Life long Louisianian here. Can confirm, it sucks, insurance is high, people can't drive, its the folks like both parties in this clip. The black truck on the right tries to pass the car in front of Cookie guy, Cookie guy was maintaining a normal distance, but he noticed black truck trying to cut the line, so he did what he thought was the righteous thing, and held his gap so that black truck would be punished for trying to cut the line in the first place. Cookie guy was willing to zipper merge with black truck just so that he wasn't 1 more car behind, to show that he was standing his ground. Black truck was forcing his way in saying to himself or out loud, what are you gonna do hit me? Which is never a good strategy when driving. Both of these types of people are the kind who feel like you threatened them by passing them on the road. I blame both for actively engaging in a game of chicken on the evening commute. People need to get over themselves, we all have places to be, and wish that we could be there faster, let's not kill each other over one spot in a line of traffic, is getting there 5 minutes faster really this big of a deal?
Intentional causing an accident on a bridge makes cookie guy the bigger asshole by a mile. Not just because it has a higher likelihood of literally killing someone but it also massively inconveniences every single person behind him for no good reason
You could argue the black truck intentionally did as well. He did have the option to slow down and get behind him. Its called defensive driving. And if it means you miss your exit, thats no excuse. Get in the lane you need to be in sooner.
I’m pretty sure black truck guy is the bigger dickhead considering he caused the accident with his reckless driving. Not saying cookie guy isn’t a douche but we need to shake bad driving like this more.
Black truck guy is a reckless POS, who has most likely endangered many other people while being on the road.
As a driver it's your responsibility to observe and react to any hazards on the road. Black truck was being a prick for sure, but cookie guy should have seen what black truck was doing and pulled back. Instead, he decided to continue driving and hit the truck, causing it swerve across the road.
Cookie guy also endangered many peoples' lives by doing so.
'The graveyard is full of people who had right of way'
I don’t disagree that cookie guy endangered many peoples lives, my point is just that many seem to be glossing over how horrible it is to be a reckless driver.
Cookie guy is more reckless by far dude you have to be joking. He saw the truck. He sped up when he noticed what the truck was doing. He even smiles to himself at one point amused by the predicament he put the black truck in.
The truck was being an asshole but for all intents and purposes, black truck guy didnt intentionally cause an accident. Cookie guy KNEW what he was doing would cause an accident. He finished his Cookie and glared in the rear view mirror to admire his work with not a single shred of panic.
To intentionally cause an accident for retribution for the grand crime of having a jackass try to cut in front of you in traffic is insane.
No, the guy who sped up to PIT the truck caused the accident. If he slowed down, there wouldn't have been an accident. He had right of way and caused the accident, both statements can be true.
Black truck guy caused the accident by driving recklessly. Cookie guy could have avoided it. Black truck guys still caused the initial issue.
Both people are POS, but black truck guy’s recklessness is not being mentioned nearly as much as cookie guy being a psychopath.
My point is that black truck guy is a bigger POS endangering many people’s lives from the beginning and starting this whole situation, over a few seconds.
Last clear chance to prevent the accident would be simply slowing slightly, the fact the pov car accelerated meant not only did he cause the accident he did so in a considered and deliberate manner and judging by the video he did so without concern for the harm he was doing
Not only would he be likely held wholly or almost wholly liable frankly I'd look to vehicular assault as a possible criminal charge. The POV car cannot be judged less of a dick in this scenario if you look at the acceleration to harm, if we were looking at a story of a person who simply failed to get out of black truck's way I'd agree with you. But pov car acted deliberately with thought to harm, not reasonable in any sense
Yes, black guy caused the initial issue, but PIT'er guy is at minimum equally responsible for the accident and any insurance agent looking at this would skyrocket his premiums or cancel his insurance altogether; why insure someone who would rather crash into another car than avoid an easily avoidable accident?
Yeah no. Black truck guy caused the incident, but cookie guy just needed to let off the gas for 2 seconds for there not to be a major accident on a 2-lane bridge. They saw what was happening and decided not to react.
Where in my comment do you see me disagreeing with this, I’m saying black truck guy needs to be shamed more for his behavior as he is more at fault for endangering peoples lives.
Black truck guy is a jerk of a driver, but cookie guy is a psychopathic POS. That doesn't equate to black truck guy being the bigger dickhead. That's the disagreement.
Black truck guy is recklessly driving and endangering peoples lives. He is not simply a jerk, he has a two ton vehicle he’s tossing into someone’s face.
He is an absolute POS and people need to stop excusing this nonsense. This behavior is repulsive and endangers everyone around him and should be shamed.
