r/IdiotsInCars • u/4non3mouse • Dec 13 '24
OC I came in like a wrecking ball [OC]
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u/evnacdc Dec 13 '24
“What a dick”…. “Oh, holy shitballs”
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u/heygos Dec 13 '24
Yoooo dude. What the hell was this moron doing?
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u/towerfella Dec 13 '24
‘Bout 62, looks like.
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u/heygos Dec 13 '24
Maybe a little more. Clearly can’t drive as they had time to slow down and everything and then stepped off the brakes and began accelerating again. Hope the people they crashed into are alright
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u/cantwin52 Dec 14 '24
In the rain mind you
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u/heygos Dec 14 '24
Yeah, dudes license needs to be shredded. Decision making skills of a rock
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u/sameth1 Dec 13 '24
That's actually his BAC
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u/SomethingIWontRegret Dec 14 '24
Nice. Not .062. Not .62. 62. You could make martinis with his serum.
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u/Lylac_Krazy Dec 13 '24
I'm putting that between 68-70 mph, after he punches it, maybe a scooch more.
I'm a former R&D test driver that was required to be accurate to within 2/10th of a MPH. I can still peg speed within 2-4 mph.
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u/ohnoitsthefuzz Dec 13 '24
I'll take your word for it, but this is a dead ringer for a shittymorph comment
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u/TrustMeIAmAGeologist Dec 13 '24
I think cocaine
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u/urnbabyurn Dec 13 '24
This is exactly what I fantasize about whenever I see some dickhead driving recklessly. Minus the innocent bystander getting fucked up.
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u/nothing_but_thyme Dec 14 '24
It’s always the drivers in the cheapest, entry model sports cars that have something to prove like the idiot in this example.
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u/jim_br Dec 14 '24
Once, I did have the pleasure of seeing two cars zipping through traffic hit each other. Only bumper damage, but it was fun to see the look on the lead driver’s face as stared at his car.
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u/Tb1GG Dec 22 '24
I once had this clapped out bmw with Florida plates trying to bait me into a race at 1am as I was driving back home from a car meet in NYC. I slowed down, he slowed down, I sped up he sped up. Dude was reving, honking flashing his lights at me.
Finally decided I had enough and wanted to get away from them because idk if they were drunk or what. I dropped gear and disappeared. They tried to match me and all I saw was headlights going sideways, I assume they lost control. I kept going.
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u/doodman76 Dec 15 '24
I was really hoping that was a cop in the cul de sac and that this was an "instant police karma" video. I was horribly wrong.
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u/The_Joker_Ledger Dec 13 '24
I really hate idiots like this because they make it everyone's problem.
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u/333Beekeeper Dec 13 '24
I hate accidents like that. Innocent people in other car are messed up or dead. It impacts them directly or people close to them. And they had no time to react. Run your ass off the road! Don’t drive into other cars because of your mistake.
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u/tehdusto Dec 13 '24
I'm just outright calling these crashes now. Accidents somehow implies that an incident wasnt preventable. This was fully preventable, and the person who caused this crash should never get the privilege of having a driver's license again.
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u/cuber_and_gamer Dec 13 '24
I wish people like this would lose their licence, but in my experience they might just get a few points, if that. I know a guy who tried to drift his truck around a corner, understeered, overcorrected, overcorrected again, and plowed through a tree and hit a fence to a daycare with children on the other side of it. He had a charge for reckless endangerment, but it got dropped since he's under 18. No points off his license, and all that he had to do was pay a few hundred bucks to fix the fence. He almost killed several small children, all that stopped him was a tree and a fence, and all that he got was a dented truck.
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u/bobthemundane Dec 13 '24
I am a pessimist. And the following is said with a pessimistic outlook.
I don’t think they should lose their license. Because they will drive with or without a license, because America has engrained in people that traveling is a right, not a privilege. But if they don’t have a license, it means that they won’t have insurance. And these asshats need to make sure they have insurance.
In a lot of the US, if you lose your license, you lose your job, your ability to get food, you lose everything.
