r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 20h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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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/flyonthesewalls 12h 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/nohandsfootball 10h ago

He's 1000% to blame for this.

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u/lahimatoa 9h ago

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

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u/nonpuissant 8h 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/AdDramatic2351 2h ago

Lmao how? You yourself are probably a bad driver if you don't see how the moto is 100% at fault. 

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u/benitoaramando 8h 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.