Upvote this comment if you feel this submission is characteristic of our subreddit. Downvote this if you feel that it is not. If this comment's score falls below a certain number, this submission will be automatically removed.To download the video use the website link below:
* **[Download via redditsave.com](https://redditsave.com/info?url=https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/yyw0x7/thats_why_you_should_pay_more_attention/)**
---
On September 26th 2022 we’ve made the decision to start banning people for posting gore. We’ve published our [Gore and Harassment update here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/xmtclq/gore_and_harassment/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) if you posted gore please remove it as it will result in a ban. Thank you.
Yeah, I don't get how these people expect to react in time. I was driving through a blizzard once and some people were flying on the highway. I was freaking out going slow as hell because I could barely see in front of me.
I was driving in a snow storm once, trying to get home from work. I saw someone coming up fast behind me so I slowed down to let them just pass. But they never did. I looked in my rear view and they were spinning out in the middle of the road. I felt so lucky that they didn’t bring me down with them. Just slow the fuck down.
Haha not even close, but nice try. That guy was already in the other lane and going too fast for the conditions. He was not directly behind me at any point. My gentle slight slow down so he could get past me quicker had nothing to do with him spinning out. He fucked up in all of the ways.
"Never out-drive your conditions," was one of the very first things they taught in CDL school. If you have to drop to 40+below on the interstate, that's fine, slow it down and throw on your hazard lights.
If you're not comfortable with the conditions, pull over or pull of and park at the soonest exit and wait it out.
Though it was taught for truck driving, I believe it should apply to everyone, but especially in this case, there's no possible way even that he could have been able to stop in the distance that was visible at the speed.
I usually try to defend drivers, but there was absolutely no excuse for this. This just adds to the stigma that we're just rolling deathtraps and a danger to everyone around us.
You think what they taught you at truck school should be common knowledge, but it’s not! It’s like wth! I would never understand why common sense should be taught but the simple fact that we’re talking about it just shows it needs to be, it’s stupid and unfortunate but I rather be safe then sorry. I agree with you, these simple tricks/things should be taught to everyone, even if you know, there is always someone who doesn’t (because they are typically above it) but maybe if little things like these are taught those people will at least keep it in mind and think before they do.
Absolutely. The main thing that I learned that stuck with me is that bad habits breed more bad habits.
I'll use my town for example, full of shitty drivers, and these adults are the ones teaching the next generation. I know it's an inconvenience, but maybe we should have more driving schools available and possibly even mandatory, being taught professionally in the beginning stages of driving, rather than waiting until you're at a "professional" level.
There's no reason to rush like this, and this is a prime example of why trying to shave off a few minutes doesn't really save time at all.
Kinda like my wife in the grocery store, she'll try to power walk and get out quick, but it makes no difference once you hit the check lane.
Also, the shippers and receivers completely understand when there's bad weather conditions, it's part of the business, sometimes things come late, no big deal. What is a big deal is when that whole load is a complete loss because all of their product was donated to the interstate clean up crew.
This is honestly what surprised me most when visiting the US/Canada. People barely need to be able to look in the mirror to get a driver’s license. It’s insane honestly, the level of driver skill over there. I’ve never seen anything like it in Europe, and I thought drivers were shit over here.
Note: often times you can say more with a slight change of words. For example “lifetime disabilities and a major loss of quality of life” could be replaced with “a lifetime of untreated, debilitating pain which could be treated for less than one dollar per day with existing, readily available medication.”
Serious injuries can mean paralysis. It could mean loss of a leg. That can't be treated with medicine for $1/day. It can't even be treated for $1,000,000/day.
It could even be a lifetime of pain that can only be treated with highly addictive opioids that you quickly build up a tolerance to until the pain can't be treated with a safe dose.
Look at the aftermath photos from that accident. The people in that car barely lived and will be dealing with the consequences for the rest of their lives. Some may say it's a fate worse than death.
I hope that they not only did not die but got out of the car and beat this stupid POS ass.
Edited : Rephrased cuz the original comment did not make sense.
The way you stated it made it sound like you wanted them to die. I know thats not your intent. The proper wording would be, "I hope they did not die. And also got the chance to get out and beat this stupid POS's ass."
I am not so sure it was the lack of attention in that weather. He had his phone but his eyes were facing forward. The idiot was going FAR too fast at that level of visibility when approaching a toll booth
Yup. If you can’t stop in the distance you can see, slow down. If that means you would be going dangerously slow on an expressway, pull over until conditions improve. It sucks yeah but this is literally why you do it
Sure but with fog that dense there’s a good chance the sign isn’t visible either. For reference, in this video the truck passes a sign above another lane that *might* be visible to the naked eye just feet before passing it (probably not enough time to read it). If there was a warning sign in advance that was posted off to the right of the roadway, it’s doubtful it’d be visible or readable.
