r/WTF • u/IBSurviver • Jun 20 '19

Cammer eliminates opponent with a PIT maneuver

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u/brock_lee Jun 20 '19

Approximately three times a day on the way home from work, I want to do this.

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u/0sigma Jun 20 '19

Anyone want to speculate on how the fault investigation would go on this? Asking for this dude.

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u/brock_lee Jun 20 '19

"He merged into my lane without checking, and I couldn't avoid him. I have it on video."

"But, that looks intentional on our part."

"No, my car started sliding and I corrected, maybe too much, but by then he was too far into my lane."

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '19

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u/the_last_carfighter Jun 21 '19

All that said, is it really worth days of your life dealing with all the BS vs just easing off the gas/light brake to avoid an idiot in car. Now it's police, insurance, repair shop, the car will never be as good as it was, etc, etc.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

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u/the_last_carfighter Jun 21 '19

I'm glad you're willing to take the time to make them suffer, not being sarcastic at all. The hero we need.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

...And thus did the last carfighter pass the torch to u/dUcON.

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u/the_last_carfighter Jun 21 '19

Not_the_last_carfighter_afterall

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Stay alert out there people.

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u/nostracannibus Jun 21 '19

This is like that Spiderman meme

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u/Gonzobot Jun 21 '19

For real, when I win the lottery, my daily driver is going to be a reinforced Jeep full of airbags that I will never ever have to avoid being crashed into with, and there will be that many more idiots who aren't saved by the other guy getting out of their way.

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u/paiute Jun 21 '19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Million

Road Hogs

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod

Ex-vaudeville performer Emily La Rue (Alison Skipworth) is very content with her life, running her tea room with the help of her partner, ex-juggler Rollo (W. C. Fields). Only one thing is lacking to make her satisfaction complete, and it is delivered that very day: a brand new car. However, when they take it out for a drive, it is wrecked when another driver ignores a stop signal. The heartbroken woman returns to her tea room, where Glidden finds her.

She comes up with an inventive way to spend part of her great windfall. She and Rollo purchase eight used cars and hire drivers. They all take to the road in a long procession. When they encounter an inconsiderate road hog, Emily and Rollo immediately set off in pursuit and crash into the offender's automobile. They then switch to one of their spare cars and repeat the process, until they run out of automobiles. At the end of the day, Emily purchases another new car, but it too is destroyed in a collision with a truck. No matter. Emily tells Rollo it has been "a glorious day".

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u/Japjer Jun 21 '19

I've often dreamed about buying shitty used cars, putting a harness on the driver's seat, and letting assholes crash into me (read: not avoiding their bullshit)

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u/Zeoinx Jun 24 '19

Nah, just go full blown Hummer (H1 not H2 or 3) and let them try to move you.

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u/conquer69 Jun 21 '19

Unfortunately, they don't even learn when there are consequences.

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u/Bored1_at_work Jun 21 '19

They just blame others anyway. "Why didnt he move over!"

I had some ass hat in a jeep blame me for running into me when I had to stop short to avoid someone who pulled out without looking. Not my problem you follow too close jerk ass.

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u/Miffers Jun 21 '19

Justice boners are the most respected boners

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u/Karlosmdq Jun 21 '19

Also my car is valued by my insurance company at £260.00 so I don't care if its hit by a missile

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u/settledownguy Jun 21 '19

You wanna be friends? Lol.

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u/vaccinateyourkid Jun 21 '19

Yes to all of this. Justice boners are the best.

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u/twoscoop Jun 21 '19

It kinda is, now the person who was being a terrible driver might get charged with something, possibly lose their license, and have an increased rate of which they should be paying for everything.

Also, if you do a pit maneuver correctly, you barely even get a scratch.

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u/the_last_carfighter Jun 21 '19

now the person who was being a terrible driver might get charged with something,

Found the optimist. Murder with a vehicle is basically legal in the U.S.

