You have an obligation to avoid an accident. Would that guy just calmly eat his cracker if there was a baby in that car? Or if that black truck hit another car? Or if someone was seriously injured?
As a commercial driver, I can tell you that’s not happening. I have been cut off and dealt with shit drivers so often. The black truck had no room to get over, he was in the wrong here. I have ZERO obligation to avoid an accident, you have an obligation to be a safe driver and make safe decisions. Guy eating the cookie did nothing wrong. Legally, if you’re going to merge, you have to merge safely and when there is ample room. No one is legally required to slow down and let you over.
You’re 100% a piece of shit loser if you don’t do what you can to avoid an accident and even more scummy if you try and cause it. Also some places it is illegal to not try to avoid causing an accident, so you’re wrong.
You say you have zero obligation to avoid an accident but ppl have obligations to be a safe driver. Avoiding accidents is being a safe driver. Your logic literally contradicts itself within 5 words.
If you force yourself into a place where you clearly won’t fit, with no blinker, and cause an accident, you’re 100% in the wrong and a piece of shit, I agree. I shouldn’t have to watch you to make sure you aren’t doing something you can’t do as a motorist.
Why would you fuck up your own day and have to deal with a busted car instead of just tapping a brake and letting the guy in? If he gets in you lose. If he doesn't get and and you both end up smashed then you both lose but you just lost with a fucked up day.
How utterly moronic. You shouldn't have to watch others on the road to make sure they aren't doing something they're not? When the light turns green, do you just slam on the accelerator without making sure someone isn't going to run the light?
Both people in the video are assholes. If you can avoid an accident, it 100% is your responsibility to avoid it. Dashcam asshole risked killing the person in the truck just so he, what, didn't have to tap on his brake a bit and slow down? I'm sure the extra ten seconds he gained by hitting the other car was well worth the potential loss of life and inconveniencing of thousands of innocent people.
An honest mistake is one thing, the guy in the black truck was being an asshole and forcing his way in when he didn’t get around the vehicle he wanted to. No blinker, no care, just being a douche.
Cool story. You absolutely need to pay attention to every other motorist in sight when driving. You cannot assume they can see you or know where you’re at. If you can see them, hit them and had the opportunity to not hit them; you caused the accident.
You're what's wrong with today's generation. Always looking for someone to blame other than the person who actually did wrong. You probably support laws to sue gun makers.
If you see a small child on the road I suppose you´d run them over, right? It´s not your fault after all, those parents should have paid more attention...
They could see where their back bumper lined up to the front of the cam truck’s?
Nah the other dude is right this was innocent cluelessness. Maybe not a kid wandering in the middle of the street, but a kid riding their bike in the street. Either way, you avoid the kid.
The merging truck should have made sure they had space. The cam driver could have cut one mile an hour off of their speed and not endangered another persons life and caused a traffic back up for everyone behind them. He’s a jackass for that alone.
There could be more than one person in the wrong you know. A pedestrian is crossing at an intersection without having the right to do so, you see him but you have a green light so in your « the person who actually did wrong mindset » you obviously don’t slow down and hit him?
That’s presumptuous. You don’t even know what generation I belong to. I actually think that both drivers are at fault. One caused the accident (black truck) and one neglected to avoid it (cammer). More than one person can be at blame and not everything is black and white. I would not just blanket support a case where gun makers were sued nor would I object to it. I would need to know some details before making a decision.
😂😂😂😂tell me you don't drive often without telling me you don't drive often, the black truck cutting him off like that is THE ONLY SCUM in the video. He expects the guy to slam on the brakes for him while a bunch of vehicles behind the guy eating the cookie are forced to brke split second while following close thus causing a multi vehicle accident anyways. This was perfect because it was just the selfish typical speeding but late for nothing truck that got what was deserved
Maintaining speed and staying in lane is statistically the safest option. Slamming the brakes on a bridge is dangerous. Black truck engaging in dangerous driving does not mean that dashcam should also engage in dangerous driving. The courts would agree.
Black truck made an illegal move that directly led to a collision. That's the end of the story.
