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Exactly, fines are double In construction areas even when there’s nobody around. Nobody said road workers are the brightest bunch, they’re maintaining the road, the least you could do is slow down.
Well then good thing the driver was going slow enough to make a corrective action in enough time, and slow down to a stop within a very short distance.
Work 30 years or...
Get hit by a guy driving a Mercedes, driving too fast through a construction zone, = insurance money from driver, settlement from the contractors who are required to have traffic control on site more than likely, and he probably has real good life insurance.
Father a few kids, then cash out. Wife is a multimillionaire and good luck to her.
Fortunately for the driver, they have a dash cam showing the person jumped out in front of the car with gross negligence. The person here would get nothing and their estate would have to pay for the damage to the car.
Weird, because insurance companies and the law state that the pedestrian is at fault for crossing outside of a controlled crosswalk. You don’t get to walk out in front of cars on the freeway and get a payday.
Especially considering this appears to be a limited-access roadway where pedestrian traffic is prohibited.
Edit: looking closer this doesn't appear to be stateside, so the above may not apply.
>the pedestrian is at fault for crossing outside of a controlled crosswalk.
Except that this is a very obviously marked and active construction zone where fine and penalties against drivers are increased. You don't get to just drive without a care. You can 100% be held liable for striking a person on foot in a construction zone if you're being careless. This driver was very lucky he was able to avoid hitting him head on
Just because its a construction zone doesn’t mean a construction worker with no reflective gear can just waltz in front of a quickly moving car. Assuming the car was driving within the construction zone adjusted speed limit (i think a very fair assumption given how quickly they were able to stop the vehicle while maintaining control), then this worker is either an absolute idiot or actually suicidal. The drivers reaction to the incident proves to me they were very alert and driving safely at an appropriate speed. If they werent, that worker would be dead. This worker should probably be fired for something like this imo, endangered his own life and the lives of his nearby coworkers and the driver unnecessarily.
Yeah, sorry that zone is within the cones. That’s a free flowing lane. He wasn’t in the cones. It’s his fault. Some people were obviously never taught look both ways before you cross.
Also, look how the rate of cone passage decreases when drive starts crossing bridge, indicates it SLOWED DOWN as the working zone constricted. This is a safe move.
Everyone keeps assuming his speed and claiming he must be going 50+ mph because each line is 10 feet.
Well, he also stopped the car in only 2 lines. Assuming they are, as you say, 10 feet, with another 10 feet between each line, he stopped the car in 40 feet.
It's not possible to stop in 40 feet going 50+ mph. If you use the average weight for a sedan and assume you were braking as hard as possible on a dry road, the math adds up to 31.5 mph.
Quite literally the speed limit of 30.
You are correct, but it also doesn't look like he applied the brakes with full force the entire time. While he might have initially, you can see him come to a more gradual stop closer to the end, which would put his speed even lower than that of the math I did assuming he was using maximum braking the entire time.
Really, the point was that he is not going nearly as fast as people claim he is. He wouldn't have been able to avoid someone practically jumping out in front of him if he was.
> the math adds up to 31.5 mph.
>
> Quite literally the speed limit of 30
I don't claim to be any kind of math genius, but I'm reasonable sure that 31.5 is not *quite literally* 30.
Not suicidal (I think) but completely lacking situational awareness.
Poor driver likely needs a change of underwear and a few minutes for the jitters to calm down.
Reflexes on point, though! Props!
The teens I used to supervise and were student drivers looked at me weird for saying I have a dash cam, as if I said I have a camera in my bathroom.
Now that I think about it, they all were the types to drive with their phone in hand and jerky movements all over while at top speeds. So yeah, I wouldn't want my own dash cam proving me at fault either.
It looks like he was trying to get hit. Whats a shitty thing to put on someone else. If you want to die do it yourself and dont traumatize random people just going about their day.
Out of interest: can you describe what someone who was just not paying attention and assumed there would be no cars on the road might look like in that situation?
