Dashcam footage has captured the moment a ute merges into the hood of another car on the mid-north coast of NSW, but opinions are split on who is at fault.
Dashcam Owners Australia shared the submitted footage, and even the popular page’s admin admitted they were torn.
“Normally we go into bat for most dashcam owners, but it’s fair game with the comments on this one …” they wrote on the post for the video, simply named “Entitled”.
In the video, two lanes merge into one, with a sign telling drivers to form one lane.
A woman driving a black Volkswagen Amarok in the left lane flicks on her indicator to merge as instructed, but as the lane starts to disappear, the car fitted with the dashcam, an Alfa Romeo 147 GTA, continues on their way.
Rather than slowing down to let the car in the merging lane in ahead of them, the Alfa driver speeds up instead.
According to data from the dashcam, their speed increases from 50km/h to 56km/h as the ute rapidly runs out of road.
The driver of the Amarok then turns to the driver, gesturing for them to let her in, before she eventually has to cut the dashcam driver off, clipping the front of their car.
“Oh my god,” the Alfa driver says incredulously.
The video has been viewed more than 230,000 times since being posted on Monday and commenters have had plenty to say about it.
By the letter of the law, the Alfa Romeo driver is technically in the right, but as the old adage goes you can be right and still dead.
Many of the commenters thought he should have just slowed down slightly to let the other driver in.
- News.com.au