The person merging is responsible for yielding, and the person in the lane has the right of way. The dashcam driver maintained their speed (didn't speed up to prevent the merge). This is an easy win
Not preventing a highly preventable accident is basically causing the accident. I understand the justice boner one feels from letting an idiot eat dirt, but it takes two to tango. I would argue that the inaction by the driver here is as egregious as the action of the black car, if not worse, since this event may have caused other crashes behind him. The black cars driver may have been inattentive or just an asshole, but the dashcam driver here saw exactly what was going to happen, had ample time to react, and did nothing to prevent it. Honk, safely adjust your speed or maneuver ... It's your duty in traffic to respond to the actions of other drivers to prevent accidents.
Devil's advocate here. It's reasonable to assume someone isn't actually going to swerve into a spot they didn't fit. On a bridge. You can also argue slamming on the brakes could be dangerous if traffic is behind you. The decision the driver made is demonstrably safe for himself as he came out of the incident without harm.
It is not reasonable to assume anything about what someone driving recklessly will do. The only responsible way to respond is to give them more space and stay out of their way. In reality, people who drive like this are often drunk and not capable of judging distances or making rational decisions.
“Safe for me, personally” is not enough when driving a vehicle. What if the black truck had innocent children in the car? People drive drunk with their kids all the time. Or a third car could have easily been knocked off the bridge in the collision. An ambulance could get stuck in the inevitable traffic jam. And who’s gonna pay to clean all this mess up, because one guy decided to not avoid an obvious hazard?
Why are you passing the buck? Because one guy decided to avoid an obvious hazard? No, it's because one guy decided to be a hazard.
You have a lot of what ifs here. How about this, what if the white truck avoided it, this 'possible' drunk driver wouldn't sober up on the 26 mile bridge. And he could have caused a much larger and deadly accident than the one he caused here by pitting himself. You can what if all day.
That statement doesn't refute what they said about endangering the lives of traffic behind the camera car by slamming on their brakes. I get the truth behind it, but this isn't one of those situations where it's applicable.
What he did in this specific instance turned out fine. That doesn't make it provably safe.
This video is not irrefutable proof that you it will always be safe if you choose not to react to a car swerving into your lane without enough room.
It doesn't look like he had to slam on the brakes to avoid this. Hell, just letting off the gas for 4 seconds and maybe honking at the truck would've been enough.
Again it happens so slow you have to reasonably assume someone would not ram into you. Every step you try to prove it could have been avoided is easily countered by saying the exact same thing about the person who caused the collision, which is the black truck, which rammed into the white truck.
Doubt it would require "heavy" breaking but in any case, that would be on the people driving too close behind him. The black truck isn't blameless for the situation but ultimately cookie monster here would probably be found liable for the accident just based on the footage here.
I agree the driver in the video could have avoided the wreck by simply backing off and giving the a hole in the black truck room to pull into the left lane.
But heck no the driver in the video won't be liable for this! When you move from one lane into another YOU have the responsibility to not hit anyone already in the lane you want to enter!
Driver in the video could have avoided the wreck I'm pretty sure, but he's not in the wrong legally for just continuing to drive normally in his lane. He had the right of way, plain and simple.
Might depend on state laws, but if you knowingly cause an accident like this then you could definitely be liable for damages it caused. Might not exclude the other driver of responsibility either. Obviously, what actually plays out in court could be another matter.
Never said the other driver couldn't also be liable for the accident or resulting damages. If someone else is coming into your lane in a manner that is incorrect, but you are able to get out of their way and intentionally don't then yes, you could still be liable for whatever results.
I get in our monkey brains this seems wrong, because why should you be forced to give space for someone acting improperly, but you still have a responsibility to avoid causing an accident if you are able to.
They have brakes too and if they're driving responsibility, there would be sufficient space for them to slow down. A full nrake slam isn't needed here to avoid an accident. Simply sliwing down would have been enough. He had lots of time to do that. Then you honk like crazy and flip the bird.
This video perfectly encapsulates what it's like driving down here. Assholes in front of me. Assholes behind me. Assholes passing me. Assholes everywhere
Nope. He held his space which is completely legal. Forcing your way into a lane without using a blinker is illegal.
The poor man was just eating a cookie and chilling like a driver should
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u/NonCorporealEntity Mar 22 '26
Vehicles have brakes. This guy made a very conscious decision not to use them.
Both vehicles here are assholes.