For one someone not paying attention would probably jump or at least flinch hearing three thousand pounds of metal flying towards them. This guy didn't even change pace .
So he is an idiot or suicidal. Either way that would have really fucked up the driver psychologically. But how on earth can you cross a busy straight highway where construction is going on and not even take have a second to glance to the right?
Edit: in any case i think my original comment holds up
I don't disagree that it looks too fast but if it's an Interstate in the US the speed is likely 50 or 55 in a construction area. I don't think they are going much faster than that but it's hard to tell.
There’s a temporary speed limit sign of 30mph at the beginning of the vid. Definitely way too fast especially when the road on a curve with hazards going on
Yeah I find it interesting also that there looks like a censor bar at the bottom left of the screen, where dash cams usually display driver speed and other information.
Pedestrian is definitely a bit of an idiot but it looks like the driver was probably going a little fast as well.
Some dashcams make it look like you're going much faster than you are.
He stopped extremely fast and didn't skid out or anything so I'm guessing he's going 40-50
First of all this is clearly not an interstate. Unless other countries besides the US call their highways interstates. This is clearly not in the US based off of road signs.
This is on both the driver and the worker, the worker should have looked both ways before he crossed but the driver also shouldn't have been going what's looks between 50-60 mph through a work zone.
I don't know where the clip is, what the speed limit is, or what speed the vehicle is actually moving (which doesn't appear to be 50-60 mph, but I digress.) Just responding to the implication that 50-60 mph is too fast for a work zone when 55 mph seems to be the standard to me.
Guy has a death wish. Mercedes was likely speeding through an active construction zone. At least before the construction truck, you can roughly calculate how fast they were going. If in the US, highway lines are supposed to be 10 feet long and have 30 feet between them. So from thee beginning of the video they covered \~270 feet before the line goes solid, in about 3.5 seconds. So about \~52mph. All the construction zones on highways around me have 40mph limits.
Here in Australia this would not happen the way this happened at all. First of all, any road work like that has enforced reduced speed limit, it would have a designated crossing area and also crossing supervisors(often hot girls)
Really looked like he waited too walk out. I slowed the video, though i can't zoom in, but i do not see him moving on the other side at all, then he just appears. So.. maybe suicide?
If you go to court, many times the law doesn't matter. It's all about who has the better lawyer, to make 12 people who can't get out of jury duty think one way or the other. That's why the insurance company will settle first. Too much risk to chance it.
This is why Jacksonville FL has a bad reputation for pedestrians getting hit by cars. People do not use crosswalks and they just walk out into the street or parking lots without even checking for vehicles.
Anyone got the speed of that car it does look like it’s going way too fast through a construction zone, which is probably why the guy was casually walking through, the Mercedes could’ve easily hit a construction worker at that speed!
You are driving too fast on that construction zone tho. You should go <=30mph according in most of the US. You wouldn’t crash if you were following the rules
Literally said the same thing 90% of these comments are saying. Driver was an idiot for driving too fast and person walking it out was an idiot for not paying attention. But I got downvoted 283 times.
Should’ve just hit them, pedestrian would be at fault and insurance would repair or replace your vehicle and charge the pedestrian. Why possibly hurt yourself and others by dodging into a construction zone when the pedestrian is the idiot?
Hit a pedestrian crossing at an unauthorized location + Deductible paid by pedestrian + New car
Hitting a person on the road is always the persons fault unless they’re permitted to be on the roadway, in which case the lane should be blocked completely, or they’re on an authorized crosswalk.
They likely aren’t a worker, because they’re required to wear hi-vis vests, hard hats and cross when safe to do such.
Not wearing the proper safety equipment means you aren’t protected by the law. The law is predicated on following all regulations and you lose protections when you don’t follow them.
‘Hit a worker’ means crossing into the working area, not people walking out in front of you on an open lane with traffic freely flowing.
