Dash cam thread (car videos only)

07-09-2016 06:39PM

Hal1 wrote: »

[YOUTUB ]KGeQlgA90yU[/YOUTUBE]

He was doing you a favour by taking the early red so that you didn't have to! :P

rizzodun · 07-09-2016 07:05PM

shietpilot wrote: »

Most cyclists are completely daft. I was accelerating up to 100 km/h on the sliproad onto the N7 inbound. In between the sliproad and the N7 are a bunch of posts so you cannot enter it. So before I reach the end of the posts I'm doing roughly 95 km/h and this cyclist decides to get off the N7 and he ends up crossing the slip road perpendicular to the road and almost stops dead at the end of it. I literally had ABS kicking in trying to stop!

If you cannot drive with the pace of traffic on M or N roads (N roads that are similar to motorways, e.g the N7) you shouldn't be on it!

That's a mighty big brush you have there! :pac:

As said repeatedly the overwhelming majority of cyclists wouldn't attempt or defend cycling on a motorway, what you experienced was an idiot, and there's plenty of examples of such idiots in cars.

As for N roads, it's not illegal to cycle on one, and its not the same as a motorway, the speed limit is lower for a start.

shietpilot · 07-09-2016 07:14PM

rizzodun wrote: »

That's a mighty big brush you have there! :pac:

As said repeatedly the overwhelming majority of cyclists wouldn't attempt or defend cycling on a motorway, what you experienced was an idiot, and there's plenty of examples of such idiots in cars.

As for N roads, it's not illegal to cycle on one, and its not the same as a motorway, the speed limit is lower for a start.

I'm not trying to tar all cyclists with the same brush, but I swear some of them don't even bother looking after themselves! Someone else could have plowed straight into him for example.

The speed limit may be 20 km/h lower on a national road than on a motorway, but it's the speed difference between a bike that's almost stopped and a car travelling almost at the speed limit that counts!

OldMrBrennan83 · 07-09-2016 07:35PM

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Arcade_Tryer · 07-09-2016 08:50PM

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

The gaps in the middle lane were massive and you were overtaking far too slowly.

Nonsense. He was overtaking at a safe speed, and remaining a safe distance from the vehicle in front. Text book driving. He is under no obligation (legally or ethically) to move across to the driving lane, while still overtaking at said safe speed, just because someone behind him is unhappy about the general road conditions and driving dangerously i.e. tailgating.

By being ignorant like you were, you were just going to annoy the driver behind you, encourage aggressive behaviour and possibly cause a crash. Yes he/she was in the wrong but so were YOU.

So your logic essentially comes down to this: if you don't allow an ignorant driver to bully you off the road, you are also an ignorant driver. Again. Nonsense.

Good driving. And glad the video was posted.

2RockMountain · 07-09-2016 08:56PM

shietpilot wrote: »

Most cyclists are completely daft. I was accelerating up to 100 km/h on the sliproad onto the N7 inbound. In between the sliproad and the N7 are a bunch of posts so you cannot enter it. So before I reach the end of the posts I'm doing roughly 95 km/h and this cyclist decides to get off the N7 and he ends up crossing the slip road perpendicular to the road and almost stops dead at the end of it. I literally had ABS kicking in trying to stop!

If you cannot drive with the pace of traffic on M or N roads (N roads that are similar to motorways, e.g the N7) you shouldn't be on it!

N-roads aren't similar to motorways, as cyclists are allowed on N-roads. If you cannot drive with the pace of traffic on N-roads (cycling pace, at times), you shouldn't be on it.

shietpilot · 07-09-2016 08:59PM

2RockMountain wrote: »

N-roads aren't similar to motorways, as cyclists are allowed on N-roads. If you cannot drive with the pace of traffic on N-roads (cycling pace, at times), you shouldn't be on it.

Ah right okay, so what the cyclist did is fine and I'm an idiot for accelerating up to the pace of other traffic.

I'm not talking about a scenario where cars are going at cycling pace so you can stop talking BS. Thanks.

OldMrBrennan83 · 07-09-2016 09:03PM

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allthedoyles · 07-09-2016 09:25PM

Its a mini-roundabout , but you can't drive out in front of an articulated milk-tanker . These trucks need more time to stop than a car .

Hogzy · 07-09-2016 09:36PM

allthedoyles wrote: »

Its a mini-roundabout , but you can't drive out in front of an articulated milk-tanker . These trucks need more time to stop than a car .

Then the truck driver shouldnt be going that fast. You have to yield to all traffic to your right on a roundabout. Roundabouts are like junctions, you cant just blast through just because youre going faster than the cars to your right.