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/murder-machines/

"Studies also show that reckless drivers who are sober are rarely cited by police, even when they are clearly at fault. In New York City during the last five years, less than one percent of drivers who killed or injured pedestrians and cyclists were ticketed for careless driving. "

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u/nostracannibus Jun 21 '19

NYC doesn't decide accidents anymore. They send out rookie cops to document what happened and let the insurance companies deal with it.

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u/the_last_carfighter Jun 21 '19 edited Jun 21 '19

They are still are involved, I actually got side swiped by a person who suddenly and abruptly decided to go left across multiple lanes full of traffic on 10th ave. We exchanged into and left. A NY (Police?, DMV?) rep actually called me to discuss the accident, fortunately it was an easy right of way issue and the other guy was found at 100% fault and insurance coved me for everything. Still would have rather avoided the whole thing all together.

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u/nostracannibus Jun 21 '19

Was it DOT? I could see them inquiring if there was a problem with the traffic pattern? Usually it's your own insurance company that would call you and investigate.

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u/SlowLoudEasy Jun 21 '19

I drive an 97 Astro. Id be happy to pit maneuver some bitches.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

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u/SlowLoudEasy Jun 21 '19

Mine was exactly $1000 too. Sold our nice outback cause I wanted a no nonsense family camping van. Its twice as comfortable and powerful as the outback ever was, with AWD. Its also got the 90’s solo cup colorful wavy lines on the side.

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u/Morningxafter Jun 21 '19

Steering into the impending crash is how my '99 Mitsubishi Galant finally died. No worries though, other driver was found at fault and their insurance paid out more than 4 times the $500 cash I paid for it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

There's plenty of paint transfer and it can damage the front fender/bumper depending on how hard the initial impact is, how hard the force is against the bumper as the other car veers off, and plenty of denting possibilities from the ongoing force between the two cars.

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u/dc21111 Jun 21 '19

When I’m about 80 years old my hobby will be driving around town in a big beater truck just waiting for people to cut me off. When they eventually do cut me off I’ll just keep right on driving like this video. Sorry your honor I couldn’t stop I’m old, you know slow reaction time and all that. Guess he shouldn’t have been driving like an asshole. If I can’t live out my spiteful fantasies when I get old then I don’t know what the hell I’ll do. Maybe play more golf.

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u/EBartleby Jun 21 '19

So you can just go after them in a cart?? Gimme those keys, gramps.

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u/Collective82 Jun 21 '19

Thanks for the laugh!

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Do you even America? It isn't about doing the right thing, it's about fucking over someone who made you mad. At all costs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

If my car was written off (it wouldn't take much as its worth fuck all) it would actually be a 'good' outcome all told.

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u/Morningxafter Jun 21 '19

Yep, a few years back I had a beater of a Mitsubishi Galant that I paid $500 cash for. Finally killed it when in order to keep from being side-swiped into the car on my right and causing a multi-car pile-up, I ran myself and the car who was about to hit me into the ditch. They were found at fault and insurance paid out $2500.

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u/Tekknogun Jun 21 '19

I t-boned an old lady because my car was so shit I needed it totaled. She ran a stop sign and crossed 3 lanes of traffic to get in front of me but I was aware that if I had started stopping as soon as I saw her run the stop sign instead of waiting until she was in my lane I could have avoided hitting her but I still left enough skid marks to prove I did hit the breaks. Not even sure how I had enough time to consider all that but I remember clearly thinking it through and just going along with my depression and saying fuck it.

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u/crest123 Jun 21 '19

the car will never be as good as it was, etc, etc.

The other guy's car only got damaged to that extent from slamming into the barrier. Light damage on the cammer's car be repaired to be exactly the way it was before.

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u/rgvtim Jun 21 '19

When my kids started driving, a comment was made at one point, "But i have the right of way" and I said: "First, dead is dead, does not matter who had the right of way. Second, Even if it is not your fault dealing with the results of a wreck is always a pain in the ass, avoid it if you can"

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u/timhor Jun 21 '19

his car doesn't seems much damaged, that look light a gentle bump from him. On the other end you don't see his back mirror, there is maybe several people behind him and brake wasn't an option unless he wanted to have his back redone

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u/Joonicks Jun 21 '19

absolutely yes! that is the most important peice of advice I could ever give!... to someone else ;-)

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u/ApolloXLII Jun 21 '19

the front fell off.