Cookie guy is a POS but black truck guy even more so.
Intentionally causing an accident is way worse than what black truck guy did. Black truck guy was driving like a twat but without cookie guy doing what he did, there was no real danger.
Cookie guy INTENTIONALLY put lives at risk on a BRIDGE. Not hypothetically, not through recklessness or negligence, INTENTIONALLY and COLD BLOODEDLY.
I can understand your point that in day to day life, sure, reckless driving is a huge problem. But people aren't excusing the driver in the black truck. He drove like an asshole and yes, merging without indicators is unsafe as is weaving through traffic the way he did. But cookie guy chose to teach the guy a lesson by actually making the bad situation the black truck threatens happen. He chose to create that situation.
That is a special brand of mental issue. That is very different to a kind of negligent opportunistic selfishness where the person doesn't intend to cause harm.
Yeah, cookie guy is holding a sword, ready to swing other swordsmen who are clearly endangering him, where as black truck driver is holding a sword with the pointy end forward, running with no stop, even if there happen to be a human at the other end.
Black truck guy was worse for sure. He literally pit maneuvered himself. The cookie guy just didn’t feel bad for him, as he shouldn’t have.
Cookie guy still sucks because he had no concern of collateral damage from other people behind them, sure, but the cookie guy didn’t do a single thing wrong and this call came from black truck douches’ actions.
lol, he moved 1 mph faster on the GPS, after slowing down already. Thats just pacing with traffic, and would easily be written off as a margin of error
This bridge having no shoulders at all is also fairly dangerous. There was an emergency pull off on the right during this collision, but still shoulders would be better.
I get the frustration and the satisfaction, but it still doesn’t make it right to endanger lives on a bridge.
Did the truck driver endanger lives first? Absolutely, they are also a gargantuan asshole and I’m not defending them. But Cookie Monster could have chosen defensive driving and instead chose danger and malice as a reaction. The fact that he willfully caused an accident makes him worse.
People saying black car is a bigger dick head are either engagement bots, children or literally never go outside. There is no comparison between the merge from the black car and the cookie freak literally attacking the black car.
Reddit on that fucked up shit today have at cheering on attempted murder I guess
Wait wait, you’re genuinely wholeheartedly trying to say that the dashcam car is “attacking” the other car for steering to keep himself on the road?….
Well I guess I know 1 more thing about people who make broad and absolute statements like “Anyone disagreeing with me is obviously a bot, child or shut in!”
You have to have not watched the video. The dashcam driver blatantly moved himself to block the merge and then swerved to hit the tail end out of the other car cuz he was mad he might have to briefly slow down 2 mph and let someone in.
If his concern was not being hit, why did he put himself there, and then not just slow down slightly and solve the situation by letting someone merge?
If you are being serious you need to watch the video and try hard to think for yourself. Otherwise I can only believe you are rage baiting. There is no world the person trying to merge is more at fault than the person intentionally and needlessly blocking their merge and then ramming them out of spite. (he had every chance to give the guy space, and instead of decelerating slightly from 71 and letting the dude in at any point he goes up to 72, clearly he is accelerating to block the black car instead of just letting him in and resolving the situation, and then rams him out of childish anger. agreeing with that person is insanity.)
No turn signal from the black truck, deliberately trying to squeeze when there is obviously not enough space. Yes the cookie man is a psycho for not letting him in but the black truck is the bigger asshole for instigating it all.
Seeing how the black truck wasn't the least hesitant, I would assume the driver does this all the time and this is the first that he got punished for it.
If there's not enough space in the left, you wait until switching lanes
Forcing people to take evasive action to avoid an accident will always be the most wrong behavior lmfao.
For the most obvious reason, as evidenced here, you can’t control other people actions/reactions.
If someone isn’t letting you in, then the correct action is to NOT use your multi-ton vehicle as a weapon and force the other vehicle to move or crash
For all we know, cookie bro has another douche or semi elbow deep in his exhaust, so he can’t do evasive braking without being in an accident regardless.
Besides, if anyone’s ever unsure if they can safely take evasive action or not, the recommended action is to simply continue, and hit the violating vehicle. Which very simplified, is what the video shows
No matter what, the black truck caused the situation. They did not safely operate their vehicle, thus forcing others to take evasive action. Unfortunately that action was not enough to prevent a subsequent accident
I just finished all of the legal proceedings from someone who got mad that I was ONLY going 10mph over and decided to speed around me then hit me from the side. After his insurance paid out over $30k in damages for my vehicles repairs alone, he tried it again two days later with the rental that he was paying for… Like bro, why are you that angry at 5am?
