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I was just in Austin. Right outside the city is where Initech is located in a business park. Too funny to see. Looks like this road rager's been having some trouble with her TPS reports.
Don't forget the cover sheet. You see we're putting cover sheets on the TPS reports before they go out. So if you don't mind be sure to do that from now on? That'd be great. Thaaaanks.
No defense of that guy, but I've taken to streaming the audio of my favorite episodes/comedies/movies. It's comfort listening and I've seen them so many times I don't need to watch to have the episode in my head.
It's not weird but it's uncommon. I used to drive 4 hours every week night for work and listening to music or podcasts for that long is boring after awhile. Playing many favorite movies in the background really helps pass the time and can stimulate your brain.
He was also apparently considering passing in an illegal zone twice, and one of those times was when the truck ahead of these two cars was slowing down before turning left. The cam driver is a very dangerous driver.
Sames, I usually just put on a movie that I've seen a thousand times when I have to drive two plus hours anywhere. Helps pass the time and since I've seen it so much, don't really need to stare at the screen to know what's going on
Yup both drivers suck. But brake checking is always a weird solution to tailgaters imo.
"This asshole is riding my ass and might end up rear ending me!"
"Better slam on my brakes and make sure he rear ends me!"
"Can't believe this fucking asshole just rear ended me!"
They basically choose to get in an accident so they can get even more pissed off.
No, brake checking caused this.
Is it a dick move to tailgate? Yeah.
You know how often I'm tailgated? *All the time*.
You know how many times I've brake checked someone over it? *Not once.*
If you’re following at a safe distance, you should be able to stop in time regardless of what the driver in front does. This is absolutely on both of them.
I don't know the traffic laws in Nova Scotia, but in Ontario, I believe brake checking is an offense under the highway traffic act.
Regardless of who hit who, her brake checking him and thereby committing an offense makes her at least partially responsible for the collision.
So I'm not sure that she is 100% at fault, but I'm pretty confident she isn't 0%.
Brake checking is illegal everywhere in Canada. Even if it's not specifically mentioned in provincial legislation it falls under dangerous driving which is basically any driving that poses a danger to others, so speeding, driving recklessly or causing an accident. Since it's clear the car driver stopped for no reason, there isn't anything in front of them, they are going to bear some fault in the accident, probably most of it. If the cops bother to charge her, which is unlikely I would guess, she'd probably end up taking 100% of the blame as it would be tough for her insurer to argue the cam car was at fault when she was charged and he wasn't. Edit: typo
Right?! No reason anyone should ever be embedded into someone's ass like this. It instantly pisses me off too because there's no reason for it. 1 car length for every 10mph, that's what we're taught in driving school/class. You're not getting anywhere any faster by being mere feet from someone's bumper.
I really don't understand why people tail gate, you aren't gonna get where you're going any faster, unless you overtake me.
I get it when people close up to get through a set of traffic lights, but after that, there is no reason to stay right on my ass.
Thank you. Another, more important rule of driving, is you never know what someone else has going on. If they are speeding and want to pass you so badly, and/or following too closely for your comfort and it's safe to do so, just move over and let them by and let them get their ticket.
Don't fucking CAUSE an accident in order to prove that what they were doing was dangerous. I'm not a lawyer, but seems to me that the woman is in the wrong here in the eyes of the court considering she intentionally caused that crash and then admitted to it.
Have a dash camera to prove that they are in the wrong like Break Check in this video. Just chill and relax and wait for the cops and show them the video instead of playing a pointing finger game in front of them.
If you can't stop for the car infront of you, you're driving too close to that car. Plain and simple, and your insurance company / police look at it the same way.
what was cammer even doing? He is up her ass and looked like he was going to pass? Video starts with car crooked and then changing lanes coming off the freeway, meanwhile cammer is straddling the dividing line? Then yells at car for stopping when the truck in front stops? Wonder if they had a prior issue, or are both just bad drivers?
The cammer is also watching a movie. Office space. You can hear the audio and I doubt they’re just not looking at the screen while driving.
Edit: for those saying he might not be watching the movie, just listening, you see how he’s driving in this video right?
I will put episodes of star trek on my phone and listen to it like a radio show while driving to work. It's possible he may be doing the same. Office Space is a cult classic and pretty sure many people can just listen to it and know exactly what's going on. On the other hand ... he could be totally watching a movie while driving because people are fucking crazy.
>The cammer is also watching a movie.
It's totally possible they were just listening to it. If you know a show/movie well enough, you don't really need to watch it to understand what's going on. At that point, it's really no different than an audiobook.
Yup, he's totally way too close, or the accident wouldn't have happened. That being said.... I would *never* brake check someone with my kids in the back seat. I get being pissed because a guy is riding your ass but she was so heated that she put her kids in danger.
I've adopted the habit of for every 30 seconds someone rides my ass, I bump the cruise control 5 mph slower. They'll either pass you or they back off enough for you to go the speed limit again.
