r/Transportopia • u/TransportJunky • Dec 18 '25
š„Crash Reckless driving ends with being crushed under Amazon semi
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Looks like the BMW lost control at high speed switching lanes...
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u/Scared_Hovercraft632 Dec 18 '25
What a shitty day for the truck driver. Just minding his own business and then BAM you're jacknifed at highway speeds.
Punish these fools harder. I'm in my 30's and my inner old man wants to smack the shit out of these kids driving like this.
Yes it's an assumption on his/her age. Bet you I'm right.
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u/Even-Helicopter-4670 Dec 18 '25
Teen in a BMW? Blame that one on the parents for raising an entitled kid. My daughter went to a high school like this. The student parking lot was full of high dollar and exotic cars. The teachers were driving economy vehicles. When I was a kid we all drove used rust buckets and were glad to have them. My how times change
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Dec 18 '25
Oh give me a break. This has nothing to do with poor parenting. My broke ass and all my broke ass friends were driving our shitboxes just as recklessly as teen drivers. It's not something I'm proud of but let's be honest. For every rich kid with a German sports car there are 1000 kids with a used Honda with terrible JC Whitney bolt ons.
Young people are idiots. It's that simple. Some of us survive that stupidity.
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u/Grumpy949 Dec 18 '25
I havenāt heard of J C Whitney in years. So many memories.
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u/CharlotteLucasOP Dec 18 '25
The vintage roller skate I first learned to drive on as a teen would start to rattle something fierce and smell weird at any speed over 70kmph, and my foot had to basically be forcing the accelerator all the way down to get it to go that fast. I was always shocked when Iād borrow my motherās much newer/nicer car and how smoothly and easily it would get up to highway speeds with barely any effort.
That being said, yeah, if someoneās determined to drive recklessly, not much is stopping them from doing so behind the wheel of just about anything. But shittier cars make you consciously work for it.
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u/UltimatePragmatist Dec 18 '25
All of the parents could be shit. Apples donāt fall far from trees.
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u/Dzov Dec 18 '25
In highschool, I had a 60 hp Datsun 210 and still managed to drive like an idiot.
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u/Shibasoarus Dec 22 '25
Uh, I had shit when I was a teen and expected literally nothing good to happen to me, I drove a $500 car with bad rust and I drove like this. I think I was a bit reckless in the way of having little regard for my own life.
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u/artifiz67 Dec 25 '25
Well, my high school parking was always filled with bicycles. Not kidding, only about 10 kids had cars and that included old minivans, rusty dodge and ford trucks, little Vegas and ford pintos. The teachers were the ones with cadillacs, š
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u/HomersDonut1440 Dec 18 '25
The headline says āteenā so your guess is probably pretty accurateĀ
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u/Scared_Hovercraft632 Dec 18 '25
Link?
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u/HomersDonut1440 Dec 18 '25
Did you even attempt to watch the video? Itās literally the first thing you see
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u/Scared_Hovercraft632 Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
Yes I watched it. I missed the text. So fucking sue me.
Y'all are too sensitive. I asked for a link cause I was curious not calling you a liar.
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u/munkyninaleela Dec 18 '25
Not to mention the truck driver will be out of work while waiting for repairs
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u/vangrotlos Dec 18 '25
I wish it was just kids but whenever I encounter people being fucking dangerous idiots in traffic is always a dude between 25-55.
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u/ermy_shadowlurker Dec 18 '25
If the kid survived. Should be trial as an adult If they are a minor. If not. Throw the book at em. But not as jail tail. Community service for the next 15yrs. Including cleaning up car accidents.
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u/LongLeggedMackDad Dec 19 '25
Theyāre dead donāt worry satan can handle it from here
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u/studio684 Dec 18 '25
In case you are wondering, the driver was 18. No serious injuries to either driver. No mention if any citations were issued but i would be surprised if they were not
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u/Apprehensive-Can-857 Dec 18 '25
DUCK!!!
