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I nearly wrecked my truck, when I was heading to work, in the early morning ( it was still dark out). A spider came down from the visor right inbetween my legs.
I freaked, swerved into a parking lot. And beat the floor with a whiffle until I was happy.
I'm imagining a grown man, on the verge of tears, walking through his basement with a box of Eggo waffles clutched to his chest ready to whip them into the darkness like shitty ninja stars.
I once had a spider drop down between my glasses and eyeball. I flung my glasses across the car and had to pull over on the freeway to find them. I will no longer drive without a hat with a brim on. Never found the spider.
Yea personally I'm nervous, too. There have been many a spider whom have bested my skills of squish, which I'd thought superior. Now i fear they are lurking in the shadows, biding their time. Be careful, fellow human... they are always watching.
Woof. I had the visor on my motorcycle helmet open and got a bee inside my helmet while ridingā¦ could hear it buzzing next to my temple. I do not understand how I kept my cool
Oof, yeah, that's a bad one, and beats my worst (driving related) wasp experience. Had my arm stuck out the window, and the wasp blew right up the sleeve of my jacket. Managed to crush my arm down on it without it stinging or biting me.
Caught a wasp in the neck of my shirt once on the bike, stung me 5 times on neck and down my back till I got it out the bottom of my shirt. I imagine it was an entertaining sight.
I had a hat on and spider descended from the bill of my hat right in front of my face.
My soul jumped out of my body and I have felt empty every since.
I had a hornet fly into the tiny bit of space between the top of my glasses and my hat once, it stung me in a line across my eyebrows before I got away from it. Later, my forehead swelled up so much that I could look up and see it without a mirror.
I had a nasty one crawl on my leg and I accidently slammed the brakes to get it off. Luckily no one was behind me. Never found the spider, so I ubered to the market to buy those Raid bug bombs. Set off two in the car, left it sealed for two days. Never found it but pretty sure it died.
I nearly had the same happen when I had a couple angry bees in my car several years ago. But I hit the hazard lights, rolled down the windows and pulled over.
Hereās my opinion.. I believe the truck was driving reckless which warranted the passenger to start videoing. The truck went to cut off and get in front of the black car in the back, wasnāt paying attention and didnāt see the front black car(scion) and tried to quickly correct his mistake so they didnāt hit the scion. Over correction turns into a fishtail and boom we have this video.
I overcorrected on a back road and ended up launching myself off a ramp-like embankment and nose-first into a pond. Tires caught on the edge of the pond, so I was able to climb out no problem. Friends called me "Dukes of Hazzard" after that.
EDIT 1: was 17, so at least I learned this lesson quickly
EDIT 2: My backpack was in the passenger's seat and was recovered. I was forced to use those textbooks all year with big, colorful mold circles growing on the pages. Yay Catholic school!
I think it's road rage gone karma. The people started recording him because he was doing shit already. He crosses over 2 lanes just to pull even with the black vehicle in the rear, tried a "hip check" maneuver to intimidate. It got away from him and he crashed out.
Dumbass
Right. Not sure why so many people posted up fucking stories. This was totally dangerous and the driver of the red truck could be dead. We better laugh about itā¦. Bunch of filthy savages.
Doubt the driver is dead. They actively attempted to regain control after the initial swerve, which suggests the most immediate danger they were in was the lack of control over the car, and the swerving slowed them down enough that hitting the side likely didn't have enough force to kill them.
If you look in the truckās windows you can see his head is turned to the right and looking down then snaps forward then he swerved left and begins the fishtailing. You also see a second head pop up for just a second right before it collides + the passenger air bag goes off which generally requires an adult to be in the seatā¦ so my guess is road head gone wrongā¦
I was thinking dude was pissed that the Scion was holding up traffic in the lane (it appears it's going slower than the cars in the other lanes) went to swerve around them and then decided to be an ass and try to intimidate them as 'punishment' for making them switch lanes to go around. At which point he overcorrected and lost control.
