A latest video of a street rage incident between a Honda Accord and a Ford F-150 Raptor is as high-quality an instance as any of why shedding your cool on the street is a foul thought.
The footage was shot on a dashcam (and smartphone) from a 3rd automobile on the Palisades Parkway. The one who posted the video claims that the Accord almost hit them earlier than the occasions you’ll be able to see under.
“This Accord almost sideswipes me, then decides to play hen with the Raptor nearly hitting him. I suppose that pisses the Raptor off and that’s when video begins,” they wrote within the video description.
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The 2 autos could be seen jockeying for place on the street, with the F-150 Raptor showing to consciously be getting within the Accord’s method. That, nevertheless, might have made the scenario worse.
Because the Ford blocks the Accord, the latter’s driver goes on the shoulder and tries to dodge round a Honda CR-V however manages to hit the pickup truck, inflicting the automobile to lose management. The Accord slides off the street and right into a cliffside inflicting it to flip, and it involves a cease on its roof. Fortuitously, the one who posted the video claims that the police advised them that the Accord’s driver was “OK” following the incident. That’s an instance of how shortly issues can go extraordinarily improper at freeway speeds.
It’s additionally an instance of why getting in folks’s method, even when they’re being an ass on the street, isn’t a good suggestion. Though the Accord is clearly the automobile at fault right here, the Ford, for my part, made the scenario worse by blocking it and put different street customers, just like the CR-V’s driver, liable to turning into swept up on this accident. All of which may have been averted, as the driving force of the POV automobile writes that their Waze indicated that there was a velocity lure down the street from this incident.