He’s Right.He wasn’t tailgating.Be just wasn’t paying attention.If he was he could have avoided that collision.
The camera angle changes just before the impact of the two vehicles in front of the camera car. That leads me to believe that the driver of the camera car had reacted prior to the actual collision of the two vehicles in front of him. Methinks, maybe, to get off the road to the right, but as another here mentioned, he'd have been better off swerving left.