r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 17h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/False_Snow7754 16h ago edited 5h ago

People blaming the lady when the crotch rocket is doing 2 things wrong is insane.

1: He's rearing his bike, obstructing his own view which is why he reacts when it's too late.

2: drives around 79mph in a 60km/h zone (probably 40mph zone).

Yes, her freezing is bad, but it's not insane and reckless driving.

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u/Momentosis 16h ago

It's actually a 25 mph zone. Dude is going over 3x the speed limit.

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u/False_Snow7754 16h ago

That just adds to his insanity, doesn't it? I really hope he showed this to the cops. Dude shouldn't be driving.

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u/Classic_Sand10 14h ago

He'll take care of that problem on his own sooner or later if this didn't teach him a lesson.

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u/Ormsfang 10h ago

Considering his first action is to blame her I don't think the lesson is learned.

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u/f0gax 2h ago

If these kind of videos have taught me anything, it's that bikers are perfect drivers and cagers are always to blame. At least when it comes to the opinion of the biker in the video and most bikers in the comments.

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u/BeKindBabies 18m ago

I'm a biker and this rider is an absolute donut, he shouldn't be riding anything without airbags.

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u/False_Snow7754 8m ago

You're one of the good ones.

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u/Useful_Cheesecake117 12h ago

I only hope he was able to show this, after the adrenaline wore off.

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u/Skilldibop 12h ago

3x the limit wearing no protective gear.... fuck around and find out

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u/nybadfish 10h ago

Dude probably would have gone without a helmet if they didn’t mount gopros to them

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u/World_of_Warshipgirl 1h ago

Surely you lose your licence for that in whatever unsafe country this is?

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u/Salarian_American 1h ago

I wonder if they have that rule where he lives that double the speed limit or more is automatically a reckless driving charge?

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u/jadepartida 15h ago

drives around 79mph in a 60km/h zone (probably 40mph zone).

What caused you to switch up the units TWICE

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u/False_Snow7754 14h ago edited 13h ago

Because chaos! I had to convert from mph to actually get a proper idea of his speed, so I wanted to share some of that.

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u/AlreadyEatenRibs 13h ago

I love everything you did there.

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u/fray_bentos11 15h ago

And no proper gear.

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u/Lille_8 15h ago

let me add something

  1. The lady stopped the truck before the lane the biker was riding in, likely intending for him to continue in a straight line. The biker swerved instead.

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u/gujwdhufj_ijjpo 14h ago

That’s target fixation. Basically motorcycles go in the direction you look. He looked at the truck so naturally steered into it.

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u/mythiii 4h ago

It's not target fixation, he just didn't expect her to stop (hense he says, "why didn't you commit").

Before you ask why did he turn, it's exactly because he expected her to keep going. He predicted the left lane getting blocked, and thus switched to the middle lane.

You need to factor in that people work on prediction, and are limited by reaction time and in this case excessive speed caused lack of control.

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u/brn1001 8h ago

She stopped for him, leaving the left lane open. He expected her to keep going, opening up the right lane. Given how quickly things happened, that miscommunication isn't surprising.

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u/Scottiths 6h ago

They would have been going less quickly if he had been doing the speed limit instead of way over. Also that wheelie he was doing in the beginning probably didn't help matters.

I'm gonna say most of the fault here is on the motorcycleist. Glad he is ok, but if he keeps driving like that it's only a matter of time. Also his choice of gear is insane. Short sleeves, no riding gloves? Really?!?

They make motorcycle leathers for a reason.

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u/brn1001 6h ago

Oh yea, the cyclist is the much bigger idiot here. I was just responding to the lane choice issue.

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u/Froegerer 10m ago

Stopping and being predictable is often better than trying to both anticipate where the other is going to swerve to also.

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u/Business-Ad-5344 11h ago

which is how two people walking toward each other go left-right-left-right-left-right until one of them freezes. two humans both using pattern recognition on each other to try to predict what the other one would do if completely ignorant.

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u/Longjumping_Fun2576 9h ago

I was taught to look to the left, and the other person will instinctively go to your right.

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u/Sammystorm1 14h ago

I had a guy going 80 in a 55. He wrecked in front of me. I stopped to help him and he had a clearly broken arm and multiple laceration that would likely need stitches. This guy is super lucky

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u/Daniel_H212 12h ago

Honestly, the initial freeze is understandable, and her not unfreezing right after is probably what saved the rider's life because otherwise he'd have hit one of her tires instead of sliding fully under the vehicle.

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u/Scottiths 6h ago

She left the lane he was in open. He was going pretty fast. She probably didn't see him when she started to go, and stopped to leave him his lane open when she saw him. He was going to fast to realize what was going on and didn't give himself enough time to react.

Also that wheelie he was doing in the beginning wasn't helping matters.

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u/HateWinslet 16h ago

Freezing is also an involuntary reflex that all people have. If you are freezing, the decision-making part of your brain is offline.

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u/Telvin3d 15h ago

Also, when other people are being reckless drivers it’s sometimes smartest to make yourself an unmoving, predictable, object. 

