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12-14-2017, 04:54 PM | #1 |
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Okay, who was it?
The funny part is that he tried to run. These cars are made of paper. You can't ram somebody and expect to get away.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dafc1qQzus4"]Drunk driver hit and run accident - YouTube[/ame] |
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Series.Yellow @ 2:40. Wonder if they know each other.
But yea. Holy fuck what a stupid shit. My god. I'm glad the cop had enough situational awareness to spring into action, since the driver seemed intent on 'ghosting' away. |
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Wow. How dumb can you be to pull that stunt right in front of a cop, and then still try to get away?
I guess he thought he had no choice since he was clearly drunk, but dayumm... that's gotta be a lot of extra charges. |
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WHAT IN THE HELL, WHY WERE YOU DOING?!?! HE JUST BASHED MY BACK!
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I get the dude was trying to be a good citizen but he caused his own accident by trying to block the other dude. Not excusing the Twin driver since he was clearly a menace all on his own but the Jeep driver could have killed somebody with that stunt. He could simply have pulled up to the cop and reported the drunk.
Anybody remember a "Is this totaled? Some idiot hit me and it wasn't my fault" thread in September?
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Pretty dumb of the Jeep to try and be a hero.... I wonder what he's going to tell his insurance lol.
I would not be surprised if he has to pay out of pocket or face some premium increases after this. The twin was smoking and theres obviously a cop ahead, im pretty sure the cop would have chased the twin down without the Jeep's intervention. |
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Man I would fire that wife fast. Telling me how to drive and then all that annoying yelling. Then again he obviously didn’t have the best decision making skills. Maybe she needs to give more directions. Hahaha
Bugs me when people try to be a hero. Like when you see people straddle two lanes to prevent people from going to the very end of a merging lane. Yeah I get that it’s annoying when people do that but I think it’s more annoying when people try to be a tough guy and block traffic. |
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That vigilante crap actually caused some problems during the mass migration north during the Hurricane Irma evacuation. I was in that herd stampeding north on I-75 before the storm. During a hurricane evacuation, you're supposed to use all the available lanes AND the shoulders to move as much traffic volume as possible. Fewer people were using the shoulders than the normal lanes, and as a result those lanes were moving faster. People in the normal lanes didn't like seeing people pass them, so some of them would pull out into the traffic on the shoulders to block them.
I didn't really want to drive on the shoulders because of the increased risk of picking up nails or screws in my tires or having garbage slung up into my windshield by the car in front of me, but seeing people whizzing by made me start thinking of pulling on out there to make better time. I dropped that idea after seeing a few near misses from white knights pulling out in front of people. You take 6 million people who never go anywhere and don't know how to travel, make them pack up all their shit in a panic and throw them all out onto the same road, you're going to end up with people behaving like children. Shaving half an hour off my trip wasn't worth the risk of antagonizing them further. |
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Eh. I don't know what the driver of the Jeep's could see, but I'm assuming that the headlights of the car behind them obscured vision from the side mirror.
Also the FR-S left the front end in the middle of the road so the DRLs might not even have been on the car anymore. Then look at the severity of the impact. The FR-S had to be carrying a lot of speed. It also appears to go under the Jeeps and toss it. Wrap that all with the Asphalt color and nobody could see it coming. Maybe it was a bad decision on the Jeep's part, but if I'm the Jeep driver I'm thinking that I have a big vehicle and maybe I can get some sense into someone who might be panicking. A normal person doesn't anticipate stuff like this because it never happens. Who flees an accident then speeds at night without headlights in the emergency lane? You just assume the other person WILL see your brake lights and slow or stop. Oh well, the FR-S did pretty okay considering they hit two people. Credit the low mounting position of the engine and high bumper of these trucks. If the FR-S had been going slower, I bet it would have survived the Jeep strike. That's the lesson here, folks. |
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DUI drivers should be left dead by the side of the road.
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