[Semi Crash 12 Miles Over] this dude had to be distracted ,cause i could see them hazard lights from all the way back here😳 the sound is crazy wtf , but him swerving over may have been what saved his life !!!

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onedarkhorsee@reddit

Usual stupid shit people think is going to make their video funnier

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Dick_M_Nixon@reddit

Be grateful there was not music to clue you how to feel.

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J3wb0cca@reddit

It’s also missing a stop freeze and red circle animation to tell me where to look in a ten second video.

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L0quence@reddit

And the little “ding” when the circle ⭕️ and arrows pop up

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supermarble94@reddit

Freeze frame right before the swerve with the "oh no oh no oh no no no no no" song.

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goldenm1nd@reddit

Love how people are like, “you can see it from a mile away!”

Well, let me tell you this…you’re watching a phone with no distractions around. So, that means you’re paying attention to the most obvious thing in the video.

Yes, this guy is driving in New York and those lanes are NOT that wide. From a truckers perspective, I would assume that he was paying more attention to the tractor next to him instead of what’s in front of him.

There are so many distractions on that highway and I probably also would’ve caught that last second. Not his last second but I still would’ve slammed on my brakes.

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Mytra180@reddit

Very true. But 62 in a 50, in the left lane, in that area is asking for trouble.

I know it's school speak, but you have to leave yourself an out. Not just in places like this, but everywhere.

I drive nights when there is not a lot of traffic. I've avoided a lot of crap by hanging back a bit. Mostly, deer causing trouble on the highway in southern NY/northern PA.

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goldenm1nd@reddit

Nah, 62 is super normal for that road. It would be even crazier if he was doing 70+. He was at a steady 62 trying to pass the middle lane hog driver.

Also. This is before 4am. A lot of these truckers try their best to get OUT of NY before it hits 5 because then the real shit starts to happen. If anything, we should be blaming the trucker that broke down. If you know your truck is on the verge of losing power or whatever, you should start to make your way over to the side. I’ll never understand how drivers aren’t aware of their truck breaking down and they immediately just stop in the lane they’re in.

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H2Omekanic@reddit

Obviously, the numbnuts hammering down, left lane, not looking any further ahead than the proverbial bulldog's ass on the hood is mostly at fault here. But how about a shout out the the Forward Air rig in the middle lane that couldn't be bothered to slide over to the right lane and offer the disabled truck some safety. Yes, we can't see what's going on in that right lane here, but they probably had that option

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easymacmac@reddit

There's footage also by a passer by, the second truck's trailer completely broke off the fifth wheel plate with its load spilled all over. And the 1st truck looks like it was already struck on its side initially

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easymacmac@reddit

thats the cross bronx, no one does the speed limit there and the broke down driver was in the worst spot, On top of the supertrucker speeding through there like your typical 4 wheeler who doesnt look far ahead past their front bumper.

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Show_Quality_Trash@reddit

I feel bad for the forward air driver that’s an owner op, driver had to have been borderline sleeping and just focused on passing forward air, I almost had this happen at 2am just cruising in the middle lane and around a 70 mph bend on I20 there were stopped work trucks in both left lanes as soon as I saw those lights there was nothing I could do except get on the brakes and hope I could stop in time because there were cars to the left and right of me that shit should’ve been a lawsuit because there were no signs that 2 of 3 lanes were closed, the disabled truck shouldn’t have stopped there especially not in the left lane.

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jmzstl@reddit

It's easy to say that, but you don't know what happened. I've had a retread come off a tire on my lead trailer and take out the air line that supplies my dolly and rear trailer. It started slowing me down immediately and had me fully stopped within 10-15 seconds. You don't get to decide where this stuff happens.

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Show_Quality_Trash@reddit

And I’ve had road debris tear an air line on my tractor coming in from a left lane where the 76 and 25 meet in Denver, still made it to the right shoulder if cars are in your way that’s what the air horn is for you just had a blow out on a dolly could’ve closed the air valve and dragged it those dolly’s roll without air anyway, you can pull those air brakes and your truck will still roll for a quite a bit before coming to a stop there’s no excuse for this driver to have been in the left lane

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chaoss402@reddit

Who knows what happened. If he suddenly lost all power he might not have been able to get over safely. Stopping there was safer than possibly blocking multiple lanes with no way to move the truck.