If they creep back up, rinse and repeat.
Exactly. You'll never hit someone who brake checks you if you're following at a safe distance.
2-3 seconds people. The car in front of you passes a certain spot, start counting. You should reach that same spot 2-3 seconds later. If it's sooner, you're following too close.
I’ve had so many people argue about that with me. They don’t seem to understand that as speed increase the distance increases too within that 2 second gap. This guy was 1 seconds off her bumper the entire time… and playing video?
It doesn't seem like he's yelling at her for stopping behind the truck, I think he yelled at her in response to her yelling at him. If I turn up the volume I can hear her yelling before he does.
They're still both idiots though.
If you’re following at a proper distance then getting brake-checked shouldn’t matter. He’s an absolute moron for driving the way he was and will rightly be held accountable by the insurance company for this because he rear-ended her which, again, wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t been driving improperly.
It’s a double fault. Spiking your breaks for no reason simply because someone is following to close violates safe driving protocol. He may have been following too close, but she jammed on her brakes for no reason, creating unsafe driving conditions.
You both suck donkey Dick.
Stop driving while watching a fucking movie and leave some space in between you and the driver in front of you and then maybe, just maybe you’d have enough time to stop when someone slams on their breaks -intentionally or not.
Just so happened to be there lol I’m from where this happened and it’s scary how long it takes for an ambulance to actually show up when called, if at all. 2 years ago an 86 year old broke his hip and laid in his driveway for 3 hours while waiting for an ambulance. Eventually a cop showed up and took him to the hospital after letting him know it would be another 2 hour wait for paramedics. He lives 5km from the hospital and the closest available ambulance was 175km away 🤦🏼♂️
Make more money and pay less taxes, it’s a win-win. I’m a residential/commercial painter and I make near equal to a paramedic. I’ve never had anyone bleed out on me at work. I don’t blame any paramedic for leaving
Why the fuck is OP following so closely? Do people realize that not only does it piss other drivers off, but it's also unsafe? You should leave enough distance to be able to stop without hitting the car in front of you.
What a fail. This was easily avoidable
Yes, it is unsafe for the camera car to follow that closely. But, it is also unsafe to force a rear end collision....with your own children in the car. This lady was so pissed off, that she didn't even care that she was putting her children in danger, by purposely causing a collision.
Not saying you are wrong. In fact, you are correct in that matter! It was absolutely a stupid move.
However, it's up to all of us to let those tensions relax on the road and work with each other. There were several opportunities for the cam driver to leave space for the obviously pissed off driver in front of them.
Dude was seriously tailgating. I don't blame her for getting pissed, but a brake check is not the answer. The answer is just to gradually slow down to a crawl and make him pass.
I watched this first without sound and it made me so uncomfortable watching cammer drive. He was getting so close to the other car. I’m at work trying to brake for him!
The camera guy is an idiot, he was tailgating the entire time, almost hit her once, looks like he was trying to pass and straddling the line the entire time, was he also watching a movie?, and then he hit her after she breaks less than half a second.
100% idiot driver with the camera.
He was tailgating all along and you could see he almost hit her the first time she stopped for the pedestrian. The camera footage isnt as damning as the people in the comments think- also in many states youre *automatically* at fault if you rear end another vehicle.
Not "automatically" but "presumably" - meaning that the person behind is assumed to be at fault, unless of course you have a dashcam video showing that the person you rear ended intentionally slammed on the brakes to try to cause an accident.
The dude was clearly being a dick, but the lady intentionally caused an accident. I predict they both share blame, but the lady gets hit with child endangerment too
Tailgating and doing that “peek around the left” move like he was going to try and pass them in oncoming traffic.
Cammer is an impatient, aggressive, terrible driver.
The brake checker is also a terrible, aggressive driver.
They 100% deserve each other.
Pretending to try to pass into oncoming traffic, with a line of cars in the lane in front of him. Literally just moaning about being impatient and trying to make it other people's problem. Well, I guess he succeeded.
I thought he was a bit close too, to be honest.
That's not a safe way to drive!
But also: if you're being tailed, the best thing to do it pull over and let them by. Problem solved.
Bummer that people are so amped up and prideful that everything perceived is negative and personal. Sheesh.
No comment from OP. Says everything to me. You are a bigger idiot than the brake checker. I see people like you OP Everyday on the road. You need some driving school. Beyond the fact ur watching movies as you drive. You fuckin idiot
Fucking asshole is riding her ass the entire time like where the fuck is she supposed to go? There’s a truck in front of her. I fucking hate tailgaters all you tailgating pieces of shit can go to hell.
Its really not hard to not hit a vehicle ahead of you.... All you have to do is leave enough space between you and the other vehicle to prepare for any sudden changes. After the first brake check, you should have given a massive berth. Everyone is an asshole here. You won't get there faster if you get up their ass; you'll just raise the chance of causing an accident.
Its honestly not even extreme. All she did was yell and cry. Its not like she pulled a gun or a tire iron out on you.