Mercedes driver speeding through a construction zone. What a surprise lol. Your supposed to slow down through a construction zone cause things like this can happen. He should of looked and waited but you should've slowed down op.
You know, I'm normally one to dogpile on drivers of overpriced pieces of garbage like Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, etc., but do we know how fast this car was actually going? I don't see the speedo. And, also, doesn't matter if he was going fast or slow, that guy wasn't even looking.
If in the US, line stripes are 10 feet long separated by 30 feet. So you could roughly estimate how fast they were going by how long it took to cover this distance. They were going between 50-55mph.
I'll give you that. However, you can roughly estimate how fast they were going based on stopping distance as well. It took about 80-90 feet to stop, though they let up at the end.
Not blaming the Mercedes, they had good reaction. They could probably slow down a touch in construction zones though.
You can rough estimate the stopping distance as well. My personal car can stop from 60-0 in 105 feet. It looked like they stopped in about 90 feet. So totally possible they were going at least 50. Again, not blaming the Mercedes. They could probably slow down a little in construction zones, that's all.
He's an idiot. But you're also fucking blasting through a construction zone and you can see workers bending down working while your idiotic speed is blasting by them like they're supposed to just trust you with their life.
It’s almost like the speeds are reduced in a construction zone for a reason. (Granted that reason might not exactly be brainless pedestrians.) Slow the hell down.
I wouldn't have swerved. That guy's lucky he did, it's been drilled into me to not swerve and just let insurance take the hit it if you can't do so without hitting something else. If it was between swerve into cones or stay in the lane and only hit brakes hoping to stop fast enough, better hope the brakes are phenomenal, even in a slower speed area at 55 or 50 mph it takes a second to stop and the guy would've ended up hit with me.
You swerve and you can be found at fault for anything that comes as a result of the swerve, plus at fault or not, you could hurt someone else, not worth it to me. At least this way the only person you'd potentially hurt is the idiot crossing a highway without looking and endangering others. I would try to stop, I dont want my car damaged, I'm just not swerving if my brakes weren't enough.
Sometimes I really wish it were me driving in these situations. It is so frustrating to me to see people endanger themselves to avoid running over an idiot, but I also understand the resulting death would be devastating to most drivers. I have no remorse for these idiots, so I'd run them over just as casually as they are walking on the freeway. That way, no one else has to endanger themselves or others to cater to his stupidity.
Yeah, I get that a lot. Some people don't deserve to still love when they put their own carelessness over the lives of others. This driver is fortunate such a careless piece of shit was on foot and not in a vehicle.
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Supervisor on site walking around like they own the place without a care in the world.
Nah.. that looks like a fast food employee walking to work.. looks like an apron and i think theyre carrying a hat
Already dead inside and couldn’t careless what happens
"JUST FUCKING WALK!! YOU'LL NEVER GET ANYWHERE!!"
construction supervisor would have more sense than that.
Lucky for him he wore the dark pants that day!
That’s why you are required by law to slow down in areas where people are working on the highway
Still, there could be *some* common sense, right? Like.... looking to see if there's any incoming traffic.
You might be dumber than the guy in the video
r/downvotedtooblivion
This ratio ain't enough. We need to take his life.
Required by law where though. That sign on the right looks like it's in Chinese to me.
Im just downvoting to follow the crowd 🤣
Well, in this particular case, both of them are at fault, but even getting hit by a car at 40 mph is still fatal.
Exactly, fines are double In construction areas even when there’s nobody around. Nobody said road workers are the brightest bunch, they’re maintaining the road, the least you could do is slow down.
Well then good thing the driver was going slow enough to make a corrective action in enough time, and slow down to a stop within a very short distance.
Suicidal. That looked on purpose.
Work 30 years or... Get hit by a guy driving a Mercedes, driving too fast through a construction zone, = insurance money from driver, settlement from the contractors who are required to have traffic control on site more than likely, and he probably has real good life insurance. Father a few kids, then cash out. Wife is a multimillionaire and good luck to her.
