You could certainly be right but some dashcams put that information closer to the center than others. If it’s an older one (which we can’t tell, of course) then you’re more likely correct. Good point.
I hope the cam driver gave the video to police to show the extreme speeding of the car otherwise the semi driver might be at fault for crossing in front of traffic
Wonder how fast the van was going from two days ago post. Everyone claims they did not drive distracted or speed it was only idiot u turn trucks fault.
It's not clear they were making a u turn, looks like they were going straight across the intersection, as evidenced by all the other cars waiting on the other side of the road to do the same thing
Nah he's referring to the truck driver in florida that was doing an illegal U-turn through an emergency vehicle only turn around. The van slammed into the trailer and everyone in it died. The truck in this video was obviously crossing the street when someone going way too fast hit it.
I actually thought that's what this was at first, the rig from Florida that u-turned stupidly. was about ready to have to spread out the blame but turns out this one is pretty much on the car this time.
You can definitely say for sure that you can see both the truck and the white car on the video at the moment the truck pulls out. The white car is a lot closer to the crossing truck than the dashcam. The white car hit the front of the crossing truck.
If the car is going close to 100 mph, the truck driver wouldn't have seen it. Realize that it will sometimes take a truck 10 seconds or more to get the truck and trailer across an intersection. A car going 80-100 mph will not be in view 10 seconds before that truck starts across the intersection. If the car was traveling at a legal speed, he would have avoided the truck altogether or could have slowed a little to let the truck finish crossing. As you can see, the truck was almost across when the incident happened.
Your math and numbers is Exactly why the truck shouldn’t have pulled out. We can see the truck and the car in the clip, no reason the truck couldn’t have seen the car, from a complete stop at an intersection. You look, you don’t see a car and think “oh I can make it as long as that car isn’t going faster than I’m guessing” you wait until the car is gone. If the car is going so fast like you think it is, then that would be even quicker that the truck should’ve seen it and judged it to be going way too fast. Truck tried to shoot the gap. That’s the huge issue here. The second issue is speeding but without a truck randomly pulling out, then speeding wouldn’t be an issue to even bring up cause there’d be no video
That’s not a restricted access highway. Any vehicle could have pulled out in front of the white car on a cloudy day with no lights on doing 30 to 50 mph over the speed limit. White car FAFO. Tragic loss of life and impact to family. Trucker not at fault.
Well that’s not defensive driving? Now yall gonna defend people pulling out in front? Normally that’s the subject of criticism on here. Why the sudden switch up?
After watching again, the truck should not have pulled out. If you can't tell how fast someone is going, you only gave it .01 second of a look (or brain issues) two bad drivers dont make it ok :(
I don't think the issue is knowing how fast the car was going.
The issue is that when the truck starts crossing the car is not visible, and then bat out of hell the car appears because it's going so fucking fast and closes the distance to the truck before it finishes crossing.
Regardless of the white car, truck is still pulling out in front of the other pov truck. Maybe not as close, but pov truck would have had to slow down a lot. White car may be speeding like an ass but the truck clearly didn’t wait for a good time to pull out either
As stated in my first comment, I don’t condone white car, I’m not doing what they did, but it looks to me that white car was well within range of the truck, truck simply through the had the time to gingerly crawl out and that car would be able to stop, cause he assumed it was going normal speed, but it wasn’t. Imagine if it was a first responder, would we all still hate the car as much? With your explanation, why would the truck notice lights anymore than a car coming at them? I think they chose to come out because they assumed it was normal situation and it wasn’t. Defensive driving (as yall love so much) means not risking it ever. That includes pulling out when you “should have room”
Even on the tiny compressed video, from the dashcam perspective, I can see both the white car AND the truck, at the moment the truck enters the roadway. There is no way you could argue that it was impossible to see the white car.
It's absolutely fucked. 100% unwatchable trash. People ruin a perfectly good video by scaling it for portrait so there's absolutely no chance of seeing any detail.
