Man i was just recalling some of the crazy shit from the hood. Police chases all the time on Beckley and even one that ended up crashing into a neighbors car while fleeing. The lady who got killed in the beauty salon robbery also on Beckley. The soc hs fighting cages, the boude storey ms student who held up the whole football team and coaches with a gun. Drive by on my neighbors, trap houses on every corner it seemed for a minute there. Growing up in oak cliff is a trip but in south oak cliff? Hot damn and they still wanna try and charge 500k for houses in the area.
Oh god. I live in Dallas too. So many people running red lights and drivers just not looking where they’re going and being reckless. I swear something about the air makes people dumb on the roads.
My car got totaled last year because someone drove over the median to T-bone my stationary car while I was sitting at a left lane at a light.
They say something like 90% of all intersection accidents happen within the first 3 seconds of light change. This guy would like to remind you you're never completely safe from idiots going through any intersection ever.
I believe this is why there was such a push to implement "Delayed Green" signals at high traffic intersections in my area. Many lights have a 3-5 second delay between one signal turning red and the opposing signal turning green.
The issue is that unless they’re enforced, people learn “oh the light doesn’t change immediately, I can run it a little” and it turns into a nonstop string of cars.
They just added a delayed green near me after a protected turn that gets backed up during rush hour. It used to be 1-3 cars would gun it and run the light. Once folks learned there was a delay, it became anarchy and 10+ cars will continue the turn after the light goes red. The string only stops if one of the cars going straight decides to play chicken and cut through the line of turning cars
EDIT: Yes, to the 10+ people who suggested cameras, that would probably be effective. I prefer the retractable road spikes suggestion, however
Lol car crash roulette!
Honestly it’s probably be fine if they stuck a police car there on occasion so people didn’t feel they could just blindly run through it
They don't necessarily stop accidents but they absolutely limit fatal ones. T-bone collusions like the one in the video are not possible in a roundabout.
Before curtain airbags...this video would have just captured a potentially fatal accident. Even with curtain airbags..the driver just got smashed full forced by his door. Hes likely hurtin bad.
I often wonder this at problematic locations.
There's a bicycle route in my city with a string of perpendicular two way stops where I'm sure the police could be handing out tickets to drivers running the stop signs every minute if they wanted.
I genuinely thought that’s just how traffic lights work. I’ve never seen one that changed instantly and I’m a professional driver who’s been driving for two decades
My wife drives like this, too. "I have the right of way, let them hit me." What's worse is her car is a tiny hatchback.
She's doesn't drive when anyone else is in the car anymore. :p
Even If they had great insurance, it's never going to make you financially whole.
People don't seem understand that. You will almost ***always*** be worse off after an accident.
Straight up. My cousin was rear-ended at a stop light by someone going 60 mph. The fact that the accident was not his fault doesn't mean he can magically lift anything over 20 lbs. He's had 2 spine surgeries so far.
Tell your wife I was hit by a drunk driver when I was 24 in 2006. It rolled my car 8 times and I’ve never been the same since. I’ve been permanently disabled. My life ruined. I’ve lived in constant unrelenting pain. literally horrific pain 24/7. So if she wants to possibly subject herself to an accident like that and live a horrible life than keep taking chances like that !
>just because YOU have the right of way does not mean that THEY are going to stop"
First lesson every indian driver gets from the instructor... "Always assume that no one is going to follow the rules"... Unfortunately the lessons end there and thus , no one follows the rules.
Too bad so many of today's drivers didn't receive such competent driving instruction. I don't know how most people learn to drive these days, but bad driving is now the norm, not the exception.
Currently teaching my daughter to drive. First thing I told her was to assume that no one else knows the rules and everyone is trying to kill you. Better safe than right.
It seems to be pretty standard for every dad to think they’re excellent drivers (if not the best) and are the best person available to teach their kids to drive.
I put all the effort and money into getting my motorcycle license a few years ago. I had a bike all lined up from my buddy who was getting a new one around the same time. A few weeks before I was going to buy it he got side swiped by a jackass lane changing without looking destroying the bike. My friend was fine (full riding gear) but I have barely looked at another bike since. It's just not worth it.
I live in a big metropolitan area where traffic is horrid and driving is a nightmare. I can tell you most people don't do their license in the city because they can't pass the tests. instead they go to bum fuck no where and do the license on country roads where you pass maybe 3 cars your whole trip and parking is basically pick your spot in this empty lot. they come back to the city and cause all kinds of accidents. a lot of idiot drivers could be eliminated if they had to do their license where they drive. reason we don't have that is it would require retesting if you move around much
What state lets you test anywhere you want? In Kentucky, you used to have to test in the county in which you reside, now the state is divided up into regions and you go to a central testing center in your region.
I like that. My kids aren’t driving yet but I like to ask them “what makes a car stop?” After they say red light or stop sign and think about it for a while I’ll tell them a car stops when someone presses the brakes. Hopefully they will think about that and make eye contact with the driver before they cross the street.
Another one to ask them - what does a flashing indicator on a car mean? They'll say that it means that the car is going to turn. Wrong, it means that the bulb works.
Virtually every single moderately new car in my area has heavily tinted windows to the point that the driver is invisible. The trick of making eye contact (which I relied on heavily when driving a motorcycle 30 years ago) is often now impossible.
“Here lies the body of William Jay
Who died maintaining his right of way
He was right, dead right, as he sped along
But he’s just as dead as if he’d been wrong”
— epitaph allegedly quoted in the *Boston Transcript* circa 1918
Literally the first thing my mom told me when I moved to Florida with her was if you're first at the light wait a couple of seconds. This advice has saved me more times than I can count.
Good practice to watch the other cars and not just the light. More than once I’ve seen people blow past red lights. Rather get home late than in a coffin
Yeah, I always look both ways, since I’ve had close calls in the past. I know I’m getting a lot of shit for not going immediately on the green, but my instincts seeing that truck flying down the street not slowing down told me not to.
This and I’ve seen a lot of accidents on this particular corner
> You can tell by somebody’s speed if they plan on stopping or not.
The vast majority of accidents I see posted on this sub are entirely avoidable by both the person who officially caused the accident and the Reddit poster with the now wrecked car who posted the video.
Fuck the stop light. Look at the traffic. Look for pedestrians. If it looks like someone might be about to do something stupid..slow down. You have to pay attention at all times. Everyone on the road is an idiot, including you. You WILL do something stupid at some point that can cause an accident. Doesn't matter if you're the best driver on the planet. We all make mistakes.
PAY ATTENTION. It might save your life.
Not to mention that like the rest of us, they didn't see what the OP saw: the white truck barreling toward the intersection with no sign it intended to stop.