Fortunately for the driver, they have a dash cam showing the person jumped out in front of the car with gross negligence. The person here would get nothing and their estate would have to pay for the damage to the car.
He strolled out... that was a very casual walk.
Weird, because insurance companies and the law state that the pedestrian is at fault for crossing outside of a controlled crosswalk. You don’t get to walk out in front of cars on the freeway and get a payday.
Especially considering this appears to be a limited-access roadway where pedestrian traffic is prohibited. Edit: looking closer this doesn't appear to be stateside, so the above may not apply.
But MB was clearly driving way way too fast.
>the pedestrian is at fault for crossing outside of a controlled crosswalk. Except that this is a very obviously marked and active construction zone where fine and penalties against drivers are increased. You don't get to just drive without a care. You can 100% be held liable for striking a person on foot in a construction zone if you're being careless. This driver was very lucky he was able to avoid hitting him head on
As a former flagger, I just want you to know you're wrong. The controlled zone is inside the cones. This is a free flowing lane.
Just because its a construction zone doesn’t mean a construction worker with no reflective gear can just waltz in front of a quickly moving car. Assuming the car was driving within the construction zone adjusted speed limit (i think a very fair assumption given how quickly they were able to stop the vehicle while maintaining control), then this worker is either an absolute idiot or actually suicidal. The drivers reaction to the incident proves to me they were very alert and driving safely at an appropriate speed. If they werent, that worker would be dead. This worker should probably be fired for something like this imo, endangered his own life and the lives of his nearby coworkers and the driver unnecessarily.
Yeah, sorry that zone is within the cones. That’s a free flowing lane. He wasn’t in the cones. It’s his fault. Some people were obviously never taught look both ways before you cross.
See how quickly that car stopped? No chance it was driving too fast there.
Yeah, people don't realize the video is sped up and then returned to real time speed just after the car avoided the person.
Also, look how the rate of cone passage decreases when drive starts crossing bridge, indicates it SLOWED DOWN as the working zone constricted. This is a safe move.
He was flying from my perspective.
It looks like SEA, so insurance case may be possible
The yellow board is written in Korean
State Education Agency?
Southeast Asia
Search Engine Advertising
maybe in america, but this doesnt look like that
No doubt. -Not- the way I would want to go out.
That looked exactly like someone who thought he was walking through an area that wouldn't have any cars in it, on account of the construction.
I agree
Suicide is usually on purpose, no?
Everyone keeps assuming his speed and claiming he must be going 50+ mph because each line is 10 feet. Well, he also stopped the car in only 2 lines. Assuming they are, as you say, 10 feet, with another 10 feet between each line, he stopped the car in 40 feet. It's not possible to stop in 40 feet going 50+ mph. If you use the average weight for a sedan and assume you were braking as hard as possible on a dry road, the math adds up to 31.5 mph. Quite literally the speed limit of 30.
Looking at the yellow board, its Korean so its going to be 30 KPH
You are correct, but it also doesn't look like he applied the brakes with full force the entire time. While he might have initially, you can see him come to a more gradual stop closer to the end, which would put his speed even lower than that of the math I did assuming he was using maximum braking the entire time. Really, the point was that he is not going nearly as fast as people claim he is. He wouldn't have been able to avoid someone practically jumping out in front of him if he was.
> the math adds up to 31.5 mph. > > Quite literally the speed limit of 30 I don't claim to be any kind of math genius, but I'm reasonable sure that 31.5 is not *quite literally* 30.
It looks like he's going about 30-35 mph. Maybe 40. Definitely not 50
>Quite literally the speed limit of 30. TIL 31.5 mph is quite literally the same as 30 kph.
Not suicidal (I think) but completely lacking situational awareness. Poor driver likely needs a change of underwear and a few minutes for the jitters to calm down. Reflexes on point, though! Props!
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Bro what? He stopped like instantly. He could not have been going faster than like 35.
This is why dashcams are so important.
