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

wonski

soccerc wrote: »

He drove a white van across the white line having a green light. What's the problem?

ger664

wonski wrote: »

He drove a white van across the white line having a green light. What's the problem?

Solid White Line, Built-up area and a pedestrian at a junction who has right of way. Green light means you can proceed with caution at a junction/crossing.

wonski

ger664 wrote: »

Solid White Line, Built-up area and a pedestrian at a junction who has right of way. Green light means you can proceed with caution at a junction/crossing.

Forgot to put a in my post. Sorry:D
Having a white van is like being a legend - you can do whatever you want.

scotchy

sebastianlieken wrote: »

NO NO NO!!! :mad:

Stop perpetuating this rubbish!

It doesn't matter if you have 4wd, you are NO better off on ice than a (front wheel) 2wd! ice is ice is ice!!

sebastianlieken wrote: »

I just wanted to clarify that you are no better off, at all .

sebastianlieken wrote: »

The only, and I really mean the ONLY benefit 4wd or awd provides is where you need to set off from a stand still BUT;

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lau1247

soccerc wrote: »

Ahhh longford town, sometimes artic truck park at the road by the topaz station too on the footpath (about 1/3 at best off the road) while they nip in to get something from the station :mad:

gutteruu

soccerc wrote: »

To be fair to him, you were doing brisk walking speed and had indicated left.

Wexfordian

stoneill wrote: »

Indeed - all cars are capable of driving in snow and ice if driven correctly, however Ireland does not have driver training for these conditions the way they do in Scandinavian countries.

Don't have it in Wisconsin either apparently

sebastianlieken

scotchy wrote: »

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glad to see that you were paying attention

4wd may give you some help setting off from a stand still, but it doesn't give you any safety benefit at all when moving, and therefore it's not an excuse to thinking you're better off in 4wd on icy roads (see the three bullet points in previous post). Thanks for bringing that up, hope I clarified that okay.

lau1247

Wexfordian wrote: »

Don't have it in Wisconsin either apparently

It just keeps on going :eek:

scotchy

sebastianlieken wrote: »

The only, and I really mean the ONLY benefit 4wd or awd provides is where you need to set off from a stand still BUT;

And getting up icy hills:)

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Mycroft H

[QUOTE=sebastianlieken;88058781

PS, @ Mycroft : sorry if that's what you meant in your post saying that you're not much better off, I just wanted to clarify that you are no better off, at all - and that if you're driving a jeep you have to be even more careful.[/QUOTE]

Yea, that's what I meant. If your going to slip, it matters not how many wheels you have. Should word it better the next time.

josip

Wexfordian wrote: »

Don't have it in Wisconsin either apparently

The traffic camera that keeps on giving.
Interesting that none of the truck drivers were caught up in it, more experience and defensive driving I suppose.
Crazy how the goup of people on the right stayed around chatting even though cars were ploughing into the trees beside them.

K.Flyer

josip wrote: »

The traffic camera that keeps on giving.
Interesting that none of the truck drivers were caught up in it, more experience and defensive driving I suppose.

It was the speeding nutjobs who thought that bad weather does not affect them that caused most of the trouble.

Crazy how the goup of people on the right stayed around chatting even though cars were ploughing into the trees beside them.

Surprised none of them were killed, but you do see them scatter at one point as another speeding gobsh¡te ploughs through the cars and more end up in the trees.

rizzodun

Odyssey 2005

rizzodun wrote: »

Ooh those Russians!!!

rizzodun

It looks like the outside lane was closed off, without any warning.

rizzodun

Look out for the guy losing his fridge at 4.02

Senecio

Can I make a suggestion that we stop linking Russian compilations on YouTube in this thread. I like this thread for the local content and discussions around the ROTR.

We're all capable of searching YouTube to get our fix of Russian madness.

Cedrus

Senecio wrote: »

Can I make a suggestion that we stop linking Russian compilations on YouTube in this thread.

Specifically the compilations, 5 minutes of 3 second clips is unwatchable imho. One or two well really good (bad) ones would be OK.

When the highlight is a fridge falling off a car we don't need to go to Russia, I had to dodge a mattress on the N25 last week (the inside lane got the bed), sorry no video.

dr.fuzzenstein

Cedrus wrote: »

Specifically the compilations, 5 minutes of 3 second clips is unwatchable imho. One or two well really good (bad) ones would be OK.

When the highlight is a fridge falling off a car we don't need to go to Russia, I had to dodge a mattress on the N25 last week (the inside lane got the bed), sorry no video.

Yes, but the Russian guy did get one.
Maybe there could be a Crazy Ivan thread. I need crazy Russians!

Aestivalis

I honestly havent a clue when it comes to video editing, and whatever way I cut the clip it made the quality a lot worse so apologies.

Its a bit hard to see, but watch the moped on the right. It pulls out half way across the road without realising I'm on coming, so he does a 180 and goes back into the hard shoulder.

In his defence, the sun was directly behind me and was blinding. At least I had my lights on, and he had a hi-viz jacket on so I saw him in plenty of time. A few more seconds could have been a different story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En8g7Apw6vc

Aestivalis

Ah lads. They quality really is dire on that, so watch in fullscreen or something.

What video editors do you use?

edit: for anybody who cant see, he pulls out behind the car that passes me.

joujoujou

Virtualdub.

I'd say quality depends on what you set in program.

maceocc2

Watch the van on the outside lane. Seen this guy earlier tonight coming off the M50 at Blanch, seriously I thought he would hit either the car or the bollards. It was very close

Celly Smunt

maceocc2 wrote: »

Watch the van on the outside lane. Seen this guy earlier tonight coming off the M50 at Blanch, seriously I thought he would hit either the car or the bollards. It was very close

Didn't really see much in that video, but i'll take your word for it as that exit is where i have seen the majority of idiotic moves being performed.

soups05

was just watching that russian comp and when it ended the youtube selection showed worst truck crashes of 2013, halfway in and its one of those scary face jumping at the screen vids.

scared the sh life outta me. will be jumpy watching vids for months now dammit.

rizzodun

Some karma for an ignorant driver (relax, it's not from Russia! :pac:)

skibum

rizzodun wrote: »

Some karma for an ignorant driver (relax, it's not from Russia! :pac:)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5de_1388749345

This link shows the beginning of this incident, yer man in the bmw really deserved what he got, pure arsehole.......

Smartguy

Traffic light junction - there should be a yellow box there surely

Sterling Archer

BMW Driver acting too aggressive, but a small bit of common sense/ courtesy from the Zafira driver would have been nice