If you’re not going to check your mirrors to make sure another driver isn’t in the process of overtaking you while you’re getting ready to switch lanes, then perhaps you were never meant to take the wheel in the first place.
Case at hand, the individual behind the wheel of that black VW Polo who failed to see the fast-approaching BMW, which was already using the fast lane and whose driver never even got the chance to react. Should we preemptively slow down while approaching slower vehicles on the highway? Perhaps, but that’s an issue for another day.
We have seen similar accidents, where the two drivers were already involved in some type of road bickering, or even full blown road rage, but this doesn’t seem to be that, at least not from this angle. The surveillance camera captures the impact and the split second before, nothing else.
What this looks like is a classic case of careless driving, one person’s costly mistake that resulted in another car getting hit. Where the Polo was pinned between the pole and the BMW, the latter was also pinned, underneath the V-Dub.
The only good news is that everybody involved was unharmed, at least according to the video’s description which we hope is accurate.