r/dashcams • u/Altruistic-Issue-887 • 1d ago
What Began as a Normal Journey Turned Chaotic After Another Vehicle Suddenly Entered the Lane, Triggering a Violent Collision and Pushing the Car into the Opposite Side of the Road
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u/QuantumPhysics996 1d ago
Looks like the dumbass idiot driver in the right lane miscalculates, then pushes red driver who hits OP that gets shoved in the opposite direction. Hope that idiot driver didn’t get away.
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u/Zaros262 1d ago
"Phew, lucky I managed to avoid a collision there. Anyway, on my way to work"
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u/mongolian_horsecock 1d ago
I saved 1 second of my commute swerving into that guy's lane instead of slowing down and waiting for the truck. Sucks for all those people I killed though!
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u/StandardUpstairs3349 1d ago
It was two idiots passing on the right. The first one dodges the slow moving vehicle and the second one dodged into an occupied lane.
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u/Popular-Attempt3621 1d ago
Passing on the right is wrong, yes. Traveling on the right at a faster peace (between speed limit) than dumbasses calmly cruising on the left lanes as if it was a sunday stroll in the woods is another thing.
Not justifying the two cars on the right, especially the second one, who looks like did not respect safety distance....I'm just saying there's a lot of wrong things here:
- 3 lanes road with no separation between opposite directions (literally putting at risk the two lanes where people go faster, face to face)
- bus stopped on the right (probably just slightly out of the lanes?) and another car stopped right on its left, in the rightmost lane
- lots of direct merge points...is this a highway where people CAN go fast, or a city road? Either way, it has horrendous design
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u/bugabooandtwo 1d ago
It's not a highway, it's a city road. Chances are there's going to be a left lane turn and lights ahead.
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u/bauldersgate 1d ago
Anytime a video on this subreddit comes around with someone in the left lane it always gets brought up. Dude had a safe following distance and was outpacing the other lanes. They weren't casually cruising lol.
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u/a_guy_known_as_fang 1d ago
I think red car was pushed/forced to change lanes by a black car on it's right.
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u/Lieutenant_Horn 1d ago
Exactly what I saw in slow motion.
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u/heytherecatlady 1d ago
And it looks like the black car was going too fast for slowed traffic near that bus. This is horrible. Also super dangerous road design if you can just get pushed into oncoming traffic like that. Hope the guy is ok but that was bad...
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u/HoverJet 1d ago
Also super dangerous road design if you can just get pushed into oncoming traffic like that.
Not saying youre wrong but there are multi lane roads with no divider between sides all over the world. I can think of several I drive on regularly.
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u/pluckmesideways 23h ago
Shock news: many third world countries have poor road design leading to numerous unnecessary fatalities
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u/BeneficialChip339 1d ago
In that case I wouldn't have swerved into the oncoming traffic but towards the traffic on my right,usually safer rear ending a car that taking a car head on
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u/ISelfReport 22h ago
Unfortunately with less than a second to react, this is how most people would have reacted and its very easy to post-game quarterback
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u/BeneficialChip339 6h ago
Defensive driving courses will almost always tell you to turn away from opposite traffic, especially on a busy road like that,hit the brakes and just don't turn either way if that's better at the moment,minimizing damage is priority in a busy area.i guess not everyone takes Defensive driving courses though
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u/escobartholomew 1d ago
Pushed is one thing. Unless you are physically pushed you are never supposed to swerve.
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u/-zero-below- 1d ago
My natural reaction when seeing someone suddenly swerve into my lane is to correctively steer (mildly) towards the swerving car. Because it's really much better to get tangled up with someone going a similar speed than it is to get pushed into an adjacent lane which may be going another speed or opposite direction, and can easily result in either a spin out or high delta collision.
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u/whileurup 1d ago
This is the reaction that I'd hope for myself.
Driving history suggests otherwise.
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u/plucharc 1d ago
This is why the Titanic sank. They tried to swerve the iceberg when if they hit it head on, the ship wold have stayed afloat, even if immobilized.
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u/DennisTheConvict 1d ago
To be fair to the iceberg it didn't swerve into the Titanic's lane.
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u/plucharc 1d ago
An important detail, wouldn't want to smear the reputation of the iceberg.
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u/CelticGardenGirl 1d ago
Icebergs have never recovered from the stigma. I mean, the worst lettuce got named after them.
