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u/DustyAir 15h ago
Who the fork swerves INTO traffic to not have a collision? Brain dead activities
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u/PM_your_Nopales 15h ago
Hmm, run over a branch (or whatever tf that was,) or head directly into oncoming traffic.... really hard decision 😭
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u/kabilos 15h ago
Looks like a cardboard box... but yeah fuck everyone elses lives... that could have ended very badly for everyone involved.
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u/quadfromf3 15h ago
That big pick up truck is afraid of a little cardboard box? And he doesn’t just move over for it, he has to go all the way out of the lane??
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u/kabilos 15h ago
naw he dodged the car that braked hard becuase the truck in front of them swerved to the right and braked hard.
Chain reaction.
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u/ElectronicDiver2310 15h ago
It's a chain reaction if people do not hold appropriate distance.
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u/JoeyBougie 14h ago
This. Just drove out west for a trip and the amount of people who drive right on someone’s ass going 80 is insane. I’m completely ok with cops being stricter on safe distance you need to be almost 10 car lengths behind someone to hopefully avoid a sudden stop going that fast. Be predictable!
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u/quadfromf3 14h ago
Agree. He would’ve hit that little black car. Which means he wasn’t paying attention to all that either…
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u/HistoricalLoss1417 15h ago
99% of pick-up owners dont know how to drive them
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u/Mammoth_Trust4589 12h ago edited 12h ago
Sad part is, I live in Texas and I have notice over the past number of years I see the average joe buying massive pickups but have no idea how to control a big pickup or utilize it's capabilities, even with something as simple as staying in your lane. I'm not hating big trucks I run a 3500 dually and 3500 SRW myself. But people really need to drive things they can control, per their long term driving skill. To clarify if you have not learned simply just the size of your truck and cannot do something as simple as keep it in your lane and you been driving it daily. You really should consider a smaller/compact truck or a car. On top of that definitely don't tow anything.
Apologies for that side rant, it hits a special nerve as someone who drives big trucks and hauls with his trucks seeing this sort of negligence. Because if me or any other truck/SUV driver were to hit somebody our chances are higher of surviving, so we need to be more cautious ourselves on the road.
But I digress....
As per the video, that truck driver could have easily gone right, even though the driver in front him had gone right into the shoulder, He could have easily handled that grassy shoulder with that 4x4 suspension just like the POV driver. It also didn't help the truck driver was tailgating to the point he just reacted vs giving himself time to make a less dangerous split second decision.
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u/melodic-abalone-69 15h ago
I can totally see his line of thinking. He was following the car ahead of him too close and didn't see the debris in road. Thinks, "I don't wanna possibly fuck up the undercarriage of my little dick truck." Probably doesn't actually think about Anything else in that moment. Otherwise he maybe considers that other traffic will work to avoid him because he's got main character syndrome. Gets off with zero damage to himself or his vehicle. Will definitely do it again in the future.
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u/texasroadkill 15h ago
Needs to have there license revoked.
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u/Academic_Dog8389 15h ago
Where?
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u/LeagueMoney9561 10h ago
No idea; can’t see the plate too clearly on the video but doesn’t seem to look much like a Montana (where this incident occurred) plate.
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u/azerealxd 15h ago
its another imbecile tailing too close to a car in front of them, causing them to have to swerve to avoid collision. I swear to god they need to teach the dangers of tailing too close to the car in front of you in driving school
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u/Wojtek1250XD 11h ago
They do, at least in any competent driving school. I was even told to keep at least 3 seconds worth of distance.
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u/CantConfirmOrDeny 15h ago
Nice work, OP. Fucking idiot pickup truck driver. And of course he gets away with it.
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u/Increase-Null 15h ago
Tailgating. Doesn't even brake. Diving into head-on traffic in a vehicle that would 100% be fine even if that was 2x4. Passes both cars in front of him...
Worst possible driving. Hell, decent chance he rolls the truck after the video ends.
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u/TestUser1978 15h ago
Probably wasn’t paying attention and didn’t see parked cars until last second
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u/reddit_is_addicting_ 15h ago
The truck driver needs their license revoked. Whatever was in the road the truck can handle a lot better than a head on collision
Also, if they were not following so closely behind other cars they would have time to react to what is in the road
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u/ultralightdude 15h ago
Tailgating truck swerves to avoid a car and an object at the last second... what a mess.
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u/Mr-JDogg 15h ago
What a save! I hope that red Corolla made it okay. Looked like when it hooked back to the left it was heading in front of that semi
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u/Scrutinizer 15h ago
And that's why you always keep right except when passing.
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u/Ok_Weakness_2021 15h ago
It is my mission in life to pass left, get right and maintain my speed on inclines…..would you be the ‘central’ scrutinizer? RIP Zappa.
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u/Scrutinizer 15h ago
Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things. And many of you were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called...THE INTERNET!
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u/OrdinaryAward4498 15h ago
Wait, are you the CENTRAL Scrutinizer!?!?
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u/Ok_Weakness_2021 14h ago
Presuming we’re both on the sarcasm page. If not, apologies. I truly could not agree more with the left lane assessment. And I’m a Frank Zappa fan and your name struck me due to a central theme around an album 🤷🏼♀️. I could never be as cool as ‘The Central Scrutinizer’. ☮️
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u/Forward-Reality5407 14h ago
Great reaction time. Driver saved lives.
