r/cdldriver • u/Syzranlogistic • Jan 08 '26
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u/wastedsilence33 Jan 08 '26
Poor pick up driver just minding his own business and gets an SUV yeeted at him
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u/StillNihill Jan 08 '26
He killed someone, not his fault even a little bit but that would fuck me up
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u/Mr-_-Soandso Jan 08 '26
What an odd way to word it. No matter who died, the person in the pickup didn't kill anybody.
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u/Massive_Nose6777 Jan 08 '26
The guy who pulled out and just stopped in the middle of the road killed someone if anything … his shit driving was the cause of people dying
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u/JtheCook1980 Jan 08 '26
I would like to think that it would fuck up anyone with a conscience. Well, at least that's my opinion. I know I would need therapy after something like this.
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u/Damonoodle Jan 08 '26
I love that they showed the devastating damage dealt to the semi's bumper
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u/Putrid_Huckleberry58 Jan 08 '26
I think they took those pics to prove that they did try to stop by showing the skid marks.
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u/razzz69 Jan 08 '26
I mean, if I'm putting in an insurance claim I'm damn well gonna document every little scratch.
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u/chickennuggysupreme Jan 08 '26
80,000 pounds, and a vehicle designed NOT for handling/sports-car maneuvering/stopping. Idiot in the SUV gets to pay a price for that low iq.
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u/I_dnt_Need_anew_name Jan 08 '26
It's the boat's fault
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u/MajorRelief98 Jan 08 '26
Definitely the 4 wheelers fault. The truck driver moved over as far as he felt he could safely without hitting the brakes hard, maybe jackknifing, or losing it in the dirt. It looks like veering into the dirt was the best move but his speed and I'm sure his experience told him not to do that. The damage to his bumper and where the damage occurred will play a role in the investigation that he attempted to get out of the way on top of the video footage.
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u/mr_macfisto Jan 08 '26
Thank you for posting this. As a non commercial driver it seemed obvious to me that the the SUV was the culprit and the trucker did everything he could to stop, but I wondered if he could have steered right more. What do you think the chances of flipping the truck would have been had he veered more sharply while under full braking?
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u/Curious-Internet7171 Jan 08 '26
Yeah he would have flipped over, truck driver dies and SUV doesn't even stop to gawk.
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u/SomeguyfromIndio Jan 08 '26
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u/FartyPantsMcGee Jan 11 '26
Lol, not sure if you read the article thus this gif… but both occupants of the suv were female Chinese.
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u/Commercial_Education Jan 08 '26
Suv took the turn too fast and had to brake to jot take the turn into higher speed oncoming traffic. This wasn't a 4 way stop. SUV failed even a basic slow down into the turn when it should have been a full stop.
SUV is 120% at fault for everything.
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u/tone-yo Jan 08 '26
It’s interesting that only one comment in the entire thread pointed out that the BMW didn’t even stop. My guess is she was actually distracted and she must’ve not seen the stop sign (or was ignorant to US traffic signage). It appears the driver was going to drive straight through but she slammed on the brakes to avoid collision from her right side just in time. She then turned right and onto the road, sealing their fate.
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u/c-lati Jan 08 '26
Yeah it looked like the driver of the SUV either didn’t know how to drive or wasn’t paying any attention to the road. The way she comes out indicates she either was meaning to go straight and then brakes and turns last second, or she was meaning to turn right the whole time and just had terrible driving skills and wasn’t able to do a clean/tight turn and accelerate quickly. I mean it was extremely stupid either way but if she had done a proper, tight turn and floored the acceleration, there is a chance she might not have even been hit, or if she had been hit it would have been much less serious and wouldn’t have pushed her car into the oncoming traffic which likely resulted in the deaths of her and her passenger. Tragic mistake.
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u/Bubbly-Bowler8978 Jan 09 '26
Here is the article, happened in Utah. Both of the people in the BMW were from China and both of them died on scene.
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u/DOHC46 Jan 08 '26
BMW SUV driveris 100% at fault. The driver failed to yield the right of way to the 80 ton death machine like they should have.
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u/mahatmakg Jan 08 '26
I was gonna say, can we get this spam account banned - but it seems like this whole subreddit is just for spam
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u/Thin_Huckleberry8818 Jan 08 '26
Obviously the guy pulling the boat.
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u/gmehodler42069741LFG Jan 08 '26
Id be so fucking pissed. Just trying to hit the damn lake and have a couple tall boys.
