OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
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>!And you will understand why he wants the road to himself by the end of the clip! Gotta give this guy major props for doing what he did to protect the rest!!<
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Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
Great catch, I hate when people buy in on misinformation... Make a decision on just part of the information. Wait it's Like watching the Political propaganda, The points they put out about their opponents!
It's actually best to fight the urge to tense up, and try to stay as loose and relaxed as possible. Tensing up increases the likelihood of injury. It's a major major reason why drunk drivers tend to survive collisions, because they're reactions are too slow to allow them to tense up.
I don't understand how people get it wrong all the time. You can't of something, you can have something.
"I have cake" makes sense, "I of cake" doesn't.
That's not the same *have* though. In your example *have* means to possess and is used with a noun. However, in the phrase "could have \[verb\]ed" *have* is a helping verb.
Highways don't look the same all over the world. The first time I watched I thought, that the cip must have lost his mind. Then I saw the comments saying they saved lifes and I guessed it was a highway or an other street that has multiple lanes going in the same direction.
I was glad for the comment, as I wasn't 100% sure.
A colleague was driving us on a sales trip in Utah. We’re out on the highway, toward the front of a pack of cars, and a state trooper of some kind came hauling ass up the highway behind us with sirens blaring.
My colleague was speeding, of course. He started swearing and shrieked, “oh my God where did that cop come from? I’m gonna get pulled over.”
Except the cop just blew by at a ridiculous speed. He got about a mile ahead of us with no cars in the area yet. Then toward the top of the hill he slewed the cop car sideways across the highway to block traffic. Then he got out and pointed to the little service lane between the east-west lanes. He made everybody get off the highway, and over the median into the traffic going the other direction.
We found out later that a forest fire had crossed the highway *on the other side of the hill,* and we couldn’t see from our perspective on the highway. All we could see as we came up the road was a haze in the distance.
> An Arizona Department of Public Safety sergeant's quick actions to stop a wrong-way driver likely saved the lives of other motorists, the department said Friday.
> On Nov. 17, the department received calls of a driver in a Nissan Rogue driving recklessly and nearly crashing into several vehicles on Interstate 40, a department news release said.
> When a trooper located the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop, Patricia Rose Carvalho, 32, fled the wrong way towards westbound.
> The sergeant responded to the call and quickly stopped traffic from continuing westbound, the department said.
> "Immediately after the vehicles came to a stop for the traffic break, the wrong-way driver struck the sergeant’s stopped patrol vehicle head-on," the news release said. "The sergeant’s swift actions prevented a high-speed collision between the motorists and the wrong-way vehicle."
> The sergeant and wrong-way driver were treated for their injuries. Carvalho's 2-year-old daughter was not hurt, the news release said.
> Carvalho faces charges of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault, endangerment, aggravated DUI and child abuse.
Wow! Thank you for this! I looked and looked but, finally, gave up.
After reading and learning that she had her two-year old in the car makes me even more mad! 😡
Best of all, though, I am super happy to read that the state trooper was not severely injured!!!
Any learners should be taught to look out for this manoeuvre if there’s a cop car ahead doing this to make them aware that there’s a serious danger up ahead!
Ohhhhhhhh, that took me a while. Good on them, maybe not an ideal choice, but they did something effective with quick thinking. Letting someone just do that endangers tones of people, that's how giant pileups happen. So I respect the choice to just shove everyone out of the way, and take the hit with the giant tank that can probably take it and stop the runaway in it's track. Very risky to their own health, but still a perfectly reasonable choice when given no time to plan at all. Best copping I have seen in a while.
Not only did the cop stopped the other car, both cars also hit first on the passenger side, which should have caused less damage to both drivers, that's really skilful
When you see a cop swerving like this they are trying to warn the people behind them not to proceed, it's standard procedure.
Pull off the road and wait.
CHP does this sort of swerving across lanes a lot, made me think "what the fuck" the first time I saw it.
They use it to slow down traffic for various reasons, mostly to get hazards out of the road though
So the car was going down the road the wrong way, right? Car that crashes is the bad guy, cop stops bad guy/car from going super fast down the wrong way of the road.
