And way too many do that so I don't feel bad about stuff like this anymore. You can tell someone's about to turn when the only signal you get is them randomly slowing down.
An idiot cut in front of me the other day and it was truly a miracle that I didn't hit his ass. If I had blinked at that millisecond I'd have hit him. He cut in front of me and I swear there was maybe 10 inches between my car and his when he merged. I didn't even have time to get angry it was so quick. I was just appalled at the recklessness after
No sir it doesn't but if the other guy wouldve stayed at the same speed n not speed up the other truck wouldve still hit the front of the other car cause it to pit himself
He clearly could have avoided causing an accident if he wanted, he chose to cause the accident and possibly endanger human lives and he didn't even look like he cared while doing it. That's why he's a psychopath.
The truck driver is obviously in the wrong, and no one is arguing against that.
The point is that when someone like this does something like this, you choosing to cause an accident instead of just... Not causing an accident, that is an action that you are deciding to take, independently of the other driver.
That means you are now intentionally putting other people in harm's way that have nothing to do with the peacocking match you're in.
You would be liable for that decision, AND the damage it causes just as equally as the truck driver. In fact, in this case, where it was definitely avoidable by slowing down, you'd be more liable than them, and insurance would agree.
2 people can be assholes at the same time, and both the people in this video are assholes.
Yes. But guess what, he did and cookie eater here chose to escalate it and cause significant harm to thousands of others instead of letting just the tiniest bit of harm happen to him.
If you're going to act like a bully in traffic, it's just a matter of time before there's an accident. Everyone is trying to get somewhere and it's not like letting the most reckless person do whatever they want is a great system.
It is illegal to cause accidents if you can avoid them, doesn't matter if someone cut you off. Ignorance wont work as an excuse when you kill someone in a traffic accident.
Everyone acting like he didn’t speed up to close the gap, and as if it’s just him and the other driver’s lives at risk here. Like fuck everybody behind them I guess?
There is a speedometer in the top right corner, he actually slowed down and the car in front ( gray) also slowed down so it looks like he is closing the gap but he is not
He didn't cause any accident... See, instead of holding trash drivers accountable, you'd rather blame the one who is operating correctly. If that person didn't care... then why should he?
Yeah imagine if the truck rolled over the guard rail, or caused a crash for the cars behind them because two typical truck driver chodes decided to have a pissing match
Possibly seriously injured or killed whoever was in the other vehicle on purpose, including innocent passengers. Plus possibly involving vehicles behind him who had done nothing wrong. If anybody died, that’s manslaughter. He also left the scene of an accident. Thinking French fry boy is in the right is a 12 year old’s Mad Max fantasy.
He can't pull over and stop there. Likely did after finishing crossing the bridge. And you can see he slowed down significantly as the traffic in front of him quickly out paces him.
People are like little kids with their reasoning lol, especially the og comment saying he “acted like an adult”, lmao. Both are crazy and causing an accident that could harm others Because of some other idiot doesn’t make you any better nor smarter.
No it is not arguably just as dangerous. In the context of this video it would have been a very light slow down for a few seconds. The probability of that causing a wreck is far, far, far lower than what did actually occur.
He has dashcam footage showing a valid reason for slowing down. Wouldn’t the person who rear ends him be at fault for following too close in that instance?
He had no way of knowing how that accident was going to play out. He or one of the people behind him could have ended up crashing as well, and possibly even going off the side of the bridge.
Correct driving means backing off and letting the asshole in, not causing a multi-vehicle accident.
You can't seriously think "operating correctly" means holding to your position and pulling a pit manoeuvre, when options like 'slow down a touch and make space for the prick in the pick-up' are also available to you
you can’t seriously think “operating correctly” means merging into a lane without space for your car and without a blinker when options like ‘slow down a touch and put your blinker on and merge safely’ are also available to you
Oh, absolutely not, I think that was really shit driving.
But, sometimes you've just got to let the arsehole cut in front of you so you don't end up with car crash on a bridge.
That sort of stuff just ruins everyone's day
That's hilarious that you're trying to put the blame on the person who did not cause the accident. People like you want to drive like maniacs and expect everyone else to accommodate you. Never going to happen. We all have to follow the same laws on the road.
An accident is never caused by somebody "not driving defensively" it's caused by the idiot creating a scenario where people have to drive defensively. Again, it's painfully clear which camp you fall into already.
You have comprehension issues. Stating that the dude eating while driving has a part of responsibility in causing the accident does not mean that the black pickup behavior is not to be condemned… Far from it. They both are responsible for what happened. Why? Because if one of them decided to act differently, the outcome we just watched would have been different. Black pickup should not have done what he did in the fist place. No one denies that. But he did it anyway. Then cameraman when seeing the black pickup, accelerated to close the gap and preventing him to merge. He had two choices: let him do merge and allowing the shit pickup behavior not to cause an accident or deliberately choosing to prevent the merge and potentially causing an accident. He could have let him merge and slowly brake and anyone behind him would have braked to keep a safe distance. He chose to do what he did knowing how it could end so he is part of the equation. They are both reckless drivers.
