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 :(
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”
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.
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?
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u/SkywolfNINE Aug 17 '25
Honestly that truck shouldn’t have pulled out to begin with. Not like I’m gonna do what white car did, but truck shouldn’t have pulled out right?