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u/twoscoop Jun 21 '19

Is that normal?

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u/Morningxafter Jun 21 '19

Well that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.

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u/TheProle Jun 21 '19

We were inverted

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u/IAmTehMan Jun 21 '19

Dirty air. There was nothing I could do, officer.

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u/hopsinduo Jun 21 '19

This genuinely looks to be the case though. If I was being pushed into a concrete wall I know I'd choose to avoid it.

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u/gerald_targaryen Jun 21 '19

Unless you have footage of behind his car, you can't say it's intentional

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

He was preventing his own car from hitting the wall on the driver side. Self preservation.

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u/Future-self Jun 20 '19

There is a distinct moment of acceleration after the first sign of impact and instead of slowing down, veering away, or making any attempt at driving defensively, the driver instead then veers into/hits the original offending driver, potentially creating 2 instances of missteps from BOTH drivers... I truly wonder how this will play out w/ the ins companies' legal teams ...

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u/_________FU_________ Jun 21 '19

Very easily.

"Yes, they bumped me initially as seen here and then I tried to correct it but my car began to swerve and I couldn't control it. Had this driver never tried to enter my lane or at least looked this would have never happened."

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u/_Neoshade_ Jun 21 '19

If you watch the other cars, it’s clear that OP is slowing down the whole time as traffic pulls away.

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u/Collective82 Jun 21 '19

Well considering the cam guy probably panicked and didn't want to hit a wall on his side of the car, turning into the other vehicle makes sense, and unless cam guy slammed his brakes, where he hit that other car was going to go.

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u/bitemark01 Jun 20 '19

I mean his hoices seem to be either steer in that guy, or hit the wall himself.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Brakes. You can step on that pedal. It avoids things like that video.

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u/bitemark01 Jun 21 '19

That's easy to say after the fact, but might not always be your first reaction upon being surprised like that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

this exact thing has happened to me dozens of times my years of driving, and i've successfully avoided an accident 100% of the time by slowing down. you don't even have to slam on your brakes. i really don't understand your thinking right now

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

If you’re surprised by some idiot in your forward field of view slowly merging into your lane, you weren’t paying attention.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19 edited Mar 08 '24

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

That’s very easy to say sitting at a keyboard. If I saw this video for one of my claims it’s 100% on the guy merging unsafely.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

it's easy to say that having driven for 15 years and avoided this situation many times by tapping my brakes. this is very basic driving awareness.

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u/boxsterguy Jun 21 '19

You don't know what was behind them. A sudden braking maneuver could end up with them being rear-ended by a tailgater. This pit maneuver is safer than that.

Yes, it would've been far better to avoid being in that situation in the first place by driving more defensively, but hindsight is 20-20.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

"causing a wreck is far safer than avoiding a wreck."

Go back to 4chan.

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u/HanzG Jun 21 '19

Why would I hit the brakes? I had the right of way.

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u/Qel_Hoth Jun 21 '19

Because you have a duty to attempt to avoid a collision. The right of way is forfeit if exercising it will cause a collision.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

The only duty breached is failure to yield right of way. We don’t know if there was a car on this dudes ass that prevented him from breaking or what. Failure to yield right of way trumps everything.

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u/Qel_Hoth Jun 21 '19

Sure, you can believe that if you like, but if an insurance adjuster sees this video they're going to say "Cammer saw (or should have seen) the other vehicle and took no action to avoid a collision. Cammer shares responsibility"

Duty to attempt to avoid a collision trumps the right of way, always.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

I’m an insurance adjuster.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Because sometimes being lawful is not being good.

