'He hits the Aston Martin in front of him — hard': 20+ Drivers who got instant karma

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 13, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

Let's read about some heartwarming stories of instant karma doled out to the worst drivers on the road. I'm sure you know the type, because the roads are full of crazy drivers. Some people love to tailgate, which is just baffling. What do they think is going to happen if that person they're tailgating slams on the breaks? Why are they so insistent on getting to their destination 2 minutes sooner that they're willing to make the road less safe? 

The crazy drivers of the world aren't considering the other drivers when they're swerving down the highway at 90 miles per hour. They've decided they want to go fast, and everyone else needs to get out of their way ASAP. Others seem to delight in bothering other drivers by honking at them, revving, or taunting them. They're messing with strangers, though. It could be anyone in that car they're mocking… even a police officer. They're taking a bet that the driver isn't equally as crazy as they are. Check out these excellent stories about instant karma on the road by scrolling below! 

Next, read about the ultra-petty reasons people got fired, like one person who made a computer backup, and was fired for insubordination. 

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  • 02
    Some lady rolled down her window, yelled obscenities at me, flipped me off, then crashed into a pole going 40mph. What instant karma in driving have you guys had?
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  • 03
    So a bit ago I was driving down the road and I needed to get into the left turn lane two lanes over - mind you, I still had around a mile, so I didn't feel that worried about merging. I put on my blinker, and waited for an opportunity. Unfortunately, a woman in an SUV decided that she didn't want me to get in her lane. When I sped up, she stuck in my blind spot. When I slowed down, she did as well. Eventually, approaching the light, I cut her
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    off to get in the turn lane. She proceeded to roll down her window, turn to me, start yelling what I imagine were obscenities, and flip me off. She then went through the red light and, to avoid a car, turned into a poll, totaling her car.
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    I felt awful of course, so I turned on my hazard lights and hopped out to make sure she was alright. Amazingly, she was alright.... and proceeded to tell the police 15 minutes later I forced her off the road. Considering she ran a red light however, I had a couple witnesses who had also stopped to help on my side (my state does not allow cameras on traffic lights). They all confirmed my assertion. When I was talking to the first responding officer, he
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  • 06
    said she could charged with filing a false report, reckless driving, destruction of property etc. TL;DR Lady played chicken - against me on a major roadway, flips me off, and crashes her car after running red light. I get out to help her and she accuses me of being the cause of the accident. Other witnesses confirm otherwise.
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    LOOKITSADAM If i had a dollar for every time some idiot passes me at 90+ mph and ends up pulled over 2 miles down the highway I'd have 8 dollars
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    khrak Had an riding my in a hummer at the speed limit, down a steep, snowy hill, in the right lane, in the middle of winter, ~20-30 seconds away from a light that clearly had less than 15 seconds left before turning. After about 5 seconds of being 2 feet from my bumper, he decides to change lanes and floor it in
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    an attempt to cover the last 20 seconds of ground in the 10 seconds left. About 200 feet short of the intersection the light turns red and the moron finally decides it would be a good time to start slowing down. He slid through the red light, clipped the rear end of a tractor trailer, and took out the traffic light at the far end of the intersection.
    via u/khrak
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    For bonus marks, it turned out there was a cop a few hundred feet behind us, and, being well uphill of us, had a nice clear view of the idiot weaving through traffic and accelerating to nearly twice the speed limit towards a light they could not possibly make.
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    [deleted] I was pulling out of a parallel parking spot in front of a red light (20 feet ahead) with cars stopped ahead and behind me. The car behind me waved me in (such a gentleman) but the BMW sports car behind him was in a hurry, so he speeds up and around the car in front cutting me off, all the while giving me the cockiest look like "haha you're a chump",
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    because he managed to get one. car. length. ahead. While he is sneering, he hits the Aston Martin in front of him – hard. I was half - overwhelmed, half d__ng of laughter. Justice like that is truly rare. - TL;DR car cuts me off in a douchey, obnoxious way, rear ends an expensive car in the process
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    MrDuck There is a busy road through town where I live. It's normally two lanes but over the winter the right lane was shut and the speed limit was reduced to 15 Mph while they laid new sewer pipe. I was driving the posted speed limit when a lady in a BMW gets behind me and starts waving her arms and flashing her lights. When we
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  • 14