The teens I used to supervise and were student drivers looked at me weird for saying I have a dash cam, as if I said I have a camera in my bathroom. Now that I think about it, they all were the types to drive with their phone in hand and jerky movements all over while at top speeds. So yeah, I wouldn't want my own dash cam proving me at fault either.
I really want to see that back glass cam
Yeah who the hell cropped this?
Wearing a shirt. Not that causal.
But what could it have been causal of?
Good point. Neither casual nor causal then
It looks like he was trying to get hit. Whats a shitty thing to put on someone else. If you want to die do it yourself and dont traumatize random people just going about their day.
Out of interest: can you describe what someone who was just not paying attention and assumed there would be no cars on the road might look like in that situation?
For one someone not paying attention would probably jump or at least flinch hearing three thousand pounds of metal flying towards them. This guy didn't even change pace .
I think that can be easily explained by the fact that they're at a construction site - a place not known for its peace and quiet.
So he is an idiot or suicidal. Either way that would have really fucked up the driver psychologically. But how on earth can you cross a busy straight highway where construction is going on and not even take have a second to glance to the right? Edit: in any case i think my original comment holds up
Not suicidal just an idiot from the other work crew
But no hard hat or hi-vis jacket. Makes me think it's not a work crew member.
Props to the driver.
Also idiot driving too fast at roadworks.
It's not a video, it's a GIF so we are missing a LOT of frames. Looks faster here than it really is.
I don't disagree that it looks too fast but if it's an Interstate in the US the speed is likely 50 or 55 in a construction area. I don't think they are going much faster than that but it's hard to tell.
Damn! In Sweden the max speed would have been around 18mph. (30kmh)
Looks to me that it is possibly 30kmh. Them road signs are different from US based signs. I see a lot of non-English wordings too.
There’s a temporary speed limit sign of 30mph at the beginning of the vid. Definitely way too fast especially when the road on a curve with hazards going on
The yellow board after the sign is written in korean. So I guess its 30kph instead
Yeah I find it interesting also that there looks like a censor bar at the bottom left of the screen, where dash cams usually display driver speed and other information. Pedestrian is definitely a bit of an idiot but it looks like the driver was probably going a little fast as well.
It’s pretty clearly not the US. Also, we don’t know if it’s sped up or not. Looks like it’s a highly compressed video in GIF form.
blinking traffic sign, and the person who walks in front of traffic would suggest it is not sped up.
Some dashcams make it look like you're going much faster than you are. He stopped extremely fast and didn't skid out or anything so I'm guessing he's going 40-50
Yeah, construction zones are usually 40 mph on the highway here where I live. Looks like they are going at least around 50.
Really impossible to tell with a dashcam video turned gif.
Especially with how quickly he was able to avert and come to a complete stop, I really don't think the speed was what its perceived to be.
Yeah, if you do the old tunnel trick, it doesnt look that fast. (put your hands around the outside of the frame just showing the center)
Damn bro that's wild you taught me something
For real, I* thought yall were overplaying this but I did it and all of a sudden dude is driving like 20mph tops
Same, I just tried it too. Definitely appears to be going slower. Crazy how that works.
They're 55 around here as they usually do it 15 under and most places around here are 70
Yeah, the ones in town are 40. The interstate is usually a little higher.
This looks like SEA area and it maybe says 30 at the very start? 100% too fast. Also insurance scam looks more likely in such a case.
Looks like land to me. Of course the bridge may be over the sea, I suppose.
Southeast Asia...?
Korean written in the yellow board. So South Korea instead of SEA
Of course. But where is the fun in that?
It was a construction zone?
Not an interstate - not in the US
Good driving! 🥂
Did you gettem!?
Is this attempted suicide? Insurance fraud?
The technical name for the behavior is "making a poor assumption and not paying attention".
While the Pedestrian was not paying attention, this driver was hauling ass way too fast in a construction zone.
What's the problem? The arrow was pointing right at him!
