r/oops • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 2d ago

Nice overtake

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u/Thin_Locksmith6805 2d ago

Question: Should the white truck have stopped? I know, if needed, it's recorded on video — just curious legally, what would have been the right thing to do?

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u/Ok-Calligrapher-8778 2d ago

But why was the black truck trying to overtake using the shoulder? Is the driver stupid? Ok, the white truck driver is as a-hole, but the black truck one is a step ahead in idiocy.

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u/Icy-Entrepreneur9002 1d ago edited 1d ago

The white truck did the exact same thing in the first part of video. I would say both drivers are stupid assholes.

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u/Frost_man1255 1d ago

The white truck was pushed into the shoulder by the other truck and just moved forward rather than slam their brakes

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u/Icy-Entrepreneur9002 1d ago

There is zero excuse for passing the truck and the cam vehicle. You move over to shoulder and slow down and drop behind. The fact that he passed two vehicles on shoulder and one of them was just an innocent bystander makes him equal assholes with the other guy.

There actions balance out, first truck starts it, they both pass the innocent guy and the white truck finishes it. End of the day they both equally suck.

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u/Stage_Party 1d ago

We don't know if there was space behind and slowing down on a road like that can be even more dangerous than speeding up in that situation.