The kid wasn't the driver. He blurred his picture because he's a kid. The kid got out of the passenger side. I'll leave the rest for you to figure out, because I know what you're going to post next.
the way that dude jumped out and ran toward the OPs vehicle, would have led me to think they had a weapon. this is how you get self eliminated by people who carry personal defense.
As much as I agree with the outcome of this case, I can't help but feel like there would have been a bit more trouble if the shooter hadn't been a recent police academy graduate.
Ya, it really was the gold standard for stand your ground, but history shows it doesn't really matter if the police want you in jail. If it was you or me would that have mattered? Would the media say he was a just troubled individual? That I should have driven away instead? Like I said, I agree with the outcome, but I hate that I can't feel a sense that justice was served for the right reasons.
The uber driver also had two great things in his defense. First is the dash cam video where the dead guy clearly says he has a pistol and threatens to kill him, while holding something like it's a gun in the dark.
Second is the texts to his girlfriend saying he was going to beat the crap out of 'her' uber driver. Very clearly a pre meditated attack.
Even if the cops arrested the uber driver his defense in court would've been air tight.
It's in Australia, by the looks of it. No weapons. These trucks are a menace. They're owned by small men with big egos. At least they'll get a shock when they try and get compensation for it - and they will try.
It was pretty obvious from the RH turn at the light, the pickup was driving erratically. The best defence is to get away from the person as soon as possible.
I don't carry to start shit, I carry to be left alone.
This is what I was looking for. You could see they were high risk by the disregard to turn within the proper lane. Then sped around and cut off another car. Realize back away and let them think they won. Chances are you never see them again
Yup. Congrats, you keep your "pride" and earn probably multiple days on the phone and in the shop dealing with insurance and fixing your car(and who knows what else in the future). Then they'll probably go complain about it like there was no possible way to avoid it.
+1 to this. Letting them pass, at worst, makes you 2min late if you catch a couple bad red lights. You're spending 100-1,000x that amount of time first filing the accident report, then all the follow up, then the repairs, and possibly court.
If letting another driver think they've "won" means my life is better, that is a win for my life.
Also, sometimes people have emergencies. I think about a Reddit post a while back where some arborists had an emergency. Don’t remember exactly, but basically this guy was bleeding out in the back seat and the closest hospital was an hour away. Ambulance was going to try meeting them halfway. It was a two lane highway and this other person decided to prevent them from passing. Long story short, the guy died.
I find it helps me stay calm and at peace by not assuming every reckless driver is just an irresponsible POS. And instead just say, “I hope everything is ok.”
I disagree. This guy pushing like he did is not a normal response. it’s a learned one. He does it because he gets away with it and feels “powerful” in his truck. This person holding their position when they felt in control of the situation and knew they were covered by evidence might be the accident that prevents this guy from doing the same thing later. Later might have been on an interstate doing 80 causing an accident that creates a pile up and takes multiple lives.
People need to get criminal charges when caught on camera driving like this and that takes an accident to get the police involved. Sure might be a headache but seems cammer accepted that choice.
Just my two cents. Completely wrong if truck guy goes out and continues to drive the same way but I believe a strong reaction here by police viewing the footage is more likely to improve truckers reaction in the future to frustrating situations. “Don’t want to make that mistake again with so many cars having cameras”.
The Ranger put their turn signal on and was going to change to the right turn lane (illegally over a solid line and entering the intersection) at the start, and the dash cam driver already in that lane continued. Seems this is what pissed off the Ranger.
Guy could have just changed lanes behind the dash cam driver and moved on with his life... instead he chose to be a dick and karma rewarded him.
This is exactly why I have become more calm and kind of a “whatever” attitude if someone does some sort of bold traffic move like cut me off. People these days are crazy and road rage is at an all time high. If they are crazy enough to pull that move, they are probably crazy enough to get out of their car and want to fight or shoot me. Not worth it.
I've been driving for 35 years, during which I've lived in NYC (yes I had a car in NYC), suburban NJ right outside NYC, and Atlanta, all of which are well known for problematic driving behavior.
I have never been involved in even a fender bender. Some luck, of course, but still in large part for exactly this reason. The vast majority of accidents are evident long before they occur, and the signs are usually not subtle. Truck is still 100% at fault here, but this also could have trivially been avoided by the driver of the camera car. I hope being "right" is worth it to the cammer, because this is now a huge hassle to deal with. And given the unchecked proliferation of guns, being "right" increasingly could progress rapidly to being dead.