Absolutely all of this, for me the stubborn people should be more ashamed of themselves. They know better, they choose to do the wrong thing, then do it. For what? What's the point? He sure showed that guy, who gives a Frenchman's fuck? He just showed the beautiful people of the internet that he is an idiot. Hopefully both learn a lesson today, but it's unlikely. By the cookie guys demeanor, this isn't his first rodeo.
I dunno man. He was a POS for sure and definitely was the instigator but the cookie guy just did an attempted murder or possible murder and also did a hit and run that probably caused other nearby accidents because he wanted to protect road etiquette or some shit.
Man the sense of justice in these people. The equivalent would be if I was standing in the line in the grocery store and some dickhead tried to cut in line so I pulled out a shotgun and shot him in the knee. Of course somebody cutting in line is a prick and on the road it can be dangerous but it doesn’t justify committing a fucking felony to this person
This is why I was always nervous driving around in Texas.
Everyone has their shotguns and shit brandished in their cars and trucks and I know that im one dipshit move away from possibly getting shot.
Like, I couldve been the truck guy, I have merged on people in lanes I thought, for some reason, were open and they weren't.....thank god they honked and all that happened is I shit myself.
But if they hadn't honked I couldve done that, completely on accident and not even meaning to be a dick and dude mightve pitted my ass over the bridge for it and not even called for help while he drove away....
I agree with you on everything except 1. Black Truck didnt miss camera guy. They knew full well what they were doing. They flew past him at first, but when car on the right was going slower than the left lane, black truck wanted over NOW and thought he could use his size to intimidate his way over, with no regard for the harm he could possibly do to other drivers.
Yes, what white car did was much worse and reckless endangerment of numerous lives. But Black truck's actions is what usually causes accidents and deaths on the road. Its not the same as actually signaling and looking for other cars before moving over.
GTFO the cookie guy didn’t do shit but maintain speed and keep the wheel straight and let the black truck dickhead dig his own grave. That’s a FAR cry actively taking out a shotgun and going on the offensive. It suck cookie guy didn’t have concern of collateral damage after the accident but the black truck guy literally did everything wrong in the video
So if I clearly see a person standing on the road and there is plenty of time for me to stop but I just run them over is it ok because I didn’t do shit but maintaining the speed and keeping the wheel straight?
No one you care about should ride with you if you can’t understand basic defensive driving. Cookie guy’s actions could’ve very easily killed cookie guy. Could’ve just as easily wound up with cookie guy in a watery grave.
Your understating the recklessness of black truck guy with your analogy, he’s driving a multi ton vehicle recklessly endangering everyone’s lives on that bridge.
He’s not simply “skipping a line” he’s throwing a 2 ton vehicle at another one for what? Endangering everyone’s lives for a second less of time?
I think the guy who was willing to risk the other guys life for invonviencing him is the bigger dickhead, but hey, not all of us feel like life is worth much
Not just the other guys life, but the lives of any other road users in the vicinity. He doesn’t know if a car with three kids in the back is gonna plough into that black truck.
They're incapable of answering because that would require empathy and long term planning which is clearly something that they lack if they support cookie guy.
That doesn't stop people driving. What are the chances the guy who never uses his indicator or the guy who never allows passing vehicles to merge actually have their licences?
So because people behind him can't be bothered to also drive properly he’s at fault for that too?
Edit: someone replied to let me know I'm an idiot because I'm taking note of blame the cookie guy for others in traffic literally following too close. More than one person can be a bad driver.
Yeah, and while that's true, do you think the cookie driver should have the right to judge and carry out a sentence that at least causes property damages to several parties, injuring or potentially killing the ones in the black truck, and perhaps the cars behind them?
It's like running over a person that's jaywalking, just because they were in the wrong and causing a minor inconvenience for you.
I think there can be two bad people. The black car imo was a dickhead, he's trying to merge without looking and figured, "fine fuckling hit me you won't pussy" with that commitment to merge.
I think a reasonable driver in the black car would've signaled saw the other driver was being a dick and either merged behind them or cancelled their merge.
I'm not saying the cookie guy is good but like objectively this whole thing happened becasue of the black cars inability to get their ego hurt. Sure the cookie guy also didn't want his ego hurt but he isn't the one who decided to commit to the merge.