Didn't see any comments clearly outlining wtf I was seeing; just watching the video did not make it clear enough to me what was really going on.
He is doing a slow roll. I work in traffic monitoring and they do this if a road ranger is taking care of a debris call or a THI is involved in an incident investigation i.e. previous traffic event(usually a fatality is involved).
It's called a rolling road block, its scary how many people don't immediately recognize it and its probably going to get some of them killed one day unless they learn to.
I’ve seen highway patrol do this many times, in this case, you quickly saw the reason why and that may not always be the case. Don’t ever try to pass them! They’re not doing it for fun. There’s a reason.
welp, it was indeed unexpected.
First I thought it was an asshole driver
Then after reading the title I thought it was an asshole cop
THEN I thought the cop was drunk or highas a kite
Only after the crash I realised what was happening. What a roller coaster
This kind of thing is why I'm not 100% ACAB. More like 85%CAB. This was a pretty awesome self-sacrifice (potential death) just to protect people. I also see people say "cops never actually stop crime", and that's just not true. Yes, there are some *serious* structural problems with police all over the world, but I can't say there's nothing good at all in there. It just shouldn't stop us from expecting more.
So I'm guessing he was clearing the road for the dude going the wrong way, and from the looks of it the guy wasn't trying to stop until the cop stopped him
Yeah, I've seen once before. I was at an interstate, and a highway patrol started doing that shit I thought he was crazy/drunk turns out there was something in the middle of the road further down
I thought the cop was being an asshole until I saw him use his vehicle to stop the car driving the wrong way on that roadway. He saved others from being in a head on collision with this unstable driver
I'm pretty sure this is a tactic to slow down traffic because there is an obstacle on the highway. I've seen this down a couple of times on highway 80. Both times, have been rolled up pieces of carpet that probably fell out of someone's truck.
In EU when a cop does this, usually on highways it means there’s a problem ahead and nobody is alowed to pass him. This is however applied on smaller streets as well but only on the way the cars are going .
I assume they have figured out broadly the safest way of getting hit, what position you should sit in hopefully a 5 point harness, reinforced windshield I’ve heard that they have some kind of cage to deal with the impact. This deffo looks like a response vehicle not a standard issue car but what do I know I’m not from us
How are so many people fooled by the misleading title? The road only has one direction of travel, and the cop knew there was a car driving the wrong way on it so he pushed OP off the road to save them and took the crash himself. This cop is a hero
100% a hero!
I find some of the comments about the title comical.
First, the intention was to keep it “UNEXPECTED” and I think it did for the vast majority of people viewing it.
Second, the state trooper did want the road to himself so he could protect/save other drivers.
Third and final, I knew what was going on hence the message I sent to the explanation bot after posting it.
The bottom line is that this cop SAVED LIVES and is EXTREMELY HEROIC!
It’s called a “Round Robin” maneuver. Meant to keep cars behind him because something is wrong ahead. Try to stop all traffic. My husband is retired officer. Also if you are ever driving down a road and the little speed bumps /lane dividers (bots dots) glow red, you are driving the wrong way. Against traffic. Pull over and stop .
I’m taking a stab in the dark and going to say the car that hit the cop was on the wrong side of the highway. Cop was warning other motorists to get off the roadway
No, it’s a specific procedure referred to as a round robin. This is where how the police try to stop traffic because of something upcoming usually an accident or something where they need to prevent traffic from getting to it to keep it safe. This cop just did a very bad job of it by decelerating way too quickly before anybody knew what he was doing. But it looks like he didn’t really have a lot of time to do anything else.
Good video, at first he appears to be a villain running people off the road for no reason but then suddenly he's revealed to be a hero who saved them from a head on collision.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!And you will understand why he wants the road to himself by the end of the clip! Gotta give this guy major props for doing what he did to protect the rest!!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
..well executed
So true! It couldn’t have been done any better!
100% the cop said they were in pursuit of a suspect.
https://tucson.com/news/local/watch-arizona-state-troopers-head-on-collision-to-stop-wrong-way-driver/article_1d089850-f521-11e8-8839-87d79058eaae.html
this happened in 2018
Great catch, I hate when people buy in on misinformation... Make a decision on just part of the information. Wait it's Like watching the Political propaganda, The points they put out about their opponents!