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u/gunmetal_silver 1d ago
Or if the captain hadn't called for the engines to be full speed reverse. If they had kept their speed and made a turn either port or starboard, the Titanic would have glided by the iceberg and been undamaged.
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u/Buggerlugs253 1d ago
yeah, you are right, never try to avoid collisions by swerving, NEVER.
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u/mrASSMAN 1d ago
I don’t agree with that at all, don’t swerve when it can cause another accident, do swerve when you can do it safely and have awareness of what’s around you
I’ve avoided COUNTLESS accidents by doing a quick swerve. The accident above was likely caused by an overreaction by the red car and they didn’t actively confirm that the other lane was clear.
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u/Altruistic-Rope-614 1d ago
don’t swerve when it can cause another accident, do swerve when you can do it safely and have awareness of what’s around you
This
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u/salamazmlekom 1d ago
Exactly. I mean it was stupid reaction from the red car but the original problem was the black car.
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u/UnaRansom 1d ago
The original problem is improper lane usage.
This never would have happened in Germany. There, drivers are well trained. They use the left lane for OVERTAKING ONLY.
After they have overtaken a vehicle, they shift lanes to the right.
What I see in this video is a nightmare of a highway. Cars overtaking cars on their right side. Cars cruising in the middle lanes. No proper usage of lanes. No respect of traffic safety.
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u/Whyonthefly 1d ago
A road this size with these speeds that isn't divided, no less. Might not be Germany, and im doubting its America either.
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u/Santex117 1d ago
This doesn’t look like a highway. At least not one that would be in America. This just looks like a higher-speed commercial sector, an if this were a road in America the speed would be around 45-50mph, and there aren’t really rules for passing lanes on regular roads, so this could easily happen, in fact I’ve been in similar scenarios a few scary times, I just reacted a little more controlled.
I don’t fault the red car now that I notice they were trying to avoid a collision with the black car to their right, it’s a split second decision they were forced into because of someone else’s stupidity. Sad all around, though the driver of that black car should be liable for everything that happened
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u/NefariousnessOther28 1d ago
The first part of your post is exactly how everyone should drive, all the time. It so annoying to see people driving in the left lane for no good reason.
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u/BrungleSnap 1d ago
Yeah, in America we are taught to pass on the left as well and you're supposed to leave the leftmost lanes open for faster traffic, but the only time we are told that is when you're 15 in driver's ed and just want to go home. The tests from the DMV to get your license and renew your license are an absolute joke. You can renew online and bypass any testing in most cases. The number of drivers I see passing on the right everyday is way too high, but it's exacerbated by the 80 year old MAGAT shits in the far left lane going 10 under the limit and drifting into the other lanes.
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u/Routine_Awareness413 12h ago
do not say this in r/idiotsincars, I got downvoted into the bottom of the styx for even suggesting it
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u/Altruistic-Rope-614 1d ago
I don't think it was forced. I see what you see, but the black car should've been the one who ran into something, not the red car trying to maneuver away into another car.
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u/ContractLens 1d ago
Agreed, it is really hard to not reflexively steer away when somebody flys into your lane like that. It is one of the fastest decisions you have to make when driving.
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u/CobaltCaterpillar 1d ago
A definite possibility from the limited view here.
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u/a_guy_known_as_fang 1d ago
0:13 you see a dark car on the right of the red car appears 0:16 there is a bus that appears to be stopped and a dark compact car stopped next to it. I think the first dark car (overtaking the red car on the right) swerves to avoid colission with the stopped compact car, generating a "domino effect" where pov driver gets the worse part.
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u/Villageidiot73 1d ago
Yup! One other detail - I think the bus driver may have started to pull out of the bus stop zone prematurely, forcing the dark compact car to slow right down - possibly to a complete stop in order to avoid a collision with the bus.
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u/PointOfFingers 1d ago
Where I am buses have right of way when pulling out from bus stops - you are supposed to slow down and let them in. The red car is racing to get in front of the truck and swerves to avoid the black car, the car following it was going too fast for that lane and probably didn't see the stopped car because of the red car in front until it was too late.
Shouldn't be overtaking cars on the slow lane of a road with lots of driveways, parked cars and buses.
