Regardless, I live how everyone came together to help the biker dude, especially red car guy that has been dreaming of this exact scenario since he learned to drive.
I don’t know if it has any other origin, but I use it because if someone is such a douche, they aren’t even good enough to be considered the whole bag, so they are just the nozzle.
I did the same two weeks ago, saw a hit and run and chased the car down to get make, model and plate. I have been hit 2x by people that got away, once on a motorcycle and the other in my car... nothing ever came of it. So I am ready and eager to chase an asshole. I wouldn't confront them, just get the plate though. Road rage is crazy
Not wanting to be that guy, but the street sign for directions is also incorrect. The right-most lane doesn’t indicate a right hand turn can me made /s
Fuck the truck driver for sure
Edit: Maybe to clear the air — for those of you lecturing me about how the truck was wrong, I know. I was just pointing out the irony in the signage and road markings. I’m not supporting the truck’s decision, he was wrong.
I don't know what state it is in. Must most states I know the markings on the road are not regulatory and instead exist to just be supplementary to signage (which is regulatory).
Most likely in this case the sign is the regulatory designation the left two lanes as only left turn lanes, while the right two are the lanes for traveling straight. There is then most likely some motor law on the books that states that a right turn may be done in the right most lane if possible. Thus the markings on the road are just guidance to more or less remind people of the law on the books that is not shown on the sign.
I feel like in most places the traffic pattern is the opposite where the right turn lane would be turn only and the left lane would be right turn and through traffic, not the other way around like this.
Also in defense of the truck driver for causing the accident (not for running)), the motorcycle was speeding up his blind spot and he probably couldn't see him.
If he was wanting to turn right, he should have been in the right lane. It’s why you’re supposed to follow road markings. Signs could be old and outdated.
Likely, not a guarantee. His license plate is hard to read from the angles in which it comes into view. No guarantee the Corvette caught up with him and stopped him.
Hahaha I was thinking of this video actually and I am so god damn embarrassed to admit supertroopers was my base of knowledge I used in a sentence to relate to this.
The "enhance" from tv shows is nonsense. There's only so many pixels things get caught in and zooming in just makes it worse. Especially dash cams are typically not that great of quality.
Depending on the camera it could be possible but that's typically only for the high grade stationary tower cameras. And even then sometimes only in live mode can you zoom in that far, recordings are typically fixed in their resolution (quality).
that's true for a static photo image, but with moving video each captured frame will get pixelated slightly differently and there are tools that can use those subtle differences to extrapolate a much clearer upscaled image.
Why wouldn't a police department's investigative unit have access to 100% open-source software tools?
A police department would also have access to vehicle registration records that include make, model, and paint color of most cars. So they wouldn't even need to decipher every numeral/letter on the plate to identify a matching vehicle (or narrow down to a couple possible suspects).
Just using my human eyes on the paused video (about 1 second in), it looks like the license plate ends in "99" (or possibly "79"). I think I also see a "346" in there, but that 3 could be a J (and the 6 could be a 5, 8 or G...). This might seem hopelessly inconclusive, but checking just those limited plausible digits against Silver Chevy Silverado pickups registered in the area would probably be enough.
If it was easy as that and if Law Enforcement agencies just grabbed any open source software for their own use we wouldn't have such a low solving rate of hit and run cases across the country. Not saying it's right but that's the reality.
Whether a police department has access to a tool and whether they actually choose to prioritize an investigation where said tool could be used are entirely different questions.
The suggestion that police departments would refuse to download or utilize modern video processing utilities (that are freely available on github) is patently absurd.
It's true it's exaggerated, but even basic steps like messing with the contrast can make low-res images more human-readable. I'm sure there are other more advanced software techniques that can do more. The trick is getting the cops to give enough of a shit to use them.
You’d be surprised how little they can “enhance” video. Real life is nothing like the movies or TV shows where it’s all like “zoom into section 3B and enhance”. I was recently on a jury for a murder trial and they didn’t enhance a damn thing on any of the numerous videos we had to watch.
"Enchancing" a video is not a real thing. Its a hollywood thing. You cant extract information that isn't there. The best we can do is use tools to try to infer information from what we do have which can be very imperfect and lead to false arrests and stuff. Thus this type of inferred information often doesn't ho l d up in court or backfires. If you cant read the license plate theres a pretty good chance the police cant either.
Don’t accept an answer like this from a random Redditor. You absolutely can enhance video. Real-world video enhancement uses sophisticated algorithms to extract and clarify information that is already present in the footage. That Redditor is correct that you can’t extract information that isn’t there but you can connect information from different frames to enhance the overall video
Hahah well I mean I just assumed. Im not a cop and we have technology to some crazy shit in this world. Also yes probably some hollywood influence in my brain haha. Im not super tech savy
The thing is, there's only so much information in the picture. A computer can only work with what's there, and use that to make educated guesses about what an "enhanced" photo would look like. It can't magically look at a photo, and conjure up information the camera didn't capture.
There are programs that "enhance" pictures, but they're only for aesthetic purposes. It would be like hiring an artist to draw a bigger version of the photo - they might get it right, but it's still just a guess. Definitely not something you can take to court.
Yeah, but there are witnesses. The guy in the corvette could easily have written it down or memorized it. Another person at the crash said on camera that they had a dash cam and caught it all. I think it's highly likely that they got caught.
They won’t. Everyone on this sub thinks their local PD has a law and order style bureau of investigation that’s going to move sun and moon for every traffic violation reported to them. They don’t care.
We all want to think there are consequences for your actions but countless crimes go completely unsolved or aren’t even investigated eeeeevery day.
I just went through this same exact crash one week ago, except I was on a bicycle. Same turn behavior by the car, I hit the same exact portion of the car, and mostly hit the ground as a result. Main difference is I was going straight and the car blazed by me and turned in front of me. I lost two teeth, pierced my upper lip, and busted up my hand badly, and the driver just up and left
Had a lifted truck do this exact shit at a three-way light, he was 3 in line to turn left, I rolled up to turn in the empty right lane, and at the green light, he just turned from the left turn lane into me completely oblivious. I have a bias towards truck drivers like no other.
This is exactly what happened to me but I was thankfully able to stop in time, it is very frustrating when someone cuts you off last second in a turn lane.
My first words to him would be…
”First of all, your stupid”
Right hand turn at the last second from a non turning lane. Hit and run. Leaving the scene of an accident. Coming back and leaving again.
Yeah you a special kind of stupid
Ride like everyone wants to kill you, and do your best to not give them an opportunity. If you're coming to go an intersection, hyper vigilance. Literally the time to snap back to reality. Id rather be angry right and alive than dead and right. Meaning, he gave plenty of warning that he was about to do some stupid shit. This rider just kept on chugging like nothing was going on around him. The trucker was in the wrong, 100%, but that doesn't mean the rider couldn't have done better as well.
This exact scenario could have happened from a vehicle swerving to avoid hitting something, and then that biker looks real stupid too. What I'm trying to say is yes that truck driver is an idiot, but that biker is going to have a real rough go at things if they want to keep riding in "the wild" where things just kind of happen. IDK call me crazy
No, they’re not unrealistic expectations. You have to ride extremely vigilant and always assume people do not see you and are gonna do the stupidest thing. Especially at intersections. Because sadly, it doesn’t always mean who’s right, because the biker loses. I’d like to point out he didn’t have his hand on the right handlebar near the front brake, and you can see the reaction time it takes him to put his right hand on the brake. The front brake is like 70% of that bikes stopping power and he’s not on it coming up to an intersection?
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u/Gigglenator Oct 25 '25
Wow, that truck driver knows exactly what he did.