FFS will you check your mirrors!

Tallon

Idiot drivers out there!

Why would you KEEP REVERSING after hitting someone? Then drive off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rbtf32uVHI

Alanstrainor

Doubt they realised they hit anyone. What a dope.

ABajaninCork

Hope someone reported this fool!

-Corkie-

Rear wiper on says it all really...

RGDATA!

girl minding the kid who runs behind reversing car and across the road blind didn't cover herself in glory either

galwaydude18

RGDATA! wrote: »

girl minding the kid who runs behind reversing car and across the road blind didn't cover herself in glory either

Jesus Christ what a dumb ass! And Jesus Christ again to that child running out like that!

Tallon

ABajaninCork wrote: »

Hope someone reported this fool!

Yeah I did, will be giving them the video on a disc too

ABajaninCork

When did this happen?

Marcin_diy

ABajaninCork wrote: »

Hope someone reported this fool!

You mean this woman for.crossing road in a place she is not allowed to?

Jimbob 83

Driver was not paying attention, that being said i see no zebra crossing and people seem to be just running around in the traffic which is insane, everyone in the video is to blame tbh

Marlow

Matter of fact, none of the pedestrians are covering themselves in glory there.

When you cross a street in traffic, while not using a pedestrian crossing, you really need to be a bit more careful.

The white reverse lights come on, just as she reaches the Renault. Should have copped on to that. Doesn't excuse the driver of the Renault though, as she should have expected the pedestrian behind her since she already was out in the road before the driver passed her.

/M

Tallon

Regardless of who was in the right or wrong, if you hit something or someone, you should NOT DRIVE OFF!

ABajaninCork wrote: »

When did this happen?

All details on the bottom of the video

25.08.2012 - 14:06

ABajaninCork

Ah OK!! Missed that...

bobin fudge

almost wrote his car of there :pac:

sheehan12

is the video for a roadhawk??

Jimbob 83

She wouldn't have been hit if her arse didn't stick out as much

Marlow

Tallon wrote: »

Regardless of who was in the right or wrong, if you hit something or someone, you should NOT DRIVE OFF!

Agreed. As pedestrian I would walk around the car and bang on his/her window and make them aware what they were at. Surely the driver hasn't noticed a feckin' thing. Shouldn't be allowed to have a driving license in the first place.

/M

Tallon

It's from a cheapo dash cam

Full details in the video description

meoklmrk91

Clearly just stuck the car in reverse and didn't check their mirrors what do ever, pedestrian should probably have been a bit more careful though that is not in anyway an excuse.

flanzer

The cops will most likely use the DVD as a mug coaster here. This is not your normal run of the mill hit and run. In fact, the pedestrian walked off first.

I know this town quite well and it's a pedestrian free-for-all. You only have to look at the 2 kids running out on the street at 0:16

As someone pointed out, everyone is to blame in this footage

MadsL

Had this someone reverse into my car twice in one week. Second time i was told it was my fault because I was parked behind the woman! Thankfully the front end of Smarts are incredibly bendy. One of the advantages of plastic body panels.

son.of.jimi

this happened to me before, some gobsh**e reversed into me, knocked me over and then continued to park in the space they initially tried to get into.

I did get annoyed (obviously), and pulled the driver out of the car and was about to do something i would have regretted, however two gardai saw everything and stood in before i could land a few.

I get a warning, and the driver was arrested for 'dangerous driving'

mikemac1

In Nenagh you cross wherever you want tbh, traffic never moves quickly

Such a free for all they put up metal railings to force people to use the pedestrian crossings

Both of them are at fault but it's no big deal

I would think they defo realised they hit someone, saw the lady walk away and decided not to get out.

Tallon

flanzer wrote: »

The cops will most likely use the DVD as a mug coaster here. This is not your normal run of the mill hit and run. In fact, the pedestrian walked off first.

I know this town quite well and it's a pedestrian free-for-all. You only have to look at the 2 kids running out on the street at 0:16

As someone pointed out, everyone is to blame in this footage

I agree, used to live there, learned to drive there, it's a nightmare!