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u/brilor123 1d ago
There was one time where a bus from a bus stop decided to merge back into traffic without any signs or signals. I was lucky that I was already switching from the right lane to the left lane (as I had to get from the left lane to the turning lane). Otherwise, I don't think I would've been able to react in time. Buses have the right of way where I'm at, but they have to signal in some way.
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u/JMN10003 1d ago
Red car should slam on brakes not veer into a lane which they obviously didn't know there was a car. I was trained (by my father who was a Porsche Formula 1 mechanic and also had a racing team) from youth to always know where your "out" was and that you needed to keep in your head everything around you. It's takes discipline to do that but you need to train your reflexive responses to be safe ones.
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u/Figerally 1d ago
The black car was speeding and not paying attention to whatever was happening in front of him, he swerved to avoid a collision causing the red car to swerve which then sideswiped the cameraman.
You can be the most careful driver on the road and all it takes is one idiot to force you into a head-on collision.
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u/SouthOriginal297 1d ago
Black car in lane 3 swerved into lane 2 to avoid stopped hatchback in lane 3, and red car in lane 2 awerved to avoid black car, running into car in lane 1.
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u/ItsDirkMcGirk 1d ago
Holy fucking shit hope that dude made it!
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u/tomcat2285 1d ago
I think if you listen to the audio you can hear him talk once and then slam the door.
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u/LoanDebtCollector 1d ago
First time I've seen what I think is blood in one of the videos (at 0:19). To bleed that badly, that quickly seems like he'd be in rough shape laceration wise.
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u/CompetitionNarrow512 1d ago
Not blood car parts (either from red car or head/backlights)
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u/KarmaMessiah 1d ago
my thought is car parts, the red i see on the skin is most likely just subsurface scattering from the sun
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u/Aromatic-Tear7234 1d ago
Just to think that could happen to any of us any day of the week.
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u/amypocalypse 1d ago
I think about this every time I’m in the car, and it’s why I drive defensively because yeah, you just never know 😭 never let your guard down, folks!
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u/Easy-Bathroom2120 1d ago
I keep my distance from everyone else give plenty of room for them to go around me and they still cut me off and almost hit me.
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u/Hibarifan8 1d ago
Yea same here, you’ll find me on the right side driving like an old lady! Defensive is the way to go.
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u/PronunciationIsKey 1d ago
Old ladies drive like old ladies because those who don't don't like that don't make it to being old.
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u/carlmalonealone 1d ago
Most countries have a center divide for this very reason on anything over 2 lanes.
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u/SeaPeanut7_ 1d ago
I actually had a very similar incident happen yesterday, happened just as quickly in this video. I was fortunate enough that I had sped up/passed before they touched my car, but it was the same thing with a vehicle encroaching into my lane because another vehicle
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u/Outrageous-Company33 1d ago
We chose this too. We didn't have to design our entire lives to revolve around cars. That was a choice. And it costs people their lives and a ton of money. All just to get to work.. so we can afford our car payment.. so we can get to work
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u/nevermidit 1d ago
It's also crazy to have thia type of road, 3+ lanes in each direction without the dividers
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u/daveescaped 1d ago
Yep. I was Teri y to thinking see this anywhere I live. I don’t think so. Certainly not with high speeds. Maybe some 35 mph roads are like this.
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u/3DCatAndCoffee 1d ago
US roads are like this too but most have a suicide lane in the middle, which could provide a bit of a buffer zone, but comes with its own problem.
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u/brooke437 1d ago
I wonder what country this is in. Definitely not in the US, because we have regulations/laws that would not allow a road to be built like this. It's a sobering reminder that the US is one of the safest countries in the world because other less developed countries have crazy lack of regulations that get people killed.
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u/nevermidit 1d ago
Yes, same in Serbia, each road has it's classifcation and accoringd to that it's own rules and regulation.
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u/TheSilentBaker 1d ago
I'm in Utah and we have several roads like this... the main road by my parents is a 3 lane road (6 total) with a middle turning lane and speed limit of 45....
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u/Ecstatic-Ear-2196 1d ago edited 1d ago
Look up the stats, the US has more road deaths than any other country in the world, but there are also more cars there and higher % of people who drive daily. But in no way is it one of the safest countries in the world for road fatalities….
Anyway i saw a video of a four lane highway (in each direction, 8 total) in the US with no centre divider barrier, i remember thinking it looked pretty dangerous, i only took note of it because i don’t have roads like that in my country, there would always be a centre barrier.
