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

josip · 26-08-2014 02:14PM

Looks like the Beemer panicked a bit trying to get back in.
If that had been our blue Punto friend, he'd have stayed out on the other side of the island and caused less fuss...

wonski · 26-08-2014 02:15PM

bear1 wrote: »

Quick reactions from the Zafira driver.
Some dick of a BMW driver, doesn't even stop to apologise.

Guys like this do not stop to apologise. I am sure he wanted to move away from the scene asap.

gutteruu · 27-08-2014 09:29PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2jcq5oAiZE

RandomAccess · 27-08-2014 10:45PM

Anybody care to speculate on the standard distance between telecom poles?

wonski · 27-08-2014 10:49PM

RandomAccess wrote: »

Anybody care to speculate on the standard distance between telecom poles?

No, not really, but I am sure you will soon find few who will help you to determine the speed based on YouTube Video & eircom practice on the telecom posts placement. Watch the clouds, too;)

gutteruu · 27-08-2014 11:23PM

RandomAccess wrote: »

Anybody care to speculate on the standard distance between telecom poles?

I reckon youtube just sped it up for dramatic effect :rolleyes:

josip · 27-08-2014 11:29PM

Camera perspectives can be deceiving and in the absence of any concrete evidence regarding the speed I think the chances of securing a conviction for that one are slim lads.

What is done and dusted from that video is that "The Overtaker" would have had to commence the overtake on a solid white line approaching a bend. Not a wobbly leg to stand on there

RandomAccess · 27-08-2014 11:35PM

gutteruu wrote: »

I reckon youtube just sped it up for dramatic effect :rolleyes:

:pac:
Take it handy horse.. You'll have more of a chance of dodging eejits like those in the clip. Most of my clips have been low speed urban stuff thankfully.

gman2k · 27-08-2014 11:40PM

Dashcam car travelling at 100kmph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT-iGhi0coI

Iwannahurl · 28-08-2014 12:39AM

gman2k wrote: »

Dashcam car travelling at 100kmph

Iwannahurl · 28-08-2014 12:56AM

Some very lucky bus passengers here, as well as an unfortunate bus driver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P-MC-dxk0I

pudzey101 · 28-08-2014 01:13AM

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e5b_1409152811

Madness !!

Warning violence on video

Voodoomelon · 28-08-2014 01:14AM

Iwannahurl wrote: »

I don't think i've ever seen a ricer Passat or A4 with four wheels the same. Do they drive over glass all day?

deandean · 28-08-2014 08:23AM

Voodoomelon wrote: »

I don't think i've ever seen a ricer Passat or A4 with four wheels the same. Do they drive over glass all day?

Is that a space saver wheel on the Passat an'it doing 150 or so?

sogood · 28-08-2014 09:43AM

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Some very lucky bus passengers here, as well as an unfortunate bus driver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P-MC-dxk0I

Was Sandra Bullock driving that bus?

CiniO · 29-08-2014 12:09AM

Newest compilation from Polish roads.

Iwannahurl · 29-08-2014 12:52AM

CiniO wrote: »

Newest compilation from Polish roads.

I find clips featuring zebra crossings particularly nerve-racking. The typical scenario is pedestrians crossing in front of the dashcam car, and you just know some lunatic will suddenly appear and try to mow them down.

I encounter similar (though usually less serious) situations frequently, often on the school run. One motorist, feeling generous, stops to let a pedestrian (maybe a child) cross on a two-lane entry to a roundabout. Meanwhile, in the adjacent lane, other motorists drive on, oblivious.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwCt9mozHUM

wonski · 29-08-2014 01:00AM

Iwannahurl wrote: »

I find clips featuring zebra crossings particularly nerve-racking. The typical scenario is pedestrians crossing in front of the dashcam car, and you just know some lunatic will suddenly appear and try to mow them down.

Mind you, real life is no fun either. I encounter similar situations frequently, often on the school run. One motorist, feeling generous, stops to let a pedestrian (maybe a child) cross on a two-lane entry to a roundabout. Meanwhile, in the adjacent lane, other motorists drive on, oblivious.

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

There is a roundabout few meters ahead

This makes you think what kind of people you share the road with:mad:

CiniO · 29-08-2014 01:12AM

wonski wrote: »

There is a roundabout few meters ahead

This makes you think what kind of people you share the road with:mad:

I'd say this driver had no clue about driving...

CiniO · 29-08-2014 01:17AM

Iwannahurl wrote: »

I find clips featuring zebra crossings particularly nerve-racking. The typical scenario is pedestrians crossing in front of the dashcam car, and you just know some lunatic will suddenly appear and try to mow them down.

