This driver was caught on dashcam hogging the left lane and resorted to brake checking. However, the dashcam owner was called out for tailgating, too.
Hennepin County commuter and Redditor/u/SoMuchHappening shared headshaking dashcam footage from Highway 694 from earlier last week (July 28, 2025) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing a left lane hog resorting to brake checking twice.
Ironically, they had a “Student Driver” bumper sticker, too.
OP, however, wasn’t completely faultless, either.
Check out the display of poor driving behaviour from both drivers below with the original Reddit thread linked here.
The incidents happened on Highway 694 just after it transitions from Highway 100 and just after Exit 15B onto Humboldt Avenue (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As OP’s dashcam video shows, he’s going about 70 MPH in a 60 zone in the passing lane on Highway 100, transitioning onto the 694.
In front of him is a driver in a Red Chevrolet Cobalt who isn’t going the speed of traffic and actively passing.
Yes, Minnesota has left lane laws, passed and revised as late as 2019.
OP, however, was rightfully called out for following too closely and tailgating, only giving about a half-second of braking time.
His arguable tailgating was put to the test, wrongfully so, by the driver in the Cobalt, who brake checks him once, and then again.
Their brake checking was so strong that it looked like they locked up their brakes.
Their plates are visible, LCJ 189.
“Gotta love people that hold up the passing lane and then inevitably get mad that you want to pass them,” the top comment from /u/Same-Consequence-178 reads.
“He’s an a** for blocking the passing lane, but you were tailgaiting him. You’re about 1/2 a second behind him while going 70 mph. If that car made an immediate stop for any reason, your engine would be in his backseat and you would likely be gravely injured,” a comment from /u/Aiur16899 reads.
“Two bad drivers in this video.”
“The ‘aggressive drivers’ tag is very appropriate here. Most notably, that it’s pluralized,” /u/j_grinds concurrs.
Brake checking is taken seriously in Minnesota, classified as reckless driving and punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and/or up to 90 days in jail.
Not coincidentally, tailgating carries a similar fine.
In Minnesota, if a car’s coming up behind you and you’re in the passing lane, that’s your hint to move over.
It’s the law.
Tailgating, however, is just as dangerous and shouldn’t be used as an intimidation tactic to get slowpokes to move over, however wrong they are.
