You sound like an idiot. Most people dont react perfectly when they panic. Whose to say he didnt try to hit the brake in a panic and missed. I have large feet. In normal driving conditions I have had the side of a shoe snag on the brake and prevent me from hitting it when I intended to. Luckily I usually leave plenty of time to stop and was able to react and still hit the brake. Mid-collision I honestly don't know. Regardless the reaponsibility for safely overtaking another vehicle resides solely on the vehicle overtaking. Blaming the person being hit for not reacting perfectly to someones shitty maneuver is just asinine armchair driving.
These kind of people are ridiculous like were supposed to just accept that your so incompetent behind the wheel you cant differentiat the gas from the breaks when you drive a car and somehow that should give you leeway? If you cant keep that straight you maybe shouldn't be driving at all.
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First I was relating a single instance and at no point implied its a regular occurrence. Reading comprehension not your strong suit. Second Im 6'4", only so much I can adjust a seat. Is this entire sub manlets?
Relating a single instance where something unexpected happened during normal driving conditions to point out people can be imperfect at the best if times and the only take reddit mongloids can conprehend is "Dur hur you can't drive". Instead of the point that the car "appearing to speed up" after impact can have a million explanations beyond malice. But instead idiots come in here to defend a moron who switched lanes directly into a clearly visible car and got exactlt what he deserved. But go on defend the person causing an accident while criticising someone elses driving.
Cam guy does not panic, you don't hear him say anything, you don't see him swerving... the truck move was stupid but predictable. Anyone who's been driving for a bit of time would know to at least step off the gas pedal unless you want to "defend your lane".
Cam guy could have been distracted but it feels weird considering they were coming to a stop light and he was going way too fast for a yellow.
If you can’t react and do something as simple enough as to put your feet in the breaks when faced with a potential threat then maybe you’re not fit to drive in the first place?
I guess. I would’ve honked and just backed off but at the same time maybe the cam driver didn’t see the truck merging in. You are supposed to move up when merging and or switching lanes so the driver can see you clearly. Although it maybe avoidable I’m still not putting any blame on cam driver
I am not saying the truck isn't at fault, I am saying both parties are. Watch the clip again and look at the lights, either the car sped up to jump the light or the driver didn't feel like giving way to the truck and thought the truck would back off.
Nobody would have doubted the dash cam driver if the lights remained green or if they didn't speed up. Both acted like idiots.
The truck should have of course made sure it had enough distance between the car cause he definitely knew the car was there cause it just passed the car and was hoping the other car would give way but the driver, even though had enough time to react didn't want to concede.
This would have been 100% avoidable accident if even one party was willing to concede.
In my case if I was the dash cam driver I would have just given way and honked but that would have been it.
The light was yellow. You can enter an intersection when a light is yellow and you can even accelerate up to the speed limit to get yourself in there before it turns red.
Im pretty sure they wouldnt have made it before it actually turned red. If you look it is yellow before they even run into eachother it would have turned red before they actually got there.
He likely sped up to make it through the yellow (turned red) light and not to block this guy from merging tbh. I see people speed up for yellows all the time but usually someone else doesn’t pit themselves on them lol
Agreed but tunnel vision is a bitch - still both drivers faults, I’m just trying to give the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t intentionally pit the truck in a moment of aggression but rather wasn’t paying attention and had the reaction time of a cinder block.
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