Dashcam footage shows the semi entering the intersection a good three seconds after their turn light turned red.
SoCal resident and Redditor /u/dimsum4you shared dashcam footage from Torrance, CA to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing the surprising moment a semi truck driver in a TForce Freight truck decided to blow through an intersection despite having a red light for what looks like at least three full seconds.
/u/dimsum4you’s thread and video is embedded below.
Who’s the biggest idiot here? [OC]
byu/dimsum4you inIdiotsInCars
The accident happened in Torrance, CA at the intersection of Sepulveda Blvd. and Crenshaw Blvd (exact location and screenshot located on Google maps linked here) around 3 P.M. on a Tuesday.
![](https://tiremeetsroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/sepulveda-and-crenshaw-in-Torrance-C.jpg)
As OP’s video shows, he’s stopped in a turn lane waiting for his turn to go.
As this overhead shot shows, this intersection services a densely populated area of Torrance, hence this is a particularly busy intersection.
The intersection in question is where the red star is at.
![](https://tiremeetsroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/How-busy-this-intersection-is-C.jpg)
This is worth noting because, in particularly busy intersections, although illegal, it’s generally accepted that drivers must keep their head on a swivel for drivers that blow through newly turned red lights because…that’s what a lot of California drivers do.
OP sees the intersection in front of him turn green, which means drivers turning left across the intersection already have a red.
As mentioned, one or two cars enter when red but, as two trucks with a green light pulled forward, thinking that those last stragglers were the last two to enter, we see a TForce Freight truck start to turn left against a red turn arrow.
Not expecting the TForce semi, the two trucks almost crash into the TForce semi before all stop to avoiding hitting each other.
![](https://tiremeetsroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a-near-crash-TForce-Semi.jpg)
The trucks sneak past and the TForce semi, all 14 wheels of it, makes their left turn on Reddit.
“I knew as soon as I saw it that this was the intersection of Crenshaw and Sepulveda. Someone is always doing dumb s**t there, but a whole semi? That light was red before he even went into that intersection,” /u/Skellyton386 commented.
“I’m convinced there are some drivers on the road that hope for an accident at this speed so they can get out of a bad lease or scam insurance,” /u/savourtheflavor mused.
“TForce Freight. As an employee, I can tell you, TForce is always the idiot,” /u/Beneficial-Swan-5849 added towards the end.
Idiots in cars come in all shapes and sizes of vehicle.
Just because they’re in a semi, don’t expect semi drivers to not pull hare brained moves like some drivers out there.