UpSideDown

All I see in this video are 2 rednecks, that can't cooperate on the road. One can't control his temper and his car, while the other one won't loose pride and triggered an situation, filmed it vertically with her cell phone and laughed like a redneck about the other rednecks mishap.

FrankReynoldsCPA

It wasn't a Raptor. It was an 08-10 super duty. Couldn't make out if it was a 250 or 350, but it was one of the two. It had the 6.4 powerstroke, which means more weight on the front end and tons of torque at the rear wheels.

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keyframe13

That's exactly what it is.
And the only reason the women was not charge I believe is because thanks to her video they were able to identify him and make him responsible to pay the damages the county would have had to pay otherwise,

Fizzboy7

Ahh, another of those people who don't take responsibility for their own actions. That is the problem with society today, it is always someone else's fault. He could have chosen to ignore her and he would not have smashed up his truck.[/QUOTE]

You misunderstood my difusing statement. Once road rage begins, it's a dangerous situation. The idea, and any official will tell you, is to difuse the situation. She egged him on by remaning in her lane and filming. That in turn made the problem escalate. She may have been original cause of the entire thing, but she was handily responsible for making it worse with her actions. That is where she failed. Then the other guy got what he deserved with the crash.

dat dude

Personally I think she purposely wanted to start trouble. As C mentioned she was expecting trouble. Perhaps she wanted to drive slow in the left lane and record peoples reaction. Just my 2 cents. Could be wrong though.

stlgrym3

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you're not wrong. throughout the video the truck wasn't tailgating her at all. it was a good half a car length between the two vehicle at any point of the video before the truck decided to past the car. imo, tailgating means right on your rear bumper and/or with high beam flashing. i didn't see neither of those in the video. i agree, the lady wanted to shoot some video so she can post on youtube and ended up caused some guy a lot of $$$ or even trouble with law.

keyframe13

That is exatcly my interpretation as well. It doesn;t look to me as tailgating at all. I've been tailgate and they were inches in my bumper.. He is driving normaly.. At some point she accelerates... and he accelerates as well to flow with the traffic.. doesn;t look like he aggressively went after her.

Second action is him passing her. Notice that he pass her and he just look at her for a second but was not aggressive... but here is what generates the conflict.. as he pass her SHE STARTS ACCELERATING (min 1:10) so he doesn't go in front of her.. This is the point when he got pissed and show her the finger and accelerate really hard and lose the control.
I think the B%$# was looking for this and clearly generate the conflict.

swajames

What he was doing absolutely was tailgating.

For someone to imply that a "good half a car length" is sufficient a gap for vehicles in motion and thus too big a gap to considered tailgating is just ludicrous.

FrankReynoldsCPA

1 car length for every 10 mph. So he should have been 5 or 6 car lengths back.

keyframe13

It means we're all tailgaters..LOL

FrankReynoldsCPA

Which just backs up my feeling that everybody can go to hell.

dseag2

Two things I hate...

1) People who poke along in the left lane (get over already)
2) People using their iPhones will driving.

I guess I will also spin out someday.

mmarshall

You may dislike it, but it is perfectly legal as long as they aren't exceeding the posted limit. In most states, the posted speed limit applies to ALL lanes, although slower traffic is encouraged to keep right. Pracically speaking, though, most state troopers (and cameras) don't ticket for anything within 10 MPH or so above the posted limit.

OK...you have a point on that one. It is clearly illegal in many states, and STRONGLY discouraged in others.

Why? You don't have to. Simply learning a little paitience is good for everyone.

mmarshall

I'm with you......that's the spacing-ideal, if possible.


But if you have ever driven in the D.C. area, SoCal/L.A., or in and around a number of other large cities, there is simply so much traffic that keeping proper spacing between cars is difficult or impossible, no matter what the speed. You can't pour a gallon of traffic into a quart-sized road...the road simply can't accomodate it.

FrankReynoldsCPA

I hear you, it gets packed in on my daily commute to work here in Vegas. At night though, even when there is very little traffic on the freeway, I get people all the time who follow me so close that I can not see their headlights.

But obviously this guy had room.

Like I said, both drivers suck. She shouldn't be messing around with her phone like that, and he shouldn't act like a douche.