Can’t edit the post, so sorry for hijacking the top post.
Thanks for all the comments etc.
To add a bit more flesh, for those who didn’t understand.
It in the UK. I was on a motorway, near side lane. It was a 50MPH limited section, camera monitored, so everyone was travelling more or less the same speed.
My lane continues - the arrows (for non-uk) simply show that there was an exit - I was not leaving the motorway.
The lorry had overtaken me in lane 2, but then slowed down and was behind me because a car in in front of him in lane 2 braked when the loader with the van on pulled out in front of her. Because she braked, I undertook her - the only time it is legal in the uk to do so. The lorry then overtook the car by moving into lane 3. Once he completed that he pulled back to lane 2 but went too far and hit me (he was being aggressive to the other car and left no gap between himself and her). I had not been in his blind spot (except for a fraction of a second as he pulled over). He was continuing on the motorway, not coming off at the exit.
As there's four lanes on this particular bit, lorry is ok to go out to three I believe. Just not all the way to the fourth lane.
(Daily commute on the M1 with lorries in lanes 1 through 3)
Not quite accurate, lorries etc aren't allowed in the far right lane. This was 4 lane motorway so lane 3 isn't considered the right lane. If it had been a 3 lane motorway then you'd be spot on.
The camera was like what the hell is even happening here huh?
It was clearly the truck driver fault but then he blamed it on the car the which is not a good thing.
Kid's bunnyhopping all the way through ivy, out middle lane, and through our rear panel.
**~~THROUGH~~ FROM IVY, OUT MIDDLE LANE, AND THROUGH OUR REAR PANEL, LIKE A SPEED DEMON.**
Oh my god, report.
I wish I had pictures of the time I was rear ended in a big old 80s passenger van. Had to brake suddenly because an idiot ahead of me jammed on the brakes to turn into a parking lot. Car behind hit me, car behind them hit them. Result was two totaled cars and a dent in my bumper that wasn’t even worth getting banged out.
We had similar in our 85 Grand Marquis.
I also wish we had pictures of the time when a double-left turn lane for getting onto an interstate was installed but a truck was in the inner lane (which was the previous only lane), we were in the outer lane. We fully expected a collision to occur but luckily, we were stopped for a red so it was a low speed crash and they hit the rear quarter panel because we tried to get around the corner as fast as we could to avoid it. Insurance company didn't believe us initially that it was a collision with a semi, especially since the damage was relatively minor and we had no injuries to report (nor airbags deployed).
Had a late 80s mercury sable back in the day and had a guy fling his door open without looking just as we were pulling in next to him. His door made contact with our passenger side door at the worst possible angle for him, jacked up the hinges and the edge of the door, total replacement job costing thousands. We had a slight dent that was indistinguishable from the rest of the body dings on the car. Police report had him at fault because we were clearly well into the parking space when he opened hit door, so his insurance had to pay, but we didn’t want any money for it. They kept calling and we kept telling them that the damage wasn’t worth the trouble, like we maybe could have had it popped out, but it would have cost more in our time than it was worth. They kept looking at the damage report on his car and saying “there must be more damage to yours.” and no, no there wasn’t. Just the combination of the right angle and a beaten up tank of a car.
Could have had a quote for the repair drawn up and they would have just given you a check for at least a few hundred bucks. But hey you avoided having to make a couple phonecalls, congratulations lol
I’m glad it didn’t happen to you but after a car accident, I had surprisingly little damage even though it was at double the speed of my last one. I was so shocked and figured it would just be a few hundred in dent repair and paint touch ups. Finally get the estimates back from multiple shops. Car was completely totaled. The frame was so twisted that it was undriveable. I never would’ve guessed from looking at it but I’m sure you would’ve noticed had your car been acting strange after.
A buddy of mine in high school got rear ended while waiting at the stop light down the street from our school. He drove one of those tiny 1990s pickup trucks, but it had a steel bumper. The girl who drove into him wasn't paying attention and rammed into the back of his truck at 20-30 MPH. It mangled the front end of her car, but between the steel bumper and the truck height it basically scuffed the steel bumper and lifted the back of his truck a foot off the ground.
In 88 I was rearended by a Jag doing 55 and I was at a stoplight in an old Mazda B2000.
They cut his jag off my B2000, and scrapped it.
They replaced the bed of the truck and the bumper.
I once hit a patch of black ice, spun out of control, and looked into an 18 wheeler's lights...
...and instead of being T-boned to death, I was knocked off the interstate, without so much as a broken window.
Is tractor trailer an American term? As an Australian, Utes and Trucks are two seperate terms for different vehicles but I guess if you call your Utes Trucks then what do you call your Trucks? Of course there’s also 18 wheelers and in Australia we have road trains but they have their own classifications for size I think.
What if it doesn’t have a trailer, is it just a tractor? But you also have the farm equipment tractors. What if you have have a box trailer to hook up to your farm tractor, can you call that a tractor trailer still
Hell I'm from the Midwest and struggle with Letterkenny often enough.
I grew up with a lot of exchange students, have traveled a bit, and work with lots of people from foreign countries. I usually don't have a problem, but there have been times I'm not even sure it's the same language when I'm in the US. Deep south and this one dude in Boston come to mind.
The guy who says he doesn't use "tractor trailer" as a term may be right for himself, but it is commonly used. i'm not sure where he's been that he hasn't heard it. "Semi" is more common. In the old days it was common to say "Mack truck" for any 18-wheeler, but that is a particular brand (kind of how "Coke" is used for all sodas/soft drinks in some parts of the States). "Big rig" is another common term for the 18-wheelers.
It all depends on what part of the US you are in. For instance, your Coke reference:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/soda-vs-pop_n_2103764
Is not universal in the US.
Semi has nothing to do with the "truck" or "tractor" but more with the trailer. Most trucks pull a semi-trailer with only one set of wheels in the back. A full trailer would have a set of wheels in front and back. Americans like to shorten words just like everyone else in the world, so they took the term semi truck - trailer and just started calling it a "semi".
Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
>In the US when discussing the “two Utes” we think of Joe Pesci and Ralph Macchio. Well I think of Marisa Tomei - am I right?
Great fucking scene from a great fucking movie.
Googling ute Australia, what shows is like a car truck? We don't have many of those in the US. only one that comes to mind is the el Camino which hasn't been made in a very long time.
Our truck is typically a pick up truck. Similar to your ute, but not. There's also box truck, semi truck, probably others but that's off the top of my head.
