Tailgating gone wrong
 

Great driver's ed video to show your kids...

Video captures rollover crash caused by tailgating - azfamily.com 3TV | Phoenix Breaking News, Weather, Sport

That exact scenario happened to an ex-girlfriend of mine: she was following too closely and hit a mattress. In her case, she didn't swerve and roll, but destroyed the front of her car (Miata) hitting the mattress.

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Guy in front should have done a BRAKE CHECK long B4 this happened.........

Here's the long version. This was a case where there is a long increase in grade. As the 18 wheelers reach the crest and start downhill, they pick up speed. Woman in the car needs a trip to Bondurant... once she's out of the hospital.

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Young driver... Dumb move. I hope she at least learns from this.

Beautiful how the car in front just moves a LITTLE bit to avoid the mattress, knowing the car behind would see it to late. Well played, sir!

I hope that none was seriously injured in this accident.
For sure, with such a lesson this lady will be a better driver.
I do not know how driving schools are today, but I believe that students should watch a large collection of these movies to get some experience out of them.
JC

I'd love to know the distance between the striped line to figure out how fast they were going. Also, video was edited (around 0:26 the scenery changes) so this was going on much longer.

She should lose her license for a while.

Typically the white dashed lines are 10' with 30' spacing

Should the truck have moved out of the left hand lane? If it had been going on for some time it looks like the pickup was pacing the semi.

I hope the mattress is ok.

I see that now, thanks.


They should have put some orange mesh around that mattress. That would have kept her safe.

it goes from 44.37 to 44.59 when it changes

the truck driver was kind of an a$$.
you see him catching the semi then "hovering" next to. cant tell how long but the scenery changes enough that it looks like he was there a while.

then in the vid YOU can the mattress up the road so you know he saw it, then he only moves just enough for him to get around.
not saying she was not to blame too.

Ha...that's what I was thinking....:D

The part that amazes me is that the camera car just held his speed and watched the show!

I'd have been on the brakes and had my car stopped before the accident.

Seems to me that the 'camera car' is likely a Semi Truck, considering the height of the video. i bet he stopped as fast as he could!

Pickup driver bears some responsibility for this, but it's mostly down to the idiot in the car. I'm sure the pickup dropped the hammer when he saw all the action behind him!

That was a mega yard sale she spewed. How do people let their cars get so full of crap?

The pickup driver may (or may not - I don't think the video gives enough information to tell) have been driving like a jerk, but he is not responsible for the Saturn driver's crash. She was not allowing enough room between herself and the truck to safely react to surprises, and doesn't appear to have had the skill to do so under the circumstances either. Whether or not the pickup driver was blocking her, if she had been following at a safe distance she would have had the time and space to avoid the mattress.

Maybe. Have you ever been in that situation?
I watched an HHR roll multiple times right in front of me on I-74. I watched a body get launched 30-40 feet in the air out of the car. My instinct was to lock the brakes, but somehow I still drove over some of the debris and only stopped about 50 feet from the car once it stopped rolling. It happened so fast I had to sit there and think, "Did that just happen?" before I got out an started to look for the body that went flying.
I don't fault the truck driver. The view from the camera is NOT the whole view he was seeing. He had mirrors and ability to pan (look side to side). Who knows what else was going on.

I disagree. The pickup may have been a jerk for blocking the left lane but tailgater has no one to blame but themselves. As I stated in another thread, the person with the most to lose has the greatest responsibility to take care of themselves. Anything less is a victim mentality.
The problem with society today is that so few people want to be accountable for their actions.

He bears the greatest responsibility, agreed. Entire responsibility, almost but not quite. If it were me purposely blocking that lane to "teach the tailgater a lesson" and that happened, I'd feel like crap knowing I could have just moved on and left the lane clear.

True, I would feel horrible. At the same time, I don't think the pickup shares any responsibility. Don't tailgate. If you do an something happens, you only have yourself to blame.

On an only vaguely related note, after the video, one of the other videos suggested was called "Deadly Accidents, Worst Pedestrian Accidents Compilation / AVTO-CRASH CHANNEL". Wow! I didn't expect a video that felt like an old faces of death video on youtube. I watched a little bit of the video. Fortunately, all of the footage that I saw was very poor quality which is what allowed me to watch as much as I did (no visible blood or anything that I saw). Just wow, many/most (not all) of the accidents were completely due to pedestrians being somewhere that they clearly shouldn't have been and/or not paying attention. Some of the videos definitely seemed like a huge miss on the part of the vehicle operator.

masraum, I watched some of that too. Jeebus that was awful. I made it about a minute and had to shut it down after the trash truck mowed that first person.

The music alone is enough to cause a wreck.

I eventually went back and watched more. Later on, someone crawls between 2 axles of a semi trailer while it's stationary. It then starts and drags them a bit. It's pretty gruesome.

I pretty much always watch that sort of video with the audio muted because it's always horrible music or people making ridiculous statements.