Screech crash.

I got into an accident today. No I wasn't hurt. Yes my car is ok. But it really made me open my eyes as to whats going on with the freeways.

A semi truck had stopped in the rightmost lane of the freeway in order to change lanes to the left. Moving from a stop to a crawl to change lanes on a freeway is a fucking terrible idea, and frankly I think this trucker should lose his license for such an act of stupidity. Never in the history of forever is it acceptable to move 5 miles per hour on a 70 mph freeway. However I do give the trucker some credit for not forcing his way into oncoming traffic like a bully.

The problem here is that he decided to change lanes when I was barreling towards him at 70 miles an hour. With no where to go but forward, I had no choice but to slam on my brakes and come to a screeching halt mere feet from the truck. And then I was rear ended.

There was a very minor scratch on my bumper, but nothing more. I didn't even look at the other guy's car because frankly I did not care, and legally he is at fault for rear ending me, and if I did not care then I'm sure he was relieved.

I make a point to let all trucks that need to change lanes do it in front of me. I will purposely slow down and impede traffic behind me to clear some space for a truck to move, because I know how hard it must be to drive that mammoth around. And also because I hate getting run off the road by an asshole trucker.