I know the law won't do anything and nothing will happen, but reporting it and providing video evidence is the right thing to do and I'd rather report it and have nothing done than not report it and hear the driver layer went in to do something worse etc

Matt Simis

RoverJames wrote: »

I would think they defo realised they hit someone, saw the lady walk away and decided not to get out.

Yeah, this is slightly more likely (its not like the thing they hit was of inconsequential mass..), getting out would have achieved precisely nothing.

Love the second set of random people running across the road too. If people are going to run out like animals (though in fairness Ive seen dogs with more road sense that the 4 road runners in this video) into moving 1ton plus lumps of metal, they are going to get knocked down.

Marcin_diy

Tallon wrote: »

I agree, used to live there, learned to drive there, it's a nightmare!

I know the law won't do anything and nothing will happen, but reporting it and providing video evidence is the right thing to do and I'd rather report it and have nothing done than not report it and hear the driver layer went in to do something worse etc

reporting would be unfair. garda can easily find owner of the car, but it is not only his fault. that big woman should be punished too. So or you can give gards details of all involved, orforget this. this is my opinion. it is just unfair. Car wasnt on the footpath, zebra, etc. those women should not be there, and they just walked off, so thats not your business.

Ciderswigger

Nenagh is a horrific town to drive in. Between useless drivers and people with their head up their a$$ it's a nightmare to get around it without losing your cool. I have relations from Dublin and Galway and they say if you can drive in Nenagh you can drive anywhere.

Tallon

Hang on, let's get something straight!

The car stopped abruptly, the two women looked at me and I smiled as in 'work away and cross on front of me as I'll wait here'

They crossed under the assumption that I wasn't going to mow them down.

Next thing, the woman on front slams the car into reverse and continues without checking the mirror! She hits a pedestrian, and stopped (as I witnessed and as you can see in the video) she then CONTINUES to reverse and near hits two children, but this time does not bat an eyelid... Then drives off, STILL without checking her mirrors!

She didn't stop to see if the original girl actually left the scene, or jumped on the path after being hit by a car!

Everyone in the video is in the wrong, However, the driver is the TOTALLY at fault! You DO NOT HIT ANYTHING and leave without questioning it! Saying 'because the pedestrian left' is retarded

She then holds the brakes... then lifts the brakes and give it accelerator and realises she's in reverse, then goes into gear, and takes off!

delly

I dunno, I wouldn't be too quick to pounce on the driver. I've often started reversing manoeuvres in carparks whilst watching the rearview mirror and even with an instant reaction, the pedestrian is halfway across the back of your car by the time you have stopped.

In this case I think the driver saw the pedestrian, jumped on the breaks and mixed up the feeling of impact with the sudden deceleration. This is the reason the reversing manoeuvre stopped initially, because of seeing the pedestrian, but then continued on as the driver was unaware.

Tallon

Tallon wrote: »

Hang on, let's get something straight!

The car stopped abruptly, the two women looked at me and I smiled as in 'work away and cross on front of me as I'll wait here'

They crossed under the assumption that I wasn't going to mow them down.

Next thing, the woman on front slams the car into reverse and continues without checking the mirror! She hits a pedestrian, and stopped (as I witnessed and as you can see in the video) she then CONTINUES to reverse and near hits two children, but this time does not bat an eyelid... Then drives off, STILL without checking her mirrors!

She didn't stop to see if the original girl actually left the scene, or jumped on the path after being hit by a car!

Everyone in the video is in the wrong, However, the driver is the TOTALLY at fault! You DO NOT HIT ANYTHING and leave without questioning it! Saying 'because the pedestrian left' is retarded

She then holds the brakes... then lifts the brakes and give it accelerator and realises she's in reverse, then goes into gear, and takes off!

Took you a while to get that something straight yourself

Dunno what video you were watching tbh

Tallon

delly wrote: »

I dunno, I wouldn't be too quick to pounce on the driver. I've often started reversing manoeuvres in carparks whilst watching the rearview mirror and even with an instant reaction, the pedestrian is halfway across the back of your car by the time you have stopped.

In this case I think the driver saw the pedestrian, jumped on the breaks and mixed up the feeling of impact with the sudden deceleration. This is the reason the reversing manoeuvre stopped initially, because of seeing the pedestrian, but then continued on as the driver was unaware.

