T-Boned Chevy Silverado At Intersection Almost Squashes Motorcycle: Video
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The thing about driving is that it can all go wrong really quickly. Higher speeds exacerbate that fact, and if you’re not careful, anyone in the vicinity of a collision can suddenly find themselves involved in the action. Such is the case for the motorcyclist in the following viral video, who almost had a close encounter with a Chevy Silverado pickup truck.
In the video, captured from the helmet perspective of a motorcyclist stopped at a traffic light, we see a white Chevy Silverado pickup truck attempting a left-hand turn. The intersection appears to be a four-way stoplight, and the pickup truck cautiously navigates through the crossing.
However, the Silverado’s progress is interrupted by a sudden appearance of a black Mercedes-Benz that darts into frame from the left side of the screen.
The Mercedes driver hits the brakes but doesn’t stop in time, striking the rear of the Chevy Silverado. The force of the collision tips the Silverado onto two wheels, throwing it off balance and sending it careening directly towards the stationary motorcyclist. For a tense moment, the pickup looks as though it will topple and crash into the rider, but it ultimately stabilizes, landing back onto all four wheels and coming to a halt.
In the immediate aftermath, the motorcyclist quickly rushes over to the black Mercedes to ensure the driver’s safety. The driver of the Mercedes, perhaps a bit shaken but apparently unharmed, steps out of the vehicle. Moments later, the Silverado driver also approaches, and the two drivers exchange words as they try to make sense of the incident.
T-bone accidents, like the one depicted in this video, can result in serious injuries or worse. Fortunately, in this instance, it appears that no significant harm came to anyone involved, although the vehicles involved are pretty banged up.
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It would be great to learn the details. But I’ll bet it all the younger guy in the MB was going too fast and distracted by a screen or his phone.
Big or small. In the hand or wall to wall. Screens are a huge distraction to all drivers.
Yes and GM is actively moving more and more controls to the dash screen creating more distractions for drivers. We need to keep knobs and switches they are safer.
You are faulting the car because the guy’s young? As someone who’s older than the guy driving the truck, that’s pathetic, he turned left in front of the car.
He did say it was a 4 way stop light
Considering the MB flew by a car stopped at the light I’m going to assume the MB ran a red light.
Left turn green arrow. Everything else was red.
If you look all the traffic is stopping at the light and the truck made his left turn and the car never stopped at the light which it looks like the truck had a turn arrow and proceeded his left turn and got t boned!!
After getting my motorcycle license, seeing videos like this, and getting treated like the redhead bastard illegitimate love child everytime I walked into a Harley Davidson dealer, I decided bikes weren’t my thing.
where is the video.
I do not see it the video at all.
I is not there.
MB driver still had his phone in his hand when he got out the car then he puts it in his pocket real quick so you know he must have been using it when he speed through the intersection not paying attention.
Old af
To be honest, in most states, whoever enters the intersection first has the right of way. If a vehicle is blocking your path through an intersection, you are supposed to yield till they clear….and yes, it looks like the Mercedes may have run a light and yes it appears he may have been on his phone, but more evidence is required other than the court of Social Media’s opinion. Be well everyone, be safe.
If you listen to the audio of the younger mb driver he says I was going to make it, it was still yellow. Seems to me the light turned yellow and the mb gunned it while the chevy assumed he would stop. This accident is both drivers faults but mostly caused by the mb.