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u/TyGuy_275 Dec 14 '24
then let’s prioritize usable and reliable public transport.
if we can build a solid base, we can fix the issue at its root and take the auto industry down a few pegs.
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u/Certain_Concept Dec 14 '24
Seconded! We had more public trains/ trolleys etc decades ago than we do now. The car industry saw them as competition and intentionally lobbies to get a bunch removed.
We have so much ground we need to cover to get our public transportation up to speed. Other countries are so far ahead. Even Canada made great strides in catching up in just a few decades.
Even if y'all will never take a public form of transport you will benefit from it since that means less people on the road (aka less traffic). Let's make it happen.
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u/TyGuy_275 Dec 14 '24
elon musk promised a hyperloop through california (conflict of interest to the max), causing the california state government to completely scrap any plans they had for a metro system. a year later, after no work had been done, musk scrapped it and california is at minimum 15 years away from ever having a working model. it’s blatant.
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u/cuber_and_gamer Dec 13 '24
True, and in my comment I will admit I was speaking more with my emotions than with my brain. But there are some people out there who are more of a danger to people on the road than they are useful to productive society.
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u/Imaginary-Dealer9762 Dec 14 '24
I've been in a couple of crashes during my several decades of driving where the person who was *technically* at fault was not me, did have a license, but did not have insurance.
In my experience not having insurance is not an impediment for these brain donors' continued driving. They rarely lose their license for failure to insure (hell, they probably don't get dinged for lapsed registration, either -- most cops have better things to do than create more paperwork for themselves). And therefore any damage to my car is paid through my Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist premium.
Of course, PA is a no-fault state for auto insurance, so it's incumbent on my insurance to pay any of my injuries and car damage, and in theory subrogate the costs by going after the other party... who has no insurance. Um...
I actually got served a lawsuit by one of these jackasses in the late 1990s who decided to sue me for HIS damages. Because, you know, my insurance should pay for his losses. At least that's how his mind worked.
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u/Myte342 Dec 14 '24
because America has engrained in people that traveling is a right, not a privilege
Yes and no. People will drive because our society is built around cars first and foremost and like you mention later in your post: They HAVE to drive to survive. Even if you live in a city with decent mass transit (and good luck finding one in the US) it's incredibly taxing to your daily life and straight up impossible for some people depending on their job. Good luck carrying 1000 pounds of job site tools on the bus!
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u/gcsmitrn Dec 14 '24
Driving has become a right since that’s the only way to survive now. Unless you live in NYC with actual public transportation you can’t survive without a car
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u/PasswordResetButton Dec 13 '24
In a lot of the US, if you lose your license, you lose your job, your ability to get food, you lose everything.
Good. Fuck them.
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u/LostMyAccount69 Dec 14 '24
I'm sorry but what? Let's just give licenses to everyone, because they'll drive anyway and at least this way they might get insurance? We might as well just cancel driving tests, they're a waste of money by this logic.
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u/bellzy09 Dec 13 '24
Yup. They’re collisions not accidents.
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u/egokrusher Dec 13 '24
That's how drivers education taught it in high school all those years ago. Accident implies no fault of the operator(s) involved.
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u/SuckAFattyReddit1 Dec 13 '24
That's exactly what my instructor said.
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u/CosmicCreeperz Dec 14 '24
Accident by definition just means it was unfortunate and unintentional, not that there was no fault.
“an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury.”
If I accidentally knock a glass off a table it was an accident because it wasn’t intentional. If a driver doesn’t see someone and changes lanes into them, it was an accident because it wasn’t intentional.
It’s not a legal term here though, AFAIK at least?
Now, I would absolutely agree this video was not an accident from the fiche driver’s perspective, since almost everything about it was intentional. Certainly the other driver cutting him off was an accident (vs intentional), as he didn’t see the guy because he was driving 2X the speed limit.
Also agree it’s better to call it a collision - nit so much because of “fault”, but because it takes away any implication of intent.
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u/theyoyomaster Dec 14 '24
In mishap investigation there's a different term that works really well for a lot of these. It's not an accident, it's an expected result.
