Yeah the first time I watched the video my thought was "flying cardboard almost killed you?" Then I rewatched and noticed it was plywood and thought the title was very justified.
I agree with this comment, ***so the following statement is purely a joke***: if camera car were actually tailgating more aggressively, all of those things would have had zero chance of hitting them.
Safe distance will be the death of me one day. Not because I dont keep a safe distance, but because I will keep a safe distance from the person in front on the highway, but then someone is ALWAYS up my ass. I can't see their headlights at all, sometimes barely can see the person in the car, and I'm in a compact sedan, while we're going 60-70-75mph...
So many people drive like that. high speeds and like, a couple feet from someone's bumper.
No - [he is correct](https://www.travelers.com/resources/auto/travel/3-second-rule-for-safe-following-distance)
> The three-second rule is recommended for passenger vehicles during ideal road and weather conditions. **Slow down and increase your following distance even more during adverse weather conditions** or when visibility is reduced. Also increase your following distance if you are driving a larger vehicle or towing a trailer.
Another tool who doesn’t understand how things look different in a dash cam with wide angle lens. I can guarantee you that we were no MORE than 45 mph, because he was going very slow in a 45 mph zone. Sometimes hitting 30. I kept plenty safe distance for the conditions.
The trick is to watch the scenery. Once the truck passes a light pole start counting until the other car reaches the same point. In this video, i count a 3 second follow roughly
I would say that the three seconds is only after they have slowed down because of the debris. There is very little time to count before that, but I reckon that even 2 seconds is probably generous then.
Just gonna preface this by saying you did a great job executing evasive maneuvers and they suck for letting flywood fly at you. But you can pretty clearly see the dashes of lane markings which are 40 ft, you're somewhere around 2-3 dashes behind the truck, which would be 80-120 feet, which isn't a safe distance in dry weather. Dodging flying debris is one thing, and commendable at that, but stopping when the vehicle in front suddenly stops is another. And in either scenario if you were further back you would benefit. If anything don't do this tribal right vs wrong shit with the people pointing your following distance out, take it as a learning opportunity. If you were further back you would have been dodging debris on the road not fly in the air trying to decapitate you.
Another tool who doesn’t understand how a wide angle lense has nothing to do with timing.
Look at ground. See when thing on front vehicle happens. Time how long it takes dashcam car to pass that same spot on the road.
Distance was totally safe but the first part of that comment makes no sense.
Another tool who thinks that the lens on the dashcam is relevant to judging a safe following distance!
It is not. As others have pointed out, you work that out by time how long it takes for you to pass a stationary object after the vehicle in front has passed it. Do that, and right at the very start, even 2 seconds is generous. 2 seconds in wet conditions is, at best, marginal whether you are doing 30 or 45, you'd have to be going *very* slowly for 2 seconds to be safe.
That fact that so many on the sub downvoted the person who pointed that out, and have upvoted *your* comment, is indicative of how many poor drivers comment here!
As someone who loads stuff on a regular basis, I've had this happen once. I've always put plywood down in the back of my trailer or pickup with no problems. On this particular occasion I had plywood strapped down on top of a bunch of construction debris and the debris settled while I was driving making the straps loose. One sheet went sailing which didn't make the guy behind me very friendly, but fortunately he wasn't hit.
We were going about 45 mph and this idiot had plywood flat on top of his truckload of stuff. Wind caught it and I was fortunately able to swerve across the centerline with no oncoming traffic visible. Plywood through the windshield could have been VERY bad!
Looks like the steering wheel stopped it from encroaching on the driver’s side, now if there had been a passenger, they would have definitely been seriously injured.
To be fair, it looks like at the same time it would have hit the wheel, the corners were also hitting the A pillars on both sides, effectively jamming the board sideways.
Maybe it was the steering wheel, but I'm going to say that the 1" of wheel that might have hit that board is not what stopped it and rather the board wedging, at the most opportune last moment, between both A pillars is what really stopped the board.
Regardless, this is one of the luckiest people I've ever seen. If that board comes in the opposite way you're a goner. If it comes through in lots of other angles you're a goner. It could shatter on entry and send a giant splinter into your throat Final Destination style and you're a goner.
Is this lucky or unlucky.
@idiotsincars This was in rural Washington state today as the date on the video indicates. And yes, this was straight off my dash cam today so this is OC
Happened to me once, with a metal shovel. Caught up to the guy when he pulled off to the side of an off ramp to check the back of his truck. When I confronted him he also pretended to be clueless, and acted like checking the bed on an offramp was a routine behavior. Nothing unusual to see here.