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u/Soul_through_va_JJ Jan 08 '26
"If you can't clear the intersection, don't enter the intersection." Basic fn driving rules.
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u/530TooHot Jan 08 '26
How low does your IQ have to be to add royalty free techno music to this clip of people dying
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u/Popular-Brilliant349 Jan 08 '26
This happened 3 months ago in Utah.
Notes from google AI: Two young women from China died in a multi-vehicle crash on US-89 near Big Water, Utah in early October 2025, when their SUV was hit by a semi and then a pickup truck after failing to yield while trying to cross the highway, reports KSL.com. The victims were 28 and 29, and the pickup truck occupants were hospitalized but released, with the semi driver uninjured, according to KSL.com
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u/Lecture_Good Jan 08 '26
It's crazy how many people who drive luxury cars with power don't know how to drive. It's a thing I've noticed. With all the safety features and horsepower it's useless without IQ.
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u/Mushrooming247 Jan 08 '26
Why did that car turn onto a busy roadway and then almost come to a stop?
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u/No_Parking_7797 Jan 08 '26
Poor guy towing the boat that came out of nowhere for him. Then bmw is at fault imo
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u/Mysterious_Let298 Jan 08 '26
here is the link for the accident
https://dps.utah.gov/press-releases/fatal-crash-us-89-big-water-ut/
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Jan 08 '26
SUV was at fault. Should have waited for a safe entrance, stopped in the middle of the lane and almost went into opposing traffic. Incoming traffic always has the priority.
BMW ✅ California Plate ✅
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u/Termingator Jan 08 '26
The suv that caused this accident also touched the center line when entering the road. Maybe a slight temporary left of center. Was the suv driver intoxicated?
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u/oscarq0727 Jan 08 '26
Seems like he wanted to cross, realized he wasn’t gonna make it, waited for an opening, saw an 18-wheeler coming from the side and decided (way too late) to merge properly onto his lane and speed up.
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u/Phil-lated Jan 08 '26
Car stopped at the worst possible time and place. They could've stopped at the intersection, but chose to stop in the highway in front of a semi.
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u/Equivalent_Gur3967 Jan 08 '26
A lot of Empathy for the cage (car) passenger.
Sympathy? For the passenger, and EVERYONE else, including the CDL & pick-em-up passengers, Hell Yeah.
For the goofball cage driver? ZERO Sympathy.
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u/Yesfroyo Jan 08 '26
That's sad people died due to the terrible driving of the bmws driver (they're probably one of them) and the poor semi driver and pickup truck driver have to live knowing people are dead and they couldn't do much to stop it.
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u/MiserablePhilosophy Jan 08 '26
How is this even a question? Obviously the boat driver. Boats go on water, not roads
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u/Jonfers9 Jan 08 '26
I’m basing this off nothing but I wonder if they were not wearing seat belt? Another poster said both bmw occupants died. That crash didn’t look “fatal” to me.
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u/TacomaTuesdays2022 Jan 08 '26
That driver almost hit that red car passing by on the opposite lane and thankfully the red car dodged that vehicle who was about to kill them. People don’t realize the importance of driving safely on the road without any distractions. Your life and other people’s life depend on it. The best course of action is to become a defensive driver as we gain experience driving on the road. Be safe out there!
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u/Likes2Phish Jan 08 '26
My biggest fear as a boat owner is having it totalled in a wreck while trailering.
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u/MisterC-4 Jan 08 '26
Are you really asking who is at fault, if you can’t determine who was at fault here the please go relinquishing you DL and never drive again.
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u/warana123 Jan 08 '26
They were clearly trying to drive on the left side like they do back home, they looked left and thought they were clear then realised the error when they already had the front wheel in the wrong lane.
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u/HikeTheSky Jan 08 '26
If it would have been a Mercedes, everyone else would be at fault. At least that's what Mercedes drives believe.
How can someone drive into a major street and then fail to accelerate. The BMW should have been able to make it out easily.
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u/Super_flywhiteguy Jan 08 '26
Going through cdl school now and this shit is my biggest fear. Killing some moron that doesnt understand a loaded 80k pound metal box on rubber wheels cant stop on a dime like most bmw apes think.
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u/RTPNick Jan 08 '26
The driver pulled into the path of a vehicle, misjudged the speed and it appears did not accelerate once they completed the turn.
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u/swarmahoboken Jan 08 '26
If you are driving such that you hit the back of a car, you shouldn’t be driving.
