Driver filmed attempting a u-turn on a dead end suburban street

CDL Life ^ | October 28, 2025 | Wimberly Patton

[xxqqzz]

Includes video. Just appeared today. It is in California. Nationality, etc. of driver not known.

[tumblindice]

dead end, also known as a cul-de-sac, a no outlet road, a no-through road or a no-exit road
Whatever the sign said, he couldn’t read it.

[Jim W N]

Nationality: “Stupid.”

You back the rig up out of the dead-end street.

[Red Badger]

I think that may be the homeowner, hard to tell............

[chajin]

Ninety Miles an Hour Down a Dead End Street

[1Old Pro]

You back the rig up out of the dead-end street.

yep

[plain talk]

Just damn.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Driving a truck with a large trailer in reverse gets done all the time - if you have the skill to do it.

[ansel12]

You guys should mention that a video is a music video.

[decal]

Once encountered a one-way dead-end street, with the “way” pointing into the dead end.

It was next to a library.

[Kriggerel]

Another SWIFT move... :P

[Fresh Wind]

This made me think about an incident years ago when I was riding with some friends one Friday night in center city Killadelphia. We drove down a narrow one-way street the right way.

Turns out, there was road construction in the area that had certain streets blocked and it was literally impossible to get out of that spot without violating the law. As we entered, some drunk guys on a porch yelled at us, as if they knew what was going to happen.

They were right, we realized the only solution was to go the wrong way on the one-way street, and the same guys were laughing at us as we went by in the opposite direction. We waved at them.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Let’s see... alcohol, drugs or illegal? I’m going with drugs and illegal.

[null and void]

dead end, also known as a cul-de-sac,

A cul-de-sac has a bulb ath the end to facilitate turning around.

A dead end just...ends.

[kjam22]

Probably can’t back it that far

[xxqqzz]

Sometimes I make a left turn off a major street on to a side street and then make a uturn on the side street with my car. I thought that was what he was trying to do, rather than not reading the sign and not knowing how to back out.

[Jim W N]

Probably can’t back it that far

Why not?

[Does so]

...Volodymyr Zhukovskyy...

[HKMk23]

I really think the sonofabitch could’a done it if he’d been more of a creative puzzle-solver than a lunkhead.

Didn’t bias hard enough to the left approaching the dead end.
Didn’t swing to the RIGHT nearly hard enough at the end.
From which point there’d have been maybe another 15ft BEHIND his trailer available to back into.
From which point jockeying the nose of his cab around from left to right would’ve been FAR more easily accomplished given the two driveways he’d have had in front of him.

Yeah, STUPID to not just BACK out, but absolutely it wasn’t necessary to make such a mess of turning around.

[NavyShoe]

That commercial where they call in the back-up guy?