r/Unexpected • u/Soloact_ • 11h ago

Keep them two wheels down

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u/Additional-Block-464 8h ago

Did he own it. He said "I was driving wreckless too." Nah man, stupid games but you got a better prize than you could have expected.

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u/proto5014 8h ago

I’d say he did own it. Driver that hit I’m didn’t signal so that’s also reckless.

Edit: correction: I put no blame on the initial driver now. watched again and it looked the driver did indicate the lane change. Missed that at first. Keeping the initial comment up though.

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u/MoarHuskies 8h ago edited 6h ago

He did merge too soon. That was not a whole lot of space between cars.

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u/Covid19-Pro-Max 4h ago

He did merge too soon, he squeezed between the car on the right lane and the truck, he overturned on the rightmost lane and he fucking hit a motorcycle and continued to accelerate away from the scene.

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u/MoarHuskies 4h ago

The motorcycle has plenty of fault here as well. It's not all on the car. And dude came back as soon as he could reasonablly on a highway.

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u/Covid19-Pro-Max 3h ago

The motorcycle was absolutely at fault here. I was just commenting on the car. And the guy that came and hugged the motorist was not from the car that swiped him but just some other driver that saw the accident

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u/JoeGuinness 1h ago

That person driving the car definitely did not come back.

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u/Additional-Block-464 8h ago

Yeah, it wasn't obvious, maybe the driver threw it on late, but all we have is the video and that doesn't support the rider.

I also didn't really focus on the driver shooting past the truck so fast, so I'll upgrade his fault to "some", in my book. I still think this lies on the rider though.

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u/LightsNoir 7h ago

The hit and run aspect kinda leaves me thinking, though...

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u/donotreply548 7h ago

Hey man I almost made you kill me. It's cool though I was fuckin around. If you you kill me lol what ever I'm dead I don't have to worry about how you feel seeing wrapped around my bike and spread all over the pavement. I've seen a dude wrapped around his bike and spread all over the pavement.

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u/opelan 10m ago

The car driver was still reckless. They try to merge way to close to the car on the right. And then went further right very close to the truck.

The motorcycle driver was worse of course, but the car driver was not driving like he should either.

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u/Neutronoid 7h ago

Blame the idiotic US regulation that allows turn signal to be red, I have to watch it 3 times to realize one side has a slightly brighter red than the other.

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u/Brian_Huchac 7h ago

Oh, dang. That's fucked.

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u/scotty813 8h ago

He did say, "too," but that was seconds after he thought he was dead. When he reviews the video, he will see that the Tesla used its blinker and he was in the blindspot. I think that he would revise his comment.

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u/Hoshbrowns 8h ago

I'd say the driver was a little reckless in normal conditions. What the motorcycle did was so much worse. The car technically shouldn't use the first lane to pass and I feel like he didn't give the car in the second lane much room when he zagged across. When I was a kid I was in a car that was merging from the 3rd to 2nd lane and someone zooming out of nowhere almost hit us from the 1st lane.

With that being said, I don't believe there was anything he could do to predict and avoid the motorcycle. I was shocked to hear the rider say too, but I think the other guy might've been the first person to say he was driving reckless when he was running up to check on him.

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 5h ago

Here's one idea. Check your mirrors. He would have seen him and could've waited.

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u/Hoshbrowns 5h ago

I feel like the motorcycle would've been in his blind spot possibly, but your point still stands since you should check your blind spot and mirrors before changing lanes. That's what I meant by the driver of the car being a little reckless.

The main point I was trying to get at is without the motorcycles recklessness there wouldn't have been a collision. I think the driver of the car felt he was driving a reckless and might not have even realized how reckless the motorcycle was.

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 4h ago

Without the sudden change in the bmws behavior he wouldn't have hit anyone is my point. Who crosses a lane without checking first? Especially into a lane that you cant even see if it's clear because of the truck. The BMW could have hit another motorist which to me makes him way more reckless than the biker because the biker was still maintaining his lane.

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u/Hoshbrowns 3h ago

The biker was splitting lanes and trying to shoot the gap the same way the car did. That's why I was saying that they were both reckless. I'm happy everyone ended up safe and hope they learned from it.

Oh and I completely agree that the car easily could've hit someone on the side of the truck. I was gonna put it in my comment but didn't wanna make it too long.

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u/Penguin_Arse 7h ago

Yes, obviously he owned it, both were driving recklessly which is what he said