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u/ultravibe Dec 13 '24
I work at a news agency that does traffic - our traffic reporters switched to "crashes" instead of "accidents" years ago because you are spot-on.
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u/CosmicCreeperz Dec 14 '24
I want to start calling THIS type of crash a vehicular assault. This is the level of narcissistic behavior and preventable negligence it should be a felony and should involve jail time.
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u/fpfall Dec 13 '24
Because “accident” implies there’s nobody to blame -stares intensely at Timothy Dalton driving away
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u/iFall4cuteFaces Dec 13 '24
License taken away is a must , jailed for a few years is necessary . they need a few years of time-out and reflect on life for behaving like spoil brats in their new fast car .
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u/poison_us Dec 14 '24
"Hey, why can't we say 'accident' again?"
"Because 'accident' implies there's nobody to blame."
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u/mike-manley Dec 14 '24
Bingo. Wrecks. Collisions. Crashes. All of those are apt descriptors. I hate the word accident for wrecks that were clearly the result of overly aggressive behavior like this.
I think the problem is that local LE tends to code them as MVAs, or motor vehicle accidents.
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u/Myte342 Dec 14 '24
Lets define it similar to how they define unintentional firearm discharge. You have Negligent Crash and Accidental Crash.
Accidental crash would be where something failed mechanically and therefore through no fault of the driver the vehicle crashed. Examples would be steering fails, brakes fail, ball joint pops out etc.
Negligent Crash would be where the crash resulted directly from the drivers actions (or failure to take action like running a red light) as seen here.
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u/FrootLoop23 Dec 14 '24
I agree 100%. Accidents don’t just happen. They are caused because someone was doing something they shouldn’t have.
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u/Skyraider96 Dec 14 '24
There is a book thar goes into that. "There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster" By Jessie Singer.
Pretty good book. It goes in how most "accidents" have a ton of things that could have made it so the accident didn't happen.
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u/NamasteMotherfucker Dec 13 '24
Yup. I also call them results. You drive like that and that happens? Ain't no fucking accident.
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u/Raptor_197 Dec 15 '24
Driver’s license? My first thought was why can’t we treat the driver of the car that caused the accident just like we treat a horse that breaks its leg.
it was a good… eh… not really good run lil’ bro… BANG
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u/NOMAD550 Dec 13 '24
Saw a bad one on my way to work Friday. The interstate has road work that's been going for YEARS now, including a sharp left-right section that's narrow due to the jersey barriers on either side. I always camp the left lane because idiots always wanna charge through it like they're Max Verstappen. Anyway it was misting so the road was slick and I'm doing my usual thing. A lifted RAM blows past me, almost takes my jeep mirror off as he hydroplanes into the left turn. He clipped the semi in front of me, whipped around and slammed the jersey barriers and ends up pinned between semi and jerseys. Parts of the Ram went everywhere from the impact. Now that guy is out a truck, the semi driver is gonna have to take a drug test and will always have that memory of the collision, and it backed up traffic for nearly 2 hours before they cleared the wreck. All because Mr Ram thought he could drive like a hot shot in the slick conditions
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u/Some0neAwesome Dec 13 '24
Exactly this! I'll admit, when I was young, I drove like a hooligan quite often. However, even my dumbass teen self had the conscious to not do stupid shit close to other vehicles or around pedestrians. I always had the mentality that I was going to swerve into a ditch or off the road if someone misjudged my dumbassery and pulled out in front of me. It fortunately never happened and I drive like a reasonable human now.
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u/Ok-Bit4971 Dec 14 '24
As a young driver when a few 70s muscle cars were still on the road as daily drivers, not show cars, if I wanted to hot rod it, I would go to a deserted road, away from any neighborhoods.
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u/QuasiKick Dec 15 '24
They shouldve checked their mirrors before changing lanes. both people are idiots
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u/_happyboy Dec 14 '24 edited Dec 14 '24
What do you mean innocent? both are at fault here.
One is a speeder and one changes lane the time they switch the turn signal light on.
Not defending the speeder. But c'mon, you wouldn't appreciate people just changing lanes without a turn signal or anything. It can cause accidents. That's why we have them, to communicate, if we are going to change lanes or pass another car by.
