Dash cam thread 2 (car videos only, no commenting on videos)

fritzelly

Deleted User wrote: »

Wrong way caravan & a crowded motorway, just before the inevitable collision!
https://www.facebook.com/Idiotukdriversmedia/videos/2114226478794024/

More on the story here
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6278839/Car-towing-caravan-WRONG-WAY-M40-crashes-vehicles.html

Always amazes me how people can drive down the wrong side of a road and not realise something might be amiss when all the other cars are coming towards you. Especially on a motorway where you can clearly see cars on the other side of the barricade
Looks like a pretty serious accident they caused.

Sterling Archer

Deleted User wrote: »

Wrong way caravan & a crowded motorway, just before the inevitable collision!
https://www.facebook.com/Idiotukdriversmedia/videos/2114226478794024/

More on the story here
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6278839/Car-towing-caravan-WRONG-WAY-M40-crashes-vehicles.html

Streamable link
https://streamable.com/af1p4

josip

CiniO wrote: »

I wonder why they keep saying "foreign plates" and won't say where the car was from?
Also is says in the article to provide footage to the police, and refrain of sharing it on the internet.

I'm really curious where the car was from, considering it was RHD.

It doesn't really matter any more which country the car was from.
It's now just Britain and everyone else.
Them (foreigners) and us.

CiniO

CiniO wrote: »

I wonder why they keep saying "foreign plates" and won't say where the car was from?
Also is says in the article to provide footage to the police, and refrain of sharing it on the internet.

I'm really curious where the car was from, considering it was RHD.

I'm not sure how you can say it's RHD, very difficult to see in the video, but the caravan has the door on the right so it was designed to be used in a country where you drive on the right.

Silent Running

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm not sure how you can say it's RHD, very difficult to see in the video, but the caravan has the door on the right so it was designed to be used in a country where you drive on the right.

The wiper position on the car does indicate a RHD car.

inforfun

Silent Running wrote: »

The wiper position on the car does indicate a RHD car.

Yep.
And plates look white.
So.... leaves not that many options.

sightband

fritzelly wrote: »

Always amazes me how people can drive down the wrong side of a road and not realise something might be amiss when all the other cars are coming towards you. Especially on a motorway where you can clearly see cars on the other side of the barricade
Looks like a pretty serious accident they caused.

I’m guessing it’s panic and they are hoping for an exit. Saw it about 15 years ago on the way to Kerry, early Sunday morning so no traffic. Rang the gardaí and never heard a thing about it.

Isambard

how would you even get to be going the wrong way in the fast lane on a busy motorway?

Silent Running

Took the wrong ferry and thought they were in France?

mikeymouse

Isambard wrote: »

how would you even get to be going the wrong way in the fast lane on a busy motorway?

Thinks they are on the hard shoulder?

inforfun

People who are going the wrong way are about the only ones who are fanatical as it comes to keeping the most left lane.

Seve OB

what I don't get about it is they are flying along, full speed into oncoming traffic.
if that was anyone normal, you would slow to stop as quick as possible and pull off to the side like we saw the cars who were going the right way do.

someone on a mission maybe

punisher5112

Fastest I've ever seen anyone towing a caravan before in my life.

Usually they hold up the traffic...

amcalester

Seve OB wrote: »

what I don't get about it is they are flying along, full speed into oncoming traffic.
if that was anyone normal, you would slow to stop as quick as possible and pull off to the side like we saw the cars who were going the right way do.

someone on a mission maybe

Perhaps the kids were fighting in the back and the driver followed through on the threat

If you two don't stop fighting I'll turn this thing around and there'll be no holiday

GreeBo

Isambard wrote: »

how would you even get to be going the wrong way in the fast lane on a busy motorway?

More importantly, how would you even find a "fast" lane on a motorway?

tedpan

GreeBo wrote:

More importantly, how would you even find a "fast" lane on a motorway?

It was the UK, the right overtaking lane is known as the fast lane over there

josip

From his/her perspective they were in the 'slow' lane

GreeBo

tedpan wrote: »

It was the UK, the right overtaking lane is known as the fast lane over there

Like here, only by people who dont know how to drive properly.

punisher5112

Had a car on N11 a few years ago coming head on at Newtown mt Kennedy.

It was around 830pm, dark and I remember seeing lights shining on the middle embankment.

I slowed and created a buffer zone while weaving to stop anyone passing and having them slow also.

I was able to get the car to stop and he eventually turned and went the correct way.

Scary stuff as he wasn't driving slow either.

The more worrying part was that this person lived in the area and should have known the roads as cops checked after.

bazz26

More info here about the Subaru going the wrong way on the motorway:

https://news.sky.com/story/m40-crash-three-dead-after-car-towing-caravan-drives-in-wrong-direction-up-fast-lane-11527193

Seve OB

terrible
I think if I was related to the guy in the Mondeo I would be looking for a manslaughter charge

tedpan

tedpan wrote: »

It was the UK, the right overtaking lane is known as the fast lane over there

No, it is lane 3 there is no fast lane.

punisher5112

Seve OB wrote: »

terrible
I think if I was related to the guy in the Mondeo I would be looking for a manslaughter charge

But sure the tool going the wrong way died.

Hammer Archer

Why am I not surprised that the driver was elderly?
I remember there was a show on RTE a few years back following Gardai on traffic duties. One was alerted to an elderly driver driving the wrong way down the N7 dual carriageway. Driver was stopped, was escorted off the road and, if I remember correctly, wasn't given anything more than a warning.
I think an elderly driver killed someone down in Cork doing the exact same thing. Seems to be a mentality of "Ah shur they're elderly, they don't know any better".
Bizarrely, driving the wrong way on a dual carriageway is only 2 penalty points. Should be an automatic ban.

Seve OB

Seve OB wrote: »

terrible
I think if I was related to the guy in the Mondeo I would be looking for a manslaughter charge

A couple in their 80s, also killed, no charges can be brought against them.

Seve OB

fair enough, cant bring a charge but surely there has to be some repercussions

I mean we don't know if that fella had a young family or whatever.

a civil suit is sure to happen against the old pairs estate.

Hurrache

Seve OB wrote: »

fair enough, cant bring a charge but surely there has to be some repercussions

Death of you and your wife, can't get much bigger repercussions for that.

Seve OB

so if that was your husband in the Mondeo and you had 4 small kids, would you be just happy that the old couple died?

I certainly wouldn't be

Hurrache

Seve OB wrote: »

so if that was your husband in the Mondeo and you had 4 small kids, would you be just happy that the old couple died?

I certainly wouldn't be

I wouldn't be happy anyone died.

Isambard

GreeBo wrote: »

More importantly, how would you even find a "fast" lane on a motorway?

Yawn. It's in the UK not Ireland where people worry about that