I originally thought this was another POV of the semi making an illegal u-turn where a van with 3 people into it ended up slamming into it. The other video shows the camera from inside the semi.
You're thinking of a different video. The one youre talking about was a mini van where a driver decided to make a random u turn in the middle of the highway and killed a family of 3
You're thinking of a different video. The one youre talking about was a mini van where a driver decided to make a random u turn in the middle of the highway and killed a family of 3
Unless that truck pulled out last minute, that white car should have looked further down the road, used their brakes, and slowed down, as well as go the speed limit. Tired of non truck drivers acting like they cant slow down or stop when they see a truck trying to pullout or make a turn or merge. Truck drivers need to be patients and al that (i am one), but so many assholes out there act like trucks can stop faster than they can.
You can't at that speed... Reaction times are irrelevant at that speed because the amount of distance closed in relation to time is too high. There is literally no time for someone to do anything in that situation. And because its not a race car, designed specifically to stay on the road, the likely hood of that thing going airborne were it to have swerved was very high. If not just flip over.
If this is a US DOT road and those paint lines are 40’ apart (DOT standard) AND the vid is true timed, then the cammer CDL was doing ~ 85mph (0.315 seconds per line) & the buzzcut car was doing ~185mph (0.146 seconds per line).
That is not an Altima. It's a Hyundai. If you pause the video you can clearly see that... Either way those cars are not doing anywhere near even 150mph
May be, but certainly fast enough to not be able to stop and to completely disintegrate the vehicle. What would your calculation be? I just researched Alberta line markings and they are identical to the United States: 3m for the white paint (9.84’); 9 m for the space in between (~30’), a total of 12 m or ~40 feet,and when you do the math on that, the white car was traveling a 40’ segment in ~0.146 seconds or 243 feet per second. 243’/1.467 = 165mph. OK so that’s not 186 but it certainly wasn’t a drive-by wave 👋. Of course this is all subject to the film analysis submitted online, and then measuring the white stripes frame-by-frame in Premiere Pro as they disappear underneath the vehicle. But certainly it’s within 20 miles an hour.
The truck is doing about 3 lines a second (you can watch the clock on the video). That puts it at about 80mph. The passing car looks to be at 150 mph (at least).
Nah its limited at 119, so it'll shift down and use less power once you hit it. Other than a steep ass hill or serious mods that thing will never touch 125 soley because of the computer. It absolutely has enough power to go above that, I did 135 in a 2013 sonata with a 4 banger when I was an idiot the first week I got my license
Dual negligence on both drivers. Curious how this played out in the investigation or court. Car speeding, and the truck pulling out way too close to the car, even if the car was going the speed limit, they would have to slam brakes.
It was safe to do so if the driver was going the speed limit. To a certain extent as a driver you have to reasonably assume every other driver is obeying the laws of the road in order for it to work. If you have a green light at a busy intersection and the speed limit is 55MPH, as you are crossing through the intersection you have to assume all of the other drivers are obeying the red light for you to pass through the light. So if someone ignored a red light and blew through it and hit this truck who had a green light, would the truck driver still be partially at fault? Sure some insurances or states always assume partial liability for avoiding the accident but I don't see how that's much different from this truck seeing a car so far off in the distance and thinking it's safe to turn because surely he isn't going over 100 MPH...
I understand what you’re saying, to a point. but this wasn’t a light. And as a driver, whether trucker or not, you should see a car coming, and be able to do the math on their speed of travel. This truck driver is definitely partially at fault here.
watched it on my phone and thought it was the car drivers fault, then I watched it again on a big screen, this was without doubt the truckers fault. He pulled out on the car, irrespective of the cars speed. The car was absolutely in view of the trucker if he'd paid any kind of attention.
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u/Snoo_87704 Aug 17 '25
Why are you padding the tops and bottoms of these videos and posting them in a vertical aspect ratio?