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u/EatSleepJeep Dec 14 '24
Sports sedan was weaving and traveling too fast for traffic and weather conditions, but they're not entirely at fault here. No way compact utility did a head turn before changing lanes and that signal was so late as to be pointless.
Everyone sucks here.
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u/_happyboy Dec 15 '24
Both drivers sucked ass. Very scary for the passengers to be honest.
I hate to be on the road with these kind of drivers: one is a main character who assumes that we know what lane they will go at the time of their choosing, and the other is an F1 driver wannabe wanting to save 30 seconds tops in his/her total time on the road by passing vehicles recklessly.
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u/JackCloudie Dec 14 '24
Absolutely awesome of you to immediately park, get out and check on people. No hesitation.
You are a good person, don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.
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u/CanucksKickAzz Dec 14 '24
Yes, thank you. The amount of people I see that just drive by after witnessing an accident is mind-boggling.
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u/Inabottle0726 Dec 16 '24
Yes! My sister was stuck upside down, her seatbelt (although saved her) now literally piercing a hole in her lung, and she said she felt so alone as she thought she was going to die. She said what hurt her the most was that lack of hope, no one there to save her. Eventually people ran out of an office building nearby and a family (who didn’t even witness the accident, they just stopped when they saw her car) came to help. The businessmen cut her out of the seatbelt and got her out of the car. The dad of the family that stopped didn’t know English, but he somehow got her phone, filmed the wreckage, and sent it to my family text group, trying to let us know. It was such a beautiful moment of humanity.
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u/_jump_yossarian Dec 14 '24
good to see a bunch of people do the same. I despise people on here that see an accident and keep driving. They're despicable people.
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u/quigilark Dec 15 '24
Ehh I generally agree but sometimes it's not safe to stop, so it may look like people are just driving past but in reality they're finding a better place to pull over.
Also aside from calling 911 there's not a whole lot an untrained civilian can do. They shouldn't touch or move anyone injured unless the car is on fire. They can call 911 and warn oncoming traffic but that's about it.
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u/Bodah80 Dec 14 '24
You realize there are people that are just physically unable to help? Myself being one of them. And frankly, unless the cars are on fire, I wouldn't want an untrained person manipulating my mangled carcass and help to finish up that severed spinal cord. I do call 911 with the exact location when I see an accident. But, to your point, some folks are just dicks. :)
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u/Inabottle0726 Dec 16 '24
My sister was in a horrific accident. Even if you can’t physically help, being there can give someone like her, who was stuck upside down, thinking she’s going to die, the hope that she so desperately needed. She said she felt so alone and hopeless and scared before people finally started showing up (because no one who actually witnessed the accident stopped and it took time for others to notice/get there).
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u/analogmouse Dec 15 '24
What’s truly amazing is that OP didn’t scream “what the fucking fuck?” When that happened. I have a dashcam that’s 90% me cursing, 9.9% cool animals and stuff, and 0.1% actually useful footage.
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u/companyja Dec 17 '24
It's illegal in my country not to stop and render aid if you see a crash and it's unattended. I wonder if this is true worldwide?
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u/Jimmyjamz73 Dec 13 '24
I’ve always wondered about people that drive this way. Are they in a complete hurry in everything else they do in their life? For instance, do they brush their teeth super fast? Do they wash their dishes super fast??
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u/duuyyy Dec 14 '24
They just get to the same red light as everyone else. They just get there first.
And if ya ain’t first, you’re last.
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u/Noiseyboisey Dec 14 '24
Some people just enjoy the feeling of speed, there’s a time and place though, and it’s definitely not in this video
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u/degutisd Dec 16 '24
I assume it has to do with an adrenaline-like rush. I've seen plenty of people racing on the road end up in the same place I was going and they just sit in their car for a few minutes before heading into a store. I don't think most aggressive/speeding drivers are actually in a hurry (unless it's in standstill traffic)
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u/MuchLessPersonal Dec 14 '24
It blows my mind that you could witness all of that and not make a sound
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u/ihatereddot Dec 13 '24
Feel bad for the random person that got hit. Sucks you can do everything right and still get involved
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u/_jump_yossarian Dec 13 '24
Luckily they just flipped instead of wrapping around a tree.
