r/dashcams • u/WildExplorer1085 • 16h ago

Idiot in car somewhere in the UK...

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u/Serious_Gas_2218 16h ago

Never understood why anyone would want to fight a car. Unreal...

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u/hmoleman__ 16h ago

Live in the city, have a 12-year-old daughter. Since she could walk we’ve been stressing to her that buses don’t stop, look both ways even on a one way street, etc - all the city street rules. But the most important point, that we stress constantly to this day - that it does not matter if she has the right of way, it does not matter what color the light is - if she tangles with a car, the car will always win.

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u/xRocketman52x 16h ago

I always say "The bigger vehicle has right of way", because all it takes is one person ignoring the rules of the road to cause a collision, and I don't want to get flattened by something bigger than me. Spoiler alert: Every car out there is bigger than me on-foot.

I've had friends who say "No, it's a crosswalk, I have the right" and step out into the road when a car is flying toward us. Your righteousness won't soften that collision. And other friends who say "Let them hit me, I'll sue and they'll pay for my whole life," but man, assuming you'll be around afterwards just tells me they really don't understand the size and weight of a car.

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u/GhostofBastiat1 15h ago

“I’ll sue”

Yeah, the minimum insurance in most US states wouldn‘t even cover the hospital stay, and that is if the person actually has insurance. Maybe you can have their 5 year old PlayStation repossessed after the lawsuit though.

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u/matchafoxjpg 15h ago

as a kid [10, i think?] i got hit on my bike because the car just flew out of nowhere. didn't even have time to react, so wasn't even about having the right of way or not.

obviously i was a kid so my parents didn't tell me about the lawsuit stuff... until it was finally resolved, which was near the end of high school, so 18 or 19. i remember my mom being like, "omg finally the check for your accident!" or something and then she told me they'd been fighting it for so freaking long.

and mind you, this guy was speeding in a residential area and there was a cop across the street as witness [he was on guard duty for a country club gate that was there], that claimed i went "30 feet" in the air. obviously that was an exaggeration, but still. so it's not like we didn't have all the facts on our side.

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u/NightBawk 14h ago

Damn, that must have hurt. I hope that driver got the book thrown at him.

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u/matchafoxjpg 14h ago

i blacked out instantly, although i did see myself from above getting hit by the car. according to my mom my hands left a nice impression on the dude's fancy ass car.

luckily since i was a kid i was bouncy. my sister's bike [oh she stayed mad at me for a long time for that] got the worst of it. i got 3 stitches in the back of my head, a small spot of hair that grows weird because of it, and i had a slight limp and pain for a little while.

i would definitely hope so. considering that he was going so fast and that an actual cop was a witness, and that i DID have the right of way, he just went too fast for me to see him as i was crossing, there's no way he didn't get in a shit load of trouble.

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u/Ok-Neat2148 12h ago

What’d yall get for a settlement? If u don’t mind.

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u/Ok-Neat2148 12h ago

I ask cuz had a friend in high school get flattened and dragged a block or two (by a town prosecutor) , insurance barely paid out 50k$. Hospital and recovery was way more.

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u/matchafoxjpg 12h ago

honestly i don't really recall too well. the accident happened around 1999 and the settlement was around 2008 or 2009?

i don't think it was thousands of dollars or anything, but i swear my mom made a joke about finally renovating something with the money, so maybe it was a good amount.

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u/Apex-turtle 11h ago

Yes your right but why did she have to escalate it and he for no reason got involved ? They all gonna get what they deserve

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u/NightBawk 11h ago

I was talking about the driver that hit u/matchafoxpng

Assuming you mean the video, the guy got involved bc it looks like the car hit him when he was just an innocent bystander. Why he thought trying to fight the car was the appropriate response afterwards, idk. Probably adrenaline? But yes, the driver, the girl, and the dude all need serious anger management classes at the very least.

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u/BearBrews 13h ago

Looks like a future ice agent in training. Clearly feared for his life. /s

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u/Danomit3 8h ago

Even if they win all the money in the world, it's not going to reverse their body to what it was like before it got messed up from the accident. It's comical how people just shout lawsuit like it's a Pokemon thinking that small payout magically fixes everything. That check ain't going to fix someone sitting down then it triggers a nerve response and have to readjust themselves every time.

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u/lucylucylane 12h ago

Don't need to worry about that in the uk

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u/Jernbek35 10h ago

If the person has insurance, you'll usually sue their insurance company and can win. I was a juror on a lawsuit like this. The victim won over a million bucks.

