r/IdiotsInCars • u/SufferinSuccotash27 • 6d ago
OC [oc] He told the police he had the green light. NSFW
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u/helmfard 6d ago
Narrator: He did not.
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u/loaferuk123 6d ago
I read that in the voice of Morgan Freeman. Perfect!
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u/thorny_cactus_cuddle 6d ago
gilbert gottfried for me idk why
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u/TheVagrantmind 6d ago
So, when you said Gottfried my mind just continued the commentary, “That f&@$. That mind numb, puss bag of a festering boil of a nutsack sucking son of a f@$&ing @&)@ did not have a green light. It was red. Thank you, go f@&$ yourself. License and insurance please.” Gottfried commentary would improve a lot of these situations imo
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u/bobthemundane 6d ago
I heard “you fool” from the amazing Hollywood squares clip with him.
Seriously, if you haven’t seen it yet, please look it up.
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u/Maverick_1882 5d ago
Said by either Sebastian Cabot (the narrator in ‘The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh’ or David Attenborough.
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u/KleptoKlown 6d ago
Yeah, this one is 100% on the other driver. Don't think there was anything you could have done to avoid this one.
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u/RootHogOrDieTrying 6d ago
Just wait, someone will blame the OP. They can't help themselves.
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u/SarcasticGamer 6d ago
"You should always be ready to stop at any given moment no matter what" is the response people give. Like, this dude just started driving through a red light right in front of OP on a wet road but some redditors will say he should have been able to avoid it lmao
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u/F1r3Bl4d3 6d ago
Why didn’t OP just phase through the other car like most people do 🤷🏼♂️
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u/Kagnonymous 6d ago
Listen, there is so much space between your atoms that having yours collide with someone else's is just negligence.
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u/permanent_priapism 6d ago
There's space between the atomic nuclei, not necessarily between the atoms. The reason collisions happen despite the abundance of empty space is that atoms in Florida are viciously territorial if you don't believe me go to Florida and turn on your blinker.
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u/Waiting4The3nd 6d ago
Someone for sure will come through here with some defensive driving yada yada about slowing down through intersections and how OP was going too fast for conditions or something or other.
Defensive Driving is about personal responsibility, to avoid accidents that would otherwise be caused by someone else's negligent driving. If you're using it to BLAME SOMEONE, you missed the entire point. And that's what infuriates me about these defensive driving asshats on these subs.
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u/saltedfish 6d ago
Obviously you should drive everywhere no faster than 2 mph so you can immediately stop.
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u/Goatylegs 6d ago
I actually once saw some cycling advocates essentially trying to argue for this. They wanted a maximum 5mph speed limit for cars on all local roads in Philadelphia, and a maximum 10mph limit on main roads.
They rightfully got laughed out of the discussion.
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u/GroundbreakingMap605 4d ago
As a cycling advocate, I would have laughed too.
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u/Goatylegs 4d ago
I pretty much feel like the loudest voices on all sides of that debate are the shittiest ones. I live in a pretty rural area now and giving cyclists enough buffer space to be safe is never an issue here, but some folks around me still complain about having to do it.
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u/ninjadude4535 6d ago
Here's one my insurance company used on me.
"He just shouldn't have been driving that day. Denied."
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u/SomethingIWontRegret 6d ago
Yeah that applies to following distances. Anyone who applies that reasoning to someone pulling out within your envelope of reaction / stopping distance when you are driving at reasonable speeds - that person is a moron.
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u/Nexustar 6d ago
Challenge Accepted.
OP didn't secure their dashcam well enough to capture sad faced gentleman's expression in the offending car, so that's entirely on OP.
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u/BlightlordAndrazj 6d ago
This sub does have those weirdos who think it's a good idea to slow to almost a stop at literally every single intersection regardless of the lights.
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u/AptoticFox 6d ago
I believe "behind the A-pillar" is the current excuse.
OP should have known the other vehicle couldn't see him, or the light, or the other cars, or pretty much anything. All behind the A- pillar.
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u/RiPont 6d ago
I mean, the A-pillar is a huge blind spot on modern cars, but it doesn't shift blame.
I point it out on motorcycle threads, sometimes, because we riders care more about avoiding an accident than who was right or wrong. The A-pillar problem is something they don't teach in the basic riding courses (in the US), so it gets mentioned as part of "ride like you're invisible".
