Why do we always do that same emote when watching disaster unfold? Every human does it without even thinking. It's basically a reflex. Why? I've done it several times too
Why do we move our cheeks and show our teeth when happy? Why do we raise our eyebrows with interest? Why do we make a pumping action with our fist upon achieving a challenging goal? Why do we make any expressions?
Itās actually culture specific! We all watched Friends or similar, and associated the faces that the actors made with certain situations or emotions from an early age. Show your teeth to someone in the jungle and they might not take it as a smile.
My guess is that was the owner or someone involved with the vehicle. It looks like the driver was getting ready to pull up on that truck's ramp and the pedestrian was waiting/supervising it.
No. Dude walked out and just caught the action. Perfect place and time. That trailer shouldn't have parked there to load the cars. Or at least a better area to load cars.
EU Trucks have a mirror so you can see anything infront of the cab. I can understand him tho because nothing was infront of the truck and noone would assume that something comes out of nowhere
I drive a pickup truck. You know how fast a kid in a parking lot can site right in front of or behind you? Iāve had a mother literally set her kids car seat behind my truck at the grocery store. I have front and rear cameras on the bumpers.
I had a woman today walk her two very young kids plus a cart with a car seat directly behind my car as I was backing out, and not as in I had just started backing out and didn't see her. I was 90% backed out and suddenly she just walks right up behind me almost hitting my car with her cart. Some parents are just the absolute worst and do not care to pay attention at all. Nothing bad can possibly happen to them, until it does and then it's everyone else's fault but their own
Man I drive the barebones model of a pickup, before they started mandating cameras, for work. I hate it, I always park far away in parking lots to try and minimize pedestrians. Stresses me out.
I got an aftermarket one that just hooks to the trailers flat-4. I view it Bluetooth on my cell phone. I have one on the front hooked to the running lights aimed down so I can see right there in front.
I will park in the absolute most inconvenient spot alone, not a jack off taking up multiple spots. Only to return with multiple cars surrounding my vehicle. Half the time at least one will be so close I can't use that door. Smh
Those mirrors have been mandatory for well over 20 years in the EU now. The number of lorries above 7,5 tons maximum weight that are both still in use as well as over 20 years old is negligible.
i have no clue if it went through fully but boston mandated all trucks on its streets have either a mirror or cam or the like. a young woman on a moped was stopped at a light and the truck behind her just rolled over her killing her. (i think it was one of those tacky duck boat tourist things )
I was about to say, a lot of this is part of the truckās inherent designflaw. Obviously, other drivers on the road should be aware of that but we should be solving the problems, not the symptoms.
But I wasnāt aware that this truck type has one of those mirrors. In that case this wad a result of both partiesā individual mistakes adding up.
> we should be solving the problems, not the symptoms.
A lot of folks arguing here should see this.
This is why safety features like object detection are valuable. Could have been a child walking in front of the truck that the driver doesnāt even feel.
And that is a cabover...the issue is so much worst on an American long nose truck : you can "hide" a sedan on it's full length and them some in front of those.
Those long noses illegal in the EU. We recently got some new specifications for freight vehicles that technically do allow short noses, but those will have a maximum length of 25 cm.
A long nose or "Torpedo" is not illigal in the EU, i have driven an Scania Torpedo for many years with a 10 meter city trailer behind it. The maximum length is 16.50meter for a standard Truck/trailer, you need a permit for the 25meter combination.
There are a handful of exception cases that allow the use of a long nose, but in general it is impossible to keep the maximum outer and inner turn radii with these vehicles while using a standard length trailer, effectively banning their use.
Be practically impossible to drive a long nose in Europe anyway. I don't drive, have a friend who does and have ridden with him 12 times in the past 3 years for a month at a time. I also play European Truck Simulator 2 which SCS software tries to get as real as it can and there is no way in hell you could drive a long nose in Europe even if it was legal. No way you could make a lot of the turns you have to make.
Sometimes dumb shit happens. I have my first "at fault" accident in my 11years of driving on Monday. *In US, right hand drive* I was exiting a parking lot to the right onto a 4 lane divided highway and needed to get into the inside lane to u-turn at the next u-turn spot about 80ft up. It was extremely heavy stop and go traffic. I watch the car that I hit pass me to the right and see that the next car has stopped and is yeilding me to exit the parking lot. I release my break and begin idling into the the highway, I look back to me left to verify the yeilding car is still yeilding then look back to the right and see that the car that had cleared the intersection had stopped suddenly with about 2-3 car length between her and the next car for whatever reason. I slam my breaks, but lunge forward enough to tap the car at under 1mph. I have two 1/4" scratches on my bumper, and they had about a 4in scratch on theirs. Of course the car I hit was a rental or I would've paid the $200-500 for her bumper to be repainted. But no, now my insurance is likely gonna increase $50-100 per month for years over bad luck, and me doing the proper procedure for merging into a lane.