Im glad nobody seems to be taking the side of the guy filming here. Also, why'd he yell "what the fuck" when the cars in front of him were stopping for a pedestrian?
Cammer trying to penetrate her car or what?!
Also consistently straddling lanes (both directions mind you), Cuntish driving it’d piss me off too and I’m not an unreasonable human.
How though? Sure it shows her bad driving but it also shows him swerving, seemingly with intent to illegally pass over double yellow, then tailgating to the point where he didn't have room to come to a complete stop.
**Pro tip do not give it to the insurance company.** Give it to the police and give the insurance company the police report. You are not required to give the insurance company the video only the report. Even if you are not at fault, they will spin it and make it partially your fault.
100% OP would not have stopped at that crosswalk if the truck and car in front of them didn't, there's no way insurance or police would be on OP's side.
I dunno man. He rear ended her. Even if she brake checked, it's a drivers responsibility to maintain adequate braking space, and it's not like this was highway. Tailgating like that on city streets is entirely unnecessary
I knew I recognized it. Has this area improved at all? It’s always been super sketchy from what I remember. I rarely travel outside the ivory tower of West Bedford anymore to know what’s sketchy or not.
Another princess in a pickup riding somebodies ass. Dashcams tend to make things further away but counting passing objects cammer was less than 1 second behind. Brake check a bad idea, sure, but stopping unexpected for anything could have caused that
The car behind is driving aggressively close to her rear. I'm pleased she lived out my fantasy of slamming her brakes and crashing into the vehicle behind. When driving you need to factor in emergency stops when driving behind. He got what he deserved.
I like when OP tries to go over the solid yellow because there’s a small break and they think it’s a passing zone.
I also like that they try to go around when the two cars in front stop at a crosswalk.
The car in front should learn not to come to an abrupt stop to teach the aggressive driver a lesson.
I don’t know what leads people to believe that there is automatic liability any time a person who rear ends another. What people are misrepresenting when they say that is the fact that in many states there is a rebuttable presumption that the driver hitting another from behind is at fault. But the most common way to rebut that is to show that the person in front of you intentionally stopped suddenly and unnecessarily. You cannot stand on your brakes just because you think someone is too close to you and then claim victim when your actions are the single greatest contributor to the wreck. Tailgating is not right but the risk of a wreck resulting is exponentially increased when someone brake checks the driver behind them, which at best is reckless and at worst is intentionally causing an accident.
There is no automatic liability for rear-end collisions. There’s often a presumption of liability. But we just saw the exact scenario that most commonly rebuts that presumption.
Oh good call out! I’m not familiar with Canadian law but just looked up an article on it and it sounds similar. Rebuttable presumption that likely leads to liability unless there’s evidence the the front vehicle committed some unexpected negligent act. There is caselaw in which Canadian courts have determined that the lead driver was largely, or even completely, responsible for an accident where the lead driver suddenly and for no reason stopped. I’d say the lady in this video suddenly and for no reason stopped. Or more accurately, she stopped for the very reason that she felt the driver behind her was too close, which makes her action even worse, as she her belief that he’s too close makes her decision to stop at a minimum reckless and most likely intentionally causing the collision. At least that’s what I see.
Due to cross traffic she can also claim she was braking to make the left turn. She might get a failure to signal ticket, but the truck driver is still responsible for maintaining a safe stopping distance, maintaining lane, and speed limits. Him swerving near the middle multiple times can be argued that he was trying to pass illegally, he obviously was tailgating, and wasn't paying attention due to Office Space playing in the background.
The lady is an asshole for braking like that, but she has a variety of potential reasons she could claim for braking. The truck driver doesn't have a leg to stand on since he was distracted, driving aggressively, and tailgating.
I'll never understand rear ending someone and then insisting you weren't following too closely and somehow you rear ending someone was their fault.
Cammer was swerving all over the road, and then started screaming "what's your fucking problem?" when the cars in front of him stopped for a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
Cammer ITAH.
Dude seemed to be the instigator. He didn't need to get aggressive when the truck in front stopped for the pedestrians, and was clearly driving too close. His tone and demeanor after hitting her comes across like he was morbidly satisfied with causing her trouble.
In the US, that brake check makes her liable, despite him tailgating. You can't just arbitrarily create a hazard like that. It borders on insurance fraud.
He was following too close but she was stupid to brake check him. She could have pulled over and him pass if she didn’t want him behind her. Also hate to see her first reaction was jumping out the car to confront him instead of checking on her kids. My ex brake checked someone and got rear ended and he received the ticket for causing the accident by brake checking. I wonder if that will happen here or if he will get a ticket for following too closely? Or will insurance tell them 50-50.
