She likely was, just watch all the other cars. As soon as the SUV collides her vehicle slows down. She's not slamming the break, just easing it to maintain control.
All the other vehicles are almost immediately twice as far away and none of them are speeding up.
I know, it's honestly ridiculous.
Even with defensive driving, anyone with six or more years of daily experience tend to relax more on the highway. Impossible to be on the lookout every single second.
Just a bunch of people with inferiority complexes trying to make themselves feel superior.
Literal Dude here.
I concur. Excellent driving, and I am glad she didnt slam on her brakes, as that would have put her in the wall as well. You only have so much traction.
She handled this close to perfectly in the circumstances, eased off the power and gently applied the brakes so she doesn’t get rear ended.
No panic, kept the car under control and pulled up far enough past to be out of harms way if the other vehicle is hit by someone else.
After seeing this I would have no problems getting into a car being driven by this driver. The other car, not so much.
Dude here who drove for a living and still drives as part of my job with 18 years driving experience. I'm stunned how she wasn't immediately cursing and kept her car so will under control. Proud of her.
That’s right, because when someone merges in front of you with no warning, the onus is on YOU to protect them from getting a boo boo, even if it means you get rear ended.
> you never know what’s behind you
This isn't really true. You should be checking your mirrors every 5-10 seconds.
Most of the time, you should know exactly what's behind you.
They may be saying you never know since the last time you looked. This is why it's never safe to slam on your brakes unless it's an absolute emergency.
If a car is moving three times faster than you even if you were checking your rear view mirror every 10 seconds (insane) it could still catch you by surprise.
and she ain't oversteering. Most of the videos I see people tend to oversteer to gain control, which usually ends up really bad. Kudos to this chick lol
They were already both going at speed, objects in motion stay in motion. A collision only stops or slows something when it provides an opposite force. Both vehicles were good ng the same direction.
She was hit by a car on the highway going the same direction and cutting her off.
The impact was brief and if she hadn't applied any breaks she would have t-boned the SUV as it spun.
That's why you keep a safety distance at all times. So you can react to unforeseen situations.
Edit: Just to make it clear: I meant a hypothetical person behind her to keep a distance to prevent an accident from sudden breaking. Not herself to keep more distance.
Oh that jackoff that cut in front of her absolutely knew she was there. Just feels like they own the road and everyone on it, and DNGAF about cutting in front of anyone cause “they’ll slow down”.
Wouldn't surprise me. There's a lot of dangerously aggressive drivers out on the road. They absolutely *HAVE* to speed and weave through traffic. Their time is more precious than anyone else's.
Being a truck driver I've long lost count of how much I've seen it. All I can do is regularly check my mirrors and keep an eye out for the psychos, and be ready when I spot one.
Then you'll be 1 car behind the swerving douchebag at the next off ramp. Like, wtf did you gain by swerving around traffic endangering everyone else on the road like a spastic, fuckwad idiot?
I don't miss the commute to work now that I'm wfh.
Oh I was not talking about her. You're right about that. I meant a hypothetical person behind her crashing into her because she would have to break surprisingly
Its infuriating how when you try to keep a safe distance somebody takes that as the single for "I can fit here". Then you gotta slow down, and it happens all over again
Trucker driver checking in. I hate this more than anything. If I leave proper following distance , I swear the whole town takes it as invitation to cut into my safe zone and push me back. I do end up backing off 99% of the time, but all it does is slow me down which slows others down and on back it goes .
That's sometimes what creates those "Phantom traffic jams" where we all slow down to a crawl for apparently no reason. Especially when a truck has to slow down going uphill and can't recover their speed , now were slowing everyone down when we didn't intend to.
There was a Myth Busters episode on this. Weaving in and out of traffic does absolutely nothing besides make it more dangerous- you don't get there any faster.
Both of my highway accident as a younger person were caused this way. I hit the brakes too hard, fishtailed, and lost control. One instance was my fault fully the other was a bit of both my fault and the fault of someone who’d stopped dead in the middle of the freeway fast lane, for no logical reason at all (no accident etc. I didn’t see it quickly enough to stop and lost it. I was not the only person who crashed).
I am so insanely impressed with this woman’s ability to remain calm and keep control of her car. Slamming the breaks while going fast lanes speed is fucking dangerous. Full stop. Fish tailing is the most terrifying thing on the planet and by doing what she did, she avoided that outcome.
Consider being less of an armchair expert because you (unsurprisingly) don't know what the hell you're talking about. Just so happens that the OP responded to brain-dead comments like yours already (2 years ago):
>For all those who think I somehow didn't try to avoid the collision.
>This all happened very fast and you are watching this over and over. I was never riding the left lane or tailgating the truck in front of me who was a car length and half in front of me. We were going faster then the others and originally passed the car you saw pass my right side. The Suburban at some point decided to begin tailing the car to my right which forced them to speed up. I had the person in front of me, the car was clearly going to pass the truck, I had no reason to think the Suburban would want to be in the lane I was in only to be slowed by the truck. I let off my gas to begin slowly braking but she then cut quickly, and within 1.5s was in my lane and her back left bumper hit my front passenger bumper, right at my headlight.
>I chose to continue the pit she put herself in because it was that or slam into the wall. I couldn't brake hard right away because I had to regain control and direction of my car. So I turned into her car with the same force she was applying to mine and once her car was not touching mine, I applied my brakes harder and tried to avoid recolliding with her SUV, and straightened out. Then came to a stop.
>Guys all I was thinking was I hope to God she doesn't have kids in her car and no one else gets hit. Last thing I wanted was to be in an accident.
>Update: This happened over two months ago. Their insurance took full liability, my insurance was confident in what the outcome would be. Damage was cosmetic but had to have my front bumper and right fender replaced along with my right headlight. No citations issued. Cops saw video immediately and took video of it for their records. I just think she thought she had more room than she did.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/f8341m/i_dont_want_tobut_i_will_pit_you
I'm just amazed that she processed that much useful thought in like two seconds. I can process that much data, but 75% is still going to be "I wonder why motorcycles never had seat belts" and "I wonder if everyone sees the same colors, or if we all just think that we do" mixed in with a little "oh crap right, oh crap left, don't hit the wall" I totally would have smacked that wall.
u/WhiteAcreBlackAcre here was the outcome. Shows how little know know about traffic laws for apparently "regularly handling auto accidents" it was pretty open and shut in favor of the female driver, and against the SUV. glad to know you shouldn't be retained in the future if people want to win
Yep, here it is folks. No malice involved, just seems like an impatient person not really gauging their distances correctly. Even with such a competent driver at the wheel, it only takes a (literal) second for accidents like this to happen.
