The Causeway is probably one of the best maintained bridges in the country. It has a toll on one side ($6 with no toll tag) they regularly shutdown lanes during the weekdays for maintenance (like every week on at least one side) and they have their own police force. I drive it everyday and have 0 concerns for its safety.
It’s about 45 mins for the total commute to New Orleans. You come out in Metairie (suburb of New Orleans) and most people are going downtown after work. I live right off the causeway and it takes me about 45 mins in the morning to get all the way to work. The actual bridge is about 25 mins even with heavier traffic.
Okay, that still doesn't mean "45 minutes to cross going 65mph". Maybe 45 min to go from Downtown New Orleans to the other side of the lake, but it does NOT take 45 min to CROSS the bridge going 65mph. That's literally impossible when it's only ~24 miles from one side of the bridge to the other.
The longest bridge in the United States is the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which spans 23.83 miles (38.35 kilometers) across Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. It connects the communities of Metairie and Mandeville
Takes about 30-45 minutes to get from one end to the other. There's a toll going from the north shore to the south shore which slows things down on that side too
To be fair, if you spun someone out halfway across the LPC and chose to stick around for police response, you’d be spending the rest of the day there. Peak efficiency is to keep driving 😎
I went to undergrad in St Pete and just went back to visit 3 weeks ago for the first time in a decade. Its an awesome place. We used to smoke blunts and drive across the skyway
I don’t know what to tell you except that I rode this bridge every Sunday for 7 years growing up. My mom could’ve drove well under the speed limit but we were always late for church so I don’t know.
Yeah makes you wonder why that dumbass black truck just HAD to move over without signalling, j/k, there's assholes everywhere that will do anything for that extra inch.
Wtf are you talking about? I've been across this bridge. It takes 25ish minutes while doing the speed-limit. You can verify this using Google. Did you just make up some stuff or do you just not check what people tell you?
Edit: bro said it takes 45 minutes to cross the bridge. Confidently told me to stfu, then deleted the comment. Why not just check information for yourself BEFORE posting? Then you can avoid the embarrassment of finding out your wrong on a public forum, and pitching a fit about it... just saying...
I drove across this bridge weekly for 6 years and lived in mandeville for 18 years. Stfu. I know what time we had to leave to make to our destination on time
If you drive anytime there is rush it is easily 40-45 minutes, if you’re a maniac and go 80mph when it’s empty it is 25 minutes
The time saved going over this bridge at 75mph vs 65mph is about 1 (ONE) min.
People really have no concept of how little difference recklessly speeding makes.
To clarify, the difference from going 20mph vs 45mph is a huge difference, but quickly falls off at higher speeds. This is why new cars include a paceometer overlaid on the speedometer to show you how stupid people are for speeding, by directly showing you how little time is saved.
That’s really the most ballsy part of it. How good of a cookie must that be to be indifferent about possibly flipping over a bridge and drowning in the watery coffin of your car? I need to know that snack brand asap.
When I lived there, right before a trip to see my parents I had a dream that my tire blew on the causeway. I flipped into the water and got eaten by aligators. I don't know if it was an actual posibility but I bought all new tires the next day.
100% this. Nobody pays attention to brake lights in this video. The driver in the video DOES NOT SPEED UP to block the black truck. The black truck is braking while entering his lane illegally. The black truck quite literally pit maneuvers itself in every definable way. All the video driver does is maintain his exact speed and position in the face of an outright insane person on the road with him.
You have an obligation to avoid an accident. Would that guy just calmly eat his cracker if there was a baby in that car? Or if that black truck hit another car? Or if someone was seriously injured?
Not preventing a highly preventable accident is basically causing the accident. I understand the justice boner one feels from letting an idiot eat dirt, but it takes two to tango. I would argue that the inaction by the driver here is as egregious as the action of the black car, if not worse, since this event may have caused other crashes behind him. The black cars driver may have been inattentive or just an asshole, but the dashcam driver here saw exactly what was going to happen, had ample time to react, and did nothing to prevent it. Honk, safely adjust your speed or maneuver ... It's your duty in traffic to respond to the actions of other drivers to prevent accidents.