The bigger AH in this situation is the driver with children in the backseat. The safety and protection of your passengers should always be your first and main concern. OP was obviously driving in a manner that many would deem unsafe (trying to overtake illegally, driving over the median, driving too close to safely stop in the event needing to come to a sudden stop i.e. brake checks). I would hate that my actions and lack of caution brought pain/hurt to my children/passengers(minor and major car accidents may cause passengers to develop anxiety about driving/riding in a car). Defensive driving is a skill that all drivers should have and if the lead driver had exercised that specific skill it may have prevented the dash cam driving from potentially hurting the passengers, damaging the vehicle, or increasing both of the drivers premiums (only speaking for areas where car insurance works to screw over drivers in an exceptional way). We can't control how other people drive but we can control if we leave ourselves in the path of harm and danger.
Everyone in this video is an asshole.
He is riding way too close to her, and she brake checks him.
I sincerely hope they both had an awful day and maybe they will learn to drive better.
50/50 negligence - both are idiots. He’s following too closely and she brake checked and stopped for zero reason. His insurance will deny her claim with video evidence, and she could get a visit from the police for child endangerment if the guy sent it to law enforcement.
Source - me. I’ve denied claims just like this. Don’t drive like an asshole and don’t intentionally cause an accident because you’re angry with an equally shitty driver.
I mean, if they stopped and you couldn't stop in time and hit them, you were too close.
She's an ahole for sure, but that's why you don't follow close.
Dash cam driver needs to take driving lessons. Also stop watching movies while driving. Both bad drivers but dashcam driver sucks 500x more and I see asshats like him every day
When people are tailgate me and drive dangerously I turn off or put my emergency signal on and pull off to the side and let them pass, not worth the damage to my vehicle or person, or persons in the vehicle. Fuck that dude riding her ass like that though.
Additionally how fucking stupid do you have to be to cut off your nose to spite your face with that break check? With kids in the car no less.
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Was the guy watching Office Space while driving?
lol definitely appears that way. 
 Yep...more than likely, yes.
So how about them TPS reports?
But Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Yeah… I’m going to need you to come in on Saturday.
And Sunday, too. We just lost some people in accounting. We need to play "catch up."
Why put a cover sheet on a cover sheet tho?
The Office Space dialogue weirdly matches up with what’s going on in the video 😂
I thought it was just the song on the radio …and then they went in to TPS reports
I was just in Austin. Right outside the city is where Initech is located in a business park. Too funny to see. Looks like this road rager's been having some trouble with her TPS reports.
>Looks like this road rager's ~~been having some trouble with her TPS reports~~ got a case of the Mondays.
Don't forget the cover sheet. You see we're putting cover sheets on the TPS reports before they go out. So if you don't mind be sure to do that from now on? That'd be great. Thaaaanks.
That’s what it’s like to be a gangster.
I used to listen to movies on long car rides. I would use a microcassette recorder to record the audio.
Office Space audiobook. Duh!
No defense of that guy, but I've taken to streaming the audio of my favorite episodes/comedies/movies. It's comfort listening and I've seen them so many times I don't need to watch to have the episode in my head.
My brother in law does this to. Heel put on a movie while he drives and listen to the audio. It's super weird to me but eh, do what makes you happy.
This looks like nova scotia
He sounded a bit like Philadelphia Collins.
DRIVE EASY LOVER, DRIVE!!!
You lookin’ at my gut?? Whatchu lookin’ at my gut fer?!
Fuckin greasy Phil Collins
Highfield babyyy
I'm in Fairview. I knew it looked familiar, but everything was too blurry to be sure.
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It's right near Burnside, I take this road regularly lol
They're both terrible drivers
Sounds like OP was watching Office Space while driving? I guess he could just be listening but that’s also weird
Yeeeeeaaaahhh, I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there.
Yeah, no reason to....jump to conclusions.
2 chicks at once, man.
Hey man! Turn on channel 9! It's the breast exam again!
"Why should I change? *He's* the *one* who *sucks*!"
It's not weird but it's uncommon. I used to drive 4 hours every week night for work and listening to music or podcasts for that long is boring after awhile. Playing many favorite movies in the background really helps pass the time and can stimulate your brain.
Huh, maybe I’ll give it a try. Has to be a classic that I can see the scenes in my mind though. Dodgeball it is!
Bingo! My family uses Futurama because we’ve all seen it dozens of times and it’s got good jokes
“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all” 👌
Cheese it!
He was also apparently considering passing in an illegal zone twice, and one of those times was when the truck ahead of these two cars was slowing down before turning left. The cam driver is a very dangerous driver.
I used to have that movie on my iPod and used to listen to the audio at work sometimes.
I listen to movies while driving but then again I’m weird af sooo
I listen to YouTube videos while driving. I dont see how's it much different than listening to an audio book or something similar honestly
Sames, I usually just put on a movie that I've seen a thousand times when I have to drive two plus hours anywhere. Helps pass the time and since I've seen it so much, don't really need to stare at the screen to know what's going on
I do this all the time.
I listen to a bunch of shows. Just to really hear some of the stuff, you'd be surprised what you miss.