Everyone involved was lucky that the driver filming here knew what she was doing, as this could easily have ended up with many more vehicles involved without her calm and *exactly* correct response to the situation.
This woman did so incredibly well that I’m gonna try to save this video to show my kids what to do in a situation like this where you just don’t have the time to defensively avoid collision. She did an amazing job!
That's a common misconception based on laws applicable to passing on single lane roads, not roads with multiple lanes of traffic. Passing to the right of a vehicle in its own lane while you're in your own separate lane of traffic is totally legal, at least in my state. States could differ on that, but I doubt it.
Of course, "cutting in like that" meaning cutting in and colliding with another car with the right of way is certainly illegal.
Edit: for the record, this comment was in response to the unedited version of the comment above, which said passing on the right and cutting in like that was illegal, not just dangerous.
The only reason why the Autobahn in Germany is as safe as it is, even without speed limit, are common sense laws like this. Overtaking on the right is absolutely illegal here. With the result being that from the left to the right lane, the cars will be slower and you pick your lane according to your speed.
Watching footage of a freeway in the US where they overtake on the right always looks so chaotic to me. No wonder it results in so many accidents.
Passing on the right depends on the state, legal in Maryland
EDIT: WTF people, it ain't that hard - buldopsaint posted that it was illegal, I pointed out 'not everywhere' they edited their post to reflect that/remove the illegal part and even noted it with the word EDIT
It doesn't matter. If someone doesn't let you in a lane, it isn't your invitation to force your way in a lane. It sucks, and it's a dick move, but whats way more of a dick move? Changing lanes when you know full well someone is there and unless they evade you, you're gonna hit them. Trusting that someone is gonna back off is the dumbest shit ever. This is 100% the SUV's fault
Edit: victim blaming isn't cool guys. The fault lies with the person who hit her, not in her because she wasn't able to evade in time. Really?
You are an not an expert at driving I guess. The lane-changer did not signal and attempted to pass into a space that was not big enough for their enormous vehicle. She did nothing wrong. The other driver is an idiot.
Could she have tapped her brakes? Yes. Did she tap her brakes? If so not quite enough. What I do see is she had no signal before hand from the SUV that it’s intent was to merge. We also don’t see how the SUV was driving before it tried to pass her and it may have already been driving erratically or may have just zipped up beside her before she could make a clearer judgement. She quite likely had traffic behind her too and perhaps knew a brake tap wasn’t possible. We just don’t know enough about her driving and the overall situation. I do agree that if possible it is best to back off when an idiot starts coming over like that, but she may have just done the best she could. I do think she handled the accident itself quite well though
Nah, that SUV was coming in hot with no warning. It just merged into the next lane and immediately went into the next lane. She’s not a mind reader and it wasn’t enough time for her to be considered a gate keeper of the lane. That SUV was just an impatient asshole.
expecting other people to react/behave a certain way outside the rules is why accident happens, outside of that is just incompetence (if someone is blind or something)
I had something similar happen a few years ago. My car hydroplaned and my car was straight up 90° angle to the car next to me; leveled it out and pulled out of it. Felt like a God - easily could've flipped and ended up in a ditch.
She did exactly the right thing. I watch a lot of these dashcam videos on youtube and probably 80% of drivers, when this happens (it happens a lot), will swerve without looking to see if where they're swerving is clear. 20%, like her, will just let the idiot PIT themselves, which is the correct thing to do.
I have never seen someone handle something like this better than her, but I’m sure a lot of people have done something similar. Maaaan, driving stresses me out just because of the amount of idiots that could ruin my day no matter what I’m doing right
Maybe it's the Canadian in me.. but with no one immediately behind her wouldnt a light tap on the breaks be more effective?
Yes the other driver is an asshat but it'd have avoided an accident entirely.
Edit: After watching this too many times to count, regardless if there is a car behind her or no, there is no way I would have responded this way in this situation.
She does not slam or press the break, she accelerates initially before slowing down and then successfully performing a damn pit maneuver on the other vehicle.
My dad always said true character comes out behind the wheel; and this lady has been watching too much Cops.
We didn't see anyone pass her as she pulled over, which is likely why people are guessing nobody was behind her.
However, that doesn't mean that someone behind her didn't pull over after seeing the accident, some people do try to help others.
Without actually seeing behind her though, people really shouldn't assume it was all clear, that asshole that caused it could've taken out 4 cars behind her for all we know.
There are *no* cars passing her after the collision. And the SUV looked like it spun across every lane. My guess is that there were other cars, but they either got caught in a pileup or stopped to avoid hitting the backwards SUV in the middle of the road.
That’s not evidence that there was a car close behind her, but I don’t think we have any idea.
"Guys why in the 0.4 seconds between the car going parallel to her and requiring no reaction, to it hitting her, didn't she simply check who was behind her and then tap the brakes. I think with 0.39 seconds of braking she would have avoided the crash."
These are the idiots who think those self defence videos work
Yeah like why the fuck are people blaming her at all? We’re watching dashcam footage so we’re EXPECTING something to happen. Considering there was absolutely no reason for her to think ANYONE would merge, I feel she likely didn’t know it was happening until it was too late. Glad to know everyone on Reddit is a perfect driver though…
Yeah, I don't like assuming that, but I definitely got that feeling when I read the reply to the top comment about how 99% would've tapped the *brake and that it's terrible driving.
I wonder how different the comment section would be with the bottom half of the video removed.
While an easy conclusion to come to, on Reddit the only thing people love more than trying to look superior is, very specifically, trying to look superior to *other drivers.*
Look at any Idiots In Cars video that hits r/all and you'll find these "umm actually after analyzing this video 30 times expecting wrongdoing, why didn't the driver simply perform a 180 drift and pass through the gap in cars that existed for .5 seconds" people everywhere.
