Driving at night can be scary, and reduced visibility makes it even more so. That said, Reddit user EntropyIsUndefeated shared dashcam footage of himself driving down a highway in Georgia when a DOT worker suddenly pulled out in front of him. In a tense moment, Entropy swerved right, maneuvered around the worker’s truck, and took off before yelling in frustration.
The r/dashcams post shows OP going down on the two middle lanes when he came upon a coned-off zone on the left. He stuck to his side, maintaining predictability. He couldn’t have predicted that a pickup truck would jut out in front of him on a busy highway, at night, no less. Still, the responses from other Redditors in the comments might not have been as supportive as he expected.
Reddit Blamed OP for Almost Causing an Accident with Construction Worker
The top-upvoted comment criticized how Entropy was driving, blaming him for the near-miss collision. “Obviously that was dangerous but why are you driving so fast in that lane seeing they are doing work…. With a huge flashing sign pointing to get right? And then gets right back over and floors it. Smh,” remarked the Redditor. “I’d be embarrassed posting myself driving like this,” another wrote in agreement.
Entropy engaged with the feedback in the comments, defending himself with claims that he had little choice or space to do anything else besides barely swerve around the truck. “There was a car right behind me, man. I can’t just move to the other lane at will,” he protested. Unfortuntately for him, over 200 people disagreed with downvotes.
Other Redditors didn’t back down and doubled down on their critique of OP’s driving, arguing that he should have moved over or slowed down when he saw the construction zone come up. His response was that the coned zone appeared too quickly for him to properly react. “I had no choice to swerve into the other lane because of the truck that would have killed me if I ran into it straight on.”
As for why he sped up after dodging the truck, his intense, cursing exhale could be proof that he was quite stressed. And as one commenter thoughtfully put it, “Sure, OP could’ve done some things a bit better, but you morality warriors don’t know how to remember that adrenaline kind of messes with your logical thinking.” After all, a construction worker pulling out onto the highway in the dark like that is more than questionable.