    got out of the roadworks she flipped me off and stepped on the gas accelerating to 45-55 mph. She was still accelerating when she passed the cop parked in front of the local elementary school. It was a school day so I think that ticket was a large one.
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    DoctorWhoToYou The same thing happened to me basically. I was driving down a 5 lane road (two lanes each side and a turning lane) doing 40 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone. I usually stick close to the speed limit because this was a major road used a lot and the cops would patrol it.
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    I was doing 40 and getting tailgated by this dude in a dodge neon. I drive a four wheel drive F-150. At one point he was so close to me, i could only see the roof of his car in my rear-view mirror over my tailgate. My truck really isn't that tall, he was just really close. I just held my speed at 40. Didn't brake check him, just let him sit there. I could see he was getting |
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  • 17
    didn't want to slow down because he was so close. The other lane was clear for 300 to 400 yards, I would have happily let him pass me, I just didn't want him to be behind me anymore. Finally he whips into the curb lane, it ended up being a dressed up neon, with a wing on the back and the big mufflers that make a lot of noise. He pulled up next to me, stared straight at me
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  • 18
    taking his eyes off the road, screamed " !" and then gunned the engine. Chances are if he had taken a second to actually look at the road, he would have noticed the parked delivery truck in front of him, as he gunned his engine, he basically slammed right into the back of a delivery truck. Me, being the I am, broke out into laughter, then
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    pulled over and walked back to see if he was okay. The neon had tucked itself underneath the delivery truck, peeling back the hood and mangling the out of the front clip. The delivery truck driver saw everything, as did the people further behind me. When the cops showed up (the delivery truck driver called them) he tried to
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  • 20
    insist that I ran him into the truck. Thankfully some people came to my rescue. Even the cops didn't believe his story. After I talked to the cops, i was free to leave. As I was leaving they were giving him a field sobriety test. I am not sure what happened to him.
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    [deleted] Some snotty high was behind me in a car once, beeping and flashing her lights, apparently complaining that I was going too slow. As soon as the road widened to two lanes, she gunned it and went around me, flipping me off as she went past, because apparently I drove the speed limit just to vex her.
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  • 22
    About thirty seconds later I saw her car pulled over by a cop IN AN ACTIVE SCHOOL ZONE. She was out of the car being handcuffed. (they only arrest if youve been doing an excessively high rate of speed, but in a school zone it doesnt take much) She saw me as I went by going 20 mph... I blew her a kiss.
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    usernameismyus... I'm driving down a main road in my town at about 2AM. I take the route every day so I know there are cops ahead, so I'm driving about 5 below the limit. Some cockrag decides to blow by me, crossing into oncoming traffic and almost hits an oncoming car. He swerved back as quickly as possible nearly clipping my front
    via u/usernameismyusername
  • 24
    bumper. I look in my rear view and see lights go on, idiot almost hit a cop. He never decides to slow down at all, speeds up and bam, out of a parking lot a cop pulls out in front of him and he t-bones the cruiser. Karma at it's finest.
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    gutoandreollo Driving my dad old trail jeep back from a BBQ one night, an old 1965 Willys, on a back road, doing about 35 MPH.. Now, we had this jeep as a kind of rally support vehicle, lights all over the place, extra battery and everything.. It's about 4 AM, nobody in front or behind us, and then all of a sudden, out of
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  • 26
    nowhere from behind us, comes a whatever sports car... I immediately switch to the right lane, giving him ample space to pass me.. Instead of taking the offer, the gets behind me and starts honking and flashing his high beams.. This goes on for about a minute, while I try to figure out what exactly is he complaining about, 'till I figured out he was really just trying to
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  • 27
    mess up with me... By then, my dad is already half- awake, when I instruct my GF to open the glove compartment, flip the four top switches and the one on the left. She asks me about it, and I just tell her to do it and see.. She starts flipping them, and just as my dad yells from the back seat "don't do it!", she flips the last one.. All of the lights around the center column,
    via u/gutoandreollo
  • 28
    (6 on top, 4 each side), plus four high beams on the rear bumper, all light up like a thousand suns, right in front of this j's eyes.. He slams the breaks so hard his car immediately spins about 720 before regaining control and stopping.
    via u/gutoandreollo
  • 29
    She flips the lights off and away we go.. He just stood there behind us, half a mile or so, all the way until we got off the road, never again trying to pass us!
    via u/gutoandreollo
  • 30
