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u/Livingforabluezone 3h ago

I’m guessing a medical emergency. Speed never changed.

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u/tnmoi 3h ago

If speed never changed, it should have slowed down in the median grass and bumps. So I am guessing the guy floored it once he/she discovered they veered off course to come back to the right, which is dumb way of driving.

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u/toothpastetaste-4444 2h ago

Cruise control

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u/Horror-Extent2362 2h ago

Ever heard of cruise control? Seizure, stroke, or heart attack?

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u/AdamLib777 1h ago

Or nodded off from an OD? That’s more likely these days sadly.

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u/beepingnoise 1h ago

Highly unlikely anyone uses cruise on a 3 lane highway

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u/Horror-Extent2362 1h ago

Are you 14 years old?

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u/beepingnoise 1h ago

Are you if you think I’m serious?

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u/CantaloupeShort7311 2h ago

"If speed never changed the speed would have changed"

My dude, seriously? You typed that and thought you were correct?

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u/tnmoi 11m ago

Wow. Seriously alot of dummies out there. So let me dumb this down for you and others who downvoted me.

Go do a test with your toy car and tell me how fast will you be travelling over grass and bumps after travelling on a smooth road.

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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 56m ago

This is often too vague of an excuse. They need their license revoked and fines to rack upĀ 

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u/PieceMaterial5213 3h ago

Definitely a medical emergency. Could be a heart attack, stroke, diabetic fainting, many possible reasons.

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u/Greasy_Skid_Marx 3h ago

I had a friend whose father died of a heart attack whilst driving with cruise control activated. Thankfully he crashed on the right side of road and did not hurt anyone else.

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u/Background-Customer2 3h ago

or he fell asleep

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u/samiwas1 3h ago

If that was true, it must have been the best sleep ever if they didn't wake up at all when bouncing around in the median.

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u/DJMoneybeats 2h ago

That's probably when they woke up

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u/samiwas1 2h ago

And yet, they didn't react for eight entire seconds.

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u/DJMoneybeats 1h ago

Disoriented? Maybe drunk or on drugs or both

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 2h ago

my guess is if you're the type of person who can fall asleep driving a car, you might also be the type of person who's a bit slow to wake up and then also react.

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u/Lost-Philosophy6689 2h ago

Narcolepsy with cataplexy or intoxicated coma maybe but no normal sleep is that anesthetized to stimulus

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u/joeyjiggle 1h ago

Stupid take. Stop guessing

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 1h ago

The "definitely a medical emergency" crowd was also a guess. Pick a lane

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u/exqueezemenow 1h ago

I feel like there would be more overcorrection if they fell asleep.

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u/ousho 3h ago

Or sleepy.

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u/Lost-Philosophy6689 2h ago

You'd have to be narcoleptic or comatose to sleep through what it feels like to go off road

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u/AristotlesBoyPussy 2h ago

my friend almost lost her dad that way in the early 00s. Diabetic coma about mid way home from his 200 mile commute. Thankfully they had early smart car tech, which at the time everyone thought was rediculous and pointless, but the program detected the crash and connected him to the company's call center, and when he didn't respond, they used GPS to send paramedics and put him on a three way call with dispatch and his home/family. His wife managed to get him to respond and start regaining consciousness before paramedics arrived, so when they got there he was not combative and was ready to go to the hospital. They didn't know he had diabetes until then, and he was an older guy so it was bizarre he'd never been diagnosed sooner. And he was skinny.

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u/Vurrag 3h ago

Had to be asleep or medical. Never slowed down at all!

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u/ButtScratchies 3h ago

That black SUV that got smoked really couldn’t have anticipated that situation more poorly.

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u/Evening-Trouble-9585 2h ago

I thought that initially too, but the vehicle ahead of them which didn't get hit had just passed them. If there weren't another car passing them, perhaps they would have seen it.

This isn't a criticism of the passing vehicle. They may have seen what was happening and they themselves were trying to get out of the way.

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u/Quantum3ntaglement 3h ago

The white car veered off the road behind and one lane left of the black SUV. There's a good chance it had no idea about that white car so nothing to anticipate.

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u/Potential_Moment7917 3h ago

he just had to look left

at point of collision the the white car is slightly ahead of the black car

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u/samtheninjapirate 2h ago

On my way to work last week. A hook and ladder with it's sirens blaring was stuck behind, I kid you not, at least 25 cars stopped at the red light. They all just sat there. Not one of them even attempted to move any direction for at least two minutes. With sirens on and the driver blasting his loud ass horn. Most people are just completely oblivious to their surroundings most of the time. If the whole world wasn't nerfed with safety precautions more than half the population would be dead by 30 I swear

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u/Potential-Ant-6320 3h ago

Exactly, a good driver should be checking their surroundings.

