Just saw this on the news this morning. Crazy.
http://kwgn.com/2016/06/13/family-sa...RJqtvLvLb4-Fc8
Just saw this on the news this morning. Crazy.
http://kwgn.com/2016/06/13/family-sa...RJqtvLvLb4-Fc8
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If only they would show the video from 60 seconds before contact. I see plenty of people who just merge in, ignoring a vehicle that is already occupying space. Just saying, the short clip and 1 side of the "facts" doesn't really present a full picture. Sure the ATV vehicle continued driving, not an admission of guilt, perhaps he was unaware <shrug>.
Officer saw the video and cited both.....
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Here's the full video.
https://youtu.be/P3THFKyVbEo
Since the dash cam doesn't point backwards, correct, you don't know what type of merge really took place, but it's pretty clear the camper truck was purposely running him off and road raging.
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I work at Schomp and some of my co workers saw the whole thing happen
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After watching the full video, I feel that the driver of the red truck could have avoided him by slowing down. You can see that camper is getting close to your lane along starting to swerve... slow down maybe? If the guy is going bat shit crazy and honking at you.. you might want to avoid him, you think? I see this stupid crap often on the highway (directed at others, not me), especially on the bike and I will just try to get away from them and let them go be crazy elsewhere.. and wtf, you just leave your jet boat in the middle of the highway to pursue dumbass???? O M G
Last edited by Sully; Tue Jun 14th, 2016 at 06:55 PM.
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Could have slowed down, yes, but lets face it, full video does show white truck pull past, merge into the lane already occupied by red, which is what caused the "initial contact". We didn't see where white was when red merged since we are only forward facing, but white never gave indication that he was struck by red in the first merge. And the subsequent behavior indicates he was pissed, not a victim. And then red over-reacts, over-corrects and causes himself to fishtail and lose their boat; which they leave in the road? in order to chase the white truck down, etc, etc. Be interested in what tickets were issued on both sides.
Amusing, in the longer video, they point at the red light the white truck ran, as they also run the light.
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Everyone is all over red for leaving his boat, but really what could he do with it? It's not like you can get out and push it out of the road. And we're also assuming it ended up in the roadway. It's entirely likely it slid into the ditch. If someone runs into me and takes off you bet your ass I'll be chasing them down too. To hell with whatever happened to the boat. Not to completely defend red, as he's certainly to blame for not backing off to avoid the collision and for over-correcting, but fact still remains that white ran into him, seemingly on purpose, and took off. Isn't fleeing an accident a felony?
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two idiots that both deserve tickets. sounds like Leo nailed this one right on the head.
I was more surprised kids get a truck like that as their first vehicle (comment stated that truck would be his son's in a few years) Mine was a bucket and not some fancy truck my dad was going to hand me down....crazy but I had to work for my own first car.
Can't be a hatter though, so good for that kid.
As for road rage, happens to often I am amazed we don't hear more stories like this as I have a few of my own
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Nobody seems to have noticed the little dark Merc ML that came past red AFTER he was fully merged into the right lane of 470. Then the white truck shows up. There's no way red did anything to white while merging from the ramp to 470....HOWEVER, What we don't see, is while red is coming up the 2-lane on ramp from Wadsworth, he is in the right lane. He then moves to the left lane at the meter light, long before the 2 merge into 1. My speculation is that the white truck was in the left lane of the on ramp (behind the black Audi), on the gas hard, with the plan of passing red before the end of the ramp. Then red moves in front of him and makes him hit the brakes (the note on-screen even says "apparently he didn't like my monster truck pulling in front of him with the boat")...now white truck is pissed and has to wait until they are both on 470 before he can jump into the left lane to catch up and be the dick that he ultimately became. So, in summary, red should have just let white go by on the on-ramp and none of this would have happened...and white needs a chill pill...do a quick honk and flip-off as you pass, and move on with your life. No need to intentionally cause a wreck, which he clearly did. Red only deserves a ticket for running the red light, and a slap on the wrist for pissing off white in the first place. But white deserves to go to jail for reckless driving and causing, then leaving the scene of an accident...maybe assault.
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Entertaining all the same. They are both idiots. Dad in truck sounded like they were about to die,, haha. Like cmon man let the old dude get in front of you.
What DDriver said - do a quick honk and flip-off as you pass, and move on with your life.
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I didn't watch the video because I'm at work so try to avoid stuff like that taking up bandwidth... I know these answers might be biased because this is a sportbike forum, but how big of a dick am I that I never really ever slow down to allow someone to merge if they aren't at all up to highway speed? If something dangerous is up ahead then I will let them in but for me if moving over isn't an option for me they can deal with it. If you're committed and up to speed I'll definitely let you over wont cut you off but there's two parts to the equation. (mini rant)
Also this story involves people in a truck pulling a boat, that I can understand and would slow down for. But for those people driving sedans with like a V6 and stuff but don't have a care in the world to actually reach cruising speed for the merge... They think they're being so "Eco Friendly" by accelerating slowly but they lose track of the fact that they cause 20-100-1000 cars/trucks/semis all driving at cruising speed to slow down and then have to speed up when they do that
And then there's the traffic jams that happen too
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You job merging into traffic is to get up to speed, it isn't the main flows job to slow down to account for you not knowing how to merge (which seems to be a HUGE misunderstanding on how traffic flow works for Colorado drivers). It is also my job as the main road's occupant to get out of the merging lane on multiple lane roads (also some CO drivers don't seem to get). IMO.
I also do go out of my way to look out for other people towing, many drivers don't and seem to have no clue on extra time and space needed.
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When we were towing our 35footer 5th wheel, it took forever to get up to speed, more distance than some merging lanes. Some drivers don't seem to understand how zipper merges work and well.. if you won't slow down, speed up or move over, you'd be surprised how a huge dually towing a trailer gets the point across. (Yeah, I'm an ass)
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I just hang them out to dry on the merge lane. I'm running at least 70ft long why do I have to give your minivan any room if you're not looking? Speed up or slow down. Idgaf.
As far as the video.... The dad told the kid the other guy might have a gun... Yet he chases him down. With the kid in the car. Even though they are running video? . I call bullshit. and all the screaming while he's sliding? Cmon!
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You're not that big of a dick at all. I do the very same thing all the time. I enjoy stuffing people on merge lanes, especially when they don't/won't use a signal to notify myself and other traffic that they want to merge. If I don't see a signal, I assume that the driver is going straight and if that means straight into a jersey barrier, shoulder, curbing, and dirt/grass area, then that's their problem. It infuriates me that people can't seem to use their signal indicator to change lanes, merge into traffic or let you know they're making a turn. It's not a dick move, when other people are being dicks to begin with. I call it them getting what they deserve.
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yeah, caged animals all think they have the right away, it is funny to me that they thinking turning on their turn signal gives them the right away and you should slow down for them. they are merging, they can speed up or slow down to find an opening, it isn't everyone elses job to make sure they get in.
Just having the red truck, they way he talks and acts and is trying to be the first to point fingers... he easily could of slowed down when the trailer hit him so he clearly wasn't being nice either.
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It all boils down to selfishness or entitlement. I'm not moving for you to merge, I'm not moving to fit into a hole in traffic.... no wonder road rage happens.
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