Kid without car insurance caught on dashcam rear ending commuter on traffic jammed 35E.
Denton County commuter and Redditor /u/Firm-Impression2260 shared headshaking dashcam footage from earlier last year (November 2024) from I35E showing a kid, driving without insurance, claiming he fell asleep at the wheel and rear-ending OP’s car in the process.
Check out the dashcam footage embedded below with the original Reddit thread linked here.
[oc] driver ‘fell asleep’ in stop and go traffic… didn’t have insurance
byu/Firm-Impression2260 inIdiotsInCars
The incident happened on a stretch of I-35E just before Exit 459 onto Frontage Rd (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As OP’s dashcam footage shows, he’s driving in stop-and-go I-35 E traffic at around 5:40 in the early evening.
With stop-and-go conditions, especially then, it behooves drivers to pay attention, something the driver behind OP wasn’t doing.
It was only at a relatively slow speed, but the driver behind can be seen not stopping and slamming into the back of OP’s vehicle.
The damage wasn’t too bad, according to OP’s comment.
“(The) kid “fell asleep” and rear ended me. Minimal damage, other driver didn’t have insurance.”
“I took a photo of his ID – a kid from a nearby suburb probably driving his parents car.”
Texas doesn’t take kindly to uninsured drivers.
If cited by police and it was their first time, that driver would’ve been hit with up to a $300 fine before all the fees, not to mention a $250 surcharge when re-registering their license for the next three years.
“So many idiots with no headlights on,” the top comment from /u/redshelle reads.
“Let this be a lesson to anybody who reads this – get underinsured and uninsured coverage with your insurance!,” /u/The_Real_MkeOxlong suggested.
“It’s cheap (+$14 per 6mo on mine) and really saves you in these scenarios. It’s stupid that it’s necessary, but it really is with the number of uninsured idiots out there.“
“I would still get their info and take them to small claims court after getting an estimate from a body shop and make them pay either payment or whatever but not letting them take accountability is a no go,” /u/Unknown_Darkshadow added.
It’s no wonder insurance rates for new and younger drivers are so high.
