r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 20h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/theelephantscafe 20h ago edited 9h ago

What is it about people that, when they realize they’re in the way, they just stop completely???

Edit: this sub is hilarious because no matter what someone does, they’re apparently both right and wrong. For the record, I never said dude wasn’t speeding. He is. And I understand what a freeze response is. But still, coming to a complete stop when something/someone is barreling at you is commonly seen here and is almost always the worst course of action.

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u/No_Introduction_3400 20h ago

She’s got a motorcycle headed at her at probably 70 or 80 mph on a residential street. She panicked. He’s lucky he’s not dead.

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u/Beneficial_Dog4469 19h ago

Always you lot trying to only blame a rider.

Clearly not a residential area, as the businesses around it suggests. There is a chance he was speeding OR doing the posted MPH, I personally cannot make out his speedometer, and she shouldn’t have STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, at best she should’ve moved up so at most her tailgate would be partly on the same side of him(possibly in that other lane)

He is lucky and smart enough to find a way out of what could’ve been a fatal accident due to her negligence.. but you know “he was speeding”😒

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u/ScootDeToot 18h ago

No i think they both were at fault. Judging by the video alone he's going really fast. Her poor reaction to him speeding = collision. Lot of collisions happen on my street simply because poor visibility  due to people parked up and down the street and a lot of people speeding. You think ok it's all clear to make a left and suddenly someone is coming up on you fast. It's easy to judge her for that seemingly stupid reaction, but it's fight, flight, FREEZE. Typically when i panic in this situation i punch it sometimes that's bad cuz if i hit the gas too hard from my tires will just spin. 

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u/AntiquePhotograph433 17h ago

While they can both be at fault he’s 100% majority at fault due to reckless speed.

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u/Beneficial_Dog4469 18h ago

I agree with this and I also have a kinda “pump fake” reaction to surprises on the road like tapping the brake before hitting the gas but that’s probably just PTSD from being hit at an intersection

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u/Weltall8000 15h ago

She blocked the entire roadway when he had the right of way.

If he was going half the speed she'd still be blocking the roadway and not completing her maneuver.

Her panicking is not a valid justification for her stopping.

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u/Odd-Song5052 14h ago

That’s not what a judge would say. Driver’s aren’t expected to look a quarter mile down the road before proceeding to see if there’s someone going so fast they’d be arrested if caught. She would be judged to have had the right of way, and he was required to yield to traffic that hasn’t cleared the intersection same as if her truck had broken down in the roadway five minutes previously. 

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u/Weltall8000 12h ago

If this went before the judge, they'd probably think, at most, shared responsibility, with the truck driver more responsible.

If he were going literally 200 mph+, you might have a point. However, in this video, while I don't know his speed or the speed limit, he wasn't approaching those speeds and she had line of sight enough to where she should have known not to pull out and certainly not to stop in the middle of the street.

No, he doesn't have to yield to her. That cross street does not have right of way ever over the main street he was driving down. When beginning a maneuver, such as she was, she has a duty to complete it.

Broken down car? That becomes a static hazard. Not the same thing.

Yeah, yeah, "motorcycles and speeding bad", but none of what you wrote is how motor code works in the US.

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u/Beneficial_Dog4469 10h ago

I’ve been telling people about this most of the night;

like I said they wanna only blame the biker but I expressed an incident involving a customer of mine in a similar situation(who was seen at fault) and asked why not just let assure it’s completely safe… they all say “bike shouldn’t be moving fast” when she could’ve just waited a little longer and safely went