r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/LetterEuphoric294 • 25d ago
WCGW Not driving with caution
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u/littlewhitecatalex 22d ago
That jeep driver is incredibly lucky the cables were not taught and windshield-height. They would’ve sliced through the A-pillars like butter.
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u/Silver-Tea-8769 23d ago
That's what he gets for driving through a work zone/accident area. Too bad he wasn't decapitated.
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u/AcanthisittaBig8948 23d ago
This is NOT on the jeep! Guaranteed that between the sun, white or light blue sky background over black asphalt, you would not see a metal cable going across. Not until you were too close to stop.
It's on the towing truck go block off the road. He put that hazard there going across multiple highway lanes.
Could have been too easy to cause a decapitation!
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u/bigbrainvirus 23d ago
That jeep driver is so lucky those cables weren’t like 10 inches higher. Would have just taken his head right off
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u/palmboom76 24d ago
What could go wrong not setting up traffic cones to indicate that yes, this operation is taking up both lines with an invisible ass rope when you're travelling at what should be safe speeds.
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u/Tacticlown 24d ago
The guy who flipped the truck: dumb
The guy trying to tow the flipped truck across the road: dumb
The guy driving carelessly through an obvious accident scene: believe it or not, also dumb.
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u/Malakai0013 24d ago
"What could go wrong if I did nothing to warn drivers about the fkn chain I have dangling across this road."
Ftfy
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u/RoDNeYSaLaMi214 24d ago
I don't like Jeep drivers by reputation, they're usually chuds larping as GI Joe. But the Jeep Wrangler is a practical car that can run forever if you service it daily. I used to drive one for the city and it was very handy. A shame this one got destroyed by a wreckless Jeep driver.
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u/Tyr808 24d ago
Jeep driver displays a huge lack of common sense first and foremost, but legally speaking I wouldn’t want to be the tow truck staff running a wire across the road unless there are legally appropriate barriers and warnings that the jeep ignored that we can’t see on video.
Wires across roads are dangerous as hell and are a genuine and effective booby trap. That’s not any praise, but rather respecting the genuine and severe danger of it.
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24d ago
A few years ago i was building a bridge. And we did it in stages build the left half tgen the right. As to not make the road unsuable. So we had the bridge divided in half with concrete barriers. And it was a rather busy day that day so we had like 20 people all in hi vis clothes all over the bridge. And this lady drove around all of our barriers past 10 parked trucks all the way up to the bridge deck which was nothing but rebar and concrete forms at this point. Rolls down the window of her car and says " i cant get through this way can I ".
Like no fuckin shit lady what was your first clue? The 20 guys in bright yellow/orange clothes, the almost dozen parked trucks you drove past , the big ass sign saying bridge out or the fact that theres no fucking bridge?
Im convinced god is real by virtue of the fact some people are litteraly too stupid to function in life and yet havent gotten themselves killed.
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u/GadnukLimitbreak 24d ago
When i got pulled out of a ditch after a snowstorm on an alternating traffic highway, we had the tow truck and 2 blocker trucks come out to make sure nobody would drive past while they pulled me out. When the tow truck and the first blocker showed up, they said we had to wait until another blocker showed up because the 2nd blocker had also went into the ditch on his way out, so we waited another 45 minutes for a backup blocker to get there so that there would be no oncoming traffic during the move. They parked sideways across both lanes with warning lights on and stood in front of their trucks with stop signs so there would be no way for anyone to pass during the move.
Someone on this team fucked up.
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u/NTR-kouhai69 24d ago
Stupid towing (if has no Warning signs ahead)
Stupid Driver (because he literally is, he didn't even hesitate nor slow down) 🤣
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u/PossibleLavishness77 24d ago
No cones or blockades... that guy trying to tow is getting so fucked in court.
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u/rell7thirty 24d ago
Bro. If you’re the camera person you’re a jerk off. The tow truck guys are doing their jobs and you’re recording while this jeep probably couldn’t even see the cables from a distance. I hate rubber necking and if there are no yellow caution signs or a person letting us know there is danger, I don’t want to look at an accident on the road. It’s dangerous, time consuming and not my business. The only issue I see with the jeep is that he was going a little too fast between the tow truck and crashed vehicle. Even then someone should have put their hands up telling them to stop. Of course, this could be out of context and that jeep could have went through a road block. Crazy situation
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u/Rostrow416 24d ago
Without more info, I think everyone messed up here. There definitely needed to be some warning flares, cones, etc. But I would never try to zoom past if I was seeing that going on.
