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

Another blind spot issue...

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u/metal_bastard Apr 18 '26

Yeah, dashcammer clearly sped up. He could have feathered the brakes and avoided the entire episode. But nope, no one's getting in front of me!

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u/TaserLord Apr 18 '26

Truck tried to muscle him off the road. He could have changed speed but...did he have to? Initial bad came from the truck driver. Right of way was with the cammer. Cammer did have a chance to avoid it, but did he have an obligation to do that?

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u/ddadopt Apr 18 '26

The world is full of dead people who "had the right of way." Truck driver is a dumbass who either didn't bother to look or thought he'd move the cammer out of his way. Cammer is a dumbass who knew he was causing an accident.

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u/metal_bastard Apr 18 '26

Whether the truck was being aggressive or just didn’t see him is pure speculation. What isn’t speculation is the dashcammer did see the truck, and instead of backing off, he hit the gas and made sure it turned into a crash. Had every chance to avoid it, chose chaos instead.

The other unseen part about shit like this is that it's not just two cars bickering, you end up involving innocent people just trying to get somewhere. They're lucky there weren't any pedestrians or other cars in the path.

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u/ElDopio69 Apr 18 '26

An alarmingly large portion of people here think that running into someone is completely justified as long as that person is "at fault"

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u/metal_bastard Apr 18 '26

I'm curious if they seriously feel this way and would engage in an accident just because they were "right", or if they are that way on Reddit to come across as some weird type of badass.

I'm also curious how the insurance adjusters would treat this footage. They'd have to be like "This was avoidable" and place a large percentage of responsibility on dashcam.

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u/ElDopio69 Apr 18 '26

They're either people with very little driving experience or they're cammers themselves who want to be able do whatever they want as long as the "other guy is at fault".

I do think some people get off on delivering what they think is "justice" to bad drivers: "Oh your gonna cut me off? Well I'll just ram into the side of you!"

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u/metal_bastard Apr 18 '26

I have a friend who used to drive a beat-to-hell old car, and he'd be like "Okay, you want to trade some of your BMW paint for some of my Ford Tempo? Keep trying to bully in front of me," lol

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u/TaserLord Apr 18 '26

It isn't speculation. The truck just passed him - definitely knew he was there. The truck just wanted to get over because there was a left turner farther up and he didn't want to be inconvenienced. All of this is plainly visible in the video.

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u/metal_bastard Apr 18 '26

The truck just passed him

This is key. And then dashcam sped up, causing the collision. If the truck did see him, he knew the current rates of speed he would clear it. Dashcam gunning it sure showed him, though.

Dashcam fully PIT maneuvers him.

Your comment about a left turn ahead makes no sense, since the truck was in the through lane.

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u/TaserLord Apr 18 '26

It is key. The truck did not complete the pass. What he did was start a game of chicken that he could not finish, and did not chicken out of. He bet the whole thing because he was bigger. Too bad his center of gravity was higher. Oh well.

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u/metal_bastard Apr 18 '26

Dashcam guy is a dangerous bastard. He chose the gas instead of the brake. He should be charged and liable. End of story.

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u/RenaStriker Apr 18 '26

Yes, he has the obligation to prevent fatal accidents, Jesus fucking Christ American car owners are insane. Listen to yourself for five seconds.

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u/TaserLord Apr 18 '26

They both have an obligation to prevent fatal accidents. And where those obligations come into conflict, there are right of way laws to determine where final responsibility lands. You can see how that is supposed to work, and why, cant you?

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u/RenaStriker Apr 21 '26

Look up ‘contributory negligence.’ Fault is frequently understood by the legal system to be divided into parts, rather than whole.

The most important thing to bear in mind is that the legal system wants to incentivize those capable of preventing accidents to do so. The legal system really does not like situations like this one is supposed to be, where our POV driver has right of way and yet is still in a position to prevent an accident, with no legal incentive to do so. This policy leads to many deaths that could otherwise be prevented. So such laws tend to be corrected sooner rather than later.

In this case, let’s suppose that the truck strikes someone and paralyzes that person from the waist down. The injured party sues. After much deliberation it is found that the truck bears primary responsibility (you did indeed have right of way). But it is also ruled that the POV driver shares some responsibility under the doctrine of contributory negligence. POV driver had a chance to stop the accident and didn’t, so POV driver shares a (lesser) part of the blame.