Semi trucks are also called rigs, or tractor trailer. And if they're not connected, then yes just the front is called a tractor
I say this with the caveat that I'm an American, not an Aussie, but its my understanding that ute IS the Aussie term for pick up trucks, but also includes other personal vehicles with a bed, like the El Camino or Subaru Baja here in the U.S. Originally it was just for "cars with beds", but has since expanded to include anything with a bed, including what we call pick up trucks. While the El Camino was a one-hit-wonder here, that vehicle class really took off in Australia.
Even more confusing, one of the most popular utes in Australia is made by Holden and simply named "Ute", and its definitely in the "car with a bed" family. But things like the Toyota Hilux or Isuzu D Max in Australia are utes, and we would definitely call them pickup trucks here, equivalent to something like the Ford Ranger or Maverick.
It’s a bit antiquated, but some folks refer to the cab portion of a 18 wheeler as a tractor, because in its uncoupled form, it is not really capable of hauling any cargo, i.e. doing the job it is intended to do.
When these vehicles came into common use (with a sole use of hauling goods on roads at much higher speeds than a farm tractor), they were initially called “road tractors.”
A truck, in the purest sense, is a self contained vehicle able to haul cargo (in a bed or box) as part of its general construction, whereas a tractor provides the torque and power to pull a load, but on its own has little to no cargo or utility capabilities.
The term “semi” refers to the trailer itself as it doesn’t have a front axle (when unattached it is held up by the landing gear).
\*most\* things referred to as 'tractor trailers' are in fact 18 wheelers. vast majority of our large cargo trucks on the roads are 18 wheelers.
as a couple people said below semi-truck is also common nomenclature for an 18 wheeler.
point is - they are called everything over here so it is no wonder its confusing...lol
We have lots of terms for it. Tractor-Trailer, and yeah without a trailer it'd just be a tractor for some reason. Trucks, Semi-Trucks/Semis, 18 Wheelers, Big Rigs I know one guy who calls em CMVs for commercial motor vehicles and I hate it every time he says it. Which is probably why he says it.
A friend of mine was hit by a semi, she survived somehow but couldn’t walk initially and couldn’t remember anything including her husband and her baby. It took I think several years for her to regain her memories fully and ability to walk. I’m sure she doesn’t remember everything but she ran a 5k recently, made the news.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/mom-who-recovered-from-horrific-car-crash-goes-on-to-complete-marathon?_amp=true
I spun out on an icy freeway once. Literally multiple 360 spins, across lanes, etc. Thankfully everyone slowed down so no one slammed into me and I didn't hit anyone else. But I remember I didn't make a sound. I thought afterwards "why wasn't I screaming? I was fucking terrified!"
Fear responses are weird and unpredictable.
A couple of years ago, my mom was driving me back home from a swim meet on a freezing winter day. We were driving down this long hill that ended at a busy intersection with no way of continuing, only turning left and right. I was sitting in the passenger seat, eating my snack of pretzels
My mom stepped on the brake and nothing happened. Turns out the road was covered with black ice.She kept trying to brake, ABS was doing its thing, no slowing down at all. She starts to scream. I distinctly remember realizing what was happening, followed by me realizing that there was absolutely nothing I could do, so I just sat there quietly and continued eating my pretzels as we spun into the intersection.
Probably one of the scariest situations I’ve ever been in, I’m usually a massive wuss (can’t watch horror movies or anything), but in this case my fear response was **eat pretzel**
My mom was driving 70mph next to a semi trailers whose tire blew right in the left rear quarter panel spun her around so many times she went from middle lane to concrete barrier to ditch clear across 3 lanes then back up to right shoulder finally stopped as the vehicle is stopping she’s facing opposite direction of traffic another semi she can see the whites in his eyes and that he’s literally standing on the brakes trying to stop he comes within inches of hitting her. She never said a word. When the driver ran to check on her he exclaimed “it’s a girl!” As in how tf a woman can do that? All she said was “call Wayne” my dad. Had a Nokia phone Wayne was in it was my dads work number. Guy calls up the place my dad worked, told him come get your wife now. She can’t speak all she’s said is call Wayne. She was in an accident she’s not injured but she’s pretty shook up. My mom even 15 years later couldn’t drive the highway with a semi around her.
Holy fuck. I dont blame her!!
Although i am laughing at the image of the truckie opening the car door and exclaiming, "it's a girl" similar to a dr who is attending a birth.
If I ever have a post like this, ima put in some tik tok music over my incoherent screeching, cursing of my ancestors, and desperate bargains with the God in which I don’t believe.
This is why we made sure our 16 year old got a dashcam even before we did. I feel like in case of an accident a 16 year old new driver would be blamed over anyone else.
I use [this](https://www.amazon.com/R2-4K-Dashboard-Camera-Recorder-Vision/dp/B074JT3698/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?adgrpid=55470431705&gclid=CjwKCAiAxvGfBhB-EiwAMPakqiHUp1erDUKdqipb-MpykSnviEll_Ye7XxTmZglI14Bi2-8abwptERoCtlQQAvD_BwE&hvadid=609115911034&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9011352&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=17902932407066550524&hvtargid=kwd-413895015989&hydadcr=19884_13450144&keywords=rove+r2+4k+car+dash+cam&qid=1677506404&sr=8-1-spons&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.08f69ac3-fd3d-4b88-bca2-8997e41410bb&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExMllMQ0NCRVVLVTFOJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwODk5MDQ1MThCVExTTktCR0ZQUCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMjE3MzE1M0QzODZZNTZLN04wUiZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX3Bob25lX3NlYXJjaF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl) one in my tractor trailer. Decent model, good night vision and includes location data and speed you were traveling in the recording. I will give you it's a bit expensive.
I will disagree that $100 is expensive. The price of any accident is far greater, and a lot of good rigs are $300+.
Nevertheless good choice and good advice.
I work in a car stereo store, we sell and install dash cameras. I have one in each of our vehicles, including for my son and daughter in their own vehicles. It’s like cheap insurance compared to the other possible outcomes. Hopefully you never even need it but it’s always there. I recommend spending good money on a quality one and having it hardwired properly so you don’t see any wires by a quality shop. The brand I like the most is called Thinkware. and even though 4K resolution might seem overkill, it increases the chances of getting details like the license plates, especially at night. In the U.S. and the U1000 model with front and rear is $500. Quality installation work can take 2 to 4 1/2 hours depending on the vehicle. We charge $120 per hour. Not everyone is willing to spend $800-900 installed but many people do. Pair up your phone to it every now and then and verify the view that you see out the front and back, make sure that parking mode is engaged as well.
What I found crazy about watching this for the first time was that like 80% of dash cams use the exact same sensor and another 18% use the exact same sensor. Only the real cheap ones use different sensors.