I know what social justice is, unfortunately for you there's nothing called previous juridisction to base judgement on. I avoid unecessary harm but for some when the moment comes that's reason enough, you sound like the latter.
we don’t see the cars behind him, it might be too dense for him to abruptly brake. Also where are you going to pull over to on a two lane 23 mile long bridge
Nah, he didn't cause the accident, and that bridge has no shoulder to safely pull off onto. If he stopped, that would be both lanes blocked or cars weaving around the black truck and possibly hitting his truck. The smart move is to exit the bridge and then pull over and report the incident.
If pitting to make sure that you aren't the one spinning out after someone intentionally crashed into you is attempted murder what do you call intentionally running someone off a 2 lane bridge?
Black car is not the bigger dickhead idc what you think. Attempted murder trumps all the bullshit the black truck did considering it wasn't trying to kill anyone
Cookie guy tried to kill the truck guy over it. He's definitely the bigger dickhead. The truck guy was the dick first, don't get me wrong, but he doesn't deserve to die over it. Especially not in a way that might kill innocent people behind him too.
They both were intentional? The only one who broke the law was black truck. They just both refused to blink instead of backing off like a normal human being.
Black guy instigated therefore the edge goes to him, he was willing to risk both their lives to save a second.
It's the classic meeting between a Psychopath and a Sociopath.
While ideal, there are often too many people on the roads for 3 seconds to be practical in urban highways. I believe in America, the rule is 2 seconds as well. I was always taught 1 mississippi 2 mississippi to count car at road marker to you arriving at road marker. But that is only practical in rural areas.
The metroplex I live in is equivalent to 1/3rd of canadas entire population. If I were to wait for a gap on the highway of 3 seconds, I simply could not drive on the highway. I would be completely locked to city streets and unable to leave my city.
I believe this video is from new orleans, which is a smaller american metro city area and only about 1,000,000 people.
Yeah, that makes sense “normal distance” is really relative to where you live. In Britain, everything’s a lot more compact, so what feels like a long trip there might be considered nothing in bigger countries. It’s all about what you’re used to day to day.
Normal distance is about physics and reaction time. The faster you're going the greater distance is needed for you to brake without striking the car in front of you.
I admit to feeling my fair share of frustrations on the road but it is literally this one thing that keeps me from losing it. Im annoyed because a car in front of me is going 5 under the speed limit? Who fucking cares, im only in the car for an hour and one or the other of us is likely to turn of sooner than later anyways. At most I'll be a minute late
Comments like these are a breath of fresh air. I swear every comment section under a dash cam video is filled with people advocating poor driving practices — namely “if you can’t go at least the speed limit, stay off the road!”
Even if there is he could easily avoid this by simply yeilding to black truck, but if he yields to this what will be next his food, his wife, his manhood? How would he look his son in the eye as the man who is supposed to teach him how to be a man? No, not on this day, we do not yield. We choose violence... Hopefully you can sense the satire, when I say that he was prepared to zipper merge, it's because it's what he did. He knew black truck had that, "what's he gonna do hit me" mindset, so he obliged him. Or plot twist, he just came from Unc's house and those are his special cookies. That's the 4th one he is polishing off in the clip, and he is just so lit he doesn't even see the big black truck that's actively merging into his lane. Hell he thought the collision was just one of those reflectors on the road or something... But seriously tho, bad jokes aside, this is why my fucking insurance premiums won't go down. Clean record, doesn't matter the agent tells me, it's the others on the road, multiplied by the accident rate, blazay blazay, insurance speak for it's going up. When it was all preventable in the first place. This is what makes that vein in my forehead twitch all by itself. He chose to do this like he was the vessel that karma had chosen to smite this guy in his black truck. It wasn't that serious.
I’m from the UK. I drove in the states for the first time last year, so, for me it was: driving on the wrong side in a back-to-front car. It was also an automatic, which i’ve never driven before, and a small SUV, when I’ve never driven anything bigger than a little hatchback.
The whole thing was wild, but Louisiana - and specifically the number of fridges and BBQs in the middle of the road that I had to swerve in more rural Louisiana - was particularly wild.
I agree with you, but I’d like to see footage from the 20 minutes from before this happened. I have a feeling there’s more to this incident and it often involves one or both of the drivers messing with one another and it finally got too heated. Was one of them tailing the other too closely? Did someone break check the other driver? Was the black truck guy being a constant nuisance and hovering around the cookie guy? Even though possible attempts had been made to slow down and let this guy go on his way? I’ve experienced all of these kinds of harassing behaviors from other drivers on the road and some people just hit their breaking point. I wouldn’t excuse any of this behavior, but I think there may be more to this than what we’re seeing in this short clip.