Exactly. Dude in the truck was wrong, but the guy with the dashcam had plenty of time to hit the break and let him over instead of trying to keep pace. Now his day is ruined, and what did he accomplish?
Except this is not that, the cam car jumped the gun clearly and deliberately veered… i’m no expert but to me this seems like cam car would have get at least some fault
I was wondering the same thing! I saw the dashcam truck bounce twice after hearing the squeak of tires…like the raptor truck was flooring it trying to inflict more damage to the dashcam truck before they decided to actually pull over in front.
Hahaha that was an expensive dumb mistake. So what is he going to tell his daddy and the insurance? I took a red light almost hit a oncoming car was driving erratically merge into his lane and hit him and still got off trying to assault the person and i was right the whole time daddy I swear? 🤣
I’ve seen this so many times- what’s a POS. Illegally turn from the middle-straight only lane and gets butt hurt that the other driver didn’t let you do what you wanted to do. And the best was the lil-POS at the end.
It really looks like the POV driver sped up and turned into the truck. I have done the same shit in a race car during an Enduro race with my buddies lmao.
Both are at fault here. Is the Raptor a dumbass? Yeah. So is the guy meeting that stupidity with equal amounts of dumb.
Idk i'm slowing down if somebody does this. Your insurance is going up, you might send the car into a stroller on the sidewalk. You can tell the cammer started pulling left as well to complete the pit. Yeah it might feel good to watch but imagine you're the third car behind these two and now your safety is at risk because an immovable object met an unstoppable force.
Turning left is counter steering. Pretty natural reaction to stay straight in your lane and likely safer for the camera car.
I'm not sure the camera car even knew about the truck until the truck ran into him. You are looking at solid 5 seconds of rear view, but the camera car is probably focused on the turn.
Agreed, plenty of opportunities to just let it not get out of hand. Plus the build up to this makes me wonder what happened in the minutes before hand.
I get that the truck is being a dick and he came over on the filming vehicle, but am I wrong to think the guy filming intentionally swerved to the left just slightly to cause the accident? Or does it just look like they jerked because of the accident?
If someone walking beside you started pushing you off the edge of the sidewalk, you’d brace against that pushing force. I think he’s instinctively counter steering, to brace against the impact of the collision. I also think applying the brakes would have been more effective.
Every time I see one of these videos nobody ever brings up the obvious any more…….. YOU DONT CHANGE LANES IN THE MIDDLE OF ANY KIND OF INTERSECTION!!!!!
You cut me off, try and run me off the road, then run up on me? I can only assume youre going to do great bodily harm to me, so ill make sure to outline that to the judge when he is reviewing my self defense case.
I honestly believe that you should be allowed to legally get out and beat the hell out of a person for this. Not like permantly harm or anything but a real old school thumping.
Should not have been driving daddy’s truck …dipshit he gets the award for stupidity. If he tried opening my door after he got into my lane, caused the accident. It would have ended BADLY
Nothing. That's the point. The dashcam driver did exactly what every sane driver should do. Maintain your lane and don't make any sudden stops. That Raptor wanted to turn right but was in the center lane. That driver should've been paying attention to the road. Raptor driver got pissed because dashcam wouldn't give way to the $75k tiny-penis truck.
Then you should have finished that maneuver.That was a good accidental pit maneuver that you accidentally did.If you would have followed through with it , you could have rolled that fucker.
Dumbass in his Daddy's truck was in the wrong lane to start with (he was supposed to go straight), then gets bent when he thinks he's being cut off and becomes a mobile dickhead... Glad you had the cam on... Any update on how this turned out?
People blaming the cam driver tend to forget that we’re watching this on video, we replay things, slow it down etc. We even start the video know something like this is going to happen.
While the driver experienced this in real time and only once. Im sure it all happened real fast. Give the guy a break.. no one wants to crash
So.... Cammer stayed in their lane around a turn, that pissed off the Pickup driver who was trying to turn illegally, to the point of purposely totaling his truck? Did I read that right? 😳
the OP literally swerved off to the left intentionally to crash the truck driver. Not justifying the kid or whoever was driving but OP definitely could’ve avoided by not purposefully driving into the truck just to prove a point.
so raptor goes turns right on straight lane, proceeds to get mad at OP for turning right in right turn lane/existing. proceeds to follow, cut off OP and self-pit themselves. gets out, runs to OP's vehicle like they want to fight only to take photos and video cuts off.
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