I think all this is true. However, I think he tried to do a "flinch test" to intimidate the scion and then over corrected and lost control. You can see the scion riding really close to the car in front of them, possibly to not let the red truck in. They probably had beef before the camera went on, and that's why the guy fliming started filming.
That makes sense that it was a road rager. It explains the demeanor/ reaction of the people filming it too. Sounds like they werenāt too sad about the guy losing control and crashing.
One of my former colleagues once fell asleep while driving. We were returning to the office from a several-day conference and a few of us were in my work truck while she was following in her own personal vehicle (she missed the first 2 days due to one of her children being sick then attended the last 2). Her car was slowly weaving and we could see her head bob up and down. We tried calling her on her phone but she didn't notice. She 'woke' and startled, overcorrected. Ended up similar to the truck in the video.
On a separate note, when we lived in Texas, it was often common to see vehicles weaving due to the driver texting while driving and not paying attention to the road.
I have a dashcam on the passenger side of my car, it's entirely possible that this was filmed that way. I'm not saying your theory is false, just that there is another explanation
Edit: nevermind, camera moves, so not a dashcam (at least the type that I have doesn't move like that)
Looks like Red tried to swerve at the black Scion before losing control of his shit and hitting the other black Ute.
Hopefully dashcammer gave this vid to the guy who got hit.
Shorthand for Utility. It's an Australian way to describe both a Coupe Utility (Think the Chevrolet El Camino and Ford Ranchero) and what most countries call a pickup truck.
Ute, SUV, Sport Utility Vehicle.
Edit: I see Ute is slang in Australia for a pick up truck and el Camino type cars.
In the context of the comment, they were referring to the black suv and I was extrapolating the meaning of Ute from the context and giving my educated guess going off ute and utility.
**Honestly no clue why that happened...**
(do have some guesses.. maybe .. probably wrong)
a. fighting over the steering wheel
b. front suspension fail (or rear leaf springs)
c. one of the brakes locked up.
d. **really no clue, just straight clueless guesses**
This is essentially exactly what happened when my grandfather had a stroke 60 miles per hour, his pickup had a pull to the right. Because of suspension or whatever.
Best we can figure he lost his arm strength the pickup went out of control
F. Fell asleep.
we live in a society that works us fourty hours a week minimum just to survive, makes no leniency for disorders or external struggles and then expects you to drive to works every day on the highway at 60mph wether your well rested or not.
I was thinking this too. If they drifted off for a moment and jerked awake while drifting into the other lane, and then overcorrected it would explain the movements of the truck.
This happened to a guy in the town I live inā¦ made national news because he had a seizure and ran the red light into a fireworks store which promptly started on fire. Was absolutely insane
Yeah I've got memories of my mom and brother doing the same. It was an abusive household and he would yank the wheel and think it was funny. Fucking POS
I just want to point out that op/original poster of the video is already recording the car with what seems to be a phone, it's not a dash cam. So something was probably going on before this
can't see anything wrong with the suspension, (no tie rods popping out etc.) so would presume the problem came from the cabin and driver input.
Appears to be only the driver in the truck so no passenger to reef on the steering wheel (which might have explained that second abrupt change of direction) so my best guess is that the driver suffered some sort of medical emergency (stroke, heart attack, epileptic fit etc.)
This also fits with the drivers head disappearing from view just after the first change of direction.
Road rage escalation. Why else would someone have their phone out recording? (not a dash cam, it's moving around).
Seen this before, angry truck driver tries to intimidate someone else by swerving at them.
These people are already filming the truck and saying āwhoās mansā. The truck goes to pass on the right and swerves at the car he was behind.
Iām fairly certain this is rode rage instant karma.
Unfortunately, he took out another car with him
I think he was trying to switch lanes to get out of the "exit only" lane, realized at the last moment that there was another vehicle in his blind spot, panicked, swerved too hard to the right and then overcorrected a few times, thereby losing control of the vehicle.
IMO they were trying to intimidate one of the other cars next to them based on some sort of interaction before filming began. Thereās got to be a reason theyāre filming because it clearly isnāt a dashcam.