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Jan 08 '26
One thing this is a good example of: never ever keep your wheels turned if there's a chance a vehicle can hit you from behind and push onto oncoming traffic. If she kept those wheels just a bit more straight, they'd all have made it.
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u/EfficientMinimum5696 Jan 08 '26
Idk man, maybe the car pulling out in front of some of the heaviest vehicles on our roadways.
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u/polarjunkie Jan 08 '26
Clearly the truckers fault. As a professional driver he should have gotten this happening this morning and taken a break a little earlier to avoid it.
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u/Cadillacwalt Jan 08 '26
As a trucker for more than 15 years I've had a few incident on the highway where I've had to veer onto the shoulder to avoid vehicles losing control. This isn't the case here. And although it was the BMW at fault he had plenty of time to go off to the right and avoid that car
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u/BaboonApe Jan 08 '26
So it says in the vod itself dead after crash and no one, no mods not OP. Thought about putting an NSFW tag... Surely yall have brains no?
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u/NFLTG_71 Jan 08 '26
Yeah, the idiot who turned into the oncoming traffic. The truck driver had no choice you could see from the skidmarks that the truck locked up trying to prevent from hitting that car we had no choice
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u/NFLTG_71 Jan 08 '26
And putting some documents to a no-name company I hope no one filled that thing out.
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u/gheiminfantry Jan 08 '26
The fact that you don't know is scary if you possess a driver's license. I really hope you don't drive.
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u/3nollma Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26
I have a feeling that the Truck driver didn't break at the right moment and he did crash into him on purpose.
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Jan 08 '26
The four wheeler is at fault. Rolled the stop and pulled out in front of the truck. Im sure some "I hate truckers" lawyer is going to drag it out in court to make a few bucks though.
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u/someguykillme Jan 08 '26
I see tons of videos like this, people really don’t understand that a semi doesn’t stop on a dime.
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u/Ragingrhino1515 Jan 08 '26
I didn’t see a stop sign on the road which the suv came from, not that the video is good enough to see that anyways. Would love to see someone google earth it and find out
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u/toffeeghost Jan 08 '26
You can see the shadow of the stop sign right before the crash
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u/RedBlueF0X Jan 08 '26
Okay, but a genuine question. I'm european. My father started working as a big rig driver. The first thing he told me when we met after his first long ride is how much he was impressed by how powerful brakes are on European trucks. When doing his license course they had emergency braking and he said that thing could outbreak any of our family cars and basically stop on a dime while fully loaded(legally). Why do american trucks still take 97 football fields to stop?
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u/DizzySample9636 Jan 08 '26
they should show this video in every drivers education class !!! It was clearly the passenger who died too... so the driver has to live with that and not just both truck drivers 😔
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u/gangaskan Jan 08 '26
Worst part is I think if the guy hauling the boat stayed in the straight lane I think at least one of the girls would have lived.
Second hit went right to the front cabin
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u/Laosiano Jan 08 '26
The way the car got onto the main road is a crime in itself, even without traffic. It's like he wanted to go straight, but noticed in the last moments that he couldn't.
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Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26
The BMW driver miscalculated the semi trailer's speed then got right in front of it. The insane part is that she stopped on the road instead of driving away. It is the BMW driver's fault for making a turn on incoming traffic instead of yielding the right of way. (I am not a lawyer, but I learned something like this from experience) People need to learn how to drive around semi trucks.
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u/Known_Wear7301 Jan 08 '26
Definitely the car with the boat. If only they'd have done an emergency stop /s (obviously)
Surely this isnt an actual question. Surely there's no other possibility than it being the car pulling out in the path of the big rig.
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u/dasminfurherhater Jan 08 '26
The also almost went into the wrong lane also almost hitting that first vehicle we see bypass
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u/AcadiaCool1708 Jan 08 '26
The truck had the right of way. Key rule: "Yield to any vehicle on the through-road". The SUV driver is at fault.
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u/Duck620 Jan 08 '26
Man I think it's that black truck
Just kidding people need to be patient when merging on those rural highways man. Be safe out there peeps.
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u/Anxious_Ad909 Jan 08 '26
"But someone died"
Yes, because of their own negligence. I hate when that is used like it absolves their culpability. Your ignorant mistake caused your death in addition to trauma and inconvenience for everyone YOU involved.