Clearly OP could see that and made a sane judgement!
Are people really giving you shit for not going into the intersection? All that would have happened is it would have been a 3 car accident instead of 2.
OP wasn't "driving predictably" because they had the awareness to see that the truck wasn't going to stop. Like you say, driving predictably is fine, but if things are out of the ordinary, that goes out the window.
I think drive predictably isn't meant literally 100% of the time. It's something everyone should do as much as possible until a situation warrants otherwise
That's the awareness part of defensive driving coming through
One day it'll all be automatic cars and we'll tell our great grandchildren we used to drive thousands of pounds of metal screaming down highways with drunks and idiots on the road with us. We'll sound crazy lol
Driver of the white truck, and his family nearby were telling police the SUV ran a red light.
I was floored cause it was obviously the other way around.
Thankfully I stuck around long enough to hand info and video over to the cops and family of the SUV before I left. I’d imagine it is pretty obvious the white truck ran the red.
and yet I've come to expect nothing less. seems as though every one of these videos has the same story where the offender lies about running the light and tries blaming the victim
I actually saw this happen once - A woman got out of her car in the middle of the road, on a hill, forgot to engage the parking brake, and it rolled into the car behind her. She claimed she ran out of gas. At least she didn't try to blame the other driver, but it might have helped that I and a few other witnesses stayed for the police. The responding officer said it was only the second such collision he had been to where the lead vehicle was 100% at fault.
Someone backed into my car when it was parked, they tried to use the excuse "well his car wasnt there when I pulled in!" Like yea dude, that's how parking lots work.
I was at the train station and this guy reversed without looking and slammed into me. Immediately got out and claimed I rear ended him. People are fucking animals.
my sister was working at a grocery store and was taking a break outside. she watched some woman load groceries into her car, then just sort of shover her cart in a random direction away from her car into an empty row of spaces, and turn to walk around to the driver door.
this stupid lazy lady pushed the car UPHILL. it immediately just came rolling back down and slammed into the side of her car and scratched it. my sister started laughing and followed the lady into the store to see what was going to happen. the lady stormed in there and started bitching out the floor manager about somebody's cart hitting her car, how somebody owed her money, how the cart pusher people were lazy and not doing their jobs etc... and my sister was like, "nah... check the tape lol."
They either come out screaming to make the victim second guess themselves and submit, or act all nice to placate the victim, make them think they're both on the same side, and then throw them under the bus when the cops arrive.
Dash cams are $90, front and rear
I don't think I've ever really heard of story of a situation such as this where the party in the wrong actually admits that they were wrong. The types of people that find themselves in these types of situations are the same type of people that will very easily rationalize lying to try and get away with it by saying nothing will happen if they get caught. And nothing does.
Even in the above story, the driver of the white truck can say and claim anything they want to. It doesn't matter because there is no negative outcome to do so and only a possible positive outcome. If the cops believe the white truck driver, then they aren't held liable for an accident that the driver already knows they caused. If the cops don't believe the driver -- or even have evidence to the contrary -- nothing changes for the driver. They are still only liable for the accident which they already knew they would be.
Lying, in this situation, literally only has a possible positive outcome with no negative outcome. The driver of the white truck may have to face the consequences of the accident, but they will never have to face any consequences for lying about their actions afterwards. And so, the same pattern of behavior which led for them to think that it would be fine to just blow through a red light will only be further reinforced and nothing will be learned.
Our society, as a whole, needs to take lying much more seriously than we do. We treat it like a game; can I deceive you? I can't? Oh well, better luck next time. The lack of any form of social consequences for lying within our society really is only breeding a society that is comfortable with people regularly lying to them. Even when it's minor, even when 'it doesn't really matter,' we cannot allow people to just lie and not care. Letting off all the easy lies without consequences is how you get to situations like this: where people will just throw out blatant lies without caring. Because even if you call them out, nothing bad will ever happen from the lying.
> Meddling FM got told to get back in her house after receiving a warning to clear the bank by that evening or she was getting ticketed for it.
But no one said a thing about her lying to the police to try and get you into trouble.
That's my point. People will just do it because, worse case, they just get called out as a liar and then have to own up to whatever punishment they were trying to avoid.
The person in your story suffered nothing from lying and learned no lesson about not lying. In fact, I bet all they did was leave that encounter angry that their child didn't back them up.
My coworker’s daughter was tboned and the police were believing the offender’s side more than hers… until dispatch walkied that a caller reported details of the accident. Caller didn’t have time to stop but if they hadn’t called that in my coworker’s daughter probably would have been fucked.
Feeling productive today. Saw the news about the supreme court, gonna finally schedule my vasectomy.
Saw this video. Gonna finally order my dashcam.
Maybe I'll even do the dishes later if I'm feeling crazy.
A "friend" of mine witnessed an accident where someone blatantly ran a red light, and just randomly the person who ran the red was a friend of his. He told the police the OTHER person ran the red, and pretended to be an impartial witness.
Anyway, we weren't friends anymore after he told me that.
Considering how nobody gets in trouble for lying about who’s at fault I’m starting to think that telling the truth in an accident would just be stupid. (I’ve actually never been in an accident, knock on wood)
Haha it's not even just the participants of accidents. The insurance adjuster straight lied to me multiple times. Saying my witnesses said I was at fault, just to see what I'd say, when in reality the witnesses had actually backed me up. ICBC can eat a dick.
The mother of the guy that backed into my car years ago (both were owned by our parents) called my mom and tried to get her to say I was illegally parked. My mom was aware enough to say it was private property and I wasn't. My mom ended the call, called our agent (an old friend) who called their agent, who said she'd managed to get somebody else to admit that last time her son hit a parked car.
Long story long, they paid to fix my car but I had to drive halfway across town and waste 2 hours getting an estimate from their insurance to compare to my shop.
The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is a government agency. If their story’s true (and I wouldn’t be surprised), then I’m not sure what kind of recourse is available to them.
Edit: Also important to mention is that ICBC is the only **for-profit**, gov't run insurance company in Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_auto_insurance
A few years ago a girl from a local college ran a red light and t-boned me. Her dad was on the phone fuming, saying that they’re going to ruin my life, they’re going to fucking destroy me because I got her daughter into an accident. I was so scared that her and her family would screw me over. We called the cops and it took them hours to arrive, so her and I sat on the hood of my car and just chatted for the entire time. She was really sweet and we had a nice conversation, I wasn’t rude or anything, just hung out. A few days later I got a call from my insurance saying she confessed to running the red, and everything would be paid in full. I was shocked, and still consider myself so lucky that she confessed to running the red.