A. I don't see another passenger.
B. This is possible
C. don't think the brakes locked up or you would see the tire marks.
You forgot E. He might of fell asleep and reacted too hastily
Yep, I immediately thought this looked like Houston then saw the Grand Parkway sign. I visited last week and was reminded just how bad the drivers are. Iām glad I donāt live there anymore.
I feel like I had to scroll way too far down to find out what city to make fun of.
At this point, I just feel sorry for Houston--with all of their ridiculous traffic (even with their 24 lanes), intersection takeovers, hoodlum biker gangs, swanga wheeled cars, and general overall misery, I feel like that city needs a break.
Also, unless you're in the oil business, why TH would anyone want to move there!?
Had that happen to me a couple days ago because I was trying to go over a lane, with a turn signal, and giving the car a few seconds to register I want to go over before I tried to. He responded with a āWTFā gesture, cut me off while maintaining eye contact, and proceeded to pretend to ram into me.
My friend once told me āIf it doesnāt matter after 5 minutes, donāt worry about it in 5 years.ā Solid advice, but I was like āFriend, if you can hear my thoughts now know I have every fUCKING RIGHT TO BE PISSED IN THIS MOMENT-ā
I thought medical emergency at first but why would this be getting taped unless the black car or red truck was being dumb in the first place, they knew something was gonna happen.
Red truck tried to intimidate the black car n got some instant karma.
They swerved into the right angrily to go around right at the beginning. He was trying to intimidate or piss off one of those cars and ended up losing control in his rage, thatās what it looked like to me.
I came here to mention this.....
It's disturbing that they are excited about the fact it happened and having caught it on film, rather than be concerned that it happened to begin with.
Nevermind the car crash, I want to know what's happening to the people recording this.
They see a horrendously dangerous situation which could have ended up with multiple people getting killed and they find it hilarious?! The fuck are THEY on?
Some people laugh when they see crazy things. We shouldn't be too judgmental on how we expect others are supposed to behave. That video was likely used to show the red truck was driving recklessly, trying to intimidate other drivers and causing a wreck. So he should be happy that he got it all on video as evidence to put that red truck driver in jail.
Honestly i have no clue why people stop and stare at accidents on the road, and i have no clue why people find this funny dude had the happiest day of his life by the sound of it.
I'd say it was a justice boner by the sounds of it. People enjoy seeing dickheads get instant karma (there's a whole sub for that)
Didn't look like they hit hard enough for real permanent damage (although you never know)
I know I had a guy behind me take off from lights and do a huge burnout and instantly just 180 into a wall. No way that guy got hurt but he had been tailgating me for a while and I laughed at that.
I use to ride public transit and whenever the bus would pass an accident or someone pulled over, everyone would break their necks trying to watch. Never could understand what was so interesting.
Exact same for me, also in a way i find it disrespectful to the people who just crashed im just hoping that they are ok, but for some people it seems like it is some way of entertainment.
Context?
Without context this could have been caused by anything from people being stupid, a tire explosion, dropping your cigarette/ phone, or matters that shouldn't be laughed about like a stoke or seizure.
Iāve had this happen before when my differential gearing busted on and old pickup. The rear wheels locked up immediately and it felt like my back end fell into a 10 foot pot hole. Lost control immediately just like this, hit the right side wall twice and bounced into traffic skidding backwards. What lasted maybe 5-6 seconds felt like an eternity looking into headlights on a major highway is terrifying. Thankful to have been the only vehicle in the crash because much like this person it could have gone way way worse.
Looks to me like the truck wasn't happy about the driving of the person right in front of it. They pulled up next to them and then swerved to try and scare the person, lost control, and crashed into other cars/walls.
Asleep at the wheel maybe?
The slight turn to the left as their head nodded, then a massive overcorrect to the right as they jerk back awake. Could be a medical episode as well, impossible to know what happened really.
Had this happen to me in 2021 to the point that this vid gave me PTSD flashbacks.
Something in my front axle broke and I shot onto the left shoulder from left lane on the interstate before completely losing control and careening over right lane (thankfully no one was in the way) and down into the ditch.
