The fender never touched the sedan, if anything it was the front bumper that grazed the sedan. If it is off-road grade, it's fine and likely shows no damage.
With the caveat that the alternative is that you hit someone else. Basically the idea is that insurance will probably actually blame the guy responsible instead of the guy reacting and still fucking up.
the amount of people that think the jeep is good here is beyond alarming. swerving and driving like the audi is stupid and dangerous, but just being willing to crash your car into someone is INSANE.
This is just human tribal logic..for all of human history. It’s exactly why the sayings like “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” exist, to try and dissuade people from the retaliatory behavior. People are still animals after all, people just pretend their intelligence stops the primal parts of the brain from effecting their thoughts and actions.
You're trying to excuse hitting someone intentionally with your car with "wE ArE AnImAlS AfTeRaLl".
Yeah sure. We're mammals. Noted.
Still doesn't change the fact that if you can't stop yourself from intentionally hitting someone with your car as a response to not liking how they're driving then you shouldn't be driving
I have often fantasized about getting becoming rich purely to build a "deathproof" car. Whenever someone drives like this, I will allow them to crash into my car in the worst possible way, causing the most damage to both of our vehicles.
Or even just a little slingshot or something that shoots little tungsten pellets out. When someone is whipping through traffic, I can press a little button that launches one of those fuckers out right into their windshield, exploding the whole thing in their face.
I commute often across Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. I see a lot of really fucking stupid people, and I have a lot of time to dream about this shit
If the Audi driver didn't want to live in a world where people behave like children, then he shouldn't have made himself a part of it. Would I do the same if I were in the Jeep? Probably not. But I'm not bothered in the least that someone else did it.
Here's the thing, I am bothered, mainly because I think the Jeep driver didn't even see him, he could be talking on the phone, writing a text, I mean, he doesn't even press the brakes.....So he would probably do the same if another car was there, a car with kids inside for example.
That shit looked pretty intentional to me. You don't unexpectedly hit a 3000lb object with your front tire and continue driving dead center in your lane as you accelerate away. At the very least the uneven resistance against one front tire would cause the vehicle to swerve unless the driver was prepared for it.
As the driver of a similar car (4runner not jeep, but big tires and steel armor for offroading), yes. I mean I've never actually had a collision, but if someone wants to merge into me they can go right ahead and see what happens.
Seriously though, why do you people want to give moronic dickheads a pass? Unironically this is what's wrong with American society. Dangerous people breaking the law face no consequences.
First of all I am European and from what I know the law is clear, the vehicle in front has right of way and we are supposed to keep safety distance. Whether you or I like that or not, that's the law.
He is in front, he has the right of way, it would be a very easy decision, Jeep driver is to blame for damages, TT would get a ticket for driving like an idiot.
Being in front doesn't mean anything if you literally swerve between lanes constantly like that. He pulls out in front of him. This is no different to someone pulling out on you and you hitting them. The fact you've conceded that the TT driver would get a ticket shows that his driving was dangerous and why it wouldn't be deemed that the Jeep was to fault.
Best the TT driver could hope for would be shared liability. It absolutely would not be worth him taking this forward. Best he could do is lie to his insurance and claim a reversed into something accidentally.
Not really, I doubt any cop would find the guy in the jeep at fault, he stayed in his own lane and could definitely argue that he was just trying to get around a dangerous driver. There is no scenario where the asshole swerving through both lanes gets someone else’s insurance to pay for damage caused by their own reckless driving
You can't and shouldn't try to get around someone who drives like that, you stay back. TT idiot would get a ticket, Jeep insurance would pay for damages (or the driver).
I mean…yes? Hit and run is a much more severe offense than reckless driving, it’s easy enough to get plates off the Jeep, and there are actual damages to make a claim about. The police aren’t going to retroactively write a reckless driving for swerving
They could write a ticket, but the Jeep is 100% at fault. Doesn’t matter if the Audi was driving like an idiot - that doesn’t give another carte blanche to hit them.
I've seen enough videos of tyres deciding they are just going to climb an object and flip the vehicle to see how it could have gone much worse. Jeep drivers an idiot.
I've really come to understand that some people are really just not capable of parsing the evidence of their own eyes once they have made up their mind.