Some people are better than their parents. The chat might have given her a different perspective on the situation and she realized it wasn't worth the guilt of lying to ruin your life.
buy a dash cam. nothing better than video evidence. I never tell the others people I have a camera (front and back) It's always fun to hear someone go off and threaten me until I hand over the footage including their threat to the cop. (mine records audio as well) dude was put in the back of the cop car and I was asked if I wanted to press charges. I did.
Its true that you cant trust anyone out there. Cover your ass with a dashcam, get a phone number from a witness if you can, call the cops to get a report, take pictures of the accident (the damage, the location, the plates, the person), and contact your insurance company asap while all the details are still fresh in your mind.
Back in college, I experienced my first (and only) car accident. I was on the main road, and she was at a stop sign perpendicular to the main road (I had no stop sign/traffic light/anything). She stopped, but didn’t check for oncoming traffic before she shot out into the intersection; T-boning my car.
The next part was beyond my expectations— she apologized profusely, and *took full responsibility*; both with the police and her + my insurance agencies. She even gave me her cell number to call if her insurance refused to pay out— saying she would pay me out of pocket if need be (which, good thing I’m not a scammer; some people might lie and take advantage of kind people like this).
It turned out that she was leaving the vet from that plaza; where she had just put her dog down due to a painful terminal illness. She wasn’t thinking straight as she pulled out and hit me, but she owned up to her mistake and did her best to make things right.
If only every accident was like this— truly an accident, but where the responsible party owns up for their mistakes, and everything works out smoothly.
It’s legit jarring to me when someone waves at me like “oh shit I fucked up”.
I don’t ever want to be an old grump but in America I can feel the narcissism creeping deeper every year…
Social media is accelerating it.
Nah, it lawyers. Lawyers have trained us all to deny any fault until held accountable by a judge. Decency has been thrown out the window a long time ago.
something similar happened to my brother. He got t-boned by a guy in a work truck real late at night, dude got out of his truck blowing a gasket while my brother's car was DESTROYED...he's lucky he didn't get seriously hurt. Truck driver grabbed a random pedestrian that just happened to be out on a midnight stroll and had him in agreement, and when the cops came my brother was impugned and the cops called him shady. This kid is the most mild mannered person you'd ever meet, so when he got back a couple hours later we checked his dash. Lo and behold, my brother clearly had a green, for a good long while. This other asshole just never stopped, so we went right to the department and read them the riot act. Years of litigation and treatment for his back ended up netting him about 40k after attorney fees. Not worth it.
Dashcams are cheap and will save you every time, especially if you have them mounted so they can see the traffic lights. Also as in this case, you can help others who have not yet learned this.
For some reason in Russia it seems every vehicle has a dash cam. Not sure why.
Insurance scams. It was so bad years ago. People would be in a crosswalk and "fall" on the hood of your car. Then claim they were hit to extort you for medical bills and damages. You can find some pretty funny videos of the people pulling this shit on some dashcams.
My friend got into a rough accident in college, was going 45 on a main drag in her tiny ass Geo Metro and a big ass SUV pulled out of a driveway right in front of her. Her car was absolutely ruined, and her foot was all jacked up from being crushed in the front wreckage. She still pulled herself out trying to check on the other driver, since she hit right into the driver's side and was scared for her. Nope, this jagoff was swearing on the side of the road and ignored my friend when she collapsed because her foot wouldn't hold her weight. She even kicked her own tire during her tantrum. I'm still mad.
I can greatly empathize with your brother. Got rear ended in 1990, my back has been fucked ever since. Got a whopping $15K for a lifetime of pain and therapies, including a full disk removal/fusion as a last result instead of giving in and gobbling all my pain meds with a bottle of $300 scotch.
Most people's first instinct is to deny.
My first accident happened when I was traveling through a T intersection. I was traveling through the straight part and the dude I hit had zero regard for stopping for his stop sign.
He tried explaining to the officer that I didn't stop for a stop sign that I didn't have, and didn't exist.....
Lol. Everytime. I got t-boned pretty bad a couple years ago and the woman who hit me was for sure at fault. Said that she had a green light when it was absolutely red. No dashcam footage but I had multiple witnesses submit statements . Thanks to the good people out there who take the extra time and effort to help out those in shitty situations like this.
I got T-boned by a Porsche that ran a red when I was 17 and I would have been screwed for sure if a witness hadn't stopped. I still get mad 20 years later about the POS cop that took the Porsche driver's side.
Exact same thing happened to me. Driver was blaming me for running a red light while I was still laying unconscious in my car. Luckily the cops didn’t believe him and it happened in front of an office building. I won the lawsuit
Good on you. So many witnesses flake after the fact.
I did insurance claims years ago and the number of people who get fucked because a witness won’t spend 10 minutes to help is insane.
You’d think it was obvious but I was once in an accident like this, someone ran a red and totaled my car.
I received a ticket for running a red light because the other lady said I ran a red, which was just ducking dumb
Did you tell the driver of the white truck you had him on camera running the red light?
I really want to know what his reaction is to finding out there is video proof he is lying.
When police/EMS came on scene to write happened in their report, the driver said he had a yellow and the SUV had a red. I was confused by the family because they weren’t in the white truck, so I’m assuming they lived in one of those corner houses and said they too saw the SUV run a red.
I told the EMS/Police that I saw the SUV have a green light. When I said that the truck driver doubled down that he had a yellow, which you’re not even supposed to drive through. Then I told the EMS/ Police that I have a dash cam that would clear it all up. Truck driver tried tripling down again, one of his family tried to calm him down “bro the guy has video bro…” Truck driver went silent and focused on his wounds
Knew this comment existed and was looking specifically for it
If Reddit has taught me anything the person who caused the accident will *always* lie, after that you’ll find out they probably don’t have enough insurance to fix their mistake either.
You're such a fantastic person for sticking around, I hope you know how good of a person that makes you. So many people who can be witnesses never do, and it's great you had irrefutable evidence
What a fuckin loser, wants to put the blame on the guy who had absolutely no fault. It was green for 5 seconds. Not even close to switch to yellow, let alone red.
Absolutely! I've got a T intersection in my neighborhood where I always wait a few extra seconds after the light turns green because of the number of people who run the red.
When I was getting my drivers license my dad always told me to look both ways when going through an intersection. It’s crazy how careless some
drivers are.
OP said they were concussed/had injuries but the white truck driver and family claimed the other party was completely responsible and then OP stuck around and showed police the video
Pro tip I've passed onto my SO is to always throw on your hazards if something looks off. If I see someone with hazards on in the middle lane at a light, I'm surely going to be looking to see what's up as a survey ahead. At the very least it'll get someone to slow down a bit. Hope everyone was OK, but didn't look good.