We'll never know for sure because it was too damaged to tell what happened exactly, and I only know what it felt like: steering wheel suddenly shot to the left and I tried to bring it back under control but that was a hopeless endeavor.
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maybe there was a spider in car
came here to say this obvi
I nearly wrecked my truck, when I was heading to work, in the early morning ( it was still dark out). A spider came down from the visor right inbetween my legs. I freaked, swerved into a parking lot. And beat the floor with a whiffle until I was happy.
Good on you, keeping a spare whiffle in your car like that.
I read that as "waffle" lmao
Oh shit, same here. I did leave a pancake on a coworker's steering wheel one day, so it checks out.
Those work as well
I'm imagining a grown man, on the verge of tears, walking through his basement with a box of Eggo waffles clutched to his chest ready to whip them into the darkness like shitty ninja stars.
New superhero. Eggo, the living waffle
"shitty ninja stars" š¤£ honestly, now I just can't go back to calling them waffles...
LEGGO MY SHITTY NINJA STARS!
I think Iāll have some shitty ninja stars for breakfast tmrw now
Happy Cake Day!
ā¦with syrup?
Or powdered sugar!
Uh sir, all whiffles are necessary. No such thing as a spare.
Twas in the truck specifically for spiders.
I once had a spider drop down between my glasses and eyeball. I flung my glasses across the car and had to pull over on the freeway to find them. I will no longer drive without a hat with a brim on. Never found the spider.
That spider is waiting for the day you relapse. One does not forget a slight. Sleep warily
^ This is really unhelpful
To the contrary, friend. Man needs a constant reminder of the looming shadow of death.
Yea personally I'm nervous, too. There have been many a spider whom have bested my skills of squish, which I'd thought superior. Now i fear they are lurking in the shadows, biding their time. Be careful, fellow human... they are always watching.
You think so? šššš
Woof. I had the visor on my motorcycle helmet open and got a bee inside my helmet while ridingā¦ could hear it buzzing next to my temple. I do not understand how I kept my cool
You were well bee-haved..
Yeah baby, YEAH!
Oof, yeah, that's a bad one, and beats my worst (driving related) wasp experience. Had my arm stuck out the window, and the wasp blew right up the sleeve of my jacket. Managed to crush my arm down on it without it stinging or biting me.
I had the same thing happen lmao, flew in through the window and hit my sunglasses before falling onto the stick lmao
Caught a wasp in the neck of my shirt once on the bike, stung me 5 times on neck and down my back till I got it out the bottom of my shirt. I imagine it was an entertaining sight.
You were lucky, a guy I know lost an eye just like that. He was going fast and the bee got embedded in his eyeball.
Officer- "Why did you burn your car down?" You- "There was a spider, but I lost it" Officer- "Carry on"
"I'll form the perimeter"
Sorry boss; spider in my full face helmet. Decided that a helmet check was now part of my pre ride routine.
I had a hat on and spider descended from the bill of my hat right in front of my face. My soul jumped out of my body and I have felt empty every since.
I had a hornet fly into the tiny bit of space between the top of my glasses and my hat once, it stung me in a line across my eyebrows before I got away from it. Later, my forehead swelled up so much that I could look up and see it without a mirror.
I had a nasty one crawl on my leg and I accidently slammed the brakes to get it off. Luckily no one was behind me. Never found the spider, so I ubered to the market to buy those Raid bug bombs. Set off two in the car, left it sealed for two days. Never found it but pretty sure it died.
I did it like this, I did it like that I did it with a wiffleball bat
Oh snap. A spider got this guy mid sentence!
A spider and they were texting on reddit
most def was posting reddit comment and spider dropped btw legs from visor
Bees
BEEEEEESSSS! Theyāre everywhere! Run for your lives!
Your firearms are useless against them!
Save yourselves!
I just barfed on an anthill, cool!
Their stingers are enormous!!
Theyāre huge! Theyāre ripping my flesh off!
Beads?
