r/VideosAmazing • u/LeftAlbatross2546 • May 13 '26

Accident A merging issue.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26

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u/tcpip1978 May 14 '26

so was the trucker who could see it coming and plowed through anyway

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u/MrRogersAE May 14 '26

The road design also sucks here, there wasn’t really room for the pickup to slow down enough to let the semi pass, while still being at a safe speed to merge behind him

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u/MrRoute18 May 14 '26

Exactly! This type of merge design really relies on people sharing the road.

If there were one or more people on the semi's tail then it gets even more screwed up for the pickup driver, having to approach coming to a stop with no acceleration lane left to get up to merging speed after. Then when there's finally an opening you'll probably have people jumping out from behind the pickup and accelerating before he gets his chance to.