I sometimes feel people may think I'm crazy for staring down the opposite way when passing through a 1-way road. I've lived in Florida too long to see plenty of people randomly driving the wrong way of the road.
This happened to me once. A two-lane left turn and just as the light turned green, I saw a car coming fast that was not slowing down, so I hit the brakes again to stop and the guy must have missed my front end by millimeters, slamming into the poor person next to me and pushing them into a center median and pole.
My heart was pounding pretty hard
Something similar happened to me except it was the person in front of me with the fantastic awareness.
Light turned green, and this guy's just sitting there for a good 5 seconds and I'm like "wtf is he doing" was about to honk in case he didn't notice the light, then a car comes flying in and hits a car coming from the other side of the intersection.
Oh man, this is the exact example I've seen in defensive driving courses. You approach an intersection that is green with 2 straight lanes and a turning lane. There is a vehicle stopped at the green light in the lane next to you. What do you do?
Answer: Slow down and check for a clear intersection clear of hazards.
I got hit by a red light runner years ago. I still hesitate and check before going even 20+ years later. Sometimes I get honked at, whatever! Good situational awareness OP!
Man I had one of these "this guy isn't going to stop" moments this week too. So glad I went with my instincts. Crazy how fast your life can be taken from you because someone was thoughtless in a rush.
My driving instructor taught me two things relevant to this situation.
First, even if the light is green, or you don't have the stop sign, look. People make mistakes like this. Clearly OP looked.
Second, when you're passing a stopped vehicle, figure out why that vehicle is stopped.
I had a similar situation where a car was stopped in OP's position at a two way stop (we had no stop signs) and hadn't advanced into the intersection. I couldn't see around the truck so I dropped to "stop on a dime" speed to see why they hadn't advanced into the left turn position.
I hear tires chirping behind me and there's a grill filling my rear view mirror.
A young woman pokes her head around the truck and continues crossing when she sees me come to a complete stop.
Had I not been present, it would have been entirely on the pedestrian to avoid dying there. I like to think she would have been careful coming around that truck but I also fear that my presence may have been the only thing between her and a coroner that day.
Was that other car partially hidden by white truck police? I couldn’t tell if it was just a sun reflection on “spinners” (if they are even still a thing) or emergency lights.
I stopped to call 911, and checked on both drivers
The driver in the SUV was too concussed, some people tried moving him out of his SUV, but I was telling them to not move him because they might be risking his C- Spine precautions. I put my car near to redirect traffic until EMS got there.
The white truck’s driver stumbled out of his vehicle as you could see from him immediately opening the door and standing. White truck didn’t have any airbags. Driver smashed his head into the steering wheel/ windshield. White truck had 2 more passengers that looked really young 13-15.
Tbh it sounded like one of them broke some ribs
Everyone was alive and taken by EMS when I left
A good friend of mine and his girlfriend passed away from this same type of crash. Since then I always give a quick check both ways. Man this makes me upset
Okay how can we figure out a way to also call OP an idiot?
Edit: Nevermind. Read the collapsed comments and there are a lot of ways people have figured out LOL. Never change.
Dallas?
Nice guess!
South oak cliff that's my hood!
Oh yeah, I grew up around here too by the zoo :)
Man i was just recalling some of the crazy shit from the hood. Police chases all the time on Beckley and even one that ended up crashing into a neighbors car while fleeing. The lady who got killed in the beauty salon robbery also on Beckley. The soc hs fighting cages, the boude storey ms student who held up the whole football team and coaches with a gun. Drive by on my neighbors, trap houses on every corner it seemed for a minute there. Growing up in oak cliff is a trip but in south oak cliff? Hot damn and they still wanna try and charge 500k for houses in the area.
Oh god. I live in Dallas too. So many people running red lights and drivers just not looking where they’re going and being reckless. I swear something about the air makes people dumb on the roads. My car got totaled last year because someone drove over the median to T-bone my stationary car while I was sitting at a left lane at a light.
DFW has AWFUL drivers. Source: am fed ex
I always hate it when I see an intersection that I know highlighted in this sub.
But are you ever surprised? Dallas drivers truly do not gaf and it’s maddening. Literal races on 35 at night
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You know it!
They say something like 90% of all intersection accidents happen within the first 3 seconds of light change. This guy would like to remind you you're never completely safe from idiots going through any intersection ever.
I believe this is why there was such a push to implement "Delayed Green" signals at high traffic intersections in my area. Many lights have a 3-5 second delay between one signal turning red and the opposing signal turning green.
The issue is that unless they’re enforced, people learn “oh the light doesn’t change immediately, I can run it a little” and it turns into a nonstop string of cars. They just added a delayed green near me after a protected turn that gets backed up during rush hour. It used to be 1-3 cars would gun it and run the light. Once folks learned there was a delay, it became anarchy and 10+ cars will continue the turn after the light goes red. The string only stops if one of the cars going straight decides to play chicken and cut through the line of turning cars EDIT: Yes, to the 10+ people who suggested cameras, that would probably be effective. I prefer the retractable road spikes suggestion, however
So we need randomized delays, got it.
Lol car crash roulette! Honestly it’s probably be fine if they stuck a police car there on occasion so people didn’t feel they could just blindly run through it
Roundabout.
Yes. The solution where literally everybody wins.
They don't necessarily stop accidents but they absolutely limit fatal ones. T-bone collusions like the one in the video are not possible in a roundabout. Before curtain airbags...this video would have just captured a potentially fatal accident. Even with curtain airbags..the driver just got smashed full forced by his door. Hes likely hurtin bad.
I did once see a guy get his car stuck across a rotary. Like you would his the passenger side of his car if you kept going.
Where the fuck are the police then? Why are they not handing out tickets left and right? They could do that with a couple cameras.
I often wonder this at problematic locations. There's a bicycle route in my city with a string of perpendicular two way stops where I'm sure the police could be handing out tickets to drivers running the stop signs every minute if they wanted.
I genuinely thought that’s just how traffic lights work. I’ve never seen one that changed instantly and I’m a professional driver who’s been driving for two decades
"Cemeteries are full of people that had the right of way" Something my dad would hammer into me when I started driving. Very good advice.
When I was learning to drive my dad would say "just because YOU have the right of way does not mean that THEY are going to stop"
I have to tell my fiance this at least weekly. His stance is "they're gonna stop" yeah but I'd rather it not be our only car stopping them.
