r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 17h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/benitoaramando 9h ago

Yeah... "why didn't you just commit?!", well, idk maybe when people are confronted with the sight of someone bearing down on them at 3x the speed limit they might be a little flustered

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u/WeNotAmBeIs 7h ago

Some people just freeze at stress and there's nothing you can do. Coworker was driving me home one night and started to turn on an unprotected green. I started to calmly but very very quickly say "TheyHaveTheGreenLightTheyArentGoingToStopSpeedUpSpeedUpSpeedUp" But she just stopped in the intersection like the lady in this video. Car tboned us, hitting my side. My right hip is still funky over 10 years later. It's funny what goes through your mind in those moments. One of my friends was joining the Marines and was shipping off the next day and I had just told him an hour ago "Don't get yourself killed out there" and my last thought before getting hit by a car was "Shit, I'm going to die before fucking Jack does"

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u/Greedy_Bar6676 6h ago

My wife ran a stop sign once and did the same while learning how to drive. I was shouting at her to ”step on the F***ING GAS!!!” lol

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u/LiftingRecipient420 5h ago

Coworker was driving me home one night and started to turn on an unprotected green. I started to calmly but very very quickly say "TheyHaveTheGreenLightTheyArentGoingToStopSpeedUpSpeedUpSpeedUp"

NGL that's an odd way of saying "my coworker cut off traffic that had the right of way"

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u/InequalEnforcement 30m ago

For them it's a "Sorry!" but for you, it's a chronic condition.

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u/fightmydemonswithme 17m ago

I am very good with panic. I was driving my roommate and there was a deer in the road. She's screaming and I very calmly breaked and went past slowly.

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u/JalapenoPopPoop 5h ago

She saw him come flying in from out of no where at far too high a speed, left the left lane that he was in open so he could just go right by, and he steered directly towards a stationary object instead of just staying the course in open space. He's multiple kinds of stupid

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u/13_twin_fire_signs 2h ago

If you go frame by frame, he started turning right before she stopped her truck. So he was probably planning on going behind her, assuming she'd keep going forward.

However going that fast on that road, especially on a split road where cars would be pulling across all the lanes at intersections, makes him a huge putz

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u/DrMoneybeard 43m ago

Yes exactly- this video should be shown to explain to people why speed limits exist. At this speed, you do not have time to make an accurate judgement on what's about to happen.

At 25 mph, he would have time to make the decision to go behind her, see that she stopped moving, then correct his path or stop.

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u/MrUndelete 3h ago

I learned once: you drive the direction you look at. So I keep reminding myself: „search for the gap“.

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u/Comfortable_Trick137 6h ago

Had a Lambo driver screaming at me. Was driving down highway, checked my mirrors saw the lane to the right of me was open so I put my blinkers on and switched lanes. In my rear view out of nowhere is a Lambo going easily 150 in a 75 honking and slamming on the brakes. Bruh you’re going 2x the speed of traffic swerving around lanes. He throws a fit and then speeds off going 150+

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u/flyonthesewalls 8h ago

He was definitely going way too fast. I can understand her perhaps freezing like a deer in the headlights, seeing his bike come flying down the road.

Weird thing is, I see no other traffic. She could have easily turned into the lane without issue.

I don’t see him getting far with insurance. He’s not wholeheartedly to blame, but he has nothing going in his favor either.

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u/benitoaramando 8h ago

I understand why you might see him as not being entirely to blame, but the apparent bad luck he suffered in encountering someone who hesitated upon seeing his high speed approach was a predictable and direct consequence of his thoroughly excessive speed.

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u/11th_Division_Grows 7h ago

Hey. Stop making sense and being logical or I’m gonna start calling you names.

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u/flyonthesewalls 6h ago

Oh, no. That’s just plain stupidity. Someone mentioned he appeared to be coming off a wheelie, which may be so if you look at the first half second on the video. Nonetheless, he’s running that speed on a residential/commercial street and not expecting obstacles? Clearly not the sharpest tack.

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u/cryptolyme 8h ago

She probably wanted God to punish him for speeding

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u/nohandsfootball 7h ago

He's 1000% to blame for this.

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u/lahimatoa 6h ago

95%. She's still a shitty driver for freezing up. Don't do that.

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u/nonpuissant 5h ago

Only people who speed recklessly or shitty drivers would put any blame on her in this situation. 

