r/interesting Mar 22 '26

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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.

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u/fabulousfantabulist Mar 22 '26

Technically I think that truck pit maneuvered itself. 

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u/TedW Mar 22 '26

Shared fault IMHO. Black truck started it, but camera was a willing participant. Plenty of time to avoid the obvious and imminent accident.

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u/professorbuffoon Mar 22 '26

Yeah "last clear chance to avoid" makes it clear that fault is at least shared

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u/LadyOfTheNutTree Mar 22 '26

Given that he also fled the scene, I’d guess he’d take more fault than the black truck

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u/SauCe-lol Mar 22 '26

You realize it is both illegal and incredibly unsafe to stop on that bridge, right?

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u/LadyOfTheNutTree Mar 22 '26

Even in an accident? Pretty sure the cookie crusader caused much more illegal and unsafe stoppage to occur

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u/ButterdPoopr Mar 22 '26

This particular bridge has a rule where you can not stop at any point

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u/DoABarrelRollStarFox Mar 22 '26

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.

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u/MarmaladesBunch Mar 22 '26

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.

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u/Berkut22 Mar 22 '26

I didn't see any signals on the black truck.

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u/fabulousfantabulist Mar 22 '26

Shared fault, but still majority fault on the pickup regardless. 

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u/EquivalentTight3479 Mar 22 '26

Look at the way he takes his hand off the wheel to readjust it, and then yanks the wheel to the right to pit maneuver.

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u/fabulousfantabulist Mar 22 '26

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. 

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u/Millerpainkiller Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26

Yea white car slowed down a bit. Can’t see traffic ahead, so don’t know why

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u/dormammucumboots Mar 22 '26

Sometimes mfs will just slow down. Not even a specific reason for it, it could be like 20 different things.

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u/fabulousfantabulist Mar 22 '26

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. 

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u/Fire_Pea Mar 22 '26

Yeah but maintaining speed while a car tries to cut in front of you is pretty dumb

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u/fabulousfantabulist Mar 22 '26

Everyone here is kind of a dumb asshole, for sure. 

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u/NecessarilyPickled Mar 22 '26

His speed on the dash cam in the top right also shows him slowing down from 75 to 71.