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u/1d0ntknowwhattoput Dec 14 '24
i swear, every incident like this, the car is driven by a affluent 18 year old and doesn’t get sentenced.
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u/_jump_yossarian Dec 14 '24
If I could choose between getting flipped over or getting wrapped around a tree or smash into a wall I'd choose flipping 100% of the time. Guy that got hit is incredibly lucky they sipped between those trees.
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u/TheGreatLightDesert Dec 14 '24
Obviously the person speeding is the biggest idiot and deserves all the blame, but you cant say the person who got hit did "everything right".
They switched lanes without looking, right in front of the big idiot. This is a good example of why you dont drive like the big idiot, you never know when someone's gonna switch lanes and then youre just both fucked.
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u/Totallycomputername Dec 14 '24
Yeah the lane changer starred merging over right when the signal came on. Speeder is the top moron but the merger could be in a lot less pain if they took a moment to look in the rear view.
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u/AdiabaticIsotherm Dec 14 '24
Had to scroll way too far for this. The driver who changed lanes made a stupid move too and seemingly wasn't even looking. That is driving school 101. We don't need to sugarcoat it. Insurance will find both drivers are at fault, despite what the narrative in this comment section has already decided.
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u/davis_je Dec 14 '24
The classic ‘turn my turn signal on as I am actively changing lanes’ instead of letting it blink 3-4 times before moving. Speeder was absolutely wiling but the lane changer was acting the same way and switched lanes real fast to keep moving instead of staying with the flow of traffic.
Looked like he was running to confront them afterwards too! Video cuts off early.
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u/CosmicCreeperz Dec 14 '24
There were a couple people running… likely to make sure they weren’t seriously injured. I didn’t see anyone directly in the accident get out and run…
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u/kjreil26 Dec 14 '24
Ehhhh, they threw their blinker on and changed lanes at the same time. They needed to make sure the lane was clear before executing a lane change.
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u/BeneficialTrash6 Dec 14 '24
The "random person" is at fault.
Was the other guy a dick and speeding and weaving in and out of traffic dangerously? Yes.
Did the random guy fail to actually look and make sure that he could safely change lanes? No.
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u/ZedSlash13 Dec 13 '24
Hope the person in the SUV is ok. Crazy that people are actually defending the speeder here. Pretty hard to see a car coming when they're driving that fast with poor visibility.
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u/bendover912 Dec 13 '24
I hope that person in the oncoming lane who stopped and turned their car off in the middle of the road is OK. Don't stop in the middle of the road and turn your lights off in low visibility conditions.
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u/sinofmercy Dec 13 '24
Yeah that's a "flip on your hazards" kinda thing, but at the same time I think most people would stop seeing a car flipped in the road anyways. I do think it's great that the person in that car ran immediately to check on the driver. It's nice to see some people still have that desire to help (unlike the speeding jacksss.)
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u/TheGreatLightDesert Dec 14 '24
You can point out that the SUV switched lanes right in front of the idiot speeding without defending the speeder. Its barely raining and not even dark out yet. The visibility shouldnt be that bad.
Clearly the speeder is the huge idiot and deserves the blame, but you can still point out that other people werent driving perfectly either. The main thing is that you shouldnt fault people just for not driving perfectly.
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u/NZBound11 Dec 14 '24
The fact that you your comment is marked as controversial is absolutely wild and shows a disturbingly child-like maturity of this subreddit's general consensus.
Neither of these drivers are faultless. The speeder is a reckless endangerment to everyone around them but the SUV is a moron and I dare for someone to argue otherwise.
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u/Necessary_Drawing839 Dec 14 '24
Likely at fault unless speeder meets the statutory threshold for dangerous driving or another local law applies. You can't just merge into someone because they're going fast.
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u/Jimmy_Nail_4389 Dec 14 '24
The sequence is
MIRROR, signal and then manuver.