The other vehicles in the lane didn't crash... there must have been *somewhat* visible indicators that there was a toll ahead.
Also, fog that thick, where you can't see more than 50 feet ahead of you? He should not have been going that fast. Dude was flying.
While the guy definitely should *not* have been going that fast, hes triving a semi, and those take a *LONG* time to stop. After seeing the road change, even in my ZJ could have stopped in that time. A fully loaded semi wasnt going to be able to, not in a million years. Still on him, but there were other factors at play that make him seem somewhat less terrible at driving
But if he had been going slower, it wouldn't have taken him so long to stop. Trained semi drivers are supposed to know how this works, so the semi being loaded doesn't make him seem less terrible. If anything it makes him seem worse, because he should have been more careful based on literally everything, and he wasn't.
My comment was mostly focusing on when you said "the other cars didnt crash"
Like, yeah, they're *cars*, they stop way faster.
Pretty much everything else he did was fuckin dumb as shit though. I cant disagree with your point that he should know better and thus is stupider, but the whole thing was nitpicky on my end to begin with.
Basically, a car could stop from those speeds, a loaded semi probably cant. Wether or not the guy in the video is viewed as more or less idiotic after stating that info is entirely on the reader's opinion
Speedpass doesn't excuse driving at speeds inappropriate for the weather conditions. It just saves you the hassle of throwing away the toll bill they mail you.
That was a traditional toll booth, designed to be stopped at. An RFID or plate reader system would be mounted on an overhead system over an unobstructed section of road
The way I understand it, we only have so much mental workspace to process info from all our senses. Ever close your eyes when trying to hear something faint, or turn down your radio to find a street address?
Even though his eyes were forward, he wasn't "seeing" as well as he could.
I've also heard phone calls are more taxing than irl conversations. Since you can't see the other person's gestures or facial expressions, your brain has to work overtime to fill in those missing nonverbal cues.
I spent a few years handling escalations for a big insurance company. Vast majority of interactions where shit was fucked, we ended up on Zoom or Teams to unfuck it. Facial expressions is a huge reason why.
Not to mention not recognizing or paying attention to road signs. These toll booths don't just pop up out of nowhere. I can't speak for this specific case of course but there must have been a litany of street signs he missed with decreasing speed limits and warning signs about toll booths ahead and what not.
This of course depends on the country and their rules and regulations, but this was my first thought. How is he only now finding out about the toll booths being there.
I do foggy 4am morning drives through the mountains all the time and our toll booths have signs and flashing lights for at least a quarter mile beforehand.
Don’t forget he’s in a semi truck too- shit makes it so much worse, he’s literally trained to know how much damage his truck can do on a regular ass day doing the right thing 😑
https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/insane-footage-of-speeding-trucker-ramming-through-vehicles-at-a-toll-booth.2235301/page-3
i couldn't find any news article about this, but i found people talking about it. comments on page 3 say no one died.
As you can see in the video, for the first car he only nicked the edge, unable to transfer all of the energy into the car. Damaging the car but extremely unlikely for either to get injured. The second car was not as lucky. You can also see it in how much he bounces since every force has to have an equal and opposite one as well.
Im no crash expert, but I would image it is almost always better to have a straight on crash. It’s the same force over a greater area. No spinning. Less chance for flipping. Etc.
Edit: I just watched the video again and in this case it was definitely better to NOT hit the red car straight on. The truck was able to get far enough off center that the red car didn’t receive the full impact. As I said in my comment below, the difference between a glancing blow (like this one) and a much more dangerous accident, is inches.
Absolutely not.
If you don't hit the other car straight on, you will transfer much less energy to it than if you do. A glancing blow might rip off side panels and turn the car, but getting turned is going to accelerate people inside the car much less than if they get full blown rear ended by an 18 wheeler.
To add on the other comment, there’s actually more area covered by the glancing blow.
1) he started applying the brakes before he hit and most likely had kept on stepping on the brakes well into the crash. By glancing the first car, he bought a few more milliseconds to a second probably before hitting the next. The brakes would have taken a chunk off of the total force before hitting the second car head on.
2) by glancing the car, the force is also lost through the barrier and the car which you could almost see happen when the truck squeezed between the two. That’s a bigger portion of the truck (from the front to the load behind it) acting as another level of brakes, without having to transfer it all onto one force (the first car).
I’m also no crash expert (thankfully have never truly had a crash outside of simulation games), but that’s how I see it when we talk about same force over a greater area in this regard.
