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Originally Posted by Peaty
I watched the video a few times and it seems like there was more going on than just the brake checking for the driver. They seemed to be passing a semi and coming up to a merge area at the same time the tailgating person ran up the back of the driver in the left lane. To me the driver in front didn't want to cut off the Semi and at the same time they wanted to give the merging driver room to get in. If they pulled over, besides cutting off the Semi, who know's how slow the merging car would be going. They'd be sandwiched between the semi in back and possible slow car in front. Not a good position to be in. Having said that they could have just stayed in the left lane and sped up enough to get past everyone then pulled over into the right lane. That's what I would have done. However, not knowing the actual speeds it's hard to say if they were truly in the wrong. I can say for sure that the tailgater was though. They were way too close and I bet, like someone mentioned, distracted till the last second when they got brake checked. Tailgating is a huge pet peeve of mine, for some reason it seems to happen a lot to me when I'm in a small car, my Miata or the BRZ. Mostly on a single lane where I'm leaving room in front and the car behind is up my trunk. I live in the land of huge PU trucks and I know I can stop a lot faster when needed than they can. Most of the time I will tap my brake but not slow down to say please move back and give me room. If I'm on the highway I only pass in the passing lane end of story, I also don't like passing on the right. Too risky. I've got a third brake light pulse on my Miata, I've been thinking how to add one to the BRZ.
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I can't believe no one else has commented on this yet. The vehicle being tailgated:
a. passed in the left lane properly
b. was considerate to merging traffic and the big rig
c. stayed in the left lane as it was going faster than the silver minivan up ahead in the right lane that it would soon pass
Am I really the only one here that sees that?
Yes, the left lane is called the passing lane for a reason. The vehicle being tailgated was going fast enough to pass the silver vehicle in just a few seconds. I don't feel bad at all for the vehicle that crashed. Not one bit.
EDIT: The funny part about the whole thing is if he wasn't tailgating he could probably have seen the silver vehicle that was about to be passed. But because he was tailgating the vehicle in front blocked much of his field of vision. What a shmuck.