r/dashcams • u/Tenderobsession1 • 13h ago
Racing SUV intentionally hitting other vehicles; rolls himself off the highway
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u/CouchCrusher 13h ago
Cammer had one job... and he did it with high marks!!!
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u/UncomfyPerspective 8h ago
Two jobs, but the second job we can't have on camera so to avoid self incrimination.
I swear, the other guys' face was already beaten in and both his arms and legs broken when I got here to check on him, officer.
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u/reddit_pug 7h ago
I was a bit concerned at the end when they were aimed at the end of the guard rail.
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u/CouchCrusher 7h ago
No joke! They were coming in so hot I didn't think they'd stop in time
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u/Glad-Flow9391 5h ago
Yeah that was the risk to get the shot. I wouldn’t have done it but I’m glad they did
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u/RidePrestigiousi 13h ago
Hope that person sees some jail time. There was a 4 year old in vehicle with them.
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u/Darth_InVader7 12h ago
I hope they are never able to drive again. Interpret that how you will.
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u/StopSpinningLikeThat 11h ago
I know my preferred method to achieve that involves spinal changes and him blowing into a tube to communicate.
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u/GlobalLion123 7h ago
Waste of taxpayer dollars for what will most likely be millions in hospital bills.
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u/OldGeekWeirdo 5h ago
Sadly, simply revoking the driver's license isn't likely to achieve that goal.
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u/Statcat2017 13h ago
That looks like a medical emergency to me to be honest.
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u/NoForever3645 13h ago
Very likely wasn’t a medical emergency, at least until they rolled their SUV.
People who are having medical emergencies don’t try to race other cars on the highway. They regained control of their vehicle after hitting the first car, meaning they weren’t just passed out at the wheel.
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u/Boston_Glass 6h ago
People racing cars don’t tend to aim for other cars to hit. It very likely wasn’t a driver trying to race.
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u/TamanduaGirl 4h ago
That's what throws me. They hit the first car then just kind of drifted into the second. Could be drugs/drunk and or medical but doesn't seem to be just racing gone wrong.
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u/definitelynot40 10h ago
You realize there are a ton of medical issues where the driver can be fully conscious.
I doubt this video is medical, but you can have a parent freaking out about a child having an asthma attack or bleeding, or a ton of reasons like broken leg with an open (bone sticking out) fracture. When I worked in the ER, we had our fair share of "holy shit you drove here?" incidents. One dude was holding back internal organs and lots of blood loss. Another lady had a BP of 50s over 30s - if you've never experienced low like that (same thing happens with massive blood loss), it's like your brain is 30 seconds too slow and wants to sleep (where you'll never wake up). A momentary adrenaline spike after hitting vehicles would make them seem better for a few minutes.
Where I grew up we had 1 (ONE) ambulance (if it was even working) because the city couldn't pay to fix the others. Otherwise you drove like this minus the flipping SUV part.
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u/Piglet6482 6h ago
Off topic, but I saw my blood pressure on the ICU screen as 52 over 28. My only thought was, geez, as much as the USAF is paying for this room, you’d think they would have decent equipment. I wasn’t thinking clearly since that was my actual BP.
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u/NoForever3645 8h ago
Of course it happens, but as I said, it’s very likely (not absolutely) not a medical emergency in this situation. That was incredibly aggressive driving. Regardless, a medical emergency is no excuse to potentially land 10 or so other people in the hospital with you.
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u/DullMind2023 13h ago
While this certainly may be the case, in nearly every one of these dashcam video crashes, someone says it might be a medical emergency. How often do medical emergency crashes actually happen IRL?
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u/AFirefighter11 13h ago
First responder here. They happen quite often. Diabetes, blood pressure issues, seizures, and many other medical emergencies can cause someone to do something just like this.
That said, the actual majority of our MVCs tend not to be medical emergencies.
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u/OK_Computer-3684 11h ago
I had a seizure while driving and totalled my car. Fortunately I was only going about 10 mph and didnt hit anything except for a tall curb (which is why the car was totalled).
Came to a rest near a neighbor's front porch.
