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Mike Boggs presents ‘Car loses it, driving too fast on black ice’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atBgAolr5r8 Running across central Illinois early one morning, Mike Boggs took note of “black ice in the road,” he says, well invisible in the video above. “I was just moving into the left lane to pass some slower vehicles,” he goes on, when a young woman who’d just come “around me driving too fast for […]

June 29, 2016

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Dave, Amanda present ‘Runaway train’

Caught on dashcam: Boxcars on a slow downhill run, engine in pursuit: “They tell drivers to expect the unexpected… Even off the road, it seems …”

June 14, 2016

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Ted Cosa’s California close call

When a four-wheeler spun out up ahead on a California highway, Ted Cosa’s ABS performed flawlessly at 75K lbs. in what you’ll see in his dashcam vid here was a very, very close call.

February 10, 2016

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David Stout presents ‘Car loses control in front of my 18-wheeler in Ky.’

Looks like safe speeds in wet conditions saved operator Stout from a potential collision as a four-wheeler lost traction and ended up with its headlights pointed in Stout’s direction in the lane ahead.

January 25, 2016

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Anthony Johnson presents ‘Crazy four wheeler’

Trucker Anthony Johnson notes he was running southbound in New Jersey on route 55 when the “crazy four wheeler tried to get me to run into the back of them” after passing on the right.

December 15, 2015

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Merge gone bad — into the front right of Preston Lindsay’s daycab

Running down the list of extenuating factors in Lindsay’s review of the accident takes quite a while longer than the second or two it took to happen, illustrating the well-developed instincts of the professional driver that can avoid making things worse in such circumstances.

November 23, 2015

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Close call with a straight truck on I-465 in Indianapolis

At approximately 2 minutes, 40 seconds, into the video, a collision with a straight truck making a merge just too close for comfort is avoided — one close call for this driver in Indianapolis.

October 26, 2015

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Driver avoids rear-end accident — without spilling a drop of coffee

At once, the driver was focused on the car that cut him off. If he’d been watching up ahead, the hard-braking event that triggered the camera and the subsequent jump up onto a curb might have also been avoided.

October 7, 2015

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Lyle Puckett presents ‘8 15 2015 Medford OR’

Lyle Puckett’s kudos to the trucker up ahead who kept aware of an errant merge-in-progress. Catch the latest Dashcam Central video here.

September 4, 2015

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‘Suicide by truck’ on I-35E in Texas caught on owner-operator’s dashcam

The incident shown here involved an auto driver under the influence of alcohol and suicidal as she pulled head-on into the path of the rig in front of Jack Rivera’s truck. She survived, with injuries, to be charged with DUI and attempted manslaughter. Says Rivera, ““It’s shocking to see something so deliberate. I’ve seen all kinds of bad wrecks in my 10-year career, but this kind of thing stays with you.”

August 10, 2015

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Michael Kimball presents ‘Pickup driver pulls out without looking.’

Says operator Kimball of this video: “This guy was talking to someone standing on the sidewalk and pulled right out in front of me, without looking. I stopped so close to him that I thought we might have traded paint.” What happened next? Find out here…

August 3, 2015

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Brad Kuhn presents ‘A 4-minute ride with a truck driver’

“How about a little credit for the accidents that we avoid?” asks Brad Kuhn with this collection of near misses. “I think law enforcement needs to crack down on aggressive driving around trucks.”

June 18, 2015