There's no 'mixed up the feeling of impact' here... The driver HIT the pedestrian! and it was clear they braked because they felt the impact.. Watch the video, you can see it

Tallon

RoverJames wrote: »

Took you a while to get that something straight yourself

Dunno what video you were watching tbh

I wasn't 'watching' the video.. I was there, taking it :rolleyes:

Marcin_diy

Tallon wrote: »

There's no 'mixed up the feeling of impact' here... The driver HIT the pedestrian! and it was clear they braked because they felt the impact.. Watch the video, you can see it

look from other side- pedestrian hit the car. driver looked in the reverse mirror nobody there, no zebra, so no pedestrian should be there, then bump pedestrian hit the car and walked of from the scene.

mikemac1

Tallon wrote: »

I agree, used to live there, learned to drive there, it's a nightmare!

For a number of years it had one of the highest failure rates in the country for the driving test

Poxy little mini roundabouts, buses stopping on Pearse St and clogging it up, pedestrians all the place, traffic lights the council like to switch off sometimes and even the gates out of the test centre are narrow

I applied to Birr

delly

Tallon wrote: »

There's no 'mixed up the feeling of impact' here... The driver HIT the pedestrian! and it was clear they braked because they felt the impact.. Watch the video, you can see it

What I see is the brake lights coming on at the same time as the first frame showing impact. I would expect the brake light to follow impact if it was a reaction to the impact.

Tallon

Marcin_diy wrote: »

look from other side- pedestrian hit the car. driver looked in the reverse mirror nobody there, no zebra, so no pedestrian should be there, then bump pedestrian hit the car and walked of from the scene.

Irrelevant! There is NO WAY the driver decided that in the split second the incident happened... if you fear or hear or feel you hit someone, you're supposed to stop!

delly wrote: »

What I see is the brake lights coming on at the same time as the first frame showing impact. I would expect the brake light to follow impact if it was a reaction to the impact.

This is not a 60fps camera, so what you are seeing, is a millisecond delay

Even in saying that, if you watch in 720p on full screen, you will see, that she braked after she hit the girl.. also, the girl was clearly crossing the road, she was nearly on the white line before the car stopped, then the car reversed before checking her mirrors

demanufactured

Looks like the car barely moved...
Were the reversing lights on??

Yer one didn't seem all that bothered did she???

Stark

Eh the woman she hit left the scene. What's the driver supposed to do, sit there blocking traffic for the rest of the day waiting for her to come back?

Tallon

Stark wrote: »

Eh the woman she hit left the scene. What's the driver supposed to do, sit there blocking traffic for the rest of the day waiting for her to come back?

She didn't leave the scene.. She headed for the path after it happened... the driver left the scene!

Guy:Incognito

-Corkie- wrote: »

Rear wiper on says it all really...

It's a setting. It gives the rear window a wipe when reverse is engaged.

LostInLM

Tallon wrote: »

Hang on, let's get something straight!

The car stopped abruptly, the two women looked at me and I smiled as in 'work away and cross on front of me as I'll wait here'

They crossed under the assumption that I wasn't going to mow them down.

Next thing, the woman on front slams the car into reverse and continues without checking the mirror! She hits a pedestrian, and stopped (as I witnessed and as you can see in the video) she then CONTINUES to reverse and near hits two children, but this time does not bat an eyelid... Then drives off, STILL without checking her mirrors!

She didn't stop to see if the original girl actually left the scene, or jumped on the path after being hit by a car!

Everyone in the video is in the wrong, However, the driver is the TOTALLY at fault! You DO NOT HIT ANYTHING and leave without questioning it! Saying 'because the pedestrian left' is retarded

She then holds the brakes... then lifts the brakes and give it accelerator and realises she's in reverse, then goes into gear, and takes off!

It's the idiot driver 2 cars in front who you should be reporting. Obviously breaker suddenly on seeing parking space forcing Megan to break. Then moves forward and starts to reverse park without giving clear indication forcing Megan driver to take evasive action and go into reverse.

Not sure why you gave direction to a pedestrian to cross in front of you with all this happening around you. I assume you were observing the road in front of you! Arguably, if she was injured she could claim that you directed her onto the road, potentially making you liable.