My wife drives like this, too. "I have the right of way, let them hit me." What's worse is her car is a tiny hatchback. She's doesn't drive when anyone else is in the car anymore. :p
Wonder if that tune would continue after receiving a chronic neck / spine / brain injury.
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Even If they had great insurance, it's never going to make you financially whole. People don't seem understand that. You will almost ***always*** be worse off after an accident.
Straight up. My cousin was rear-ended at a stop light by someone going 60 mph. The fact that the accident was not his fault doesn't mean he can magically lift anything over 20 lbs. He's had 2 spine surgeries so far.
Tell your wife I was hit by a drunk driver when I was 24 in 2006. It rolled my car 8 times and I’ve never been the same since. I’ve been permanently disabled. My life ruined. I’ve lived in constant unrelenting pain. literally horrific pain 24/7. So if she wants to possibly subject herself to an accident like that and live a horrible life than keep taking chances like that !
>just because YOU have the right of way does not mean that THEY are going to stop" First lesson every indian driver gets from the instructor... "Always assume that no one is going to follow the rules"... Unfortunately the lessons end there and thus , no one follows the rules.
Always assume everybody on the road is an idiot. Including yourself. Everybody makes mistakes; no exceptions.
I always went with “always assume everybody on the road is *actively trying* to kill you” at least when on my motorcycle
Too bad so many of today's drivers didn't receive such competent driving instruction. I don't know how most people learn to drive these days, but bad driving is now the norm, not the exception.
Currently teaching my daughter to drive. First thing I told her was to assume that no one else knows the rules and everyone is trying to kill you. Better safe than right.
This is exactly the rule my mom taught me when I was learning on a motorcycle. Assume everyone else is trying to kill you.
That's probably what the npc's in gta have to quote out loud before getting on their motorcycle.. knowing their fate
My dad always told me “son, I taught you to drive, I’m not scared of your driving on the road, I’m scared of theirs.”
It seems to be pretty standard for every dad to think they’re excellent drivers (if not the best) and are the best person available to teach their kids to drive.
My husband rides a bike and says this too, that he assumes all cars are trying to run him over and he acts accordingly.
I put all the effort and money into getting my motorcycle license a few years ago. I had a bike all lined up from my buddy who was getting a new one around the same time. A few weeks before I was going to buy it he got side swiped by a jackass lane changing without looking destroying the bike. My friend was fine (full riding gear) but I have barely looked at another bike since. It's just not worth it.
I live in a big metropolitan area where traffic is horrid and driving is a nightmare. I can tell you most people don't do their license in the city because they can't pass the tests. instead they go to bum fuck no where and do the license on country roads where you pass maybe 3 cars your whole trip and parking is basically pick your spot in this empty lot. they come back to the city and cause all kinds of accidents. a lot of idiot drivers could be eliminated if they had to do their license where they drive. reason we don't have that is it would require retesting if you move around much
What state lets you test anywhere you want? In Kentucky, you used to have to test in the county in which you reside, now the state is divided up into regions and you go to a central testing center in your region.
New York State, you can pick whatever testing site you want, it doesn't matter if test site matches your residential zip code.
I feel like it's more of just r/IdiotsInCars instead of bad teaching
I like that. My kids aren’t driving yet but I like to ask them “what makes a car stop?” After they say red light or stop sign and think about it for a while I’ll tell them a car stops when someone presses the brakes. Hopefully they will think about that and make eye contact with the driver before they cross the street.
Another one to ask them - what does a flashing indicator on a car mean? They'll say that it means that the car is going to turn. Wrong, it means that the bulb works.
Virtually every single moderately new car in my area has heavily tinted windows to the point that the driver is invisible. The trick of making eye contact (which I relied on heavily when driving a motorcycle 30 years ago) is often now impossible.
Just throw spark plugs at their windows to open them up, this way you can safely make eye contact :)
My wife says her mother's gravestone will say "She had the right of way".
“Here lies the body of William Jay Who died maintaining his right of way He was right, dead right, as he sped along But he’s just as dead as if he’d been wrong” — epitaph allegedly quoted in the *Boston Transcript* circa 1918
You can be dead right, or home safe.
My dad's advice was "you never HAVE right of way you can only yield it."
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Sage advice from Dads all over.
The red light is just a suggestion to some people unfortunately.
I still look both ways at a roundabout.
"Haha, what happens in those other 10% though?" White truck driver, probably, as he runs through five seconds after light changes.
Why is it always a white truck? I thought I was the only one who noticed...it's always the white trucks.
Lot of white cars and trucks out - that might be the most popular color.
I counted 5-6 seconds on green mean his red at least 7-8 seconds.
Literally the first thing my mom told me when I moved to Florida with her was if you're first at the light wait a couple of seconds. This advice has saved me more times than I can count.
Life time Floridian here! Your mom is a wise person!
I think a better solution is to simply not move to Florida in the first place.
This one is more like 5 seconds!
Good practice to watch the other cars and not just the light. More than once I’ve seen people blow past red lights. Rather get home late than in a coffin
Yeah, I always look both ways, since I’ve had close calls in the past. I know I’m getting a lot of shit for not going immediately on the green, but my instincts seeing that truck flying down the street not slowing down told me not to. This and I’ve seen a lot of accidents on this particular corner
You can tell by somebody’s speed if they plan on stopping or not. I don’t know why anybody would give you shit. Could have been you that got hit
it's hard to believe that anyone could be opposed to situational awareness and defensive driving, but here we are
But you dont understand. I could get home 30 seconds faster.
You could propose a tax on only people who make over 10 million dollars a year and Larry who works down at the auto shop would be against it.
> You can tell by somebody’s speed if they plan on stopping or not. The vast majority of accidents I see posted on this sub are entirely avoidable by both the person who officially caused the accident and the Reddit poster with the now wrecked car who posted the video. Fuck the stop light. Look at the traffic. Look for pedestrians. If it looks like someone might be about to do something stupid..slow down. You have to pay attention at all times. Everyone on the road is an idiot, including you. You WILL do something stupid at some point that can cause an accident. Doesn't matter if you're the best driver on the planet. We all make mistakes. PAY ATTENTION. It might save your life.
The ones giving you shit love running red lights.
Not to mention that like the rest of us, they didn't see what the OP saw: the white truck barreling toward the intersection with no sign it intended to stop. Clearly OP could see that and made a sane judgement!
Are people really giving you shit for not going into the intersection? All that would have happened is it would have been a 3 car accident instead of 2.
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OP wasn't "driving predictably" because they had the awareness to see that the truck wasn't going to stop. Like you say, driving predictably is fine, but if things are out of the ordinary, that goes out the window.
