Dash cam saves your ass (no Roundabout stuff please :)

Páid

Páid wrote: »

Driving west on the N4 Friday I overtook a bus and started to move into the left lane when I noticed an oncoming car on the other side of the dual carriageway flashing his lights. A few seconds later I meet a car coming in the wrong direction on the N4 in the overtaking lane :eek:

You can see from Exit 5 sign that they must have driven 2km down the wrong side. There are two cars pulled in just after the exit and another pulls in as I pass possibly to phone the Gardaí.

I have forwarded the youtube link to the Gardaí

mb1725

Could it be LD plate?

bear1

I would say that is an LD plate.
I would doubt it would be a hire car, usually they are with D plates. I'd wager an old person tbh.

mb1725

mb1725 wrote: »

Could it be LD plate?

As it crashed further up the road, I'm sure the Gardaí know the number plate.

(Assuming it didn't cause a crash and then leave the scene)

franksm

Jesus, that's brown-trouser stuff.

And here's mine from today, being cut up by a tosser in a BMW 06D56614. Luckily he realised the error of his ways and gave me a jaunty single-finger-wave. So much for leaving a safe gap between cars.

Footage from the rear camera starts 00:46

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46zSMUIawRY

joujoujou

That wasn't an error, he did that deliberately - footage from rear view camera clearly shows he had big enough space behind you to join traffic and decided to speed up instead and cut in front of you.

ba_barabus

bear1 wrote: »

I would say that is an LD plate.
I would doubt it would be a hire car, usually they are with D plates. I'd wager an old person tbh.

A lot of hire cars have non D plates as customers like county specific reg plates come resale time in September

bear1

ba_barabus wrote: »

A lot of hire cars have non D plates as customers like county specific reg plates come resale time in September

Didn't know, I worked for Hertz a while back and all their cars are D reg'd.

CramCycle

bear1 wrote: »

Didn't know, I worked for Hertz a while back and all their cars are D reg'd.

They usually will get a good deal with a local supplier and the reg will he wherever that guy registers the cars. Hence why the plates are nearly always from the city that the rental place exists.

fred funk }{

Heading North on the M11 the other day, this gob****e decided to cut across the Motorway to make her exit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oq1dG7ZBrI

dashcamdanny

what time on the vid is the incident? It is 5 mins long.

bear1

Watch the first 1.30 mins

dickwod1

dashcamdanny wrote: »

what time on the vid is the incident? It is 5 mins long.

Have a look :eek: and see

fred funk }{

fred funk }{ wrote: »

Heading North on the M11 the other day, this gob****e decided to cut across the Motorway to make her exit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oq1dG7ZBrI

Looks like she changed her mind about passing the car in front and then almost stopping before changing lanes. Would have been much safer to have gone on to the next junction and turning back.

Obviously had no idea how close to the junction she was.
Sleep driving at it's best.

gutteruu

wonski wrote: »

That is dangerous driving, clearly. It won't be 2 points and 80 euro fine.

I agree but, "Driving a vehicle on a motorway against the flow of traffic - 2 points". No idea how you could drive the wrong way and it not be classed as dangerous driving so what is the point of them having this? Gives people a legal loophole?

Thoie

gutteruu wrote: »

I agree but, "Driving a vehicle on a motorway against the flow of traffic - 2 points". No idea how you could drive the wrong way and it not be classed as dangerous driving so what is the point of them having this? Gives people a legal loophole?

So that the next time a TD goes drink driving the wrong way down a motorway, they can give them 2 points and say that's all that's required/no other charges. If you do it, there'll be other charges to answer.

Scottie99

joujoujou wrote: »

That wasn't an error, he did that deliberately - footage from rear view camera clearly shows he had big enough space behind you to join traffic and decided to speed up instead and cut in front of you.

I did though notice the red car speed up. The BMW seems then to cancel coming in behind him

old_aussie

When travelling at 180 kph and you hit the back of a stationary truck,


dash cam will NOT save your ass!

Mick55

Eircom van in Finglas today. Didn't fancy waiting for one cycle of the lights. Love the way he waits until there is a car coming to pull out!

h3000

Sorry for going a little off topic here but I taught this could be interesting.

