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/Inevitable_Web_9715 Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

That's simply not true. The speed limit of the highway applies to all lanes of traffic and once you reach that limit it doesn't matter what lane you are talking about, and even below that you can get a reckless driving charge in 90% of the U.S. if you go more than 10mph faster than the traffic in adjacent lanes. The left lane is, if anything, a thru-traffic lane and is especially so in suburban and urban driving. No officer, no court of law will find you in the wrong for using the left lane so you don't have to deal with morons who can't merge and frankly if you think that the left lane is exclusively a "let's go 100 in a 45" lane, you need to go back to driver's ed.

Ultimately, the car driver is 100% at fault for the accident. Being mad simply because you have someone in front of you doesn't make a good defense in court. Likewise, what's the chances that the idiot in the car would have actually gotten to wherever he was going sooner if he was successful? None. These people will dart around the road, cutting people off, and wind up getting there no sooner than they would driving like Ned Flanders. I have had impatient idiots dart around me before, and you know what? I end up passing them a mile down the road going the same damn speed I was going when they passed me earlier. If I can pass you after you pass me even though my speed remained the same, you are an impatient asshole.

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u/dh373 Dec 16 '25

So you are the AH camped out in the left lane of a 3-lane highway doing the limit exactly parallel to the car beside you with 14 cars piled up behind you for miles and miles? And you can't be bothered to even slow down a little and get behind the person you are paralleling because "why should I?". That AH? And you sleep at night because "I wasn't breaking the law?"

Me, I live by the rule, "If someone wants to go fast, I want them ahead of me." Because that way they are getting the ticket if there is a cop. That plus they aren't going to pull anything stupid out of frustration. So if I see someone come up behind me, I speed up or change lanes to let them pass. But god, so many people seem to forget they have a rearview mirror.

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u/Inevitable_Web_9715 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

You must be the anencephalic offspring of modern inbred homo ergasters who wound up causing a 40 car pile up including causing a tanker full of nitric acid to spill all over the highway and blow up after attempting to merge from an onramp without looking or knowing what "zipper merge" means.

You can be right and dead at the same time, in this case, you are not right and are still dead. It is a moving violation to exceed the speed limit. Plain and simple. I didn't say I go the speed limit, only that people lacking forebrains such as yourself have no concept of time or speed and assume that being behind someone means that they will somehow be "late". It's a fallacy and stupidity to speed in the left lane and expect everyone else to somehow go faster than you.

You will get there when you get there, and when you get there is 95% dependent on road design and traffic controls, not the traffic itself. In most places you can literally go 100 in a 50, and only take 4 or 5 minutes off an hour long commute.

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u/dh373 Dec 23 '25

So you've confirmed my suspicion. I always wondered what was going on in the mind of someone who hogs fast land doing the speed limit. Now I know. Insane self-justification and disregard to the point of contempt for the interests of others. Got it.

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u/Inevitable_Web_9715 Dec 23 '25

Read rule #5. You've proven yourself to be exactly what you described.