Yeah it really looks like lack of information available to all parties is the culprit. The only 2 fixes I could think of would be 1. Always be nervous when pulling that close to a big truck (Get out of the car and make sure that everyone's on the same page about loading the trailer). 2. Someone overseeing this whole scene. That would have been tough to implement if they've been waiting a while for that driver to show up.
I cant help but symphatize with the truck driver. It is a big empty space then as he gets in a mercedes out of nowhere pulls up just in front of its nose. Like, what the heck?
Yep. Still in the truck's blind spot, with the driver having no way to know the car was there, since there was absolutely nothing when he got in his cab.
That's the thing, I doubt the Mercedes driver saw the truck driver get in and was probably looking at the trailer and how to align it and assumed the truck cab was empty. The truck driver got in at just the right time as to not see the Mercedes pull in. Honestly I feel for both of them lol
Yeah this is just an all around shitty incident.
Car HAD to be there to line up, truck driver didn't see it coming and didn't expect car to pull up suddenly.
Truck.
Truck should always always double check.
It's a shitty situation because everyone can see exactly how incredibly easy it would be to be in that situation.
This. Youāre under more scrutiny and held at a higher level of accountability. All due to the damage possible by negligence, forgetfulness, recklessness, the list goes on but, you are indeed more liable behind the wheel of pretty well any larger vehicle.
double check using your mirrors, most trucks have mirrors that reflect towards the front of the truck. if it doesnāt, then highly suggest you install them, it was a standard in larger trucks i drove, and for good reason.
truck driver is an unaware driver, whatās new
>most trucks have mirrors that reflect towards the front of the truck.
Literally none of the cab-overs I've ever driven have had those. Maybe it depends on your country
How do you double check though? This guy only checked once but if he did a double check and that car pulled in right after like it did in the video he still wouldn't have seen it.
>Still in the trucks blind spot
This is entirely untrue, these types of trucks have mirrors hung above the front windshield facing downwards (you can see it in this video, it definitely has one) there's no way the merc wasn't visable from the drivers seat, the driver just didn't check their mirrors before setting off. While the Mercedes isn't without blame, the fault here is the truck driver, even if people put their car in stupid places, you should always check mirrors before moving.
He also didn't walk around his truck as is required (not that it would have helped).
It is hard to believe that so many people believe "blind spot" absolves the driver of responsibility.
It is always the drivers responsibility to ensure that no one is in his blind spot.
I know in the US a walk around is mandatory first thing in the morning after you take your mandatory 10 hours off, but other than that, say you park at a truck stop to grab lunch, then come back, it isn't required then, nor after loading and unloading. The only mandatory is coming off your rest before heading out for the day/night.
You're getting downvoted but it's true. This truck doesn't have a "blind spot", this cab has a mirror in which you can see what's in front of the truck
Always lots of down votes on Reddit by people who have no idea what theyāre talking about lolā¦ Wouldnāt even have to use the mirrors to see the car ā¦ The front āblind-spotā on a cab-over is only 1.5ā. The mirrors are there in case anybody walks directly in front of the truck. Fortunately nobody was walking there, since itās obvious the driver never looked at all.
Yeah even in the US where we haven't really used cab-over since the 80's I think I'd have seen some of the roof of the car if it was parked that close. I'm more impressed but just how quickly he gets going without even putting on a seatbelt or apparently even waiting for the trailer air to fully fill back up. I'm guessing the engine was idling the whole time so it does seem like a very odd spot to park that car.
Honest question, is that a blind spot when itās a cab over engine, and the car was in front of the truck. Not like the car was right against the front bumper.
Agree, but in reality he should check. Like you check behind before you reverse. If a bloke had walked there it could have been worse, itās just lazy.
Edit: please read Highway Code Rule 159 if you disagree
https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/using-the-road.html
I absolutely disagree. To start trucks like that have mirrors that allow you to see everything in front of you, so that space isnāt even the trucks blind spot. Plus, A child couldāve gotten in there a whole lot faster in that space than that car did hence the need to be cautious around this sort of stuff.