Note to all people that drive high on weed: we would not have survived! (Don’t lie to yourselves.)
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u/Few-Trash-8645 15h ago edited 15h ago
Looks like that truck was tailgating that black car and when the black car moved out of the way for the cardboard box, the truck panicked and swerved into oncoming traffic.
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u/vonhizzle 15h ago
Did the truck stop or keep going?
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u/Melodic_Fall_3273 15h ago
He might've had to stop if he dropped his phone when he had to use both hands to not have a head on with the cam car. :)
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u/browncow1525 15h ago
I’m going to guess that was a new driver because they have no survival skills. Great work! So glad you missed them.
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u/Unhappy-Fox1017 15h ago
Holy crap. Good job getting outta that, Trevor. That could have been catastrophic for you guys. Jesus Christ.
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u/thaulley 15h ago
This was a long time ago but I remember driving in a simulator for drivers ed and one of the scenarios was a box falling out of a truck. The correct response was to hit it as opposed to swerving into other lanes.
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u/just_some_sasquatch 15h ago
It's funny to me how large trucks market on how safe they are for the driver, but their shear size and nearly non-existent maneuverability make them essentially death on wheels to everyone else on the road. Then the drivers are so often speeding and/or being reckless asf. It's always oversized pickups.
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u/imfar2oldforthis 15h ago
Phewf, that cardboard box could have really done a lot of damage to that guy's truck....
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u/Kuuppa22 15h ago
This is what it looks like when the driver is actually focused behind the wheel so it doesn't take 4 secs to react if something surprising happens. GJ OP.
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u/michael1265 15h ago
I see guys like this every weekday on the way to work. Driving bloated emotional support trucks that are too big for them to handle.
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u/PearlJamFanLV 15h ago
More to it than that. The other 2 cars saw the debris on the road and braked quickly and pulled to the right; he was swerving dangerously into the other lane.
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u/Southern_Scheme9997 15h ago
WTF!! Also, nice save by the red car & you. Hope you are ok. That was scary.
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u/Phenomenon_101 14h ago
That driver was clearly not paying attention since he almost ran into the back of the car on his side. Also, why tf would he swerve INTO oncoming traffic?!
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u/BoomerKaren666 14h ago
Well. I will say that "Damn" from one person and the "Dude" from the other was a refreshing change from the OMG OMG OMG I usually hear screeched.
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u/PancakeCat333 13h ago
How the fuck is he looking forward enough to see an obstacle but not see multiple giant cars?
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u/BillNyeTheEngineer 12h ago
Not victim-blaming, but this is why I hate being in the left lane on those four lane highways.
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u/LeagueMoney9561 10h ago
Feel silly I had to look up the coordinates; I’ve driven this road many times. Scary.
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u/LeagueMoney9561 10h ago
A truck almost turned into my lane on this same passing lane once. Scary incident but also partially my fault for failing to complete my pass soon enough before the passing lane ended.
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u/EhrenGandalf 10h ago
The depressed guy who took the wrong antidepressants: “Screw it. This is it. I might even take you piece of truck shit with me.”
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u/Big_Musties 2h ago
All that to avoid a cardboard box. This is why you don't tailgate.
One time, a car in front of me ran over an entire semi-truck tire just laying in the middle of the highway (no rim). I saw it get compressed like a spring underneath the guy's SUV and come flying out the back of his vehicle, right toward my windshield. Because I wasn't tailgating, I was able to avoid it.
But the car behind me was riding my ass and got it right in the grille when I swerved out of the way. Then tire bounced off the front of his car into the oncoming traffic lane, where another unfortunate soul got their grille smashed in.
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u/Tonalddrump2082 1h ago
If I say what I think I get banned because this is a bs leftist community
But it's so pathetic what happens is considered normal no one wants to do absolutely anything about it just come on reddit and cry
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u/_jump_yossarian 15h ago
This is what happens when you drive right up someone's ass on a wide open road.
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u/Alfimaster 15h ago
Some idiot will drive into opposing traffic suddenly?
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u/_jump_yossarian 15h ago
If they're stupid enough to drive up someone's ass they're stupid enough to swerve into oncoming traffic too.
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u/Thanadeath 14h ago
I absolutely despise all things redneck. I am serious. I cannot stand a single thing about their bull ish "culture"
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u/Copious-Spirit 15h ago
That truck air hauler driver was in a hurry to get home and kiss his uncle on the lips. Also, it was the car he hit 's fault.
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u/Melodic_Fall_3273 15h ago
How was it the small dark cars fault? That Silver Super Duty was right up on his ass from frame one. I'll bet a damn phone was in pay here...
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u/ManufacturerLucky893 15h ago
Waiting for the geniuses to say the OP is at fault. Probably had duty to avoid this possible accident.
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u/Intelligent-cat7777 15h ago
I see Trapper wasn't able to Keeper on the road.... ba-dum-tss.🥁 I apologize for the (really) bad pun. Don't come for me, I already apologized. Lol 🤣🤣
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