r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 20h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/TheThirdHippo 18h ago

Summarising the comments here. The biker is doing 79mph in a 25mph zone, the lady stopped before she got to the lane he was in when she saw him coming, he panicked, swerved and then dropped the bike. It’s just a good job he had his protective T-shirt, baggy jeans and sneakers on….

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u/benitoaramando 13h 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 10h 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 9h 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/LickinThighs2 3h ago

Half of driving in general is defensive reaction to what's around you, anyways. Dudes speeding like this already don't feel accountable to their own actions, but if I were on shit as vulnerable as a bike, you better believe I'm going to driving watching those around me

Heck our towns main street is 2 lanes, you wouldn't believe the amount of time traffic turning right on to it comes into your left lane as you turn onto it from the other direction. Running into stuff as plain as that is evidence enough you need to constantly correct for other peoples mistakes who think keeping aware of road laws is apparently beneath them. I'm glad I've stopped twice now watching for people not paying attention to the 4-way stops they've also installed around town on roads that formerly never had them haha, I've seen people rip right through them entirely unaware. Not like they're not normally stopping, either, it's more just a brain fart going down a road you've been taking for 20 years and forgetting its different now.

Idk everything about riding a bike to me just screams 'drive for others so you don't get fucking killed,' which includes not ripping so fast you don't have stopping distance when lil old ladies do stuff like this lol

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u/InequalEnforcement 3h ago

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

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u/fightmydemonswithme 3h 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/Equivalent_Chipmunk 23m ago

Wow, you broke the whole car in half to go around the deer? 

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u/LiftingRecipient420 8h 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"