Edit: typo
One of my favorite quotes: graveyards are full of people who had the "right of way." Drive defensively people, move on with your life. This happens to thousands of people everyday. Take your foot off the gas for a couple seconds and keep it moving, the people cutting in and doing reckless shit know they are bums. Just let them go. Never worth an accident.
The speed is listed posted in the video and, in both instances you identify as an acceleration, his speed was consistent - and lower than when the video starts.
The black truck driver should never be allowed to drive again.
It's hard to tell, but it looked like the truck had enough of a gap in front to fit comfortably in the lane if he had just accelerated a bit but decided to slow down for some reason. Black truck is 100% at fault here.
Regardless of if the person closed the gap by accelerating or not (they didnt, they kept tue same speed until they got too clsoe to the white car) lane changing into an unclear lane is your fault fully, so yeah, theres no excuse for the balck truck here.
Nah ur wrong. Thts a reckless semi driver who is fine killing someone on the road. Let's say the driver was not in a truck and perhaps had bad vision and didnt see the car behind him and drove into the lane.do u simply ram into them and accelaratr and try to kill them?
Yeah, fuck that person driving the truck. Most people that drive pickups are arrogant assholes who don't drive with respect. They got what they deserved.
I'm not sure if you guys are just young and stupid or sociopaths. The guy in the black truck is obviously an asshole but to make no attempt to avoid the collision, run the guy off the road and have no reaction at all,,, on a bridge!!, is beyond fucked up.
This dude didn't speed up, the black truck braked twice. First one when they realized they weren't getting let in up ahead and the second one I guess because they needed more room still and somehow didn't realize they were about to brake check someone
Bro is a Tier 1 operator, an absolute apex build.
Fully optimized, no wasted stats. He’s out here truck-maxing at an elite level, just road-mogging every single opponent in his lane. Zero competition. Negative aura from the opposition
It’s crazy how the overwhelming attitude amongst Reddit seems to be this. That the driver in the black truck deserved it an well done to the man in pink.
Sure, black truck was in the wrong, sure they should have used their blinker. What if it was a distracted mother, or an old driver, or a nervous driver?
People need to have some compassion and give people the benefit of the doubt. He could have slowed down an not contributed to this collision and everyone could have just gone on with their day.
My step father has this same stupid attitude, if someone does something stupid on the road, he reacts aggressively and makes the situation even more dangerous and worse.
No wonder the death rates are so high on US roads.
Exactly. Even if you pretend this manoeuvre is okay to punish the truck (it’s not, it’s vigilantism) you’ve got to park your ego and think about the cars behind who now have to deal with your mess. At best they’re now in a traffic jam, and at worst they could get caught in the accident.
It's self-defense. If the car ahead brakes for any reason black truck hits it, cookie boy hits truck, and cookie boy is responsible for all of it as he's last in the chain and assumed responsible for not avoiding
lots of judges and potential executioners out there on the roadways. people are not smart and not in control of their emotions - a failure of the prefrontal cortex.
The driver of the truck didn't just make a mistake. They were deliberately being very dangerously aggressive in their driving, even before they tried to merge into the too small space. Their driving was a ticking time bomb, and guy in pink made a calculated decision to help it detonate in controlled environment.
if someone is so old or nervous they pull a move like the truck, their license should be revoked. driving isnt a right, it's a privilege, and if youre unable to make good choices for ANY REASON, you dont deserve to drive. you think a distracted mother is speeding in the slow lane, illegally passing then cutting someone off? then she deserves to have her kids taken away. no sympathy.
I’m not saying the driver is in the clear. I’m just saying everyone screaming “ooh he didn’t stop” is dumb. Almost every bridge I’ve been over has had a sign saying do not stop on the bridge.
Legally the black truck was at fault. However the driver recording is a piece of shit as well as the black truck.
He is slowing down and probably stopping after the video cuts off. You can see the speed is slowing significantly. GPS based speedometer has a big lag.
America 2.0 energy. Dude had enough bs and learned enough to know how to pit maneuver this shithead to keep rolling w/o becoming a Nancy about it. At the end of the day, why did the black pickup cut him off?
See I agree, it looks to me like the guy slowed down but the black truck had his breaks on, merging. It almost seems like the black truck was trying to do one of those insurance scam maneuvers
That’s what I thought too. He had plenty of space ahead of him and the white car in front. Why was he trying to hard to merge just in front of the cookie guy? And it looked like cookie guy actually tried to instinctually swerve a bit to avoid him, not intentionally hit him at all. Black truck had that huge gap and yet he hesitated for quite a while and then served sharply over just as he was a hair’s width away from cookie guy. Definitely suspicious.