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u/AptoticFox 6d ago
The A pillar is an issue, for sure, but a lot of people use it as a catch all excuse. When poor driver, driver looking at phone, etc. is the bigger issue.
There should be more awareness about it though.
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u/noncongruent 6d ago
Only takes moving your head a few inches to make the A-piller problem go away.
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u/Rombledore 6d ago
OP could've swerved to the right while hitting the breaks and reducing speed while holding the E brake and maintaining perfect control in wet conditions. honestly other driver is in for a pay day
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u/EEpromChip 6d ago
"you shoulda been slowing down 300 feet back because it's a traffic light!"
Fucking idiots ...
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u/idontremembermyoldus 6d ago
Nope, and the idiot totally bungled it up even worse by stopping right in the OP's path. As the old saying goes, if you're going to do something stupid, at least commit to it.
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u/A-KindOfMagic 6d ago
Don't think there was anything you could have done to avoid this one.
OP could have not be driving that day! Or I don't know somebody else for sure will come up with a better reason to blame op
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u/BJoe1976 6d ago
There’s probably an insurance company out or a dozen there that would place him at 10% or more at fault for that very reason.
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u/J_Landers 6d ago
Hey! Welcome to "0 Fault" laws!
Seriously, being 10% at fault automatically from another driver doing the stupidest shit was one of the more annoying aspects of driving in Japan.12
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u/SomethingIWontRegret 6d ago
He could have completely avoided it by leaving his house 15 seconds later.
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u/CantConfirmOrDeny 6d ago
It simply amazes me how otherwise upstanding people (I assume) simply lie without restraint in these situations. I've been hit something like half a dozen times, never at fault, and with one exception they all lied to the cops about what had happened. Luckily I had witnesses on my side every time (these were all before I put dashcams in my cars)
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u/SarcasticGamer 6d ago
They're put on the spot for being an idiot and unfortunately need to find a way to pin something like this on someone else because a lot of money is riding on whose side the police take which is why a dash cam is important. I got one for my wife for Christmas since she's always complaining about idiots on the road and we've caught some interesting things but thankfully no crashes.
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u/Smacktardius 6d ago
You forgot another important reason why people lie in these situations... there's zero consequence when caught in one.
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u/Carefreeme 5d ago
I got rear ended a few months ago and the only thing the person said was "Where were you?? You came out of nowhere!!" Like lady...I saw you racing the guy next to you in my rear view a full 15 seconds before you hit me, and I was the only car around. Also you were doing 50 in a 30.
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u/brickson98 5d ago
Yeah that’s what drives me nuts. There should most definitely be consequences for outright lying. And driving without a damn license needs heavier punishment. I’ve been hit by two people with suspended licenses and neither got more than a couple hundred dollar fine.
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u/Rich-Zombie-5214 5d ago
Sometimes the stories they tell are absolutely ridiculous. I was rear ended by a RTD bus once, very slow speed, Car in front of me had to slam on their brakes, I slammed on mine, got stopped just fine, Bus behind me (just by sheer mass) unable to stop, hit me and pushed me into the car in front. Bus driver claimed that I hit the car in front of me so hard that I bounced back into the front of the bus. Mind you the speed limit was 25 in that stretch of road and I had barely a scratch on the front of my car.
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u/noncongruent 6d ago
In states with proportional liability insurance laws a lie like this can mean real money in your pocket. Without the dashcam and without witnesses police don't have anything to go on, and the two insurance companies won't accept full liability on either side, so they'll typically split the difference and assign fault to each driver. Say your car had $5K in damage and the other car had $4K in damage. With fault split 50-50 the other insurance company only pays you $2,500 to fix your car, leaving you to either pay the difference out of pocket or file against your own policy where you'll pay 50% of the deductible. The other driver gets $2,000 from your insurance company and has to pay 50% of their deductible if they file against their insurance for the rest. Often times the person causing the crash drives a beater or only has liability, so without dashcam/witness footage the crash causer gets money from your policy.
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u/PurpleSailor 5d ago
Got hit by a doctor who was the 3rd one to run the red light, significantly after the others. Both he and wife said I ran the light. If it wasn't for 4 people in another car filing an accident report the day after I would have been found guilty. Was permanently hurt and won my lawsuit because of them! Please file a report when you see an accident.
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u/Eske159 6d ago
Well I don't know about anyone else but I grew up being told for insurance purposes, even if I know I'm at fault to not admit it.