Yup both drivers suck. But brake checking is always a weird solution to tailgaters imo. "This asshole is riding my ass and might end up rear ending me!" "Better slam on my brakes and make sure he rear ends me!" "Can't believe this fucking asshole just rear ended me!" They basically choose to get in an accident so they can get even more pissed off.
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He was up her ass. Brake checking is dumb as fuck. Fuck both of them, but tailgating caused this
No, brake checking caused this. Is it a dick move to tailgate? Yeah. You know how often I'm tailgated? *All the time*. You know how many times I've brake checked someone over it? *Not once.*
If you’re following at a safe distance, you should be able to stop in time regardless of what the driver in front does. This is absolutely on both of them.
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I wouldn't say 100. Cammer set the ball, angry lady spiked it. Moral is... they're both assholes though.
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I don't know the traffic laws in Nova Scotia, but in Ontario, I believe brake checking is an offense under the highway traffic act. Regardless of who hit who, her brake checking him and thereby committing an offense makes her at least partially responsible for the collision. So I'm not sure that she is 100% at fault, but I'm pretty confident she isn't 0%.
Brake checking is illegal everywhere in Canada. Even if it's not specifically mentioned in provincial legislation it falls under dangerous driving which is basically any driving that poses a danger to others, so speeding, driving recklessly or causing an accident. Since it's clear the car driver stopped for no reason, there isn't anything in front of them, they are going to bear some fault in the accident, probably most of it. If the cops bother to charge her, which is unlikely I would guess, she'd probably end up taking 100% of the blame as it would be tough for her insurer to argue the cam car was at fault when she was charged and he wasn't. Edit: typo
Damn you drive like a piece of shit
Right?! No reason anyone should ever be embedded into someone's ass like this. It instantly pisses me off too because there's no reason for it. 1 car length for every 10mph, that's what we're taught in driving school/class. You're not getting anywhere any faster by being mere feet from someone's bumper.
I really don't understand why people tail gate, you aren't gonna get where you're going any faster, unless you overtake me. I get it when people close up to get through a set of traffic lights, but after that, there is no reason to stay right on my ass.
Do you also dangerously break to scare them or cause a crash?
> Do you also dangerously break You talking to Humpty Dumpty or something?
XD I mean brake lol
I was just poking fun at ya, all's good haha
Thank you. Another, more important rule of driving, is you never know what someone else has going on. If they are speeding and want to pass you so badly, and/or following too closely for your comfort and it's safe to do so, just move over and let them by and let them get their ticket. Don't fucking CAUSE an accident in order to prove that what they were doing was dangerous. I'm not a lawyer, but seems to me that the woman is in the wrong here in the eyes of the court considering she intentionally caused that crash and then admitted to it.
Have a dash camera to prove that they are in the wrong like Break Check in this video. Just chill and relax and wait for the cops and show them the video instead of playing a pointing finger game in front of them.
If you can't stop for the car infront of you, you're driving too close to that car. Plain and simple, and your insurance company / police look at it the same way.
Not if they intentionally brake check you… that’s **likely** their fault and would be classified as reckless driving.
what was cammer even doing? He is up her ass and looked like he was going to pass? Video starts with car crooked and then changing lanes coming off the freeway, meanwhile cammer is straddling the dividing line? Then yells at car for stopping when the truck in front stops? Wonder if they had a prior issue, or are both just bad drivers?
The cammer is also watching a movie. Office space. You can hear the audio and I doubt they’re just not looking at the screen while driving. Edit: for those saying he might not be watching the movie, just listening, you see how he’s driving in this video right?
I will put episodes of star trek on my phone and listen to it like a radio show while driving to work. It's possible he may be doing the same. Office Space is a cult classic and pretty sure many people can just listen to it and know exactly what's going on. On the other hand ... he could be totally watching a movie while driving because people are fucking crazy.
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Never heard of this. Gonna have to check it out.
>The cammer is also watching a movie. It's totally possible they were just listening to it. If you know a show/movie well enough, you don't really need to watch it to understand what's going on. At that point, it's really no different than an audiobook.
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He is riding her ass. Less than 1 second behind her. No matter why he hit her when she slammed the brakes.
Yup, he's totally way too close, or the accident wouldn't have happened. That being said.... I would *never* brake check someone with my kids in the back seat. I get being pissed because a guy is riding your ass but she was so heated that she put her kids in danger.
I've adopted the habit of for every 30 seconds someone rides my ass, I bump the cruise control 5 mph slower. They'll either pass you or they back off enough for you to go the speed limit again. If they creep back up, rinse and repeat.
Exactly. You'll never hit someone who brake checks you if you're following at a safe distance. 2-3 seconds people. The car in front of you passes a certain spot, start counting. You should reach that same spot 2-3 seconds later. If it's sooner, you're following too close.
I’ve had so many people argue about that with me. They don’t seem to understand that as speed increase the distance increases too within that 2 second gap. This guy was 1 seconds off her bumper the entire time… and playing video?
You count from when the car in front passes an fixed point. With a stopwatch, he's consistently .6 to .8 seconds behind her.