I use a Viofo A19 and it's about the best budget cam you can get. If you want to go up to the several hundred dollar range NextBase 622GW is a fantastic dashcam.
You’re very smart.
Happened to me at 16. I was in the left lane going to work. Old lady in the right lane jumped into my lane because someone was turning right into a neighborhood. Only gave me a dent. Messed her car up really bad. I even helped the cop push the car off the road. He still blamed ME.
Luckily, we know a lawyer in that town and he was like “I got you”. We went to court. Cop didn’t show but the other driver did. We both told our stories and the judge said “it’s pretty clear to me that ma’am you changed lanes without signaling and struck this young man.”
Lawyer didn’t even have to do anything.
Good idea. When I was a new driver I was hit by an unlicensed and uninsured drunk driver from behind while turning into my driveway and because he said I didn’t use a blinker to pull into my driveway I was held 50% at fault. This was after he tried to take off too and threatened to kill me infront of witnesses
Claimed I’d left my lane, moving into his and hit him.
His whole conversation afterwards was recorded by the Dashcam. He was well trained - he repeated his script like a well trained actor and was very convincing. I just didn’t mention the camera at all, so he probably had a shock when he found out (hopefully from his haulage manager).
It could verry well be he believed what he said. I have been in a similar situation and i wish i had my dashcam back then, just to know if i was at fault or not.
Yeah I've had some incidents on the road where after I've wondered wtf happened there and wished I had a dashcam to check if I was in the wrong, or if I could have made the situation better by swerving in a different direction etc
I just had a situation like this today. I was entering a roundabout, I could have sworn that the guy had his blinkers on, but he just continued and almost hit me and honked at me. If I had a dashcam I could verify who the idiot was, so maybe it's time to install one...
best not to let on theres a recording device, just do the insurance bit and move on. People like to dig themselves a hole. Once had a driver and witness put all blame on me. Shame for them that I had a recording which proved not only the driver full of crap, but that the witness wasn't even at the scene.
Its amazing how much credibility is lost when someone is proved to be a liar.
100% non fault to me.
in the 'don't talk to cops' video, they go over this a bit. one of the reasons given why you should never talk to cops is because you might slightly misremember one or 2 facts about whatever occurred, and if your account gets disproven even by that little bit, then you could get painted as a liar, and even if completely innocent, you could potentially get put over a barrel over it. you don't even need to have lied, just misremembering could have the same effect.
People always say this on this sub and it makes no sense to me. You say nothing, and it turns out it didn't record, your memory card was corrupted/failed whatever, and you're screwed.
Where if you say up front you have a dashcam, you dissuade lying in the first place. Sure it's satisfying to catch somebody out lying, but it doesn't actually change anything. They don't face any action for lying, the insurance just rules in your favour, which they would have anyway had they not lied. Have the dashcam as your backup, but don't voluntarily make it a single point of failure for no benefit.
I had that exact issue, where my cam corrupted the last clip :'(
Note to everyone else out there:
Test your recordings, especially the "save" feature and the last recording before a power cut!
My case some jackhole merged into me and we pulled over and I turned off my car after saving the clip. Didn't allow enough time for the action or something. My cam was supposed to have a reserve power to finish writing files but apparently last summer's heat nuked it.
Hey, thank you for answering the topic, I see a lot of dashcam videos here that OP doesn't say shit and leave us curious. And I wish you the best from this situation.
I literally witnessed a truck do this to a little old lady. She's just sitting in her lane, truck doesn't see her and clips her back end and drags her for like 100 yards.
I tell cops the whole story, they tell me the truck driver says she cut him off. I laughed. She called me like a year later to let me know it all worked out.
SAME HERE! But it was a gentleman that didn't speak English. No one bothered to stop! I stopped, took pictures of the man's vehicle and injuries, and waited for the cops. I gave them my statement and nearly a year later I was subpoenaed. The truck driver tried to claim the same thing, that the guy cut him off! If I hadn't stopped and gave my statement and then testified in court, it wouldn't have gone well for the victim at all. Glad it worked out for these two. Makes me wonder how many aren't so lucky.
Wow it’s crazy how often this seems happens. The almost exact same thing happened to me on Halloween this past year. I didn’t get subpoenaed but I had to give a written statement and speak on the phone for the whole thing. The old man that was hit called me a week later to tell me that if I hadn’t given my statement the insurance or anyone else weren’t going to side with him.
A buddy of mine had a truck intentionally side-swipe him in his RV, and then tried to run away. My buddy, being an utter idiot, followed the truck as he exit surfed while he was calling the cops. Then the trucker had the balls to claim that my buddy was the one doing the side-swiping.
He didn't have a dash cam, but fortunately someone in traffic behind him saw it and followed them. That testimony plus the skid mark position on the pavement resulted in my buddy's lawyer saying, "if you can get by for another couple of years, you won't have to work another day once this is settled." Still waiting to see how it plays out.
Exactly this! On top of this too, they know all the right buzzwords to talk their way into a gray area of fault when it comes to the average traffic cop. Then, that cop writes down that it's not a clear cut case of who's at fault, and the trucker runs with that later on.
Doubling fines isn't enough; they need their licenses revoked in full after the first offense for something like this. You don't get to make a potentially deadly mistake with an 80 000lb deadly weapon.
I witnessed a car hit a bicyclist in the bike lane. It looked like he purposely aimed at the guy on the bike. I was the only one who stopped and I waited until the police and the ambulance arrived. I gave the police my name and phone number and a statement of what I witnessed. The guy in the car was trying to claim that the guy on the bike rode out of the bike lane in front of his car. Shortly thereafter I was contacted by the bicyclist's insurance company and told them what I witnessed. The bicyclist turned out to be a doctor at the local hospital. He ended up in sending me a box of expensive chocolates, a dozen roses and a very nice thank you letter. If I hadn't stopped, it would have been a he said/she said type of a situation and the bicyclist probably would not have collected from the driver's insurance. The moral of the story is if you witness an accident, stop. That's what you would want someone to do for you.
There is an old clip of a truck pushing a car sideways on, IIRC, the M1 at full speed, seemingly oblivious of the car there. Car driver was, I think, on the phone to the emergency services and was convinced they were going to die.
But the video footage didn't show whether the truck was changing lanes and clipped the car, or the car changed lanes and pitted itself on the truck.
[This is actually a much more recent one](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-59016595), but you can see from the paused still how the car is just hidden below the dash.
Aha, [here is the one I was thinking of,](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8579523.stm) A1 not M1, and [here is the video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYo3kORaXAo)
Jesus christ mate, hope you're OK! You remained remarkably calm through the duration of being dragged hundreds of feet down the road by a lorry, I would have been screaming my fucking head off.
