This Toyota Driver Cut In Front Of The Wrong Car

In this hilarious dashcam footage shot in California, a Toyota Sequoia driver is seen cutting his way in front of a Ford Explorer, before finding out it's an unmarked police vehicle...

Matt Robinson

28 Feb 2017

While this video is quite amusing to watch, exactly who’s in the wrong is open for debate. The Toyota driver did have his indicator on and there did look to be a gap, which the police officer in the Explorer appeared to close at the last minute. Then again, the officer isn’t obliged to let him merge, so perhaps the Sequoia driver should have just been more patient rather than cut into a rapidly disappearing gap.

What do you think?

Video via Jalopnik

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Comments

At least he used blinkers.(cough cough)

Those undercover pigs are parasites, nothing but that

Why? What have they ever done to anyone that wasn’t breaking the law?

All im thinking is being here in canada, and seeing that illegal radar scanner and he is right behind the cop…😕😕😕

I can’t see anything wrong in what Toyota driver did. He did indicators, waited (the cop’s car was braking and there seems to exists a gap) and even merged slowly and carefully, in slow traffic. I really can’t see anything wrong.
However, I can see that the cop stopped braking right when the Toyota was merging. I don’t know why was that.
To be fair, we can’t really know the space available between cars, but I really can’t see anything wrong.

Maybe that’s wrong in America, here in Portugal that’s called traffic. We change lanes slowly, use indicators and thank the person which let us pass.

Aggreed

the distance between the cars can be important, in Norwaybyou can be fined for being to close to the car infront, 1 second and loose the license if you are under 0,5 of the car infront, even at slow speeds it can be surprising how far away you really need tonbe to be in a safe distance

Yup, the police definitely saw the guy trying to change lanes because he was braking but then he stopped braking like he didn’t want to give that guy a way

I live in california and unmarked cop cars are illegal here… The most they can do to become “unmarked” is hide all their gear and lights inside, then have the appropriate stickers on the front doors (P.D., car number, etc)

Seriously? You are…. lucky. We get to have Commodores, Falcons, Evos, Camrys, Patrols, Landcruisers, motorcycles and a few high performance sedans all completely unmarked. Also totally unmarked speed camera vehicles in roadsides.

i live in california and the are 100% legal, but they are easy to spot, they are normal cop cars painted black or white. with the police plates and rims and spotlight. you can spot um from a mile away