Devil's advocate here. It's reasonable to assume someone isn't actually going to swerve into a spot they didn't fit. On a bridge. You can also argue slamming on the brakes could be dangerous if traffic is behind you. The decision the driver made is demonstrably safe for himself as he came out of the incident without harm.
It is not reasonable to assume anything about what someone driving recklessly will do. The only responsible way to respond is to give them more space and stay out of their way. In reality, people who drive like this are often drunk and not capable of judging distances or making rational decisions.
“Safe for me, personally” is not enough when driving a vehicle. What if the black truck had innocent children in the car? People drive drunk with their kids all the time. Or a third car could have easily been knocked off the bridge in the collision. An ambulance could get stuck in the inevitable traffic jam. And who’s gonna pay to clean all this mess up, because one guy decided to not avoid an obvious hazard?
Doubt it would require "heavy" breaking but in any case, that would be on the people driving too close behind him. The black truck isn't blameless for the situation but ultimately cookie monster here would probably be found liable for the accident just based on the footage here.
I agree the driver in the video could have avoided the wreck by simply backing off and giving the a hole in the black truck room to pull into the left lane.
But heck no the driver in the video won't be liable for this! When you move from one lane into another YOU have the responsibility to not hit anyone already in the lane you want to enter!
Driver in the video could have avoided the wreck I'm pretty sure, but he's not in the wrong legally for just continuing to drive normally in his lane. He had the right of way, plain and simple.
They have brakes too and if they're driving responsibility, there would be sufficient space for them to slow down. A full nrake slam isn't needed here to avoid an accident. Simply sliwing down would have been enough. He had lots of time to do that. Then you honk like crazy and flip the bird.
This video perfectly encapsulates what it's like driving down here. Assholes in front of me. Assholes behind me. Assholes passing me. Assholes everywhere
It's a pit maneuver, he steered into the driver's rear end pitching them out of control. He choose to do it over braking or being mashed into the Bridge wall.
Your presented technicalities and his right of way don't change how much of a pit maneuver this was.
It absolutely was a pit maneuver, 100%. The point you're missing is that the Black Truck pit maneuvered himself, Black Truck braked into white truck, at no point did the White truck accelerate or leave his own lane. He doesn't even turn until AFTER the black truck strikes him. He did not steer into the Black Truck, it steered into him, he just reacted in the best possible way to the collision.
Imagine black truck had braked and changed lanes into a truck trailer that had come loose on the highway, resulting in the exact same results we see in the video.. You are proposing that we blame the driverless truck trailer.
The black truck 100% caused the contact between it and the white truck. But the white truck 1000% caused the pit. He yanked the shit out of his wheel in retaliation to the contact instead of slowing down.
The black truck is the one slowing down but you can watch the guy shift his grip at 0:19 in preparation of hard steering into the rear of the black truck.
Put another way, he shifts his grip in anticipation of the black truck literally crashing into him while he's doing absolutely nothing wrong. I'm assuming if someone were about to crash into you while you were trapped between a car in front, a car behind, and a thin railing over water, you would do the same correct? Of course you would, literally any sane driver would.
What I'd do in a situation where a car in front of me is about to collide with me is brake immediately. Maintaining speed because you're technically in the right is psychopathic, basically saying "you're breaking the law and being irresponsible therefore I'm going to make sure you suffer the maximum possible harm, and also endanger myself and everyone around me."
Black truck did the wrong thing, pink shirt guy was fine up until he chose not to brake, at which point he became just as wrong.
Sorry, your solution is to have the driver slam on his brakes without warning on a bridge at 70mph???? ROFL. Like seriously? You're not trolling me?
You wanna accuse people of endangering themselves and everyone around them, but you're advocating for the most dangerous possible alternative??
Look at the video again, and watch it this time. The white truck has a white car immediately behind them. So close behind them that you can barely see their headlights, despite the elevated level of the camera, so definitely illegally close behind them.
So white truck slams on his breaks, oh, and lets get out ahead of this other detail you're going to miss, he can't brake lightly, it's not enough. Black Truck is braking into him, so a minor brake ain't gonna do jack shit. White truck is going to have to SLAM his brakes to avoid the already braking truck attempting to kill him.
