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Lawyers gotta love the guy holding his neck getting out the car!
I think that if you watch the video really closely, you'll see that the guy holding his neck when he came out of the car was laying across the rear bench seat. No wonder his neck hurt.
In reality both the truck that hit the car and the car hit by the truck were both at fault. The car should not have stopped as the merging truck had it's own lane. But the truck driver is to blame for not staying a safe distance and adjusting his speed. Granted, anyone could make you hit them by doing something stupid such as a dead stop in front of you. But the law generally blames he who fails to stop and rear-ends someone.
In reality both the truck that hit the car and the car hit by the truck were both at fault. The car should not have stopped as the merging truck had it's own lane. But the truck driver is to blame for not staying a safe distance and adjusting his speed. Granted, anyone could make you hit them by doing something stupid such as a dead stop in front of you. But the law generally blames he who fails to stop and rear-ends someone.
What lane? He had his lane up on the hill, but where he came out, that was not a separate lane. If that car had kept going, he likely would have hit that truck...or, that blue truck that hit the car would have hit the truck.
The idiot that rear ended the car is the culprit. Driving too fast and not leaving sufficient room for the car in front. Idiot!
I don't think speed is an issue. The car had the right of way; however, the dump truck wanted to be the super impatient, Mr. Macho.
The dash cam user, who was in a semi, couldn't have stopped in time even if he was going the speed limit. I think the dump truck is at fault. And he did leave enough room…
The dash cam user, who was in a semi, couldn't have stopped in time even if he was going the speed limit. I think the dump truck is at fault. And he did leave enough room…
Agreed. He was driving a semi, not Porsche, and they dont just stop on dime. Also, is was hard to tell how fast the semi driver was going but he definitely wasn't following to closely.
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Is it just me, or did it look like the truck with the dashcam was accelerating prior to braking (around the 12 second mark)?
If I was driving the Toyota, I probably would've stomped on the gas and passed the truck simply because I'm too nervous about getting rear ended like this-- the only other choice was to stop, otherwise the Toyota might've been side swiped. The reality of it is that, no matter what the Toyota did in that scenario, there was a risk involved.
Either way, you're always supposed to leave enough space in case the car in front of you comes to a stop. If you can't do that at the speed limit, then you need to slow down. This is why drivers should be alert-- traffic ahead of you can stop at the drop of a dime for any reason at all. Any vehicle that can't stop in a reasonable amount of time should either be subject to a lower speed limit, or banned from the road.
The cause was the truck that didn't merge properly, but the fault is the dashcam driver who didn't come to a stop in time.
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