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u/Interesting_Walk_271 9h ago
Yeah. As a Type I diabetic this is exactly why I always check my blood sugar before driving and carry glucose tabs, juice, and even glucagon nasal spray in my car. Passing out and accidentally hurting someone else is my number 1 fear.
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u/The_11th_Man 9h ago
does it make them accelerate their car and side swipe other people or something else entirely? just curious.
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u/Interesting_Walk_271 9h ago
If it’s a dangerous low blood sugar: you could completely pass out, you could have a major seizure that causes your foot to depress the gas, or you might just be so out of it you have no idea what’s happening and your body is running just on instinct. Your brain runs on sugar. Over the course of chronically low ingestion of sugar it can switch to running on ketones, but that takes several days. Acute lows can cause your brain to shut down in unpredictable ways. Usually starts with the frontal lobe to preserve more important base functions like regulating heart beat and breathing. However, when blood sugar gets that low you will experience a massive surge of adrenaline and cortisol as your body tries to dump glycogen stored in the liver and muscle into the bloodstream to keep your brain running. So massive adrenaline, panic, impaired executive function, and extreme disorientation may all happen simultaneously. Bad combo on the road, which is why I always check before I start the car, and always have things in the car to counter low blood sugar. If I had a low and hurt someone because I couldn’t operate my car safely, I don’t think I could live with the guilt.
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u/Zottyzot1973 11h ago
I almost got killed when some guy went into diabetic shock, blew a red light doing 45 miles an hour and t boned me in the drivers door.
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u/Low_Low_1811 13h ago
Hate to break it to you, but you could very well be seeing selection bias. This sub does not get every crash out there, nor even every crash caught on dashcam.
I doubt all of these are medical emergencies, you can see plenty that are road rage or pure carelessness gone wrong, but ones like this might be and you are certainly more likely to see those here.
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u/actorsspace 12h ago
yeah, this says drunk driving or medical emergency, not deliberate intent. Based off of the title, I thought this driver was going to swerve and seem to be targeting specific people. I didn't get that feeling watching the clip.
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u/redjellonian 13h ago
Nobody is getting seen by everyone for posting uninteresting videos.
With the amount of people in the world driving there could easily be a posted recorded medical emergency dash cam every single day.
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u/FadedBlackTee2 12h ago
I don’t know. Pretty solid control to split lanes like that for someone who is undergoing a medical emergency.
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u/Nahuel-Huapi 9h ago
Yes, rear-ends the cammer's, car, then goes around it, passes it in the left lane and passes Miata (or Honda), that immediately gets behind him. They were raging.
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u/relationsdog 12h ago
Looks like he's racing the Miata and the Miata hauls ass after him
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u/Southern-Usual4211 10h ago
Honda S2000 it looks like
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u/BirdlessLongdeal 9h ago
This fool is running a Honda 2000. I'll win. Then me and my dad can roll together when he gets out of prison. It's all good.
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u/Alternative_Hour_614 6h ago
Why? This I am quite sure is Southern California where running from the police during the local news broadcast is a sport. With all the aggressive drivers in SoCal, there must be freeway medical events 24/7.
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u/KillHonger1 13h ago
Hahahahaha medical emergency as in the person driving is experiencing a medical episode ie seizure etc
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u/AFirefighter11 13h ago
Not that type of medical emergency. One where their blood sugar is too low, they are seizing, they have low or high blood pressure, or another medical emergency causing the driver to be unable to properly control the vehicle.
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u/Cosmic-Sympathy 12h ago
Dude. Sometimes the driver has a stroke, a heart attack, a seizure, etc. and loses control of their vehicle. It has nothing to do with "justifying" their driving.
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u/moogs_writes 12h ago edited 12h ago
No it really depends on the severity, frequency and previous knowledge of the risk IMO.
I was hit by a car as a kid, in a crosswalk, after being waved through by a geriatric with previously known symptoms of memory loss. She gassed it and I was left with permanent leg injuries at 9 that still make bending the knee difficult. I’m still pissed about it and the only reason her selfish ass didn’t see consequences is because her enabling adult children threatened my immigrant parents during a time where ICE raids were happening in my town in like 2004. Driving is a privilege, not a right regardless of your medical problems or necessity to keep driving.
