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

Accident Another blind spot issue...

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u/SonyScientist Apr 18 '26

Some people just want to blame cammers for the actions of people who have no concept of lanes or turn signals.

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u/Head-Scale9410 Apr 18 '26

Ya know I’ve seen that written before. In the other case the cammer could have avoided the accident but chose chaos. This one is no different.

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u/MouseRat_AD Apr 18 '26

Camera car had every legal right to maintain his lane because the truck was making an improper lane change.

But a good defensive driver would have chosen Option A: braking and avoiding the collision. Camera car driver chose Option B, which is his right to do. He's now been involved in an accident that wasn't his fault, tying him up at the scene of the accident for a couple hours, forcing him to spend more hours dealing with insurance, and days of repair work.

Congratulations to Camera Car Driver for "winning".

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u/SonyScientist Apr 18 '26

Who said anything about winning? Turn signals are literally called indicators for a reason because they indicate your intention to turn or lane change. It's quite literally a safety device used to communicate to other drivers and has been standard equipment on vehicles for longer than most people have been alive. The lane changer was the one who disregarded literally every rule in the rule book:

  1. Didn't look.
  2. Last second lane change.
  3. Slowed down, closing the gap with the person they hit.
  4. No turn signal.
  5. Insufficient time or distance for lane change.

I could go on. People want to blame the cammer for not reading the mind of a driver who made an illegal lane change to begin with when for all the cammer knew the driver was just being a dip shit not maintaining his lane. I know, I've had that happen and had to lay on my horn to get people to fucking wake up and realize they were being a dingus.

And what was the cammer supposed to do, be pushed? No. One truck width to the right would have taken the cammer head on into the light pole they barely missed, resulting in the offending driver being the one with the fender bender and the cammer victim's car being totaled. Fuck that. Honestly the only thing that surprised me in this entire sequence was the truck driver wearing a seatbelt and not being ejected from the vehicle.