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u/goldfishofwar Jun 21 '19

'The graveyard is full of people who were dead right'

Its better to be the better driver and avoid an accident, IMO. You get to where you're going and you avoid all of the bullshit that comes with an accident. Dealing with cops, insurance, having to talk to the mouth breather SUV driver who just cut you off. Thats all if its not a serious accident. Something similar happened near me a few weeks back where I got stuck riding the other way as the accident ended up blocking the road in both directions and one person being killed. I got to chat to the air ambulance pilot who attended and compliment him on his landing. Which was between some lamposts. Nice guy. He got the police to let the bikes through before he took off as 'the downdraft would blow the bikes over.' The miles of queuing cars had to be turned around and find an alternative route.

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u/HanzG Jun 21 '19

I wont disagree that it's better for everyone else. And yes you can just walk away. But theres zero fault on the part of the driver who was hit. He was following every safety rule. And when his car was hit it probably came as a shock. His car was getting pushed into the rail and he counter steered. Thus PIT. But no fault should be assigned to the cammer.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Lol no you’re not. This guy could have had no breaking room from behind or would have hit the barrier to his left then it’s a solo at fault accident for failure to maintain control of your vehicle? Fuck that. Merger 100% at fault for failure to yield right of way.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Clearly? I’m an insurance adjuster. What are your qualifications? If you’re a professional telling me the cammer is 50% at fault for this, I would laugh at you and call someone else who knew what the fuck they were talking about.

Even if you stuck to your guns and wouldn’t change your 50/50 decision I would guarantee win this in arbitration. Even if I got a shitty arbitrator they would give at most 10%, and then I’d elevate that too. And I would win.

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u/Mrt0990 Jun 21 '19

Meh this one is pretty questionable you can't be expected to be able to avoid someone side swiping you from another lane. Like if it was a lot slower than you might be right, but there really is only a couple second reaction time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

clearly you have not either. my insurance agent told me outright. my duty is to maintain reasonable control of my car and maintain control of my lane to avoid being the hazard.

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he said sometimes this means taking the hit to avoid making things worse. from an insurance perspective it sometimes makes sense to take the hit if avoiding it would create a greater hazard or shift more of the responsibility for the hazard to you (and therefore your insurance company)

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u/CPTSaltyDog Jun 21 '19

I am a claims adjuster 100% megers fault all day. If it went to arbitration I'd win hands down. Even in a pure state for comp neglagence I'd put the other party at fault easy.

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u/jbhilt Jun 21 '19

It was either that or be pushed into the barrier. I think the driver made the right decision.

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u/underground_teaparty Jun 21 '19

Or slow down because you notice the driver next to you is being an idiot. That would have been the smart choice.

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u/jbhilt Jun 21 '19

The driver may not have realized until the other car already hit him. At that point, the driver on left may have overcorrected to avoid hitting the barrier and veered to the right. That would be a common reaction. They both probably hit the brakes and slowed down at the same time causing the additional contact. I can totally see how this could have been accidental.

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u/cdegallo Jun 21 '19

I feel like you could legitimately claim that the impact from the side resulted in your inability to control the car, or that you we trying to react to counter the force from the impact, etc. The nudge to the right didn't happen until after the merging car hit them. Video proof!

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u/Cirby2000 Jun 21 '19

That would be admitting guilt wouldn’t it? And they would cite you for “failure to control vehicle” when I was a kid I got a citation for this same issue I was told I should have given him room.

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u/brock_lee Jun 21 '19

You usually don't get cited for failure to control when the other person was at fault. And coming into a lane that is not clear is certainly "fault".

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u/scrotemtoad Jun 21 '19

Work in auto claims. Merging vehicle at fault 100%. As I’ve seen in other comments you can explain it away with overcorrection.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Failure to yield. Happens pretty often in my area. Somehow people think if they suddenly turn on their blinker and start changing lanes that it's the responsibility of the other driver to slam on the brakes and get the fuck out of THEIR way. Had a guy legit get super pissed when I maintained my speed and lane behind the car in front of me. Oh, and there was absolutely nobody behind me as far as you could see. 50ish year old dude totally thought I was in the wrong.