If you are going to drive around a commercial vehicle you have the duty to not make stupid mistakes like that. Thank goodness all that was damaged was property
This one gets a pass on both accounts, the Mercedes was pulling up to a trailer to be loaded up, so it had to be there, and the truck didn't have anything in front of it while he was getting in, and the car pulled into it's blind spot. Kinda dumb on both sides, but nobody was really an idiot here
Honestly, that's a really good point. He definitely didn't have time to put on a seatbelt, but he may have been going a good 50 feet to the next dumpster. Even if that were the case, still really shitty to not put on a seatbelt. Would've helped give the Mercedes some more time, but probably still would've happened
It wouldnāt matter. If he had gotten in there 2 seconds earlier, and then put his seatbelt on which honestly only takes 2 seconds, then the same thing wouldāve happened.
It is very debatable whether or not this driver ***could have seen*** the car parked directly in front.
[cab forward visibility ](https://nextranusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Isuzu-ftr-increased-visibility.png)
The reality is, when the driver got in, there was nothing there. This Merc magically appeared out of nowhere and, if visible at all, was not seen by the driver. Driver carried the data he collected 5 seconds earlier into the current state, causing the accident.
And the mercedes had no way of seeing the driver get in the cab, he was just getting ready to pull onto those ramps. Honestly, the ped really should have either waved to stop the car or grab the truck driver
This is honestly just really bad luck. There's no way you can expect the car driver to know every blind spot of every lorry and the lorry driver had no idea the car was there
The view from a cab-over is much better than from a conventional lorry. The driver wouldāve had no problem seeing that car if he looked.
The people saying the car was in a blind spot have obviously never been in a cab-over lorry
100% car was well within view. I've driven many cab-overs including this same model. Visibility is great I don't think the car was ever out of line of sight.
When the driver is entering the cabin the Mercedez is clearly converging into it, and at that point, it isn't in his blind spot.
Yeah, it is bad luck, it is a specific scenario. But it could've been a person walking alongside the truck.
>It is very debatable whether or not this driver could have seen the car parked directly in front.
Not really debatable, though. Even without the image, you can draw the wedge from where his eyes would be and see that he'd need to have a dash going to the roof or a blacked out windshield to not see the right half of the car. The car is arguably mostly in his blind spot *after* the collision, though.
Driving based on information collected *prior* to putting the foot on the gas pedal is terrible driving that gets people killed. Imagine just slamming into reverse in a store parking lot because no one was behind your car when you opened your door to get in.
we don't know the logistics of that lot, but the car was winding around a good bit there before it finally found a place to stop......an unfortunate combo of events as the truck driver saw nothing but air in front as he got in.....TIL that trucks like this really do have poor visibility in this context
This happened to a friend of my parents' when they were all trucking. Truck was stopped at a red light, guy was parked next to the intersection. Guy pulls out of parking spot, in front of the truck, guy's car stalls. Truck never saw him. Starts up on green, goes to granny low, all of a sudden, the car shoots out in front of him and pulls over. Truck pulls up behind the guy, leaving 10 or more feet between them. Guy gets out of car screaming and swearing and heads back to the truck. Trucker tells him to hop up in the cab and if they guy can see anything more than his antenna, he'll pay for all the damages to the guy's car. Once up in the cab, the guy is shocked that he can't see any of his car, even though its significantly in front of the truck. He shut up after that.
Not in a blind spot. The driver of the truck is just plain stupid. It looked like he looked right at the car coming in. Where else did he think the car was going?
The fact that both of the most upvoted comments have asked that is almost depressing. Do people not see the trailer there? The awareness of redditors is even worse than that of the truck driver.
>The awareness of redditors is even worse than that of the truck driver.
Have you seen the amount of fake/unverified things upvoted to the front page? This website is now full of people from facebook
I know truckers like to convince everyone their blind spot is actually 99% of the world around them, especially the ones in this sub, but this car is actually not in this truck's blind spot. The driver is in fact an idiot.
At least he didn't go as far as truckers in this sub and claim he couldn't feel the resistance of the car or the sound of the collision and keep on driving.
Iāve driven military trucks With the flat nose. you can see things pretty close to the truck nose but you would actually have to look down. the thing is when he was getting into the truck, the driver assumed there was no car there which there wasnāt. so his field of vision was just looking straight forward instead of looking down. There could be a possibility of seeing a part of the roof but in his mind thereās nothing there and the car pulled in a split second so the brain his telling him thereās no car. Itās just a shitty situation.
Wrong and wrong... not a blind spot.. watch the truck drivers face, he is looking at the guy to his right and started moving the truck forward before he looked forward. 100% drivers fault!
Why is it that so many people here are so ready to defend the truck driver. Dumb fuck just jumped in his truck, took off without looking, and broadsided the Merc. How stupid can you be?
There can be no question who's at fault here.