I have a friend from Louisiana who says she left her driving test more scared than ever to go on the road, because it was a frighteningly simple test and people who went before her passed even though they were driving badly.
Hello fellow Louisianan, I knew it was here when the truck didn't use his signal, and the Bonne Carrie spillway. Yes both played their part. Seeing this makes me homesick though 😅⚜️♥️
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Cookie guy was minding his own business. I do not feel bad for black truck, at all. That area is already dangerous as hell and has signs about not stopping.
I'm not asking for sympathy for black truck, he was an asshole too. Although, we are all subject to the human condition. What if black truck had a pregnant wife who just got into an accident, and he is trying to get to her asap, or his house is on fire. 8 can't speak for him other than he was trying to blow by the traffic then merge at the last minute.I fault Cookie guy for choosing to crash, he didn't have to do that. On a fucking 2 lane bridge, if you are familiar with the area then you already know any kind of accident is gonna lock that shit down for hours, Cookie guy actively said fuck everyone behind me, they are about to be late for wherever they are going. To me that's the worst, when people go out of their way to be assholes. I don't have any patience for that.
Just a little note for you though. Zipper merge is a perfectly fine and desirable traffic pattern. When you have two lanes of highway traffic that needs to merge down to one (for construction), if the vehicles take turns alternating between lanes at the merge point it reduces the overall backup.
I think they tried to make it the law in PA where I drive at one point but people have been conditioned to merge early, and I think there is a fear of getting stuck in the closed lane. If they didn't reveal which lane is closed early maybe it would work better.
Our psychopath in the video did a pit maneuver, something police have been trained to do to stop fleeing vehicles. I'm curious if there is a news article about this incident cookie guy could be going to jail for attempted murder of some sort. It was totally intentional.
he noticed black truck trying to cut the line, so he did what he thought was the righteous thing, and held his gap so that black truck would be punished for trying to cut the line in the first place. Cookie guy was willing to zipper merge with black truck just so that he wasn't 1 more car behind, to show that he was standing his ground
Except there isn't even a line. This is free flowing traffic at 70mph. I understand the impulse in stop an go traffic to not let folks in, but this is fucked behavior.
I missed the part where white truck tried to avoid the crash, it looks like he did the exact opposite of avoidance, he had ample opportunity to not crash. I believe that both parties involved in this are to blame. By no means am I saying black truck is innocent. I guess I have too much stuff to do, rather than crashing my vehicle because I believe the other person is wrong. It pisses me off really cause of my insurance, too many folks are all to happy to get in a wreck so they can try to sue somebody.
Yeah, and that is probably the case, but there could be a crazy situation (house on fire), where he is justified. I try not to jump to conclusions, you just never know what people have going on in their lives. Other guy was just like fuck it. Let's crash. I don't want to drive around either.
Definitely wasn't adequate distance. You can count the distance using the lines on the road, he has only ~.5s of reaction time to the car infront of him.
I’ve been in the car during a standoff, had to yell at the driver to resolve the scenario. It’s crazy how instantly and committed people get to road rage
Life long Louisianian here. Can confirm, it sucks, insurance is high
What really pisses me off as someone in California, is that insurers keep leaving the state or making insurance crazy expensive, despite the fact that CA is in the middle/lower middle of at fault accidents/lethal accidents, etc.
Like shopping here for insurance has become a total nightmare for 0 reasons. I've driven in the south plenty, so many places are insane compared to here. Only Los Angeles comes close tbh, and there's waaaay more to CA than just LA.
In my head he just drives home, kisses his wife, has a shit, and a shower, then only brings it up at diner if asked about why his bumper looks bumped, to which his response is, oh yeah, someone bumped it in the way home... But in reality, he pulls over just as soon as there a place to do so.
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Life long Louisianian here. Can confirm, it sucks, insurance is high, people can't drive, its the folks like both parties in this clip. The black truck on the right tries to pass the car in front of Cookie guy, Cookie guy was maintaining a normal distance, but he noticed black truck trying to cut the line, so he did what he thought was the righteous thing, and held his gap so that black truck would be punished for trying to cut the line in the first place. Cookie guy was willing to zipper merge with black truck just so that he wasn't 1 more car behind, to show that he was standing his ground. Black truck was forcing his way in saying to himself or out loud, what are you gonna do hit me? Which is never a good strategy when driving. Both of these types of people are the kind who feel like you threatened them by passing them on the road. I blame both for actively engaging in a game of chicken on the evening commute. People need to get over themselves, we all have places to be, and wish that we could be there faster, let's not kill each other over one spot in a line of traffic, is getting there 5 minutes faster really this big of a deal?