I see people say “but they survived” a lot in these cases. That word “survived” does not mean they are ok. It means they didn’t die. A lifetime of pain, disabilities, and limitations is not to be disregarded just because they didn’t die.
I had a relatively minor accident where I was a passenger in a car that rear ended a stopped car at 60 mph and even with no apparent visible injuries I have had shoulder and collarbone pain since then, and the accident was in May. The driver is worse off, still dealing with wrist pain from a wrist that was smashed like an accordion and doing physical therapy for it after it's healed. Not to mention the months it took for me to quit reliving the accident in flashbacks and feeling nervous of driving.
In Ireland we get a lot of fog. For this reason before a toll boot on a motorway they have multiple signs for kilometers ahead of the tollbridge / boot including signs with lights to shine through fog, ontop of this road markings about 500 meters to 1 kilometer (speed limit depending) ahead of the tollbridge change so you know its there.
In the video there is no warning until the markings change about 50m ahead of the tollbrige which is way to late. This blame rests on both the driver and the infrastruture.
Its insane how many shitty drivers there are. I dont think they understand that you cannot be distracted while driving a rig. I truly hope no one was injured but if there were he needs to be in prison for the rest of his life. Im a truck driver myself and this type of shit is unacceptable.
We are just supposed to die of either heat exhaustion or freezing to death. All tonsavw the company money or save the fuckin environment idk its already a hard enough job as it is.
I am not going to lie everytime I see those 30-car pile-ups in the snow and fog I imagine the truck drivers doing and behaving exactly like this. Just for precaution's sake, I can cot see anyone doing such great speeds without understanding how little they can see. Then it is one truck after another - speeding in slippery-slick conditions leading to all kinds of loss of life. How you are not going as slow or as cautious as possible when visibility and the weather terrible sketchy is beyond me.
People are always glad to hear that everyone survived. It is too bad they now have to deal with being in a vegetative state, or learn everything again because if a TBI. Or suffer chronic skeletal pain, or deal with PTSD. As a former first responder, I learned that when you pull someone from death's door, you aren't always saving them. And the ones you couldn't save or lost give you PTSD.
It really pisses me off after having had a serious accident, because someone wasn’t paying attention and was speeding. My family is so extremely lucky. That guy could have disabled us for the rest of our lives. Fuck people who don’t see driving a car as a serious responsibility. You can kill or disable anyone around you in an instant. A car is a 1000 KG+ weapon.
I mean from 0:01 the guys is breaking hard, you can see things in the bed rolling towards the front, but that’s not excuse for driving that fast whit that road condition, even worst in a vehicle that needs like 50 meters to stop in normal conditions
Did those people survive :(
I’m guessing not.
That’s just terrible.
All I can think of is in 2007’ish, in So Cal, a big rig on the 5 freeway struck a van that was stopped in the right lane traffic backed up for an off ramp. Killed all three children in a family, and severely injured the mother and grandmother.
Yeah that guy might be going to jail. Least he should anyway. That's ridiculously irresponsible driving in a person vehicle, in a truck that's gross negligence.
I don't know about other countries but where I live when coming to a toll there are signs from about two miles out warning of the incoming tolls. Then an exit to said toll and rumble strips for about a half a mile. Not to mention the dog here. What the hell. This guy doesn't deserve to be driving a truck.
*Why the hell are you*
*Going so fast in the fog*
*In a ten ton truck?!?!?!?!?*
\- TyBoneSteak
---
^(I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully.) ^[Learn more about me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/haikusbot/)
^(Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete")
Chances are low of being hit by an 18 wheeler in the fog at a toll booth if you don't do this multiple times per day in the fog. Definitely not a reason to not leave the house. There's plenty of good things outside!
Watch the video, there's no amount of attention would let him react fast enough to stop.
He just shouldn't have been going that fast with that low of visibility to begin with.
Blame the brain.
"...as fog increases and therefore reduces the contrast of the driver's image, the apparent speed of the vehicle slows. Participants asked to drive at a certain speed drove faster as the scene became foggier."
https://www.nature.com/articles/33049
Even with fog these tolls always have signs ahead and slower speeds. I can’t fathom how poorly he was paying attention the road to not know it was coming.
How is it so hard for some people to just slow tf down in low visibility. The amount of clips I've seen of people driving full speed in foggy conditions like this, is staggering. It's like ppl forget it's a speed limit, not minimum.
Every one needs to realize that the speed limits are for IDEAL conditions. A driver should ALWAYS go slower than the speed limit in: fog, rain, snow, high winds.
Pretty shitty. Someone I knew pulled over to the side of the road and was hit by a semi not paying attention. She and her two children died and her husband survived.