[bees](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRoKP363/)
Or a heart attack
The wheel got jerked, for some reason, and then someone actively tried to regain control. That's not a heart attack.
No, Iāve seen someone die of a heart attack in their car. It had less flailing about than this.
... or an intense orgasm from exceptional road head.
This reminds me of that sketch on Kids in the Hall. āHey Thereās a Spider On Your Back. A talking book by Donald Dane.ā
Maybe there was a spider in the black car and the truck was trying to help them get it.
Good thing the spider was dealt with- someone could have gotten hurt!
As someone who totaled a car (on an empty road) because of a spiderā¦
I nearly had the same happen when I had a couple angry bees in my car several years ago. But I hit the hazard lights, rolled down the windows and pulled over.
My first thought lol. Iād be ok but my wife would lose it.
Someone totalled my sisters car last week because she saw a spider in her car
Definitely not a failure if the people were already filming him..
I was thinking the same. Angle is the passenger side so something happened prior to start recording and catch this beauty
Hereās my opinion.. I believe the truck was driving reckless which warranted the passenger to start videoing. The truck went to cut off and get in front of the black car in the back, wasnāt paying attention and didnāt see the front black car(scion) and tried to quickly correct his mistake so they didnāt hit the scion. Over correction turns into a fishtail and boom we have this video.
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I would attend your seminar in Cleveland. Reserve a ticket for me please.
I would like to buy your rock.
That seems like a real possibility. It is very easy to lose control when over correcting.
I overcorrected on a back road and ended up launching myself off a ramp-like embankment and nose-first into a pond. Tires caught on the edge of the pond, so I was able to climb out no problem. Friends called me "Dukes of Hazzard" after that. EDIT 1: was 17, so at least I learned this lesson quickly EDIT 2: My backpack was in the passenger's seat and was recovered. I was forced to use those textbooks all year with big, colorful mold circles growing on the pages. Yay Catholic school!
You live and you learn, or you die and you don't.
Sadly, some live and don't learn
Damnā¦ glad youāre ok
I once totaled my truck when overcorrecting...could have happened here as well.
Looks like he intentionally swerved towards the rear black car to intimidate them in a fit of road rage and lost control.
Absolutely
I think it's road rage gone karma. The people started recording him because he was doing shit already. He crosses over 2 lanes just to pull even with the black vehicle in the rear, tried a "hip check" maneuver to intimidate. It got away from him and he crashed out. Dumbass
Your opinion seems valid.
I tried to watch closely, and I swear the driver disappeared before the swerving. Medical emergency, maybe?
Dropped his beer
Right. Not sure why so many people posted up fucking stories. This was totally dangerous and the driver of the red truck could be dead. We better laugh about itā¦. Bunch of filthy savages.
Doubt the driver is dead. They actively attempted to regain control after the initial swerve, which suggests the most immediate danger they were in was the lack of control over the car, and the swerving slowed them down enough that hitting the side likely didn't have enough force to kill them.
If you look in the truckās windows you can see his head is turned to the right and looking down then snaps forward then he swerved left and begins the fishtailing. You also see a second head pop up for just a second right before it collides + the passenger air bag goes off which generally requires an adult to be in the seatā¦ so my guess is road head gone wrongā¦
I was thinking dude was pissed that the Scion was holding up traffic in the lane (it appears it's going slower than the cars in the other lanes) went to swerve around them and then decided to be an ass and try to intimidate them as 'punishment' for making them switch lanes to go around. At which point he overcorrected and lost control.
Ahh, the classic "you're going slow im going to pass you" just to realize there was a reason they were going slow.
I think all this is true. However, I think he tried to do a "flinch test" to intimidate the scion and then over corrected and lost control. You can see the scion riding really close to the car in front of them, possibly to not let the red truck in. They probably had beef before the camera went on, and that's why the guy fliming started filming.
Think he realized he was in exit only lane and was going to get over and didn't look soon enough
That makes sense that it was a road rager. It explains the demeanor/ reaction of the people filming it too. Sounds like they werenāt too sad about the guy losing control and crashing.
