[brodie78382]

> The car behind didn't show turn signal

Watch the video again; the little red car turns on their blinker and does a very slow shift to the right before clipping that stopped SUV. You're right that he wasn't paying attention, but his reaction time is incredibly slow - it looks like that car had just enough time to slam on their brakes or swerve to the right, yet they did neither.

[Infernal]

I disagree that the pink car driver was not paying attention - he or she was likely turning to look over their right shoulder before making the lane change. The drift to the right isn't an avoidance maneuver executed lazily, but just a normal lane change. Bad luck that the SUV ahead slammed on the brakes at the exact moment the pink car driver checked his or her blind spot.

[AznHisoka]

not sure what the speeds these cars were traveling at but assuming this is regular highway speed is slow reaction time really a good excuse?

aren't you supposed to have a wide enough space between you and the car in front of you? to compensate for any slowness in reaction.

[hobbes78]

If it's any indication, you can read 113 km/h on the dashcam overlay. Besides, the Opel Corsa, at least for the few seconds before the crash, seems to roughly maintain the same distance from the Tesla, so it should be travelling at a very similar speed...

[agumonkey]

It's odd that the turn signal is only located at the top of the car. I guess the mid height one was broken ?

I think the situation is not entirely unclear, it seemed that there was a problem ahead of the SUV, that made a bunch of cars slow down altogether. I still don't understand the smaller red car driver decisions.. maybe he didn't know what to do and hesitated and tried to swerve as a last resort. Or maybe he was just not watching. The SUV break lights were on quite a long time..

[bcraven]

It looks like a 2001 Vauxhall Corsa, that is just where the indicators are.

[agumonkey]

Shit that's bad, it's really not very large and "originally" placed.