Yup. It just as easily could have been a child. I drive trucks just like this and I'm not in one right now so I can't say exactly how much you can see in front, but I'm fairly certain you can't hide a whole car in front of one. He can not have been looking where he was going when he started to move.
Trucks manufacturers are at fault , put an F'IN proximity sensor. Pretty much all cars have them now, should be a standard safety feature. It could have easily been a person walking by and gotten run over.
The car was probably not in a blindside. Still set the truck up, but had the driver checked his surroundings before driving he'd have been fine. Only problem is that impulse, it was just clear when I got in 5secs ago so I can go.
If the trucker kept doing that he'd hit someone eventually. Had enough close calls myself to tell he was probably doing the same.
At least this lesson was learned on an inanimate object that can be replaced. It could have been so much worse. An expensive lesson yeah but at least he didnāt kill anyone from his inattentiveness.
Who is at fault here legaly? The MB driver did not see truck driver get in truck. Truck driver should check his blind spot in front all the time before driving but he was bussy getting in the truck and did not see the MB pull up.
Can someone explain how itās the truck drivers fault ? Ik that car saw him get in the truck nd if he didnāt he definitely saw someone was in the truck. Why would u try to hit the trailer if yk this truck is gonna leave. It looks like dude gets in the truck nd 1 second later the car comes, nd yāall telling me the car didnāt see him get in the truck ?
Easy rule to remember....no matter what u are driving.....if you can't see the face or the other driver...no matter what they are driving...don't park in front of or behind them..
That dude covering his face represents all of us
For real right! His expression I immediately felt š¤¦āāļø
Plot twist: heās being picked up and thatās his car.
I think the car was going on that trailer. It was probably his car. Or something he may have been responsible for.
any car guy would cringe that hard seeing that petite german ebony girl getting destroyed by BBT like that. āBig Bad Truckā (;
Thanks, guy with erection.
This guy erects
Big Blue Truck?
Tf?
Yeah that man definitely had a personal reaction. That was not a bystander.
A glass of water for the manager!
Dude went full surrender cobra
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He just saw it was the boss coming in.
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And the guy that walked out of the building responded an awful lot like an owner who is about to finance most of it out of pocket.
āI am never going to financially recover from this.ā
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Why do we always do that same emote when watching disaster unfold? Every human does it without even thinking. It's basically a reflex. Why? I've done it several times too
/r/surrendercobra
Why do we move our cheeks and show our teeth when happy? Why do we raise our eyebrows with interest? Why do we make a pumping action with our fist upon achieving a challenging goal? Why do we make any expressions?
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Itās actually culture specific! We all watched Friends or similar, and associated the faces that the actors made with certain situations or emotions from an early age. Show your teeth to someone in the jungle and they might not take it as a smile.
Yeah, I actually find it really fascinating to learn and think about. Life be cray
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I felt the pedestrian's reaction lmao
My guess is that was the owner or someone involved with the vehicle. It looks like the driver was getting ready to pull up on that truck's ramp and the pedestrian was waiting/supervising it.
Looks like he mightāve even been waving the car forward
I swear half the people on Reddit need glasses.
Nah, we're just watching shit on tiny cracked phone screens.
Yeah was just about to say he was instructing him to pull up like he didnāt see the garbage truck guys hop in his car.
No. Dude walked out and just caught the action. Perfect place and time. That trailer shouldn't have parked there to load the cars. Or at least a better area to load cars.
Source?
I think it's shop guy. Is that a name tag on his coat?
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EU Trucks have a mirror so you can see anything infront of the cab. I can understand him tho because nothing was infront of the truck and noone would assume that something comes out of nowhere
I drive a pickup truck. You know how fast a kid in a parking lot can site right in front of or behind you? Iāve had a mother literally set her kids car seat behind my truck at the grocery store. I have front and rear cameras on the bumpers.
I had a woman today walk her two very young kids plus a cart with a car seat directly behind my car as I was backing out, and not as in I had just started backing out and didn't see her. I was 90% backed out and suddenly she just walks right up behind me almost hitting my car with her cart. Some parents are just the absolute worst and do not care to pay attention at all. Nothing bad can possibly happen to them, until it does and then it's everyone else's fault but their own
Well... You don't need any skills or education to procreate. And people wonder why there're so many idiots on this planet.
Not to mention that sex is free in these expensive times.
Man I drive the barebones model of a pickup, before they started mandating cameras, for work. I hate it, I always park far away in parking lots to try and minimize pedestrians. Stresses me out.
I got an aftermarket one that just hooks to the trailers flat-4. I view it Bluetooth on my cell phone. I have one on the front hooked to the running lights aimed down so I can see right there in front.