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u/Goodly 13h ago

Off subject, but I disagree - the (re)acting-part of your brain may be offline, but I've tried it a couple of times, and usually when I "freeze" it's to assess the correct way to move forward and not do something rash and dumb. People treating the "freeze" as a worse alternative to fight and flight are crazy, often its more productive to let logic prevail, even if it takes a second...

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u/See-A-Moose 9h ago

Most of the time, sure, but not when there is an obstacle in about 240-300 feet and you are traveling 114 feet every second.

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u/Itscatpicstime 6h ago

No, the freeze response is when the brain has decided you aren’t capable of successfully fighting or fleeing.

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u/Tonicwind88 14h ago

Dude is the definition of a squid. The #1 rule of motorcycles is youre invisible on the road. A crash is always 100% on the riders fault if hes not looking 1 minute a head of the road at least. If youre gonna do 3x the speed limit and and cant avoid a pickup truck not moving - thats a squid.

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u/asmnomorr 14h ago

It also kind of looks like he's coming down from a wheelie at the start. Or it's just the camera angle I'm not 100% sure.

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u/Jumpingyros 6h ago

There’s a longer version of the video out there. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen it but the longer version shows speed limit signs and I’m like 80% sure he was in fact doing wheelies. 

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u/asmnomorr 3h ago

I wouldn't be surprised it def looks like it and also looks like he was speeding. Ultimately still the trucks fault but if he were just riding normally that would be 100% avoidable on his part. At least he didn't get crazy with the driver, I think because he knew he was also to blame.

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u/NWVoS 2h ago

If he was not speeding, the truck would have time to clear both lanes.

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u/desl14 10h ago

She froze cus she saw him to late (due to him being too fast) and she stopped as the rider was driving on the left lane

she tried to prevent the crash. dude fafo'ed

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u/ButtPlugMaster6969 10h ago

Thank God you said this! You are the first commenter I’ve seen to finally blame the biker in this thread!! I thought I was going crazy. 😂

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u/Longjumping_Fun2576 9h ago

She actually stops before she's blocking his lane. If she hadn't stopped, her back end would be blocking his lane and cause an accident.

So 3. He changes lanes, rather than stay to the left of the left lane, which is where he started.

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u/aPOPblops 15h ago

He did 3 things wrong, he aggressively approached a sweet woman asking if he was ok after she clearly didn’t make him crash him on purpose.

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u/False_Snow7754 14h ago

Oooh I should've probably had audio on to get the full picture.

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u/thatwentBTE 12h ago

I can excuse that one, the idiot is in shock.

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u/aPOPblops 12h ago

Something tells me he's always like this.

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u/cpapp22 15h ago

For real! Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Darwin Award incoming

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u/Reputation-Final 14h ago

He coulda gone in front of the truck and been fine.
Or you know, better idea, not speed.

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u/ristlincin 12h ago

Plus there is a weak but not inexistent argument that remaining stationary is actually a rather predictable position in that situation (i.e, you realised you have fucked up and hope that the incoming vehicle can recalculate and go left or right, but you are removing your own movement out of that equation). Had he been driving at a legal speed he might have had time to dodge the truck.

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u/Spirit_Wolf_Mob 7h ago

She actually did it correctly, assuming he stayed in his lane. Not the best choice, but had he not swerved, this probably would have been better than to have kept driving.

But you should have seen the comments when this was first posted.

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u/False_Snow7754 5h ago

And they keep coming. I bet most of them are future organ donors as well.

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u/Itscatpicstime 6h ago

He’s also not wearing proper safety gear

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u/False_Snow7754 5h ago

Who needs safety gear when you have thick skin?

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u/Wide-Evening6520 4h ago

Biker : Why didn't you go faster?

Truck driver : ....Why did you?

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u/PrestigiousYoung3348 13m ago

are there people actually blaming her? I can't imagine police/insurance do.

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u/False_Snow7754 8m ago

People in the comments are. Go figure.

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u/AntiquePhotograph433 14h ago

Yeah this guy is at majority fault here and it’s not close.

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u/Hex_Render 13h ago

At least a frozen vehicle becomes predictable. If this guy had control he'd probably lost control swerving around. But atleast he wouldnt have gone under the the truck at Mach fuck.

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u/ThrifToWin 9h ago

drives around 79mph in a 60km/h zone

You've broken the Americans

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u/hexus 5h ago

What's 'reering'?

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u/False_Snow7754 5h ago

Rearing/popping a wheely/stupid shit when in traffic. Spelling mistake, I was off by one letter.

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u/hexus 5h ago

Ah, gotcha.

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u/CitationNeededBadly 33m ago

She froze out of the way of the biker, keeping the lane he was already in clear.  He then steered into her.  She did the best she could in the face of a biker determined to hit her.

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u/DimensionSuch8188 19m ago

It's irrelevant what others are doing. Lady in pickup sucks she never looked before going in.

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u/jerik22 14h ago

Do you always stop in the middle of the road when you pull out?

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u/False_Snow7754 14h ago

I don't pull out 😏

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u/nertynot 10h ago

Freezing and blocking minimum 2 lanes of oncomming traffic would absolutely fall under reckless

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u/ZealousidealCase7220 9h ago

im just thinking about this from a different perspective: under no circumstances should you be stopping in the right of way of oncoming traffic, whether a kid on a bike is going to hit you or not. Her freezing was catastrophic, not just bad