Dash Cam Video Saved Me

For some reason my Facebook feed has been giving me a lot of videos of dash cams from trucks on highways. I am not sure why that has been happening, but I have watched them. The videos show stupid drivers doing lots of crazy things like changing lanes at high speed only to crash into a slower vehicle in the lane they changed into.

One video theme in my feed has been cars or trucks towing a trailer that gets out of control. I have never liked to drive anything that was pulling a trailer. I could never figure out how to back up and get the trailer to go in right direction. I have also seen trailers that were not secured correctly to the hitch and that is a $hit show about to happen.

The consequence of watching these videos is I look at other vehicles on the highway for potential dumb ass hazards and tonight I am glad. I was driving to Alamance County to teach Mah Jongg at their country club. It was an evening class so I was driving during rush hour. I noticed a U-Haul truck towing a car and the car seemed to move slightly more to the right and the left than the truck.

I decided I did not want to be behind them so I passed them and just as I got ahead a couple car lengths I looked in my rear view mirror and I noticed the trailer with the car on it was off to the side a lot and the truck was in the middle of the lane. I didn’t want to slow down to watch this turn into an accident so I sped up a little only to hear a crash. I was far enough away that I just kept going, but I saw an additional car too cozy with the U-Haul.

I am not sure if I would have moved away from that U-Haul in such a deliberate manner if my Feed and not been showing me all these dash cam crash videos. I know some people think social media is horrible, but in this case I am thankful.