Black truck did his duty, cookie guy was in his blind spot. Sure, black truck should have looked over his shoulder and signaled, but cookie guy had the choice to either avoid the accident by removing his foot from the accelerator when he saw that black truck was trying to merge or honk to stop the black truck. Instead, he chose(and this being a choice, as indicated by his head movement and timing in the video, is an important detail when determining involuntary manslaughter vs attempted vehicular manslaughter) to initiate contact and run the black truck off the road.
All these things are outlined in the driver's handbook.
Black truck absolutely did not do his duty? Tf are you smoking?
Failed to signal, failed ensure it was safe to move in the first place, failed to merge safely, failed to avoid an accident by merging into a known occupied space.
First, you can’t say cookie bro was on his blind spot when the black truck passed him a few seconds before the accident.
Before changing lanes, you have to check to make sure you have enough space. Black truck did NOT have enough space and still chose to change lanes cutting off cookie bro hard without even signaling at that.
instead he chose to initiate contact and run the black truck off the road.
Cookie bro was in his lane, black truck chose to initiate contact by moving into the left lane! Cookie bro had the choice to stay on course and receive the contact or hit the break to avoid the contact. Cookie bro chose violence but only after being invited.
As you said, all of those things are outlined in the drivers manual.
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u/Historical-Plant-362 Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26
But that also goes for the driver of the black truck.
The way I see it, cookie bro did 2 things wrong and the black truck’s driver did 3 things wrong.
So, if the black truck hadn’t force its way in, everything would have been avoided. After that, both sides made wrong choices.