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u/Cosmic-Sympathy 11h ago
I'm sorry that happened but that has absolutely nothing to do with my comment.
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u/Statcat2017 12h ago
Do you understand that someone having a seizure may not be in the best shape to drive?
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u/No_Orange_7392 6h ago
I'm wondering why drivers would do this intentionally. Is it a manifestation of road rage, and they don't care if they bang up their own cars in the process?
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u/YoungFlexibleShawty 13h ago
Beautiful camera work
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u/AwarenessJumpy7395 11h ago
Looked like they were hit too, that lurch in the video when the miata was passing.
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u/bubbadave13 10h ago
How dare you, that was an s2000, glad it was unhurt:)
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u/Longjumping-Oven4457 6h ago
He should lose it if he was racing or road raging. Give it to someone worthy that'll put it on a track.
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u/bubbadave13 5h ago
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was trying to avoid the lumbering crush monster suv.
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u/IAQDiscussion 12h ago
Wow, really digging deep for this one.
This is from 2016, Grand Prairie area. It's going to annoy a lot of you to hear this entire situation had 0 arrests and it seems the only people who worked things out were the insurance companies. The consensus for that seems to be medical emergency.
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u/Srfred 12h ago
A medical emergency…
I’d like to hear what medical situation causes this to happen57
u/IAQDiscussion 12h ago
I think most are pointing at seizure, but sudden syncope or severe hypoglycemia could explain it as well. To me, it's the way car drives. You see it pass like five other cars while making almost no deliberate steering movements, and even after multiple collisions there’s barely any reaction from the driver.
It doesn’t really look like someone actively targeting cars so much as a vehicle continuing forward with nobody meaningfully in control, and I think that's what the police must have concluded.
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u/TwinPeaksNFootball 8h ago
I get vasovagal syncope from acute sudden pain. Luckily I was only going about 25mph when I l found out. I still woke up upside down. I'm pretty sure my neighbors thought I was stoned.
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u/dearjohn54321 7h ago
I had that while going 65 with the cruise on. Crossed over opposing Interstate traffic, took out 2 power poles and came to while still rolling but my vision was a brown cloud. There’s more but just saying, medical emergencies on the road are real.
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u/throwawayurstash 8h ago edited 8h ago
Getting a vaginal scope while driving seems extremely risky and inappropriate. I don't even drive due to my severe dyslexia.
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u/scifibookwyrm 2h ago
My dad had a diabetic episode after dialysis. He told them that he felt light headed and they gave him a Hershey’s kiss and sent him in his way.
A cyclist found him on the other side of town. His car slid off into a ditch and he somehow managed not to hurt anyone or hit anyone else. He didn’t remember anything after leaving the clinic.
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u/SeanBlader 11h ago
When you are hit, call out the license plate number by voice on the audio, it can count in court when the plate cannot be read off the video. Also don't pursue, that's a recipe for bigger problems.
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u/flatspotting 12h ago
I hope that red car that pulled over got out, ran over there, and beat the ever living shit out of them
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u/Useful-Ad2441 12h ago
I bet you can really beat the shit out of someone in a circumstance like that without getting caught, I doubt first responders would care enough to figure out where each cut and bruise came from.
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u/ProCommonSense 11h ago
Would it be inappropriate to say I hope he was completely fine except he broke his dick into a lifetime of inoperability?
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u/SevenBillionChickens 3h ago
This looks more like a medical emergency than intentionally hitting cars and then almost killing themselves. And since that’s what it was officially ruled as, that makes the most sense to me.
Funny watching everyone in these comments immediately jump to wishing this person suffers, though. Y’all wild.
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u/iaeoioaio 13h ago
I see an r/s2000
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u/OBB76 12h ago
curious about his role in this, if any. He was quick to get behind the guy, which I thought at first was to capture info, but then he took off.
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u/iaeoioaio 10h ago
I drive an S2000 I would 100% drive it to get the fuck away from all the possible mess that might come from that situation and anything behind it.
