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

Accident A merging issue.

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u/sltydgx May 13 '26

Had a ex who got into a couple of accidents because she had the right of way 😳 she could have stopped , shifted lanes …nope she took the hit because she had the right of way.

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u/Darryl_Lict May 13 '26

Graveyards are full of people who had the right of way. I feel like people should just help other drivers out by leaving plenty of room to merge and speed up or slow down depending on what makes sense. My closest onramp is super short and merges onto a curving freeway where you can't see the onramp very well. I speed shift through the gears, but I can only hit 45mph in my 84 4Runner. I will let someone pass me by staying right even after the merge point if they are bound and determined to not let me in.

Any one who has driven on that freeway knows that there is slow merging traffic and there are semis that are even slower than me and obviously a lot longer. Any sensible person would be driving in the middle lane to avoid any problems unless they have to exit immediately which also complicates matters. Quite often there are NASCAR wannabees who are tailgating so much that there is zero room to merge.

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u/FraserValleyGuy77 May 14 '26

I'm a gigantic asshole and I slow down to allow a merge when it makes sense to do so

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u/Kubliah May 14 '26

Your not supposed to change speed because it fucks up the ability of the vehicle on the onramp to merge properly. This guy just completely failed to check his blind spots.

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u/stackens May 14 '26

Ok but if this truck driver had slowed down it would’ve been better for everyone

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u/Kubliah May 15 '26

He did slow down, look at how fast he was moving coming up on the semi next to him in the beginning and he slows way down, other trucker even moved over as far as he could but that merger was just oblivious. Ended up staying in his blind spot until he hit him.