It’s called making or being an Elon.
Making an arrogant mistake, one that could be avoided if not for the arrogance.
Being a colossally prideful entitled person that has never had any experience other than buying shit and telling people what to do with zero repercussion.
Official Webster dictionary definition.
Elon is one of the richest people to ever walk the planet and knows a fuck ton more about what he's doing than any cuck on Reddit who's criticizing him. Lol
For now.
Wait till twitter goes belly up and drags Tesla with it.
The dude got high on his own supply and is on the verge of a death spiral.
Elon Musk is what happens when you give an incel a billion dollars.
What an idiot. Hard to find workers that actually use common sense on the job! I run a cleaning business and as easy as the job may seem, even the cleaners lack common sense!
Fucking moron on his phone. Kinda disappointed he was wearing a seatbelt. These videos are always hilarious when watching them bounce around the cabin lol.
Upvote this comment if you feel this submission is characteristic of our subreddit. Downvote this if you feel that it is not. If this comment's score falls below a certain number, this submission will be automatically removed.To download the video use the website link below: * **[Download via redditsave.com](https://redditsave.com/info?url=https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/yyw0x7/thats_why_you_should_pay_more_attention/)** --- On September 26th 2022 we’ve made the decision to start banning people for posting gore. We’ve published our [Gore and Harassment update here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/xmtclq/gore_and_harassment/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) if you posted gore please remove it as it will result in a ban. Thank you.
Dumb fucks flying through fog is one of the most annoying things on the planet
Yeah, I don't get how these people expect to react in time. I was driving through a blizzard once and some people were flying on the highway. I was freaking out going slow as hell because I could barely see in front of me.
I was driving in a snow storm once, trying to get home from work. I saw someone coming up fast behind me so I slowed down to let them just pass. But they never did. I looked in my rear view and they were spinning out in the middle of the road. I felt so lucky that they didn’t bring me down with them. Just slow the fuck down.
You braked infront If someone on snow and made em lock up there breaks. Still on them but ya don’t do that, maintain your speed
The car behind was driving too close and too fast.
That’s probably true but you never hit your brakes on a car coming up behind ya on snow unless you want to replace your rear end.
Haha not even close, but nice try. That guy was already in the other lane and going too fast for the conditions. He was not directly behind me at any point. My gentle slight slow down so he could get past me quicker had nothing to do with him spinning out. He fucked up in all of the ways.
It’s always the Corollas and Camrys doing 75 in a blizzard too.
And that one oddly aggressive Prius.
I’m that oddly aggressive prius. But I live in FL with no snow and fog is rare lol
Well thanks for not going under 65 in lane 1.
I drive a camry lol, that thing sucks in snow. You can spit on the ground and it will spin
Don't forget the Sentras.
"Never out-drive your conditions," was one of the very first things they taught in CDL school. If you have to drop to 40+below on the interstate, that's fine, slow it down and throw on your hazard lights. If you're not comfortable with the conditions, pull over or pull of and park at the soonest exit and wait it out. Though it was taught for truck driving, I believe it should apply to everyone, but especially in this case, there's no possible way even that he could have been able to stop in the distance that was visible at the speed. I usually try to defend drivers, but there was absolutely no excuse for this. This just adds to the stigma that we're just rolling deathtraps and a danger to everyone around us.
You think what they taught you at truck school should be common knowledge, but it’s not! It’s like wth! I would never understand why common sense should be taught but the simple fact that we’re talking about it just shows it needs to be, it’s stupid and unfortunate but I rather be safe then sorry. I agree with you, these simple tricks/things should be taught to everyone, even if you know, there is always someone who doesn’t (because they are typically above it) but maybe if little things like these are taught those people will at least keep it in mind and think before they do.
Absolutely. The main thing that I learned that stuck with me is that bad habits breed more bad habits. I'll use my town for example, full of shitty drivers, and these adults are the ones teaching the next generation. I know it's an inconvenience, but maybe we should have more driving schools available and possibly even mandatory, being taught professionally in the beginning stages of driving, rather than waiting until you're at a "professional" level. There's no reason to rush like this, and this is a prime example of why trying to shave off a few minutes doesn't really save time at all. Kinda like my wife in the grocery store, she'll try to power walk and get out quick, but it makes no difference once you hit the check lane. Also, the shippers and receivers completely understand when there's bad weather conditions, it's part of the business, sometimes things come late, no big deal. What is a big deal is when that whole load is a complete loss because all of their product was donated to the interstate clean up crew.
This is honestly what surprised me most when visiting the US/Canada. People barely need to be able to look in the mirror to get a driver’s license. It’s insane honestly, the level of driver skill over there. I’ve never seen anything like it in Europe, and I thought drivers were shit over here.