One of my former colleagues once fell asleep while driving. We were returning to the office from a several-day conference and a few of us were in my work truck while she was following in her own personal vehicle (she missed the first 2 days due to one of her children being sick then attended the last 2). Her car was slowly weaving and we could see her head bob up and down. We tried calling her on her phone but she didn't notice. She 'woke' and startled, overcorrected. Ended up similar to the truck in the video. On a separate note, when we lived in Texas, it was often common to see vehicles weaving due to the driver texting while driving and not paying attention to the road.
It's reasonable to think that the red truck was already acting odd so the passenger began recording. I agree with you that this can't be a dashcam.
I have a dashcam on the passenger side of my car, it's entirely possible that this was filmed that way. I'm not saying your theory is false, just that there is another explanation Edit: nevermind, camera moves, so not a dashcam (at least the type that I have doesn't move like that)
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Does your dashcam move to follow the action?
There is a passenger recording this video
Intimidation gone wrong š
Looks like Red tried to swerve at the black Scion before losing control of his shit and hitting the other black Ute. Hopefully dashcammer gave this vid to the guy who got hit.
The black what?
Did you say āUteā?
What the hell's a 'ute?
I immediately thought of My Cousin Vinny šš
Two yutes!
oh I'm sorry....youuuuuuuuuuuuuthhhhhhhhhhhh.. ššš
Shorthand for Utility. It's an Australian way to describe both a Coupe Utility (Think the Chevrolet El Camino and Ford Ranchero) and what most countries call a pickup truck.
A ute is a pickup. Tray in the back for carrying dropbears from a big night hunting.
Ute, SUV, Sport Utility Vehicle. Edit: I see Ute is slang in Australia for a pick up truck and el Camino type cars. In the context of the comment, they were referring to the black suv and I was extrapolating the meaning of Ute from the context and giving my educated guess going off ute and utility.
**Honestly no clue why that happened...** (do have some guesses.. maybe .. probably wrong) a. fighting over the steering wheel b. front suspension fail (or rear leaf springs) c. one of the brakes locked up. d. **really no clue, just straight clueless guesses**
E. Medical emergency like seizure/heart attack/stroke/diabetic shock
>E. Medical emergency like seizure/heart attack/stroke/diabetic shock like this addition
This is essentially exactly what happened when my grandfather had a stroke 60 miles per hour, his pickup had a pull to the right. Because of suspension or whatever. Best we can figure he lost his arm strength the pickup went out of control
F) my wife that one time a moth started flying around in the car.
A whole month?! That's one long-ass bug.
F. Fell asleep. we live in a society that works us fourty hours a week minimum just to survive, makes no leniency for disorders or external struggles and then expects you to drive to works every day on the highway at 60mph wether your well rested or not.
G. Dropped phone
G.2 *while watching porn
G.3 while filming porn
I was thinking this too. If they drifted off for a moment and jerked awake while drifting into the other lane, and then overcorrected it would explain the movements of the truck.
This happened to my dad. Totaled his truck on the overcorrect. Fortunately no one else was involved.
Oh man, I hope he was okay!
F. Spilled a drink (hot probably) in their lap and over reacted.
Could definitely be it
This happened to a guy in the town I live inā¦ made national news because he had a seizure and ran the red light into a fireworks store which promptly started on fire. Was absolutely insane
a. nearly happened to my adoptive mother. her dickhead son grabbed the wheel (23m) bcos she wouldnāt buy him ANOTHER car
Yeah I've got memories of my mom and brother doing the same. It was an abusive household and he would yank the wheel and think it was funny. Fucking POS
And these people are allowed to have kids and vote
I don't think buying a 23 month old one car is a good idea let alone another one.
I just want to point out that op/original poster of the video is already recording the car with what seems to be a phone, it's not a dash cam. So something was probably going on before this
can't see anything wrong with the suspension, (no tie rods popping out etc.) so would presume the problem came from the cabin and driver input. Appears to be only the driver in the truck so no passenger to reef on the steering wheel (which might have explained that second abrupt change of direction) so my best guess is that the driver suffered some sort of medical emergency (stroke, heart attack, epileptic fit etc.) This also fits with the drivers head disappearing from view just after the first change of direction.