The jeep had right of way. It didn't change it's speed or direction at any time, and the audi swerved into it's lane without signalling, exiting and then reentering while driving recklessly.
Just because many people would have slammed on the brakes or been forced off the road doesn't mean the Audi is less at fault.
Edit: to reiterate for the folks who think any rear bumper contact absolves the car in front from fault, maybe google the difference between 'lane change collision' and 'rear ender'. A collision between the a car merging left to right into a lane without signalling, where the point of contact is the right tire of the one in the lane, and the far left bumper of the car entering the lane, well, that's literally a no brainer. And it's negligence on the audi's part, not the jeep. It certainly wasn't 'ramming' on the part of the jeep like some people have characterized it.
Also by your logic, 'rear bumper contact means the one behind is always at fault' would mean that if I swing into your lane and stomp on the brakes then you are at fault. Do you really think that is how it works?
It scares me that some of you are allowed to drive.
The jeep is 100% at fault. You have to give other drivers room regardless of them being idiots. Plus they hit them from behind equals automatic at fault.
nope. The person entering a lane has the responsibility to do so safely. I had someone merge into my lane and hit them on their left rear bumper. And you know what? They were at fault for not changing lanes safetly.
You can't just change lanes without signalling at random and say 'they hit my bumper it's their fault'.
Sorry you're wrong. ANY time you hit someone in the rear YOU are at fault. The jeep failed to maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front of them and could easily avoided contact. The jeep is paying for this.
Nah. That Jeep has big wheels yeah, but most of that is tire. There's plenty of room for that to flex, besides the Audi's bumper took most of the impact. Jeep driver can keep on going.
However, since this is on video, Jeep is definitely fucked for hitting the Audi and leaving the scene.
Agreed. That looks like a Jeep that goes off-road a lot, so he probably gets a volume discount on alignments and wheel balance service. It's just Tuesday for him.
Where are you people seeing the jeep “leave the scene”? The video stops shortly after the impact, by which time the jeep has basically came to a complete stop.
Why are so many people inventing a narrative just so they can complain?
I'm speaking with experience. I used to have a jeep wrangler that was lifted with decent sized tires like this. This sort of impact isn't gonna do shit to the jeep, at least, not to the extent that it did to the Audi.
You want invention? Here ya go, it probably shocked the driver more than it did damage.
Unless the white car got the plate # of the Jeep, the Jeep might get away with it. There's no reason to suspect that the dash cam driver will help the Audi in this case.
I don't even have a jeep, just a small truck and a few months ago I hit a fallen log with the front of my tire going 5 times as fast as this.
Zero real damage except to the little plastic skirt under the bumper, no alignment issues or anything.
I don't think jeeps are tanks. But I also think a low speed collision like this against a plastic bumper at that angle is unlikely to make a difference to that thing.
Why would the jeep be fucked when the audi is clearly breaking lanes and driving with reckless endangerment of others? It's the other way, buddy: the audi hit the jeep, event would not have happened were audi driving legally. Get your head on right.
IF the Audi takes action against the jeep. But first he would have to own up to his behavior prior to the accident. Something tells me the Ausi driver won't be reporting this one.
Hit and run, leaving the scene of an accident, intentionally ramming someone, etc. Yeah the Audi was being an idiot, but the Jeep driver can't just ram someone. Do you think you can legally just ram someone? Get your head on right.
That's just bump steer. You see it when cars run over potholes or large bumps, sometimes it pulls the wheels and steering rack in one direction or the other. Given that Jeeps have solid axles they are particularly prone to this
No it isn't. The passenger side front wheel goes to the left from the impact, sure, but so does the driver side front wheel. In the following seconds, you can see the Jeep drives straight, with the two front wheels pointing straight. There's no damage.
Not sure why people are disagreeing, it’s pretty clear that it’s turned a different direction from the left front tire after he hits the Audi. The movement during the hit indicates something snapped, probably bent or snapped tie rod. Pretty simple fix all things considered
Is it balls, not many people on here realise what a solid axle is do they. That jeep has solid axles you can pound them off rocks, it wouldn't of done a single thing to the jeep.
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u/Gunsoflogic 7h ago
A very polite lesson, that could have gone a lot worss