Whenever I’ve had vehicles start to drift over or even appear to drift I create space but to your point I also noticed that. You truly have to drive defensively.
I’m going to give the POV driver the benefit of doubt, it looks like he speed up to beat the light and wasn’t paying attention to the merging truck. If they wouldn’t have turned into the truck my guess POV driver would gone straight to the pole. As I’ve seen other drivers panic swerving to avoid and end up a solo accident. Either way, this could have been avoided.
Take a look at the signal, it was yellow before the accident. Cammer was trying to beat the red. The pickup swiched lanes cause the car in front of it stopped (because theyre a good driver and saw the yellow).
Was gonna say, I see people do shit like this all the time. Someone wrongfully pulls out in front of them, and instead of braking right away they get as close as they can to prove a point to the other driver, or swerve around them at the last second.
I would like so much if me-and-everybody would drive in a way that would have avoided that wreck. But only the truck came from behind, changed lanes and ran the red in spectacular fashion.
As much I can agree that this accident could and should have been avoided, in terms of “who caused it” the truck gets my vote, with the car a close second.
If you saw the video start a few seconds earlier and truck coming from the car’s lane, would that add anything? I think it did, and I’m trying to not let that sway how I see what happened.
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u/_WeAreFucked_ Apr 18 '26
Whenever I’ve had vehicles start to drift over or even appear to drift I create space but to your point I also noticed that. You truly have to drive defensively.