Street parking in the city can be stressful – especially if you’re the owner of a nicer vehicle. From careless drivers to commuting cyclists, street parking can sometimes feel like something is just waiting to go wrong and damage your ride. This video, which shows a large semi-truck backing into a Chevy Tahoe in New York, is a great example of how quickly street parking in a busy area can go awry.
The video was filmed by an onlooker sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle that was waiting for the semi-truck to finish backing up. Sensing imminent disaster, the person switched on their phone and began filming. Not long after they hit record, the semi-truck begins slowly reversing into the Summit White-colored K2XX-generation Chevy Tahoe, breaking its driver’s side rear passenger window and causing significant damage to the passenger door sheet metal. The semi even lifts the Tahoe’s rear wheel off the ground as it backs into it and moves the vehicle a few inches forward.
To us, it seems as though the people who filmed this video would have had time to get out of their vehicle and warn the semi-truck driver they were about to back into an expensive and relatively new SUV. They decided it would be better to film the driver backing into the vehicle for the internet, though, which isn’t very surprising in this day and age of social media clout. We just hope the Tahoe driver had good insurance and that the semi-truck driver didn’t get in any trouble for this preventable error.
Check out the video embedded just below. We must warn you, though, the high-volume reaction of the people in the filmer’s car is a bit much, so we’d suggest keeping the volume low after hitting play.
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Just imagine how popular you will be if you catch a few seconds when a police officer shoots someone and then you can stream your city going up in flames.Anyone can be a social media star.
similar event happened to my son and his car, a Penske rental box truck backed into a new Infinity sedan parked on a street in Saratoga Springs, NY, onlookers saw it while truck drove off never to be found, $8k in damage
She screams “you’re an idiot”…I’m thinking there are two idiots here and it’s the people filming. Did you think to at least hit your horn?
The semi driver is probably just in over his head but should have known better.
Well said, I drive a truck in the north side of Chicago sometimes in residential areas and you don’t know how wide it’s gonna be when you turn down a street. If someone was lazy on getting over to the curb when they parked. It get real tight real fast. I offend will look on google maps to see if it best to park further away an dolly the delivery a half block rather then chance it. Other driver have got fired for hit and runs and claim they never felt the impact with there big trucks.
If you back into someone, it’s your fault. Full stop.
And if all you do is sit and hope for the worse so you can catch it on video, then you’re an a-hole.
Sad. The fact that our society today is more concerned about getting the “video” than assisting someone. I’m sure this truck driver didn’t do this on purpose, so having one of these onlookers take action likely would have saved the truck driver and Tahoe owner some grief. Nope, at least they got the video to upload for a few likes.
truck drivers do a lot of hit and runs,they do not want to get tickets,piss tested or fired.
Several months ago I scraped the paint on the bottom of the front bumper of my Cadillac CTS. I’m available for GM Authority to interview me when they’re ready to do an article. 🙂
The reality of a nice car in the city. If it isn’t hit it will be stolen. Wait til there are only evs parked all over trying to figure out where to plug in. You’re lucky if you can park on your block never mind in front of your dwelling.
The reality of a nice car in NYC. If it isn’t smashed it will be stolen. Waiting for the day when everyone there will try to plug in their ev. You’re lucky if you can park in your block never mind in front of your multi family dwelling. Good luck with that.
Sad for the SUV owner. Its a local driver city truck (day cab, no sleeper) he should no better. I run NYC twice a week in a sleeper truck & never got jammed up like that. Best part is the company, UNFI. Any truck driver that has delivered to UNFI knows, one of the worst in unload times. So F’m (UNFI, That is)
Why the people who filming not sounding their horn to warn the trucker?
Dat’s what I said but they deleted my comment. All I added was, waht is wrong with people nowadaze? Don’t tell me this site is another sissy site. Anymore of this and I’m outta here…..
Nobody bothers to toot their horn? What’s wrong with people nowadaze?