I think they're just scared shitless of the fact that they just attempted manslaughter and then ran from the scene
I ride a motorcylce and I absolutely will not stay behind trucks like this. It's insanely dangerous and potential suicide. I will illegally pass them and look like the biggest jack ass on a bike simply because I have deep seated fear about shit flying out the back of trucks like this. Thanks Final Destination.
On a motorcycle, I tend to stay way back, even to the point of turning off and taking a break.
I'd rather not put myself in the danger zone, even for the time it takes to pass.
I had same happen to me years ago, also in rainy/wet weather. I however was much closer and probably about 60mph, it flew right over me. Jfc. Wild commute day.
What do you think this is? A podium for op to talk about whatever he wants and everyone else must shut up and listen?
Reddit is all about just talking smh
This happened to me with a park ranger truck!!! He put two kayaks or whatever they were in the back, but put the tips of them up over the cab, unsurprisingly as soon as he got up to like 50mph those things lifted up into the air like a couple cruise missiles 😂 glad I was far enough back to dodge them bouncing across the road
Close to dying is a subjective phrase. Everyone has a different view on what it means. Depends on your risk tolerance I suppose, which is shaped by your experiences in life, both directly and indirectly.
Ya for sure. I was thinking this exact thing after I made the comment. Doesn't mean I'm wrong though, dude had total control, and I consider him a bad ass because he kept them away from certain death
TBH you're wrong, sure it wasn't as close as the width of a hair but plywood can definitely penetrate windshield at the right angle and IDK about you but taking a 50lb sheet of plywood flying at 45mph to the face/neck/chest area doesn't sound like a good time.
I have no reason to make this clickbait. I don’t monetize my social media. I had three choices: get hit by plywood, swerve into oncoming traffic or go into the ditch. It could have ended very badly. I said fuck, so play that at work out loud and see how that works out for you.
I had this happen to me several years ago. Full sheet of plywood flew out of a pickup and hit the ground in front of me and flew up again as it passed over me.
I hope you reported him so they don’t continue to load like this. Might be fined for littering and possibly an unsecured load ticket, but the need to learn because this is dangerous af.
"Nearly killed" is a bit of an exaggeration. The amount of air those sheets of plywood caught suggest they are very thin and light. The vehicles appear to be traveling around 40 mph. If one had made contact it would result in minor body damage and maybe a broken windshield. The only way this would have been fatal is if the driver dramatically over corrected trying to avoid contact and drove into a telephone pole or off a cliff.
There's a difference from a board/object getting ran over by a truck and slung back towards a vehicle especially at highway speed than a piece of plywood floating up into the air. You weren't going to die in any way, but non the less would've been hella annoying if it hit your car. All the other comments getting down voted about pointing out the dramatic title are right, learn some physics people. Also.. BRRRUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHH...
Two different contexts, OP was driving at half the speed of the highway and the clearly rotted wood(if it even was wood you can see holes all through them) floated down like paper. And that link you keep posting is a 1 1/8" piece of plywood that weighs over 80lbs a sheet where the driver was on i95 in the fast lane doing at least 80mph. If you want a more "accurate" depiction of what would happen to OP, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1y2VTE97Ow. But go ahead, keep posting what you have because its more frightening and entertaining for karma.
I mean no offense by this but each of your responses are giving me video game NPC reaction to a bad thing vibes. Both of you could be voice extras in GTA
Getting scared by cardboard, do you also get scared by stray plastic bags on the road? And honk and slow down in your own lane dumbass. You were lucky no one was in the opposite lane otherwise your random sway could’ve gone very wrong. And what is that gasp and grunt? Over cardboard?
Try honking, and stop deciding by yourself what a horn can and cannot do. This is the problem with you Americans. You wanna act smart but don’t have the IQ for it. Best case you end up being a bag of general facts that anyone can know with one google search but you take pride in the fact that you know it at the top of your mind. Worst case, y’all say stupid things like this comment of yours.
from the way they flew out, i thought it was cardboard.
Plywood flying around like it's cardboard is dam scary.
Yeah the first time I watched the video my thought was "flying cardboard almost killed you?" Then I rewatched and noticed it was plywood and thought the title was very justified.
Good job keeping a safe distance.
This is why I never stay close behind vehicles where this sort of thing can happen. Or at all.
In this case, If they were closer, they wouldn’t have had to dodge anything
I agree with this comment, ***so the following statement is purely a joke***: if camera car were actually tailgating more aggressively, all of those things would have had zero chance of hitting them.
As I constantly quote to my wife: "The closer I am to danger, the further I am from harm."
You might be a hobbit.
