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u/chickentootssoup 2d ago
Optimus fucking prime shows up ready to fuck.
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u/OrthodoxAtheist 2d ago
Looks to me like the truck driver was going very fast, saw the idiot turning around in the road blocking both lanes, so he had to hit the breaks hard, and turn which caused sideways sliding, and meanwhile the idiot who cause the problem just toodles off probably clueless to the harm they caused with their shitty decision. That said, I'm almost certain the trucker was speeding at the time.
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u/cheapdrinks 1d ago
Keep in mind the video is super sped up, it's 10 seconds long yet 25 seconds elapse on the time stamp so it's playing at 2.5x actual speed.
Guessing the truck driver didn't slow down soon enough because he thought the guy was pulling into the driveway first, then thought he was backing into the other driveway second then only at the last moment realised he was pulling an idiotic 3 point turn u-turn across both lates with incoming traffic bearing down on him. Truck driver definitely should have slowed down sooner but it was still an incredibly dumb thing to do from the white suv
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u/Efficient_Maybe_1086 1d ago
The trucker is at fault all the same though. If he couldn’t stop for a car he already saw, there is no way he could stop for someone exiting their garage or a pedestrian crossing the street.
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u/cheapdrinks 1d ago
Yeah I know, he made an assumption that didn't work out. I do feel a bit bad for him though - if you see a pedestrian crossing the road in the distance 30 seconds ahead of you, you don't normally dramatically slow down, you assume that they're going to fully cross the street and be well clear long before you get there. You don't expect them to walk 3/4 of the way across, turn around, walk back all the way to the other side then at the last second do another 360 and dash back across into oncoming traffic without looking. Just like you don't drive down every street 20 below the limit expecting that a car is going to wildly pull out in front of you without checking if there's traffic coming or not.
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u/darsynia 1d ago edited 1d ago
Pretty sure you should slow down even if you're fairly sure, because the alternative could be negligent homicide.
(though, fwiw, I live on a one way street with a million kids. So I'm always driving more cautiously than most)
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u/AnapsidIsland1 2d ago
Yeah, he was going too fast and totally thought the car was gonna pull into the driveway and disappear. I don’t know who got the blame, it should be the white car for not yielding to traffic.
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u/Global-Bag264 1d ago
Both. The SUV failed to yield AND made an illegal U-turn, and the truck looked to be speeding badly. I hope they caught the license plate of that idiot in the SUV.
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Truck comes flying sideways out of nowhere
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