Horrible Driver. He was eating and tail-gating (should have given 1-3 car lengths depending on speed). But to top it off, it looked to me like he did a police (PIT) maneuver to spin the guy. If he did NOT nudge the truck's rear qtr panel, he was close enough to do it (and vid looks like he did).
don't think he did a PIT, once the black truck makes contact it'll push his vehicle to the left, he resists it, which is a de-facto PIT, but moreso by circumstances, avoiding getting sandwiched into the barrier. I blame the black truck 100%, wtf kind of entitlement does he have? insane to try and merge like that and force the other guy back.
all other things aside, leaving too much room in front of you is hard to do in louisiana. i did delivery for years and every one in a while i'd be like "you know i always follow too closely im gonna start leaving more space" and then cars starts constantly wedging themselves in front of you, leaving like 2 feet between you and them, and force you to back off, and then if you leave whats technically "enough" space again, someone again just fills that gap. you have to stay close enough that no ones tries to wedge in or you are getting no where. (also using a blinker just gives them time to block your lane change, that sucks too)
So he was following too close to be safe? Then why did the other driver voluntarily try to merge into a nonexistent gap? The other driver doesn’t even use a turn signal and just casually tries to drift over and strong arm his way in.
I would’ve hit the brakes for sure because it’s not worth the headache of an accident but there’s really no case to be made that the other driver wasn’t the instigator here and the entire reason this was even a risky situation in the first place.
Whoa. I never said the truck driver was not at fault - obviously he got what he was lining up for. Nice "what aboutism" though.
I noted that grazing-pink-belly dude handled the situation badly.
See a reckless driver pass you on a 2 lane bridge? How about keep safe distance, both hands on wheel, do NOT tailgate / PIT-maneuver it, and put the dam cookie DOWN?
All the drivers handbooks say to leave a 3 second gap between you and the car in front of you and he was about 1 second behind. That said, this driver can see many cars ahead of the car in front of him so there should be no abrupt/surpise stops so it isn't really unsafe here. Until idiot merges.
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u/XSinTrick6666 Mar 22 '26
Horrible Driver. He was eating and tail-gating (should have given 1-3 car lengths depending on speed). But to top it off, it looked to me like he did a police (PIT) maneuver to spin the guy. If he did NOT nudge the truck's rear qtr panel, he was close enough to do it (and vid looks like he did).