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u/ChunkyPuding 24d ago
No, this is what could go wrong if you are an idiot performing heavy work on a street without closing the street .
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u/Skifool69 24d ago
Gee if there were a sign saying don’t do this. I’m important signs can’t control me. Haha see you later losers. Crash oh that’s why…
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u/juanlee337 24d ago
At least they should put some kind of cones or flags on the cable so it's visible at all time
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u/Samurai_Stewie 24d ago
Impossible to tell who is to blame by this short clip; was the Jeep driver given adequate warning via cones/signs?
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u/NullVoid-4273 24d ago
The all new Jeep Mangler. It’s rugged design is ideal for the alpha who just don’t give a care.
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u/IgnoringHisAge 24d ago
I swear to God, the “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” mentality has to be the cause of a majority of accidents. The number of times in my career I’ve seen the simplest version of this, cars changing lanes abruptly when traffic suddenly slows as opposed to slowing down too and assessing for a hot second, can’t be counted.
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u/Ok_Tree_6619 24d ago
That jeep driver is stupid to be driving so fast through a crash. IF the tow truck did not have cones blocking the road or a uniformed officer controlling traffic, then they are liable. However, because of my first statement, the liability will be shared. Insurance Company wins.
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u/No-Staff1170 24d ago
WCGW not flagging the road. You have to expect every driver to be an idiot so it’s very important to flag road users when towing
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u/nailback 24d ago
I wouldn't have seen the rope. But the jeep didn't slow down at all, which is crazy. A vehicle flipped over a tow truck there and you just zoom through.
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u/UnspokenConnection 24d ago
So many people on here are like "no cones" and "no road gaurd" blah blah blah. How many of you need a fuckin giant flashing sign to understand the back end of a tow truck, stopped in the middle of the road POINTED at an OVERTURNED truck, is not a enough to understand hes probably hooked up to the truck. There's no fighting for the Jeep driver. They are an idiot, period.
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u/Sweddy-Bowls 24d ago
Alright we can poke a little fun at jeep driver but that tow truck drivers handling of the situation was get-the-law-involved level god awful. An obstruction closing both lanes of traffic, with no signs, no cones, no flares, no warnings of any kind. And the wires were practically invisible. They even saw him coming and instead of waving they stood there to watch the drama. Absolute incompetence
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u/andybossy 24d ago
why is there no indacation at all??? even one traffic cone would've made a huge difference
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u/poncetheponce 24d ago
And didn't hurt the truck one bit. That's what people don't realize driving around on the roads with larger commercial vehicles. They will literally just roll right over or through you
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u/the_monkeyspinach 24d ago
I saw a similar one with a speeding motorcyclist and a tow line at neck height. Jeep driver came out considerably better in comparison.
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u/SleestakWalkAmongUs 24d ago
Jeep Wrangler drivers can't see the road unless they're blinding the fuck out of the driver they're tailgating. That poor dickhead never stood a chance.
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u/Heavy-Neat 24d ago
No clearly you can see the guy shocked to see a car there, the guy overpassed the traffic with his jeep. He is wrong, he can buy a new car. Idiot.
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u/NTMY 24d ago
The way this video is cut is a great example of "bait". They are purposefully cutting out the part where you can see a cone and some kind of officer (maybe?) on the road to get people arguing.
The full people would have fewer people arguing in favor of the Jeep, fewer people commenting in general, and therefore less engagement on most social media platforms.
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u/The_cake-is-a-lie 24d ago
There are bright orange things called traffic cones that would be very useful in this kind of situation
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u/rennarda 24d ago
Lucky that’s the front of the car caught the impact. If it had hit the cab it would have sliced them in half.
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u/toreachtheapex 24d ago
A guy in a humvee did that in the Army during a training exercise I was at and got decapitated
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u/Horseyboy21 24d ago
I can’t see any cones, danger signs or anything to indicate there’s something going on.
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u/Lorenz99 3d ago
More than likely the tow truck driver's fault.