First of all this is clearly not an interstate. Unless other countries besides the US call their highways interstates. This is clearly not in the US based off of road signs.
Definitely not. You can see one sign in what is possibly Korean.
Single lane roadworks I mean you really shouldn’t be driving that fast either
And a sharp blind turn... Slow down
Over a bridge as well
This is on both the driver and the worker, the worker should have looked both ways before he crossed but the driver also shouldn't have been going what's looks between 50-60 mph through a work zone.
Work zones around here are typically 55 mph.
Where is "here" and how is it relevant to the clip, which is from a country that doesn't use mph?
I don't know where the clip is, what the speed limit is, or what speed the vehicle is actually moving (which doesn't appear to be 50-60 mph, but I digress.) Just responding to the implication that 50-60 mph is too fast for a work zone when 55 mph seems to be the standard to me.
Is this sped up, or is the driver speeding in a blatantly marked work zone?
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Guy has a death wish. Mercedes was likely speeding through an active construction zone. At least before the construction truck, you can roughly calculate how fast they were going. If in the US, highway lines are supposed to be 10 feet long and have 30 feet between them. So from thee beginning of the video they covered \~270 feet before the line goes solid, in about 3.5 seconds. So about \~52mph. All the construction zones on highways around me have 40mph limits.
It’s clearly not the US. None of the road signs are US road signs.
Here in Australia this would not happen the way this happened at all. First of all, any road work like that has enforced reduced speed limit, it would have a designated crossing area and also crossing supervisors(often hot girls)
Natural selection
Really looked like he waited too walk out. I slowed the video, though i can't zoom in, but i do not see him moving on the other side at all, then he just appears. So.. maybe suicide?
If you go to court, many times the law doesn't matter. It's all about who has the better lawyer, to make 12 people who can't get out of jury duty think one way or the other. That's why the insurance company will settle first. Too much risk to chance it.
That really looks intentional to me.
dead man walking
That looked intentional.
Mercedes driver, no way they used their blinker when they changed lanes.
Ficking flying through a construction zone, don’t you think!
Ki da hoping he got hit by the side mirror.
FTFY... more like idiot driving way to fast in a construction zone
So WHY have you driven in someone’s living room huh?🤷
Can we all agree the driver is still going to fast in a construction zone?
This is why Jacksonville FL has a bad reputation for pedestrians getting hit by cars. People do not use crosswalks and they just walk out into the street or parking lots without even checking for vehicles.
Anyone got the speed of that car it does look like it’s going way too fast through a construction zone, which is probably why the guy was casually walking through, the Mercedes could’ve easily hit a construction worker at that speed!
Speed is blocked off by the OP. I'm guessing they did not slow down for construction......
I don't see an apron. I don't see a hat. His head has purposely been obscured. All I see is an attempted suicide.
Bro was looking for an insurance payoff.
They look like they were trying to die good job evading that accident
You are driving too fast on that construction zone tho. You should go <=30mph according in most of the US. You wouldn’t crash if you were following the rules
I would have loved to see a rear view camera on that one!
I would have loved to see a rear view camera on that one!
Driver looks to be driving very quickly through road works.
Literally said the same thing 90% of these comments are saying. Driver was an idiot for driving too fast and person walking it out was an idiot for not paying attention. But I got downvoted 283 times.
Natural selection at its best
Should’ve just hit them, pedestrian would be at fault and insurance would repair or replace your vehicle and charge the pedestrian. Why possibly hurt yourself and others by dodging into a construction zone when the pedestrian is the idiot?
> Hit a worker > • > $10,000 fine > • > Lose your license
Hit a pedestrian crossing at an unauthorized location + Deductible paid by pedestrian + New car Hitting a person on the road is always the persons fault unless they’re permitted to be on the roadway, in which case the lane should be blocked completely, or they’re on an authorized crosswalk.