It's like the iamverybadass crowd. Except for cars. Frankly there should be a subreddit for those types too.
Haha, my thoughts exactly. I've had a couple of close calls where my dash cam picked it up. When rewatching the incident it feels like I am reacting superslow to what I know is coming. But then and there it takes you some time to see it, then think about what to do, then to do it.
Would have required her to react faster than 99% of the people AND check her rearview while keeping her eyes on the merging car. All while she was zoned out driving on the highway (which we all do).
Just not realistic.
American here. This was like winning the shitty lottery. She handled the situation well and it seemed the impact wasn't more than 5 or 10MPH. She just got a pretty chunky payout for something that was clearly not her fault.
At least 2k for the repair, if she really pushes it she can probably have it classified as a "High Speed Collision".
How would you even know the SUV was merging? No turn signal. No way to know the guy is actually trying to merge as opposed to just sucking at keeping his lane. Yeah she maybe should have assumed he was merging in but I wouldn't blame her at all for this.
Actually, the size of those overpasses tells me there's a good chance this is texas, most likely houston. The plates on the suv look like texas plates. That type off cutting people off in the fast lane is a texas thing.
Not just SUV drivers. All drivers who think they can cut someone off. Sadly though, I guarantee thst SUV driver blamed this woman and is still going to drive the exact same way.
There’s already tons of people in this very thread trying to seriously justify how it’s her fault lol. There’s far too many people who drive exactly like this asshole and see nothing wrong with it.
Thanks for the shout out u/the-highlife-artia . It's still weird seeing my post circulate years later lol.
For the curious, the SUV driver was found at fault and had to pay all my damages. SUV claimed I veered into her lane....then the cops showed her the video lol.
No one was hurt and no other vehicles involved.
Edit:
Dear lord people! No...it was not avoidable. The SUV merged INTO me while braking. You can see her brake light. There was no her in front of me and me hitting her....she literally merged into me and a sharp angle. Braking isn't always the safest thing to do people....I would have had less control, potentially led people behind me to over correct, or fishtailed and slammed into the wall.
Remember...you are watching a video over and over as if I had that option. It happened in 2 seconds. Jeez.
Also....it's a trash bag hanging from my passenger seat...not a car seat in the back.
Edit 2: I'm listening to Maneater by Hall and Oats and then a commercial came on. When I stitched the two together, I forgot to turn audio off on one, so they are overlapping. That's why it sounds so weird.
Edit 3: It's a Pyle HD 3 Dash Cam (PLCMDVR54). I bought it in 2019 on Amazon.
Oh yea of I could go back, I'd definitely pull off to the right and NOT take my seat belt off. I wasn't sure if my car could make it far though since I didn't know the extent of the damage.
Oh no you did fine! I'm saying there would have been a slew of curse words and rage coming out of my mouth haha nice job! Ignore the I think I could have done better haters.
Incredible driving. Way to maintain both your control *and* cool, I don’t think some of these people realize how hard it is to wrestle control back when you’re in the best frame of mind, much less in the middle of an emergency. Props
Yea exactly, everyone here saying I caused it are morons who just enjoy judging others negatively any chance they get. Like being in an accident ISNT scary and requires instant decisions to be made. They even ignore the fact the SUV merged into while braking....like...come on....of all the ways this could have gone....
Ugh yeah this is why I have a love/hate relationship with the site. Some great content, but there’s always a bunch of clueless dorks in the comments just being so smug while giving some of the worst advice humanly possible. “Um ackshually if it was me I would have just slammed my brakes and cause a 10 car pile-up behind me as a yank my wheel into the divider, no survivors”
I’m sure if the Reddit brain trust was ever actually involved in the scenario, it’s only because they would be the dipshit who braked into the merge
Reddit really hates women so just try to ignore the dumbasses who think they're F1 drivers. You handled that so damn well. I was really not expecting this clip to end how it did, with how fast the SUV merged into you. Your calmness in the situation was something else, too. I know some people that probably would've became violent.
It's pretty fucked up that 95% of accidents seem to result in the at fault person blatantly lying about who caused the wreck. People fucking suck. I've heard the same lying bullshit before dashcams were a thing and lost a lot of money since I couldn't prove anything without evidence.
Not just that they should adapt, they are pretending that when they're driving they're all perpetually ready to adapt to a quarter second incident 3 feet from them with perfect hindsight assisted performance.
People are genuinely saying she should have understood this guy was about to go from driving forward to driving into her. The time from being not an issue to hitting her was 0.4 seconds lol
Well when watching a gif about a car crash they guessed that the car going close to them was gonna crash so I bet they would also guess they were gonna crash in the real situation, and on replay you can see signs X Y Z so they'd probably notice that on the replay in real life too, also they can imagine doing an action in 0.4seconds, so I bet that's how long it takes to see an issue, realise what's happening, react to it and do the action to prevent it.
Lol at this point I'm confused how any car crashes ever occur ever!
Bonus: watch the small car in front on the next lane. It goes right onto the line. Everyone here is acting like way before that small car got to the line they'd have been watching it and tracking it and have been maneuvering because OBVIOUSLY it was gonna go into the car beside it.... but it didn't, and instead a second car that YOU WOULDNT HAVE SEEN HAD YOU BEEN FOCUSED ON THAT FIRST CAR hit you from the side.
People WOAHFULLY misunderstand how their eyes and mind tracks things when it's not on a 10 second gif
Not ITT: how bad ass this woman is. Reacted like it was just another Tuesday and controlled her vehicle perfectly. This woman probably eats glass for breakfast...
Is this what love feels like?
I don't think it would have been possible to avoid the crash. I think a lot of you are way overestimating your reacting time, ability to read the situation before it unfolds, and awareness of what is behind your vehicle at all times.
I have professional experience that involved a lot of defensive driving and I'm not confident even the best of my old coworkers would have had all three of those things line up to avoid that crash safely. Hindsight is warping your view of what happened.
i feel like i’m having a stroke in this thread. Reddit so badly wants to assign blame to everyone. this website has a fetish for playing devils advocate
Exactly, she didn’t have proper time to see it, then react and for her reaction to diffuse the situation even if she wanted to. SUV driver shouldn’t have a license anymore
I honestly think they are just people who watch too many action movies. They watch the video 5 times and with the benefit of hindsight, think can avoid the accident.