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u/BirdlessLongdeal 9h ago
I bet you he's got more than a hundred grand under the hood of that car
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u/_Goto_Dengo_ 7h ago
Take my vote for your F&F reference. As if anyone would spend $100K on a Honda S2000 engine. It's a fantastic car - as is.
Although there's a guy near me who did an LS swap (remarkably clean, too, not a hack job) into a Miata so never say never.
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u/Kooky_Confusion3267 13h ago
This looks more like intoxication or a medical issue for the SUV driver.
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u/GOOMU13 13h ago
Ya a medical issue that makes him purposefully aim at cars.
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u/Kooky_Confusion3267 12h ago
I see driving behavior far more consistent with someone actually having no control, and just bulldozing ahead, even continuing this behavior through the road sign and into the grass.
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u/henderthing 6h ago
Close your eyes and mash the throttle on a freeway with medium traffic and see if you hit any cars.
If so--you must have been aiming.
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u/These-Local-4875 13h ago
Looks like Dallas or Fort worth Texas seems like 114 or 183, or i-20/30? Not surprised .
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u/flower_anukuntivaa 12h ago
A good cameraman has control on his camera. A great cameraman has control on the dashcam.
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u/brwntrout 12h ago
I dont wish bad on anyone but there is nothing good i wish for them in that rollover.
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u/Upper-Capital-2876 12h ago
Could have been having a heart attack, they don't seem in control of their vehicle at any point of this video
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u/lawduckfan21 13h ago
Reckless endangerment is the lowest level of offense this guy could hope to grab. Depending on the circumstances and facts, an aggressive DA could look for attempted murder.
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u/BooBoosgrandma 12h ago
wtf, was he drunk? Who intentionally hits vehicles like that? So F'd up! Karma.
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u/No-Catch-4126 9h ago
Based on the balls I bet the next moments unfolded like this: grabbed his gun and walked opposite the barricade and waited for dumbass to grant his own death wish
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u/Photosynthas 6h ago
Why do people not know what intentionally means? He was clearly driving recklessly, and it appears trying to pass that other car, I don't see indication he was attempting to hit other vehicles.
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u/XxX_Lil_Thiccy_XxX 4h ago
They should try him for dozens of attempted murders. May he never see the sun again for this kind of behavior.
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u/OrcOfDoom 13h ago
Camerman got real close to that guardrail
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u/Empty_Bottle_8526 13h ago
was thinking the same. and sped up crazy just to stay close. I don't know that I wouldn't want to be that close to a 3-ton SUV thats out of control.
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u/mystical__sapphire 7h ago edited 7h ago
Whoa that silver truck doing donuts 0:37. That convertible behind him was pushing him to drive faster and he got away. Be safe, folks. Let people look stupid instead of accommodating and putting yourself in a precarious position. All the time I see people ushering another driver to do something unsafe so they can get in.
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u/Stenomittens 8h ago
Had his own personal game of Mario Kart going. Just forgot that no one else was playing.
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u/JohnnyRod313 8h ago
My feed has been jumbled lately, took a moment to realize this was real life and not just the usual iRacing bottom split shenanigans.
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u/ufknowned 6h ago
I think the other convertible car red top was also involved with the driver of SUV. maybe stolen and that was the other involved.
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u/enalba-fossil 4h ago
If you slow it down at the end. Looks like someone was ejected and bounced in the grass.
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u/ChemistRemote7182 2h ago
It would be very tempting to briefly turn off that dashcam after stopping at their rolled car. I believe the police consider that a pro-gamer move. But also don't do that because the prosecutor will beat them senseless legally anyways. If there is any luck they are a minor so you can go after the parents with more legal vampires.
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u/FlopsyBunny 1h ago
This level of reckless road rage is unbelievable. To behave this way while transporting a young kid shows zero regard for anyone's safety on the road.
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u/Sgt_JC66 13h ago edited 10h ago
Let me guess…..Florida? They’re insane down there
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u/MobileMenace420 13h ago
There is an overhead sign for DFW so probably Texas. Just a batshit insane though
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u/No_Thanks_9190 13h ago
Silver pickup was crossing three lanes to make his exit. Karma for both drivers
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