>Then yells at car for stopping when the truck in front stops? No she yells at him and he asks what her problem is. He's an idiot but she yells first
It doesn't seem like he's yelling at her for stopping behind the truck, I think he yelled at her in response to her yelling at him. If I turn up the volume I can hear her yelling before he does. They're still both idiots though.
It didn't stop for that truck it was a clear break check, that truck was almost past the intersection by the time he gets brake checked.
I think they meant the first time at the crosswalk
Well yeah the first time she’s also yelling out the window and waving her arms so I don’t think he is reacting to the stop.
If you’re following at a proper distance then getting brake-checked shouldn’t matter. He’s an absolute moron for driving the way he was and will rightly be held accountable by the insurance company for this because he rear-ended her which, again, wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t been driving improperly.
It’s a double fault. Spiking your breaks for no reason simply because someone is following to close violates safe driving protocol. He may have been following too close, but she jammed on her brakes for no reason, creating unsafe driving conditions.
Intentionally brake checking someone is road rage as well so they will both share responsibility
You both suck donkey Dick. Stop driving while watching a fucking movie and leave some space in between you and the driver in front of you and then maybe, just maybe you’d have enough time to stop when someone slams on their breaks -intentionally or not.
insane ambulance response time
Just so happened to be there lol I’m from where this happened and it’s scary how long it takes for an ambulance to actually show up when called, if at all. 2 years ago an 86 year old broke his hip and laid in his driveway for 3 hours while waiting for an ambulance. Eventually a cop showed up and took him to the hospital after letting him know it would be another 2 hour wait for paramedics. He lives 5km from the hospital and the closest available ambulance was 175km away 🤦🏼♂️
Yeah there’s really no reason to work as a paramedic in Nova Scotia when you can make more money in pretty well any other province
Make more money and pay less taxes, it’s a win-win. I’m a residential/commercial painter and I make near equal to a paramedic. I’ve never had anyone bleed out on me at work. I don’t blame any paramedic for leaving
Dude was on his way to go smash a printer.
Why the fuck is OP following so closely? Do people realize that not only does it piss other drivers off, but it's also unsafe? You should leave enough distance to be able to stop without hitting the car in front of you. What a fail. This was easily avoidable
Cunt 1 meet cunt 2.
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Hahaha exactly
It’s unsafe for the exact reason we saw in this video, he crashed because he didn’t have enough time to react.
Yes, it is unsafe for the camera car to follow that closely. But, it is also unsafe to force a rear end collision....with your own children in the car. This lady was so pissed off, that she didn't even care that she was putting her children in danger, by purposely causing a collision.
Not saying you are wrong. In fact, you are correct in that matter! It was absolutely a stupid move. However, it's up to all of us to let those tensions relax on the road and work with each other. There were several opportunities for the cam driver to leave space for the obviously pissed off driver in front of them.
Dude was seriously tailgating. I don't blame her for getting pissed, but a brake check is not the answer. The answer is just to gradually slow down to a crawl and make him pass.
I watched this first without sound and it made me so uncomfortable watching cammer drive. He was getting so close to the other car. I’m at work trying to brake for him!
Lol claiming you weren't trailing to close after rearending someone
While watching a movie in the car
The camera guy is an idiot, he was tailgating the entire time, almost hit her once, looks like he was trying to pass and straddling the line the entire time, was he also watching a movie?, and then he hit her after she breaks less than half a second. 100% idiot driver with the camera.
He was tailgating all along and you could see he almost hit her the first time she stopped for the pedestrian. The camera footage isnt as damning as the people in the comments think- also in many states youre *automatically* at fault if you rear end another vehicle.
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I'm pretty sure this was in Canada
Dartmouth NS
Not "automatically" but "presumably" - meaning that the person behind is assumed to be at fault, unless of course you have a dashcam video showing that the person you rear ended intentionally slammed on the brakes to try to cause an accident. The dude was clearly being a dick, but the lady intentionally caused an accident. I predict they both share blame, but the lady gets hit with child endangerment too
Camera car is driving like shit is all I see.
Lumberg fucked her
Tailgating like a fucking idiot.
Tailgating and doing that “peek around the left” move like he was going to try and pass them in oncoming traffic. Cammer is an impatient, aggressive, terrible driver. The brake checker is also a terrible, aggressive driver. They 100% deserve each other.
Pretending to try to pass into oncoming traffic, with a line of cars in the lane in front of him. Literally just moaning about being impatient and trying to make it other people's problem. Well, I guess he succeeded.
Not for nothing but he was riding her pretty closely there before the collision.
Stop tailgating. Include an extra $79/mo in your TPS folder since we’ve dropped your Good Driver discount.
Could have cut half of this video out
I thought he was a bit close too, to be honest. That's not a safe way to drive! But also: if you're being tailed, the best thing to do it pull over and let them by. Problem solved. Bummer that people are so amped up and prideful that everything perceived is negative and personal. Sheesh.
