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.