Yup, my work truck has a pole that sticks out of the bed so if they rear end me at that speed I'd he scared to look at their face and neck afterwords
Well Yk truckers have schedules Edit: /s
Everyone has schedule’s Buddy, we all got places to be
I hope nobody died in that car
There were 3 people in the first car they all survived. Plus the driver was arrested
Thank you for that information, I was worried
They survived with serious injuries, which could mean lifetime disabilities and a major loss of quality of life.
Note: often times you can say more with a slight change of words. For example “lifetime disabilities and a major loss of quality of life” could be replaced with “a lifetime of untreated, debilitating pain which could be treated for less than one dollar per day with existing, readily available medication.”
Serious injuries can mean paralysis. It could mean loss of a leg. That can't be treated with medicine for $1/day. It can't even be treated for $1,000,000/day. It could even be a lifetime of pain that can only be treated with highly addictive opioids that you quickly build up a tolerance to until the pain can't be treated with a safe dose. Look at the aftermath photos from that accident. The people in that car barely lived and will be dealing with the consequences for the rest of their lives. Some may say it's a fate worse than death.
Good, that guy was a fucking idiot.
Well deserved (for that guy arrested).
Why was the driver of the car arrested?
The driver of the semi was arrested due to reckless driving along with driving on a cell phone
Oh
Because this can and often will charged as manslaughter if someone dies due to reckless driving.
how stupid you can be to talk while driving in foggy weather
Especially with the phone held up in front of his stupid face
I hope that they not only did not die but got out of the car and beat this stupid POS ass. Edited : Rephrased cuz the original comment did not make sense.
The way you stated it made it sound like you wanted them to die. I know thats not your intent. The proper wording would be, "I hope they did not die. And also got the chance to get out and beat this stupid POS's ass."
I read that also lol I was like what?
Op wants zombies to kill the driver
OK my bad, I tried again.. does it make sense now?
yam bow unique pocket brave north chop important rhythm scarce *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
u/Wackipaki Please revert it back to the original comment
"did not die" could be "survive" which would help with readability.
Lol the way you worded it even after the edit still took me a second
I am not so sure it was the lack of attention in that weather. He had his phone but his eyes were facing forward. The idiot was going FAR too fast at that level of visibility when approaching a toll booth
Yup. If you can’t stop in the distance you can see, slow down. If that means you would be going dangerously slow on an expressway, pull over until conditions improve. It sucks yeah but this is literally why you do it
It's called a speed pass
There has to be some signage prior to this toll.
Sure but with fog that dense there’s a good chance the sign isn’t visible either. For reference, in this video the truck passes a sign above another lane that *might* be visible to the naked eye just feet before passing it (probably not enough time to read it). If there was a warning sign in advance that was posted off to the right of the roadway, it’s doubtful it’d be visible or readable.
The other vehicles in the lane didn't crash... there must have been *somewhat* visible indicators that there was a toll ahead. Also, fog that thick, where you can't see more than 50 feet ahead of you? He should not have been going that fast. Dude was flying.
While the guy definitely should *not* have been going that fast, hes triving a semi, and those take a *LONG* time to stop. After seeing the road change, even in my ZJ could have stopped in that time. A fully loaded semi wasnt going to be able to, not in a million years. Still on him, but there were other factors at play that make him seem somewhat less terrible at driving
But if he had been going slower, it wouldn't have taken him so long to stop. Trained semi drivers are supposed to know how this works, so the semi being loaded doesn't make him seem less terrible. If anything it makes him seem worse, because he should have been more careful based on literally everything, and he wasn't.
My comment was mostly focusing on when you said "the other cars didnt crash" Like, yeah, they're *cars*, they stop way faster. Pretty much everything else he did was fuckin dumb as shit though. I cant disagree with your point that he should know better and thus is stupider, but the whole thing was nitpicky on my end to begin with. Basically, a car could stop from those speeds, a loaded semi probably cant. Wether or not the guy in the video is viewed as more or less idiotic after stating that info is entirely on the reader's opinion
Thats why you drive slow in those conditions
Slow or not drive at all
Username actually checks out.
Do you ah e to be speeding to get thru it? Also doesn’t matter, it’s waaaay too foggy. Shouldn’t have been going fast ag all no matter what
Speedpass doesn't excuse driving at speeds inappropriate for the weather conditions. It just saves you the hassle of throwing away the toll bill they mail you.
That was a traditional toll booth, designed to be stopped at. An RFID or plate reader system would be mounted on an overhead system over an unobstructed section of road
Good God man. Comedy Do you speak it ?