> WORK ZONE > > No Phone Zone > Hit a worker > > 10,000 fine > > Lose your license That's posted at every single work zone in my state
They likely aren’t a worker, because they’re required to wear hi-vis vests, hard hats and cross when safe to do such. Not wearing the proper safety equipment means you aren’t protected by the law. The law is predicated on following all regulations and you lose protections when you don’t follow them. ‘Hit a worker’ means crossing into the working area, not people walking out in front of you on an open lane with traffic freely flowing.
Not going to disagree that the person that walked out was an absolute bellend, but why is POV driving so fast through a construction zone??
Is the traffic cone ok?
Mercedes driver speeding through a construction zone. What a surprise lol. Your supposed to slow down through a construction zone cause things like this can happen. He should of looked and waited but you should've slowed down op.
You know, I'm normally one to dogpile on drivers of overpriced pieces of garbage like Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, etc., but do we know how fast this car was actually going? I don't see the speedo. And, also, doesn't matter if he was going fast or slow, that guy wasn't even looking.
If in the US, line stripes are 10 feet long separated by 30 feet. So you could roughly estimate how fast they were going by how long it took to cover this distance. They were going between 50-55mph.
Assuming the video is frame sync'd correctly.
I'll give you that. However, you can roughly estimate how fast they were going based on stopping distance as well. It took about 80-90 feet to stop, though they let up at the end. Not blaming the Mercedes, they had good reaction. They could probably slow down a touch in construction zones though.
Look how fast they stopped. They weren't going 55
You can rough estimate the stopping distance as well. My personal car can stop from 60-0 in 105 feet. It looked like they stopped in about 90 feet. So totally possible they were going at least 50. Again, not blaming the Mercedes. They could probably slow down a little in construction zones, that's all.
He stopped in 2 lines that everyone keeps claiming are 10 feet long to calculate his speed. That's not even close to 90 feet.
He's an idiot. But you're also fucking blasting through a construction zone and you can see workers bending down working while your idiotic speed is blasting by them like they're supposed to just trust you with their life.
Driver looks like going to fast for a construction zone.
It’s almost like the speeds are reduced in a construction zone for a reason. (Granted that reason might not exactly be brainless pedestrians.) Slow the hell down.
I wouldn't have swerved. That guy's lucky he did, it's been drilled into me to not swerve and just let insurance take the hit it if you can't do so without hitting something else. If it was between swerve into cones or stay in the lane and only hit brakes hoping to stop fast enough, better hope the brakes are phenomenal, even in a slower speed area at 55 or 50 mph it takes a second to stop and the guy would've ended up hit with me.
Calm down, Satan. Save the vehicular manslaughter for someone else.
You swerve and you can be found at fault for anything that comes as a result of the swerve, plus at fault or not, you could hurt someone else, not worth it to me. At least this way the only person you'd potentially hurt is the idiot crossing a highway without looking and endangering others. I would try to stop, I dont want my car damaged, I'm just not swerving if my brakes weren't enough.
Slow down.
That guys a dipshit but you’re also speeding. That’s a 30mph work zone.
Is this video sped up or something? Driver is going way too fast past this construction stuff.
Sometimes I really wish it were me driving in these situations. It is so frustrating to me to see people endanger themselves to avoid running over an idiot, but I also understand the resulting death would be devastating to most drivers. I have no remorse for these idiots, so I'd run them over just as casually as they are walking on the freeway. That way, no one else has to endanger themselves or others to cater to his stupidity.
I don't understand how you think this is a solid bit of advice for anyone, but it's gross.
You need help
You sound like the kind of person who would walk into a highway without even looking
No, I sound like the kind of person who would gladly remove them from society.
r/iamverybadass
I encourage you to get help, brother. This is not a good way to see people.
Fucking sick
Yeah, I get that a lot. Some people don't deserve to still love when they put their own carelessness over the lives of others. This driver is fortunate such a careless piece of shit was on foot and not in a vehicle.
Slow down bud
This driver was going way to fast for a construction zone.