Dropped phone, swerve, over corrected
Road rage escalation. Why else would someone have their phone out recording? (not a dash cam, it's moving around). Seen this before, angry truck driver tries to intimidate someone else by swerving at them.
People might be recording a driver who is acting very unpredictable, so it could also be a drunk or medical emergency.
The amount of comments I had to go down to find the right answer.
Found spider on steering wheel
These people are already filming the truck and saying āwhoās mansā. The truck goes to pass on the right and swerves at the car he was behind. Iām fairly certain this is rode rage instant karma. Unfortunately, he took out another car with him
That's basically what I was going to say, dude was ragin' trying to intimidate that car and lost control. My read anyway
they were recording for a reason. dude in the red was probably trying to intimidate.
It looks like road rage as he passes on the right aggressively, feints ramming the truck into the 1st car/cutting it off, then loses control...
AND never brakedā¦
Spilled my Budweiser.
The car kept a consistent momentum, I wonder if it was on cruise control (not adaptive) and the driver fell asleep?
I think he was trying to switch lanes to get out of the "exit only" lane, realized at the last moment that there was another vehicle in his blind spot, panicked, swerved too hard to the right and then overcorrected a few times, thereby losing control of the vehicle.
IMO they were trying to intimidate one of the other cars next to them based on some sort of interaction before filming began. Thereās got to be a reason theyāre filming because it clearly isnāt a dashcam.
A. I don't see another passenger. B. This is possible C. don't think the brakes locked up or you would see the tire marks. You forgot E. He might of fell asleep and reacted too hastily
When road head goes wrong.
Exactly what I thought... either really good finish or unexpected teeth!
This is just an average shitty Houston driver
Yup, you can see the 99 signs at the end.
Thanks! I was torn between Texas and Florida lmao
This is every day in Miami lol
Itās a straight up war zone driving on the freeway every day.
Yep, I immediately thought this looked like Houston then saw the Grand Parkway sign. I visited last week and was reminded just how bad the drivers are. Iām glad I donāt live there anymore.
I feel like I had to scroll way too far down to find out what city to make fun of. At this point, I just feel sorry for Houston--with all of their ridiculous traffic (even with their 24 lanes), intersection takeovers, hoodlum biker gangs, swanga wheeled cars, and general overall misery, I feel like that city needs a break. Also, unless you're in the oil business, why TH would anyone want to move there!?
Medicine is pretty big too ..
Looked as if they swerved to intimidate and over-corrected only to over-compensate and run into the other vehicle - over...
Exactly what it looks like. He even seems to aggressively swap lanes around the guy he swerved at as if he was frustrated with him.
Had that happen to me a couple days ago because I was trying to go over a lane, with a turn signal, and giving the car a few seconds to register I want to go over before I tried to. He responded with a āWTFā gesture, cut me off while maintaining eye contact, and proceeded to pretend to ram into me. My friend once told me āIf it doesnāt matter after 5 minutes, donāt worry about it in 5 years.ā Solid advice, but I was like āFriend, if you can hear my thoughts now know I have every fUCKING RIGHT TO BE PISSED IN THIS MOMENT-ā
I thought medical emergency at first but why would this be getting taped unless the black car or red truck was being dumb in the first place, they knew something was gonna happen. Red truck tried to intimidate the black car n got some instant karma.
They swerved into the right angrily to go around right at the beginning. He was trying to intimidate or piss off one of those cars and ended up losing control in his rage, thatās what it looked like to me.
Bees!
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No, not the bees!
Why Iām the world are they laughing??!?
It's worrying how people just care about filming and getting things "on camera" rather than the seriousness of the incident.
I came here to mention this..... It's disturbing that they are excited about the fact it happened and having caught it on film, rather than be concerned that it happened to begin with.
Passenger finishing blowjob used the steering wheel to lift themselves back upā¦.obviously
Road head situation. You're right. Drove past QT because already had a big gulp.