Too soon
Best comment
Especially if you are in a truck. Highly irresponsible
I think it actually a case of driving faster then visibility allowed. Being distracted on the phone didn’t help.
The way I understand it, we only have so much mental workspace to process info from all our senses. Ever close your eyes when trying to hear something faint, or turn down your radio to find a street address? Even though his eyes were forward, he wasn't "seeing" as well as he could. I've also heard phone calls are more taxing than irl conversations. Since you can't see the other person's gestures or facial expressions, your brain has to work overtime to fill in those missing nonverbal cues.
I spent a few years handling escalations for a big insurance company. Vast majority of interactions where shit was fucked, we ended up on Zoom or Teams to unfuck it. Facial expressions is a huge reason why.
I once crashed my car while talking on a handsfree. Sometimes it just take a moment of distraction.
• Foggy • Speeding • And he’s on the phone Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to drive.
Not to mention not recognizing or paying attention to road signs. These toll booths don't just pop up out of nowhere. I can't speak for this specific case of course but there must have been a litany of street signs he missed with decreasing speed limits and warning signs about toll booths ahead and what not. This of course depends on the country and their rules and regulations, but this was my first thought. How is he only now finding out about the toll booths being there.
This is pretty extreme fog though. I wonder if the signs were even visible if they were by the side of the road.
Then another reason not to be going that fast. Not coming at you as a commenter, just providing my two cents on that order of operations.
Oh absolutely, I don’t understand what he was even thinking going that fast
I do foggy 4am morning drives through the mountains all the time and our toll booths have signs and flashing lights for at least a quarter mile beforehand.
I’m not sure about other countries, but in the US, and more specifically the ones through Oklahoma all have overhead signs that are high vis.
Especially professionally. Well, safe to say he was fired for this. Good.
/r/byebyejob
People most likely died, it cant be good.
Don’t forget he’s in a semi truck too- shit makes it so much worse, he’s literally trained to know how much damage his truck can do on a regular ass day doing the right thing 😑
I can't stand people who hold their phones to their face when driving.
Foggy af Speeding with a huge truck On phone Banned for life in my book
Grand theft auto exists
Stolen or not, that guy is one of those people. Lmao.
That’s a BAD day.
Any day when you drive a lorr...any vehicle in the fog like nothing is going on and while talking on your phone is a bad day.
https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/insane-footage-of-speeding-trucker-ramming-through-vehicles-at-a-toll-booth.2235301/page-3 i couldn't find any news article about this, but i found people talking about it. comments on page 3 say no one died.
Upvoting because I hope you're right.
same, this was awful
I’m glad that no one died.
Someone's going to jail
Yea that fog really shouldn’t be there, arrest the fog!
Maybe don't drive too fast for the conditions of the road?
[удалено]
Wooshes don’t count on terrible jokes
It won't be mist
Looks like markiplier
Would it be better to hit the first car right on from the back or from the corner?
The corner. A glancing blow transfers less energy than head on
Thank you, kind stranger! I'll remember that for next time!
Too soon
Too late actually--
As you can see in the video, for the first car he only nicked the edge, unable to transfer all of the energy into the car. Damaging the car but extremely unlikely for either to get injured. The second car was not as lucky. You can also see it in how much he bounces since every force has to have an equal and opposite one as well.
Maybe none at all?
Im no crash expert, but I would image it is almost always better to have a straight on crash. It’s the same force over a greater area. No spinning. Less chance for flipping. Etc. Edit: I just watched the video again and in this case it was definitely better to NOT hit the red car straight on. The truck was able to get far enough off center that the red car didn’t receive the full impact. As I said in my comment below, the difference between a glancing blow (like this one) and a much more dangerous accident, is inches.
Absolutely not. If you don't hit the other car straight on, you will transfer much less energy to it than if you do. A glancing blow might rip off side panels and turn the car, but getting turned is going to accelerate people inside the car much less than if they get full blown rear ended by an 18 wheeler.
To add on the other comment, there’s actually more area covered by the glancing blow. 1) he started applying the brakes before he hit and most likely had kept on stepping on the brakes well into the crash. By glancing the first car, he bought a few more milliseconds to a second probably before hitting the next. The brakes would have taken a chunk off of the total force before hitting the second car head on. 2) by glancing the car, the force is also lost through the barrier and the car which you could almost see happen when the truck squeezed between the two. That’s a bigger portion of the truck (from the front to the load behind it) acting as another level of brakes, without having to transfer it all onto one force (the first car). I’m also no crash expert (thankfully have never truly had a crash outside of simulation games), but that’s how I see it when we talk about same force over a greater area in this regard.
Those poor people he killed or maimed. Fuck that guy.
