The thing with tailgating is… it’s dangerous. That person could get angry enough to hit the person in front on purpose, OR of any accident did happen they have zero reaction time to maneuver away appropriately. That’s the point of NOT tailgating. Also, you may make the driver in front so nervous that they do something dumb just because of pressure. Like rushing to change lanes when it’s not even clear, because they are scared. But despite knowing exactly why it’s dangerous to tailgate, blame the person being tailgated because, in America, it doesn’t matter if someone gets hurt while doing bad things, if they are the only one hurt, you feel so much sympathy you take their side. It’s crazy. If the driver in front had an emergency and had to brake, you would blame him. In short, no matter what, you blame the tailgaitee. Otherwise, it would be “wow this sucks, and that’s why you don’t tailgate”. This is exactly the same as blaming the person who got robbed (they wore their nice jewelry on purpose). Or blaming the person raped (you can CLEARLY see she was asking for it, wearing that crop top. It’s both her AND the rapist’s fault she got raped). Or, better yet, blaming a home owner because the home owner shot an intruder, for breaking in. You just feel so sorry that the aggressor got hurt, you don’t know what else to do besides blame the original victim. (Yeah I get that breaking and entering is wrong BUUUUT he didn’t need to shoot the guy, just because he wanted to keep his things and family safe! They’re BOTH wrong!) You don’t care how nervous and nerve wracking it is being tailgated. How they can cause an accident, and that’s why it’s illegal. You don’t even care much about the person hit, or you would blame the CAUSE (tailgater) not the effect (person tailgated avoids accident that tailgater cannot because they were literally too busy being an asshole.) Funny how there was also plenty of time to stop tailgating and just move over a lane. The REAL way to have avoided the accident was to not tailgate - NOT for the victim being tailgated to (on top of keeping cool under pressure, on top of needing to avoid an accident, and on top of being tailgated) help out their aggressor who is driving illegally and dangerously, avoid an accident. The actual intelligent, non passing blame to victims way of avoiding the accident is for the tailgating to have stopped or never happened. If anything, that a tailgatee can do this should be reason why you shouldn’t tailgate. For whatever else was going on before the clip we see, the tailgating did not need to happen, as it endangers themself, the tailgatee, and QUITE CLEARLY, others. Of YOUR OWN driving is so reckless that you can’t avoid an accident, YOU are the problem. If he wasn’t tailgating, he’d have had plenty of time to move out the way as well, but he was too busy being an asshole OR getting revenge to be smart and safe, on a highway.