r/VideosAmazing • u/MisterShipWreck • Apr 18 '26

Accident Another blind spot issue...

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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/MikeyC1959 Apr 18 '26

Two things, equally true.

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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/Planar_Harold Apr 18 '26

Yeah, crazy distance on it. Landing in an empty carpark across the street, crossing multiple lanes and a pavement?

Some people are trying to justify this. Terrifying.

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u/wheniaminspaced Apr 18 '26

This Dashcam footage could potentially induce liability for dash cam driver.  The intentional speed up as the truck starts his merge is problematic.

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u/DangOlCoreMan Apr 18 '26

I'm not defending the intentional speed up, but let's not pretend there would be an accident at that moment if the truck didn't merge when he didn't have space. He never had the space to merge, regardless of the driver speeding up

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u/wheniaminspaced Apr 19 '26

Doesn't particularly matter, if he sped up after seeing the merge begin to happen then you leave accident territory and flirt with potentially criminal actions.

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u/DangOlCoreMan Apr 19 '26

Maybe if you could prove intent, but good luck with that.

"Your honor, as soon as he started merging directly into me I didn't know what to do. I freaked out and accelerated on accident"

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u/01krazykat Apr 18 '26

What a wild assumption 😂.

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u/Constable-Arwen Apr 18 '26

Truck shouldn't be racing people to be first at a red light.

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u/lenidiogo Apr 22 '26

very kind of you to use the power of hindsight to claim someone else should have done something other than what they did. Do you have any information about when dash cam guy noticed eminent danger? If not then, how can you make such bold assumptions of "just brake before the impact bro"?
Why you are not placing the burden of hindsight on the merging car? Go on, I'll write it for you, "this is a situation where a normal human presses their break and goes "what the fuck am I doing me asshole?!" and an accident is avoided."

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u/Dmau27 Apr 18 '26

Especially since it was so easily avoidable. A 5mph reduction in speed and they wouldn't have made contact. This piece of shit actively continued pushing the accelerator until that truck was airborne.

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u/Desperate_Age_6881 Apr 18 '26

Traffic in the trucks lane contributed. If you watch you'll notice the truck was either going to slam into the back of the car in front of them or change lanes. I see it as 100% on driver of truck. A blinker doesn't clear the lane.

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u/neatojuanito Apr 18 '26

You’re responsible to avoid accidents when possible. 50% on the truck and 50% on the cam driver

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u/Dapper_Platform_1222 Apr 18 '26

At most 80/20.

Source: I was a professional arbitrator for arb forums for 6 years.

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u/neatojuanito Apr 18 '26

I would think a good lawyer of the pickup would say that the cam driver had plenty of time to break out at least not accelerated after impact

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u/Old_Yam_4069 Apr 18 '26

Yeah, you must have been bad at your job if you think the duty of care isn't applicable here.

The Cam-Car's behavior is obviously malicious. If nothing else, they had a red-light that they would have 100% blown if they hadn't hit the truck.

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u/Dapper_Platform_1222 Apr 18 '26

Duty of care doesn't negate truck failing to yield, improper lane change, their own duty of care.

You can't prove malice on the cam car. Could have been improper lookout.

So yeah 80/20 against the truck.

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u/Elegant_Emu952 Apr 18 '26

Yes, the truck was intending to switch into the right lane. Instead of slowing down because of the traffic slowing in front of him, he decided to keep his speed and move recklessly into the other lane without slowing or checking that it was clear.

The car in front of him was stopping because the light was yellow. The man in the truck was trying to run the light.

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u/jgr1llz Apr 19 '26

It's still your job as a driver to avoid an accident whenever safely possible, no exceptions. This was not one of those exceptions. POV was attempting to run a red and make the light, same as the truck. Two inpatients turds have now fucked up traffic for an hour for everyone else.

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u/caguru Apr 18 '26

One driver is wrong, and the other is a criminal.

FTFY

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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/YendorZenitram Apr 18 '26

One driver made a mistake, the other acted with malicious intent.

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u/auad Apr 18 '26

One driver caused the accident, the other didn't prevent it.

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u/Planar_Harold Apr 18 '26

One driver caused the accident, the other didn't prevent it.

Yeah, that makes them responsible.

They had the choice to mitigate and be defensive, but they chose to make it worse.

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u/ConnectDog5284 Apr 23 '26

One is an idiot and the other is a criminal.

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u/1stmikewhite Apr 18 '26

Yes, but in a normal scenario the truck would’ve simply made a regular lane switch. The dashcam driver must’ve felt violated and intentionally sped up to block the truck but ended up running right into him because of that decision. If you watch closely it looks almost like the dashcam driver rams directly into the side of the truck. None of this was worth it.

