A WA driver has divided opinion after posting a video to social media showing an apparent 'merging error'- but all was not as it seemed.
The driver submitted the video to the Facebook page Dash Cam Owners Australia and asked if they were in the wrong.
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The driver was then immediately ripped apart for apparently failing to give way at an apparent merge point.
"Not sure who is in the right here legally, but you're a d—k for not allowing them to merge when they clearly indicated and the lanes merged. Muppet!," one person said.
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The video shows dashcam footage of a car attempting to enter the right hand lane, and colliding with the poster's vehicle. At first glance, it seemed like a merging error of epic proportions.
But it soon became clear this was not the case. The stretch of road the vehicles are travelling on has been identified as an area in Midland with two continuous lanes, and not a merge point as assumed.
This new detail has since divided public opinion.
"You had plenty of time to see they were indicating and it even looked like you sped up?" Sezz Bidmead posted.
"The law is 'give way to vehicles established in the lane' it's not 'yolo I'm indicating get out of my way'," Ash Michelle argued.
But there was one thing everyone seemed to agree on: The quality of the camera footage.
Heath Dunn summed it up:
"From the approximate 12 pixels of information we were given, I'd say the dash cam driver is a d---head and ran up the arse of someone. The proof is in the third pixel," he said.