The holidays can be a pretty awful time to be on the road. Heavy traffic, demanding schedules, slippery conditions, distracting kids in the back seat, intoxicated drivers – all factors that contribute to the general chaos that is holiday travel. However, even with all these issues, it’s important not to let the frustration get to you, as was the case for the impatient driver behind the wheel of the GMC Sierra featured in this brief video.
The video was recently posted to social media, and is only a few seconds long, opening with a GMC Sierra closely tailgating another motorist in the left lane. The conditions look to be pretty much ideal, with blue skies and plenty of visibility. Traffic also appears to be somewhat minimal, with very few vehicles on the road.
The video is shot from another motorist behind a trio of cars. The GMC Sierra driver is tailgating the car in the fast lane, but another motorist is in the right lane, preventing the GMC Sierra from passing. As we can see from the dash of the camera car, the vehicles are traveling around 60 mph. However, the driver in the pickup truck obviously wants to go faster, but rather than wait for a break between the two cars ahead of the pickup, the impatient driver instead elects to quickly juke over to the right-hand side of the two-lane highway in an attempt to pass on the shoulder.
Obviously, this isn’t a very smart move, but the driver in the GMC Sierra thinks they can get away with it. Unfortunately, they couldn’t be more wrong. After diving onto the shoulder, we see the GMC Sierra driver quickly attempt to move back into the lane. However, it doesn’t quite work out, and the pickup collides with the guardrail and ricochets into the adjacent motorist.
It’s unclear what happened to the GMC Sierra driver as a result of this little maneuver, but the truck looks like it suffered some pretty extensive damage, with bits of the body flying up in the air and the pickup leaning to one side, suggesting the suspension was torn up as a result of the collision.
Watch the video for yourself right here:
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IN the words of the great philosopher, Freddie Mercury, “Another one bites the dust.”
Hopefully they take the Sierra driver’s license away. It’s a privilege to drive and some aren’t worthy of that privilege. Some time on the bus will let them ponder on how to be smarter in life!
What a dumb@ss! Tore up a nice new truck, hope he got a ticket too. Also, in my free red state it is unlawful to block the left lane of a multi lane highway without yielding to faster traffic. You must move to the right regardless of your speed.
I live in Florida where where there is an identical law addressing “left laners” but it doesn’t do any good… and it’s definitely not being enforced. Growing up and learning to drive I was taught 3 rules; 1) NEVER drive in the left lane (only use for passing); 2) ALWAYS use your turn indicator when changing lanes; and 3) YIELD to incoming traffic. It all comes down to being a good human and a considerate driver.
Hmm, so Free Red States claim they’re tough on law but your examples suggest that’s not true.
I didn’t see him saying that anywhere in his comment. Nice try Mr. Prosecutor.
Cool. It’s the same in my free blue state.
Who cares about the truck. The innocent bystanders in the SUV are the ones that now have to be inconvenienced by the truck driver’s negligence.
Our state has the left lane law as well. Can’t ride in the left lane unless you are passing, then you must get back in the right lane. Nobody follows it…and the state police love to enforce it.
slower traffic is required to keep to the right no matter where you are
There’s always that one guy out there. Having said that, I can empathize with his frustration. So many drivers today are not thinking when behind the wheel. I’ve been in circumstances where a driver in the number 1 lane just paces the car that you think he’s trying to pass. Instead of accelerating and going around, they hover in the blind spot of the car beside them. That’s not a good situation either, but trying to pass on the shoulder isn’t the solution ever.
Dumb move by the driver in the passing lane not finishing his pass and stupid impatiences by the pickup driver trying pass on the shoulder due to frustration and anger !
The ones I find annoying are the ones that fly up your back end and hang there. You pull over to let them pass, and they just sit there, not passing, you, just pacing you in the lane you were in.
The limit can be 65, you are doing 75, and some lummox will still tailgate you.
Grizzly: I agree. The other thing they will do is come up fast on your tail, so I’ll move over just to watch them speed up to the next car, hit the brakes and then tail that car. Idiots.
That as well!
Then 20 miles along, they have gained maybe one mile on you.
Sometimes the road can be free of cars but there is always some idiot driving in the left lane. People,the left lane is for passing,keep the hell to the right
Perhaps another 15 seconds would have given GMC driver the gap he needed but impatience + inexperience prevail & now instead of few seconds he’s stuck on highway for hours for tow / police report.
Yes left lane for passing only like Germany / but we can never stop the human behavior of stupidity . DRIVE SAFELY !
The Sierra driver deserves everything that happened, I’m glad to see his Stupidity damaged his new truck, maybe he will learn to be a little more patient.
Previous comments are right on target. WHAT ABOUT THE DRIVER who is shooting video with a cell phone while driving at 60 mph. S/He did a good of keeping the action in frame so he must have taken eyes off the road. It’s ALL crazy. I get impatient in that situation, too.
Wonder if he got one of those units where steering wheels and brakes are “under constraint”??
GM has become a laughing stock.
I feel that too many people are texting while driving. Not making excuses, but the GMC driver may have been texting and drifted off the road. I see way too many drivers texting and not paying attention to the road.
What really tics me off is when you are at a stop in the left turn lane and you are the third car back, the green arrow comes on for the left turn, and the lead car in front of you is texting and sits through the green turn light. I usually learn on the horn, and just as the green arrow goes red, the led car makes the turn, leaving me to wait for the next green arrow depending on traffic flow.
In southwest Ohio, there are several new round-abouts, replacing intersections and traffic lights.
Too bad the jackass didn’t roll the truck!
This reminds me of one time many many years ago one night, I was coming back from Monterey Calif. just outside of Gilroy I had this car tailgating me and it was 2 lane highway that opened up to multi lanes there was this semi-truck in front of me and CHP car in front of him I went and passed both of them and merge over to the right lane but the jack ass behind didn’t see the CHP car as he went flying by us but guess who got pulled over and I bet he was guessing me out after that.
the meat head in the left lane should be shot.
Yep two meat heads and the stupidest one lost! 🙂