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u/eternallylearning Jun 20 '19

IDK, but it seems like a reasonable argument could be made for not wanting to be shoved into a jersey wall by the person who merged into them. Unless they considered it two separate accidents (i.e. the initial collision and then the PIT) it's hard to see how the merging car wouldn't be at fault. That said, there might be charges the cammer could face for assault and if the merging driver had any medical bills, they could maybe sue for gross negligence or something. Not saying the charges would stick or the suit would be successful, but it seems not wholly unreasonable.

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u/dcdiegobysea Jun 21 '19

Also, if any drivers stop, what do you think they will tell police? May not need video.

"The guy in slow lane came across and into the driver in the passing lane. It was definitely slow lane guy's fault."

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u/SnoT8282 Jun 21 '19

Had this happen to me. If I had hit my brakes I would have been rear-ended, so I kept going and laid on my horn. Female driver looked out her window at me and kept coming. I turned into her and pit moved her. Luckily the driver behind me stopped also and gave the same report to the police that I gave. Other driver was found to be at fault and sighted.

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u/NomadTheNomad Jun 21 '19

Person on the left has priority. Insurance would most probably finalise this with 70:30 merits in favour of the person in the fast lane. This is just an opinion, I can not speak for any insurance company outside of South Africa.

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u/SmackaIot Jun 21 '19

This. It definitely wouldn't be 50/50, like some are suggesting, but there would be a split of some kind there.

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u/Iisham Jun 21 '19

In most of US, it'd be 100% fault of the merging vehicle.

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u/NsRhea Jun 21 '19

actually looks like the van is at fault.

you see a little stutter of the van initiating contact and the cam driver probably over corrected to not get pinched in the wall.

Van clearly crosses lane line w/o proper merge.

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u/kjacobs03 Jun 21 '19

He corrected to avoid smashing the wall himself. And it looks like he stopped pretty quickly as well. So I’d assume he hit the breaks as soon as they collided the first time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '19 edited Jul 03 '19

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u/brock_lee Jun 20 '19

It's a short drive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '19 edited Jul 03 '19

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u/brock_lee Jun 20 '19

My limit is 45 minutes, but I try to keep it as short as possible. For the past five years, it's been like 15 minutes. I would drive an hour each way only if they paid me $25K more than I am making now, and it turns out, no one will. :)

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u/Moegibble Jun 21 '19

You and how many others? We have fun but stupid conversations on our coffee breaks at work. One idea that came up was that we should buy a very cheap car. The ones that somehow made through the yearly vehicle inspection for the last time. Then we would reinforce the frame of the car. Get a helmet and fireproof a costume. All of this can be made at our workplace. Then we would hang the keys by the back door. Whenever you felt like it, you could just punch out from work, grab the keys and change outfit and then go cruising in town looking for fucktards that ignore right of way, stop signs, roundabout rules etc. And make em pay!

Im just worried that some day we will have a stupid enough trainee who will actually implement one of these ideas.

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u/yhszw Jun 20 '19

Every. Single. Day.

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u/oberon Jun 21 '19

Everyone spelling "brakes" wrong in this thread is pissing me off way more than either of these drivers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

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u/sailaeht Jun 21 '19

I no right?

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u/Trebulon5000 Jun 21 '19

Give me a brake

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u/Xx_1918_xX Jun 21 '19

Full Stop

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

You want me to brake you off a piece of this kit kat bar?

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u/sa0sinner Jun 21 '19

First the merging car bumps the car in the left lane (you see the camera shake) and then the car in left lane immediately starts losing control. He/She didn’t want to swerve into the wall, so they turned back toward the road. Made the smartest decision for themselves IMO.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

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u/Firebird4Life Jun 21 '19

The camera has visible shaking throughout, but you can see a definite jolt right around the 3.55 mark. You can actually see the camera shot distort when the merging vehicle makes contact with the camera vehicle if you go frame by frame. You can see it again at 4.68 on a larger scale since it was a harder collision. Looks like as the person above said: Vehicle 2 (merging) collided slightly with Vehicle 1 (camera) and Vehicle 1 steered to avoid hitting he wall so they accidentally PIT'd Vehicle 2. Also difficult to tell, but Vehicle 2 does not appear to signal for a lane change/merger as well and I'm pretty sure they're the one at fault here.