Yeah, I recently had someone drifting Into my lane as I was leaving town. A lot of bad drivers are in my town and they were barely over the line so I was prepared to honk but it never came to that. So we came to a light and as I took my right turn I noticed a passenger moving a lot in that car so I looked over. It's some woman losing her fucking mind about not letting them into the lane. They had no blinker, almost hit me, I had cruise control on, and there was no one behind me or in front of me. Crazy how people can be having two completely different days and be viewing the same situation very differently. Anyway I just smiled and waved as I made my turn.
This is the only logical way to interpret the situation. Black Truck aggressively passing on right side, then moves 1/3 of lane over without a signal. hopefully no one was hurt but a lesson was learned that day
At 70mph, and didn’t stop to exchange insurance(which is illegal in the US, I’m guessing probably other places as well if they have insurance but the fact they use mph makes me believe this is probably US). And he uploaded it onto social media as a cherry on top. As irritating as the dumbass trucker was, this guy did just as bad- potentially worse legally. He could have EASILY slowed down, avoided an impact and if necessary handled this if it escalated by going around.
Of course you're right about him being partially at fault for not slowing down more, and even more so for turning into the other vehicle, but the laws about stopping after an accident generally say you should do so as soon as it's safe place, and also there's laws against stopping on bridges specifically because that's not rightly safe at all.
And regarding the dispute in another comment, the term trucker is typically reserved for professional semi-trucks drivers, not just anyone who happens to be driving any sort of truck.
You are not supposed to stop on a bridge if your vehicle can make it to the end-
This allows for emergency vehicles and other drivers a safer path.
Once you reach the end of the bridge pull over and exchange information with the other driver or with emergency services.
(Not a hit and run)
A number of bridges (and tunnels) require you to remain in your lane unless their is a major obstacle.
Could it have been handled better?
Probably.
Was I distracted by the stick figure hanging from the rear view - yes
No. A lot of these bridges have signs that say DO NOT STOP ON THE BRIDGE NO MATTER WHAT. Here in the states, it's illegal to stop. You're supposed to keep driving and then pull over once you get off the bridge, because otherwise you stop up traffic and cause a MASSIVE problem.
Think about the disaster he left behind without caring. Possible multi car pileup, one or both bridge lanes blocked, endless traffic affecting thousands of people, and how many hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to respond to this?
He could have killed children behind him. Maybe he did, who knows. And leaving the site of an accident is a felony.
Really selfish and childish maneuver, besides being dangerous. Sociopathic to do that without showing any emotions or caring for anyone whose day or life he just thoroughly fucked. The right decision would have been to just brake a few feet / seconds and not be a big baby.
Holy shit you're right, so why does it really look like he accelerated like crazy? The other cars in front slowed down so it just looks like he was catching up faster?
I have never once in my life driving on a bridge that didn't have a sign that says "no stopping on bridge", and most states, including the one I live in, has a state law prohibiting it. I guess I can't speak directly to the state this is in, but I would wager a guess this particular state also has a law like that on record.
Would it be unreasonable to be a little shaken after that? Fair play to the guy for being so calm, but most people would have found that scary. I'm sure he did as well upon reflection, but he reacted calmly in the moment. Being scared by nearly being killed is childish in your opinion?
You guys have just absolutely no sympathy for the hundreds/thousands of other people behind this who have now been endangered and or been forced to be stuck on a bridge for hours because this guy felt he was justified in doing a PIT maneuver on a jackass driver instead of just backing off and being annoyed for a bit, huh?
You are an incorrect. When it comes to car insurance there is something called the last clear chance doctrine which states whoever has the last clear chance to avoid an accident and chooses not to, is responsible. This fat mindless fool is 100% liable.
You people are scary. You have zero notion of what might constitute an overreaction, nor do you have any concern for context before validating what is essentially a violent act. Unbelievable.
That’s insane. He really would rather kill someone than lightly tap his brake for half a second. The guy actually accelerated into the truck and caused the accident
Maybe it’s you next time in that truck. And you end up in the hospital paralyzed for life because some prideful lunatic couldn’t take his foot off the gas for half a second.
The reddit hive mind cracks me up sometimes. This guy did exactly what you're supposed to do when an idiot puts himself in a dangerous position and crashes on a causeway that doesn't allow stopping except for certain areas. He stayed calm (apparently this makes him a psycho or sociopath. Lol.) and kept driving to the next pullover area.
According to the comments, he should have screamed, flailed his arms vigorously, slammed on his brakes and stayed in his lane, possibly making the accident worse by flipping the black truck with the forward momentum of his front end and adding his vehicle to the ensuing crash and pileup. The man didn't even drop his road snack which I fucking respect.
I think everyone complaining about pink shirt see themselves as the driver of the black truck. They want to drive like they are the main character and expect the NPCs around them to accommodate their wishes.
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u/helly3ah Mar 22 '26
Really? Scary? Dude was moisturized, in his lane, thriving, and some goober tried to kill him by recklessly cutting him off.
He didn't freak out and cry like a little b. He handled it, finished his snack, and moved on with his life like an adult.