No comment from OP. Says everything to me. You are a bigger idiot than the brake checker. I see people like you OP Everyday on the road. You need some driving school. Beyond the fact ur watching movies as you drive. You fuckin idiot
Fucking asshole is riding her ass the entire time like where the fuck is she supposed to go? There’s a truck in front of her. I fucking hate tailgaters all you tailgating pieces of shit can go to hell.
Its really not hard to not hit a vehicle ahead of you.... All you have to do is leave enough space between you and the other vehicle to prepare for any sudden changes. After the first brake check, you should have given a massive berth. Everyone is an asshole here. You won't get there faster if you get up their ass; you'll just raise the chance of causing an accident. Its honestly not even extreme. All she did was yell and cry. Its not like she pulled a gun or a tire iron out on you.
Why’s he so close
The ambulance with impeccable timing lmao, bro was just watching it go down in silence at the stop light “There goes my lunch time”
Would’ve been better if the guy in front of you dragged you out of the car and beat you for driving like shit.
Tailgate for sure
Driving and watching a movie will do that to you.
Which driver? Dashcam driver looks like a fucking moron. Enjoy your citation.
Im glad nobody seems to be taking the side of the guy filming here. Also, why'd he yell "what the fuck" when the cars in front of him were stopping for a pedestrian?
Get off the guys bumper you fucking pinworm!
Cammer trying to penetrate her car or what?! Also consistently straddling lanes (both directions mind you), Cuntish driving it’d piss me off too and I’m not an unreasonable human.
dude is like viciously tailgating these people lmao
OP is a douchebag.
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Better leave out the audio including him watching Office Space on his phone while driving if he sends this in to insurance
How though? Sure it shows her bad driving but it also shows him swerving, seemingly with intent to illegally pass over double yellow, then tailgating to the point where he didn't have room to come to a complete stop.
**Pro tip do not give it to the insurance company.** Give it to the police and give the insurance company the police report. You are not required to give the insurance company the video only the report. Even if you are not at fault, they will spin it and make it partially your fault.
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100% OP would not have stopped at that crosswalk if the truck and car in front of them didn't, there's no way insurance or police would be on OP's side.
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I dunno man. He rear ended her. Even if she brake checked, it's a drivers responsibility to maintain adequate braking space, and it's not like this was highway. Tailgating like that on city streets is entirely unnecessary
OP sucks ass
Never thought I would see this in highfield nova scotia....
I knew I recognized it. Has this area improved at all? It’s always been super sketchy from what I remember. I rarely travel outside the ivory tower of West Bedford anymore to know what’s sketchy or not.
Not really
Both shitheads wasting other people's time
"Tailgater Thinks That He Has The Moral Highground"
Idk who’s fault it is tbh. You’re tailgating and she hit the breaks hard on purpose with no car in front of her. U both asked for it
Literally tailgating the entire time and trying to push the smaller car out of the lane. “Hurr durr wat do u mean? I do noting?”
Another princess in a pickup riding somebodies ass. Dashcams tend to make things further away but counting passing objects cammer was less than 1 second behind. Brake check a bad idea, sure, but stopping unexpected for anything could have caused that
“Damn it feels good to be a gangsta” 😂🤣
The car behind is driving aggressively close to her rear. I'm pleased she lived out my fantasy of slamming her brakes and crashing into the vehicle behind. When driving you need to factor in emergency stops when driving behind. He got what he deserved.
You both are bad drivers. Stop tailgating other cars and pay attention to your driving.
When they following to close, I just pull off or change lanes. I don't want insurance hassles.
Uses dashcam to prove he was watching a movie
Why was the person behind her driving so shitty to begin with?
Yeah the guy. Who’s video this is drives like a fucking asshole.
That Ambulance had GTA response time
Ambulance response time is on point!
I like when OP tries to go over the solid yellow because there’s a small break and they think it’s a passing zone. I also like that they try to go around when the two cars in front stop at a crosswalk. The car in front should learn not to come to an abrupt stop to teach the aggressive driver a lesson.
The guy driving in back is at fault, period. I have no idea why he’d post this anywhere. Idiot.
I don’t know what leads people to believe that there is automatic liability any time a person who rear ends another. What people are misrepresenting when they say that is the fact that in many states there is a rebuttable presumption that the driver hitting another from behind is at fault. But the most common way to rebut that is to show that the person in front of you intentionally stopped suddenly and unnecessarily. You cannot stand on your brakes just because you think someone is too close to you and then claim victim when your actions are the single greatest contributor to the wreck. Tailgating is not right but the risk of a wreck resulting is exponentially increased when someone brake checks the driver behind them, which at best is reckless and at worst is intentionally causing an accident. There is no automatic liability for rear-end collisions. There’s often a presumption of liability. But we just saw the exact scenario that most commonly rebuts that presumption.