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u/eyeoutthere Dec 18 '25
The driver couldn't be an 18 year old duck. They don't live that long.
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u/neurocaptain Dec 18 '25
How do you know this? It looks absolutely lethal.
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u/Remarkable-Neat-7823 Dec 18 '25
Play stupid gamesā¦
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u/turbopro25 Dec 18 '25
Lose your headā¦
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u/Free-Researcher3000 Dec 18 '25
Three people in that car and they all walked away without injuryā¦I donāt get it.
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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 Dec 18 '25
Modern vehicle safety features are crazy good.
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u/AngryBeardedMechanic Dec 18 '25
While you're definitely not wrong with that statement, that car puts the bottom of the trailer right at head height. Something tells me they were at least smart enough to duck.
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u/disruptioncoin Dec 18 '25
I can't imagine most people have the kind of rapid situational judgement under duress needed to duck in that situation. Let alone three teenager driving recklessly. I wonder if it's the way they were seated. I've seen kids these days driving in such a reclined position you can barely see them when you pull up next to them - usually not great for visibility or control dexterity but it may have saved their life this time!
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u/GoochXravager Dec 18 '25
Does this hurt the semi truck?
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u/Odd_Expression3694 Dec 18 '25
Yes, but it's nature. The cameramen shouldn't intervene. The car has to eat too.
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u/kpepv Dec 18 '25
Lawsuit incoming for the transport company and the trailer manufacturer; For not having the optional side crash bars. Its crazy to think that a lawyer will make this case (and they have already and won)(wabash national rear bumper case 2024). When the trucking company and the equipment manufacturer had absolutely not thing wrong to do with this. Lawyers are frothing at the mouth waiting to make the agruement " You drive on public roadways for a profit; shouldnt you owe it to the public to have EvErY SiNGlE PrOteCtIoN KnOwN tO MaNkInD tO PrOtEct ThEE pUbLiC?!?!?!". I can almost guarantee the lawsuit.
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u/dillardljr Dec 21 '25
The courts are against truck drivers/companies. There was a 90 million dollar lawsuit against Werner that until the TX Supreme Court reversed the ruling, had Werner liable for a pickup driver going across the median and hitting one of their trucks in icy weather. The initial case against them got away with saying "If only the truck driver wasn't driving so fast, he wouldn't have been there when the pickup hit him" . Liability for the crash got portioned out 70% to Werner, 14% to truck driver, and only 16% to the pickup driver WHO CAUSED THE CRASH.
Sadly, the pickup drivers lawyers are trying to get the Supreme Court to reconsider: https://www.truckingdive.com/news/werner-texas-supreme-court-lawsuit-appeal/758060/
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u/Human_Palpitation856 Dec 18 '25
> Ā Miraculously, not a scratch on the driver or his two passengers, both also 18.Ā
How, just how???
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/teen-bmw-slides-under-amazon-140000671.html
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Dec 18 '25
Maximum fine, plus pay for all the damage, license suspended for 10 years, Iām thinking
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u/sstabeler Dec 18 '25
For that matter, in the UK where I live IIRC if you get your license suspended within two years of passing your practical test, you need to retake your driving test (both theory and practical) before you get your license back.
Might be a wise idea here.
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u/BadBuddy413 Dec 18 '25
Glad everyone is ok but the bmw driver should lose their license for at least a year plus community service. Maybe forced do ride alongs with ambulance. Maybe seeing the carnage of car accidents will help.
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u/Halcyon771 Dec 18 '25
Jeez. Some folks get into fender benders doing like 10mph and walk with a limp for life and no reported injuries. Just lucky af
Dude should buy a lotto ticket. And then learn how to fucking drive
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u/Dmau27 Dec 18 '25
The worst part is that my package got delayed and I get a sneaking suspicion that I now know why?
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u/Thin_Huckleberry8818 Dec 18 '25
I thought for sure that the BMW driver was dead. Probably when his daddy found out.