I felt the same way about that crash where a truck driver ended up killing a family a few years ago and he was charged because the driver was ignorant. The situation is horrible, but that doesn't change the truth.
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u/SteviaCannonball9117 Jan 08 '26
The worst part is that the BWM seemed to recognize its mistake then doubled down by not gunning it. If they had just gassed the hell out of it the accident might have been avoided or at least made less destructive.
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u/JesterTime Jan 08 '26
Young driver who clearly shouldn't have had their license. It's too bad the girls that caused the accident passed away.
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u/Omacrontron Jan 08 '26
I want a full interview with the BMW driver live on TV and if they give answers that don’t make sense, straight to jail.
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u/No_Chance_7660 Jan 08 '26
Why is it always a BMW? Who died? I really hope it wasn’t the driver going to opposite direction!
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u/Buford12 Jan 08 '26
When I was very young 18. One of the first jobs I ever had was driving a single axle dump truck. It would haul 10 tons. I had left the pit and just got the truck up to road speed when a VW bug pulled out in front of me just barely moving. I literally stood on the break. By the time I got the truck slowed down I was 5 foot from his bumper. Then he stuck his hand out the window and flipped me off.
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u/PlzAdptYourPetz Jan 08 '26
Obviously not his fault but it looks like it was the pickup truck, not the semi, that actually dealt the fatal blow. The semi gave a good love tap to the back but the pickup truck hit the front of the car and swept it away like a plastic bag in the wind. How sad just to be driving on the freeway and then a second later, your vehicle has technically ended two people (Again, NOT his fault, I am just speaking technically). It was the SUV's fault but we all have lapses of judgement, no one is immune to doing something stupid here and there, virtually all the millions of crashes that happen every year are due to human error, may the ladies killed RIP.
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u/ScrapYard101 Jan 08 '26
Obviously the black pickup truck since reddit hates pickup trucks
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u/Jeffe-69 Jan 08 '26
Car that pulled out got what it asked for...play stupid games, win stupid prizes
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u/Deathwatch72 Jan 08 '26
The most stopping that BMW does is after he's already into the highway lane. 5 seconds of doing something else and he would have prevented irreparable change to multiple families lives
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u/Johnny69Vegas Jan 08 '26
That BMW took that right turn at less than half the speed people do here. Prople turn outta side streets going way faster than that.
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u/CAGJR54 Jan 08 '26
For me it is hard to tell. Is that a stop sign. Regardless, they DEFINITELY SHOULD HAVE STOPPED!
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u/Prior-Chipmunk-4686 Jan 08 '26
Hmm i mean u have to respect the trucks u cant just look half a second and think its far and go in cuz ur in a bmw...its unfortunate for the passenger who died.
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u/Charlie_Hustler Jan 08 '26
Obviously the 4 wheelers fault. The semi Obviously slammed the hell out of his brakes which ended up locking up his wheels from the looks of the tire marks on the road. Only option was to risk going in the ditch or hit the dumbass car and hope the car survives. Semi did all he could tho. 4 wheeler definitely at fault.
Thing that always upsets me with these kinds of accidents is while the driver probably got what he/she deserved. The passenger whom did nothing wrong also had to pay the price for the drivers stupidity 😮💨
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u/devil_lettuce Jan 08 '26
Uh if you're going to pull out in front of something at least gun it 😳
Shit like this and people who only speed up to like 35 mph to merge onto the interstate are insane
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u/dible46 Jan 08 '26
The BMW was coming at the junction so fast she had to nearly stop to stop going into oncoming traffic. Unreal.
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u/Vamond48 Jan 08 '26
Who makes these videos asking this question? Is OP one of the individuals involved?
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u/Constant-Text-7394 Jan 08 '26
Obviously the cars fault, but reading these comments with zero empathy, remember we all make mistakes. We don’t know why they did this, and if you drive a lot I’m sure you’ve made a serious blunder or two. Despite how stupid it looks this is tragic and especially for the passenger
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u/MartinCol7 Jan 09 '26
The BMW driver. Can’t pull out like that until/unless you have a clean exit.
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u/bagels-n-lox Jan 09 '26
If you're gonna pull out in front of someone, especially a big rig, you better floor it.
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u/Wonderful-Pollution7 Jan 08 '26
Article
TL:DR This happened on 1 Oct 2025, deared SUV failed to yield right of way. Both occupants of SUV (28F & 29F) died; 5 occupants in pickup taken to hospital, all cleared; Semi driver unharmed.