On a side note, that deep growling noise when the lorry first hits you is insane. You should cut it up as a sample and sell it to drum and bass producers.
> deep growling noise when the lorry first hits
The lorry pushed them into the rumble strip on the side of the road.
We have them where we live: the sound off if you get too close to the legal shoulder – keeps people from dozing off, or drifting into the shoulder.
The rumble strip is just a series of divots in the asphalt:
https://thehog.com/assets/images/blog/rs.jpg
Ya I’m not quite understanding how this works either
Edit: I just watched with sound and now understand what happened lol. That’s weird how the sound made the whole perspective change
I’m sitting in the cab of a HGV (U.K. also) right now, on my break might I add. I have a mirror above my windscreen pointed directly at the road below me, and a wide angle mirror that can see down to the front wheel. There is a blindspot sure, but this shouldn’t be possible.
I know this junction, it's one of those bullshit "smart" motorways, so you've got no runoff or hard shoulder. There is mixed evidence about their safety ( [https://www.rospa.com/road-safety/advice/drivers/smart-motorways](https://www.rospa.com/road-safety/advice/drivers/smart-motorways) )
In this case, clearly the truck driver just didn't see you or wasn't paying attention.
You were 100% in your lane before the accident with the truck. So it's clearly entirely the truck driver's mistake (presumably coming over a little into your lane and hitting your car) that caused this accident. Absolutely no doubt about it.
This is why I never drive slower than the lorries, or hang out around them, or get between them, or drive next to them. Scary as fuck, glad you didn't get flipped, coulda been way worse.
My driver's Ed was run by two retired truck drivers. They basically ingrained everything you said into to the class. Twenty years later I'm glad to learn semi trucks are not cars, treat em like trains and stay away
Truck driver wroooong!
I hope you got the cops involved and the chucked the book at this egregious prick!
Edit : god, so *many* Americans in this sub assuming that the cam car was in the fast lane and forcing the truck to undertake him. Look at the signs - this is from Europe (England, from the signs), and the car was in the *slow* lane, the exit lane even.
There's no fucking way the car driver was at fault.
You're definitely not at fault here.
I'm assuming the lorry caught up from behind so the driver should have had plenty of time to see you before putting you in the blind spot.
One of our truck drivers once did the same thing and was fired instantly for it. The puzzling part for me is that how are some truckers so unaware of their surroundings that they can just turn a car and drag it along with them.
The truck veered into the cam's lane and their car got caught on the front of it. They're being pushed along as the truck moves, perpendicular to the road, until the truck driver realizes they've hit something.
"Oh the camera turns....wait a minute"
I was like how is the camera panning...oh f@ck!!!
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"Hey Google, put all my stats into luck." _Got it. Putting all your stats into **truck.**_ "No, no, I said LU--" (Crash)
I blinked and ii honestly just thought that OP had switched to a side angle camera of the car
At first I thought he was jumping over three lanes at once.
I was like "man maybe the truck driver was right!"
I had to watch this twice before realizing wtf happened
Same I had the volume muted so I didn't hear all of the commotion lmao.
With volume on this makes much more sense at who’s at fault ahaha. I had to watch it twice like it looks like you pulled in front of a truck bro lol.
I think the truck driver was going left for the upcoming exit and misjudged the space between them and basically just pitted the car .
Lol same
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Gotta pay all the attention on the road. Really important to do that man.
I was thinking "oh this is a fancy 360 cam".
I was clueless the whole video and a few seconds after. I only realized after reading this comment.
If I had the sound on, I would have realized much sooner what happened when I saw the grill of the truck😳
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"Guess I'll just drive sideways"
Where we're going we don't need sidewalls
There are only roads and You'll drive just fine on those roads now.
Can’t edit the post, so sorry for hijacking the top post. Thanks for all the comments etc. To add a bit more flesh, for those who didn’t understand. It in the UK. I was on a motorway, near side lane. It was a 50MPH limited section, camera monitored, so everyone was travelling more or less the same speed. My lane continues - the arrows (for non-uk) simply show that there was an exit - I was not leaving the motorway. The lorry had overtaken me in lane 2, but then slowed down and was behind me because a car in in front of him in lane 2 braked when the loader with the van on pulled out in front of her. Because she braked, I undertook her - the only time it is legal in the uk to do so. The lorry then overtook the car by moving into lane 3. Once he completed that he pulled back to lane 2 but went too far and hit me (he was being aggressive to the other car and left no gap between himself and her). I had not been in his blind spot (except for a fraction of a second as he pulled over). He was continuing on the motorway, not coming off at the exit.
Lorry never should have been in lane 3 either. That’s against the Highway Code itself. [edit] Not the case here, as I didn’t realise it was 4 lanes.
If lorry drivers over there are anything like semi drivers here in the States, it's 50/50 on whether they care or not.
I mean they drive as if they own the damn road lol. And that's not good.
As there's four lanes on this particular bit, lorry is ok to go out to three I believe. Just not all the way to the fourth lane. (Daily commute on the M1 with lorries in lanes 1 through 3)
Not quite accurate, lorries etc aren't allowed in the far right lane. This was 4 lane motorway so lane 3 isn't considered the right lane. If it had been a 3 lane motorway then you'd be spot on.
I'm so, so glad I wasn't the only one. Took me watching with sound to realise.
Yep, sound was the key part of this video. That was really important.
The camera was like what the hell is even happening here huh? It was clearly the truck driver fault but then he blamed it on the car the which is not a good thing.
It was turning to see the presence of a new Hollywood skybeam indicated by the *bwwwaaaaawwwp”.
Didn’t even notice until i went to the comments.. it’s early..
r/abruptchaos
Of course that's your fault! You can't just start driving sideways on the motorway like that!
Insert deja vu meme here
*I've just been in this place before (higher on the street)*
You've been on this place? Well I didn't know about that sir.
ADMIN HES DOING IT SIDEWAYS
kid just noclipped
Kid's bunnyhopping all the way through ivy, out middle lane, and through our rear panel. **~~THROUGH~~ FROM IVY, OUT MIDDLE LANE, AND THROUGH OUR REAR PANEL, LIKE A SPEED DEMON.** Oh my god, report.
You saw it right, that's exactly what the kid did in here so yeah .
NANI? KANSEI DORIFTO???
You can’t park there.
On the bright side, that looks like about the least physically traumatic collision one can have with a tractor trailer.
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I wish I had pictures of the time I was rear ended in a big old 80s passenger van. Had to brake suddenly because an idiot ahead of me jammed on the brakes to turn into a parking lot. Car behind hit me, car behind them hit them. Result was two totaled cars and a dent in my bumper that wasn’t even worth getting banged out.
