An impatient driver in their Hyundai forced a lane change in front of this dashcam owner, saving him literally no time at all.
Chicago-area driver and Redditor /u/OdellBeckhamSr shared headshaking dashcam footage from earlier in August (Aug 25, 2026) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing an impatient I-290 driver forcing a lane change in an impossibly tight squeeze and almost causing their own rear-end collision as a result.
Check out their harebrained move, which saved literally no time at all in the dashcam video below with the original Reddit thread linked here.
The incident happened on I-290 just before the 9th Avenue overpass (exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As the dashcam shows, OP is going westbound on I-290, in the middle lane, towards the 45.
As OP begins to pass a line of drivers in Lane #1, a driver in a blue Hyundai Sonata (License Plate EX 50969) commits and brute forces their way into a lane change in front of OP.
OP emergency brakes to avoid a collision at the same time the Sonata driver backs off, only for a millisecond, to avoid said collision.
Their snap back to reality was short-lived as they completed their goofball move, swinging in front of OP, coming within millimeters of hitting them.
Their time-saving move nets them nothing at all as, seconds later, OP can clearly still see them, half a dozen car lengths in front.
“Man, why is everyone in that guy’s way?!,” one of the top comments from /u/nedal8 sarcastically reads.
“They’re fighting that lane keep assist hard lol,” /u/fiero-fire points out.
“Unfortunately, they still think it’s worth driving like that. Idiots rarely learn (or care),” /u/dericn added.
In Maywood, ILL, an unsafe lane change is generally charged under 625 ILCS 5/11-709(a), which requires drivers to make sure a lane change can be made safely; the fine can be up to $500. (Illinois General Assembly)
Illinois assigns 20 points to improper traffic lane usage under its driver-licensing offense schedule, though those are administrative points rather than the kind of points used in every ordinary Illinois suspension calculation. (ilsos.gov)