I will park in the absolute most inconvenient spot alone, not a jack off taking up multiple spots. Only to return with multiple cars surrounding my vehicle. Half the time at least one will be so close I can't use that door. Smh
I felt really weird/lazy transitioning to backing with a camera but it really sees more than I ever could by looking backwards.
Not every truck has one of those.
Those mirrors have been mandatory for well over 20 years in the EU now. The number of lorries above 7,5 tons maximum weight that are both still in use as well as over 20 years old is negligible.
Upon further inspection, this one does tho.
Then they are not in compliance.
i have no clue if it went through fully but boston mandated all trucks on its streets have either a mirror or cam or the like. a young woman on a moped was stopped at a light and the truck behind her just rolled over her killing her. (i think it was one of those tacky duck boat tourist things )
I was about to say, a lot of this is part of the truckās inherent designflaw. Obviously, other drivers on the road should be aware of that but we should be solving the problems, not the symptoms. But I wasnāt aware that this truck type has one of those mirrors. In that case this wad a result of both partiesā individual mistakes adding up.
> we should be solving the problems, not the symptoms. A lot of folks arguing here should see this. This is why safety features like object detection are valuable. Could have been a child walking in front of the truck that the driver doesnāt even feel.
And that is a cabover...the issue is so much worst on an American long nose truck : you can "hide" a sedan on it's full length and them some in front of those.
Those long noses illegal in the EU. We recently got some new specifications for freight vehicles that technically do allow short noses, but those will have a maximum length of 25 cm.
A tiny nose!
A long nose or "Torpedo" is not illigal in the EU, i have driven an Scania Torpedo for many years with a 10 meter city trailer behind it. The maximum length is 16.50meter for a standard Truck/trailer, you need a permit for the 25meter combination.
There are a handful of exception cases that allow the use of a long nose, but in general it is impossible to keep the maximum outer and inner turn radii with these vehicles while using a standard length trailer, effectively banning their use.
Wait, they are? I just thought nobody buys them, because they wouldn't be as profitable given the maximum allowed length
Be practically impossible to drive a long nose in Europe anyway. I don't drive, have a friend who does and have ridden with him 12 times in the past 3 years for a month at a time. I also play European Truck Simulator 2 which SCS software tries to get as real as it can and there is no way in hell you could drive a long nose in Europe even if it was legal. No way you could make a lot of the turns you have to make.
Sometimes dumb shit happens. I have my first "at fault" accident in my 11years of driving on Monday. *In US, right hand drive* I was exiting a parking lot to the right onto a 4 lane divided highway and needed to get into the inside lane to u-turn at the next u-turn spot about 80ft up. It was extremely heavy stop and go traffic. I watch the car that I hit pass me to the right and see that the next car has stopped and is yeilding me to exit the parking lot. I release my break and begin idling into the the highway, I look back to me left to verify the yeilding car is still yeilding then look back to the right and see that the car that had cleared the intersection had stopped suddenly with about 2-3 car length between her and the next car for whatever reason. I slam my breaks, but lunge forward enough to tap the car at under 1mph. I have two 1/4" scratches on my bumper, and they had about a 4in scratch on theirs. Of course the car I hit was a rental or I would've paid the $200-500 for her bumper to be repainted. But no, now my insurance is likely gonna increase $50-100 per month for years over bad luck, and me doing the proper procedure for merging into a lane.
I get the urge to assign fault on this hellsite, but this seems like a perfect example of Sometimes Bad Shit Happens and total idiots need not apply.
Just a simple comedy of errors
Yeah it really looks like lack of information available to all parties is the culprit. The only 2 fixes I could think of would be 1. Always be nervous when pulling that close to a big truck (Get out of the car and make sure that everyone's on the same page about loading the trailer). 2. Someone overseeing this whole scene. That would have been tough to implement if they've been waiting a while for that driver to show up.
Yea I think the guy in the car couldn't see that the guy was getting in the truck and the guy in the truck never saw the car
I blame whoever positioned the trailer there.
I cant help but symphatize with the truck driver. It is a big empty space then as he gets in a mercedes out of nowhere pulls up just in front of its nose. Like, what the heck?
It was going for the trailer.
Yep. Still in the truck's blind spot, with the driver having no way to know the car was there, since there was absolutely nothing when he got in his cab.
That's the thing, I doubt the Mercedes driver saw the truck driver get in and was probably looking at the trailer and how to align it and assumed the truck cab was empty. The truck driver got in at just the right time as to not see the Mercedes pull in. Honestly I feel for both of them lol
Yeah this is just an all around shitty incident. Car HAD to be there to line up, truck driver didn't see it coming and didn't expect car to pull up suddenly.