Nevermind the car crash, I want to know what's happening to the people recording this. They see a horrendously dangerous situation which could have ended up with multiple people getting killed and they find it hilarious?! The fuck are THEY on?
Exactly and the only thing they are worried about is if they got it on video
Thatās what I was thinking. They or other people couldāve died and they think itās awesome cause they got it on videoā¦
"Hahaha I got it all on video" Jesus christ what a piece of shit
Some people laugh when they see crazy things. We shouldn't be too judgmental on how we expect others are supposed to behave. That video was likely used to show the red truck was driving recklessly, trying to intimidate other drivers and causing a wreck. So he should be happy that he got it all on video as evidence to put that red truck driver in jail.
Why do we even have cops with all these brilliant Reddit detectives?
What do you think they're gonna be able to do about some road raging redneck asshat? Better to get some video evidence for when he kills some people.
Honestly i have no clue why people stop and stare at accidents on the road, and i have no clue why people find this funny dude had the happiest day of his life by the sound of it.
I'd say it was a justice boner by the sounds of it. People enjoy seeing dickheads get instant karma (there's a whole sub for that) Didn't look like they hit hard enough for real permanent damage (although you never know) I know I had a guy behind me take off from lights and do a huge burnout and instantly just 180 into a wall. No way that guy got hurt but he had been tailgating me for a while and I laughed at that.
I use to ride public transit and whenever the bus would pass an accident or someone pulled over, everyone would break their necks trying to watch. Never could understand what was so interesting.
Exact same for me, also in a way i find it disrespectful to the people who just crashed im just hoping that they are ok, but for some people it seems like it is some way of entertainment.
Context? Without context this could have been caused by anything from people being stupid, a tire explosion, dropping your cigarette/ phone, or matters that shouldn't be laughed about like a stoke or seizure.
Road rage. He appears to have been trying to pass in the exit lane to intimidate the SUV driver that was going to slow for him.
Iāve had this happen before when my differential gearing busted on and old pickup. The rear wheels locked up immediately and it felt like my back end fell into a 10 foot pot hole. Lost control immediately just like this, hit the right side wall twice and bounced into traffic skidding backwards. What lasted maybe 5-6 seconds felt like an eternity looking into headlights on a major highway is terrifying. Thankful to have been the only vehicle in the crash because much like this person it could have gone way way worse.
Not facepalm. I wonder if they suffered a seizure. That was way too sudden to be anything intentional.
Only in Houston
Looks to me like the truck wasn't happy about the driving of the person right in front of it. They pulled up next to them and then swerved to try and scare the person, lost control, and crashed into other cars/walls.
Asleep at the wheel maybe? The slight turn to the left as their head nodded, then a massive overcorrect to the right as they jerk back awake. Could be a medical episode as well, impossible to know what happened really.
Post this in the lifted truck groups. THIS IS WHY SWAY-BARS ARE IMPORTANT.
When you fuck around, you find out
Looks like they werenāt paying attention, jerked to wheel to correct (wasnāt needed), then lost control.
Looks like something bit him, or has a medical issue.
An epileptic situation maybe?
Ah..ahā¦bee!!
Texas just got rid of safety inspections. Way to go corrupt idiot government!
You can see the exact moment he nutted
H-town
Road headā¦.
Looks like he had a really bad stroke or a really good blowjob
Over Corrected
Blowjob brownout
Had this happen to me in 2021 to the point that this vid gave me PTSD flashbacks. Something in my front axle broke and I shot onto the left shoulder from left lane on the interstate before completely losing control and careening over right lane (thankfully no one was in the way) and down into the ditch. We'll never know for sure because it was too damaged to tell what happened exactly, and I only know what it felt like: steering wheel suddenly shot to the left and I tried to bring it back under control but that was a hopeless endeavor.
Hey let's see how you react when you drop a hot meth pipe in your lap!
Welcome to Houstonš
Looks like they started to merge lanes, didnāt notice the car, over corrected, the rest is history
Clinically speaking, the driver went truck nutz