Looks like someone didnât know the stopping distance of their SUV to me. If you are gonna play that game you better know the rules or else somebody will eventually put you in the guard rail.
The tailgater has a vanity plate that looks like a play on the word âprincessâ
My understanding here at least was that if you rear-end someone youâre nearly always considered at fault. The situation doesnât matter much. Itâs really easy for the person in front to simply claim that they thought they saw something running across the road and were slowing down to not hit it. Imo in this situation the person who ended up in the ditch deserved it. And hopefully that was a lesson well-learned because it could have been way worse, he/she got off easy.
I just sigh at the commuters who follow that close or worse pass me on the right to go follow the car in front of me that close when the traffic is not going any faster than I am but I just like to have some space to stop just in case.
In my state, if you rear-end someone, you are liableâperiod. If they braked too fast for you, itâs because you were following too close. (Of course, this oversimplification leads to other abuses, like the âswoop and squat.â)
This video positively radiates schadenfreude. I only feel sorry for any passengers involved.
Really everything would be fine if people who arenât passing stay out of the passing lane.
Exactly. The fault is entirely that of the tailgating driver who overreacted to the brake light of the vehicle in front while following far too closely for safety. Brake checking? Nonsense. Who knows why the driver in front tapped the brakes? Possibly a reaction to the merging vehicle coming from the left? Again, who knows? What is clear is that a speeding tailgater lost control of an unsafely operated vehicle. Hope whoever was driving is OK. Also hope that driver who wrecked was ticketed for the incident.
In this case, though, the checker was passing, so even that claim doesnât fly.
Yeah my experience with bad tailgaters is they donât give a fuck who is where or why, they tailgate all the time. Even in the city where there may only be one lane available. This doesnât really address the problem.
This makes it even sweeter!
Iâd love to be educated on ANY instance where an insurance company finds the person hit from behind as âat faultâ.
I was in the far right lane when a person crossing the double lane road to proceed in the opposite direction that I was coming from; was then struck and pushed into the back driver side quarter of my car. So her back end struck my side.
I was considered âat faultâ because it was the rear end of her vehicle and I should have been able to avoid being hit.
The only way the rear end accident can be that driverâs fault is if their vehicle is in reverse and they back into your car. And even then, your vehicle better be parked completely in the proper and correct spot and position.
But what if Iâm always passing?
Besides when traffic reaches a certain density where I live the standard idea of leaving X number of car lengths just goes to shit. Because there is going to be some asshole less than 2 car lengths from your bumper and if itâs not me, then itâs that other asshole.
Canât wait for autonomous cars.
I love to drive but by god there are times Iâd trade it all to just get to my destination in a reasonable amount of time instead of being stuck in congestion.
The tailgater riding so close to the first car is what is making the situation dangerous. If you follow at a reasonable distance you donât have to worry about brake checkers. Itâs under your control, so it should be your liabillity,
Tailgating on a highway is generally because there is someone in the passing (left) lane that is not passing but just hanging out because there is less traffic in that lane. All states have laws that state that the left lane on a highway is for actively passing only. This specific incident looks complicated as the ford edge(brake checker) was passing the truck thatâs recording the video but possibly didnât get in the right lane because of merging traffic. Either way tailigating that close is really stupid as is doing a brake check for no reason. I bet you if a traffic judge saw this theyâd issue tickets to both of these assholes and doing something like a brake check could actually be a criminal offense as heâs in effect purposefully forcing the tailgater off the road.
This is what I always imagine happening when I see those caravans of cars buzzing by with about 2 feet between them. More people need to see this so they see why tail-gating is such a terribly stupid idea.
Yup. Once it reaches a specific density any gap in front of you begs someone to jump in and potentially cause an accident -itâs safer to ride the car in front of you prepared to brake, than to leave proper room and have to brake suddenly and unexpectedly.
Agree 100%
I was taught to leave 2 seconds of braking time; forget car lengths. At 60 mph, 2 seconds â 175 feet; at 5 mph itâs more like 15 feet.
I agree 100%. [ETA: lots of agreeing 100% around here]
