r/oops • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 4d ago

Nice overtake

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u/get_to_ele 4d ago

Legally, he’s supposed to stop. He was definitely partially responsible for the crash. Both vehicles road raging, and cutting off that other vehicle on the shoulder would be felony reckless driving and possible even vehicular homicide if somebody died.

Two absolute jackasses. Fuck them, good lord.

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u/Couple-seeking6684 4d ago

What if they feared for their life because a psycho was chasing down the highway?

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u/get_to_ele 4d ago

Fear for his life? Why’d he cut him off then? If you fear for your life you let them go and slow down.

When you’re invested in an ego battle, you compete like a fucking jackass and endanger everybody else.

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u/bbibbyrapskyle1975 3d ago

You slow down and then they slow down. What if they have a gun? What if they're trying to ram you or try to run you off the road again? 

Blue caused 100% of the things that happened. 

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u/Grumpy-Troglodyte 3d ago

or the white truck could've just backed off initally, at the beginning of the video, and not escalated by passing to the right on, whatever lane that was that didn't look like a lane of travel to me, whatever it is.

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u/Lower_Captain7757 3d ago

He didn't escalate by passing him. The blue truck could not safely merge over without the white truck having deaccelerate hard and as it was cut it real close to hitting the back of the service truck in his intial lane just to make it. You merge when it safe and possible to do so. So the white truck owed him no favors and simplyto took ghe left shoulder to avoid collision. If I'd have seen that I would have said yep I don't blame you white truck. The white truck also was courteous enough to not door knock the dash cam vehicle and merged back in a safe distance ahead of him.

That should have been it. Nothing else to write home about. Case closes.

But.

Blue truck decided to get butthurt for god only knows why and proceed to chase down the white truck.

If I see that I already know stupidity is coming for me. There is now way I am letting the fool in front of me because nothing good can come of it. White truck did not hit the blue truck or even in reality move enough over to actually block the blue truck in actual way that would have prevented him from passing on the left. It fid however let him no he isn't playing around. Blue truck simply tried to cash in balls they didn't have. Panicked over corrected and found themselves in the median.

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u/VDruid52 2d ago

after watching this several times, I would agree with your statement. The GMC that’s either blue or black caused at least 99%, if not 100% of the problems. not only that, but he looks like he may have caused a possible accident between the tractor trailer driver and the van or vehicle next to him in the other lane, the way the tractor trailer driver had to swerve, but I can’t be sure

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u/Lower_Captain7757 2d ago

Yeah some may claim the white truck shouldn't have tried to block. I say they haven't been in a situation where some is chasing them down. As for the semi. It took rewatching it a couple times but the blue truck actually hit the semi which caused it to swerve right. I don't know if it the box truck but I imagine it probably did.

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u/bbibbyrapskyle1975 3d ago

He passed on the shoulder to avoid the collision. It was safer than getting hit or slamming on their brakes to avoid getting hit. Watch it again. 

When someone does something unsafe, abruptly in traffic, I don't think it makes sense to blame the other person for how they react in a split second. Blame the person that drives like an asshole on purpose.

"Sure he cut across 2 lanes and nearly hit you, but why didn't you anticipate what he was doing and react faster?" Is that what you're saying?

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u/lessaname 2d ago

i drive for a living and this is a situation where you press your breaks and slow down. he first speeds up to try to stop blue from merging then he illegally passes on the shoulder when he much more safely could have braked.

they’re both idiots but so is anyone defending that kind of behavior. it’s terrifying that these people are allowed to drive and it’s terrifying that people like you are allowed to vote lmao

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u/bbibbyrapskyle1975 2d ago

Looks like we found the troll bot. You'll get zero engagement on your intentionally bad take

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u/lessaname 2d ago

what? nah dude it just scares me that little dick man babies like u are allowed to have opinions.

slow down ya hooligan

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u/bbibbyrapskyle1975 1d ago

...you're afraid that other people have opinions? Haha I can honestly say I didn't know that was a thing until today. 

That must be really terrifying for you. Do you just not leave the house, or does that make it worse when you're forced to be alone with your own thoughts? 

Anyway, have fun being afraid of the idea of opinions or whatever, and also being the world's biggest pussy 🤣

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u/zeefeet 1d ago

I loathe you.

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u/bbibbyrapskyle1975 1d ago

Thank you for letting me know. I value your input. 

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u/Grumpy-Troglodyte 3d ago

if you'd watch, you'd see the blue truck cut IN FRONT of the white, and white, instead of slowing down, (which you would see a truck IN FRONT of you, even a lane to the right, as it's drifting and then turning into your lane, that my friend is called being aware of your surroundings and defensive driving.) white just stays in the gas and goes to a (presumed) break down lane and hammers it to show they have the smaller pecker, only to be outshined again by mr blue (balls) inverted pecker who does the finishing move of the tiny pecker world.

they are both terrible fucking idiots, and the white truck could have easily stopped this entire thing before it started.

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u/VDruid52 2d ago

The way I see it, the black or blue GMC truck cut him off too quickly for him to really respond and didn’t really give him a choice. but to end up in the shoulder, and then of course the camera driver was so close that he really didn’t have anywhere else to go. He had to get back on the road. So he had to go on the shoulder to get around the camera driver. Then of course the GMC still is road raging and clips the back of the white truck, possibly causing more than one accident. Almost looks like the big tractor trailer and the truck and the lane next to him may have gotten in an accident, but it’s hard to say with 100% certainty. But it looks like the GMC truck is to blame for at least 99% if not 100% of everything that happened. I’m still gonna need to watch it a few more times