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Florida Man In Chevy Malibu Instigates Multi-Vehicle Wreck: Video

A motorist in Florida captured a multi-vehicle wreck they were involved in on their high definition dashcam earlier this month, putting the spotlight on the Chevy Malibu driver that caused the crash.

The video, which was posted to the ViralHog channel on YouTube this week, shows the motorist travelling at highway speed in the center lane of a three-lane highway in Sarasota, Florida. As they approach a line of traffic stopped in the right lane, a silver sixth-generation Chevy Malibu can be seen quickly merging into the stationary lane before changing their mind and hopping back into the middle lane. The motorist attempts to stop and swerve to avoid the slow-moving Chevy, but ends up clipping the vehicle’s left rear and going on two wheels before slamming back down and sliding into the grass median.

Here’s how the central crash victim described the scene:

“I was travelling on the highway in Sarasota, Florida. I had my 4K dashcam running. A car merged into the exit lane, then decided after going 5 mph, he would come back into my lane when I was going 70 mph. They struck the car at an angle, my car went airborne briefly, it almost flipped. After the impact, the car I hit then hit 2 more cars and spun around on the highway.”

We weren’t able to dig up any local Sarasota-area news reports on this wreck, so we can’t confirm if anyone was hurt or taken to hospital. The occupants of the Chevy Malibu can be seen emerging from the vehicle under their own power toward the end of the video, however, and the dashcammer didn’t mention any injuries in the video description.

Check out the clip embedded just below.

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  1. Car in gear, brain in neutral.

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  2. These sort of stories are basically (and sometime literally) ambulance chasing.

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  3. Florida Man does it again!!

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  4. Malibu clearly at fault, but the car from which the camera is being shot was overtaking the vehicle to his left. How fast was he going?

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    1. Looks like he hit his brakes about a half second too late as well.
      And could he have moved into the left lane?

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  5. Yea the malibu was at fault but why the heck was he going 70mph when you can clearly see traffic was getting slow and backed up??? Slow down man, use some common sense!

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  6. Two cars didn’t stop to see if anyone was hurt!

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  7. Robert, it’s a sad situation about stopping to help. Why? 1) Some innocent good samaritans get smashed into/hurt/killed when getting out on a highway to help. 2) Dozens of ambulance chasing lawyers. If you stop to help, and your name and or license plate is captured, even though you are not involved in the actual accident, there is a high probability that you’ll get subpoenaed at a time/place not of your choosing when a ‘victim’ tries to get a big settlement using one of these law firms and needs your testimony for their case. In Florida particularly they advertise on TV multiple times per hour to drum up business promising huge payoffs.

    If I see something bad happen, I judge the severity before I’d stop to help. Fire, major vehicle damage, a safe site to assist from are criteria. This accident did not meet this IMHO and I would have driven by.

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    1. There’s a 9/11 which happens every day in the US for the last 1.5 years and nobody cares…

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  8. DWW – Driving While Woke

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  9. If you see brake lights in all lanes in front of you, you should put your foot on the brake, slow down and don’t keep barreling along at 70 MPH. That’s how wrecks are avoided.

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