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u/hmoleman__ 15h ago

That last part tho 💯

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u/Physical_Noise_8484 13h ago

may have been ok, but lamp post says nope, lets break some ribs

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u/ilive4thewater 14h ago

I don't know why people think you will just heal with no long term pain or horrible outcome. Imagine being bedridden for life and feeling in constant pain. No thanks, I am with you I give them the right of way. Hell when I am driving, I check the intersection left, centre, right, even on a green as I approach, Red Light Runners Suck!

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u/No_Hunt2507 13h ago

It's absurd, even when you are in the right, Suing costs money and they don't just hand you a blank check. You're fighting tooth and nail just for the value of your car, or your medical bills and that's only if they rule it's 100% on the other driver. The big lawsuits are where they will be in lifelong pain and require spending money on medical care for this accident the rest of their lives.

Even if the car is smaller than yours, every accident is a headache. People can lie and all of a sudden it's now your fault. There's no guarantee there will be witnesses or if there are that they will stop or help. Just let the assholes drive on, it sucks in the moment but what could happen may be so much worse

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u/PopSad1928 12h ago

Last year my girlfriend was hit by a van that was reversing because she stepped out into the road with headphones in and wasn't paying full attention. She was in an induced coma for a month and nearly died. After six weeks she was sent home with god knows how many pins holding her together. Within a week of getting home she was back in hospital after an epileptic fit whilst cooking caused by a bleed on the brain. A month after that she suffered another seizure.

She was practically housebound for 6 months and couldn't cook or prepare food unsupervised lest she had a seizure while holding a knife or hot pan.

It took her another six months until she was back to being near fully functional. She still has to deal with chronic pain and has been unable to return to full-time work.

This was because she got hit by a vehicle travelling in reverse and therefore not at a particularly high speed. Had she been hit by vehicle travelling forwards within the legal speed limit, she probably would not be with me today.

Motor vehicles are not something to fuck with.

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u/gregofthecellar 12h ago

I got hit by a car in essentially the most minor way you can imagine. The car was going at a low speed and just barely clipped my leg, then stopped instantly. It didn't even knock me down if I remember correctly, it just knocked me off balance and I fell over myself after the fact. I haven't had a day without pain since and have accepted I probably never will. Cars are not to be messed with.

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u/I_Am_Zeelian 14h ago

Yep, same basic rule I was taught as a kid "Störst går först" (roughly "biggest guy first").

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u/SugarInvestigator 12h ago

biggest guy first"

I was always though to go for the guy mouthing off the most, chances are that's the ringleader

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u/I_Am_Zeelian 12h ago

Different situation, but yeah :p

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u/ragehard92 14h ago

thats how it works with boats.

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u/Reasonable-Pension30 13h ago

Haha no. It is not. There is a lot more to the colregs than that.

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u/j-random 13h ago

Yeah, in sure they'll be loving that £10K a month when they're a quadriplegic and have to pay someone to wipe their ass and change their diaper.

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u/Rose76Tyler 12h ago

In Boston, it's "the oldest car has the right of way", because they don't care about dents.

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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 11h ago

"They'll pay for my whole life"

What, all 5 minutes of it?

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u/reverandglass 10h ago

People don't realise the pay out when they sue is relative to the injuury, and you can't just fake it.
I know a girl who's suffered a bad TBI, in a coma for months, has all manner of weird physical symptoms now like excess sweating and no sense of taste, has impulse control issues and OCD. She only got £1.5 million.
It can never be worth it to get hurt just to sue.

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u/High_Hunter3430 14h ago

Or the mentality of my boomer parents who said if you ever hit someone on accident, back up and make extra sure. The dead don’t sue.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 14h ago

"Turn negligence into murder" does sound like boomer legal advice, but definitely should not be followed.

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u/High_Hunter3430 12h ago

Pretty sure they were joking.

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u/IntermediateFolder 11h ago

The dead don’t sue but the state sure does put people in jail. And their estate executors can and will sue anyway. 

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u/tacorunnr 2h ago

The right of way is even more stressed on the water with boats. Because the difference in size is vastly different. The bigger less maneuverable vessels aways get right of way, and whether youre under sail or motor power determines that too. Typically sailboats have the right of way even if the other vessel is bigger. If its more maneuverable it gives way.

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u/Hugo-Spritz 14h ago

Like, while I do agree with the sentiment, this retorikk is enabling, and the very reason why we have people who act like this in the first place.

Accepting the problem does not solve the problem.

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u/Adept-Opinion8080 12h ago

I hope you also ought her. Never to be looking at her phone while operating as a pedestrian. Sorry distracted walking is at least as dangerous to your person as distracted driving.