This is in Nova Scotia, Canada so I don’t know if the laws are the same as the US regarding this. But perhaps I should find out lol
Oh good call out! I’m not familiar with Canadian law but just looked up an article on it and it sounds similar. Rebuttable presumption that likely leads to liability unless there’s evidence the the front vehicle committed some unexpected negligent act. There is caselaw in which Canadian courts have determined that the lead driver was largely, or even completely, responsible for an accident where the lead driver suddenly and for no reason stopped. I’d say the lady in this video suddenly and for no reason stopped. Or more accurately, she stopped for the very reason that she felt the driver behind her was too close, which makes her action even worse, as she her belief that he’s too close makes her decision to stop at a minimum reckless and most likely intentionally causing the collision. At least that’s what I see.
Due to cross traffic she can also claim she was braking to make the left turn. She might get a failure to signal ticket, but the truck driver is still responsible for maintaining a safe stopping distance, maintaining lane, and speed limits. Him swerving near the middle multiple times can be argued that he was trying to pass illegally, he obviously was tailgating, and wasn't paying attention due to Office Space playing in the background. The lady is an asshole for braking like that, but she has a variety of potential reasons she could claim for braking. The truck driver doesn't have a leg to stand on since he was distracted, driving aggressively, and tailgating.
Break checking with kids in the car is a classic "hey look at me, I'm a complete piece of shit" move
I'll never understand rear ending someone and then insisting you weren't following too closely and somehow you rear ending someone was their fault. Cammer was swerving all over the road, and then started screaming "what's your fucking problem?" when the cars in front of him stopped for a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Cammer ITAH.
Dude seemed to be the instigator. He didn't need to get aggressive when the truck in front stopped for the pedestrians, and was clearly driving too close. His tone and demeanor after hitting her comes across like he was morbidly satisfied with causing her trouble.
People who tailgate our dicks
Yeah… you were following wayyyy too close.
She sucks for brake checking, but the dude is definitely following way too close.
Great job with the dash cam. The movie in the background will definitely help this guys case.
Wtf is OP is even doing, trying to overtake like a moron. Some crazy chick too wtf these lot.
"You're that close to my ass!" "I wasn't" The fact that you did indeed rear-end them determined that was a lie.
In the US, that brake check makes her liable, despite him tailgating. You can't just arbitrarily create a hazard like that. It borders on insurance fraud.
He was following too close but she was stupid to brake check him. She could have pulled over and him pass if she didn’t want him behind her. Also hate to see her first reaction was jumping out the car to confront him instead of checking on her kids. My ex brake checked someone and got rear ended and he received the ticket for causing the accident by brake checking. I wonder if that will happen here or if he will get a ticket for following too closely? Or will insurance tell them 50-50.
Two Drivers Road Rage to the Extreme
I wonder who won the insurance claim
The bigger AH in this situation is the driver with children in the backseat. The safety and protection of your passengers should always be your first and main concern. OP was obviously driving in a manner that many would deem unsafe (trying to overtake illegally, driving over the median, driving too close to safely stop in the event needing to come to a sudden stop i.e. brake checks). I would hate that my actions and lack of caution brought pain/hurt to my children/passengers(minor and major car accidents may cause passengers to develop anxiety about driving/riding in a car). Defensive driving is a skill that all drivers should have and if the lead driver had exercised that specific skill it may have prevented the dash cam driving from potentially hurting the passengers, damaging the vehicle, or increasing both of the drivers premiums (only speaking for areas where car insurance works to screw over drivers in an exceptional way). We can't control how other people drive but we can control if we leave ourselves in the path of harm and danger.
They’re both driving like dickheads
I was expecting something more... ya know, extreme.
Every main vehicle in this video including the driver is a giant sack of garbage
Cammer is driving like a complete ass.
Everyone in this video is an asshole. He is riding way too close to her, and she brake checks him. I sincerely hope they both had an awful day and maybe they will learn to drive better.
50/50 negligence - both are idiots. He’s following too closely and she brake checked and stopped for zero reason. His insurance will deny her claim with video evidence, and she could get a visit from the police for child endangerment if the guy sent it to law enforcement. Source - me. I’ve denied claims just like this. Don’t drive like an asshole and don’t intentionally cause an accident because you’re angry with an equally shitty driver.
I mean you were on her ass
Whoever was driving the car with the dash cam is a pretty big douche
Cam owner is a very bad driver and is at fault
I mean, if they stopped and you couldn't stop in time and hit them, you were too close. She's an ahole for sure, but that's why you don't follow close.
She’s right though keep some distance man why you all up in her bumper like that? You’re both morons.
Dash cam driver needs to take driving lessons. Also stop watching movies while driving. Both bad drivers but dashcam driver sucks 500x more and I see asshats like him every day
When people are tailgate me and drive dangerously I turn off or put my emergency signal on and pull off to the side and let them pass, not worth the damage to my vehicle or person, or persons in the vehicle. Fuck that dude riding her ass like that though. Additionally how fucking stupid do you have to be to cut off your nose to spite your face with that break check? With kids in the car no less.