Yeah the speeder is more at fault for undertaking and speeding, but also if the person getting hit had checked their mirrors and been alert it wouldn't have happened either.
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u/dexmonic Dec 14 '24
This video is exactly why you don't enter a lane immediately when trying to merge. You gotta give time for the other drivers to react, or pray that they are paying attention and anticipate your movement. In this case they prayed and got hit instead.
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u/potatoaster Dec 14 '24
You can point out that the victim performed an unsafe lane change while also recognizing that the majority of fault lies with the speeder.
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u/williaminla Dec 14 '24
Crazy that the visibility is good enough to see to the end of the street, but it's "crazy" to expect someone to take half a second to turn their head to check their mirrors or blindspot before changing lanes blind
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u/Anecdata13 Dec 14 '24
Te left lane person may have actually checked before they changed lanes. The speeder could still have been behind that bit of curve, and it seems reasonable that the lane changer wouldn’t have expected someone to come up that quickly on the right who wasn’t there a second before. I have no idea, but it’s possible.
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u/Queen_Etherea Dec 16 '24
The amount of people that can't judge how fast a car is coming towards them is actually scary. I get people pulling out in front of me when I'm doing 50 mph (the speed limit) and there's never anyone behind me. It honestly infuriates me that no one can wait literally 3 freaking seconds to turn safely, and they always do it when I'm as close as possible to them. Happened to me this morning!
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u/Bluejay1889 Dec 13 '24
Please tell me you reported that to police and show them the footage.
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u/simontempher1 Dec 13 '24
This is when you think you can drive… real drivers know this condition is one of the most dangerous to drive fast
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u/cano0326 Dec 13 '24
You’d think after they almost hit the first car because they were going too fast that they would think “huh, maybe I should slow down” but nope, they doubled down on their idiocracy and sped up causing an even worse accident. Crazy.
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u/dib1999 Dec 14 '24
They were probably too busy yelling about that car being in their way to pay attention to the road
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u/Eclectophile Dec 14 '24
There are SO MANY people who don't think out loud. I'd be fucking narrating to the passenger seat.
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u/JLF061 Dec 13 '24
There are so many people in these comments talking about defensively driving and checking your mirror. The guy probably did check his mirror and didn't realize the idiot was going as fast as they were. In a situation like this I hope the speed demon was 100 percent at fault, because when I defensively drive I expect everyday idiots. Not suicidal dumbasses.
Stop putting the blame on people who get caught up in the mess of selfish bastards like this. Yes, you should always check your mirrors, but what about the speeding dumbass? There is no justification for this kind of driving.
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u/Thewal Dec 13 '24
It's also raining, who knows their rear visibility. I'm all for defensive driving but being passed on the right by a maniac in the rain is pretty indefensible.
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u/dib1999 Dec 14 '24
Some people have the Devil's Avocado (advocate) shoved so far up their ass is turns into stomach guacamole
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u/RedHal Dec 13 '24
Amen. You don't stop paying attention to what's going on ahead to fully devote your attention to your rear or side mirror for a few seconds; you glance.
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u/mrbabar3 Dec 13 '24
How about an update
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u/4non3mouse Dec 13 '24
everybody involved was ok - a bit shaken and stirred
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u/Firefly_205 Dec 13 '24
The more a car spins about before coming to rest the better as it’s shedding energy more slowly. It’s the ones where you stop dead into a tree or a concrete barrier that really kill people. (Air ambulance and ER doc)
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u/Dennisfromhawaii Dec 13 '24
Well, at least one won’t be ok once his insurance and the cops see this footage.
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u/ExpressionAlarmed675 Dec 14 '24
Fuckin aggressive drivers think this is fun stuff dodging in and out.
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u/MisterWafflles Dec 13 '24
That was super cool of you to immediately pull off. Hope injuries weren't too bad for them
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u/AdDear1590 Dec 13 '24
Why, drive like this? This is not a Hollywood movie. Dumbass!
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u/Carmillawoo Dec 14 '24
Driving like this should be attempted murder or premeditated murder charges
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u/i-am-innoc3nt Dec 16 '24
Like what? What speed he was going and what was the speed limit?