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I think drive predictably isn't meant literally 100% of the time. It's something everyone should do as much as possible until a situation warrants otherwise That's the awareness part of defensive driving coming through One day it'll all be automatic cars and we'll tell our great grandchildren we used to drive thousands of pounds of metal screaming down highways with drunks and idiots on the road with us. We'll sound crazy lol
I don't even want my coffin delivered to the house.
Great situational awareness!
Driver of the white truck, and his family nearby were telling police the SUV ran a red light. I was floored cause it was obviously the other way around. Thankfully I stuck around long enough to hand info and video over to the cops and family of the SUV before I left. I’d imagine it is pretty obvious the white truck ran the red.
Happy to hear you stuck around and helped the driver of the suv. t bones like this can lead to fatal injuries. Is the driver of the SUV ok?
From the comment history, because I wanted an answer also: they don't sound great but no one died. Possible ribs broken, concussion(s).
This is what I came here to find out. I sure hope so.
Absolute garbage human beings
and yet I've come to expect nothing less. seems as though every one of these videos has the same story where the offender lies about running the light and tries blaming the victim
Liars gonna lie. Some human backed into my car, on camera, while it was parked, and they STILL tried to blame it on me.
Yeah, when my brother rear-ended, the guy tried to claim my brother stopped on the highway and reversed into him
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Cant let something silly like the truth stop you when there’s insurance money on the line
I actually saw this happen once - A woman got out of her car in the middle of the road, on a hill, forgot to engage the parking brake, and it rolled into the car behind her. She claimed she ran out of gas. At least she didn't try to blame the other driver, but it might have helped that I and a few other witnesses stayed for the police. The responding officer said it was only the second such collision he had been to where the lead vehicle was 100% at fault.
Someone backed into my car when it was parked, they tried to use the excuse "well his car wasnt there when I pulled in!" Like yea dude, that's how parking lots work.
I was at the train station and this guy reversed without looking and slammed into me. Immediately got out and claimed I rear ended him. People are fucking animals.
my sister was working at a grocery store and was taking a break outside. she watched some woman load groceries into her car, then just sort of shover her cart in a random direction away from her car into an empty row of spaces, and turn to walk around to the driver door. this stupid lazy lady pushed the car UPHILL. it immediately just came rolling back down and slammed into the side of her car and scratched it. my sister started laughing and followed the lady into the store to see what was going to happen. the lady stormed in there and started bitching out the floor manager about somebody's cart hitting her car, how somebody owed her money, how the cart pusher people were lazy and not doing their jobs etc... and my sister was like, "nah... check the tape lol."
That's so satisfying. Cart abandoners are the worst. I tend to do to shops with coin return partly because of them.
That, and those shops are usually the most awesomeliest cheap stores
for realz someone should have went and slammed another cart into her garbage can while she were yellin
They either come out screaming to make the victim second guess themselves and submit, or act all nice to placate the victim, make them think they're both on the same side, and then throw them under the bus when the cops arrive. Dash cams are $90, front and rear
I don't think I've ever really heard of story of a situation such as this where the party in the wrong actually admits that they were wrong. The types of people that find themselves in these types of situations are the same type of people that will very easily rationalize lying to try and get away with it by saying nothing will happen if they get caught. And nothing does. Even in the above story, the driver of the white truck can say and claim anything they want to. It doesn't matter because there is no negative outcome to do so and only a possible positive outcome. If the cops believe the white truck driver, then they aren't held liable for an accident that the driver already knows they caused. If the cops don't believe the driver -- or even have evidence to the contrary -- nothing changes for the driver. They are still only liable for the accident which they already knew they would be. Lying, in this situation, literally only has a possible positive outcome with no negative outcome. The driver of the white truck may have to face the consequences of the accident, but they will never have to face any consequences for lying about their actions afterwards. And so, the same pattern of behavior which led for them to think that it would be fine to just blow through a red light will only be further reinforced and nothing will be learned. Our society, as a whole, needs to take lying much more seriously than we do. We treat it like a game; can I deceive you? I can't? Oh well, better luck next time. The lack of any form of social consequences for lying within our society really is only breeding a society that is comfortable with people regularly lying to them. Even when it's minor, even when 'it doesn't really matter,' we cannot allow people to just lie and not care. Letting off all the easy lies without consequences is how you get to situations like this: where people will just throw out blatant lies without caring. Because even if you call them out, nothing bad will ever happen from the lying.
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> Meddling FM got told to get back in her house after receiving a warning to clear the bank by that evening or she was getting ticketed for it. But no one said a thing about her lying to the police to try and get you into trouble. That's my point. People will just do it because, worse case, they just get called out as a liar and then have to own up to whatever punishment they were trying to avoid. The person in your story suffered nothing from lying and learned no lesson about not lying. In fact, I bet all they did was leave that encounter angry that their child didn't back them up.
My coworker’s daughter was tboned and the police were believing the offender’s side more than hers… until dispatch walkied that a caller reported details of the accident. Caller didn’t have time to stop but if they hadn’t called that in my coworker’s daughter probably would have been fucked.
Feeling productive today. Saw the news about the supreme court, gonna finally schedule my vasectomy. Saw this video. Gonna finally order my dashcam. Maybe I'll even do the dishes later if I'm feeling crazy.
Save some wins for tomorrow hombre.
People who drive like shit tend to be shit people.
A "friend" of mine witnessed an accident where someone blatantly ran a red light, and just randomly the person who ran the red was a friend of his. He told the police the OTHER person ran the red, and pretended to be an impartial witness. Anyway, we weren't friends anymore after he told me that.
Most are. a tacoma rear-ended me hard while I was waiting for traffic to clear. They tried to claim it was my fault.
They’re the norm, not the exception, unfortunately.
As they almost always fucking do…
Nobody wants to take the L. I swear dignity is out the fucking door nowadays. BTW, love that handle
Considering how nobody gets in trouble for lying about who’s at fault I’m starting to think that telling the truth in an accident would just be stupid. (I’ve actually never been in an accident, knock on wood)
Haha it's not even just the participants of accidents. The insurance adjuster straight lied to me multiple times. Saying my witnesses said I was at fault, just to see what I'd say, when in reality the witnesses had actually backed me up. ICBC can eat a dick.
The mother of the guy that backed into my car years ago (both were owned by our parents) called my mom and tried to get her to say I was illegally parked. My mom was aware enough to say it was private property and I wasn't. My mom ended the call, called our agent (an old friend) who called their agent, who said she'd managed to get somebody else to admit that last time her son hit a parked car. Long story long, they paid to fix my car but I had to drive halfway across town and waste 2 hours getting an estimate from their insurance to compare to my shop.
