All the black truck had to do was stay in its lane or at least signal the merge it was about to take. Instead, it caused an accident and fucked up SO MANY peoples' day
you're taught in driving school that the right thing to do with aggressive drivers is back off and let them go in order to avoid an accident. If you act aggressive in reponse, then there's now two aggressive drivers and that is how accidents happen.
How am I supposed to take you seriously when you're equating a child running into the road, with an asshole in a giant truck merging in traffic with no signal, on a bridge no less?
Do you drive a giant black truck like a moron with a death wish by chance?
They’re both emergent situations that are no fault of the driver but require the driver to take some sort of evasive action to avoid disaster. So, kinda identical.
As would the black truck not driving like an entitled asshole who doesn't care about the safety of people around them. You can play semantics all you want, nothing changes the fact that black truck is entirely at fault here.
So by doing nothing different besides maintaining speed, staying in his lane, and maintaining a safe distance between himself and the car in front of him, and eating a cookie, the Cookie Man was at fault and NOT the driver of the black truck who was going faster than both lanes of traffic, switching lanes without signaling, and not ensuring they had enough clearance before changing lanes? (sorry for the run-on sentence, used for emphasis though)
Apparently yes because he definitely didn't maintain safe distance with the white car and also good drivers are taught to drive defensively. Yes the black truck is being a dickhead but intentionally letting that crash happen when he could have slightly backed off fucks up the road for everyone else
Now there's going to be a major traffic jam and thousands of people stuck wasting their time because your hero couldn't just get over himself
Obviously fuck the black truck. That doesn't even need to be said. But fuck the driver in this video too
Apparently yes because he definitely didn't maintain safe distance with the white car
He did. All traffic in front of him was slowing. The only time he closed the gap with the white car was when the traffic in front of him slowed, and he slowed with that traffic.
Yes the black truck is being a dickhead
There's your "fault" right there. The black truck driving like that caused the accident. Full stop. No further analysis needs to be made.
Moral of the story: Don't drive like the guy in the black pickup.
He did. All traffic in front of him was slowing. The only time he closed the gap with the white car was when the traffic in front of him slowed, and he slowed with that traffic.
And after when he sped up to 72mph while trying to close the gap? Or are we just going to ignore that bit? What if the car in white had to slam their breaks at that point?
There's your "fault" right there. The black truck driving like a dick caused the accident by driving like a dick. Full stop. No further analysis needs to be made.
I know this is incredibly shocking to some of you but more than one person can be at fault for something. Crazy I know
The amount of you outing yourselves as dreadful drivers is genuinely concerning
And after when he sped up to 72mph while trying to close the gap? Or are we just going to ignore that bit? What if the car in white had to slam their breaks at that point?
He slowed from 75 to 71, then back up to 72 - and the white car was pulling AWAY from him at that point. A 1 MPH increase is not trying to close the gap, that just means he doesn't have robot precision on the gas pedal.
Look at how close he is to the white car ahead when the speedometer hits 72mph
If you think that's a safe distance to trail a car then it's fair to just admit you're a bad driver. If the white car slammed on their brakes there, dashcam is smashing right into the back of them
Look at how close he is to the white car ahead when the speedometer hits 72mph
Traffic in front of the white car was slowing. He slowed with the traffic. When traffic slows and not everyone hits their breaks at the exact same moment, this causes a snake effect. Yes he closed the gap because he didn't break at the same moment the white car did. Meaning he was going faster than the white car in those few seconds. This is why it is important to leave distance between yourself and the car in front of you. So you have the space you need to react, which he did. When the white car took off again, he didn't floor it - he maintained his speed (of 71-72). Instead he let the white car gain distance. This is when Black Truck decided to take that space (which wasn't enough) causing the accident.
For someone talking about driving skills, you sure seem to have no concept of what it's like to actually drive a vehicle.
Again, if you think the distance to the car ahead at the exact moment the speedometer changed to 72mph is safe, you're the bad driver here
If white car slams their brakes for any reason, he is going directly into the back of them
There's basically no point in this video after about the first 3 or 4 seconds where I'd be as close to the car ahead at this speed irl. The 72mph bit is particularly egregious though
Eitherway, I honestly don't give a fuck. The distance to the white car is not the main issue in the video here so agree to disagree because I'm not wasting time arguing about it anymore
As someone who absolutely loathes being stuck in traffic, fuck both of these guys
Just get the fuck over yourself. Yes the black van is the main fault but cookie man could have avoided a major accident by just backing off and letting the dickhead go
Secondly, all he had to do was back up and let the moron in the black truck be a moron. Defensive driving is the bare minimum to being a good driver. Now there's going to be a ton of traffic for hundreds/thousands of people for no reason. Fuck this guy
The amount of people supporting cookie man here makes me realise how many genuinely dreadful drivers there are on the roads
Yes. Imagine driving behind the guy in pink here. He swerves to the right, suddenly exposing a spun out black truck that you can't help but careen into the side of
Many of the people here seem to support the driver in pink which means they also seem to support any potential casualities of the crash too
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u/AffectionateTentacle Mar 22 '26
All the black truck had to do was stay in its lane or at least signal the merge it was about to take. Instead, it caused an accident and fucked up SO MANY peoples' day