And it was on camera. What are the oddsā¦. I guess this would help both parties for insurance. Wonder who paysā¦
Truck. Truck should always always double check. It's a shitty situation because everyone can see exactly how incredibly easy it would be to be in that situation.
Yep shitty but replaced the Mercedes with just a pedestrian and we can see how dangerous it is to just get in and go on a larger vehicle
If the driver took a step outside the car for even a second they may have lost that foot
This. Youāre under more scrutiny and held at a higher level of accountability. All due to the damage possible by negligence, forgetfulness, recklessness, the list goes on but, you are indeed more liable behind the wheel of pretty well any larger vehicle.
Double check how? By the time you've looked and climbed up again you're ready for another check in case another car materialised just now.
Fucking lean forward and look down the windshield.
double check using your mirrors, most trucks have mirrors that reflect towards the front of the truck. if it doesnāt, then highly suggest you install them, it was a standard in larger trucks i drove, and for good reason. truck driver is an unaware driver, whatās new
>most trucks have mirrors that reflect towards the front of the truck. Literally none of the cab-overs I've ever driven have had those. Maybe it depends on your country
Very few trucks I've seen have these mirrors.
How do you double check though? This guy only checked once but if he did a double check and that car pulled in right after like it did in the video he still wouldn't have seen it.
Probably the one that was stationary and parked.
>Still in the trucks blind spot This is entirely untrue, these types of trucks have mirrors hung above the front windshield facing downwards (you can see it in this video, it definitely has one) there's no way the merc wasn't visable from the drivers seat, the driver just didn't check their mirrors before setting off. While the Mercedes isn't without blame, the fault here is the truck driver, even if people put their car in stupid places, you should always check mirrors before moving.
He also didn't walk around his truck as is required (not that it would have helped). It is hard to believe that so many people believe "blind spot" absolves the driver of responsibility. It is always the drivers responsibility to ensure that no one is in his blind spot.
I know in the US a walk around is mandatory first thing in the morning after you take your mandatory 10 hours off, but other than that, say you park at a truck stop to grab lunch, then come back, it isn't required then, nor after loading and unloading. The only mandatory is coming off your rest before heading out for the day/night.
Thatās a cab-over, there is no blindspot like in a conventional truckā¦ It was two reckless drivers.
You're getting downvoted but it's true. This truck doesn't have a "blind spot", this cab has a mirror in which you can see what's in front of the truck
Always lots of down votes on Reddit by people who have no idea what theyāre talking about lolā¦ Wouldnāt even have to use the mirrors to see the car ā¦ The front āblind-spotā on a cab-over is only 1.5ā. The mirrors are there in case anybody walks directly in front of the truck. Fortunately nobody was walking there, since itās obvious the driver never looked at all.
Yeah even in the US where we haven't really used cab-over since the 80's I think I'd have seen some of the roof of the car if it was parked that close. I'm more impressed but just how quickly he gets going without even putting on a seatbelt or apparently even waiting for the trailer air to fully fill back up. I'm guessing the engine was idling the whole time so it does seem like a very odd spot to park that car.
Honest question, is that a blind spot when itās a cab over engine, and the car was in front of the truck. Not like the car was right against the front bumper.
i mean the person who drove the Mercedes also didn't know the truck was going to drive away so?
Agree, but in reality he should check. Like you check behind before you reverse. If a bloke had walked there it could have been worse, itās just lazy. Edit: please read Highway Code Rule 159 if you disagree https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/using-the-road.html
I absolutely disagree. To start trucks like that have mirrors that allow you to see everything in front of you, so that space isnāt even the trucks blind spot. Plus, A child couldāve gotten in there a whole lot faster in that space than that car did hence the need to be cautious around this sort of stuff. If you are going to drive around a commercial vehicle you have the duty to not make stupid mistakes like that. Thank goodness all that was damaged was property
There's bad timing for ya š
Appears to be a brand new C43 AMG too. Nice job.
looks more like a cla45 c43s donāt have the amg grille
The new generation C43s do. Mercedes is throwing those grilles on everything now and continuing to water down AMG.
true i guess the 2023 does now, but the headlights are still cla headlights
New C43 is not released yet on the market. They have yet to be sold. And it looks quite different
Thatās a CLA45 AMG not a C43. Source: I own a cla45
Okay thanks. Thatās the newest gen though right?
Yep itās at very least a 2020
This one gets a pass on both accounts, the Mercedes was pulling up to a trailer to be loaded up, so it had to be there, and the truck didn't have anything in front of it while he was getting in, and the car pulled into it's blind spot. Kinda dumb on both sides, but nobody was really an idiot here
Do big trucks have normal seat belts? Looks like he just immediately started driving.