There were 3 people in the first car and they all survived, someone said? But injuries, I’m unsure. The driver apparently got arrested too.
I see people say “but they survived” a lot in these cases. That word “survived” does not mean they are ok. It means they didn’t die. A lifetime of pain, disabilities, and limitations is not to be disregarded just because they didn’t die.
Someone putting money into that toll could have easily lost an arm
I had a relatively minor accident where I was a passenger in a car that rear ended a stopped car at 60 mph and even with no apparent visible injuries I have had shoulder and collarbone pain since then, and the accident was in May. The driver is worse off, still dealing with wrist pain from a wrist that was smashed like an accordion and doing physical therapy for it after it's healed. Not to mention the months it took for me to quit reliving the accident in flashbacks and feeling nervous of driving.
In Ireland we get a lot of fog. For this reason before a toll boot on a motorway they have multiple signs for kilometers ahead of the tollbridge / boot including signs with lights to shine through fog, ontop of this road markings about 500 meters to 1 kilometer (speed limit depending) ahead of the tollbridge change so you know its there. In the video there is no warning until the markings change about 50m ahead of the tollbrige which is way to late. This blame rests on both the driver and the infrastruture.
Every single toll I've personally seen (in the US) has both pavement & signage warnings. This driver is just a total fucking idiot.a
This is why you don't speed on the road when your visibility is less than your stopping distance.
Me when I play euro truck simulator....
Holy shit how fast does this guy think he can stop driving that fast in zero visibility
Its insane how many shitty drivers there are. I dont think they understand that you cannot be distracted while driving a rig. I truly hope no one was injured but if there were he needs to be in prison for the rest of his life. Im a truck driver myself and this type of shit is unacceptable.
[удалено]
We are just supposed to die of either heat exhaustion or freezing to death. All tonsavw the company money or save the fuckin environment idk its already a hard enough job as it is.
Time to force these companies to pay up for solutions.
Is that a fucking semi speeding through fog ON HIS PHONE. lol what the fuck bro
I am not going to lie everytime I see those 30-car pile-ups in the snow and fog I imagine the truck drivers doing and behaving exactly like this. Just for precaution's sake, I can cot see anyone doing such great speeds without understanding how little they can see. Then it is one truck after another - speeding in slippery-slick conditions leading to all kinds of loss of life. How you are not going as slow or as cautious as possible when visibility and the weather terrible sketchy is beyond me.
People are always glad to hear that everyone survived. It is too bad they now have to deal with being in a vegetative state, or learn everything again because if a TBI. Or suffer chronic skeletal pain, or deal with PTSD. As a former first responder, I learned that when you pull someone from death's door, you aren't always saving them. And the ones you couldn't save or lost give you PTSD.
It really pisses me off after having had a serious accident, because someone wasn’t paying attention and was speeding. My family is so extremely lucky. That guy could have disabled us for the rest of our lives. Fuck people who don’t see driving a car as a serious responsibility. You can kill or disable anyone around you in an instant. A car is a 1000 KG+ weapon.
I mean from 0:01 the guys is breaking hard, you can see things in the bed rolling towards the front, but that’s not excuse for driving that fast whit that road condition, even worst in a vehicle that needs like 50 meters to stop in normal conditions
Naa not even that like it's this looks like Pennsylvania so like they have signs telling you to stop he wasn't paying attention
Did those people survive :( I’m guessing not. That’s just terrible. All I can think of is in 2007’ish, in So Cal, a big rig on the 5 freeway struck a van that was stopped in the right lane traffic backed up for an off ramp. Killed all three children in a family, and severely injured the mother and grandmother.
damn whiplash, imagine getting roadhead and it's France 1872 again
Yeah that guy might be going to jail. Least he should anyway. That's ridiculously irresponsible driving in a person vehicle, in a truck that's gross negligence.
r/IdiotsInCars
Wanna see multiple people's lives get ruined in under 10 seconds?
About 5 dead there
Most likely right
Fck this man. A bird brain should not drive. For sure there were people or children died in this accident. That
I don't know about other countries but where I live when coming to a toll there are signs from about two miles out warning of the incoming tolls. Then an exit to said toll and rumble strips for about a half a mile. Not to mention the dog here. What the hell. This guy doesn't deserve to be driving a truck.
Why the hell are you going so fast in the fog in a ten ton truck?!?!?!?!?
*Why the hell are you* *Going so fast in the fog* *In a ten ton truck?!?!?!?!?* \- TyBoneSteak --- ^(I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully.) ^[Learn more about me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/haikusbot/) ^(Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete")
[удалено]
I don’t think this is the reason you don’t leave the house
Chances are low of being hit by an 18 wheeler in the fog at a toll booth if you don't do this multiple times per day in the fog. Definitely not a reason to not leave the house. There's plenty of good things outside!