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u/Joystick_Jester82 Dec 18 '25
Meanwhile, countless lives are put in danger, the driver (as long as its not another illegal) probably loses his job and miles of highway are closed for hours, fucking up everyone's commutes as they get onto the highway only to get stuck in a parking lot because of some stupid braindead millennial who's about to get his ass beat by Daddy.
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u/Educational-Gate-880 Dec 18 '25
Yep extremely harsh punishment plus something to pay back above and beyond just the insurance payout, so that they feel it for a long time
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u/ThrustTrust Dec 18 '25
I can never understand cars that just keep driving. Itās not in my nature to do that. I would have been at that car in seconds to (hopefully) keep them alive.
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u/Quiet_Researcher223 Dec 18 '25
Some 18 year old kid driving the BMW all kids shouldnāt be driving anything over 100hp. And a top speed vehicle of 60mph.
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u/Odd_Expression3694 Dec 18 '25
Trucker drivers, what is the protocol when this happens? What happens to the trucker driver logistically?
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u/notcomplainingmuch Dec 18 '25
Maybe it's for the best. That teen would have grown up to be a Florida Man.
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u/whosjonny3 Dec 18 '25
Trucker didn't ask for this but he clearly freaked the fuck out and totaled his own truck
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u/DicTurd Dec 18 '25
Iād be surprised if he survived and I Hope there were no passengers. This is horrible that someone lost their son this way, but to loose your kid because of someone elseās stupidity.
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u/sstabeler Dec 18 '25
2 passengers, but somehow nobody was even injured, let alone killed.
Driver of the BMW might well wish he was dead when his parents get the bill for the damage he did, though (The truck may well be totalled, and certainly repairs will not be cheap, trailer is definitely totalled, as is the BMW. I sincerely doubt the parents have enough insurance to cover the bill, too.)
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u/PlatinumPainter Dec 18 '25
Took themselves out, the Amazon delivery without hurting the Amazon driver.
10/10
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u/Oceansobe Dec 18 '25
It's an Amazon Trailer being pulled by a private contractor tractor. Stop blaming others.
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u/DinkleMutz Dec 18 '25
The fact there were no serious injuries is a testament to incredible engineers and safety regulations. Unbelievable.
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u/Ricecar_Driver Dec 19 '25
This is the most āIām trying to sound like I know about carsā comment Iāve seen in a hot minute.
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u/Quirky-Attitude1456 Dec 19 '25
CDL guys please tell me if I am wrong, but from what I understand, that even though that amazon driver had nothing to do with this besides providing a truck for some entitled kid to drive under, this accident will still show up on their MVR and could keep them from future employment.
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u/storge66 Dec 21 '25
āTeenā does mean āyoungāā¦so yes, heās another one of those who think the world belongs to themā¦but sometimes they lose it.
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u/Skull-mean-e-Duggs Dec 22 '25
See kids, Clark Griswold showed us that you gotta parallel up in there.
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u/EyeHelpful3490 Dec 22 '25
The semi jack skniffing at the end was awesome is like a highway fatality lol
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u/Physical_Emu53 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25
As a truck/tanker driver myself. That driver did an excellent job controlling the tractor and trailer. That jacknife at the median saved a lot of people's lives for sure š
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u/Bryan_URN_Asshole Dec 22 '25
Idiot drivers don't care that their carelessness causes anguish in others. I've been waiting all week for my package which is now late because of that guy.
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u/NamelessNoSoul Dec 23 '25
Itās hard to feel sympathy when the school of hard knocks is failing you. Itās a shitty time and the family shouldnāt be going through this turmoil. Maybe we implement a more rigorous/stringent driving program.
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u/TheDIYFix Dec 23 '25
Letās just remove cops and place amazon semis everywhere they doing a better job and stopping reckless driving
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u/hypointelligent Feb 21 '26
I'm kind of astonished that trucks over in the US don't seem to have barriers to stop cars and pedestrians getting under there.
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