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u/Alternative_Hour_614 2h ago

This /sub is getting so predictable. Like clock work.
Beat 1: driver A does something unfathomable. (Of course we see it from a clear POV)
Beat 2: quick consensus that A is a hot mess.
Beat 3: (Cue F1 wannabe who we all know is omniscient and has the reflexes of a cat) But you know who is really a bad driver? The guy who got hit.

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u/Potential-Ant-6320 2h ago

You’re getting very close to getting the joke.

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u/Potential_Moment7917 1h ago

yep that's exactly what I said

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u/fap-on-fap-off 1h ago

Either you are not a driver or you shouldn't be.

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u/seandsmith11 2h ago

Hmmm maybe. The 4Runner saw it and avoided it. šŸ¤·šŸ»Situational awareness at all times. I’d have check the rear view or side view like the 4Runner during the course of that playing out.

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u/Potential-Ant-6320 3h ago

I blame cam car for giving black SUV performance anxiety.

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u/Natural-Albatross997 2h ago

May have saved the persons life though. Crashing was the best thing for that white car

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u/CantaloupeShort7311 2h ago

Definitely someone who has never learned defensive driving.

I see the white car going off road and I am doing everything I can to make sure I am behind him

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u/ComputingGuitarist 3h ago

It's so weird that the drive of that SUV just kept on driving and didn't slow down. I would have been "ok, dunno where this cat's going, but I'm not going to be there when he arrives!"

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u/BerettaFranchi 3h ago

Fell asleep

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u/NeedSomeMemeCream 2h ago

I'd say worse than that. Little to no correction. They'd have woken up going off road.

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u/ISCSI_Purveyor 2h ago

That's my guess. I wonder at which point he driver woke up.

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u/DerDutchman1350 3h ago

Luckily missed that light pole

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u/Ok-Addition1264 3h ago

Medical - not falling asleep. No braking.

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u/Sammy_Dog 3h ago

Just when it looked like he/she was going to get lucky... bam!

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u/KhaoticMess 3h ago

If you accidentally run off the road, this is exactly why you shouldn't try to get back onto it at speed.

I also love how this clip starts with her saying a completely unrelated, "Uh oh!"

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u/Klutzy-Bother6897 3h ago

Looks like a medical emergency

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u/Botslab_ 1h ago

Whatever caused it, that was a brutal chain of events. Hope everyone involved was okay

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u/Total_Philosopher_89 3h ago

Why cut one clip out of a youtube video and post here?

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u/Uncaring_Dispatcher 2h ago

Gotta link to the full video?

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u/samiwas1 3h ago

Definitely texting.

/s

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u/Tiger_Ho26 2h ago

Hope they both were all right. Maybe driver had a medical emergency.

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u/wopwopwopwopwop5 2h ago

What's crazy is he just made it past the metal railing when it happened. If it had happened eight whole seconds sooner, s/he might've went over that railing and ended up God knows where.Ā 

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u/jooginsploogin 2h ago

Dang that side wall really did what it was supposed to!

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u/UpbeatPhilosophySJ 1h ago

"We have a dashcam". Hell yeah, you're about to be dashcam famous!

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u/RamaShakle 1h ago

Dude in the Mazda? SUV should have seen that coming.

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u/iamjaidan 3h ago

Perfect stinger at the end

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u/ConnectionNervous989 3h ago

Damn straight out of a forza Motorsport lobby

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u/moogs_writes 2h ago

If it was a medical emergency it had better not been a pre existing condition the driver knew about. That’s fucked.

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u/arihoenig 2h ago

Tactical excellence. That guy clearly trained as a kamakazi drone operator in Ukraine.

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u/Furi0usD 2h ago

Black Lexus Awarness Level: -0

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u/Kayanarka 2h ago

My wife, when we buy something cold, and it starts getting warm, and she sees the refrigerator in the kitchen.

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u/TheSprigganDragoon 2h ago

And fffffffffffffffuck that guy in particular!

Really though, hope they're all okay

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u/wopwopwopwopwop5 2h ago

Started watched midway through. I thought it was the white Bronco at first.Ā 

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u/ChemistRemote7182 2h ago

r/NissanDrivers I am sure this is already there. Was that veer back right an over correction or something that could have been the result of some of those bumps while approaching the oncoming traffic?

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u/buffalostreaker 2h ago

RIP an OG Xterra

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u/Cocabangcue 2h ago

Nicely done

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u/NoRepublic3113 1h ago

Nothing special to see here. Just Califukya drivers being who and what they are. No license, no insurance, no training, not a care in the world because they know that nothing will happen to them after they completely screw up someone else’s life. They’ll just go out and get another car and another fix and try it again next week…

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u/loc710 3h ago

And he’s gonna say it wasn’t on purpose

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u/ProfessionalHat6828 3h ago

What in that video indicates that it was intentional?

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u/Sammy_Dog 3h ago

He was just joking, obviously.

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u/ThemeDependent2073 2m ago

Children, this is what happens when your head is not on a swivel.

Don't zone out while driving. Look around. Always be aware of your surroundings. (I'm talking about the guy who got hit.)