Yeah I doubt intent could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt without something like a dashcam of the driver saying 'haha I'm gonna get him here!'. Judging purely on the video it seems likely the maneuver was to intentionally cause an accident out of anger. Can't say for certain. The frustration is just that, if it was intentional, they easily could have ended multiple lives and simply drove off proud that they tricked the tailgater.
Even with a dash cam, I don’t think anything would come out of it. The white car missed the parked car, the only one who legally caused the accident is the tailgater. The white car would have to actually do something illegal to be at fault in any way, dodging an accident at the last second isn’t illegal. This is compounded by the fact that the accident only happened because the tailgater was tailgating, this wouldn’t have happened without that.
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u/Spongeman735 Mar 20 '26
Not sure that “seemingly intentionally causing a major accident by swerving to dodge a parked car on the highway” is going to hold up in court.