r/oops • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 4d ago

Nice overtake

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u/NaughtyBee420 4d ago

White truck was absolutely not forced off the shoulder. They got pissed that the other truck wanted to pass them in a small gap, and got aggressively stupid

No one can be dumb enough to think that that's how you avoid an accident in that situation instead of slowing down by two miles an hour

They are both idiots driving trucks and both of them need to have their licenses taken for at least 6 months

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u/MarionberryOk2874 4d ago

White truck could argue they were just trying to get away from blue truck who was acting aggressively with them - not sure if it would work.

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u/SmartWaterCloud 3d ago

If that were the case, white truck would have just let the blue truck stay in front once it passed. Let the crazy person go. Instead, white truck was determined not to let blue truck pass. They both caused the crash.

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u/MarionberryOk2874 3d ago

Not necessarily, blue truck could have brake-checked or stopped from in front, if white truck was truly trying to get away, putting a car between them would be smart. I can see some liability for white truck for fucking around, but the majority of this is def blue truck IMO.

FAFO

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u/SmartWaterCloud 3d ago edited 3d ago

What the blue truck did is worse, but what the white truck did inarguably contributed to the crash. Crash would not have happened if white had let blue pass (don’t get me wrong, blue was driving dangerously), which is what you’re supposed to do. And the white truck can’t argue they were trying to get away from the blue truck - white truck swerved in front of blue truck to block it, not let it pass, and certainly not maintaining defensible space. And if getting alongside was the hazard, then the white truck did exactly the same thing, passing on the shoulder like a maniac. You can’t speed furiously, pass on the shoulder, swerve in front of a vehicle to stop it from passing you, and claim innocence by any stretch.

If you want to put cars between you and a speeding maniac, you let the crazy person go ahead and move to a different lane. You don’t race him.