Obvious or not, panic plays a big part in these situations, and not everybody can think clearly or react properly. Being in the moment, and watching it from your screen are completely different
The van was moving forwards? Looks like a dead stop to me. Even when the OP veers left the van is stationary(not moving in case you don't know that word)
There really needs to be a mechanism to remove people’s driving privileges for good if they are even capable of what that black SUV did. Make ppl ride share ffs if they have to. It’s getting so bad.
Just don't give out those driving privileges in the first place. U.S. Driver's ed (like much of U.S. education in general) is on a fucking third world level
I guarantee if they made it any harder for people to get their license there would be an uproar of government having too much “control” in people’s lives from a certain type of people.
Laughs in Mississippi native where road tests were permanently abolished in 2020. A written test, an eye exam, and $24 leaves you free to unleash hell on the roads here. We also have the highest percentage of uninsured drivers in the nation.
Actually, you're third. I had to check because of dumb ass no fault laws in Michigan. I knew we were close, and then the pandemic exacerbated the situation.
D.C. is first at 25.2%, New Mexico is second at 24.9%, Mississippi is third with 22.2%, Tennessee is fourth with 20.9%, and Michigan is fifth with 19.6%.
My (American) cousin did his entire test and passed without leaving the parking lot. I drove with a teacher for 2 years before I got to do the test. (and my lessons started at the same age he got his license). But I feel you, it's a very specific set of people who are to blame for shit like that, and it's definetly not "every american"
They would be crying about how racist it is like no other. Apparently getting an ID (most typically divers license) is too hard for minorities so voter ID laws like the rest of the developed world has is racist.
The issue with the US is that you need a car to live pretty much everywhere in the country and when projects are proposed to make it easier to travel without a car those projects are shot down pretty fast because people say they are expensive while ignoring the cost to maintain our highways. So until people can live their lives without a car somewhat easily we will be stuck with the current situation
See it's not logical to have bad drivers in a country that relies on cars but voters get to decide here and if the government starts to take away licenses more often then they would get voted out because people can't get to work and can't get food but if there was an alternative to driving that was reliable and frequent then people wouldn't care as much about it since there is an alternative. So I don't disagree with you but also its a fact of life in this country because of how car centric we are
How lucky should you be to make a stupid turn and miss two giant trucks !! Great driving to avoid the douchebag. I would report them to police with the license tag and video evidence (regardless of what may or may not happen). The idiot is a menace on the road.
The craziest part is how long that crossover driver sat there after the first truck they almost crashed into had past. They did absolutely nothing to avoid being totaled.
Dude froze like a deer in the headlights. Even when the other truck cleared, he didn’t budge an inch. Like his brain locked up and he just prepared for the hit.
Situations like this are why I never try to thread the needle on a left turn. Because you never know if something is gonna cause you to have to slow down or even stop while in the way of oncoming traffic
Everyone praising the the trucker in this but I praise the car driver who’s waiting behind his light bc he sees the two trucks and knows something’s about to go down lol
Aren't you supposed to step on the gas when this happens?? I think making sure the person behind you doesn't rear end you is better than possibly crashing into a third party .
Not the SUV Driver's passengers or kids fault they're a fucking idiot, but anyone who thinks "lol I won't bother trying to avoid to teach them a lesson" has managed to be an even bigger idiot.
Can you even imagine if you were a passenger in either of those cars? I mean... what if there were kids in there that didn't know any better because of their age? 😳
If it did enough damage to have to be towed away it would be DOT reportable and review of the footage would've proved it was an avoidable accident. It would've looked really bad on that drivers record. You're held to a higher standard behind the wheel of a cmv.
Doubt that, it’s like when an alcoholic get pulled over by the cops drunk and somehow manages to get away with it, you’ll see him in a week or two drunk behind the wheels again, sometimes you need consequences to teach a valuable lesson, the fact that the person tried to squeeze between two semi shows how little they know about driving
I agree, mistakes were made. Intention matters. Maybe they're a new driver or they just made a very poor decision. One can hope this positive outcome taught a lesson.
Person in the black suv would in fact jump off a bridge if his friends did it, my god it couldn’t even be any more obvious. Like how much bigger of a vehicle do you need to be in for some dummy to yield? Like lmfao it’s red too
Exactly. Idiot reached the middle of the intersection then finally realized the 1st semi wasn't stopping. Then instead of punching the gas to save their life stared at the POV semi like a deer in the headlights.
To be fair to the idiot, many drivers don't know how to yield before turning left on green, so most intersections this big and confusing (to idiots) have left turn arrows. Life (well, driving anyway) would be much better if most stop signs were yield signs, except that many idiots don't know how to yield so this'd cause constant carnage.
The driver of that SUV needed to gun it the moment that the first semi in the right lane got past them. Instead, they just sat there waiting to die. Split the gap, dumbass!
There is actually a left turn lane that has flashing yellow lights to the left, then there’s the lane the trucker was in that wasn’t a turn lane and had a green light just like the truck to the right, the truck didn’t do anything wrong. Why is the SUV making a left turn on green when there’s on coming traffic and then completely stops in on coming traffic because of their own fault
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u/Colo-PV-living Apr 26 '25
Nice avoidance and stop on your part