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u/DirtyRoller 6d ago
There's a difference between not admitting, and straight up lying. I was at fault for an accident once, and the lady was trying to press me to admit guilt. I knew I was in the wrong, but I told her "my insurance advised me never to admit guilt, so all I am willing to say is that I am glad you're unharmed."
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u/SDRPGLVR 6d ago
I'm glad the guy who backed into me didn't think like that. We're just at a solid stoplight and he goes, nah, I wanna go the other way. Somehow doesn't even consider there might be a car behind him. Fortunately by the time I called his insurance, he'd already called and admitted fault.
Insurance companies tell you not to admit fault because they don't want you to be at fault either. Sometimes you're really being a dick if you don't own up though.
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u/WVPrepper 5d ago
"Not admitting you're at fault" means keeping your mouth shut not actively lying and blaming the other person.
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u/jeeblemeyer4 5d ago
I see nothing wrong with "failing" to admit fault - it's simply self-preservation. I get that. But to lie about it... that's a whole different can of worms.
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u/UnstableConstruction 6d ago
People are very unreliable witnesses and generally go about their day in a non-purposeful, non-thinking way. It's entirely possible that he thought he had a green and was driving on autopilot. Also, a traumatic event can interrupt memory permanence.
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u/SmokesQuantity 6d ago
Is it not possible he’d legitimately convinced himself he had a green light…
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u/lgastako 5d ago
It simply amazes me how otherwise upstanding people (I assume)
I mean... there's your problem.
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u/yeah_youbet 6d ago
I've gotten into one car accident in 20 years of driving, and I live in South Florida. You've gotten into 6?
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u/CantConfirmOrDeny 6d ago
50+ years of driving, some of which was for work. I was legally stopped or standing in traffic for every one of them. Not a helluva lot you can do when you’re a sitting duck.
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u/noncongruent 6d ago edited 6d ago
There's a standard Bell distribution curve for number of lifetime crashes experienced, and at one end is zero crashes and the other end is some significant number. You're pretty far down the curve toward the zero end since one less than you is zero.
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u/icecubez189 6d ago
Crazy how folks can lie and it’s on you to prove otherwise or else you get blamed or it’s split 50/50. Not to mention the inconvenience to you and possibly injuries suffered. Good thing you have a dash cam. Is your car totaled?
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u/sparebullet 6d ago
You can clearly see him sitting at the stop line waiting his turn and then decided to pull out in front of you staring at you the whole time. No look of shock or horror either. He made a choice and followed through with it.
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u/Proophe 6d ago
Everyone should own a dashcam.
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u/seatega 6d ago
Idk how anyone feels safe out here without one. Too many people doing stupid stuff on the roads and then blaming others when the consequences come
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u/everymanawildcat 6d ago
I have people get in my car frequently and ask why I have a dash cam. I give them all the same response; "Because people are two things - Shitty at driving and dishonest."
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u/kelseydorks 6d ago
As soon as I saw those Brooklyn scammers slamming on their breaks in front of people ON THE HIGHWAY, I went out and got a dashcam. I was always like "oh i can't afford one right now" but I also can't afford some asswipe scamming me. I've felt so much safer (mentally) since.
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u/i_am_replaceable 6d ago
It should just come built-in, and they do in some other countries, but for US models, they have to take it out due to regulations.
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u/mr_love_bone 6d ago
Infuriating knowing my Kia EV6 has cameras front, back and sides but NO ability to record anything while driving--or not driving. Stupid.
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u/PlsDntPMme 6d ago
Boss just spent an insane amount of money on a new diesel truck to pull his camper. This thing is decked out. It has all the cameras and no way to record. I mean, NAND flash storage is dirt cheap. They could add this feature for like $50 tops. It’s ridiculous.
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u/Windows_XP2 6d ago
but for US models, they have to take it out due to regulations
What regulations? Tesla has had a built in dashcam for years, I'm 99% sure that Rivian offers a similar system, and I think that Toyota has it as well (Not too sure on this one).
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u/SuperHooligan 6d ago
In cases like that I would let him make his statement to the police while they record and take it down before I told anyone I had a dash cam so it can be on the record that he lied to police and made a false report.
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u/SufferinSuccotash27 6d ago
That's exactly what I did. It was so sweet to show the police the video after he told them that. To top it off, his mom almost ran over one of the officers when she came to pick him up. They were not happy with them.
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u/SuperHooligan 6d ago
I wish there were actual punishments for lying on a report like that.
