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

tedpan

inforfun wrote:

Dont think he was serious with that speeding remark.....

You can only hope!!

AndyBoBandy

dickwod1 wrote: »

My channel's videos featured on RTE's Prime Time last week.

Did they use any more clips that weren't yours?

I notice the one at the entrance to Artane Castle was shown twice, that was my neck of the woods!! (and 20-25 years ago, I was probably pulling the same manoeuvre daily!!)

inforfun

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7371523/f04ed438/automobilist_heeft_gelukje.html

Kamili

one from yesterday, Crash on the M50 yesterday morning (took the actual crash out of the footage)
But Emergency services trying to get through and some selfish **** in a red van can't be bothered to get out of the way and blocks them. No excuse as both the garda car and the ambulance had the blues and twos on loudly and everyone else manages to get out of the way.

Can't see in the vid but the driver of the Garda car was blowing the horn at them like nobody's business and gesturing wildly - not sure why they didn't get out and have a word afterwards.

Asinine behaviour IMO, even if it was only for a few seconds.


https://youtu.be/-oR0WSIw0LM

accensi0n

Kamili wrote: »

one from yesterday, Crash on the M50 yesterday morning (took the actual crash out of the footage)
But Emergency services trying to get through and some selfish **** in a red van can't be bothered to get out of the way and blocks them. No excuse as both the garda car and the ambulance had the blues and twos on loudly and everyone else manages to get out of the way.

Can't see in the vid but the driver of the Garda car was blowing the horn at them like nobody's business and gesturing wildly - not sure why they didn't get out and have a word afterwards.

Asinine behaviour IMO, even if it was only for a few seconds.


https://youtu.be/-oR0WSIw0LM

From what I can tell you've completely misinterpreted that. He tried to get out of the way almost immediately, but moved to the right to give them the hard shoulder space, it was the wrong decision for the situation but he did move.

Kamili

accensi0n wrote: »

From what I can tell you've completely misinterpreted that. He tried to get out of the way almost immediately, but moved to the right to give them the hard shoulder space, it was the wrong decision for the situation but he did move.

Not at all, the garda car had to blow the horn repeatedly and solidly to get them even to make a decision move at all, from sitting watching the garda car and hearing the angry horn blowing, it was very clear the driver of the van had no intention to move out of the way. May not be clear at all from the vid but the garda was exceptionally frustrated.

The van driver tried to merge into the motorway, which was blocked, so had no space to move into, when they could have gone into the hard shoulder which was free.

humberklog

Sure the red car should've moved but I'm curious as to why the emergency services weren't using the hard shoulder lane?

Kamili

humberklog wrote: »

Sure the red car should've moved but I'm curious as to why the emergency services weren't using the hard shoulder lane?

It was right at the slip road on to the motorway and the cars behind had all moved into the start of the hard shoulder behind to allow the emergency services through - they took the path of least resistance till they got blocked by the red van who sat in their way. They could not go into the hard shoulder as the red van didn't move over and there was not enough room for the Garda car to fit between the white van and red van into the hard shoulder.

inforfun

Yep, emergency service take the hard shoulder en no one needs to move.

The way they try now creates a mess, some try to get out of their way by moving into the hard shoulder which is logic.
But logic isnt for all of us so there will be people trying to get out of their wat by going to try to move into the lane at the right of them.

Kamili

inforfun wrote: »

Yep, emergency service take the hard shoulder en no one needs to move.

The way they try now creates a mess, some try to get out of their way by moving into the hard shoulder which is logic.
But logic isnt for all of us so there will be people trying to get out of their wat by going to try to move into the lane at the right of them.

Except this was right at the slip road on at J11, so there was no hard shoulder wide enough for them to take yet, the cars had to move out of the way.

inforfun

Ok, but did they come all the way like this or moved in from the hard shoulder to avoid the exit?

Kamili

inforfun wrote: »

Ok, but did they come all the way like this or moved in from the hard shoulder to avoid the exit?

The slip is split into two lanes, a shorter merge lane and a longer lane, they came down the longer lane as the shorter one was blocked with people trying to merge.

The red van was oblivious to the emergency services and tried to merge right, into a lane which was solid with traffic. thus blocking them. They were clearly not paying attention to what was going on behind and didn't see the rest of the cars behind them pull in left.

Sorry to Clarify, the emergency services had only just come on at the junction.

What Username Guidelines

humberklog wrote: »

Sure the red car should've moved but I'm curious as to why the emergency services weren't using the hard shoulder lane?

