Idiot in a Chevrolet Volt caught on dashcam almost sideswiping dashcam owner just to get in front of them for no good reason.
Stockton commuter and Redditor /u/Mari1013 shared headshaking dashcam footage from earlier this May (May 23, 2025) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing a driver in a Chevrolet Volt refusing to zipper merge with other traffic and almost sideswiping OP just so OP didn’t merge in front of them.
Check out the dashcam video of this driver’s insane behaviour below with the original Reddit thread linked here.
The incident happened on an I-5 on-ramp in Stockton off of W Benjamin Holt Dr. near Lake Lincoln (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As the dashcam footage shows, OP attempts to merge onto I-5 using a fairly long on-ramp, which, according to my measurements on Google Maps, is 200 meters long (that’s over two football fields in length).
Suffice to say, drivers have plenty of room to slot in front of each other, the most efficient and polite way being the traditional zipper merge, with cars taking turns.
One driver, for some insane reason, isn’t having it and refuses to let OP merge in front of them.
At the last second, they squeeze OP into the emergency breakdown lane, almost sideswiping them, just to prevent OP from merging in front of them.
“What the f*** are you doing?,” OP says to herself as she honks her horn.
The driver in the Volt, plate # GXSA476, doesn’t give one flying f*** and continues on, saving less than an eighth of a second, if anything.
Oh yeah, last smog check in 2022? Driving around unregistered and uninsured, too.
“That completely caught me off guard lol I was looking at the Honda the entire time,” the top comment from /u/SageofSixRamen commented.
“What a PoS. Willing to cause an accident just to get on the highway a split second before you,” /u/Think_Battle_1401 added.
“Well, put it this way. He had such a sad life that he had to control this and “win out” over you. You made his day, I guess,” /u/StackThePads replied, giving a different view of the situation.
This is arguably a failure to yield to another driver or an unsafe lane change. In California, violators get slapped with a $238 fine before fees and one point on their driving record, and that’s the least of their worries if the incident involved an actual collision.