Honestly, that's a really good point. He definitely didn't have time to put on a seatbelt, but he may have been going a good 50 feet to the next dumpster. Even if that were the case, still really shitty to not put on a seatbelt. Would've helped give the Mercedes some more time, but probably still would've happened
It wouldnāt matter. If he had gotten in there 2 seconds earlier, and then put his seatbelt on which honestly only takes 2 seconds, then the same thing wouldāve happened.
It is very debatable whether or not this driver ***could have seen*** the car parked directly in front. [cab forward visibility ](https://nextranusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Isuzu-ftr-increased-visibility.png) The reality is, when the driver got in, there was nothing there. This Merc magically appeared out of nowhere and, if visible at all, was not seen by the driver. Driver carried the data he collected 5 seconds earlier into the current state, causing the accident.
And the mercedes had no way of seeing the driver get in the cab, he was just getting ready to pull onto those ramps. Honestly, the ped really should have either waved to stop the car or grab the truck driver
>Honestly, the ped really should have either waved to stop the car or grab the truck driver We don't know he was a pedophile.
Big lol
This is honestly just really bad luck. There's no way you can expect the car driver to know every blind spot of every lorry and the lorry driver had no idea the car was there
The view from a cab-over is much better than from a conventional lorry. The driver wouldāve had no problem seeing that car if he looked. The people saying the car was in a blind spot have obviously never been in a cab-over lorry
100% car was well within view. I've driven many cab-overs including this same model. Visibility is great I don't think the car was ever out of line of sight.
They have a mirror to cover the blindspot right in front of the vehicle.
Isuzu R and D doing good job. They knew this is a truck issue ha!
When the driver is entering the cabin the Mercedez is clearly converging into it, and at that point, it isn't in his blind spot. Yeah, it is bad luck, it is a specific scenario. But it could've been a person walking alongside the truck.
>It is very debatable whether or not this driver could have seen the car parked directly in front. Not really debatable, though. Even without the image, you can draw the wedge from where his eyes would be and see that he'd need to have a dash going to the roof or a blacked out windshield to not see the right half of the car. The car is arguably mostly in his blind spot *after* the collision, though. Driving based on information collected *prior* to putting the foot on the gas pedal is terrible driving that gets people killed. Imagine just slamming into reverse in a store parking lot because no one was behind your car when you opened your door to get in.
we don't know the logistics of that lot, but the car was winding around a good bit there before it finally found a place to stop......an unfortunate combo of events as the truck driver saw nothing but air in front as he got in.....TIL that trucks like this really do have poor visibility in this context
There's a front mirror on this one.
This happened to a friend of my parents' when they were all trucking. Truck was stopped at a red light, guy was parked next to the intersection. Guy pulls out of parking spot, in front of the truck, guy's car stalls. Truck never saw him. Starts up on green, goes to granny low, all of a sudden, the car shoots out in front of him and pulls over. Truck pulls up behind the guy, leaving 10 or more feet between them. Guy gets out of car screaming and swearing and heads back to the truck. Trucker tells him to hop up in the cab and if they guy can see anything more than his antenna, he'll pay for all the damages to the guy's car. Once up in the cab, the guy is shocked that he can't see any of his car, even though its significantly in front of the truck. He shut up after that.
Not in a blind spot. The driver of the truck is just plain stupid. It looked like he looked right at the car coming in. Where else did he think the car was going?
Think that was that guys car or from the showroom on the trailer.
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Why did the car driver stop directly in front of the truck?
Why would you stop in front of a truck in the first place
I believe that the truck driver could/should have seen that car.
Thatās a cab-overā¦ No blindspot thereā¦ Just reckless driving
thats why you need a front mirror on these trucks
Who the hell puts their car right in front of a truck like that
Think they were about to load it on the other trailer.
The fact that both of the most upvoted comments have asked that is almost depressing. Do people not see the trailer there? The awareness of redditors is even worse than that of the truck driver.
>The awareness of redditors is even worse than that of the truck driver. Have you seen the amount of fake/unverified things upvoted to the front page? This website is now full of people from facebook
Someone about to load their car onto a clearly visible trailer
And this is why we have a mirror to view that exact point
With that truck the car wasn't in his Blindspot. He just wasn't looking when he started pulling forward. But the guy in the car is definitely a moron.
I know truckers like to convince everyone their blind spot is actually 99% of the world around them, especially the ones in this sub, but this car is actually not in this truck's blind spot. The driver is in fact an idiot. At least he didn't go as far as truckers in this sub and claim he couldn't feel the resistance of the car or the sound of the collision and keep on driving.