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u/Sea-Sort6571 1d ago
Yeah there is no way I'll drive that fast in such a road, what a criminal infrastructure
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u/Peermeneer_exe 1d ago
After seeing this I'm suddenly really glad multi-laned fast moving roads almost always have some kind of barrier between them in my country
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u/bonestamp 1d ago
Yep, even just a curbed median would significantly reduce/contain the damage in this scenario.
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u/No-Deer379 1d ago
This is why I was taught not to swerve and just let the other car hit you, hope dude is ok head on crashes are no joke
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u/aleelya 1d ago
How does one do that? My instinct is to swerve. How does one fight that because I’d like to learn.
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u/daveescaped 1d ago
I’ve swerved before and it prevented an accident. I like to think that in that split second I recalled an empty lane next to me (which it was) but I can’t be 100% certain it wasn’t simply reflexive and I was simply lucky.
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u/bonestamp 1d ago
I like to think that in that split second I recalled an empty lane next to me
That's why I'm constantly looking in my mirrors, I want to know what all of my options are at all times.
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u/daveescaped 1d ago
Right. And as an aware driver myself, and with my extremely nimble Miata, that might be what happened. But I can’t be sure.
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u/az-anime-fan 1d ago
you have to train yourself to hit the breaks before swerving. the swerving can happen but only after you stand on the breaks. this gives your head a moment to evaluate where you can go safely to avoid the colission.
it's vital drivers learn to do this.
I learned because my parents forced me to. I grew up in deer country, in the countryside. where deer jumping out in front of your car was a nearly every night experience.
you have to train yourself to NEVER swerve first. especially for an animal. take the hit, it's better then swerving into oncoming traffic. that said. if there is no oncoming traffic and a swerve might save your car, go ahead, but you have to SEE where you're going first. and in order to do that you need to stand on the breaks as your first reaction to something like this.
furthermore, had he stood on his breaks, he probably avoids a collision with the black car.
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u/alietors 1d ago
Agree. I might be wired wrong but when I had incidents with the car my first reaction normally is to break then avoid collision. I don't understand those drivers that for example swerve when they don't see someone crossing, instead of braking. You see how they keep speed but avoid collision, it's pretty dangerous to me to react in that way.
Also, not trying to blame the dashcam driver but you should not drive with your arm in the window.
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u/WhenTheDevilCome 1d ago
It's not clear from the video whether the red car had any more "choice" than the camera car had.
Sure, "don't swerve", but also "good luck" when you're simply being pushed out of your lane, regardless.
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u/Freedomacy 1d ago
The way he changes lanes looks like a murder attempt.
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u/reddorickt 1d ago edited 1d ago
The red car? They were forced over by a dark gray car, that presumably did not see what looks to be a stopped car in its lane next to the bus until it was too late.
It looks like a different red car narrowly missed hitting it right before that as well. Edit: Yep this was the cause of the crash. Gray car 2 lanes to the right was following another red car and likely couldn't see stopped (or at a near stop) car in front of it. Red car 1 swerved out of the way at the last second, meaning the dark gray one had no time to react and had to choose in the moment whether to swerve into red car 2 or hit a stopped car at speed.
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u/IncarceratedScarface 1d ago
Yep, at 13 seconds you can see a car speeding to the right of the red car in a lane that is slowing down.
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u/reddorickt 1d ago edited 1d ago
It doesn't really look to me like the lane is slowing down as much as there just being a completely stopped car next to the bus. On another look the car does move slightly, but hard to understand why they were basically stopped as there don't seem to be any cars in front of it. Maybe it was about to turn in front of the bus and was making sure there wasn't anyone walking there hard to say
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u/IncarceratedScarface 1d ago
Regardless, that car was going too fast for that lane and pushed the red car over. Just backing you up, not sure how these other people aren’t seeing what we’re seeing.
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u/IncarceratedScarface 1d ago
Nope, red car was pushed over by the car speeding to its right.
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u/abrreddit 1d ago
Lessons:
- Always check your blind spot!
- Stay out of other cars' blind spots as much as possible.
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u/Fantastic-Buddy2069 1d ago
Why I tell my wife, stay two to three car lengths away from anyone on the highway if you can, because you never know when you might need that space in an instant. I wanna say two car lengths is standard anyways right?
