Dash cam thread (car videos only)

joujoujou

9 injured, including 3 children. Thankfully no deaths. Polish Police are appealing for witnesses.

Warning - it's with original sound from dashcam owner's car, so consider to mute before watching.

Mr Snow

3 vans parking on footpath and sliver mercedes takeing up 2 lanes of the road at 0.17 secdons

Top Dog

Mr Snow wrote: »

sliver mercedes takeing up 2 sides of the road at 0.17 secdons

Being a bit hyper critical of the Merc don't you think? Yellow plate so safe to assume they might not be familiar with the area so straddling 2 lanes (not 2 sides of the road) while they figure out what lane they should be in.

Mr Snow

Top Dog wrote: »

Being a bit hyper critical of the Merc don't you think? Yellow plate so safe to assume they might not be familiar with the area so straddling 2 lanes (not 2 sides of the road) while they figure out what lane they should be in.

thanks got confoused sides and lanes thanks

tedpan

A close call this morning. My wife was driving, it scared her a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRlszrH-MPs

Mr Snow

Police biker gets hit by red light runner. :eek:

https://www.facebook.com/Idiotukdriversmedia/videos/955094781305135/

Mr Snow

khamilto

She hadn't (even nearly) fully left the lane before you entered it. Had there been an accident, you would have been 100% at fault.

You were both overly hasty and you were incredibly slow to react

Isambard

always one finds a reason to blame the poster.

khamilto

Isambard wrote: »

always one finds a reason to blame the poster.

always one finds a reason to defend the poster.

See, you're not the only one who can blithely state moronic truisms.

You absolutely do not move into a lane until the lane is clear, even if the vehicle in that lane is indicating and starting to move out of it. That is roadcraft 101. The cognitive dissonance that leads the poster to believe that the other driver is an 'idiot trying to save a few seconds' while he is doing exactly the same thing is quite simply laughable - particularly as he was smack bang in the Fiesta driver's blindspot while he could quite easily see what she was doing and decided to continue to barge his way in anyway. Did he think he was teaching her a lesson by not moving out of the way when he saw her start to pull back out?

Fantastic, what a credit to motorists everywhere.

Isambard

i didn't defend him.

tedpan

khamilto wrote:

You absolutely do not move into a lane until the lane is clear, even if the vehicle in that lane is indicating and starting to move out of it. That is roadcraft 101. The cognitive dissonance that leads the poster to believe that the other driver is an 'idiot trying to save a few seconds' while he is doing exactly the same thing is quite simply laughable - particularly as he was smack bang in the Fiesta driver's blindspot while he could quite easily see what she was doing and decided to continue to merge anyway.

You didn't see the exit coming up, the fiesta comes speeding by to overtake and then decides she's not far ahead enough? Well done

khamilto

tedpan wrote: »

You didn't see the exit coming up, the fiesta comes speeding by to overtake and then decides she's not far ahead enough? Well done

What does that have to do with you entering her lane before she had exited it?

Or with you, despite being clearly in her blindspot, refusing to stop merging into the lane and barging across her?

It really doesn't matter why she was pulling from the middle into the left lane, or why she cancelled the manoeuvre. She wasn't even nearly out of her lane and you moved into it. You are 100% in the wrong, not her. That you knowingly and wilfully kept going with the manoeuvre despite the potential danger of a collision is shameful.

Alanstrainor

khamilto wrote: »

What does that have to do with you entering her lane before she had exited it?

Or with you, despite being clearly in her blindspot, refusing to stop merging into the lane and barging across her?

It really doesn't matter why she was pulling from the middle into the left lane, or why she cancelled the manoeuvre. She wasn't even nearly out of her lane and you moved into it. You are 100% in the wrong, not her. That you knowingly and wilfully kept going with the manoeuvre despite the potential danger of a collision is shameful.

Have to agree here, absolutely no reason to move in so soon especially given how clear both outer lanes were beyond the fiesta. Moving into position when there is another car still in the lane is foolish.

tonkpills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlWcL6LBV3s

My first dashcam video, disappointed in the export quality. Any recommendations on programs? I used Camtasia 2.

A driver going too fast on country roads and pedestrians having very bad timing on crossing the road.

andy69

quite day, so thought I'd post a couple from this week (first time to post here...hi all )

Smart Car in the Hard Shoulder

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

Mini switching from lane 3, to 2, to 1, to bus lane and staying there happy as Larry...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGE6GKXAm1o

neris

had been driving like a twat behind me a few minutes earlier, came flying down a bus lane and only nioticed a bus at a stop at the last minute and then pulls this stunt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHz3_UZBuyQ

khamilto

Give trafficwatch a call, should be able to get the reg off the video. Illegal overtaking & breaking a red light, likely constitutes careless driving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJDcdvRGO54

whiskeyman

Worth emailing that link to the DPD fleet manager or Safety Manager.

neris

whiskeyman wrote: »

Worth emailing that link to the DPD fleet manager or Safety Manager.

I took a photo of a dpd van last year blocking a footpath in dublin and out it on Twitter. Had dpd in dublin & the UK on it in minutes looking for details of van location etc. They seem to take that kinda stuff serious enough

Carpentry

whiskeyman wrote: »

Worth emailing that link to the DPD fleet manager or Safety Manager.

you see a van reversing why would you walk into his way ?

vectra

Carpentry wrote: »

I you see a van reversing why would you walk into his way ?

Exactly my thoughts.
You see a van reversing, you don't stop to hit the back of it.
You keep walking and nobody would have been endangered.

fullstop

He was already nearly behind the van when it blindly started reversing :rolleyes:

AndrewJRenko

vectra wrote: »

Exactly my thoughts.
You see a van reversing, you don't stop to hit the back of it.
You keep walking and nobody would have been endangered.

He didn't stop to hit it. He kept walking to get out of the way, and hit it as he went past - and rightfully so.

vectra

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

He didn't stop to hit it. He kept walking to get out of the way, and hit it as he went past - and rightfully so.

Did you not notice him changing his stride and renaiging a little?
Would have been better off to step it up than slow down.

OldMrBrennan83

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Patww79

Patww79 wrote: »

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There was one or two available for him.

What would you do if the brakes fail on your car.
A: get it towed to a garage.
B: carry on regardless.

This driver chose the second option. :eek
https://www.facebook.com/dashcamnetwork/videos/1894793224100799/