‘I saw red’: Reckless truck driver nearly collides with a family's car, pushing them off the highway, bystander follows driver home and reports him

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Oct 8, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

Unfortunately, we've all encountered an extremely reckless driver at least once. While there is a lot wrong with people like that, the worst of it is that they never seem to comprehend that when they refuse to pay attention to the road around them, they are endangering not only themselves, but everyone around them. If you don't care about your own safety, that is on you, but once you involve other people, you have a responsibility you simply cannot ignore.

When I am on the road, it feels me with road rage to encounter reckless drivers, which is why I enjoyed reading the petty revenge story on Reddit, in which a driver got their payback on an entitled truck driver who nearly caused a family car to crash, which in result almost made OP (original poster) crash themselves. After they regained control of their car, OP decided to follow the truck driver and get their information, which led them to report the driver to the police.

Keep scrolling to read the full story. After you are done, click here for a story of an entitled Airbnb host and their unreasonable demands.

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    I had to chase down and report
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    I was coming home from work one day in my s box. I was on a sparsely used rural 2-lane highway about 6 car lengths behind an F350-weightclass flatbed truck.
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    The truck slowly starts to drift into the other lane. "meep meep" an oncoming little blue minivan has to go onto the shoulder to avoid a head on collision, and they
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    overcompensate when getting back on the road and almost hit ME, who then had to make the same maneuver and almost go into the ditch to avoid a head on collision
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    I see red. The truck keeps going like nothing happened. I follow the truck a few miles until it pulls up to a driveway. I snap a picture of the license plate and company name, the driver absolutely glaring at me.
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    I called the real estate agent's number that was on the side of the truck and informed a lady that one of her drivers was driving erratically, possibly d nk. When I suggested her driver was under the
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    influence, she suggested in a very tone that he was probably just messing with his GPS or texting someone. "That wouldn't make that family any less d, would it? You know
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    what? I figured we could talk about this like adults but if you want to take that attitude with me we can involve the cops" and then I hung up on her and proptly reported the whole thing to the sheriff's.
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    I don't know if I had anything to do with it, but I never saw that work truck in that neighborhood again.
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    RegionRatHoosier • 1d ago 1d ago Edited 1d ago Oh, so he's not d. nk, just distracted. That makes it so much better
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    Petskin • 1d ago • In my neck of the woods both are just as behaviors, too. illegal
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    Proud-Cat-Mom-2021 • 19h ago • Yeah, tell that to the victims that are now pancaked on the pavement!
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    sqqueen2.1d ago Good for you, thank you! Enough people have d d or suffered horrible injuries in accidents caused by inattentive drivers.
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    CoderJoe1 • 1d ago Someone has to do God's work.
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    • _s1m0n_s3z 1d ago • I'm sure the sheriff's dept dutifully took a report, but without evidence, nothing will come of it.
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    Next-Firefighter4667 • 1d ago • Witness testimony would have been enough (I experienced a similar situation) but if the cops never got back to them to take his statement then they didn't do anything about it.
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    winkers 21h ago • My Asian family always says karma will correct bad behavior. I prefer OP's action- oriented approach. All that is required for evil to win is that good people do... yada yada.
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    • Outrageous-Thanks-47 18h ago • Just tell her you need her insurance info as you're concerned about possible damage your car took avoiding the accident. If she refuses that's an actual real reason to call it in.
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