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A Hummer takes revenge on a Honda for brake-checking
November 1, 2019
When a Honda brake-checked a Hummer on a highway near Waterbury, Connecticut, the driver of the wronged vehicle didnt take it in stride. Watch as the Humvee hits the smaller cars bumper several times, sending the two screeching onto the shoulder.
https://nypost.com/video/a-hummer-takes-revenge-on-a-honda-for-brake-checking/
this gives the Hummer good evidence that the Honda caused the accident!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Timewas
(2,195 posts)That it is illegal most places to brake that suddenly without a reason..
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Hummer in left lane wasnt passing semi fast enough. Honda idiot blows by in right lane and swerves over to teach Hummer a lesson
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)This tape will be used as evidence for the Hummer driver.
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)It's automatically the Hummers fault regardless
dware
(12,423 posts)JesterCS
(1,827 posts)I'm sure the Honda will get fined too, but so will the hummer
dware
(12,423 posts)The Hummer didn't even have time to react.
I'll bet if the driver of the Hummer took it to court with the video showing what the driver of the Honda did, the ticket would be dismissed, as it should be.
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)But yeah it's kind of a silly law. Especially in extenuating circumstances such as this.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)The Hummer driver had clear distance until the idiot in the Honda swerved in front on the truck and slammed on their brakes in front of them.
Whiskeytide
(4,462 posts)... only establish a general presumption of fault. It is rebuttable by evidence of the other driver brake checking. I think the Hummer is in good shape here legally.
Except - the trucker apparently didnt stop and provide the video to LEOs or the Hummer driver. . It would have been nice if he/she had. Otherwise its Honda said - Hummer said.
ExciteBike66
(2,372 posts)it is clear that the Hummer stops braking and hits the Honda again two or three times, all of which were intentional.
Both drivers were road raging and this video was just the end of it, I guess.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)on the Interstate highways, I just use the technique of adjusting the cruise control speed downward 1 mph at a time until they get the message to go around me.
dware
(12,423 posts)if someone is riding our tail end, instead of speeding up, we gradually slow down until the tail gaiter goes around us.
That idiot in the Honda is lucky they didn't cause a bigger accident.
Disaffected
(4,559 posts)the more you slow down, the closer they get - usually some dick in a pickup or SUV bearing down on my VW Golf even if I'm going at or over the speed limit. There is a main drag in my burg which is a sight to behold sometimes - the inside lane often looks like something out of NASCAR.
I do hate tailgaters....
sammythecat
(3,568 posts)You might get a little vicarious satisfaction from this scene: [link:
|Disaffected
(4,559 posts)Thanks
Maybe they should show that clip at driver ed courses.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)lastlib
(23,271 posts)"Test your brakes free--come closer."
"I brake for tailgaters."
The bumper stickers I'd like to have.
I don't have any bumper stickers but either of those would go on my car.
Surely something like that must be available somewhere:
https://www.cafepress.ca/+tailgating+bumper-stickers
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)I dont have to say anything nice about the hummer driver to say the honda driver is an idiot.
I just think hummer vehicles are not good at anything.
ExciteBike66
(2,372 posts)HelpImSurrounded
(441 posts)The Honda either hit the brakes because he needed to get back down to the speed limit (unlikely) or he had started to hydroplane and panicked (more likely).
Either way, that Honda is an idiot.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Why would you cut from the grammie lane to the hammer lane to slam on the brakes?
Sounds like a lawsuit vampire.
Your classic swoop and squat.
ripcord
(5,497 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts).
This even might include someone who is tailgating a car.
The brake checker is the at fault driver--especially if caught on video.
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GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I am a fast driver and drive a pretty big truck. I cant imagine braking that hard with nothing in front of me. But I dont allow other drivers to piss me off. No matter what.
There was definable something going on we did not see. Perhaps the hummer driver was a dick. But this is all on the car driver. He swerved from the slow lane across a lane of traffic and the locked it up in the fast lane for no reason except pissing off the hummer driver. Hard enough to make his tires smoke. No excuse.
Hope he has deep pockets.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)should be fined for driving a hummer.
bottomofthehill
(8,343 posts)Boston is bad but New York is the worst. The civic driver is lucky he did not cause a chain reaction accident at that speed. What an asshat!