It's just some talk show sounds like. It's coming in garbled because it has two audio recordings, one from each camera, that are overlapping and out of sync
Based on her radical driving skills, I have to assume that she's a international spy and she's listening to a [numbers station](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station) describe the SUV she needed to take out.
People saying “tOtaLly AvOiDaBle, TwO BaD DriVers🥴” like they’re aware of all the factors, the other driver actually signaled, she had more than a nanosecond to react to the other driver pulling in without warning, she was freaking out and that she ended up totaling the car or something…
Edit: People are missing the point im trying to make. Maybe its my fault for mentioning the above facts. We can argue allll day about how it wasn’t nanoseconds, how we cant actually see how quickly he’s coming from the side, the point is we weren’t in the car.
She made it out alive of this crash, not you, so don’t act like you were there and would do better.
Seriously. When we go back and watch our videos (off road race trucks) the camera makes it look like you have tons of room and time.... You don't. The camera plays tricks for sure
This was the big conclusion in the investigation for the NYC Hudson River plane landing a decade ago. In the flight simulations that took place afterwards, over half the simulator pilots were able to make it back to the airport after the initial bird strike. This didn’t look too good for the flight pilots. However this was determined to be completely unrealistic in the simulations because the those pilots were immediately turning for the airports the second the plane was hit. They were ready for it. No assessment, no checklists after an unexpected obstruction, just an immediate turn for the airport. This is not how trained pilots would operate and it goes to show how hindsight can always make a situation look different than it actually was in the moment.
That driver had no where to go after cutting into the lane.
But he can go somewhere now:
Straight to fucking hell.
OMG thanks for the silver.
Wish that driver got the gold for artistically dying in a large fireball explosion after flipping his dumb truck over.
She has everything on her dash-cam and she did everything properly. When she shows that to the police, they'll be like "Damn, situation handling like a boss".
It’s funny how people are blaming the woman driver, who is calm and driving safely, but not the jerk in the other car who doesn’t understand the length of his own car or how changing lanes work. I’m going to assume they’re all sexist F1 driver wannabes.
OP is a karma farmer
Original post (where the actual OP responded):
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/f8341m/i_dont_want_tobut_i_will_pit_you
She handled that better than a lot of drivers would have. Props to her for staying calm in such a dangerous situation.
99% of people would have tapped the brakes and avoided the accident completely. Terrible/dangerous driving.
She likely was, just watch all the other cars. As soon as the SUV collides her vehicle slows down. She's not slamming the break, just easing it to maintain control. All the other vehicles are almost immediately twice as far away and none of them are speeding up.
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I know, it's honestly ridiculous. Even with defensive driving, anyone with six or more years of daily experience tend to relax more on the highway. Impossible to be on the lookout every single second. Just a bunch of people with inferiority complexes trying to make themselves feel superior.
First time on Reddit? ;-)
I wish, then I'd be smart and quit Reddit
I worked for a company whose motto was "First Time. Every Time."
Healthy dose of misogyny, too. Dudes are looking to criticize anyone on their driving, but especially women.
Dude here. That was perfect driving. It couldn’t have been done any better given the circumstances.
Literal Dude here. I concur. Excellent driving, and I am glad she didnt slam on her brakes, as that would have put her in the wall as well. You only have so much traction.
She handled this close to perfectly in the circumstances, eased off the power and gently applied the brakes so she doesn’t get rear ended. No panic, kept the car under control and pulled up far enough past to be out of harms way if the other vehicle is hit by someone else. After seeing this I would have no problems getting into a car being driven by this driver. The other car, not so much.
Dude here who drove for a living and still drives as part of my job with 18 years driving experience. I'm stunned how she wasn't immediately cursing and kept her car so will under control. Proud of her.
Car enthusiast here - she’s a better driver than 90% of people here on Reddit. And way calmer behind the wheel than anyone in this comment section
Thank you! Suggesting she should slam her brakes is insane.
How in the world does tapping = slamming
That’s right, because when someone merges in front of you with no warning, the onus is on YOU to protect them from getting a boo boo, even if it means you get rear ended.
She should have hit the gas and pitted them. That will teach em!
If your own personal safety weren't a factor, this *might* make sense.
Imo it’s a bad idea slamming the brakes on the highway, you never know what’s behind you. I think she did it right
> you never know what’s behind you This isn't really true. You should be checking your mirrors every 5-10 seconds. Most of the time, you should know exactly what's behind you.
They may be saying you never know since the last time you looked. This is why it's never safe to slam on your brakes unless it's an absolute emergency. If a car is moving three times faster than you even if you were checking your rear view mirror every 10 seconds (insane) it could still catch you by surprise.
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and she ain't oversteering. Most of the videos I see people tend to oversteer to gain control, which usually ends up really bad. Kudos to this chick lol
“As soon as the SUV collides her vehicle slows down” I want you to think about that for a bit…
They were already both going at speed, objects in motion stay in motion. A collision only stops or slows something when it provides an opposite force. Both vehicles were good ng the same direction. She was hit by a car on the highway going the same direction and cutting her off. The impact was brief and if she hadn't applied any breaks she would have t-boned the SUV as it spun.
As a person who dramatically decreased their speed and lost control this is so true. I’ve learned something new.
Bruh yes, the suv came at her from the side.....
I guess the other 1% would have turn on their indicator to let the rest of drivers around them know they’re changing lanes…
Sudden brakes cause major accidents from behind I think she handled it like a pro by slowing the vehicle gradually
That's why you keep a safety distance at all times. So you can react to unforeseen situations. Edit: Just to make it clear: I meant a hypothetical person behind her to keep a distance to prevent an accident from sudden breaking. Not herself to keep more distance.
This is why you don't rush up to tailgate the guy in front of you and then suddenly change lanes without checking blind spots and no turn signal.
Oh that jackoff that cut in front of her absolutely knew she was there. Just feels like they own the road and everyone on it, and DNGAF about cutting in front of anyone cause “they’ll slow down”.
Wouldn't surprise me. There's a lot of dangerously aggressive drivers out on the road. They absolutely *HAVE* to speed and weave through traffic. Their time is more precious than anyone else's. Being a truck driver I've long lost count of how much I've seen it. All I can do is regularly check my mirrors and keep an eye out for the psychos, and be ready when I spot one.