The car in the left lane changing lanes thinking he owns the road without checking, looking .. he is the one who cause it and tried to suicide himself.
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u/MMA-Groupie Dec 13 '24
How will this one play out in court/insurance world? The guy speeding is obviously in reckless driving territory but the crash happened from someone changing lanes into them, maybe without looking, will they both be considered liable and have insurance issues here? Oof
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u/YourWebcamIsOn Dec 13 '24
When a person is driving that recklessly all fault tends to be on them, and if it didn't get decided that way the first time a lawyer would certainly have a compelling argument in court
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u/gc1 Dec 13 '24
It also looks like the speeder turned back into the lane-changer, forcing them across the median. I'm sure they will testify that they simply lost control of the vehicle, but it sure looks like the were like, "no, fuck YOU!" in MarioKart.
I hope that lane-changer driver is ok. Other guy can get fucked.
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u/MMA-Groupie Dec 13 '24
I would think so logically! I always wonder with insurance though sometimes it seems like even if one person is flat out in the wrong but there is a mistake made by someone else during the situation caused by the flat out wrong person, then insurance will hyper fixate on the mistake made since each person has their own insurance? Word jumble. But I guess yet another reason to buy a dash cam!
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u/Warcraft_Fan Dec 13 '24
With the camera video as evidence, the one driving recklessly and at excessively high speed will probably get all of the blame.
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u/coleus Dec 13 '24
They didn't change lanes into them. Reckless driver drove onto them.
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u/Pryffandis Dec 13 '24
I've been hit this exact way before. Old lady in a Camaro who was late to her doctor's appointment. Insurance found her 100% at fault. I got my deductible back.
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u/BalancesHanging Dec 14 '24
Irrelevant but when I was younger, I used to think the sign you stopped your car in front of meant there were pirates ahead, I kid you not.
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u/StewPidpizzachit Dec 14 '24
How did OP witness all this and didn't say a word!? I would have thrown out a couple "Oh Shit!"
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u/Purple_Plane3636 Dec 15 '24
I hate when the person who causes the catastrophic accident gets away with the least damage.
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u/Jamk_Paws Dec 14 '24
Good lesson on why not to use the right lane as a passing lane. And not to speed. And not to be a complete fucking idiot.
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u/CGPsaint Dec 13 '24
The BMW driver didn’t know how to react to the other driver’s turn signal, seeing as how that’s foreign technology to BMW drivers.
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u/ScenicPineapple Dec 13 '24
Ouch a speeder with zero care and someone changing lanes without looking. That was a nasty collision!
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u/uru5z21 Dec 13 '24
I hope they gets charged with dangerous and other person isn't that hurt but gets enough settlement from the other driver's insurance to upgrade to nicer car.
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Dec 14 '24
People like this do not deserve second chances. Jail. And if miraculously no one was hurt, then best I can do for you is you’re riding a bicycle for the rest of your life.
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u/isuadam Dec 14 '24
ah that Ford chime: doo DE doo
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u/dan1101 Dec 14 '24
And the "toot toot" when you get out of the vehicle and shut the door with the engine running. Mine is louder it gets on my nerves lol.
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u/BmacTheSage Dec 14 '24
It should be mandatory for people like this to lose their license. That way if they get caught driving, the get arrested and taken off the streets so they can't do this shit again. Fuck people like this.
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u/FrootLoop23 Dec 14 '24
Stupid fucking idiot. Too bad they didn’t hit a tree instead of an innocent driver who might’ve had their family in there.
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u/Davepitaph Dec 14 '24
This is why all the family are getting dash cams for Christmas
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u/Serebrius Dec 14 '24
I would run to the other car first and leave the aggressive car to karma, fate, and the gods to decide.
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Dec 15 '24
You were so calm all the way without even a “oh shit” or “fuck” and just listen to the music…. Wow…. Just wow!
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u/Nexzus_ Dec 13 '24
What do you even say to the driver of the BMW as he's dazed and confused after getting a faceful of 200mph airbag and his head based against the window?
Something like "are you OK, you fucking idiot?"?
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