Traffic Droid similar to our friend Wolf from a few pages back is featured in a Channel4 program tonight at 9pm.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-complainers/episode-guide

channel4.com wrote:

Episode 1

This episode goes inside the complaints department of Transport for London. With over a million more people in the capital than 10 years ago, the city's roads are fit to burst, and a new generation of complainers are turning up the heat.

The programme follows the back-and-forth between TfL and London's super-complainers, including an obsessive tweeter and a cyclist who deploys a strange array of tools to defend his position on the road, including seven bike-mounted cameras.

At TfL, one call handler has built a special relationship with a persistent customer, and the programme meets a bus driver who's sent on a course known as 'the naughty boys club'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-4xMUG6vBM

bear1

Shagging hell he's got red cards as well!? What a complete tosser

ironclaw

bear1 wrote: »

Shagging hell he's got red cards as well!? What a complete tosser

Thought the red light breaking was also pretty hypocritical :pac: (About 16:49 mins)

bear1

Did you hear the horn for the bike? Couldn't stop laughing at it for some reason

CramCycle

ironclaw wrote: »

Thought the red light breaking was also pretty hypocritical :pac: (About 16:49 mins)

I really hope someone sends that into the Met and they do him for it. Practice what you preach or else shut your mouth.

mb1725

There was a video of him running into the back of a car while reprimanding another motorist but I can't locate it, might be taken down. He ended up on the ground but of course tried to blame someone else. The police passed the scene too but kept going !

ironclaw

Delighted.

(NSFW commentary near the end)

Iwannahurl

ironclaw wrote: »

Thought the red light breaking was also pretty hypocritical :pac: (About 16:49 mins)

CramCycle wrote: »

I really hope someone sends that into the Met and they do him for it. Practice what you preach or else shut your mouth.

ironclaw wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p82xPvgOX8k

Delighted.

(NSFW commentary near the end)

The clip is an obnoxious mixture of selective editing, pedantry and prejudice. Which in a roundabout way proves Droid's point, I guess. Apparently London's traffic and transportation environment is a seething cauldron of stress and aggression. However, just one mode of transport is responsible for the main negative outcomes, such as death, injury, pollution, CO2 emissions etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p82xPvgOX8k

Droid is less than a metre from the white line when the lights change, and is in fact approaching on an amber light. It changes to red as he passes. Nobody is crossing, his speed is negligible, and the combined mass of bicycle and rider is a fraction of a car's.

Meanwhile a car passes by at a much higher speed and is probably at the same point just as the lights change. However, because of its higher speed it clears the lights a lot faster and therefore doesn't "break the red".

Of course it's a car and therefore less worthy of attention when the main aim of the aggressive pedantry is to have a go at the self-styled "social corrector", because he's a mouthy cyclist.

josip

Iwannahurl wrote: »

The clip is an obnoxious mixture of selective editing, pedantry and prejudice. Which in a roundabout way proves Droid's point, I guess. Apparently London's traffic and transportation environment is a seething cauldron of stress and aggression. However, just one mode of transport is responsible for the main negative outcomes, such as death, injury, pollution, CO2 emissions etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p82xPvgOX8k

Droid is less than a metre from the white line when the lights change, and is in fact approaching on an amber light. It changes to red as he passes. Nobody is crossing, his speed is negligible, and the combined mass of bicycle and rider is a fraction of a car's.

Meanwhile a car passes by at a much higher speed and is probably at the same point just as the lights change. However, because of its higher speed it clears the lights a lot faster and therefore doesn't "break the red".

Of course it's a car and therefore less worthy of attention when the main aim of the aggressive pedantry is to have a go at the self-styled "social corrector", because he's a mouthy cyclist.

More so because he's mouthy than because he's a cyclist I'd imagine.

Iwannahurl

I'd say he ticks a number of aggression-attracting boxes. In this instance the RLJ accusation is pure opportunism, and is clearly unjustified imo.

jackofalltrades

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Droid is less than a metre from the white line when the lights change, and is in fact approaching on an amber light.

At the speed he was going he could have stopped.
If you look at the few seconds before he cross the white line he's not even looking at the lights.

Nobody is crossing, his speed is negligible, and the combined mass of bicycle and rider is a fraction of a car's.

Now your just making excuses.