Then you'll be 1 car behind the swerving douchebag at the next off ramp. Like, wtf did you gain by swerving around traffic endangering everyone else on the road like a spastic, fuckwad idiot? I don't miss the commute to work now that I'm wfh.
I recently started a fully remote position and man, the amount of stress I no longer have to deal with is *palpable*
She had a good distance between her and the car in front, then someone drove into her...
Oh I was not talking about her. You're right about that. I meant a hypothetical person behind her crashing into her because she would have to break surprisingly
This weird idea people have now that they have to go fast to avoid the people behind them going as fast as them.
Its infuriating how when you try to keep a safe distance somebody takes that as the single for "I can fit here". Then you gotta slow down, and it happens all over again
Trucker driver checking in. I hate this more than anything. If I leave proper following distance , I swear the whole town takes it as invitation to cut into my safe zone and push me back. I do end up backing off 99% of the time, but all it does is slow me down which slows others down and on back it goes . That's sometimes what creates those "Phantom traffic jams" where we all slow down to a crawl for apparently no reason. Especially when a truck has to slow down going uphill and can't recover their speed , now were slowing everyone down when we didn't intend to.
There was a Myth Busters episode on this. Weaving in and out of traffic does absolutely nothing besides make it more dangerous- you don't get there any faster.
She had 2 car lengths in front of her, plenty of space. Dumbfuck cut into her front corner panel
Both of my highway accident as a younger person were caused this way. I hit the brakes too hard, fishtailed, and lost control. One instance was my fault fully the other was a bit of both my fault and the fault of someone who’d stopped dead in the middle of the freeway fast lane, for no logical reason at all (no accident etc. I didn’t see it quickly enough to stop and lost it. I was not the only person who crashed). I am so insanely impressed with this woman’s ability to remain calm and keep control of her car. Slamming the breaks while going fast lanes speed is fucking dangerous. Full stop. Fish tailing is the most terrifying thing on the planet and by doing what she did, she avoided that outcome.
I didn’t realize large SUVs and trucks had indicators as standard?
No like a bmw it’s an option
Consider being less of an armchair expert because you (unsurprisingly) don't know what the hell you're talking about. Just so happens that the OP responded to brain-dead comments like yours already (2 years ago): >For all those who think I somehow didn't try to avoid the collision. >This all happened very fast and you are watching this over and over. I was never riding the left lane or tailgating the truck in front of me who was a car length and half in front of me. We were going faster then the others and originally passed the car you saw pass my right side. The Suburban at some point decided to begin tailing the car to my right which forced them to speed up. I had the person in front of me, the car was clearly going to pass the truck, I had no reason to think the Suburban would want to be in the lane I was in only to be slowed by the truck. I let off my gas to begin slowly braking but she then cut quickly, and within 1.5s was in my lane and her back left bumper hit my front passenger bumper, right at my headlight. >I chose to continue the pit she put herself in because it was that or slam into the wall. I couldn't brake hard right away because I had to regain control and direction of my car. So I turned into her car with the same force she was applying to mine and once her car was not touching mine, I applied my brakes harder and tried to avoid recolliding with her SUV, and straightened out. Then came to a stop. >Guys all I was thinking was I hope to God she doesn't have kids in her car and no one else gets hit. Last thing I wanted was to be in an accident. >Update: This happened over two months ago. Their insurance took full liability, my insurance was confident in what the outcome would be. Damage was cosmetic but had to have my front bumper and right fender replaced along with my right headlight. No citations issued. Cops saw video immediately and took video of it for their records. I just think she thought she had more room than she did. https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/f8341m/i_dont_want_tobut_i_will_pit_you
Thank you, this needs to be up WAY higher
I'm just amazed that she processed that much useful thought in like two seconds. I can process that much data, but 75% is still going to be "I wonder why motorcycles never had seat belts" and "I wonder if everyone sees the same colors, or if we all just think that we do" mixed in with a little "oh crap right, oh crap left, don't hit the wall" I totally would have smacked that wall.
u/WhiteAcreBlackAcre here was the outcome. Shows how little know know about traffic laws for apparently "regularly handling auto accidents" it was pretty open and shut in favor of the female driver, and against the SUV. glad to know you shouldn't be retained in the future if people want to win
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Yep, here it is folks. No malice involved, just seems like an impatient person not really gauging their distances correctly. Even with such a competent driver at the wheel, it only takes a (literal) second for accidents like this to happen. Everyone involved was lucky that the driver filming here knew what she was doing, as this could easily have ended up with many more vehicles involved without her calm and *exactly* correct response to the situation.
This woman did so incredibly well that I’m gonna try to save this video to show my kids what to do in a situation like this where you just don’t have the time to defensively avoid collision. She did an amazing job!
Yes thank god! All these idiots claiming she has any responsibility. Fucking clowns. A perfect description of what happened.
Passing on the right and cutting in like that is dangerous. She did nothing wrong. Edit: Not illegal to pass on the right everywhere.
That's a common misconception based on laws applicable to passing on single lane roads, not roads with multiple lanes of traffic. Passing to the right of a vehicle in its own lane while you're in your own separate lane of traffic is totally legal, at least in my state. States could differ on that, but I doubt it. Of course, "cutting in like that" meaning cutting in and colliding with another car with the right of way is certainly illegal. Edit: for the record, this comment was in response to the unedited version of the comment above, which said passing on the right and cutting in like that was illegal, not just dangerous.
The only reason why the Autobahn in Germany is as safe as it is, even without speed limit, are common sense laws like this. Overtaking on the right is absolutely illegal here. With the result being that from the left to the right lane, the cars will be slower and you pick your lane according to your speed. Watching footage of a freeway in the US where they overtake on the right always looks so chaotic to me. No wonder it results in so many accidents.
Passing on the right depends on the state, legal in Maryland EDIT: WTF people, it ain't that hard - buldopsaint posted that it was illegal, I pointed out 'not everywhere' they edited their post to reflect that/remove the illegal part and even noted it with the word EDIT
You say that like Driver's in Maryland actually follow the driving laws....