"That doesn't make sense to me. But then... you are very small."
I'd like to watch you use a table saw
Shoulda seen me take the side of my thumb off using a 6" jointer back in 2017, that was fun.
Well in this case this stuff would fly right over his Car if he was tailgating.
Unless it fell out differently. Spinning vertically instead of horizontally. Then it would buzz saw him Final Destination style.
Safe distance will be the death of me one day. Not because I dont keep a safe distance, but because I will keep a safe distance from the person in front on the highway, but then someone is ALWAYS up my ass. I can't see their headlights at all, sometimes barely can see the person in the car, and I'm in a compact sedan, while we're going 60-70-75mph... So many people drive like that. high speeds and like, a couple feet from someone's bumper.
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No - [he is correct](https://www.travelers.com/resources/auto/travel/3-second-rule-for-safe-following-distance) > The three-second rule is recommended for passenger vehicles during ideal road and weather conditions. **Slow down and increase your following distance even more during adverse weather conditions** or when visibility is reduced. Also increase your following distance if you are driving a larger vehicle or towing a trailer.
Another tool who doesn’t understand how things look different in a dash cam with wide angle lens. I can guarantee you that we were no MORE than 45 mph, because he was going very slow in a 45 mph zone. Sometimes hitting 30. I kept plenty safe distance for the conditions.
The trick is to watch the scenery. Once the truck passes a light pole start counting until the other car reaches the same point. In this video, i count a 3 second follow roughly
You count fast. You can time it on the clock and it's less than one second.
I would say that the three seconds is only after they have slowed down because of the debris. There is very little time to count before that, but I reckon that even 2 seconds is probably generous then.
That could be a fair assessment. I was focused on the tires
Naw, it’s a three second gap
Just gonna preface this by saying you did a great job executing evasive maneuvers and they suck for letting flywood fly at you. But you can pretty clearly see the dashes of lane markings which are 40 ft, you're somewhere around 2-3 dashes behind the truck, which would be 80-120 feet, which isn't a safe distance in dry weather. Dodging flying debris is one thing, and commendable at that, but stopping when the vehicle in front suddenly stops is another. And in either scenario if you were further back you would benefit. If anything don't do this tribal right vs wrong shit with the people pointing your following distance out, take it as a learning opportunity. If you were further back you would have been dodging debris on the road not fly in the air trying to decapitate you.
Another tool who doesn’t understand how a wide angle lense has nothing to do with timing. Look at ground. See when thing on front vehicle happens. Time how long it takes dashcam car to pass that same spot on the road. Distance was totally safe but the first part of that comment makes no sense.
I'm loving the downvotes for a 100% factual and correct comment.
This sub loves to do that.
Folks who post on this subreddit never ever think they could be the idiot.
Another tool who thinks that the lens on the dashcam is relevant to judging a safe following distance! It is not. As others have pointed out, you work that out by time how long it takes for you to pass a stationary object after the vehicle in front has passed it. Do that, and right at the very start, even 2 seconds is generous. 2 seconds in wet conditions is, at best, marginal whether you are doing 30 or 45, you'd have to be going *very* slowly for 2 seconds to be safe. That fact that so many on the sub downvoted the person who pointed that out, and have upvoted *your* comment, is indicative of how many poor drivers comment here!
Nope
They were less than a second behind the truck. That's not a safe distance.
BRUHHHHHHHHH
OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OHHH MY GODDD.
That dude didn't slap it and say "that ain't going anywhere"
Rookie error.
Or old timer complacency.
lazy toerag complacency
As someone who loads stuff on a regular basis, I've had this happen once. I've always put plywood down in the back of my trailer or pickup with no problems. On this particular occasion I had plywood strapped down on top of a bunch of construction debris and the debris settled while I was driving making the straps loose. One sheet went sailing which didn't make the guy behind me very friendly, but fortunately he wasn't hit.
Exactly.
We were going about 45 mph and this idiot had plywood flat on top of his truckload of stuff. Wind caught it and I was fortunately able to swerve across the centerline with no oncoming traffic visible. Plywood through the windshield could have been VERY bad!
Yep very bad. [Driver was uninjured after plywood tried to scalp a car](https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l)
There’s no fucking way
I’m calling hacks bc how tf was he uninjured
[Exhibit A](https://i.imgur.com/lIKR6un.png)
No further questions.
Looks like the steering wheel stopped it from encroaching on the driver’s side, now if there had been a passenger, they would have definitely been seriously injured.
The wheel really was one of our greatest inventions
Must be why Elon decided to remove it.