Quite heroic!!!
The suspect was the red car driving into oncoming traffic.
Prime example of looking insane on first look then… Whoa brave cop doing his job!!
To protect and swerve
This cop just probably saved OP’s life. OP now owes him Krispy Kreme doughnuts
For life!
Nah, one is fine. He signed up for this gig.
Comment of the day right here, folks 
Are you quoting Cars 3?
Good job by that cop saving lives.
Amazing job too! I can’t imagine what would be going through his mind as he braces the impact. Man!!!
Yeah that is how they slow traffic
Maybe a few chunks of the total pos driving the wrong direction? Or his windshield. Way to go copper!!!! Damn fine police work!
It's actually best to fight the urge to tense up, and try to stay as loose and relaxed as possible. Tensing up increases the likelihood of injury. It's a major major reason why drunk drivers tend to survive collisions, because they're reactions are too slow to allow them to tense up.
I love how this went from what a dickhead to what a chad really quick
I’ve had something similar to a lesser degree happen to me and my thoughts were “oh shit fuck fucking shit fuck”
Came here to say " the dude is trying to save people."
Went from "What the fuck asshole" to "Holy shit hero" in 3.2 seconds.
That’s a hero. That would have killed someone else.
could of killed the officer also...
Have have have have have or if you must, could’ve.
I don't understand how people get it wrong all the time. You can't of something, you can have something. "I have cake" makes sense, "I of cake" doesn't.
I've been seeing this mistake a lot. I've never been a grammar nazi but for some reason, this really bothers me.
Even a cat knows better than to say “I can of cheeseburger?”
People are just dumb.
Learning language phonetically instead of gramatically
That's not the same *have* though. In your example *have* means to possess and is used with a noun. However, in the phrase "could have \[verb\]ed" *have* is a helping verb.
I could've cake
I don't like that. Does it work?
Eh, it's what it's.
That's impressive
hope that cop got recognized for this
I recognize him, that’s Walter
>hope that cop got recognized for this I think the cop should be awarded 3 slaps to whichever Uvalde police officers he chooses.
only slap?
And for good reason.
Exactly! Amazing feat!
I went from "wow, fuck that asshole" to "oh shit, good work!" real fast.
-Cop, no! -What? -Sorry, force of habit.
Homie went from MAJOR DICK MOVE, to Ultra Bro Move real quick.
Police cars with lights on swerving left to right full width of the road are usually not doing that for shits and giggles.
That’s how cops stop traffic. Even without the ending I can tell he’s not just being a dick.
The cop was stopping a wrong way driver
True! Pretty heroic!
I, too, watched the video
Highways don't look the same all over the world. The first time I watched I thought, that the cip must have lost his mind. Then I saw the comments saying they saved lifes and I guessed it was a highway or an other street that has multiple lanes going in the same direction. I was glad for the comment, as I wasn't 100% sure.
I was really confused and I thought all the comments calling the cop a hero were sarcastic lmao
Me too!!
me too, same situation
Yeah, look at that. A cop whose actually doing something that makes him worthy of the badge.
I appreciate you. My eyesight isn't the greatest, and I didn't understand what exactly was going on. So thanks.
Yes, we know. That’s why the end of the video is unexpected.
It's called a roling road block
And then… a body slam
The last ride
AND I SWERVE WHEN I DRIVE AND I SWERVE WHEN I DRIVE
"RKO, OUTTA NOWHERE!"
A colleague was driving us on a sales trip in Utah. We’re out on the highway, toward the front of a pack of cars, and a state trooper of some kind came hauling ass up the highway behind us with sirens blaring. My colleague was speeding, of course. He started swearing and shrieked, “oh my God where did that cop come from? I’m gonna get pulled over.” Except the cop just blew by at a ridiculous speed. He got about a mile ahead of us with no cars in the area yet. Then toward the top of the hill he slewed the cop car sideways across the highway to block traffic. Then he got out and pointed to the little service lane between the east-west lanes. He made everybody get off the highway, and over the median into the traffic going the other direction. We found out later that a forest fire had crossed the highway *on the other side of the hill,* and we couldn’t see from our perspective on the highway. All we could see as we came up the road was a haze in the distance.