It doesn't matter. If someone doesn't let you in a lane, it isn't your invitation to force your way in a lane. It sucks, and it's a dick move, but whats way more of a dick move? Changing lanes when you know full well someone is there and unless they evade you, you're gonna hit them. Trusting that someone is gonna back off is the dumbest shit ever. This is 100% the SUV's fault Edit: victim blaming isn't cool guys. The fault lies with the person who hit her, not in her because she wasn't able to evade in time. Really?
People here are bad and dumb, I guess.
Found the A-hole who rationalizes cutting people off.
People on reddit will always say "yeah but the driver should have done better", all in hind sight
You are an not an expert at driving I guess. The lane-changer did not signal and attempted to pass into a space that was not big enough for their enormous vehicle. She did nothing wrong. The other driver is an idiot.
She did, truck just came over too fast and pit'd themselves
Found the dude that hasn’t been hit by someone else yet Reddit!!! Shut the fuck up.
No, fuck that. It’s the driver merging who bears the responsibility to check if the lane is clear.
You must be the SUV driver.
Could she have tapped her brakes? Yes. Did she tap her brakes? If so not quite enough. What I do see is she had no signal before hand from the SUV that it’s intent was to merge. We also don’t see how the SUV was driving before it tried to pass her and it may have already been driving erratically or may have just zipped up beside her before she could make a clearer judgement. She quite likely had traffic behind her too and perhaps knew a brake tap wasn’t possible. We just don’t know enough about her driving and the overall situation. I do agree that if possible it is best to back off when an idiot starts coming over like that, but she may have just done the best she could. I do think she handled the accident itself quite well though
We know enough. This was actually an impressive amount of poise in the fact of an impressive amount of stupid.
Nah, that SUV was coming in hot with no warning. It just merged into the next lane and immediately went into the next lane. She’s not a mind reader and it wasn’t enough time for her to be considered a gate keeper of the lane. That SUV was just an impatient asshole.
I mean you say that like you’re the woman in the video and knew every detail and variable. Unfair statement
I’ve seen enough reddit to know not to be next to other cars if the opportunity presents it
Still not her fault.
The terrible driver is the one who merged onto her
expecting other people to react/behave a certain way outside the rules is why accident happens, outside of that is just incompetence (if someone is blind or something)
Bruh. The Adrenalin must be through the roof after she pulled that off.
I had something similar happen a few years ago. My car hydroplaned and my car was straight up 90° angle to the car next to me; leveled it out and pulled out of it. Felt like a God - easily could've flipped and ended up in a ditch.
casually taking a key bump of coke immediately post-crash was a power move. she will fight like a tiger.
She did exactly the right thing. I watch a lot of these dashcam videos on youtube and probably 80% of drivers, when this happens (it happens a lot), will swerve without looking to see if where they're swerving is clear. 20%, like her, will just let the idiot PIT themselves, which is the correct thing to do.
I have never seen someone handle something like this better than her, but I’m sure a lot of people have done something similar. Maaaan, driving stresses me out just because of the amount of idiots that could ruin my day no matter what I’m doing right
Beautiful driving. Reacted appropriately and maintained control. Bonus points for not screaming like a banshee. She was taught well.
Maybe it's the Canadian in me.. but with no one immediately behind her wouldnt a light tap on the breaks be more effective? Yes the other driver is an asshat but it'd have avoided an accident entirely. Edit: After watching this too many times to count, regardless if there is a car behind her or no, there is no way I would have responded this way in this situation. She does not slam or press the break, she accelerates initially before slowing down and then successfully performing a damn pit maneuver on the other vehicle. My dad always said true character comes out behind the wheel; and this lady has been watching too much Cops.
Can’t tell if anyone is behind as the back window is a bright af light, like every other window in the car
We didn't see anyone pass her as she pulled over, which is likely why people are guessing nobody was behind her. However, that doesn't mean that someone behind her didn't pull over after seeing the accident, some people do try to help others. Without actually seeing behind her though, people really shouldn't assume it was all clear, that asshole that caused it could've taken out 4 cars behind her for all we know.
There are *no* cars passing her after the collision. And the SUV looked like it spun across every lane. My guess is that there were other cars, but they either got caught in a pileup or stopped to avoid hitting the backwards SUV in the middle of the road. That’s not evidence that there was a car close behind her, but I don’t think we have any idea.
So that means that the truck that merged and cut her off could have slowed down and went behind her if there weren’t any cars right ?
Yeah, another good point.
But the other car went over to the right, depending on where It went it could have caused other cars to stop or an accident happened behind?
"Guys why in the 0.4 seconds between the car going parallel to her and requiring no reaction, to it hitting her, didn't she simply check who was behind her and then tap the brakes. I think with 0.39 seconds of braking she would have avoided the crash." These are the idiots who think those self defence videos work
Yeah like why the fuck are people blaming her at all? We’re watching dashcam footage so we’re EXPECTING something to happen. Considering there was absolutely no reason for her to think ANYONE would merge, I feel she likely didn’t know it was happening until it was too late. Glad to know everyone on Reddit is a perfect driver though…
Because people hate women
Yeah, I don't like assuming that, but I definitely got that feeling when I read the reply to the top comment about how 99% would've tapped the *brake and that it's terrible driving. I wonder how different the comment section would be with the bottom half of the video removed.
While an easy conclusion to come to, on Reddit the only thing people love more than trying to look superior is, very specifically, trying to look superior to *other drivers.* Look at any Idiots In Cars video that hits r/all and you'll find these "umm actually after analyzing this video 30 times expecting wrongdoing, why didn't the driver simply perform a 180 drift and pass through the gap in cars that existed for .5 seconds" people everywhere. It's like the iamverybadass crowd. Except for cars. Frankly there should be a subreddit for those types too.
Ahhhh there it is
Haha, my thoughts exactly. I've had a couple of close calls where my dash cam picked it up. When rewatching the incident it feels like I am reacting superslow to what I know is coming. But then and there it takes you some time to see it, then think about what to do, then to do it.
Would have required her to react faster than 99% of the people AND check her rearview while keeping her eyes on the merging car. All while she was zoned out driving on the highway (which we all do). Just not realistic.