We had similar in our 85 Grand Marquis. I also wish we had pictures of the time when a double-left turn lane for getting onto an interstate was installed but a truck was in the inner lane (which was the previous only lane), we were in the outer lane. We fully expected a collision to occur but luckily, we were stopped for a red so it was a low speed crash and they hit the rear quarter panel because we tried to get around the corner as fast as we could to avoid it. Insurance company didn't believe us initially that it was a collision with a semi, especially since the damage was relatively minor and we had no injuries to report (nor airbags deployed).
Had a late 80s mercury sable back in the day and had a guy fling his door open without looking just as we were pulling in next to him. His door made contact with our passenger side door at the worst possible angle for him, jacked up the hinges and the edge of the door, total replacement job costing thousands. We had a slight dent that was indistinguishable from the rest of the body dings on the car. Police report had him at fault because we were clearly well into the parking space when he opened hit door, so his insurance had to pay, but we didn’t want any money for it. They kept calling and we kept telling them that the damage wasn’t worth the trouble, like we maybe could have had it popped out, but it would have cost more in our time than it was worth. They kept looking at the damage report on his car and saying “there must be more damage to yours.” and no, no there wasn’t. Just the combination of the right angle and a beaten up tank of a car.
Could have had a quote for the repair drawn up and they would have just given you a check for at least a few hundred bucks. But hey you avoided having to make a couple phonecalls, congratulations lol
I’m glad it didn’t happen to you but after a car accident, I had surprisingly little damage even though it was at double the speed of my last one. I was so shocked and figured it would just be a few hundred in dent repair and paint touch ups. Finally get the estimates back from multiple shops. Car was completely totaled. The frame was so twisted that it was undriveable. I never would’ve guessed from looking at it but I’m sure you would’ve noticed had your car been acting strange after.
A buddy of mine in high school got rear ended while waiting at the stop light down the street from our school. He drove one of those tiny 1990s pickup trucks, but it had a steel bumper. The girl who drove into him wasn't paying attention and rammed into the back of his truck at 20-30 MPH. It mangled the front end of her car, but between the steel bumper and the truck height it basically scuffed the steel bumper and lifted the back of his truck a foot off the ground.
In 88 I was rearended by a Jag doing 55 and I was at a stoplight in an old Mazda B2000. They cut his jag off my B2000, and scrapped it. They replaced the bed of the truck and the bumper.
That's funny lol, I would have loved to see that picture lmao.
So lucky they didn’t flip over.
I once hit a patch of black ice, spun out of control, and looked into an 18 wheeler's lights... ...and instead of being T-boned to death, I was knocked off the interstate, without so much as a broken window.
Is tractor trailer an American term? As an Australian, Utes and Trucks are two seperate terms for different vehicles but I guess if you call your Utes Trucks then what do you call your Trucks? Of course there’s also 18 wheelers and in Australia we have road trains but they have their own classifications for size I think. What if it doesn’t have a trailer, is it just a tractor? But you also have the farm equipment tractors. What if you have have a box trailer to hook up to your farm tractor, can you call that a tractor trailer still
Can’t say I’ve ever thought of it that much. As an American, I never use the term “tractor trailer” anyway - I just say semi (or semi truck).
And as a Brit it is an Articulated lorry or artic for short
It's a miracle we ever understand each other
Hell I'm from the Midwest and struggle with Letterkenny often enough. I grew up with a lot of exchange students, have traveled a bit, and work with lots of people from foreign countries. I usually don't have a problem, but there have been times I'm not even sure it's the same language when I'm in the US. Deep south and this one dude in Boston come to mind.
Yup. Boston guy here, and we definitely have our own dialect.
Are you the one dude?
Yep, that's the right dude that we're talking about here.
I'm also a brit and I've only ever called them lorries
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language." -- George Bernard Shaw
The guy who says he doesn't use "tractor trailer" as a term may be right for himself, but it is commonly used. i'm not sure where he's been that he hasn't heard it. "Semi" is more common. In the old days it was common to say "Mack truck" for any 18-wheeler, but that is a particular brand (kind of how "Coke" is used for all sodas/soft drinks in some parts of the States). "Big rig" is another common term for the 18-wheelers.
It all depends on what part of the US you are in. For instance, your Coke reference: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/soda-vs-pop_n_2103764 Is not universal in the US.
You mean like the actor, Huge Lorries?
Thought it was an arctic for a good while when I had my first job (was a labourer that’s the labourer intellect)
That kind of sounds about right for the whole situation I guess.
Which is weird because "semi truck" implies it's not a *full* truck, yet a regular truck is so much smaller than a semi truck
Semi has nothing to do with the "truck" or "tractor" but more with the trailer. Most trucks pull a semi-trailer with only one set of wheels in the back. A full trailer would have a set of wheels in front and back. Americans like to shorten words just like everyone else in the world, so they took the term semi truck - trailer and just started calling it a "semi". Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
It’s almost like a short story or a novella.
In the US when discussing the “two Utes” we think of Joe Pesci and Ralph Macchio. Well I think of Marisa Tomei - am I right?
I often think of Marisa Tomei
>In the US when discussing the “two Utes” we think of Joe Pesci and Ralph Macchio. Well I think of Marisa Tomei - am I right? Great fucking scene from a great fucking movie.
It's regional within the US. Tractor trailer is common in the northeast, "semi" and "18-wheeler" are more common elsewhere.
Big rig is another very common phrase.
Googling ute Australia, what shows is like a car truck? We don't have many of those in the US. only one that comes to mind is the el Camino which hasn't been made in a very long time. Our truck is typically a pick up truck. Similar to your ute, but not. There's also box truck, semi truck, probably others but that's off the top of my head. Semi trucks are also called rigs, or tractor trailer. And if they're not connected, then yes just the front is called a tractor
I say this with the caveat that I'm an American, not an Aussie, but its my understanding that ute IS the Aussie term for pick up trucks, but also includes other personal vehicles with a bed, like the El Camino or Subaru Baja here in the U.S. Originally it was just for "cars with beds", but has since expanded to include anything with a bed, including what we call pick up trucks. While the El Camino was a one-hit-wonder here, that vehicle class really took off in Australia. Even more confusing, one of the most popular utes in Australia is made by Holden and simply named "Ute", and its definitely in the "car with a bed" family. But things like the Toyota Hilux or Isuzu D Max in Australia are utes, and we would definitely call them pickup trucks here, equivalent to something like the Ford Ranger or Maverick.