    [deleted] Wow, good timing. Just got home 15 minutes ago from a 300 mile trip on my motorcycle. I love semi's, they are great on the road and I always help them out (flash my lights to let them in, make sure they can see me etc etc). So when I saw a I pulled up car being a next to them and made the "I'm watching you gesture."
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    The semi behind me honked in appreciation and not 5 minutes later the same car was refusing to let me pass. 2 trucks blocked her off and cleared a lane to let me pass. I can only assume the truck who had honked at me got on the radio and let everyone know to look out for his little buddy.
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    Conte I was driving on the highway in the fast lane beside a police car doing the "unofficial" speed limit of 120km/h, so naturally I was matching him. The car on the other side of the cop car was doing the same so traffic was pretty steady behind us as everyone usually does 130km/h on this particular stretch of highway. Suddenly a wild
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  • 33
    appeared in a Pontiac Sunfire, and proceeds to ride my for about 3 - 5 km, then decided to jump over into the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane and guns it. An HOV lane has specific spots where you can enter and exit, we had yet to reach one of those. Also the guy was solo in the car. I looked to my right and I just see the
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  • 34
    cop smile at me, nod, and flip on his lights and take off after the Couldn't help but smile all the way to work.
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  • 35
    t... One day I was driving down the road late at night and a car was riding my the whole way with their high beams on. Finally the guy driving passed me in a turn lane and sped off into the distance going at least 90. I could see him up ahead when we reached the end of the road (a de d end). I watched as his tail lights
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  • 36
    kept going straight and off the hill on the other side. Zero given, I kept on driving while he was climbing out of his wrecked car in a corn field Edit for clarification: "De d end" wasn't the correct term. It was a T intersection when the road we were on ended at the main highway. He went across the highway into a corn field.
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  • 37
    Imprezzed Particular stretch of busy highway, at night. Driving the g/f home and a Volvo SUV blows by us like we're standing still. I was already doing about 10 over. (km/h... NBD) as the Volvo disappears into the distance, I say to the g/f
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  • 38
    "wow...never any cops around when you need them, I guess." Imagine my surprise when the generic American SUV in front of me lights up like a red and blue Christmas tree. Officer takes the Volvo down. It was glorious.
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  • 39
    LBORBAH I was driving south on 1 684 NY morning rush about 4 years ago, anyone who knows this road knows that the average speed in the middle lane is 75-80 if you are going under 80 stay out of the left lane because some in a monster truck is going to ride your tail until you get out of the lane. This morning I was in the left doing around 70
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  • 40
    traffic was extremely heavy and all lanes were moving around the same speed, I was in the end of what I call a pod (bunch of cars all going the same speed so no one can really pass) I looked in my rear view and see a 2 seat BMW coming up on me real fast, within seconds he was 3 feet off my bumper leaning on his horn. I knew that slamming on my brake might give me satisfaction I
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  • 41
    did not relish the idea of a rear ender, so I just took my foot off the gas and started to coast, this enraged the even more and he pulled out from behind me cutting someone in the middle lane off and proceeded to cut me off and get in front, I knew he was going to slam his brakes on to teach me a lesson and had already prepared by starting to brake myself. He
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  • 42
    was half in my lane at about a 30 degree angle when he tromped on the brakes sending him and his car into a skid across all 3 lanes amazingly no one hit him but when he went off the right shoulder he rolled the beemer, I witnessed this in my rear view.I went to the next exit and did a u turn and got to the accident scene a NY state trooper was already there, the
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  • 43
    moron was sitting in the grass next to his wrecked car, I told the trooper the story as to what happened and he said they would call if they needed to. I never heard anything from them.
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  • 44
    C... After work one day I was going down the road on my way home and there was a Dodge Charger riding my . My vehicle of choice that day was my Ram 1500. As I was going down the road he proceeded to tailgate me so badly that I could barely see the top of his windshield so I gave him
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    a nice friendly brake check. What's he do after that? Gets closer. So I then proceeded to take my foot off the gas, slowed down from the speed limit to roughly 10 miles an hour and then came to a complete stop when I got to where I needed to turn.
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    Once I made my granny turn, the guy in the Charger floored it, burning out in the process (fingers out the window and all) and got pulled over not even 30 feet away.
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