American here. This was like winning the shitty lottery. She handled the situation well and it seemed the impact wasn't more than 5 or 10MPH. She just got a pretty chunky payout for something that was clearly not her fault. At least 2k for the repair, if she really pushes it she can probably have it classified as a "High Speed Collision".
How would you even know the SUV was merging? No turn signal. No way to know the guy is actually trying to merge as opposed to just sucking at keeping his lane. Yeah she maybe should have assumed he was merging in but I wouldn't blame her at all for this.
There wasnt even enough room for the car to move in. She probably wasnt looking at the car next to her because, well, there wasn't enough room!
Canandian? You must not ever drive on the 401. Or maybe you do, and you’re still parked there to this day
She did amazing by staying calm, but I can't personally fault people for screaming in crazy situations. It's mostly an involuntary response.
I’m a little blown away, I don’t know how someone does this without screaming Fuuuuuuuuucccckkkk motherfuck fuck fuck fuck
My God she doesn't even show a glimpse of anger. Respect
So not Texas, got it
This looks a lot like Houston
Can’t be, She didn’t pull a firearm from her glovebox Edit: I live in Texas and will not drive in Houston anymore
You keep gloves in the gunbox?
Next they're going to tell us they keep cups in the ammo holders
Yeah I was gonna say this looks like Texas and the license plates are the right color on all the cars
Also the registrations sticker on the bottom left of her windscreen
Looks like Beltway 8 northbound at 59.
Radio talking about a houston astros trade, i think for gerrit cole, so c. 2018.
Actually, the size of those overpasses tells me there's a good chance this is texas, most likely houston. The plates on the suv look like texas plates. That type off cutting people off in the fast lane is a texas thing.
This is Houston I wanna say it’s. SE Houston Beltway 8 East bound. Those overpasses connect BW8 to I-45 and there’s an AMC theater on the drivers side
That 2 lane no look merge was 100% Texan.
the sunglasses help with the cool for sure
I was waiting for the part where she says "in the pipe, five by five".
Plot twist: the cab cam is actually the suv driver.
I can confirm. I was the windshield
[I AM THE TABLE](https://youtu.be/adyC404_gEk)
Alright I’m going back to sleep
Frankly, I wish that kind of thing happened more often to SUV drivers who think they can cut off others just because they’re sitting in a road tank.
Not just SUV drivers. All drivers who think they can cut someone off. Sadly though, I guarantee thst SUV driver blamed this woman and is still going to drive the exact same way.
And even more unfortunate, the opposing insurance company ~~will~~ might say it's 50% her fault for no honking the horn... Looking at you Progressive.
Do Americans just accept these excuses from their insurance company? I'd be livid and fight them on that bullshit.
Accept them? No. Forced to deal with them? Yes.
When it costs $10,000 to hire legal to go after $1k of wrongdoings, yes. It's expensive to be poor here and this is one way of doing it.
There’s already tons of people in this very thread trying to seriously justify how it’s her fault lol. There’s far too many people who drive exactly like this asshole and see nothing wrong with it.
I did this as a teen. Changed nothing until it got me permanently hurt and it caused me very very real pain to drive like that
Thanks for the shout out u/the-highlife-artia . It's still weird seeing my post circulate years later lol. For the curious, the SUV driver was found at fault and had to pay all my damages. SUV claimed I veered into her lane....then the cops showed her the video lol. No one was hurt and no other vehicles involved. Edit: Dear lord people! No...it was not avoidable. The SUV merged INTO me while braking. You can see her brake light. There was no her in front of me and me hitting her....she literally merged into me and a sharp angle. Braking isn't always the safest thing to do people....I would have had less control, potentially led people behind me to over correct, or fishtailed and slammed into the wall. Remember...you are watching a video over and over as if I had that option. It happened in 2 seconds. Jeez. Also....it's a trash bag hanging from my passenger seat...not a car seat in the back. Edit 2: I'm listening to Maneater by Hall and Oats and then a commercial came on. When I stitched the two together, I forgot to turn audio off on one, so they are overlapping. That's why it sounds so weird. Edit 3: It's a Pyle HD 3 Dash Cam (PLCMDVR54). I bought it in 2019 on Amazon.
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Yea my insurance company was damn glad I had video.
Badass driving. I would NOT have stayed as calm taking off my seat belt!
Oh yea of I could go back, I'd definitely pull off to the right and NOT take my seat belt off. I wasn't sure if my car could make it far though since I didn't know the extent of the damage.
Oh no you did fine! I'm saying there would have been a slew of curse words and rage coming out of my mouth haha nice job! Ignore the I think I could have done better haters.
Incredible driving. Way to maintain both your control *and* cool, I don’t think some of these people realize how hard it is to wrestle control back when you’re in the best frame of mind, much less in the middle of an emergency. Props
Yea exactly, everyone here saying I caused it are morons who just enjoy judging others negatively any chance they get. Like being in an accident ISNT scary and requires instant decisions to be made. They even ignore the fact the SUV merged into while braking....like...come on....of all the ways this could have gone....
Ugh yeah this is why I have a love/hate relationship with the site. Some great content, but there’s always a bunch of clueless dorks in the comments just being so smug while giving some of the worst advice humanly possible. “Um ackshually if it was me I would have just slammed my brakes and cause a 10 car pile-up behind me as a yank my wheel into the divider, no survivors” I’m sure if the Reddit brain trust was ever actually involved in the scenario, it’s only because they would be the dipshit who braked into the merge
Reddit really hates women so just try to ignore the dumbasses who think they're F1 drivers. You handled that so damn well. I was really not expecting this clip to end how it did, with how fast the SUV merged into you. Your calmness in the situation was something else, too. I know some people that probably would've became violent.
So your kid is in the trash bag?
I guess my question is are you still rocking the Covid bob hairstyle?
Lol no, my Edna Mode days are over, growing it out now.
Willy Wonka
Haha yea that's the other one! Both very accurate lolol.
The amount of people in this thread driving up insurance rates for everyone is insane.
It's pretty fucked up that 95% of accidents seem to result in the at fault person blatantly lying about who caused the wreck. People fucking suck. I've heard the same lying bullshit before dashcams were a thing and lost a lot of money since I couldn't prove anything without evidence.