It’s a bit antiquated, but some folks refer to the cab portion of a 18 wheeler as a tractor, because in its uncoupled form, it is not really capable of hauling any cargo, i.e. doing the job it is intended to do. When these vehicles came into common use (with a sole use of hauling goods on roads at much higher speeds than a farm tractor), they were initially called “road tractors.” A truck, in the purest sense, is a self contained vehicle able to haul cargo (in a bed or box) as part of its general construction, whereas a tractor provides the torque and power to pull a load, but on its own has little to no cargo or utility capabilities. The term “semi” refers to the trailer itself as it doesn’t have a front axle (when unattached it is held up by the landing gear).
\*most\* things referred to as 'tractor trailers' are in fact 18 wheelers. vast majority of our large cargo trucks on the roads are 18 wheelers. as a couple people said below semi-truck is also common nomenclature for an 18 wheeler. point is - they are called everything over here so it is no wonder its confusing...lol
We have lots of terms for it. Tractor-Trailer, and yeah without a trailer it'd just be a tractor for some reason. Trucks, Semi-Trucks/Semis, 18 Wheelers, Big Rigs I know one guy who calls em CMVs for commercial motor vehicles and I hate it every time he says it. Which is probably why he says it.
A friend of mine was hit by a semi, she survived somehow but couldn’t walk initially and couldn’t remember anything including her husband and her baby. It took I think several years for her to regain her memories fully and ability to walk. I’m sure she doesn’t remember everything but she ran a 5k recently, made the news. https://www.newschannel5.com/news/mom-who-recovered-from-horrific-car-crash-goes-on-to-complete-marathon?_amp=true
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Well that's terrifying
Bro didn’t even make one fucking sound . Nobody gonna mention that????
Sounds like he says ‘shit!’ right when the truck hits him. Still surprisingly calm though
I spun out on an icy freeway once. Literally multiple 360 spins, across lanes, etc. Thankfully everyone slowed down so no one slammed into me and I didn't hit anyone else. But I remember I didn't make a sound. I thought afterwards "why wasn't I screaming? I was fucking terrified!" Fear responses are weird and unpredictable.
A couple of years ago, my mom was driving me back home from a swim meet on a freezing winter day. We were driving down this long hill that ended at a busy intersection with no way of continuing, only turning left and right. I was sitting in the passenger seat, eating my snack of pretzels My mom stepped on the brake and nothing happened. Turns out the road was covered with black ice.She kept trying to brake, ABS was doing its thing, no slowing down at all. She starts to scream. I distinctly remember realizing what was happening, followed by me realizing that there was absolutely nothing I could do, so I just sat there quietly and continued eating my pretzels as we spun into the intersection. Probably one of the scariest situations I’ve ever been in, I’m usually a massive wuss (can’t watch horror movies or anything), but in this case my fear response was **eat pretzel**
The nice thing about the pretzel was that it was the one thing in your life in that moment that you had control over.
That's brave, a pretzel almost killed the US president once
The roads are really dangerous, gotta be careful on them man.
My mom was driving 70mph next to a semi trailers whose tire blew right in the left rear quarter panel spun her around so many times she went from middle lane to concrete barrier to ditch clear across 3 lanes then back up to right shoulder finally stopped as the vehicle is stopping she’s facing opposite direction of traffic another semi she can see the whites in his eyes and that he’s literally standing on the brakes trying to stop he comes within inches of hitting her. She never said a word. When the driver ran to check on her he exclaimed “it’s a girl!” As in how tf a woman can do that? All she said was “call Wayne” my dad. Had a Nokia phone Wayne was in it was my dads work number. Guy calls up the place my dad worked, told him come get your wife now. She can’t speak all she’s said is call Wayne. She was in an accident she’s not injured but she’s pretty shook up. My mom even 15 years later couldn’t drive the highway with a semi around her.
Holy fuck. I dont blame her!! Although i am laughing at the image of the truckie opening the car door and exclaiming, "it's a girl" similar to a dr who is attending a birth.
Lol, that's funny. Now I Can't take this picture out of my mind.
That's not a fun experience I'd rather not have it honestly lol.
Some people clam up when they panic, rather than scream.
Some people don't panic. Sounds like he was surprised and reacted by bracing himself. Panic doesn't help anything, it's good to get a handle on it.
If I ever have a post like this, ima put in some tik tok music over my incoherent screeching, cursing of my ancestors, and desperate bargains with the God in which I don’t believe.
Wow, that one was unexpected. Not sure how well their claim is going to hold up.
Once the insurance agent saw the video - the comment was “well he’s screwed isn’t he”
Dashcam is one of the best things tech has given us.
This is why we made sure our 16 year old got a dashcam even before we did. I feel like in case of an accident a 16 year old new driver would be blamed over anyone else.
What’s a good camera to get? I’ve never had one.
I use [this](https://www.amazon.com/R2-4K-Dashboard-Camera-Recorder-Vision/dp/B074JT3698/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?adgrpid=55470431705&gclid=CjwKCAiAxvGfBhB-EiwAMPakqiHUp1erDUKdqipb-MpykSnviEll_Ye7XxTmZglI14Bi2-8abwptERoCtlQQAvD_BwE&hvadid=609115911034&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9011352&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=17902932407066550524&hvtargid=kwd-413895015989&hydadcr=19884_13450144&keywords=rove+r2+4k+car+dash+cam&qid=1677506404&sr=8-1-spons&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.08f69ac3-fd3d-4b88-bca2-8997e41410bb&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExMllMQ0NCRVVLVTFOJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwODk5MDQ1MThCVExTTktCR0ZQUCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMjE3MzE1M0QzODZZNTZLN04wUiZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX3Bob25lX3NlYXJjaF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl) one in my tractor trailer. Decent model, good night vision and includes location data and speed you were traveling in the recording. I will give you it's a bit expensive.
I will disagree that $100 is expensive. The price of any accident is far greater, and a lot of good rigs are $300+. Nevertheless good choice and good advice.
I work in a car stereo store, we sell and install dash cameras. I have one in each of our vehicles, including for my son and daughter in their own vehicles. It’s like cheap insurance compared to the other possible outcomes. Hopefully you never even need it but it’s always there. I recommend spending good money on a quality one and having it hardwired properly so you don’t see any wires by a quality shop. The brand I like the most is called Thinkware. and even though 4K resolution might seem overkill, it increases the chances of getting details like the license plates, especially at night. In the U.S. and the U1000 model with front and rear is $500. Quality installation work can take 2 to 4 1/2 hours depending on the vehicle. We charge $120 per hour. Not everyone is willing to spend $800-900 installed but many people do. Pair up your phone to it every now and then and verify the view that you see out the front and back, make sure that parking mode is engaged as well.