Thought the same but given it’s just at/after a merge/junction, perhaps everyone behind cammer had moved left instead to save the gardai having to cut across the line of merging cars?

Kamili

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

Thought the same but given it’s just at/after a merge/junction, perhaps everyone behind cammer had moved left instead to save the gardai having to cut across the line of merging cars?

nail on the head, the emergency services had only joined the motorway at the junction themselves.

What Username Guidelines

Kamili wrote: »

nail on the head, the emergency services had only joined the motorway at the junction themselves.

Ah, I thought they were already on the motorway and attempting to get passed the merging traffic and a sea of cars had parted, even more confused that they didnt push their way in on the left from the beginning of the slip. But sure these lads do this every day, I'm sure they know more than me

SuperS54

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fancy pigeon

Nothing exciting, but a truck fell in a ditch local to me. Story goes he overtook a tractor and trailer beforehand, then realised he was going too fast and muled it into the ditch. No warning to say the road was closed, no diversion, just in on top of the fun before you know it. The second bit is daylight approaching from the other direction

Please ignore the squeaky brakes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb9uBCBXDhM

Damien360

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Nothing exciting, but a truck fell in a ditch local to me. Story goes he overtook a tractor and trailer beforehand, then realised he was going too fast and muled it into the ditch. No warning to say the road was closed, no diversion, just in on top of the fun before you know it. The second bit is daylight approaching from the other direction

Please ignore the squeaky brakes!

There could have been a UFO on screen for all I could see :pac:

Thargor

Damien360 wrote: »

There could have been a UFO on screen for all I could see :pac:

The brakes sounded like the X-Files theme at one point aswell.

fritzelly

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Nothing exciting, but a truck fell in a ditch local to me. Story goes he overtook a tractor and trailer beforehand, then realised he was going too fast and muled it into the ditch. No warning to say the road was closed, no diversion, just in on top of the fun before you know it. The second bit is daylight approaching from the other direction

Please ignore the squeaky brakes!

Tell the truth - you were on the way home from the pub and you saw the flashing blue lights and with no NCT, driving licence, insurance or tax you decided to do a quick U turn

CiniO

inforfun wrote: »

Well, if anything the EU has accomplished with their open border policies, it is that it turned The Netherlands into an Eastern European country as it comes to dashcam footage.

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7370017/37a26f16/dashcam_compilasie_uit_hollandistan.html

Are you suggesting that most drivers causing that mayhem are immigrants to Netherland and Dutch roads weren't like that before?

Sterling Archer

Who here made it into the compilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKhKwsfv7vQ

OldMrBrennan83

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fancy pigeon

fritzelly wrote: »

Tell the truth - you were on the way home from the pub and you saw the flashing blue lights and with no NCT, driving licence, insurance or tax you decided to do a quick U turn

Didn't I bump into you in the pub earlier, you had the 35 with one working light yes?!

Damien360 wrote: »

There could have been a UFO on screen for all I could see :pac:

It was pretty shonkadelic alright, even from a distance you couldn't see much... It was moreso trialing a different video editor and seeing what quality the output was, so far so good... The 2nd half of the clip anyway!

Next edited video will be better, I hope

inforfun

CiniO wrote: »

Are you suggesting that most drivers causing that mayhem are immigrants to Netherland and Dutch roads weren't like that before?

No Cathy, i am saying that the dashcam footage starts to look the same.

tedpan

Shane_ef wrote:

Who here made it into the compilation

I think you have to send the footage to Welsh drive. Think it's made up of four cammers. Awesome job

SuperS54

Stupid overtaking maneuvers on mountain roads are unfortunately common here, as are tour bus accidents and also drinking driving. Perfect storm in this one, truck driver was later found to be over the limit...at 7.40am. Full story at http://taiwanenglishnews.com/4-injured-after-tour-bus-crashes-during-illegal-overtake/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ9igl1sEwY

SuperS54

SuperS54 wrote: »

Stupid overtaking maneuvers on mountain roads are unfortunately common here, as are tour bus accidents and also drinking driving. Perfect storm in this one, truck driver was later found to be over the limit...at 7.40am. Full story at http://taiwanenglishnews.com/4-injured-after-tour-bus-crashes-during-illegal-overtake/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ9igl1sEwY

No mention of any sanction for the bus driver who caused the crash in the first place!.

inforfun

inforfun wrote: »

No Cathy, i am saying that the dashcam footage starts to look the same.

I think that it's a simple case that as the number of vehicles fitted with cameras increases, the chances of catching "Russian style" crashes also increases.

jimmynokia

There are no words but maybe there is.. https://youtu.be/keP3e7-HjuY?t=4