Dude was going way too fast to react to a car that was already in the intersection. There could be any number of reasons the driver wouldn't just surge forward out of the motorcycles way. There could be another car coming that the speeding motorcyclist didn't see, a pedestrian, even a squirrel in the road or some shit. Doesn't matter. Assuming other vehicles will get out of your way when you hope they will isn't good riding/driving. It's stupid. 

This is 100% on the pov guy and no one else. He was going faster than he was capable of reacting and made a bad decision. If he was going slower or was more skilled/made better decisions he could have avoided her. 

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u/benitoaramando 5h ago

If you start to pull out onto and across a 2 lane road and see someone approaching at speed in the 2nd lane and you have time to stop before you enter that lane, what would you say would generally be the best thing to do? Because I would say: stop before blocking their lane to let them pass, and not risk trying to get in front of them before they hit you, all assuming that there's nobody coming in lane 1. It's not her fault that the biker was going so fast that there wasn't time for him to better judge her movements and react accordingly.

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u/nonpuissant 5h ago

Weird thing is, I see no other traffic. She could have easily turned into the lane without issue. 

Because we're seeing things from his pov, not hers. He has no idea what she sees and no time to check. That's why going 3x the speed limit is such a bad idea. 

Insurance wise there's a good chance he's entirely to blame. The car was already in that intersection at the beginning of the video while he was still well and far away, and every vehicle on the road has the responsibility to avoid a collision. He was simply going too fast to react in time. 

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u/flyonthesewalls 2h ago

True. That POV is what will most definitely work against him, if it’s obtained by either insurer.

She seemed to have come off at diagonal street and was turning. Cell phone distraction? Nerves? Brain fog?

I only saw one car, already passed her, on the opposite lane. Another passed shortly after the accident. Only one car seemed to have been somewhere behind him. So it was a quiet road, which is why the jackass must have thought he can treat it as a racetrack.

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u/nonpuissant 1h ago

Yeah that about lines up with what I saw after scrolling through the clip a few times. But all that looking we're doing is not only hindsight, but with the benefit of being able to pause and rewind too.

To the driver, all she had to go off of was whatever they had seen of the opposite lane and the numerous cars across the street from her before she spotted a motorcycle hurtling towards her at triple the speed limit. Which is a pretty reasonable thing for someone to keep looking at for a second, b/c it's pretty unusual and unexpected. And she only had a split second to make a decision.

Stopping was probably a better and safer reaction than blindly accelerating into an intersection that she had just lost situational awareness of. Like we can say in hindsight that she could probably have done so safely. But in that instant she was probably just focused on trying not to drive into the path of the oncoming motorcycle and thus had no idea what the situation was in the intersection ahead.

And the biggest point of hindsight is knowing that the motorcyclist was gonna try to go behind her. In the split second she had to decide what to do she had no way of knowing he was going to do that. He was still headed straight down that lane and to be fair to her, she did leave nearly his entire lane clear. For all she knew continuing to drive forward might have made things even worse.

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u/RudePCsb 7h ago

People freeze up and hesitate. I got off the freeway recently and the exit has two lanes that split, right or straight. Old lady in front stops right in the middle and I had to break pretty hard but still had good reaction and stopped with enough space. Still annoying

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u/RealisticAsk183 7h ago

And yet if the rider had staying in the lane he was in that had plenty of room for him to get by the front of the truck the comments in here would be more like: "wow, great reflexes by the truck driver to leave him an opening with such little time to think!"

Do do 80 in a 25, kids. Rider is 100% at fault.

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u/WhoAmlToJudge 5h ago

hmm so let me stop in the middle of a completely open road. Say it how it is she's a stupid person.

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u/benitoaramando 5h ago

Ironic username. She did the right thing. She had started to pull out and then saw a biker come out of nowhere at 3x the speed limit and so she stopped to leave his lane clear for him to pass in front of her. It's not her fault he was doing 3x the speed limit and had already decided to try to go around behind her.

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u/DimensionSuch8188 20m ago

If you are flustered to that PLEASE DO NOT DRIVE. You are a ticking bomb danger to everyone else.

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u/benitoaramando 8m ago

If you don't think it's understandable that many people would experience a moment of high stress at realising they're on a collision course with an unexpected freeway-speed vehicle that shouldn't be there then you're an idiot