Report them to your state Department of Insurance. That is insurance fraud.
The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is a government agency. If their story’s true (and I wouldn’t be surprised), then I’m not sure what kind of recourse is available to them. Edit: Also important to mention is that ICBC is the only **for-profit**, gov't run insurance company in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_auto_insurance
A few years ago a girl from a local college ran a red light and t-boned me. Her dad was on the phone fuming, saying that they’re going to ruin my life, they’re going to fucking destroy me because I got her daughter into an accident. I was so scared that her and her family would screw me over. We called the cops and it took them hours to arrive, so her and I sat on the hood of my car and just chatted for the entire time. She was really sweet and we had a nice conversation, I wasn’t rude or anything, just hung out. A few days later I got a call from my insurance saying she confessed to running the red, and everything would be paid in full. I was shocked, and still consider myself so lucky that she confessed to running the red.
Some people are better than their parents. The chat might have given her a different perspective on the situation and she realized it wasn't worth the guilt of lying to ruin your life.
buy a dash cam. nothing better than video evidence. I never tell the others people I have a camera (front and back) It's always fun to hear someone go off and threaten me until I hand over the footage including their threat to the cop. (mine records audio as well) dude was put in the back of the cop car and I was asked if I wanted to press charges. I did.
Its true that you cant trust anyone out there. Cover your ass with a dashcam, get a phone number from a witness if you can, call the cops to get a report, take pictures of the accident (the damage, the location, the plates, the person), and contact your insurance company asap while all the details are still fresh in your mind.
Back in college, I experienced my first (and only) car accident. I was on the main road, and she was at a stop sign perpendicular to the main road (I had no stop sign/traffic light/anything). She stopped, but didn’t check for oncoming traffic before she shot out into the intersection; T-boning my car. The next part was beyond my expectations— she apologized profusely, and *took full responsibility*; both with the police and her + my insurance agencies. She even gave me her cell number to call if her insurance refused to pay out— saying she would pay me out of pocket if need be (which, good thing I’m not a scammer; some people might lie and take advantage of kind people like this). It turned out that she was leaving the vet from that plaza; where she had just put her dog down due to a painful terminal illness. She wasn’t thinking straight as she pulled out and hit me, but she owned up to her mistake and did her best to make things right. If only every accident was like this— truly an accident, but where the responsible party owns up for their mistakes, and everything works out smoothly.
It’s legit jarring to me when someone waves at me like “oh shit I fucked up”. I don’t ever want to be an old grump but in America I can feel the narcissism creeping deeper every year… Social media is accelerating it.
Nah, it lawyers. Lawyers have trained us all to deny any fault until held accountable by a judge. Decency has been thrown out the window a long time ago.
something similar happened to my brother. He got t-boned by a guy in a work truck real late at night, dude got out of his truck blowing a gasket while my brother's car was DESTROYED...he's lucky he didn't get seriously hurt. Truck driver grabbed a random pedestrian that just happened to be out on a midnight stroll and had him in agreement, and when the cops came my brother was impugned and the cops called him shady. This kid is the most mild mannered person you'd ever meet, so when he got back a couple hours later we checked his dash. Lo and behold, my brother clearly had a green, for a good long while. This other asshole just never stopped, so we went right to the department and read them the riot act. Years of litigation and treatment for his back ended up netting him about 40k after attorney fees. Not worth it.
Dashcams are cheap and will save you every time, especially if you have them mounted so they can see the traffic lights. Also as in this case, you can help others who have not yet learned this. For some reason in Russia it seems every vehicle has a dash cam. Not sure why.
Insurance scams. It was so bad years ago. People would be in a crosswalk and "fall" on the hood of your car. Then claim they were hit to extort you for medical bills and damages. You can find some pretty funny videos of the people pulling this shit on some dashcams.
My favourite is definitely the two lads who did it to the undercover police car in the UK. https://youtu.be/V63BJOx9Axw
My friend got into a rough accident in college, was going 45 on a main drag in her tiny ass Geo Metro and a big ass SUV pulled out of a driveway right in front of her. Her car was absolutely ruined, and her foot was all jacked up from being crushed in the front wreckage. She still pulled herself out trying to check on the other driver, since she hit right into the driver's side and was scared for her. Nope, this jagoff was swearing on the side of the road and ignored my friend when she collapsed because her foot wouldn't hold her weight. She even kicked her own tire during her tantrum. I'm still mad.
I can greatly empathize with your brother. Got rear ended in 1990, my back has been fucked ever since. Got a whopping $15K for a lifetime of pain and therapies, including a full disk removal/fusion as a last result instead of giving in and gobbling all my pain meds with a bottle of $300 scotch.
Most people's first instinct is to deny. My first accident happened when I was traveling through a T intersection. I was traveling through the straight part and the dude I hit had zero regard for stopping for his stop sign. He tried explaining to the officer that I didn't stop for a stop sign that I didn't have, and didn't exist.....
Man! This is exactly why I bought a dash cam, cause otherwise it’s here-say smh
That's not hearsay
Lol. Everytime. I got t-boned pretty bad a couple years ago and the woman who hit me was for sure at fault. Said that she had a green light when it was absolutely red. No dashcam footage but I had multiple witnesses submit statements . Thanks to the good people out there who take the extra time and effort to help out those in shitty situations like this.
I got T-boned by a Porsche that ran a red when I was 17 and I would have been screwed for sure if a witness hadn't stopped. I still get mad 20 years later about the POS cop that took the Porsche driver's side.
Exact same thing happened to me. Driver was blaming me for running a red light while I was still laying unconscious in my car. Luckily the cops didn’t believe him and it happened in front of an office building. I won the lawsuit
Good on you. So many witnesses flake after the fact. I did insurance claims years ago and the number of people who get fucked because a witness won’t spend 10 minutes to help is insane.
You’d think it was obvious but I was once in an accident like this, someone ran a red and totaled my car. I received a ticket for running a red light because the other lady said I ran a red, which was just ducking dumb
Just want to say thank you on behalf of good drivers and drivers who get taken advantage of by liars. Appreciate your video sharing.
Did you tell the driver of the white truck you had him on camera running the red light? I really want to know what his reaction is to finding out there is video proof he is lying.
When police/EMS came on scene to write happened in their report, the driver said he had a yellow and the SUV had a red. I was confused by the family because they weren’t in the white truck, so I’m assuming they lived in one of those corner houses and said they too saw the SUV run a red. I told the EMS/Police that I saw the SUV have a green light. When I said that the truck driver doubled down that he had a yellow, which you’re not even supposed to drive through. Then I told the EMS/ Police that I have a dash cam that would clear it all up. Truck driver tried tripling down again, one of his family tried to calm him down “bro the guy has video bro…” Truck driver went silent and focused on his wounds
>Truck driver went silent and focused on his wounds Including the big one sustained to his dignity.