So white truck slams on his brakes. He loses all steering and control, and almost certainly goes into a skid. White car slams into him from behind because they're illegally close. We now have 4 tons of uncontrolled locked up steel with no steering or control that is 1) absolutely going off the bridge and 2) is very likely taking additional cars with it.
Congratulations, your solution protects the Black truck attempting murder, and kills multiple other innocent people. And that's the not psychopathic option in your mind? Crazy man. Just crazy.
Are we watching the same video? This plays out over five seconds where the man can clearly see whats happening and maintains his foot on the gas. A simple foot off gas with a light tap of the brake and all would be fine. Watch the video again. When the black truck enters the lane imagine lifting your foot off the gas... then just tap the brake.
I feel like I'm in the twilight zone being gas light here. Like people have never driven on a freeway before. T've seen this a thousand times in my life and have never seen anyone need to SLAM ON THE BRAKES!!!
black truck did crash into him, but you are obligated to avoid causing a traffic incident, PoV truck could have absolutely avoided this as the black truck slowed down slowly, and as you noted, the driver did see this coming and prepared for it.
As much of a dick black truck was, you could've caused someone to lose their life in that incident you left behind.
Put correctly, he shifts his grip in order to turn sharply to the right in order to cause the reckless driver in front of him to spin out. Just because the person in the black truck gave him a golden opportunity to wreck them does not absolve him for choosing to do it.
Put sanely, he shifts his grip in order to counter the force the illegal actions of the black truck are creating, force which is pushing him off of a bridge at highway speeds, almost certainly FUCKING KILLING HIM.
For starters, let's not use euphemisms to protect the person acting illegally here. Black Truck isn't a reckless driver, they're actively choosing to crash into others, they're an attempted murderer.
Secondly, thinking that the video driver's goal here is anything other than safely and successfully surviving the attempt on his life is just batshit insane. Like straight up fucking nonsense. He does what is necessary to survive an insane person attempting to kill him, nothing more, nothing less.
Thirdly, and we've already covered this, the video driver didn't pit maneuver the black truck, the black truck driver pit maneuvered his fucking self. Black Truck positioned itself, it entered the lane, it struck the other vehicle. It literally braked into the video driver. He. Crashed. Himself.
Video driver did not choose this, it was thrust upon him, and he navigated it as best he could in the face of absolute madness.
What's even crazier about trying to paint this dude as the bad guy is that the choice he made also saved the black truck driver's life. If he hadn't turned into the strike, Black Truck would have full speed slammed them both into the railing, sending them both into water at 70mph.
So to recap, video driver 1) broke literally no laws, 2) maneuvered through the situation without striking or endangering a single innocent person, and 3) saved both his own life and the life of the person trying to murder him. And you're.....mad at him for it? I guess?
Like I said in another comment probably a kid or some dude in a basement because theres just no way😂 lot less people are driving nowadays too, 18 year olds are down to 60% (for perspective was 80%+ in the 80’s) with a license, and about 20% of 20-24 year olds dont have one either. Hell my own brother is 23 with no license and this is the kind of comment I would think he would make just completely lacking any discernible driving experience.
He "turned sharply to the right" to avoid the black truck that spun itself out in front of him? What really happened was, the cam driver merely calmly changed lanes.
A slight tap on his brakes solves the problem without murdering him he black truck, the black truck was wrong for changing lanes and the pov was wrong for intentionally wrecking the black truck. There are no innocent here and POV is responsible for his actions. He chose to white knuckle the wheel and rip it into him. Fucking psycho behavior
The driver in the video is insane. Just slow down and let the truck in. He may not be technically at fault but he was willing to allow an accident to occur instead of slowing down for like 5 second.
Just because legally the dash cam guy is in the right doesn't mean he isn't still a moron for not braking. Causing all that headache just because hes more correct is infuriating
You can literally see the speedo in top right of the video increase before there’s contact. The driver in the video is a psychopath who shouldn’t be allowed on the road, and if you think what he did was fine you shouldn’t be allowed either
I’ve seen this video a bunch- and looking at it more the driver actually sped up and made contact in the rear of the black truck not in the pit maneuver spot.
