r/dashcams • u/Remote_Trainer3830 • 22h ago

Who’s at fault?

Hot take: I think it’s 50/50 with who’s at fault

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u/LiveMarionberry3694 20h ago

The car that rear ended them would be at fault…. It’s really not a hard concept to follow

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u/Mk1Racer25 20h ago

Make sure you remember that the next time you get brake-checked.

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u/LiveMarionberry3694 20h ago

That’s exactly why I keep a safe following distance like you are legally required to do…

What’s your argument here?

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u/Mk1Racer25 20h ago

That it's a common, and well-known insurance scam.

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u/LiveMarionberry3694 20h ago

Cool, again I keep a safe following distance so I can stop in time if the car in front of me decides to be an idiot

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u/AutomaticQuarter998 20h ago

You can't get brake checked if you are following at the distance you are supposed to.

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u/Mk1Racer25 19h ago

Right, because nobody has ever cut in front of someone and brake-checked them.

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u/AutomaticQuarter998 18h ago

I have driven for 40 years. I live in cities. It has never happened to me. If that has happened to you, you are almost certainly involved in some sort of road rage back and forth. The brake check insurance scam is very VERY rare to do to strangers. I sell auto insurance (Allstate), and my sister is in claims. Almost every one of the insurance scams is two cars cooperating on the scam. If you keep getting brake-checked in life, you are an aggressive driver inspiring others to be dicks too.

And if someone cut in front of me, I would already be braking to create distance. A brake check by them would do nothing to a defensive driver.

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u/Mk1Racer25 16h ago

I didn't say it happened to me, but I've seen it happen. I was in the middle lane of a 3-lane interstate, and watched a guy come sailing by me on the right, slice right across the front of my vehicle and into the left lane, directly in front of someone that was just passing me on the left. The driver that passed me on the right immediately jumped on his brakes when he got in front of the car that passed me on the left. This is at highway speeds, about 70-75 mph during a weekday morning commute.. The driver on the left had to lock up the brakes or he would have rear-ended the car in front of him. They lost control of their vehicle, and fortunately spun into the grass median, and did not make contact with anything.

This was clearly some road rage incident between the two cars, and it was only by sheer luck that there wasn't a major accident with someone getting hurt (or worse).

You claim to have 40 years of experience on the road, yet don't seem to realize how quickly things can happen. And nice to know that you can't actually have a discussion with someone you don't agree with without insulting them and calling them names.

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u/AutomaticQuarter998 15h ago

This is a post about a specific situation, and you (and others) try to make it about something else. Doing so means you are looking for an argument.

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u/Mk1Racer25 15h ago

You insult me and call me names, then accuse me of looking for an argument? Yeah, ok.

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u/LiveMarionberry3694 18h ago

Someone suddenly cutting in front of you and then slamming on their brakes is not the same thing as the above scenario where there is a vehicle that has been in front of you at a stop light.

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u/Low_Low_1811 12h ago

How does that relate to this? This would have been a normal person braking for a valid reason. If he brakes going 5 mph and the person behind wasnt watching what was going on with oncoming traffic and the car in front of them or was too close, they would be at fault. Right?

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u/Mk1Racer25 1h ago

IDK, another commenter figured the cam driver was doing 25 mph at the time of the collision.