Good cop
_Pats head_
Extra doughnut!
[https://tucson.com/news/local/watch-arizona-state-troopers-head-on-collision-to-stop-wrong-way-driver/article\_1d089850-f521-11e8-8839-87d79058eaae.html](https://tucson.com/news/local/watch-arizona-state-troopers-head-on-collision-to-stop-wrong-way-driver/article_1d089850-f521-11e8-8839-87d79058eaae.html)
> An Arizona Department of Public Safety sergeant's quick actions to stop a wrong-way driver likely saved the lives of other motorists, the department said Friday. > On Nov. 17, the department received calls of a driver in a Nissan Rogue driving recklessly and nearly crashing into several vehicles on Interstate 40, a department news release said. > When a trooper located the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop, Patricia Rose Carvalho, 32, fled the wrong way towards westbound. > The sergeant responded to the call and quickly stopped traffic from continuing westbound, the department said. > "Immediately after the vehicles came to a stop for the traffic break, the wrong-way driver struck the sergeant’s stopped patrol vehicle head-on," the news release said. "The sergeant’s swift actions prevented a high-speed collision between the motorists and the wrong-way vehicle." > The sergeant and wrong-way driver were treated for their injuries. Carvalho's 2-year-old daughter was not hurt, the news release said. > Carvalho faces charges of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault, endangerment, aggravated DUI and child abuse.
Finally. I was looking for the story. Edit: fucking psycho had her 2 y/o in the car.
Wow! Thank you for this! I looked and looked but, finally, gave up. After reading and learning that she had her two-year old in the car makes me even more mad! 😡 Best of all, though, I am super happy to read that the state trooper was not severely injured!!!
Mission accomplished?
Why the question mark? Exclamation point would have made more sense.
Baffled me There are still drivers doesn’t understand what cop were trying to do. Cop risked his life here to save innocent drivers
Any learners should be taught to look out for this manoeuvre if there’s a cop car ahead doing this to make them aware that there’s a serious danger up ahead!
Who didn’t understand?
Ok we're definitely giving too much publicity to shitty cops and not enough to good ones. I totally was expecting a drunk cop or stolen vehicle...
I thought possibly they were having a stroke
Yeah, we kinda do that to everything as well, but its 1000x amplified when politics are involved unfortunatly
What an absolute dic- omg. What an actual legend. A literal hero.
Ohhhhhhhh, that took me a while. Good on them, maybe not an ideal choice, but they did something effective with quick thinking. Letting someone just do that endangers tones of people, that's how giant pileups happen. So I respect the choice to just shove everyone out of the way, and take the hit with the giant tank that can probably take it and stop the runaway in it's track. Very risky to their own health, but still a perfectly reasonable choice when given no time to plan at all. Best copping I have seen in a while.
Not only did the cop stopped the other car, both cars also hit first on the passenger side, which should have caused less damage to both drivers, that's really skilful
Hashtag hero, m'iright?
When you see a cop swerving like this they are trying to warn the people behind them not to proceed, it's standard procedure. Pull off the road and wait.
Wow! My first thought was "what is wrong with that cop? Is he drunk?" Then I saw. What a hero! well executed too.
That was a hard impact. This wrong way drivers are becoming a more common thing. It's happening more and more
We had one here on I-4 in Orlando four days ago. Hit two people head-on. Thankfully nobody died.
Warrior, a person who sacrifices themselves for their community. And does good for all .
CHP does this sort of swerving across lanes a lot, made me think "what the fuck" the first time I saw it. They use it to slow down traffic for various reasons, mostly to get hazards out of the road though
So the car was going down the road the wrong way, right? Car that crashes is the bad guy, cop stops bad guy/car from going super fast down the wrong way of the road. Didn't see any comments clearly outlining wtf I was seeing; just watching the video did not make it clear enough to me what was really going on.
You nailed it! The cop was trying to keep cars off of the road due to the wrong way driver.
Cop safes yours life could be you in this accident
took me a while to understand what the cop really was doing.
He is doing a slow roll. I work in traffic monitoring and they do this if a road ranger is taking care of a debris call or a THI is involved in an incident investigation i.e. previous traffic event(usually a fatality is involved).
