Some amusing dashcam footage recently posted online shows what happens when you are impatient and don’t care when switching lanes. The footage shows a car attempting to switch lanes behind a lorry, only to cause an embarrassing accident.
The video was posted on the r/dashcams subreddit by Reddit user switch8s. In the video, we appear to be riding in a truck on the highway, with another truck in front of us and a car in the right lane in front of us, clearly attempting to switch lanes.
The black car in front is trying to get around the lorry and get into the left-hand lane on the highway. But it does so in an incredibly unsafe manner, and it doesn’t factor in what traffic is in the left lane, which it can’t see due to the truck being in the way.
What happened next is, as the video caption described, “Golden.” The car veers left, gets around the truck, and then smashes into the back of a stationary car. But what makes it worse is that the stationary car was actually a cop.
How the Car Crashed Into the Back of the Cop
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In the video, the black car wants to get around the truck in front of it by pulling into the left lane. From the dashcam footage, we see a stationary police car with its lights on, another police car in front of it, and a car in front of that that appears to have been pulled over.
Clearly, someone has been pulled over for doing something wrong. For the black car driver, however, the truck is obscuring their view. While that may be some defense for the accident that followed, it also shows the driver should have been more careful when changing lanes. The car simply goes around the back of the truck and straight into the left lane, accelerating as it does so to make its move quickly.
As they come around the truck and into the lane, they spot the cop car stationary in front of them. However, it was too late to do anything given the speed they were driving. At the last second, it looks like the driver tried to move back into the middle lane to avoid the collision. The brake lights also came on, with the driver trying to stop before the accident unfolded. Unfortunately, they didn’t stop, and they ran straight into the back of the cop car. They’d have had a tricky time explaining that crash to the police officers.
Reddit Users Loved Watching the Accident
The impact wasn’t huge, but it would have been enough to damage the cars. Given the amusing nature of the accident, it’s no surprise Reddit users lapped it up. “Convenient Cop,” said the top comment, which summed up the accident perfectly. “Well, I am sure the cop didn’t find it very convenient,” replied user SailingSpark amusingly, which is probably an accurate description of how the cop felt about the crash.
“Classic no turn signal,” said another, noting that the black car didn’t even indicate it was going left. “Bro really speedran his way into a police report,” added another user, while user BobcatSpiritual7699 said, “The usual race to camp in the left lane….always ends well….” We’ve seen a lot of dashcam footage, and this has to be one of the most amusing shared on social media. All it would have taken was a little bit more patience to avoid this accident.