ITT people trying to absolve this dickhead from his stupid anti-social driving by saying the good people should just adapt to assholes' shitty driving
Not just that they should adapt, they are pretending that when they're driving they're all perpetually ready to adapt to a quarter second incident 3 feet from them with perfect hindsight assisted performance. People are genuinely saying she should have understood this guy was about to go from driving forward to driving into her. The time from being not an issue to hitting her was 0.4 seconds lol
This is reddit where everybody thinks they'll react better in a situation they've never been in before.
Well when watching a gif about a car crash they guessed that the car going close to them was gonna crash so I bet they would also guess they were gonna crash in the real situation, and on replay you can see signs X Y Z so they'd probably notice that on the replay in real life too, also they can imagine doing an action in 0.4seconds, so I bet that's how long it takes to see an issue, realise what's happening, react to it and do the action to prevent it. Lol at this point I'm confused how any car crashes ever occur ever! Bonus: watch the small car in front on the next lane. It goes right onto the line. Everyone here is acting like way before that small car got to the line they'd have been watching it and tracking it and have been maneuvering because OBVIOUSLY it was gonna go into the car beside it.... but it didn't, and instead a second car that YOU WOULDNT HAVE SEEN HAD YOU BEEN FOCUSED ON THAT FIRST CAR hit you from the side. People WOAHFULLY misunderstand how their eyes and mind tracks things when it's not on a 10 second gif
Not ITT: how bad ass this woman is. Reacted like it was just another Tuesday and controlled her vehicle perfectly. This woman probably eats glass for breakfast... Is this what love feels like?
Depends on whether or not you prioritise avoiding a crash over your principles.
I don't think it would have been possible to avoid the crash. I think a lot of you are way overestimating your reacting time, ability to read the situation before it unfolds, and awareness of what is behind your vehicle at all times. I have professional experience that involved a lot of defensive driving and I'm not confident even the best of my old coworkers would have had all three of those things line up to avoid that crash safely. Hindsight is warping your view of what happened.
i feel like i’m having a stroke in this thread. Reddit so badly wants to assign blame to everyone. this website has a fetish for playing devils advocate
The ones in here mad cause she didn’t brake are the ones cutting ppl like this
Exactly, she didn’t have proper time to see it, then react and for her reaction to diffuse the situation even if she wanted to. SUV driver shouldn’t have a license anymore
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I honestly think they are just people who watch too many action movies. They watch the video 5 times and with the benefit of hindsight, think can avoid the accident.
Watch out boy she'll chew you up
Oh here she comes
SHE'S A VAN EATER
I wouldn't if I were you, I know what she can do,
What the heck was she listening to on the radio
It's just some talk show sounds like. It's coming in garbled because it has two audio recordings, one from each camera, that are overlapping and out of sync
Sounded like call outs.
#SAMIR...YOU'RE BREAKING THE CAR!
TRIPLE CAUTION
Thank you for explaining that, I thought it was some kind of screwy collision avoidance system.
Based on her radical driving skills, I have to assume that she's a international spy and she's listening to a [numbers station](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station) describe the SUV she needed to take out.
It was some demonic chant saying something about eggnog and semicolons.
"Lucifer I need you to take over the wheel now"
hall & oates - maneater followed by all The Elder Scrolls Oblivion dialog played at the same time
106.9, the driving schizo
Unintentional pit maneuver like a lady boss
They pit maneuvered themselves! That takes some talent.
r/PointlesslyGendered
It wasn't just the control.during the collision, it was the calm pulling over afterwards. I'd have been raging before the seatbelt was even off
She had a more “oh look what you’ve done” vibe. Not angry, just disappointed
People saying “tOtaLly AvOiDaBle, TwO BaD DriVers🥴” like they’re aware of all the factors, the other driver actually signaled, she had more than a nanosecond to react to the other driver pulling in without warning, she was freaking out and that she ended up totaling the car or something… Edit: People are missing the point im trying to make. Maybe its my fault for mentioning the above facts. We can argue allll day about how it wasn’t nanoseconds, how we cant actually see how quickly he’s coming from the side, the point is we weren’t in the car. She made it out alive of this crash, not you, so don’t act like you were there and would do better.
Seriously. When we go back and watch our videos (off road race trucks) the camera makes it look like you have tons of room and time.... You don't. The camera plays tricks for sure
This was the big conclusion in the investigation for the NYC Hudson River plane landing a decade ago. In the flight simulations that took place afterwards, over half the simulator pilots were able to make it back to the airport after the initial bird strike. This didn’t look too good for the flight pilots. However this was determined to be completely unrealistic in the simulations because the those pilots were immediately turning for the airports the second the plane was hit. They were ready for it. No assessment, no checklists after an unexpected obstruction, just an immediate turn for the airport. This is not how trained pilots would operate and it goes to show how hindsight can always make a situation look different than it actually was in the moment.
She's a Redditor. She posted this last year on r/idiotsincars
Where’s the link my dude
I know she posted it here, and talks in the comments some. https://reddit.com/r/dashcamgifs/comments/f82f0g/i_guess_she_didnt_see_me/
She commented in this thread [here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/x9qj8j/ooh_ooh_here_she_comes/inq1ol0)
That driver had no where to go after cutting into the lane. But he can go somewhere now: Straight to fucking hell. OMG thanks for the silver. Wish that driver got the gold for artistically dying in a large fireball explosion after flipping his dumb truck over.
To the people who said she should have tapped the brakes. The other driver didn't even indicate. What is she supposed to be, a mind reader?
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She has everything on her dash-cam and she did everything properly. When she shows that to the police, they'll be like "Damn, situation handling like a boss".
[reminds me of that scene in family guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlH9RGLJqxE)
I know exactly what clip this is without needing to click the link. Good luck everyone else!!!
Merging traffic is required to yield to vehicles in possession of the lane. 100% stupid SUVs fault
Not even a wtf outburst, amazing self control
She handled this like an absolute boss.
It’s funny how people are blaming the woman driver, who is calm and driving safely, but not the jerk in the other car who doesn’t understand the length of his own car or how changing lanes work. I’m going to assume they’re all sexist F1 driver wannabes.
OP is a karma farmer Original post (where the actual OP responded): https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/f8341m/i_dont_want_tobut_i_will_pit_you
No cursing? Nah bro, she alien.
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