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

Páid · 29-08-2013 10:41AM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

What kills me is SUV and trailer at 44 seconds, grand place to pull in? Nah, I'll just dumper her here, begrandtofcuk.

Parking a vehicle in a dangerous position (i.e. across from a continuous white line) is a mandatory court appearance, 5 points on your licence and a court fine.

MarkR · 29-08-2013 10:45AM

runawaybishop wrote: »

Was the first not very tight into oncoming traffic? Was there a 3rd?

Yep, three overtakes. As mentioned, first was grand. Bit closer than I would like, but grand.

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

What kills me is SUV and trailer at 44 seconds, grand place to pull in? Nah, I'll just dumper her here, begrandtofcuk.
Wow, Ray D'Arcy still going?

Hadn't even noticed that to be honest, so used to stuff like that.

Páid wrote: »

Parking a vehicle in a dangerous position (i.e. across from a continuous white line) is a mandatory court appearance, 5 points on your licence and a court fine.

Those are some serious penalties. Suppose it can easily contribute to an accident.

dr.fuzzenstein · 29-08-2013 11:34AM

Yeah, but nothing is ever going to happen about it...

rizzodun · 30-08-2013 07:06PM

This is all Russian dash cam clips, they upload a new one every few weeks, I always end up watching them and try to see the accident before it happens, just to see how perceptive I am.

RainyDay · 30-08-2013 08:27PM

rizzodun wrote: »

This is all Russian dash cam clips, they upload a new one every few weeks, I always end up watching them and try to see the accident before it happens, just to see how perceptive I am.

Very 'fresh', some of the incidents happened last week!

Sterling Archer · 30-08-2013 08:50PM

It's a very up to date channel, nicely put together videos, I've subbed to it with a while, great for when you've had a frustration drive home

rizzodun · 30-08-2013 09:00PM

Great channel that proves how idiotic some drivers can be, some accidents I've seen on those videos could be spotted way before it happened, how the drivers didn't see it coming amazes me.

mb1725 · 30-08-2013 09:03PM

Body shops must be doing a roaring trade in Russia!

rizzodun · 30-08-2013 09:10PM

If you thought they were bad, this one is all trucks.

rocky · 30-08-2013 10:19PM

This is the best Russian channel I found

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NoAjUT9KER13fJNc_nfFA

I'm also subbed to this one

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCus4UUyHiScQHZETbHZAtGw

dr.fuzzenstein · 30-08-2013 11:03PM

rizzodun wrote: »

This is all Russian dash cam clips, they upload a new one every few weeks, I always end up watching them and try to see the accident before it happens, just to see how perceptive I am.

Jesus, half of them seem to think "I'll just pull out now, fuggitanyway" and the other half "well I'm in the right, so I'm not stopping"
When apportioning blame in an accident, the new procedure should be watch the video and if the driver didn't seem to bothered about avoiding the accident, 50% of the blame. That way dash cams would catch people who say "great cash opportunity, let's plow into him"

rizzodun · 30-08-2013 11:37PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

When apportioning blame in an accident, the new procedure should be watch the video and if the driver didn't seem to bothered about avoiding the accident, 50% of the blame.

This bus driver is known as 'The Punisher' for his tendency to punish drivers that cut him up, apparently from an article I've read he's never been blamed for any of his accidents.

CiniO · 31-08-2013 12:34AM

rizzodun wrote: »

This bus driver is known as 'The Punisher' for his tendency to punish drivers that cut him up, apparently from an article I've read he's never been blamed for any of his accidents.

To be honest most of those accidents on that video are people who pull in in front of him and brake.
You can't really do emergency braking in a bus full of standing passengers, so it's probably better off to hit the car, instead of trying to do emergency braking and risking some injuries to his passengers.

rizzodun · 31-08-2013 01:11AM

CiniO wrote: »

To be honest most of those accidents on that video are people who pull in in front of him and brake.
You can't really do emergency braking in a bus full of standing passengers, so it's probably better off to hit the car, instead of trying to do emergency braking and risking some injuries to his passengers.

That's pretty much, word for word, his excuse, do you drive for Dublin Bus? :pac:

CiniO · 31-08-2013 01:44AM

rizzodun wrote: »

That's pretty much, word for word, his excuse, do you drive for Dublin Bus? :pac:

No - I don't drive for Dublin Bus, but I do drive buses.

31-08-2013 01:47PM

Why are people brake testing him ?

If they are trying to change lanes, fair enough. But why brake test a bus after switching lanes, I don't get it

Gosub · 31-08-2013 02:38PM

salonfire wrote: »

Why are people brake testing him ?

If they are trying to change lanes, fair enough. But why brake test a bus after switching lanes, I don't get it

It's called crash for cash. They do it in the hope that he hasn't got a dash cam... well, this fella's prolly sick of being taken for a soft touch.

MarkR · 31-08-2013 03:48PM

Did I see a manhole shooting up and hitting a van in that one?

Sam Russell · 31-08-2013 04:24PM

It's like mad dodgems out there. Is it because it is a vast country and we see the extremes or is it usually like this? Car repairs must be quite cheap, or do the weld the font and back of the damaged cars to make one good one?

rizzodun · 31-08-2013 04:41PM

Sam Russell wrote: »

It's like mad dodgems out there. Is it because it is a vast country and we see the extremes or is it usually like this? Car repairs must be quite cheap, or do the weld the font and back of the damaged cars to make one good one?

I don't have exact figures but while Russia's road death per million is reported higher than most countries it's apparently lower than US and China, I'd say there's so many clips purely because of the amount of dashcams people have.

Here's some from the US, although not as extreme

Max Power1 · 31-08-2013 06:20PM

rizzodun wrote: »

This bus driver is known as 'The Punisher' for his tendency to punish drivers that cut him up, apparently from an article I've read he's never been blamed for any of his accidents.

That is hilarious, one of the funniest videos ive seen in a long time. Fair play to him.

rizzodun · 31-08-2013 08:15PM

Here's a 27 minute long one, with a land cruiser blowing up at 20.10, no idea why..

It does become obvious though that the reason Russia have so many accidents might have something to do with the weather.

RainyDay · 31-08-2013 08:16PM

mb1725 wrote: »

Body shops Vodka shops must be doing a roaring trade in Russia!

Fixed your post

vibe666 · 31-08-2013 09:17PM

rizzodun wrote: »

Here's a 27 minute long one, with a land cruiser blowing up at 20.10, no idea why..

that's what's known in certain technical circles as "a bomb". seriously, that's a proper explosion, it didn't happen by accident.

Sam Russell · 31-08-2013 09:39PM

rizzodun wrote: »

Here's a 27 minute long one, with a land cruiser blowing up at 20.10, no idea why..

It does become obvious though that the reason Russia have so many accidents might have something to do with the weather.

Yes, but their junctions appear to promote accidents. They appear to go when they are blind and cannot see oncoming cars. They cut each other up, and lose control of their cars (admittedly in the ice) but must be driving too fast for the conditions. Lorries appear ablivious of cars altogether. A very dangerous environment to be driving. However, most of these appear damage only, but I'm not entirely sure.

Does RED mean the same in Russia?

vibe666 · 31-08-2013 09:50PM

i'm starting to think that each car in russia exists on a slightly different plane of existence to every other car so that drivers are totally unaware of the existence of everyone else on the roads. i honestly can't think of any other explanation that explains how they get themselves into such easily avoidable accidents.