This is my own video where I stopped to let pedestrian waiting on the right side to cross for a while.
While I was stopped, 3 cars passed me on my left, and that was the reason why pedestrian wasn't going ahead.

In Poland failing to stop in line with another car who stopped in front of pedestrian crossing, as well as overtaking anyone on pedestrian crossing or directly in front of it, is the most serious offence, attracting highest number of penalty points and fine possible on the list. Yet still plenty of drivers completely ignore it. Just pure stupidity.

cormie · 29-08-2014 01:23AM

CiniO wrote: »

Newest compilation from Polish roads.

My Polish must be great, I understood nearly everything said in that video

CiniO · 29-08-2014 01:43AM

cormie wrote: »

My Polish must be great, I understood nearly everything said in that video

1:25 - "Tomek hamuj kurwa" which means "Tomek apply the f**king brake"
Must say well done, that Tomek didn't brake but swerved instead. Well done.

wonski · 29-08-2014 01:45AM

CiniO wrote: »

1:25 - "Tomek hamuj kurwa" which means "Tomek apply the f**king brake"
Must say well done, that Tomek didn't brake but swerved instead. Well done.

He did well, if he braked he would hit the car.

Never, ever take an advice from passengers.

josip · 29-08-2014 09:56AM

Very watchable but I still have to see a country that comes close to Russia for self annihiltion by dashcam. I realise it's a bigger country and possibly has a higher percentage of dashcam users, but apart from Tomek would anything else on this vid make it into the Russian equivalent?
And Tomek's Russian cousin Tomac, in the same situation, would probably have either not reacted at all, or swerved onto the other side for a headon.

What's with the diddly-eye from 4:50?

bear1 · 29-08-2014 09:56AM

CiniO wrote: »

This is my own video where I stopped to let pedestrian waiting on the right side to cross for a while.
While I was stopped, 3 cars passed me on my left, and that was the reason why pedestrian wasn't going ahead.

In Poland failing to stop in line with another car who stopped in front of pedestrian crossing, as well as overtaking anyone on pedestrian crossing or directly in front of it, is the most serious offence, attracting highest number of penalty points and fine possible on the list. Yet still plenty of drivers completely ignore it. Just pure stupidity.

A near identical situation happened to me in Italy about a year ago.
I was driving along a road which passes through a town.
There was a family waiting to cross and in Italy that isn't east.
I stopped to let them go but in my rear view mirror I saw some stupid bitch overtaking the cars which had stopped behind me.
I saw that she hadn't a clue why I had stopped so kept on going (this is all in a matter of seconds) and at this point the family was just about to clear my car.
I slammed onto the horn to warn both the family and driver.
Family jump back and the drivers ploughs on through without even slowing down.
The shock of the family.

gutteruu · 29-08-2014 10:01AM

bear1 wrote: »

A near identical situation happened to me in Italy about a year ago.

I like the way in Italy whoever stops at the crossing puts there indicator on. It stops people overtaking and lets pedestrians know to cross. (Ssame as us indicating right when at a crossing)

bear1 · 29-08-2014 10:04AM

gutteruu wrote: »

I like the way in Italy whoever stops at the crossing puts there indicator on. It stops people overtaking and lets pedestrians know to cross. (Ssame as us indicating right when at a crossing)

Not doubting you at all, but I've never noticed it.
Italian driving I can't really decide on, they are effing crazy and their spacial awareness seems to be all over the place.
But, some of the best parking skills I've ever seen and if a road is wide enough for them to consider it a dual carriageway they turn it into one no problem.

finnharpsboy · 29-08-2014 06:16PM

2 red light breakers, couldn't wait for the green

Iwannahurl · 30-08-2014 01:00AM

CiniO wrote: »

This is my own video where I stopped to let pedestrian waiting on the right side to cross for a while. While I was stopped, 3 cars passed me on my left, and that was the reason why pedestrian wasn't going ahead.

In Poland failing to stop in line with another car who stopped in front of pedestrian crossing, as well as overtaking anyone on pedestrian crossing or directly in front of it, is the most serious offence, attracting highest number of penalty points and fine possible on the list. Yet still plenty of drivers completely ignore it. Just pure stupidity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao3UyxI6R9w

The road layout is a core problem. A zebra crossing on a wide two-lane carriageway with a high design speed is asking for trouble. Irish multi-lane roundabouts are similarly pedestrian-hostile, but vehicle speeds are bound to be lower on them than on a straight stretch of wide multi-lane road between junctions.