Sometimes, even when you do everything right behind the wheel, unforeseen circumstances beyond your control can take you out. Dashcam video of a lifted Ford Super Duty smashing into a tractor trailer recently surfaced on social media, and while it’s easy to jump to conclusions, it appears that neither driver is entirely at fault.
The lifted Ford Super Duty swerves in front of the cammer seemingly out of nowhere. A close look reveals that something may have been wrong with the pickup before it shot across traffic, as one of its tires appears to be down, either due to an issue with the tire itself or perhaps the suspension. Either way, the pickup’s driver loses control and skids out of the lane and directly into the path of oncoming traffic.
The semi’s driver attempts to jerk the tractor trailer out of the way, but there’s nothing they can do, and the Ford Super Duty piles into the cab. Parts go flying and the Super Duty limps away, but both the pickup and the tractor trailer are out of frame, so the full extent of the damage isn’t visible.
The video’s caption reads, “Truck Driver’s Stupid Move Punished!” but it seems that a mechanical failure sent the Super Duty into the path of the pickup, not necessarily driver error.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time a Ford Super Duty has been the subject of a viral video. Another pickup took a ridiculous detour onto a school’s football field, although this one had been stolen and was being taken for a joyride. Someone else had the brilliant idea to trick their Ford F-450 into driving itself with BlueCruise, placing bean bags on the steering wheel to simulate the pressure of a driver’s hand to keep the system active. And who knows – maybe that’s what sent the above Ford Super Duty into oncoming traffic.
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This should have been labeled Ford driver loses control and swerved into ONCOMING truck. Not truck "clips" F-250. Likely the Ford driver was avoiding stopped traffic due to distracted driving and this is the result....
B-I-N-G-O!!!!!
I have a truck and live in Southwest Texas! Off of I-20 I get oil workers who believe they are bill bad @$$ because they can go 80 mph on a straight away in there company truck that's clipping along at 90 to 100 MPH.
Yet get off the interstate on a farm to market road they will drop down to 40 MPH in a 75 MPH zone. People just can't drive!
Our Society makes it easier to get a drives license then it is to get a Constitutional right like firearms.
Never has a vehicle that is well over 2,000 lbs traveling 80+/- MPH or less ever hurt anything or anyone right?
Something happened to the steering, probably tie rod ends, Left tire goes left nd right tire seems to be flopping to the right. just before the hit.
Or does not know how to drive and pulled in front of the vehicle filming?
I have noticed A LOT of truck drives believe they know how to drive but really they can't!
Like most people who own sports cars! We can go fast in the straight away but if a turn comes we need to drop 10-20 MPH!
Fact is majority of people don't know how to drive!
The driver did not pull out nice as slow with control of the vehicle. They pulled out in a rush and most likely to lazy to turn the steering wheel.
I'm not saying your wrong it could be the tire? To me it looks like they were lazy and attempted to pull out in front of the semi that was filming this so they were not stuck behind them. They did not turn the steering wheel enough.
Here is what I presume! The driver of the truck has a stop sign or did not have the right away! So they did not slow down for the turn and did not turn the steering wheel enough.
Yet I'm sure we can agree be it the wheel or the driver they were driving to fast for there vehicle or there skills!
Then why not be hitting the brakes? Right tire did that after the impact of driver side hitting truck.
100% driver error, the wheel is attached prior to the collision, going too fast, and locked up the tires trying to avoid the vehicles in front of him, he's lucky he didn't head on the semi. The impact ripped off the front suspension, that piece that rolled in front of the the next truck was a coil spring.
If truck was broken or flat tire how come no brake lights? Whoever wrote this is an idiot and can't watch video very well. And truck is lifted a little with bigger tires so that eliminates ford trucks being faulty just whoever installed kit. Learn a little before writing this mess.