Anyway, nobody got injured thankfully. Valuable lessons learned by all :-)

Marcusm

Had an interesting one during the week. Was in Mayfield services on te way from Dublin To north Tipp. Unusually for me, i drove into the space. So, when leaving, I had to reverse out. While doing so, a woman and child decided to walk between my reversing car and those in the bays behind. She did so while holding her arm aloft in a quasi Nazi salute. As soon as i saw her I stopped dead anddidn't move. She came t o my window to say that I was considerate unlike others she'd met. She had an English accent and was, I think, drawn to speak to me by my UK reg. I said I was not considerate but merely shocked by someone who woud voluntarily drag their child behind a moving car. Simply, on any collision, they would come off worst and I could not see how any sentient person would bother putting themselves in harm's way. She muttered about Irish Drivers and walked on.

Am I an idiot?

Ciderswigger

mikemac1 wrote: »

Poxy little mini roundabouts

Those fcuking roundabouts!!!!!:mad:

And then zebra crossings about a cars length away from them so you'd barely be off the roundabout before you have to stop. Nenaghs roads would wither you.

Yawns

Marcusm wrote: »

Am I an idiot?

Nah you're not, treat most road users as idiots and things will be a lot easier. I had one last weekend up in citywest near the last luas stop. I was pulled in to a lay by to take note of a number on a sign. I waited til the way behind me was clear before coming out. As I was coming out, about 150 - 200m ahead was a group of people crossing the road. I think fine and I keep going easy along and then the one of the group starts waving her arms. I had no idea what she was at so I slow down and come to a real slow roll still no where near them. I roll down the window to hear her in a load voice moaning about idiot drivers revving the **** out of cars and flying down roads, I could have killed them all.

I can only assume she didn't see me in the lay by to begin with and assumed I was speeding down the road to get there that fast. Either way she's a feckin idiot. Arms waving in the air like big bird as if she was signaling planes in for taxiing.

Yawns

What the **** is it with drivers and mini roundabouts?

There is one ****ing mini rounabout in the local town and it's diabolical the way every day there is a near miss on it. Most of the time it's the people coming down the hill not looking to the traffic coming from their immediate right at the bottom of their slope. Not always them tho.

Today's example I was coming down the hill and slowed as I approached the roundabout. I was indicating to go around it. There was one car there already coming on before I got there and he was going straight through, so I go on then as he is exiting. I'm just turning and then the idiot bitch behind the first guy trundles out onto it. She makes to slow down while saying oh I'm sorry at me through the window. Only for me thinking she was going to do it and taking it handy was I able to stop.

DubTony

Anyone driving in a busy town needs to be much more aware of what's going on around them. It's obvious that the ped that was hit was crossing the road as the Megane passed, so any driver paying proper attention would be thinking, "where did that person go?". This driver then didn't see the kid on the left either. Not good enough. In this situation a good driver would almost have whiplash from turning their head left and right so much to see what's going on around them.
If you watch for the brake lights of the car that parked, you'll see that the Megane actually accelerates after the car in front braked.
This is a case of absolutely disgraceful driving.

Hal1

Good job she had a bumper for an arse there :pac:.

sean1141

Jesus sure the car didnt even knock her down. Compleatly the the fault of the fool who walked right out behind the car.
Tal you left loads of space between yourself and the megane but yet she walked right behind the back of the megane. At least she could have done was walk across in the middle of the two cars. Its just plain stupid to walk that closr to any car, truck, tractor etc.

It has happened to me a few times where some clown walked right across at my back bumper and on at least 3 times they busted their shins on my towbar! Delighted for them so I was. I grew up around tractors and stuff and the first thing I was told was never walk anywhere close to a machine with an engine running.

Pedestrains in this country need a wake up call espically the ones who walk out in front or behind cars in a busy town. I think its very unfair to blame a driver for som eone elses stupidy.

cletus

Theres a pedestrian crossing almost directly behind the OP's car, yet that woman chose to walk out into moving traffic. Idiot

bobin fudge

Hal1 wrote: »

Good job she had a bumper for an arse there :pac:.

next time should have warning lights and sounds fitted on to her arse as well when crossing