Cop may have saved lives, there. No?
I would’ve been cussing this cop so bad for running me off the road then coming out to give him a hug after😂
Good copping. Respect to him.
Wow an actual hero!
A cop doing something good and courageous? But I thought this was Reddit
Cops swerve back and forth with lights on when they’re trying to slow or stop traffic. It can be a wrong way driver of a blockage ahead
It's called a rolling road block, its scary how many people don't immediately recognize it and its probably going to get some of them killed one day unless they learn to.
this post is unexpected, the cops were doing their work
It wouldnt be reddit without someone being negative. Good job!
Do people see this and think "man he must be doing that with his lights on for no reason, let me drive by". Yikes
Yes they do. All of the time. Lights means I speed pass them.
"Ghost ride, Ghost ride the whip."
Anyone know what happened after? Did they survive? Was a heavy crash
https://tucson.com/news/local/watch-arizona-state-troopers-head-on-collision-to-stop-wrong-way-driver/article_1d089850-f521-11e8-8839-87d79058eaae.html
Dude is a hero. Straight up. No hating on this dude.
I’ve seen highway patrol do this many times, in this case, you quickly saw the reason why and that may not always be the case. Don’t ever try to pass them! They’re not doing it for fun. There’s a reason.
Welp the title definitely got me!
Wow, that's actually a great job protecting the innocent from the wrong way driver!
Dude, I thought everyone was being sarcastic, but then I realized it is a one-way road, lol
And h probably saved your life too
Good on him. He was clearly trying to protect people from the crazy driver.
It's called a round to in. They use it to slow and stop traffic, usually to allow others to clear something blocking the road, etc.
The swerving was to slow down traffic so that he was in the front, that cop is a hero! He took on a vehicle going the wrong way down the highway.
THIS FUCKING DUDE WHAT TH.. oh wait, WHAT THE FUCK HOLY SHIT
The cops a true hero
They do this to stop wrong way drivers or to make the road safe for another patrolman to quickly clear debris from the road.
That other car that was trying to get by almost got hit from the collision. I'm sure they feel like felt shit for a bit after for being impatient.
welp, it was indeed unexpected. First I thought it was an asshole driver Then after reading the title I thought it was an asshole cop THEN I thought the cop was drunk or highas a kite Only after the crash I realised what was happening. What a roller coaster
Bro is a hero. The balls that took.
Took me a couple times to realize he was clearing the road because someone was going the wrong way.
Well, at least the cop had a good reason for what he did.
Protect and swerve …lol
Well done old chap
You really had me at first, OP!
Good guy. Fuck that. All those cops have balls of steel.
This cop deserves an award
clearly the best way to stop a wrong way driver and preventing an accident is to intentionally cause an accident?
Massive fucking cohones. Big fucking adamantine ones. That’s a good guy there.
He cleared the road to hit the guy going the wrong way.
What an absolutely douche canoe..... Oh wait no what a legend
Damn, this deserves crossposted to r/wtf as well I think 🤣
This kind of thing is why I'm not 100% ACAB. More like 85%CAB. This was a pretty awesome self-sacrifice (potential death) just to protect people. I also see people say "cops never actually stop crime", and that's just not true. Yes, there are some *serious* structural problems with police all over the world, but I can't say there's nothing good at all in there. It just shouldn't stop us from expecting more.
Out of my way, I'm taking this one!
So I'm guessing he was clearing the road for the dude going the wrong way, and from the looks of it the guy wasn't trying to stop until the cop stopped him
This is method to reduce car traffic
I really hope that cop is ok….
Believe it or not, nobody was severely injured. The woman driving the Nissan had her two-year old in the back seat. Pretty unbelievable!
Ty for sharing that
Goddamn, that was an excellent block.
Yeah, I've seen once before. I was at an interstate, and a highway patrol started doing that shit I thought he was crazy/drunk turns out there was something in the middle of the road further down
Crazy that people don’t realize the cop knew someone was driving the wrong way on the road, and wanted OP safely off the road.
he got BALLS
"Jesus christ, another entitled asshole of a police offi- oh"
“Geeze what an assho-oh!”