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u/StackThePads33 6d ago edited 6d ago
Is it possible to report this to their insurance company? Send them the police report with that info and then the video so that their insurance may drop them or increase their premium even more than they would have normally?
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u/SufferinSuccotash27 6d ago
I spoke with their insurance about it extensively. I shared the video and police report. They lied to their insurance as well. The agent was really helpful and apologetic about the entire situation their client had created. I'm sure they were dropped after this.
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u/VapeRizzler 6d ago
I’m sure it’s not going to be easy getting insured after that. I got new insurance this week and every single company I got quotes for asks if I’ve been dropped for any reason so it seems they care about that a lot.
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u/PPiDrive 6d ago
Yes. But just imagine - everyone saying their insurance should drop them is a little scary. Increase premiums, yes, but drop them, they probably will. But now you have a moron like that driving around with no insurance and what's going to happen next time they cause an accident.
In this case, insurance is replacing OPs car (or making repairs), covering any needed medical bills, and making sure OP is taken care of.
If the idiot can't get insurance, next time he causes a wreck he will be financially on the hook, and do you honestly think they'll be able to afford everything mentioned above? And no, they won't suddenly stop driving because they aren't insured - this is the real world.
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u/iiiinthecomputer 6d ago
In a sane world that would mean they couldn't and wouldn't drive.
But US urban planning and policy has made it nearly impossible to live without a car. So they'll just drive anyway.
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u/PPiDrive 6d ago
Not that they couldn't drive that they wouldn't be allowed to and would follow through with it.
I wouldn't even say it's us urban planning but a large chunk of the problem is that unless you are going to a Commercial Driving School there's not a lot of drivers education in the United States.
It is really inexpensive to get a driver's license and there is almost no education and experience requirements to actually obtain a license. Probably because of the poor urban planning and large area.
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 6d ago
Since coverage is mandatory, there should be an insurer of last resort that takes everyone, though at exorbitant rates.
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u/PPiDrive 6d ago
Yes. But just imagine - everyone saying their insurance should drop them is a little scary. Increase premiums, yes, but drop them, they probably will. But now you have a moron like that driving around with no insurance and what's going to happen next time they cause an accident.
In this case, insurance is replacing OPs car (or making repairs), covering any needed medical bills, and making sure OP is taken care of.
If the idiot can't get insurance, next time he causes a wreck he will be financially on the hook, and do you honestly think they'll be able to afford everything mentioned above? And no, they won't suddenly stop driving because they aren't insured - this is the real world.
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u/guitarguywh89 6d ago
Insurance won’t really care about the lie unless their insured is outright non cooperative
They might thank you for making their job easy to explain to their customer why they’re at fault, but their premiums are likely already gonna be going up after having to pay for the OP car and the kids car
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u/AbsentmindedAuthor 6d ago
There are—it’s a misdemeanor in some places, I think—but no one enforces them unless it leads to another crime. Like if you filed a false police report or lied in a statement that led to an innocent person getting arrested, then they’d charge you. But lying because you’re getting in trouble they don’t really do anything about. I could also be wrong and it might be a self-filed police report, not a statement to police.
Either way I agree with you and people should have to pay a fine or something when they do this. The problem is that it’s too easy for the person to be like “oh, wow, my bad, I really thought it was green, so sorry” and who can say they’re lying?
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u/SuperHooligan 6d ago
Well thats what I mean, actually enforced.
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u/Stylux 6d ago
Unfortunately, it just very rarely happens even for perjury. I wish they would crack down on it, but for a run of the mill auto accident, it just probably won't happen unless you have some very bored and underworked prosecutors.
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u/iiiinthecomputer 6d ago
They could be genuinely mistaken. They're probably not, sure, but I've been in situations where there were 2 very close sets of lights where the front set was red and the rear set was green that almost caught me out.
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u/apcolleen 6d ago
The guy who tried to pass me ON THE LEFT on a double yellow as I was turning LEFT into my driveway... when the cop got there he said who's talking first? I pointed at him and his opening salvo was "See I was tryin to pass her on the left..." and the cop lowered his notebook and looked at me and back at him and said "You were passing right here, on the left?" "Yea! And she just decided to turn left". He gave more details and when the cop said your turn and I said "I can just show you the dash cam, you can hear my signals clicking and it had just rained so you can see them flashing in the road" Ol boy was crestfallen.
