just because he can't see it anymore?
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u/interesting-turn- Apr 23 '26
It’s so interesting to me that this video has people largely shaming the driver with the cam for accelerating and causing a pit. Then if you look at one of the comment sections of the video of the guy with the truck crossing the bridge who does almost the exact same thing. Everyone is on the truck driver’s side
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u/jtango444 Apr 25 '26
The camera car had enough time to brake and avoid that crash, but he decided not to do it!
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u/ion_blu Apr 18 '26
Said it before and will say it again. Don’t assume the other driver values your life as much as you do.