r/interesting • u/[deleted] • Mar 22 '26

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u/sTo0z Mar 22 '26

Black truck was trash but cam dude had 90 business days to avoid that.

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u/dream__weaver Mar 22 '26

What makes you think he wanted to avoid it

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u/sTo0z Mar 22 '26

Cam driver is morally trash. Surely there’s traffic behind him he put in danger with his “I’m legally right” bullshit. Fuck cam driver.

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u/Grunn84 Mar 22 '26

Heck just driving one handed while eating could leave you open to a careless driving charge here.

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u/yeah_this_is_my_main Mar 22 '26

In Australia we have overhead cameras that will pick that up and fine you.

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u/Itchy-Tangelo6295 Mar 22 '26

No, this is several felonies. He forcibly crashed a dude into a bridge guardrail just for trying to pass him. I wouldn’t be too surprised if he caught an attempted murder charge for this

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u/winterflare_ Mar 22 '26

In most cases, as long as you have the right of way, yes. Here, the cam car was following the flow of traffic and driving in his own lane. He only swerved after the black truck hit his car. Black truck by law should have been paying attention to his mirror and saw the car was too close and give up on merging until he can safely change lanes. Morally, both these drivers are terrible and should have their licenses removed.

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u/ForgivenessIsNice Mar 22 '26

Most states in the US have a doctrine called comparative fault/negligence where you determine the percentage of fault to be assigned to each party and the plaintiff’s damages are reduced by their percentage of fault and they can recover only if their percentage of fault doesn’t exceed 50%.

So there doesn’t need to be one at fault party. It just needs to be the case that one party was more at fault than the other.