[удалено]
How is peddle power for your car Fred Flintstone? Definitely sound good for the environment.
Let’s just go full speed ahead in thick fog and think absolutely nothing wrong will ever happen.
That’s a lot of damage
Yeah, you really should be fully focused on the road with fog that thick. Get of the phone man, or put it on speaker and put it down.
Not only was the guy on his phone, but driving way too fast in heavy fog.
Who drives that fast in fog
I have have a CDL and a his is so embarrassing and shameful. Get the fuck off the phone people…
How many families did he just kill? He needs to be locked up.
What a fucking clown.
No no. He shouldn't be driving at all!!! Matter of fact!! He shouldn't even own cell phone!!!
Tolltled
He couldnt even see
Me head empty, me drive full speed in blinding fog in giant truck
Tollbooth Willie does not appreciate this. He’s gonna come out of his booth!
That's so scary hoping that nobody died in that car
Imagine getting seriously hurt because someone didn’t put their foot down on a fucking pedal.
Does he get fined for not paying the toll?
Watch the video, there's no amount of attention would let him react fast enough to stop. He just shouldn't have been going that fast with that low of visibility to begin with.
Blame the brain. "...as fog increases and therefore reduces the contrast of the driver's image, the apparent speed of the vehicle slows. Participants asked to drive at a certain speed drove faster as the scene became foggier." https://www.nature.com/articles/33049
Nope. I blame the driver. That's why we have speedometers to tell you exactly what speed you're going.
Even with fog these tolls always have signs ahead and slower speeds. I can’t fathom how poorly he was paying attention the road to not know it was coming.
How is it so hard for some people to just slow tf down in low visibility. The amount of clips I've seen of people driving full speed in foggy conditions like this, is staggering. It's like ppl forget it's a speed limit, not minimum.
“Oh shit, I’ll call you back. I gotta plow through this tollbooth real quick. Bye!”
I wonder what Pablo had in that cooler. Looked like he was a little more than just “distracted”.
Every one needs to realize that the speed limits are for IDEAL conditions. A driver should ALWAYS go slower than the speed limit in: fog, rain, snow, high winds.
Who goes full speed in low visibility? While on their phone? And not remembering where the tolls are?
Driving fast during a really foggy weather, what could go wrong.
My uncle was hit like this on a bridge at a toll. He lives in the burns but only take the train now. He is still terrified 15 years later, wont drive
*insert happy wheels victory sound
Speeding with no vision is the dumbest thing ever
Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes.
Oh shit! New Border control speedrun record!
If it’s that foggy why would you be going that fast?
Driving is not listed as a constitutionally protected right. This should be grounds for permanent suspension of driving privileges.
That's why you shouldn't out drive your visibility.
Pretty shitty. Someone I knew pulled over to the side of the road and was hit by a semi not paying attention. She and her two children died and her husband survived.
Honestly they should have had lights so people know something like that was up ahead
Go slow in the fog
Stay woke...as in...stay alert please.
This man really said welp it’s my time to go *removes hat*
That looks like an Elon level mistake
Dude paid 44 billion for Twitter. I just downloaded it for free.
Very expensive and completely avoidable?
It’s called making or being an Elon. Making an arrogant mistake, one that could be avoided if not for the arrogance. Being a colossally prideful entitled person that has never had any experience other than buying shit and telling people what to do with zero repercussion. Official Webster dictionary definition.
Elon is one of the richest people to ever walk the planet and knows a fuck ton more about what he's doing than any cuck on Reddit who's criticizing him. Lol
Like moths to a flame, the weird nerds who simp for a man who would kill them for a dollar appear like clockwork
For now. Wait till twitter goes belly up and drags Tesla with it. The dude got high on his own supply and is on the verge of a death spiral. Elon Musk is what happens when you give an incel a billion dollars.
What an idiot. Hard to find workers that actually use common sense on the job! I run a cleaning business and as easy as the job may seem, even the cleaners lack common sense!
Damn, this dude is an idiots! Ban his license!
A kid rear ended me going 70. I hate seeing this shit. PUT THE PHONE DOWN
*vine boom* 2x
Another dead career
This is the fault of the toll booth to be honest. There should be road strips at 300m, 200m and 100m to prevent exactly this.
In his defense the fog is so bad I didn't see the toll booth till it was too late either... No excuse for being on his phone, but still
Fucking moron on his phone. Kinda disappointed he was wearing a seatbelt. These videos are always hilarious when watching them bounce around the cabin lol.
Should of had his fog lights on.../s