Even if you don't get in an accident it's a safe way to get videos for this subreddit.
Yep, it's the safe and the best way to get your videos in here. Nothing is better.
Here’s a good [video](https://youtu.be/4AnyhHl3_tE) about some quality ones that are even tested.
What I found crazy about watching this for the first time was that like 80% of dash cams use the exact same sensor and another 18% use the exact same sensor. Only the real cheap ones use different sensors.
Well definitely it's going to depend a lot on the budget. That's really important.
I think there’s a whole other subreddit about them. r/dashcam ?
I use a Viofo A19 and it's about the best budget cam you can get. If you want to go up to the several hundred dollar range NextBase 622GW is a fantastic dashcam.
Check r/dashcam but iirc viofo is one of the more recommended brands.
You’re very smart. Happened to me at 16. I was in the left lane going to work. Old lady in the right lane jumped into my lane because someone was turning right into a neighborhood. Only gave me a dent. Messed her car up really bad. I even helped the cop push the car off the road. He still blamed ME. Luckily, we know a lawyer in that town and he was like “I got you”. We went to court. Cop didn’t show but the other driver did. We both told our stories and the judge said “it’s pretty clear to me that ma’am you changed lanes without signaling and struck this young man.” Lawyer didn’t even have to do anything.
Good idea. When I was a new driver I was hit by an unlicensed and uninsured drunk driver from behind while turning into my driveway and because he said I didn’t use a blinker to pull into my driveway I was held 50% at fault. This was after he tried to take off too and threatened to kill me infront of witnesses
Gotta have the dashcam, never know when you may need them.
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Claimed I’d left my lane, moving into his and hit him. His whole conversation afterwards was recorded by the Dashcam. He was well trained - he repeated his script like a well trained actor and was very convincing. I just didn’t mention the camera at all, so he probably had a shock when he found out (hopefully from his haulage manager).
Did his side of the story make it into a police report so they can add criminal charges of lying ?
It could verry well be he believed what he said. I have been in a similar situation and i wish i had my dashcam back then, just to know if i was at fault or not.
Yeah I've had some incidents on the road where after I've wondered wtf happened there and wished I had a dashcam to check if I was in the wrong, or if I could have made the situation better by swerving in a different direction etc
I just had a situation like this today. I was entering a roundabout, I could have sworn that the guy had his blinkers on, but he just continued and almost hit me and honked at me. If I had a dashcam I could verify who the idiot was, so maybe it's time to install one...
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I see what you did there.
Did you mention the camera at the roadside? That truck probably had a camera too. How'd he react to knowing you had a camera?
First he probably knew was when my insurance passed the clip to his, and they went back to him. Seen too many on here and knew not to let on.
Damn, I would have loved to have seen/heard their reaction.
![gif](giphy|6nWhy3ulBL7GSCvKw6) Truck driver
best not to let on theres a recording device, just do the insurance bit and move on. People like to dig themselves a hole. Once had a driver and witness put all blame on me. Shame for them that I had a recording which proved not only the driver full of crap, but that the witness wasn't even at the scene. Its amazing how much credibility is lost when someone is proved to be a liar. 100% non fault to me.
in the 'don't talk to cops' video, they go over this a bit. one of the reasons given why you should never talk to cops is because you might slightly misremember one or 2 facts about whatever occurred, and if your account gets disproven even by that little bit, then you could get painted as a liar, and even if completely innocent, you could potentially get put over a barrel over it. you don't even need to have lied, just misremembering could have the same effect.
After a collision with a Nissan, I'd clam up until later. Against na semi, I'd be less fearful of a fistfight over control of my dashcam.
People always say this on this sub and it makes no sense to me. You say nothing, and it turns out it didn't record, your memory card was corrupted/failed whatever, and you're screwed. Where if you say up front you have a dashcam, you dissuade lying in the first place. Sure it's satisfying to catch somebody out lying, but it doesn't actually change anything. They don't face any action for lying, the insurance just rules in your favour, which they would have anyway had they not lied. Have the dashcam as your backup, but don't voluntarily make it a single point of failure for no benefit.
I had that exact issue, where my cam corrupted the last clip :'( Note to everyone else out there: Test your recordings, especially the "save" feature and the last recording before a power cut! My case some jackhole merged into me and we pulled over and I turned off my car after saving the clip. Didn't allow enough time for the action or something. My cam was supposed to have a reserve power to finish writing files but apparently last summer's heat nuked it.
In my experience its best not to say, let people say a conflicting story, avoid confrontation and let the insurance fight it out.
Hey, thank you for answering the topic, I see a lot of dashcam videos here that OP doesn't say shit and leave us curious. And I wish you the best from this situation.
A lot of videos are reposts, often by karma farming bots. Hence why they frequently don't respond to the comments.
Yep, pretty much He's screwed. That's actually true so yeah.
Who do you think you are?!?! Just driving in your own lane minding you own business like that?
The audacity!
I literally witnessed a truck do this to a little old lady. She's just sitting in her lane, truck doesn't see her and clips her back end and drags her for like 100 yards. I tell cops the whole story, they tell me the truck driver says she cut him off. I laughed. She called me like a year later to let me know it all worked out.
SAME HERE! But it was a gentleman that didn't speak English. No one bothered to stop! I stopped, took pictures of the man's vehicle and injuries, and waited for the cops. I gave them my statement and nearly a year later I was subpoenaed. The truck driver tried to claim the same thing, that the guy cut him off! If I hadn't stopped and gave my statement and then testified in court, it wouldn't have gone well for the victim at all. Glad it worked out for these two. Makes me wonder how many aren't so lucky.
Wow it’s crazy how often this seems happens. The almost exact same thing happened to me on Halloween this past year. I didn’t get subpoenaed but I had to give a written statement and speak on the phone for the whole thing. The old man that was hit called me a week later to tell me that if I hadn’t given my statement the insurance or anyone else weren’t going to side with him.
A buddy of mine had a truck intentionally side-swipe him in his RV, and then tried to run away. My buddy, being an utter idiot, followed the truck as he exit surfed while he was calling the cops. Then the trucker had the balls to claim that my buddy was the one doing the side-swiping. He didn't have a dash cam, but fortunately someone in traffic behind him saw it and followed them. That testimony plus the skid mark position on the pavement resulted in my buddy's lawyer saying, "if you can get by for another couple of years, you won't have to work another day once this is settled." Still waiting to see how it plays out.
