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The story
On 5ch’s live-commentary board, users kept posting videos capturing dangerous driving one after another — revenge against tailgaters, cars stranded inside railroad crossings, botched zipper-merges, and more. One clip showed a car that had been tailing closely getting into an accident, splitting the thread’s opinion over “who’s really at fault here.” Footage was also shared from a case in which a driver was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder for trapping a JAF (Japan Automobile Federation) roadside worker inside a railroad crossing, drawing plenty of attention.
What people said
The idiot who pulled onto the tracks after everyone else is just too dumb.
There's nothing here that makes them at fault.
They only rode that close because they were confident they could dodge it.
Is there even a reason they'd be at fault?
The guy who glued himself to their bumper crashed on his own, that's all.
All they had to do was keep some distance.
That's true, but you don't need to sacrifice yourself just to teach a lesson to someone who's going to screw up eventually anyway.
They should've opened up the gap before the crash happened.
What are you even saying? 😅
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2061921687466123264/vid/avc1/848×478/lgB71awsRCpT301R.mp4
The side mirror gets blown off right at the start, lol
When it's this over-the-top I can't help but laugh
They could've just let them merge in, honestly
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1681980034456911874/pu/vid/540×960/srIcOQBbCNLBLQxH.mp4
Easy to laugh since it's not my problem, but the people involved must be having a rough time
Feel bad for whoever's about to get turned into a wrecked car
Is it okay to just punch this guy to make him stop?
[Trapped the Car Behind Him at a Railroad Crossing] Driver Arrested for Attempted Murder of JAF Worker
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2090441034073563136/vid/avc1/1920×1080/K4awL5PjjtL-mLRS.mp4
Feel so bad for the JAF worker
The narration voice is Satolina (a synthesized text-to-speech narrator commonly used in Japanese reaction videos)
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1347054216586559489/pu/vid/540×960/Jiao2KZQ-Zyj9usV.mp4
Died laughing lmaooooooooo
I've seen this move in Initial D (the street-racing manga/anime)
Can't help but laugh seeing this, lol
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1077435788319547392/pu/vid/720×1280/W6vXFngosAW8uH4t.mp4
Love how the mirror goes flying
Can't help it, DIO's behind the wheel (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure villain infamous for reckless driving)
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2084052940038504448/vid/avc1/1168×722/HlIcIC4uWPbl8K_c.mp4
The left lane ends up jammed too, lol
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1498942665932435458/pu/vid/1280×720/VRkcw5EsZT8Hy7YN.mp4
They even had their blinker on properly
What a terrible driver
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1824250533281996800/pu/vid/avc1/720×1280/NqnqMa9K4auzuq_U.mp4
This is exactly what we need
Were they trying to pull out of the grass, lol
If they weren't wearing a seatbelt they'd probably be hurt
Background and Key Points
Japan criminalized tailgating outright in 2020, adding “aori unten” (violent/obstructive driving) as its own offense in the Road Traffic Act after a 2017 case on the Tomei Expressway in which a driver forced a family to stop on the shoulder, leading to a fatal rear-end collision by a truck. Aori unten now carries up to five years in prison or a 1 million yen fine, and license revocation, precisely because incidents like the ones in this thread kept escalating. JAF, the Japan Automobile Federation, is a private roadside-assistance membership organization, similar to AAA in the US — its technicians are not law enforcement and have no special protection, which is why an attack on one crossing guard/worker became national news.
The thread’s actual disagreement isn’t over tailgating being bad — everyone agrees on that — it’s over the clip where the lead car appears to provoke or maneuver in a way that causes the tailgater to crash. Posters split between “the tailgater brought it on themselves” and “deliberately baiting a crash makes the front driver complicit too,” with no consensus reached.
What’s easy to miss from outside Japan: the railroad-crossing case was charged as attempted murder, not reckless driving, because trapping a vehicle on the tracks creates a foreseeable risk of a train collision — prosecutors treat that as intent to kill, not mere endangerment, which is a much higher bar than most countries apply to road-rage cases. None of the posters raise this legal distinction; they treat it purely as another viral clip.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Good News] Tailgating Idiot Falls Right Into the Trap lmaooooooo.”
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