who is wrong in this? why?

Very good. I don't have that gift of words you do. It's awesome.

After I calmed down and gave it some thought, the woman is at fault. Improper merging and actually forcing a occupied travel lane. That was usually lesson number one way back when for me when trainers say this here is your lane. Don't let anyone run you off. (*And usually people played nice, within reason...) Ive actually run off my own lane and took cars out. Guess who got tickets. Me. Moi etc. No ifs buts or maybes.

Now see this Mr Red... big lead foot speeding up. That's aggressive behavior to me. He should have absolutely backed off a minute. Be the difference between doing another 30 years leadsleddingflappinglipsonthemikealldayetc or 30 years singing the jailhouse blues or the electric night in the chair.

 

Legally the four wheeler is absolutely at fault.

Professionally Billy big rigger should have let it go and not held up the passing lane so far before actually passing.

 

Thinking everyone pretty much agrees on that point. Both were idiots, both were aggressive and territorial but we are the professionals - crap like that just isn't worth it and we KNOW the consequences.

 

And there is the rub.

When territorial big dog gets challenged by chihuahua the little dog (Car) is going quite simple lose it all if not also kill or permanently or for a very long time maim, mash or chop limbs of the people inside the car.

Im getting to where there have been concepts to build a sort of elevated line strictly for cargo only at 150 mph, under tower control and special wheels to recieve power and sustain those speeds under platooning etc while each driver (Or even robot) sleeps under constant tower control. Leave the interstates to cars only and extremely local access to delivery. There the cars will be in a class all by themselves, all equally stupid in rush hour traffic. lolz.

 

Right or wrong, you get to be the first to look in that car. You will hear those screams of agony and you will not be able to unsee what is before you. You will have to live with that. If you think that won't affect you, you are wrong. I have seen many drivers quit driving after major incidents. Post traumatic stress is very real.
And all for what reason, a perceived insult? A loss of a couple of seconds? It hardly seems worth the trouble.

 

HUH?!?! LOL!!!! Whatever.

 

That would be that, no more from here.

 

He knew she was there and coming over into his lane, that's why he moved out of his own lane but he tried to play the victim by exclaiming "What the Hell?". He had choices, 1 of which being he belongs in the right lane. If it is a work zone, then he failed at the zipper merge strategy there.

Totally preventable. Now both of their weeks are fouled up trying to fix the damage and get back on track with their lives over a few seconds of "I'm going to get infrontitis" and "You are not going to cutmeoffitis".

 

The car is 100% at fault. It is your responsibility to merge safely into another lane, period.

I don’t know what the speed limit is on this road or how fast the truck was driving, but if he was going the speed limit then he did nothing wrong by being in the left lane to pass the slower moving flatbed. I understand that the left lane is for passing and slower traffic is required to keep right, but it is not your responsibility to account for people exceeding the posted speed limit. If that was the case then where would we draw the line? If you’re doing 80 in a 65 and someone passes you doing 100 then are you still impeding traffic? Absolutely not.

I read every comment in this thread up to this point, and not a single person has asked what kind of traffic was behind this truck. Would it have been safe for him to slow down or would it have risked a collision behind him? Is a long line of traffic the reason he got over early in the first place to prevent being boxed in?

I could go on and on, but my point is that there’s much more to this than just “He should have been more professional.”

 

Disagree. I don’t let traffic behind me “push” me down the road. If I need to slow down I slow down...I’m not saying this guy shoulda locked up his brakes but there is no reason why he couldn’t have let off the accelerator for a second to avoid that whole situation. Traffic naturally slows down and speeds up, it’s not like he didn’t have a choice. Just my .02