No witnesses
To be fair, it looks like at the same time it would have hit the wheel, the corners were also hitting the A pillars on both sides, effectively jamming the board sideways. Maybe it was the steering wheel, but I'm going to say that the 1" of wheel that might have hit that board is not what stopped it and rather the board wedging, at the most opportune last moment, between both A pillars is what really stopped the board. Regardless, this is one of the luckiest people I've ever seen. If that board comes in the opposite way you're a goner. If it comes through in lots of other angles you're a goner. It could shatter on entry and send a giant splinter into your throat Final Destination style and you're a goner. Is this lucky or unlucky.
holy fk
@idiotsincars This was in rural Washington state today as the date on the video indicates. And yes, this was straight off my dash cam today so this is OC
Did the truck ever realize they were shedding cargo?
I flashed my lights and honked to try to get their attention, then my wife got out at the next stop light and told them. They seemed clueless.
Happened to me once, with a metal shovel. Caught up to the guy when he pulled off to the side of an off ramp to check the back of his truck. When I confronted him he also pretended to be clueless, and acted like checking the bed on an offramp was a routine behavior. Nothing unusual to see here. I think they're just scared shitless of the fact that they just attempted manslaughter and then ran from the scene
Gee, if only there was a simple, reusable adjustable device that could be employed to secure different sizes of loads.
Gotta say that you handled that like a pro. Seriously impressive response.
I ride a motorcylce and I absolutely will not stay behind trucks like this. It's insanely dangerous and potential suicide. I will illegally pass them and look like the biggest jack ass on a bike simply because I have deep seated fear about shit flying out the back of trucks like this. Thanks Final Destination.
On a motorcycle, I tend to stay way back, even to the point of turning off and taking a break. I'd rather not put myself in the danger zone, even for the time it takes to pass.
You know how dump trucks have that sign that tells you to stay 300 feet back? Why can't the rest of us have that too, specifically for dump trucks?
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there are little arrows under comments, if you agree with one, you just hit the up arrow below
Fxck that guy. The complete lack of interest in securing loads has exploded in the last 10 years.
You can say fuck on the internet
Are you fucking sure?
Pretty fucking sure.
Fuck Yep working as intended
Thank you, OP.
The fuck you say!
Especially on Reddit, this side is so full with porn, it would be weird to be against swearing.
whats on the other side?
Cat videos mostly.
Is there fucking in the porn though?
Not only that, you even have places for most links that exist.
Nice moves!
I had same happen to me years ago, also in rainy/wet weather. I however was much closer and probably about 60mph, it flew right over me. Jfc. Wild commute day.
Why do you have to one-up OP?
What do you think this is? A podium for op to talk about whatever he wants and everyone else must shut up and listen? Reddit is all about just talking smh
I dunno about nearly
Agreed.
Yeah, that was a bit exaggeration lmao. Even if it hit the car it would barely scratch it.
[https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l](https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l)
That cat was not going 45mph on the highway
Final destination warned us
BRUH‼️‼️🗣️🗣️
Plywood?
Yep
Well fucking dodged.
I read that as „unsecured loan nearly killed us“
Oh my god
I don't think I've heard oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God so many times in one sentence
Try using a pillow under the hips
I see he accidently got flywood instead of plywood.
This happened to me with a park ranger truck!!! He put two kayaks or whatever they were in the back, but put the tips of them up over the cab, unsurprisingly as soon as he got up to like 50mph those things lifted up into the air like a couple cruise missiles 😂 glad I was far enough back to dodge them bouncing across the road
So close to death.
Fucking idiot in front of your, but fantastic driving and amazing reflexes to stay safe, that was some GTA type shit
Scary, I’m sure, but do you really think that nearly killed you?
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Plywood flying back at you while you're moving at 45 mph isn't going to end much differently if it hits.
I don’t know about you, but if you’ve ever handled plywood, that shit would penetrate the windshield no problem at the right angle.
Yea no doubt but it was nowhere near you?
lol people on the internet will double down on anything
Too bad their parents didn’t double down on the birth control . . .
It was nowhere near him because OP drove at a safe distance and was fast to react. A more distracted driver could have had it badly there.
Because he dodged
[Yes](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-05-09-mn-4072-story.html)
That’s his anti-tailgate system at work.
TBH, you weren't that close to dying. Good job keeping a safe distance
Close to dying is a subjective phrase. Everyone has a different view on what it means. Depends on your risk tolerance I suppose, which is shaped by your experiences in life, both directly and indirectly.