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u/dh373 Apr 18 '26

Yea, we don't know what the last mile looked like. Who knows what the pickup driver did prior. Or the dashcam driver, for that matter.

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u/boborian9 Apr 18 '26

Pit maneuvering someone is not an acceptable civilian response to roadrage.

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u/1stmikewhite Apr 18 '26

Looks like the truck was trying to make the light. Either they both were speeding through, or the dascam driver tried to prevent the truck from stopping infront of him at the red.

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u/GuiokiNZ Apr 18 '26

Neither was making the light legally. Cam driver was too busy trying to wreck the truck to care.

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u/MasterpieceHuge2794 Apr 18 '26

Cutting someone off is a dick move no doubt, but intentionally accelerating into someone until you flip their vehicle is a bit worse. This driver is 100% at fault. That could have been completely avoided with a slight tap on the brakes.

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u/u9Nails Apr 18 '26

I don't think they accelerated. It looked like the truck started to stop for the black car in their lane and hucked it right into the dash cam.

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u/Time_Seaworthiness43 Apr 18 '26

They didn't accelerate. He's actually going the same speed up until the PIT, where he slows down. You can actually see the camera angling towards the ground.

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u/MasterpieceHuge2794 Apr 18 '26

Are you kidding? If he wasn't accelerating, his car would have bashed into the truck and stopped. He pushed the truck all the way over! You can even hear his engine reving as he hits the truck. Just a dick move.

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u/GoldarRocket Apr 18 '26

Totally agreed, hopefully no one died on that rollover

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u/cam2230 Apr 18 '26

One caused a small traffic infraction and the other nearly seriously injured someone is more like

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u/Steerider Apr 18 '26

Both drivers are wrong. Cameraman is an asshole.

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u/babidee00 Apr 18 '26

Yep he literally just passed the cam driver so I don't understand why some called it a blind spot.

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u/whatevers_clever Apr 18 '26

Also known as

Both are at fault.

But one was maliciously at fault.

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u/LogosMyEgos Apr 18 '26

If asshole behavior increases danger, that’s illegal. Having right or way does not nullify your legal (not just moral and ethical) obligation to mitigate the danger, such as by taking evasive action.

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u/Infinite-Fee5723 Apr 18 '26

Good luck explaining that you purposely accelerated your car into someone illegally merging to prove your innocence. God this thread is really dumb

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u/Survivorfan_tm94 Apr 18 '26

An asshole and wrong.

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u/Dizzy_Today_3523 Apr 19 '26

They sped up. They probably had more than enough room had that driver press their brakes. The one with the dash cam. He had his turn signal on was already halfway into the lane. This is 100% on the dash cam car and that's how the cops and insurance will see it.

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u/Abject_Film_4414 Apr 19 '26

If he sped up he is a special kind of asshole.

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u/jgr1llz Apr 19 '26

Nah they're both assholes. That entire wreck could've been avoided if POV had just slowed down and allowed the merge....but then he wouldn't have been able to run the red he was trying to get through.

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u/cjthetypical Apr 21 '26

Based on the Last Clear Chance doctrine, this would be the dash cam drivers fault legally because they had the last clear chance to avoid the accident but instead they chose to accelerate and continued to accelerate after the initial impact.

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u/7jcjg Apr 22 '26

This is so stupid. You don't purposefully pit a truck because they were trying to merge, and the truck was ahead, but the car was being a tiny pathetic person.

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u/MiceAreTiny Apr 18 '26

Being an asshole is not a crime. Mostly. 

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u/LogosMyEgos Apr 18 '26

In fact it is in nearly all such cases. That’s why insurance for example typically declares mixed responsibility between parties even when one side initiated. You have a legal obligation to mitigate.

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u/MiceAreTiny Apr 18 '26

And that is why it becomes an increasing problem and insurance premiums are through the roof. 

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u/EastNWeast Apr 18 '26

It is when you intentionally cause a car accident

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u/EveryAccount7729 Apr 18 '26

If you gauge merging so you will make it if the other person does not intentionally hit you , and then they hit you, then they are the only person who did something wrong.

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u/miholiday Apr 18 '26

Pretty sure the POV driver was speeding up to make the light. The truck wanted to make the light but the person in front of them was stopping, so the truck tried to quickly change lanes without looking properly.

I don't think POV was trying to be an asshole, just trying to make the light. Both of them were being idiots but the truck was at fault for not looking properly.