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Originally Posted by Smartcar
Just wondering. When I'm driving on a two lane highway and someone wants to go faster than me I just slow down so they can pass. I know there are people who react by going faster or otherwise try to prevent people from passing - I'm wondering what their motivations are. This is not specifically related to Johnny Gaudreau but if I were the guy at the front I would have slowed down instead of moving to the middle of the road to give space to Johnny and his brother on bicycles. Apparently the drunk guy thought the guy in front did it to prevent him from passing.
Obviously not excusing what he did, just wondering why the guy in front didn't just slow down and let him pass and why the drunk guy thought the car in front did it deliberately (according to the news). Is this common?
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I suspect the guy pulling into the middle didn’t shoulder check.
Based on the police release the sequence of events was the drunk guy pulls out to pass, the other guy pulls into the middle to safely pass the Gaudreuas, the drunk dives and passes on the the right shoulder. If this was the sequence of events one of the things that could have stopped this sequence was a shoulder check before moving over. The guy in the middle contributed to the accident. He’s not at fault but I bet his decisions will haunt him for a long time going through what he did and didn’t due to prevent the accident.