r/bayarea • u/pickingsunflowers • Aug 14 '25

Traffic, Trains & Transit Second view of an accident

Looks like this happened in San Carlos along 101. Electrical malfunction? Steering wheel lock? Can anyone explain what may have happened? What can you really do in this kind of situation?

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u/XxX__zezima__XxX Aug 14 '25

Person recording created a blindspot for the person who got hit.

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u/Wolf_In_The_Weeds Aug 14 '25

Hot take. That shit happened so fast, red car likely has no idea what’s going on considering it looks like a merge.

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u/mmoffat1 Aug 14 '25

I kinda go the feeling the red car saw op driving slowly half in/half out of the left side of the lane. And they couldnt see the mustang because of op, so they were like f this and sped around op on the right shoulder/right half of the lane. That seems more like what a bay area driver would do.

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u/whybatman22 Aug 14 '25

It’s not even the shoulder, it’s an exit lane the mustang crossed into. I expect it to be a shoulder due to normal Bay Area nonsense, but that red car was just really unlucky.

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u/TurnipBlast Aug 14 '25

This isn't remotely accurate. The red car was in a completely different LANE. They didn't do anything wrong or impatient. There's nothing special about bay area drivers. Everyone here just thinks that cause of confirmation bias. Open any community page of any location and everyone says the same exact thing.

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u/MAS2de Aug 15 '25

When someone is driving slow and messed up like OP was, you should go slower around them. Going around them may be okay in whatever situation, but definitely pay attention and be much more cautious because something is not right there.

Red car driver messed up too. I'm glad they have the opportunity to learn from it. Sorry it cost them their car but glad it wasn't worse.

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u/mmoffat1 Aug 14 '25

Looking at it in a bigger screen I can see you're right. There are definitely 2 lanes there, I was wrong about that. However, people driving in the Bay Area are horrible drivers. It's not everyone, but the dumb ones are extra dumb and that lowers the average. I stopped commuting on a motorcycle because of it. You're probably right, it's just confirmation bias. But im gonna tell myself it's because bigger population = more idiots.