Should the driver have gotten over? Maybe. But I saw her going over 55 and passing cars on the right. Was she passing “fast enough” for the jerk behind her? Should she have even cared if she was passing fast enough for some jerk tailgating her?
I could go on but hopefully the point is made. But even if my point is still something someone disagrees with, then consider this: in the end she indeed got the last laugh, figuratively and literally. Everyone should remember that next time anger starts to well up because the person in front isn’t passing traffic “fast enough”, whatever that means. Otherwise you may end up being the next laughing stock for your out of control temper.
I’d wager that for every post blaming the woman who shot the video, there’s a frustrated guy who bought a “get-outta-my-way” pickup, an “I’m-a-man-hear-my-truck-roar” pickup...and found that it doesn’t always work as advertised.
:-)
A quick look at google maps shows that Highway 41 in Tampa isn’t a limited access highway, just a regular road in Tampa with 4 lanes. Cruising around in street view shows that the road doesn’t seem to have speed limit signs, but, it is rather congested. I drive on a similar road every day, and you have to set up that left hand turn a mile back to make sure you get into the lane in time.
I think the driver of the vehicle in front did no wrong in driving in the left lane here as indeed she was setting up for a left turn and appeared to be passing the trucks in the right hand lane as was her right. She did do wrong in video (unless she was the passenger. I wasn’t sure from the video or article.
Guy in the truck was a total jerk and Karma will win out.
Thread should be a good read.......
I saw the video. IMHO, the accident was caused by the truck driver being so dedicated to giving this lady the finger that he skidded out. At the end, it is his fault.
There was a lot of traffic. She was passing a lot of trucks. If you are passing a lot of traffic on your right, and you plan on turning left shortly, you don’t get out of the lane. Everyone says, oh, she says it was going on for three miles, so how could she be turning - but in traffic like that, it can happen. The guy wanted HER to dodge in and out of semi tractor trailer traffic in the rain at a high rate of speed - after all, he was willing to do it, as soon as he got a chance!
Was she a little rude? Maybe. I certainly wouldn’t have laughed. Was the guy a total jerk who totaled his own truck and it was all his own fault? Yes.
The person driving the car that shot the video caused the
wreck. That person has no reason having a drivers license.
I hope the cops or the driver of the other vehicle can
track down who posted that video and hold them accountable.
Lane hogs are worthless low life control punks. The person
laughing at the guy in the wrecked truck at the end of the
video is a low life, lower than an Obama.
Destroying his truck - criminal stupid.
I don’t agree with people like this woman.
She was hogging the passing lane and setting up not only this bozo but, many others frustrated with her behavior.
There is no excuse for covert hostility anymore than there is for overt hostility.
Both are aggressor actions.
She shouldn’t feel so smug.
Speed up or mover over....
The mere fact that she's manipulating a phone camera and driving at the same time in four lane traffic is just as dangerous as his tailgating. Had his truck impacted another vehicle and caused injury or death, she could be held criminally culpable, IMO.
Two dumbasses playing tag on a busy highway is what this adds up to.
I don’t see any reason why she couldn’t have moved over into the right line. The lane was clear for quite a while until she actually passed the flatbed.
If the road conditions were that bad, she had no business worrying about making a video with her iPhone.
Two assholes had an encounter. One won, and the other lost.
Karma will come back and bite her in the ass if she keeps up with these YouBoob stunts.
I heard about it on WFLA this morning.
This is a crazy thread.
I am amazed there are so many bad driving psychopaths here who identify with the pansy driver who can’t even control his own car.
And it looked like a relatively new truck too.......LOL! I love it!
Wow, he really showed you-his red ass!!
I have had tailgaters too and it was not me at fault but the stupid idiot who wants you to get out of his way even though the lane next to him is empty.
Both are jerks.
Three minutes, 55 mph, etc. almost three miles in the left lane before the left turn.