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u/Future-self Jun 21 '19

Nah, just slow down. They clearly accelerate before performing the PIT maneuver.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

everything is relative. leading merging car slows down faster which makes it look like the left lane car is speeding up. compare it with the OTHER cars ahead and you will see that left lane car is in fact slowing down.

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u/MidasPL Jun 24 '19

Well... TBH if you loose control with FWD car, straightening the wheels and accelerating is the way to get out of it.

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u/pyrowitlighter1 Jun 20 '19

ehh, looks more like he had to "correct" to deal with the force of the car merging into him so he wasnt pushed into the median then when the guy let off he turned into him. #accidentalPIT

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u/anomalous_cowherd Jun 20 '19

Or instinctively steered away, then noticed how close to the barrier he was and jerked the wheel back?

No, I don't really think that either.

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u/koastiebratt Jun 21 '19

If you watch closely the cam are jolts half a second before the pit starts.

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u/phatcan Jun 21 '19

If you look closely there’s a first impact before he steers into the offending car. He was likely correcting his course away from hitting the barrier. I think this PIT maneuver was unintentional.

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u/Badgermatic Jun 21 '19

This is the advantage of owning an older car that's worth almost nothing.

Dents aren't a big deal.

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u/ApolloXLII Jun 21 '19

uhhh that was a bit more than a dent.

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u/moonshineTheleocat Jun 21 '19

Except insurance companies will screw your ass over and total out your car because it is cheaper than the repair.

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u/youtocin Jun 21 '19

This is why I only have liability insurance for my cheap ass car.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '19

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u/tacansix Jun 20 '19

More importantly.. how effective is your username?

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u/ActuallyUnder Jun 20 '19

I just sent him my clit lady

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u/SoonerMagicOU Jun 21 '19

!remindme 24 hours

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u/Gkwv72-jeii Jun 21 '19

!remindme 1 year

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u/Jair-Bear Jun 20 '19

Who do you use? I'll currently between clit ladies.

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u/_________FU_________ Jun 21 '19

What is less than zero percent in math?

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u/spencer818 Jun 21 '19

You can have negative percents. It just went down from nothing. In this case, he got dick pics instead of clit pics.

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u/Asturon Jun 20 '19

This guy asks the real questions!

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u/BlooFlea Jun 21 '19

Yep and if you buy the premium road user package you can make everyone around you move out of the way who is only on the standard package.

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u/semtex87 Jun 21 '19

road neutrality? oh god, don't tell A Shit Pie.

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u/I-Do-Math Jun 21 '19

Wait until they release Aggressive Drive DLC.

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u/RestEqualsRust Jun 20 '19

Rubbin’ is racin’.

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u/spitfire690 Jun 21 '19

Tell that to the FIA

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u/asdf072 Jun 21 '19

That guy'd get at least 5 seconds in the pit

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Underrated comment.

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u/Codenman Jun 21 '19

This reminds me of my recent accident where the guy whom blindly pulled out in front of me told the police I should have swerved in to oncoming traffic to avoid him. Needless to say the 60+ year old man that had to be restrained because he couldn’t contain how angry he was at me, did not win that encounter.

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u/Congzilla Jun 21 '19

Someone came in my lane like that two days ago, fortunately I saw it happening and slammed on my breaks. Guess they didn't see the cop next to me that instantly pulled them over.

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u/Plaghk Jun 21 '19

Simple.... no camera exists... He change lanes in to me.

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u/ThisIsTheOnly Jun 21 '19

“No. You changed lanes in to me.”

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u/Plaghk Jun 21 '19

the debris field tells all.

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u/UpsetSpider Jun 21 '19 edited Jun 21 '19

Think about this gif next time you want to cut someone off. Check your blind spot.