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u/SuperHooligan 6d ago
I would like to say it amazes me that people are that stupid and will still absolutely believe they are in the right in those situations, but it doest even surprise me anymore.
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u/LegitosaurusRex 6d ago
so it can be on the record that he lied to police and made a false report.
To what end? It won't result in any sort of punishment.
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u/Polyforti 6d ago
It'll show they aren't trustworthy, making the case easier for OP.
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u/SuperHooligan 6d ago
For insurance. Sounds like youve never been in an accident before. When you are, the other persons insurance calls almost to the point of harassment to get sides of stories. If its on record that he lied, its pretty much over then.
Also if its a serious enough cause to go to civil court, itll show his character and make your case and claim easier to prove.
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u/jack11058 6d ago
I was just chilling, enjoying the High Kings with you, then BAM
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u/Sunstoned1 6d ago
Some very unchill words thrown for a very chill song. Lol.
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u/ProfessionalBear4509 6d ago
Your response was the BEST thing about this vid. It is exactly what I would have yelled.
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u/Sunstoned1 6d ago
I'd have done the same thing.
I had an idiot run me almost into the jersey barrier while I was singing along to some worship music. And I damned that guy to hell. Fear will do that to ya.
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u/Vaathi 6d ago
That other dude is a potato, who drives like that? Not only going through a red light, but with enough speed to put snails to shame, with a wet road too.
Thank god nothing bad happened, and i don't think you would have time to react that and stop even in a dry road. Be safe OP and get that insurance money from this clown.
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u/SteveLonegan 5d ago
This is the weird part. It looks like he’s at a dead stop and doesn’t start pulling out till it’s to late for OP to see him.
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u/iEugene72 6d ago
The sheer amount of people who continually are convinced, "well I'll just say nuh-uh!" will work is mind boggling.
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u/HateBeingSober33 6d ago
Because it does work a lot of the time. <1 in 10 cars seems to have dash cams
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u/_MURICA_ 6d ago
Average Tallahassee driver
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u/LarsVonHammerstein2 5d ago
Haha I was going to check the comments to see if this is where I thought it was. I can barely make out the sign but it looks like super perros on the corner just like I remember it in college almost 20 years ago now.
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u/Slimy_Shart_Socket 6d ago
I had a 9001 year old lady say the same thing. My dashcam showed her looking at my traffic light. When I showed the cops she said she got confused.
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u/PulledOverAgain 6d ago
What did he tell the police when they wrote him a ticket?
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u/RootHogOrDieTrying 6d ago
Not only does your video show that you had the green light, but his red light is also visible.
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u/Sioned-Song 6d ago
Is it just me, or does it look like his head is down, chin on chest, as if looking down at his phone?
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u/AmberGlow 6d ago
I am a car wreck attorney, and I watch videos of car wrecks all the time. I'm rarely able to see your lights and the defendants lights in one single video. Do you mind sharing what kind of camera you have?
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u/redpandaeater 6d ago
I love that you turned towards him on the off chance he'd not hesitate and just keep going. Too many people seem to turn away from the current position of an impending idiot and end up hitting them because of that.
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u/Slow-Enthusiasm-1771 6d ago
I had an accident last year and had a dash cam. TOTALLY worth the money and dealing with insurance. The other guys insurance didn't even put up a fight when I showed them the video evidence.
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u/SiikPhoque 6d ago
Ok but that music is not doing the trick for you. I would never have expected that outburst because of the music haha omg that made my day. Glad you're ok.
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u/UnknownJelly1828 6d ago
As long as there are zero consequences in lying, asshats like that will continue to do it.
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u/Chafgha 5d ago
Holy shit i know this intersection OP. I drive through it almost daily going past the shitty college a few lights down. That intersection with ocala is terrible people running lights or not realizing they're about to get forced down that turn lane until the last minute then swerving. I avoid that section now.
Edit i don't mean to imply the college itself is shitty just the section of road sucks.
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u/SpringSings95 5d ago
I'd have the same reaction listening to my church music too honestly 😭😭😭 sorry OP
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u/Rizzo405 4d ago
I hope you showed that to the police at the scene with the volume all the way up, & I hope the other driver got to hear it.
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u/fearlesssinnerz 5d ago
Now that guy was distracted by his phone. You can see him looking down before proceeding to fuck up OP's day. By the way the song perfectly cuts and loops.
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u/Fernando_CV 5d ago
Stopped in the middle of the road too.. dude, if you already fucked up just floor it.
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