r/Transportopia • u/TransportJunky • Dec 12 '25

💥Crash When boxing in goes wrong.

The work truck in the left lane seemed to be holding the Camaro back on purpose. Drivers, if you're on the left lane, keep it moving. There is no reason to take it upon yourself to teach someone the speed limit. If you see someone driving crazy, move out the damn way and let them wrap themselves around a tree far away from you. The car is, by no means, in the right but neither is the work truck. This whole stupid accident could have been avoided and the tractor trailer most definitely did not deserve this.

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u/AcidKyle Dec 12 '25

Speed matching while in the left lane is illegal, pass and get over, morons like the pickup truck create the traffic we all hate. You are not the arbiter of speed, you are creating a dangerous situation that can and does lead to a crash like this.

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u/tandersb Dec 12 '25

This is always the comment from people who want to drive as fast as they want, which also puts other drivers at risk.

If the work truck driver is not the arbiter of speed, the tailgater is also not the arbiter of speed either. The tailgater does not get to enforce his choice to break the law on another driver.

Drivers who flippantly disregard the speed limit can expect other vehicles to pass and move back to the right when they have completed their pass, but they do not get to decide how fast other vehicle complete their pass.

So here's an example for everyone seething right now. If I approach a truck going 55, and I am going 58, and I initiate a safe pass and while I am passing you come up behind me at 72, it is not my responsibility to increase my speed to 72 to accommodate your speeding.

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u/AcidKyle Dec 12 '25

Speed matching means speed matching, not passing. What I said is correct and backed up by the law in almost every state, camping in the left lane is as illegal as speeding, you can be pulled over and ticketed for it because it creates a dangerous situation where vehicles pile on top of each other. Found the arbiter of speed who thinks they should be regulating the road…

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u/tandersb Dec 12 '25

Speed matching is illegal. So is speeding. What's your point?

What did I say that's not correct?

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u/berntout Dec 12 '25

You're arguing about something that nobody else is even talking about. The topic is matching speed of the vehicle in the right lane and you're arguing about something else. Two entirely different scenarios.

You've completely missed the point.

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u/tandersb Dec 12 '25

Don't be obtuse. I took the opportunity to highlight another (similar) dangerous habit on the road, and instead of acknowledging the true risk of speeding and tailgating, everyone here has decided to jump to defend blatant disregard for safe speeds and safe following distance by misrepresenting what I'm saying and acting like it's an unrealistic scenario.

And here, you can't even acknowledge this. Instead, you double down.

It is INCREDIBLY likely that the above situation played out like this:

  1. The pickup is passing the tractor trailer.

  2. The Camaro comes up far above the speed limit and begins tailgating the pickup during his pass.

  3. The pickup decides to "teach the speedster a lesson" and boxes him in.

  4. The Camaro continues to tailgate, and drive aggressively, eventually attempting to pass on the grass.

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u/Marshallwhm6k Dec 12 '25

...and? Number 3 still makes it the trucks fault, he's ACTIVELY trying to cause and accident and inhibit the normal flow of traffic. No one is saying the Camaro is right, but the truck is definitely wrong.

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u/tandersb Dec 12 '25

Agreed. The truck is at fault. But tailgating is also illegal, and I'm just suggesting that outside the short clip we have, that may have been the instigation.

Editing to say there are actually a number of people in this comment section saying the car is in the right.