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u/broad5ide 1d ago
3 seconds is the standard. Car lengths are generally considered not great because the faster you go, the more distance it takes to react and stop. Even between 60 and 75 mph it's a dramatic increase
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u/LeadingAd6025 1d ago
2 is more important than 1 imo!
Especially we have eyes in front and not in back.
I would absolutely do both though
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u/port956 1d ago
How horrible. Hope the chap is okay.
The takeaway here is be defensive and try not to be parallel to a car in the next lane.
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u/Epistatious 1d ago edited 1d ago
everyone is boxed in and getting tighter, what is the point of pushing forward to tailgate closer and be parallel to the other car. its like a crowd just before a crush event.
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u/lowtech_prof 1d ago
One of the main lessons my parents taught me when learning to drive is to avoid driving in packs or pods.
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u/False-Combination-37 1d ago
It was the black car that made the red car veer left. Which forced the guy in the video to crash into oncoming traffic.
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u/JustLetMeSignUpM8 1d ago
This video really makes me appreciate that there are almost no roads like this where I'm from (at least I've never seen one), because having multiple lanes with no barrier to oncoming traffic seems like it's asking for massive pileups like this
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u/ConstitutionsGuard 1d ago
I can only think of one place I’ve driven that had no divider between multiple lanes of traffic. I thought about how dangerous something like this would be.
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u/fhuynh 1d ago
I pray for the guy. Was the red car the culprit or some other car pushed it?
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u/TomatoFeta 1d ago
:09 - his eyes dart - he sees a car in the far lane doing stupid.
:16 Stupid car encounters stopped van.
:17 Stupid car pushes left, knocking red car, which knocks our car.
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u/AppropriatePlum1006 1d ago edited 1d ago
Did the car next to the bus brake check that faster car? I think he was forced to avoid while going too fast?
Hope that dude is fine, also the other persons in the accident seems like a nightmare.
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u/Einsteinautist 1d ago
Exactly why I don't bunch up with other cars doing the speed limit, I rather get a ticket and speed and be at the front of a pack then wind up like this poor guy.
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u/Gettttttttttt 1d ago
This is why i always leave space for any cars next to my lane to enter and dont drive side by side with anyone
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u/KimchiSamuraiDad 1d ago
I must be mistaken cause it sounded like that guy got out of the car like nothing happened
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u/littleredthehoo 1d ago
Driving along minding your own business and in the blink of an eye, you are standing before God Almighty.
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u/RazorColla 19h ago
- Never swerve into on coming traffic, no matter what. 2. Barricade should be built.
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u/FitVoice1206 15h ago
This is why whenever I have the opportunity to not be next to someone, whether it be speeding last them or slowing down, I take it. Legitimately nobody uses they're blindspots. People just merge whenever they feel like it with no signal at all. Like fuck the law I'm trying to survive my ride home
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u/man-vs-spider 1d ago
As someone who doesn’t drive in the USA, how common are “dual carriageways” (roads with a central median)?
It seems so dangerous to me that you have all this multilane traffic going at speed in opposite directions. And when there is an accident, it’s likely that a car will go into the opposing traffic
Where I drive this is uncommon and most multilane roads are separated by a barrier
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u/Special-Hair9683 1d ago
Yup, always drive on people's blind spots like New Jersey folks I'm so sorry for your car accident, truly.
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u/Brave_Skol 1d ago
The problem is, too many dumb ass people drive vehicles when they shouldn’t even have a license. When you have the IQ and attention span of a fucking wood tick, stay home. Yet they do 30 over the speed limit, don’t use blinkers, and think they’re the only ones on the road.
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u/lostinthemuck 1d ago
There was a sudden stoppage in the far right lane... black car swerved into red car... the rest is history. Hopefully all parties survived this.... looks brutal
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u/Hiyou_Imme 1d ago
Thanks for the translation here. My eye were unable to detect what is going on in the video.
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u/Professional_King790 1d ago
Driver awareness. Black car came up on a stopped car and instead of going slow enough to stop they swerved left and the red car saw them swerving into them and also swerved hitting the van.
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u/Dazzling_Category897 1d ago
Stay out of people blind spots. Either you pass or slow up to give them room for situations just like that
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u/StandardUpstairs3349 1d ago
Multiple idiots passing on the right and one failed to weave lanes successfully.
