Warning NSFW language in video.
This is why you don’t brake check, kids.
We’ve all been angered by another driver on the road due to stupid, aggressive, and unsafe driving practices like those detailed by us in “The Drivers That I Despise”, but hopefully none of us have ever had road rage to the point where we put others in danger.
One Sheriff’s Deputy in Onslow County, North Carolina has resigned on Wednesday due to such an incident that occurred between him and a pickup truck in South Carolina. Deputy Craig Culpepper was driving on Highway 526 in the marked K9 vehicle in the left lane when a driver of a pickup truck pulled out his camera and recorded the Deputy’s driving.
According to the driver on the video, the Deputy was driving in the left lane, holding up traffic for quite some time on the two-lane highway. When the highway expanded into three lanes, the truck driver pulled into the far right lane and passed both the Deputy and Volvo XC90 in the middle lane. The driver then went into the left lane, which seemed to enrage the Deputy, who sped up in the right lane, cut off the truck driver, and brake-checked him to the point where the truck rear-ended him and he sped away, leaving the scene.
After the accident occurred, the truck driver called the police who did not issue former-Deputy Culpepper a citation. After the incident, Culpepper resigned and the Sheriff’s Office Fleet Manager said that the car can be repaired for $100 or less.
This is a big FAIL on the now former-Deputy, but don’t forget that the truck driver had his phone out to capture the entire thing on camera and also followed the Deputy closely. It’s not really a good situation at all.
[Source: Autoblog, WCNT, chadwalton54 YouTube]
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