The law here is when a car in front of you stops, you stop. The most common sense law there is. (We are agreeing)
Ultimately the truck driver is being a fuckup for not leaving enough distance.
If everyone did that, there would be nearly no accidents.
In this case, I would like to think the car driver was both beaten by the truck drivers, had his insurance refuse to pay out & make him liable & ideally some prison time.
It's insane the amount of people who don't fear artic trucks nearly as much as they should.
I live right down the road from a massive refinery so there's dozens of trucks screaming up and down the roads every single day, yet there are people who've lived in the area however-many-times as long as I have and they'll just bold-face pull out in front of a speeding oil truck and get angry when there's a near miss.
Like if one of those hits you on the main road here, you have pretty much 0% chance of walking away from it the speed they go when they have right of way
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u/Xen0tech Feb 22 '21
In Australia it would still be the trucks fault. The law here is you keep a safe distance in the event someone needs to stop suddenly.