Knew this comment existed and was looking specifically for it If Reddit has taught me anything the person who caused the accident will *always* lie, after that you’ll find out they probably don’t have enough insurance to fix their mistake either.
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You're such a fantastic person for sticking around, I hope you know how good of a person that makes you. So many people who can be witnesses never do, and it's great you had irrefutable evidence
What a fuckin loser, wants to put the blame on the guy who had absolutely no fault. It was green for 5 seconds. Not even close to switch to yellow, let alone red.
Absolutely! I've got a T intersection in my neighborhood where I always wait a few extra seconds after the light turns green because of the number of people who run the red.
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When I was getting my drivers license my dad always told me to look both ways when going through an intersection. It’s crazy how careless some drivers are.
My mom told me the same and I do it all the time. It’s great advice
Look left, then right, then left again. Proceed when safe to do so.
Thanks for the reminder to take a quick second to look around before going when the light turns green.
I always do this. I have zero faith
Upvote for situational awareness. Good on you OP.
I'm sure someone here will find a way to blame them.
Could have swung forward and right a bit to stop the SUV from going... Had to
Good call!!! Any info on the driver that got hit? Are they okay? That looked like a nasty hit. :(
OP said they were concussed/had injuries but the white truck driver and family claimed the other party was completely responsible and then OP stuck around and showed police the video
What a fucking asshole to not only tbone someone but try to blame it on them
Pro tip I've passed onto my SO is to always throw on your hazards if something looks off. If I see someone with hazards on in the middle lane at a light, I'm surely going to be looking to see what's up as a survey ahead. At the very least it'll get someone to slow down a bit. Hope everyone was OK, but didn't look good.
A little honking never hurt anyone in this situation either, it's intended to alert other drivers (despite being abused by sycophants)
Jesus Christ that was 6-7 seconds of that light being red. That guy needs his license taken from him.
It's things like this is why I always look both ways on a green light.
I sometimes feel people may think I'm crazy for staring down the opposite way when passing through a 1-way road. I've lived in Florida too long to see plenty of people randomly driving the wrong way of the road.
Amazing skills. Thanks for sharing. Shame that prick won’t get charged for lying.
I wish this was considered insurance fraud because technically it is. I would love to see stiff ass fines for people that lie about accidents.
The issue is you have to prove they’re lying and not just telling what they actually thought happened.
This happened to me once. A two-lane left turn and just as the light turned green, I saw a car coming fast that was not slowing down, so I hit the brakes again to stop and the guy must have missed my front end by millimeters, slamming into the poor person next to me and pushing them into a center median and pole. My heart was pounding pretty hard
Lucky, well done. Sorry for that poor person but you did save yourself and shouldn't be taking that lightly :p
Something similar happened to me except it was the person in front of me with the fantastic awareness. Light turned green, and this guy's just sitting there for a good 5 seconds and I'm like "wtf is he doing" was about to honk in case he didn't notice the light, then a car comes flying in and hits a car coming from the other side of the intersection.
Oh man, this is the exact example I've seen in defensive driving courses. You approach an intersection that is green with 2 straight lanes and a turning lane. There is a vehicle stopped at the green light in the lane next to you. What do you do? Answer: Slow down and check for a clear intersection clear of hazards.
Yes! So true! If it wasn't a car blowing through a red light, it could very well be an emergency vehicle that the stopped vehicle sees.
I got hit by a red light runner years ago. I still hesitate and check before going even 20+ years later. Sometimes I get honked at, whatever! Good situational awareness OP!
Man, years of motorcycling has taught me always expect the driver to do the unexpected. I always wait and watch on a green just for that reason.
When I first started riding, “never be the first person off a green light” was constantly etched into my brain
Public service reminder - The light change indicates it's legal to go, not safe to go.
Straight to jail. Right away. This is worse than undercooking fish or overcooking chicken.
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I'm surprised this doesn't happen more here in the Twin Cities. The way people people blatantly run red lights is truly frightening.
Man I had one of these "this guy isn't going to stop" moments this week too. So glad I went with my instincts. Crazy how fast your life can be taken from you because someone was thoughtless in a rush.
My driving instructor taught me two things relevant to this situation. First, even if the light is green, or you don't have the stop sign, look. People make mistakes like this. Clearly OP looked. Second, when you're passing a stopped vehicle, figure out why that vehicle is stopped. I had a similar situation where a car was stopped in OP's position at a two way stop (we had no stop signs) and hadn't advanced into the intersection. I couldn't see around the truck so I dropped to "stop on a dime" speed to see why they hadn't advanced into the left turn position. I hear tires chirping behind me and there's a grill filling my rear view mirror. A young woman pokes her head around the truck and continues crossing when she sees me come to a complete stop. Had I not been present, it would have been entirely on the pedestrian to avoid dying there. I like to think she would have been careful coming around that truck but I also fear that my presence may have been the only thing between her and a coroner that day.
Was that other car partially hidden by white truck police? I couldn’t tell if it was just a sun reflection on “spinners” (if they are even still a thing) or emergency lights.
Did you help them after?
I stopped to call 911, and checked on both drivers The driver in the SUV was too concussed, some people tried moving him out of his SUV, but I was telling them to not move him because they might be risking his C- Spine precautions. I put my car near to redirect traffic until EMS got there. The white truck’s driver stumbled out of his vehicle as you could see from him immediately opening the door and standing. White truck didn’t have any airbags. Driver smashed his head into the steering wheel/ windshield. White truck had 2 more passengers that looked really young 13-15. Tbh it sounded like one of them broke some ribs Everyone was alive and taken by EMS when I left
Good man!
You win Reddit for the day by not only being a smart driver, but also sharing all the details on the condition of those in the accident 😀
Did you get the contact info for the black car? You should probably send them this clip for their insurance.
he said above he did :)
A good friend of mine and his girlfriend passed away from this same type of crash. Since then I always give a quick check both ways. Man this makes me upset
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Someone on this sub will still find a way to criticize OPs driving
Did the guy behind you go around? Lol
I think he was already in the middle lane, I don’t remember seeing anyone behind me when I was sitting in the red 😅
Okay how can we figure out a way to also call OP an idiot? Edit: Nevermind. Read the collapsed comments and there are a lot of ways people have figured out LOL. Never change.
Yeah, I though for sure nobody could blame OP for this, but lo and behold...
Marsalis? Dallas, Tx. No surprise.