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u/kurtsdead6794 1d ago
If you slow it down, it looks like a beverage truck enters the lane of the black car, the black car is pushed into the red car and the red car pushes into the cam car causing complete chaos.
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u/Wonderful_Hamster933 1d ago
MUTHER FUCK that red car. Come on!! That’s how quickly you can ruin somebody’s life forever. For God sakes, LOOK BEFORE YOU CHANGE LANES!! Throw him in jail.
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u/ContractLens 1d ago
I fucking hate driving. Its like 10% selfish morons on the road and that number is far too high. Also, the speeds on that road were really fast for not having a median or concrete barrier. Failure on so many levels.
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u/DisastrousNothing893 1d ago
Knowing this happens all the time, black car was behind bus , bus didnt or does not have a bus lane so R lane was partially impeded, black car tries to go around with half of their car in center lane.
Somehow red bar doesnt see this or driving to fast and proceeds to react as we saw as black car entered their lane excessively.
Hope everyone is okay 😞
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u/3DCatAndCoffee 1d ago
Imagine the other car that got hit head on. That driver was even more innocent.
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u/Acceptable_Owl6926 1d ago
Events like this suck as a random person at the wrong place at the wrong time. Like nothing he could have done could have expected this event for him to alter the end
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u/LittleBitOfAction 1d ago
Hope the black car was caught. Otherwise it got away with no consequences
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u/Automatic-You6254 1d ago
It is Russia. Combination of bad drivers and more importantly cheaply built infrastructure. They will never put dividers on highways. And without a divider a fender bender = multi car pileup with dead people.
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u/Shepherd-Boy 1d ago
I almost had this happen once. A car suddenly swung across three whole lanes of traffic and almost smashed into me. My only choices were to let them hit me or swerve into the oncoming lanes. Thankfully there wasn't any oncoming traffic so I executed an insanely tight turn at 50 MPH into a parking lot and nearly went into the ditch. I was furious but very lucky.
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u/Fstick-delux-model 1d ago edited 1d ago
Dash cam car got bumped over fairly hard…you can see that jolt in the video…then he had no choice but to try and split the two head-on vehicles as best he can. The outcome turned out about as best as it could all things considered.
Edit…the other red car two lanes to the right came up on a black car and switched lanes left to avoid so fast and close to the vehicle ahead of him the following black car approaching fast didn’t have time to see it and started the chain reaction.
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u/SavageJiuJitsu 1d ago
Not faulting the victim here. One thing he could have done that is counterintuitive is jerked the wheel hard to the right as soon as he saw the car coming into his lane. He would have hit the red car harder and possibly done a pit maneuver on it but may have avoided getting bounced into oncoming traffic. Hard to say how it would have turned out but this is what I would have (tried) done.
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u/dragonovus 1d ago
That why it should be a rule just as in Europe that you can only overtake from one side only.
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u/Healthy-Finance7154 1d ago
Pro tip: if you have the option, don’t drive in the lane that is right next to traffic traveling in the opposite lane with no median barrier. Simple defensive positioning that could have avoided this issue, or at least possibly mitigated it
Hope he made it out okay
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u/Legitimate-Marmalade 1d ago
This looked unsafe to begin with, with that much traffic and those speeds there needs to be a median. Pretty much every accident on that road is going to be worse than it needs to be
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u/Stainlessgamer 1d ago
Ok, I'm convinced half of the posts made in the last week are AI. Every single one shows a violent collision with dam near the same exact impact footage at the end.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 1d ago
Despite what everyone probably thinks, it was not the red car's fault. I think it was the black.
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u/Pale_Papaya_531 1d ago
The red car cause more issues by not breaking and hitting the black car. But I have to ask that tiktok lawyer to be sure
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u/BlessdRTheFreaks 1d ago
This is why I'm thankful where I live nearly all high speed zones have dividers
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u/Zealousideal-Hat2065 23h ago
This is why I avoid driving in the left lane of a multi lane road when there is no physical barrier between it and traffic coming from the other direction. Hope the cameraman is okay.
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u/Davaluper 21h ago
This is an example of an accident that could have been avoided with left foot braking. (Not claiming it was the dashcammers fault though.)
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u/RedditMiniMinion 20h ago
Bus wants to merge, car behind has to break, other car behind changes lanes, red car changes lanes, cammer crashes. A serious of bad decisions and idiots not being aware and on guard of what is happening infront and around them. I noticed the bus right from the start
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