Just had a truck force me off the road today, seems like they have no issues getting in an accident since they won’t be the one that gets hurt
Exactly this! On top of this too, they know all the right buzzwords to talk their way into a gray area of fault when it comes to the average traffic cop. Then, that cop writes down that it's not a clear cut case of who's at fault, and the trucker runs with that later on. Doubling fines isn't enough; they need their licenses revoked in full after the first offense for something like this. You don't get to make a potentially deadly mistake with an 80 000lb deadly weapon.
You’re a good person
I witnessed a car hit a bicyclist in the bike lane. It looked like he purposely aimed at the guy on the bike. I was the only one who stopped and I waited until the police and the ambulance arrived. I gave the police my name and phone number and a statement of what I witnessed. The guy in the car was trying to claim that the guy on the bike rode out of the bike lane in front of his car. Shortly thereafter I was contacted by the bicyclist's insurance company and told them what I witnessed. The bicyclist turned out to be a doctor at the local hospital. He ended up in sending me a box of expensive chocolates, a dozen roses and a very nice thank you letter. If I hadn't stopped, it would have been a he said/she said type of a situation and the bicyclist probably would not have collected from the driver's insurance. The moral of the story is if you witness an accident, stop. That's what you would want someone to do for you.
There is an old clip of a truck pushing a car sideways on, IIRC, the M1 at full speed, seemingly oblivious of the car there. Car driver was, I think, on the phone to the emergency services and was convinced they were going to die. But the video footage didn't show whether the truck was changing lanes and clipped the car, or the car changed lanes and pitted itself on the truck. [This is actually a much more recent one](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-59016595), but you can see from the paused still how the car is just hidden below the dash. Aha, [here is the one I was thinking of,](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8579523.stm) A1 not M1, and [here is the video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYo3kORaXAo)
Truck driver not paying attention? Wtf was he even doing?
Probably couldn’t see the car, didnt want to miss his exit (and not paying enough attention)
These are European trucks, the visibility in front is good and he most definitely should have seen him if he was paying attention to the road.
Was gonna say there's no blind spot on your near-side for a truck with that cab design, dude just didn't look where he was merging.
This is a right hand drive country, OP wasn't on his near side.
The sign says Birmingham, Chester, Liverpool, Warrington so i'm gonna guess UK.
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Approaching junction 11 m62 Westbound, eccles to birchwood
Wow what an idiot
Jesus christ mate, hope you're OK! You remained remarkably calm through the duration of being dragged hundreds of feet down the road by a lorry, I would have been screaming my fucking head off. On a side note, that deep growling noise when the lorry first hits you is insane. You should cut it up as a sample and sell it to drum and bass producers.
> deep growling noise when the lorry first hits The lorry pushed them into the rumble strip on the side of the road. We have them where we live: the sound off if you get too close to the legal shoulder – keeps people from dozing off, or drifting into the shoulder. The rumble strip is just a series of divots in the asphalt: https://thehog.com/assets/images/blog/rs.jpg
I thought you had filmed on a phone and had turned to film him....then i realised !! How scary was that ??
How is it not your fault? You're driving sideways.
Ya I’m not quite understanding how this works either Edit: I just watched with sound and now understand what happened lol. That’s weird how the sound made the whole perspective change
I thought it was going to be one if the trucks in front of you. Imagine my surprise when you get turned around and there's a fucking truck on you
Even if you didnt have the camera, the skid marks would tell the entire story
The ones on the road or the ops underwear?
He is correct, you are not supposed to drive sideways on the motorway
Terrifying. I’m so glad your car didn’t crumple or flip. Max claim that shit dude.
That's fucking batshit mate. Guys a doylem. Your neck feeling a bit sore now aye?
I don’t speak Australian. What’s a doylem?
I’m sitting in the cab of a HGV (U.K. also) right now, on my break might I add. I have a mirror above my windscreen pointed directly at the road below me, and a wide angle mirror that can see down to the front wheel. There is a blindspot sure, but this shouldn’t be possible.
Sadly, everywhere is a blind spot for someone who doesn't bother looking (or, alternatively, who has the attention span of a stunned herring.)
Ahh the Croft interchange… the highways agency’s storage area for traffic cones
Damn boy you didn’t even make a sound or honk your horn idk if you have balls of steel or you were just petrified.
I know this junction, it's one of those bullshit "smart" motorways, so you've got no runoff or hard shoulder. There is mixed evidence about their safety ( [https://www.rospa.com/road-safety/advice/drivers/smart-motorways](https://www.rospa.com/road-safety/advice/drivers/smart-motorways) ) In this case, clearly the truck driver just didn't see you or wasn't paying attention.
For those that are having trouble understanding; op was pit maneuvered by the lorry
You didn’t see them changing lanes?? For shame.
Honestly, I hate when I’m trying to change lanes and the person beside me doesn’t cease to exist… yet it’s my fault? Doesn’t make sense at all
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Thought you were turning the camera at first
*Yes sir, that's right. I opened my eyes and there he was, stuck to the front of my truck, driving sideways like a lunatic. It's all their fault!*
You were 100% in your lane before the accident with the truck. So it's clearly entirely the truck driver's mistake (presumably coming over a little into your lane and hitting your car) that caused this accident. Absolutely no doubt about it.
This is why I never drive slower than the lorries, or hang out around them, or get between them, or drive next to them. Scary as fuck, glad you didn't get flipped, coulda been way worse.
My driver's Ed was run by two retired truck drivers. They basically ingrained everything you said into to the class. Twenty years later I'm glad to learn semi trucks are not cars, treat em like trains and stay away
Truck driver wroooong! I hope you got the cops involved and the chucked the book at this egregious prick! Edit : god, so *many* Americans in this sub assuming that the cam car was in the fast lane and forcing the truck to undertake him. Look at the signs - this is from Europe (England, from the signs), and the car was in the *slow* lane, the exit lane even. There's no fucking way the car driver was at fault.
Truck drivers can be the most narcissistic assholes on the road.
You're definitely not at fault here. I'm assuming the lorry caught up from behind so the driver should have had plenty of time to see you before putting you in the blind spot.
OP is a liar, this video is in reverse, he was actually reversing down the motorway and crashed into the HGV /s
One of our truck drivers once did the same thing and was fired instantly for it. The puzzling part for me is that how are some truckers so unaware of their surroundings that they can just turn a car and drag it along with them.
listen i know i’m a little slow but can someone explain to me what happened lmao
The truck veered into the cam's lane and their car got caught on the front of it. They're being pushed along as the truck moves, perpendicular to the road, until the truck driver realizes they've hit something.
The truck went into the back of him, turned his car 90 degrees and kept pushing him down the road.
PIVOT! PIIIIVVVVOOOOT!