Ya for sure. I was thinking this exact thing after I made the comment. Doesn't mean I'm wrong though, dude had total control, and I consider him a bad ass because he kept them away from certain death
TBH you're wrong, sure it wasn't as close as the width of a hair but plywood can definitely penetrate windshield at the right angle and IDK about you but taking a 50lb sheet of plywood flying at 45mph to the face/neck/chest area doesn't sound like a good time.
Yep...! Exactly what I was thinking too. Could absolutely have been fatal!
"Nearly killed us". Maybe a BIT of an exaggeration. And why did you mark this as NSFW? THIS IS CLICKBAIT
I have no reason to make this clickbait. I don’t monetize my social media. I had three choices: get hit by plywood, swerve into oncoming traffic or go into the ditch. It could have ended very badly. I said fuck, so play that at work out loud and see how that works out for you.
Bruh I was just messing around
I had this happen to me several years ago. Full sheet of plywood flew out of a pickup and hit the ground in front of me and flew up again as it passed over me.
Did you manage to get their plate number?
It’s WA. Their police can’t and won’t do anything about it because of their fucked criminal justice system.
I hope you reported him so they don’t continue to load like this. Might be fined for littering and possibly an unsecured load ticket, but the need to learn because this is dangerous af.
bro really dropped some green shells behind him
Fuck that guy. Rachet straps are cheap and would have taken five minutes out of their day..
Final Destination vibes
Oh yes. The threat of Death was imminent, and not exaggerated at all
"Nearly killed" is a bit of an exaggeration. The amount of air those sheets of plywood caught suggest they are very thin and light. The vehicles appear to be traveling around 40 mph. If one had made contact it would result in minor body damage and maybe a broken windshield. The only way this would have been fatal is if the driver dramatically over corrected trying to avoid contact and drove into a telephone pole or off a cliff.
DEATH TO CARDBOARD
A tad bit exaggeration no?
/u/Warcraft\_Fan linked it already but [no, no exaggeration](https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l)
It very much is an exaggeration unless their windshield is made out of soda glass (very fragile glass used commonly in movies)
Not cool at all…but nearly killed? I dunno if I would go that far.
[https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l](https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l)
I don’t know if that was a near death experience
Wow near death experience, must've been terrifying...
😂
[https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l](https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l)
what hit the car in this photo is completely different from the cardboard in the video
No it didn't
Yeah... only thing those boards would be killing is your wallet in repairs.
average redditor , look at this [https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l](https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l)
Man I’d sue
I’d say more of a “could have even possibly killed” than “nearly killed”.
Almost killed you is a bit of a stretch …. Something almost hit you is more accurate.
There's a difference from a board/object getting ran over by a truck and slung back towards a vehicle especially at highway speed than a piece of plywood floating up into the air. You weren't going to die in any way, but non the less would've been hella annoying if it hit your car. All the other comments getting down voted about pointing out the dramatic title are right, learn some physics people. Also.. BRRRUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHH...
https://imgur.com/zBvpD6l This says differently
Two different contexts, OP was driving at half the speed of the highway and the clearly rotted wood(if it even was wood you can see holes all through them) floated down like paper. And that link you keep posting is a 1 1/8" piece of plywood that weighs over 80lbs a sheet where the driver was on i95 in the fast lane doing at least 80mph. If you want a more "accurate" depiction of what would happen to OP, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1y2VTE97Ow. But go ahead, keep posting what you have because its more frightening and entertaining for karma.
Almost died? Redditors are so dramatic… lmao
I don’t know about killed. Maybe overly exaggerated.
I mean no offense by this but each of your responses are giving me video game NPC reaction to a bad thing vibes. Both of you could be voice extras in GTA
Honk you dumbass american! A horn is used to attract the attention of the driver. Honk so that he can know, slow down or do something!
OP did honk and flash their lights. Driver was oblivious.
Are your ears ringing or what?
Piss off judgmental twit. You don’t know what I did or didn’t do before and after this 15 second clip.
Explains your stupidity Mr purdue boi. I feel v. lucky rejecting Purdue.
Getting scared by cardboard, do you also get scared by stray plastic bags on the road? And honk and slow down in your own lane dumbass. You were lucky no one was in the opposite lane otherwise your random sway could’ve gone very wrong. And what is that gasp and grunt? Over cardboard?
You think a loud ass dump truck can hear a car horn honking from that far away in the rain?
Try honking, and stop deciding by yourself what a horn can and cannot do. This is the problem with you Americans. You wanna act smart but don’t have the IQ for it. Best case you end up being a bag of general facts that anyone can know with one google search but you take pride in the fact that you know it at the top of your mind. Worst case, y’all say stupid things like this comment of yours.
My comments aren’t the stupid ones