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Show_Quality_Trash@reddit

Looks like disabled truck had a smashed front clip maybe he blew out a steer but regardless he shouldn’t have been in the left lane, I think this crash is only the result of dumb and dumber meeting at the wrong place at the right time.

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Nervous-Artichoke120@reddit

Officer, save me.. boom.. boom.. boom.. but on a serious note hope everyone is ok

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Claim_Alternative@reddit

All three drivers are dumb

Truck 1: No triangles out and broken down on the left lane

Truck 2: going 62 in a 50, in the left lane, and didn’t even hit his brakes, probably wasn’t paying g attention

Truck 3: Could’ve scored over and/or slowed down to give truck 2 room to maneuver. Also probably wasn’t paying attention.

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FWD_to_twin_turbo@reddit

The only dumb one there is the truck that caused the accident, and there is no excuse as to otherwise.

Unless you're braindead and really committed to the DOT handbook hopping out in a live lane like that at night, it is asking for trouble, even with high vis. The FIRST move you make is the alert local authorities and stay in your vehicle with hazards on. Imagine if the guy was outside laying out triangles at this very moment?

And idk about New york, but in some places like texas, there are signs that warn drivers to never exit their vehicle if it's a road with no shoulder or if you break down inside a live lane.

If you have to rely on 3 little triangles to tell you not to be a dumbass near a hazard and to keep your head on a swivel, then you need your license revoked.

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itchypalp_88@reddit

This needs more upvotes

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inebriateddandhated@reddit

👏PUT👏YOUR👏TRIANGLES👏OUT👏

Been seeing way too many trucks broken down recently with either no hivis triangles out or all 3 stacked less than 10 feet behind the truck.

50 100 200.

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FWD_to_twin_turbo@reddit

Name checks out, but most major highways like this have the specific rule of " DO NOT EXIT VEHICLE" but you'd have to be absolutely fucking drunk or a moron to jump out on a busy highway with no shoulder.

No DOT, judge, or lawyer could resonably argue otherwise.

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supermarble94@reddit

It's 10, 100, 200. Or 3, 30, and 60 paces.

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Dry_Presence7112@reddit

You get out right there and place triangles, that's a scary place to breakdown let alone get out.

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functional_moron@reddit

This video is exactly why I wouldn't get out. Lol

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Dysanj@reddit

Road Flares.

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Foxlen@reddit

I pick up triangles lost out on the highway so that I can give people triangles who are broke down without them

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Luigi_Dagger@reddit

That brings me to a piece of advice I may or may not have learned the hard way: ALWAYS CHECK THAT YOU HAVE ALL THREE! I once got inspected and the patrol only found 2 in the box. When I looked at them, I peek in the box and see triangles and didnt give it a second thought. He was less than impressed.

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Foxlen@reddit

I only give one, I don't find enough to regularly give away all 3, but 1 is better than none

I usually have 2-4 extras in my personal pickup of various conditions (I don't carry extra in work trucks, cuz I won't be stopping)

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SeaRow556@reddit

You have up to 5 minutes to put them out this accident could have just happened.

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Shamanjoe@reddit

Yeah, the broke down driver was out of his truck on the side. Maybe he was getting them out 🤷🏻‍♂️

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jamar2k@reddit

Facts

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R34CTz@reddit

Triangles would not have prevented this accident.

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Ziggernaut1337@reddit

Yeah the situation is tricky. Triangles wouldn’t have helped a moron who isn’t paying attention to hazard lights.

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bmf1989@reddit

I’d be pretty terrified to even stand next to my truck to grab my triangles out of the box right there. I have doubts that triangles would have prevented this anyway. Guy who hit him didn’t come off of it at all until literally right before impact, he’s either not looking at the road or is a complete dumbass.

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aarraahhaarr@reddit

Fucked thing is Forward Air should have moved to the right lane. Not sure if there was a vehicle in that lane but from the video it looks clear.

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rektRandy@reddit

Highway Patrol should have been called out to close off the lane well before the tunnel began

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MainInternational824@reddit

Does Mr George know about this?