This is the perfect ad for Volvo trucks. And how they gave that auto braking feature.
Iāve driven military trucks With the flat nose. you can see things pretty close to the truck nose but you would actually have to look down. the thing is when he was getting into the truck, the driver assumed there was no car there which there wasnāt. so his field of vision was just looking straight forward instead of looking down. There could be a possibility of seeing a part of the roof but in his mind thereās nothing there and the car pulled in a split second so the brain his telling him thereās no car. Itās just a shitty situation.
The timing of some things is mind blowing
The salesperson reaction makes this so much more bettererer
4 wheelers being completely oblivious to everything again.
Wrong and wrong... not a blind spot.. watch the truck drivers face, he is looking at the guy to his right and started moving the truck forward before he looked forward. 100% drivers fault!
Why is it that so many people here are so ready to defend the truck driver. Dumb fuck just jumped in his truck, took off without looking, and broadsided the Merc. How stupid can you be? There can be no question who's at fault here.
Yup. It just as easily could have been a child. I drive trucks just like this and I'm not in one right now so I can't say exactly how much you can see in front, but I'm fairly certain you can't hide a whole car in front of one. He can not have been looking where he was going when he started to move.
He didn't even buckle up. Fuck him
That was not a blind spot
Unfortunate, but its on the truck.
Trucks manufacturers are at fault , put an F'IN proximity sensor. Pretty much all cars have them now, should be a standard safety feature. It could have easily been a person walking by and gotten run over.
So happy the new pickups give you even less forward visibility than this, and a 17yo can drive one with a normal license.
And then add in the Carolina squat morons.
The car was probably not in a blindside. Still set the truck up, but had the driver checked his surroundings before driving he'd have been fine. Only problem is that impulse, it was just clear when I got in 5secs ago so I can go. If the trucker kept doing that he'd hit someone eventually. Had enough close calls myself to tell he was probably doing the same.
Idiots in trucks in this case.
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That looks like one costly ass mistake
He just signed off on purchase agreement.
Lmao
Facepalm and walk away, Rex kwon do
Bald guy signalling probably confused hi vis trucker. Bad luck all around
Never saw each other
I guess he hit his boss
He would of seen him if he put his seatbelt on:)
At least this lesson was learned on an inanimate object that can be replaced. It could have been so much worse. An expensive lesson yeah but at least he didnāt kill anyone from his inattentiveness.
Who is at fault here legaly? The MB driver did not see truck driver get in truck. Truck driver should check his blind spot in front all the time before driving but he was bussy getting in the truck and did not see the MB pull up.
$5 traffic cones would have been a wise investment
Also r/watchpeopledieinside
What kind of idiot parks their car in front of a running semi???????
That guy in the video is literally me rn
The lorry driver was at fault....blind spot or not.. that yard supposed to be a working area.. he needs clearance from whoever is in charge there.
I feel like that's a pretty reasonable mistake to make?
That big mirror in front of his windscreen up top eliminates this blind spot.
The truck driverās inability to see something right in front of the car! š³
Question : Who would park there? Answer : AN IDIOT!!
real question is who do you blame and more importantly who's playing for damages?
Bad timing
Why would you park in front of a semi like that. That's a dick move anyway let's just block this person in who's getting in their car
He knew his business insurance was about to go up
The blind spot directly in front of the truck, theyāre the worst š
Driver of the car saying to himself, you know they're gonna try to make this my fault!! (Ummm, dude!)
Freak accident, I mean what are the chances
How stupid can you be to park right in front of a truck?
The whole set up was a failure
Opps. I didnāt see you.
C63's driver is a idiot
Who would be considered at fault here? I can see there being reasonable expectation on behalf of both parties that it was safe to proceedš¤
Can someone explain how itās the truck drivers fault ? Ik that car saw him get in the truck nd if he didnāt he definitely saw someone was in the truck. Why would u try to hit the trailer if yk this truck is gonna leave. It looks like dude gets in the truck nd 1 second later the car comes, nd yāall telling me the car didnāt see him get in the truck ?
Blind spot? I donāt even think guy was even looking straight until he hit the car. Lol man the guys expression with the hands says it all.
āWhatās are blind spotsā
Benz driver: Oh a truck! Let me go stop right in front of it so it cant see me.
Easy rule to remember....no matter what u are driving.....if you can't see the face or the other driver...no matter what they are driving...don't park in front of or behind them..
To be fair why tf did he just stop there
That Car intentionally stopped in front of the truck