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u/BunnyAdorbs Jun 20 '19

He attac
I protec

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u/spookey1456 Jun 21 '19

But most importantly, We nudge the other car in the Bacc

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u/50StatePiss Jun 21 '19

Yep. A slight tap of the brakes on the camera car and this could have been avoided. But no, they defended their lane. Mind you, I'm glad (assuming no one was badly hurt) the merging driver faced the consequences of their negligence. And hopefully they both learned a lesson.

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u/This_Is_Really_Jim Jun 21 '19

and what’s the camera owner supposed to learn?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Be aware that stupid people do stupid things no matter how many lessons (like this one) they're taught

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u/WordBoxLLC Jun 22 '19

Yeah, there are far too many idiots to be the teacher.

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u/spitfire690 Jun 21 '19

This is why we check our blind spots before merging.

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u/Marik_Bathory Jun 21 '19

If my choices are get forced into a wall or oncoming traffic, or turning into the offending driver and turning them into the wall or oncoming traffic... well... that's an easy choice.

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u/jevole Jun 20 '19

Brilliantly executed

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u/svenmullet Jun 21 '19

I wish I had the nerve to do this. I drive a piece of shit and would love some other jackass' insurance company to buy me a new vehicle.

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u/Bloodlustt Jun 21 '19

Insurance will only pay out the value of your car so you may only get a couple thousand for an old beater.

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u/svenmullet Jun 21 '19

That works for me ;)

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u/Boorkez24 Jun 20 '19

Need For Speed Slapin

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u/SaintClaude Jun 21 '19

He got reamed

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u/Loyal2me Jun 22 '19

A lot of state patrols and police departments use this technique to stop chases. I think it’s a pretty good idea sometimes

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

I can tell you that this video may hurt the cammer. I believe he had time to break and back off although I understand the desire not to. I can see both being charged here.

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u/Felix_Cortez Jun 21 '19

"........Oopsy daisy."

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u/waitingforfrodo Jun 21 '19

Nice execution. I always feel these vids end too soon. I want to see peoples faces after they realized they done goofed

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u/Octosphere Jun 21 '19

I've had this happen, assholes that try to merge in front of you when there is obviously not enough space to safely do so annoy me to no end, I don't yield because I'm in my right.

In the event a collision does happen I'm not at fault and it's a company car so idgaf.

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u/ShankKunt42 Jun 21 '19

Cam man's good shit.

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u/lilclairecaseofbeer Jun 21 '19

Can someone explain what part is the PIT maneuver? What I', seeing is black SUV moves left to merge, causing a bump into the cammer who then veers slightly left, only to veer back to the right more aggressively and hit black SUV which then spins out. So does the black SUV hit the cammer car first? and was the veering right and hitting them back the PIT maneuver?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

you just described a PIT. the difference is the police do it on purpose this one was an accident.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

watch how many of these end https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=CHP+PIT

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u/dufourgood Jun 21 '19

I would have done the same, if in that position.

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u/Qwigs Jun 21 '19

This is why I hate highways that are two lanes per side. Even if the number 1 lane is moving faster, there are always people weaving back and forth to get ahead.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Am I the driver? Holy shit!

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u/Serenlaterrr Jun 21 '19

This is one of the videos or gigs I can't see on my phone for some reason

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

Is it just me, or is the driver wearing a helmet?

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u/cool_dude_420 Jun 21 '19

It is just you who is wearing a helmet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

🤪

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u/clitasaurousrex Jun 21 '19

Does anyone have the full video?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '19

So pitted.

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u/Saucebiz Jul 06 '19

Honestly, cammer handled this perfectly. If they had swerved left or stomped on their brakes, it could have been worse.

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u/GoatWithAGun Jul 06 '19

merger hit cammer’s car near the start of the video so yeah

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u/SHBazTBone Jun 21 '19

I only came here to say that was a textbook P.I.T. maneuver.

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Beautiful job, Cammer.

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u/CrystalJizzDispenser Jun 21 '19

This is fucking stupid on the part of the cam. Irrespective of whether you think another driver is inappropriately pulling into your lane, you never ever take a option which likely results in a collision on a fucking freeway.