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sparrow_42@reddit

How much is he paying the new guy?

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MainInternational824@reddit

I heard 30%

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MadeMeStopLurking@reddit

Too much

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Available-Dress-4772@reddit

Who pulls a semi in the far left lane? Ever? Like what’s the reason??

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HollowVoices@reddit

Downvoting for the muppet voiceover

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everythangspeachie@reddit

This kind of shit happens when you have no patience and are just so focused on passing someone that you don’t even see a freaking stopped truck right ahead of you.

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Quench3654@reddit

Why didn't the truck count drop by 1 after the crash?????

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TellTaleTimeLord@reddit

That's the speed limit

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cevers_4475@reddit

As a driver who goes through the Cross Bronx in the middle of the night/early morning staying left is usually the best choice. Once you are off the bridge there is tons of crossing traffic. But you have to go slow those first few miles. You are completely blind on that first downgrade and blind up the other side.

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Dead_Namer@reddit

He doesn't even hit the brakes until contact. There doesn't seem to be shoulder on either side which is very dangerous. There was a big thing over here about "smart motorways" that opened the hard shoulder as a lane when it was busy but it kept killing people because there was not a safe place to stop.

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pogoturtle@reddit

Honestly seems like new York? There's no room for anything there lol

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supermarble94@reddit

50 mph trucks, white clearance signs (one for each lane), no shoulder, crazy amount of overpasses, and a decent amount of traffic in the middle of the night? Looks like cross bronx to me.

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Golden4Pres@reddit

Says it on the bottom on the video that it is the cross Bronx

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Lightyear18@reddit

Why are trucks driving in the fastest lane.

Damn imagine being in a state where you have broken down on the fast lane. Or trucks driving 60 on the fastest lanes.

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cbakes205@reddit

No every state has a no left lane rule for trucks.

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Mountainear99@reddit

I see it a lot on one of my routes. Even tho there’s multiple signs saying no commercial vehicles in the left lane. And it’s all bc it’s a mix of loaded trailers and empties trying to pass each other up the hills

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ipogorelov98@reddit

What is the slow truck doing in the left lane? If you are broken- go slowly on the right shoulder. Or in the right lane, if there's no shoulder. Don't make it others' problem.

And another driver- why the hell would you go over the limit in such traffic. And this looks like a city. Slow down. And what is wrong with his reaction? Hazards are visible for a while. The guy was clearly on the phone or asleep.

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Dysanj@reddit

Trianlges by day, Road Flares at night.

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Throwmesometail@reddit

Only speeding up when some one I t he right lane is passing , piece of shit

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voicareason@reddit

I hate to be that guy, but after I made absolutely sure the driver was OK I'd drag him out and kick the ever loving shit outta him. And it'd be fine. He couldn't pick me out of a line up, as blind as he must be.

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friskyPontooner@reddit

What a fuckin idiot

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Maduro90@reddit

Put the phone down.

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OneHoneydew3661@reddit

You can see other skid marks from another trucker too

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Edge2110@reddit

Gotta love that Cross Bronx

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LargeMerican@reddit

i honestly wouldn't have posted this.

because the narration IS SO FUCKING ANNOYING. fucking idiot.

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vizarhali@reddit

And here we have one stupid idiot on the road trying for a kill streak. Fuck you

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rathic@reddit

This narration gives me a headache only a shotgun shell can cure

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Uknow_nothing@reddit

I’m glad I generally keep the volume off. I’m already used to 50% of these videos having some insanely annoying Hindu music.

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oickles@reddit

Both drivers were in the wrong here. You had one driver speeding in the left lane and not paying attention. The other driver, seeing that there was a truck broken down, should've gotten over to the right and slowed down in anticipation. We are taught defensive driving and are expected to not only prevent ourselves from being in danger but, others as well. I hope you and everyone in this chat understand that this could've been prevented by paying attention to surrondings, looking up ahead and scanning your areas.

S.M.I.T.H system, get the big picture

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Show_Quality_Trash@reddit

Obviously speeding 10 over

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N661US@reddit

Dude had 3 business days to react and still hit him…. And stay out of the left lane just be a little patient. :/