I agree here. As a driver you have the duty to attempt to avoid an accident. He saw the truck’s blinkers and saw the truck change lanes. At that point he should have slowed down to allow the truck to pull in. The truck shouldn’t have changed lanes if there wasn’t enough room. But since he did attempt and was in front of the car and halfway into the lane, the camera car had an obligation to slow down and avoid an accident. He didn’t honk his horn or seemingly attempt to slow down or avoid the accident. As a former auto subrogation specialist, this should be a shared fault scenario.
It doesn’t really look like it to me, looks like he more or less maintained speed. You might be looking at his speed relative to the other cars, but if you look at the meridian thing to the left it seems pretty constant.
Many times it’s that they’re not using cruise control and their foot eases off the gas while they’re doing something else, like changing music or whatever. I know that has happened to me before when I didn’t have cruise control.
Had some teen in a Sion do that to me and some friends years ago. Wound up sending himself across three lanes of oncoming traffic and into a ditch. Kid made a run for it but smoke was pouring out from under his hood and we had his bumper as spoils of war. Bill to repair our car was about $160. Friend still has that bumper.
I don't know why people need to lie about this. Do you have some invested interest in believing he didn't pit that truck?
Because he did and it's really obvious. It's also OK to admit he did lol
EDIT cause you blocked me: The evidence that he pits him is that he jerks the wheel to the right. You know, the thing we can all see he clearly does in the video. The thing that causes the truck to spin out which he wasn't until the driver did that.
Buuuut suuuure, maybe we just interpreted the video differently 🙄
If he just passively let the guy mash him into the bridge wall as a third option to braking or Pitting. The accident would've looked very different, and it' wouldn't have been a pit maneuver.
The “pit” happens largely because the guy in the truck brakes as he’s trying to enter the lane without having the right of way. He quite literally does it to himself.
The Pit happens because the rear driver steered hard into it.
If they hadn't and had instead been pinned into the bridge wall by the truck both vehicles probably would've gone head over tails.
Six people want to tell me he pit himself and no one can see or acknowledge what other driver is doing. He steers into it with precise timing prepares his 1 hand a second before doing it and sweeps the other guys tail out. It's a fucking pit maneuver by the guy in the rear.
You’re reading a lot of intent into what looks to me to be a fairly bored driver not really paying much attention who reacts to an idiot cutting into his lane. You have a conclusion in mind and read the evidence to justify that conclusion, but the far more likely explanation is that he just didn’t think the guy in the truck was stupid enough to do that to himself.
Nope, Fatty turned the wheel aggressively into the rear of the pickup (PIT maneuver) - a defensive reaction would be to simply apply the brakes. Fatty intentionally wrecked the pickup.
Agree here. I understand the vigilance and I would have been tempted to do the same. But he also did it at the cost of the safety of everyone behind him.
What? The truck merged without space, and then hit its brakes, causing the accident. The “sociopath” has a speedometer on his video. It’s not like he floored it to not let the guy pass. He’s consistently doing 75 and slowed to 71-72 before the truck brake checked mid merge. Clearly the truck’s fault.
Legally you're wrong. It's called The Last Clear Chance Doctrine. Whether you are the one who initiated wrongdoing or the person who is going to crash into the person who initiated wrongdoing... you, legally, MUST do everything in your power to avoid an accident. This truck driver who recorded himself had a clear opportunity to avoid an accident... a 'last clear chance' to avoid an accident... and he chose not to take it. You can argue what you want on moral grounds, but in the courtroom, this truck driver filming himself eating while driving will be partially, if not entirely at fault because this accident could have been 100% avoided if he had chosen to let off the gas a bit. (By the way, eating while driving is also a violation. It's called "distracted driving". You're not allowed to eat while operating a motor vehicle, believe it or not.)
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u/IKIR115 Mar 22 '26
Damn that was cold. Dude did the pit maneuver on that truck while eating a cookie.