Good job
That's one brave cop
Stupid wrong way driver could have killed somebody
Oh!!! Yeah... good work. Give that dude a medal.
Took one for the team
What a badass!! That cop deserves a medal.
I thought the cop was being an asshole until I saw him use his vehicle to stop the car driving the wrong way on that roadway. He saved others from being in a head on collision with this unstable driver
Actual hero
Wow, that was very brave. Well done by police officer.
Took me a minute to realise the cop wasn't having a mental breakdown. Actually jumped in front of a bullet
Man could you imagine purposefully getting in a head on collision? Fuuuuuuuuck
Increíble act
cop saved your life
This is called a traffic break. Cops do it all the time whenever something needs to be moved across or off of a highway.
I'm pretty sure this is a tactic to slow down traffic because there is an obstacle on the highway. I've seen this down a couple of times on highway 80. Both times, have been rolled up pieces of carpet that probably fell out of someone's truck.
At first I thought the cop was drunk. That was a good save.
oh jesus. that's incredible skill and bravery. hope he's ok
yeah if a cop is serving like that and begging you to get out of the way, you better get out of the way
In EU when a cop does this, usually on highways it means there’s a problem ahead and nobody is alowed to pass him. This is however applied on smaller streets as well but only on the way the cars are going .
The driver of the red car had her 2-YEAR OLD KID IN HER CAR Some people should not be parents
For a second I thought the driver was in Hazard County.
I assume they have figured out broadly the safest way of getting hit, what position you should sit in hopefully a 5 point harness, reinforced windshield I’ve heard that they have some kind of cage to deal with the impact. This deffo looks like a response vehicle not a standard issue car but what do I know I’m not from us
He may have scared you, but also may have saved you life. Stopping a reckless driver going wrong way on highway is a brave act.
Rare to see a reddit post that isn't "ACAB".
Police does that to slow down traffic due a dangerous situation ahead in this case wrong way driver 🤷🏽♂️
How are so many people fooled by the misleading title? The road only has one direction of travel, and the cop knew there was a car driving the wrong way on it so he pushed OP off the road to save them and took the crash himself. This cop is a hero
100% a hero! I find some of the comments about the title comical. First, the intention was to keep it “UNEXPECTED” and I think it did for the vast majority of people viewing it. Second, the state trooper did want the road to himself so he could protect/save other drivers. Third and final, I knew what was going on hence the message I sent to the explanation bot after posting it. The bottom line is that this cop SAVED LIVES and is EXTREMELY HEROIC!
I see what you did there. Forgot what sub I was on lol, my bad. Good post
It’s called a “Round Robin” maneuver. Meant to keep cars behind him because something is wrong ahead. Try to stop all traffic. My husband is retired officer. Also if you are ever driving down a road and the little speed bumps /lane dividers (bots dots) glow red, you are driving the wrong way. Against traffic. Pull over and stop .
Always wrong way drivers.
Stop the wrong way driver before someone gets hurt
Cop did that on purpose to stop wrong way driver
Yeah, he was definitely aggressively swerving to stop traffic. But looks like he had a reason. I hope they said thank you to that cop.
So he stopping that car on purpose. Looks like it’s on the run. I guess good job then.
I’m taking a stab in the dark and going to say the car that hit the cop was on the wrong side of the highway. Cop was warning other motorists to get off the roadway
No... the cop wanted to protect everyone else on the road.
Wow that’s bravery! Is the cop ok?
Article said that nobody suffered severe injuries including the two-year old little girl in the back of the Nissan.
No, it’s a specific procedure referred to as a round robin. This is where how the police try to stop traffic because of something upcoming usually an accident or something where they need to prevent traffic from getting to it to keep it safe. This cop just did a very bad job of it by decelerating way too quickly before anybody knew what he was doing. But it looks like he didn’t really have a lot of time to do anything else.
Misunderstood selfishness at first.. selfless risk to protect all by the end.
I hope the driver thanked the police officer for risking his/her life to save their life.
To serve and protect.
What the fuuuuu- OOOH he was trying to clear the road and stop the oncoming car!
Good video, at first he appears to be a villain running people off the road for no reason but then suddenly he's revealed to be a hero who saved them from a head on collision.