suicide attempt?

Its hard to tell from the video...I was 'hoping' that she got rear-ended and it pushed her into the intersection. At least that could have been an excuse. But I dont know if that was the case or not.

Doesn't matter, I'd rather see accident videos like these over actual collisions.

I doubt she was rear-ended judging by the truck drivers exaggerated reaction once he got out of the cab, but who knows.

Amazing technology, but I also doubt his trailers were full. Still, I bet someones underwear was after that.

I doubt it has the same brakes demonstrated here: http://videosift.com/video/Volvo-Trucks-Emergency-braking-at-its-best

But still a very good stop on his part.

Did that truck put on it's emergency flashers after it stopped?

No, that comes a couple songs later.

I had to watch it three times to tell that they actually did hit. Truck driver seems pretty upset about that little light. Probably the adrenaline after almost squishing that dumb little car.

I know of someone who was in a very large dump truck that flipped on it's side when someone pulled out in front of him, he swerved to avoid T-boning the old guy in the driver side door. Truck flipped on it's side, slid across the road and crushed the cab of the truck, killing the dump truck driver.

I do not recall if he hit the engine portion of the car or not that caused him to flip or the truck flipped due to load shifting, maybe a combination of both. But he would have smashed that old guy like paper and probably would have lived if he just ran him over.

So I can see why a truck driver would be very upset at someone being careless around them...besides it affecting their livelihood with any sort of damage they may take in any accident or avoidance of.

And I'd just like to say as someone who used to run some fairly heavy machinery, it bugged me every day when people were careless around me. Because I could have easily crippled if not killed people outright in seconds, and that was with a big loud machine and a blocked off work area people chose to ignore. Was the worst when they assumed just because you were slow moving that you could easily stop and maneuver. Luckily I never hurt anyone, but if I had it would have haunted me despite my having done everything I could do aside from not using the machines at all.

gah, I wish the dashboard camera thing would catch on here in America. When I eventually get a new car, seriously thinking about getting one, not just to protect myself, but to help take down reckless drivers.

it just needs to happen. People always drive nice when the cops are around, but most of the time, people are maniacs