07-09-2016 09:41PM

Hogzy wrote: »

Then the truck driver shouldnt be going that fast. You have to yield to all traffic to your right on a roundabout. Roundabouts are like junctions, you cant just blast through just because you're going faster than the cars to your right.

Normal roundabout rules apply, so yes the truck should have been prepared to stop.

Hogzy · 07-09-2016 09:48PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Normal roundabout rules apply, so yes the truck should have been prepared to stop.

Thats exactly what im saying!

Dingatron · 07-09-2016 09:49PM

A lot of car accidents happen close to home according to statistics. This was nearly part of those latest statistics this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC30WdAWzS4

Hal1 · 07-09-2016 09:51PM

New rule: Every 3rd post in this thread must include a dashcam clip.

This is to cut down on the endless rants of late. We can't all agree on every little thing but lets agree on this.

(this is my suggestion, not mod approved) ktnxbai :pac:

OldMrBrennan83 · 07-09-2016 09:53PM

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JackHeuston · 07-09-2016 09:54PM

Dingatron wrote: »

A lot of car accidents happen close to home according to statistics. This was nearly part of those latest statistics this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC30WdAWzS4

It really is beyond me how people always merge into the motorway and immediately want to go to the center lane, or in this case to the right lane, for no absolute reason.

allthedoyles · 07-09-2016 09:55PM

allthedoyles wrote: »

I've been looking at original vid again and its obvious that the car driver was looking to her right-hand side and pulled out immediately the car in front of me had passed .
If she had looked to her left before pulling out , I doubt she would have drove out in front of this milk-tanker.

Even though truck driver is high up , it would have been impossible for him to have seen her right indicator ( which I don't think was blinking anyway )

So how was he to know she was turning right .

sheep? · 07-09-2016 09:56PM

JackHeuston wrote: »

It really is beyond me how people always merge into the motorway and immediately want to go to the center lane, or in this case to the right lane, for no absolute reason.

What do you mean man??!

There's every reason.

It's the FAST LANE.

Zooooooooooom!

07-09-2016 09:57PM

Hogzy wrote: »

Thats exactly what im saying!

I was agreeing with you

Chuchote · 07-09-2016 09:58PM

Patww79 wrote: »

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I am a cyclist, and I think cycling on a motorway is very wrong. You put yourself at risk, you put drivers at risk, and it's just Darwin behaviour.

07-09-2016 10:16PM

Not a real dash cam video, but, real muppets.

https://www.facebook.com/143233165824638/videos/730775513737064/

gutteruu · 07-09-2016 10:20PM

allthedoyles wrote: »

Even though truck driver is high up , it would have been impossible for him to have seen her right indicator ( which I don't think was blinking anyway )

So how was he to know she was turning right .

They should invent some sort of a "yield - Right of way" sign to simplify it all. Or if we all got together and made a book. We could call it rules of the road.

Hogzy · 07-09-2016 10:23PM

gutteruu wrote: »

They should invent some sort of a "yield - Right of way" sign to simplify it all. Or if we all got together and made a book. We could call it rules of the road.

Nah, sure nobody would read something like that. Silly idea

Chuchote · 07-09-2016 10:24PM

gutteruu wrote: »

They should invent some sort of a "yield - Right of way" sign to simplify it all. Or if we all got together and made a book. We could call it rules of the road.

Or we could have one of those trucks with proper line-of-sight (not to mention sensors and cameras, not dear to retrofit nowadays)

07-09-2016 10:31PM

JackHeuston wrote: »

It really is beyond me how people always merge into the motorway and immediately want to go to the center lane, or in this case to the right lane, for no absolute reason.

Some more education & enforcement would sort it out!

allthedoyles · 07-09-2016 10:39PM

Looks like comedy hour on this thread

SuperS54 · 08-09-2016 04:36AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbYH8S-MbqE

Couple of nasty incidents in a freeway tunnel, assume the larger accident at the entrance is a result of a tailback and sudden stop from the more minor incident further in the tunnel. Note the complete lack of any traffic management which has contributed to the large tailback leading up to the incident. Audio is muted in places due to conversation in the car, tried to preserve as much of my daugters eloqence as possible just to help set the scene and give a better idea of the general mood in the car during the long tailback leading up to this!

josip · 08-09-2016 09:33AM

allthedoyles wrote: »

Its a mini-roundabout , but you can't drive out in front of an articulated milk-tanker . These trucks need more time to stop than a car .

The quay was designed by an OPW summer student with a Lego town set.
It's hard to fault drivers when in 150m of a national road (N25) there's

A pedestrian crossing
A roundabout
Another pedestrian crossing
Another roundabout
Yet another pedestrian crossing
Exits either side from 2 car parks
A fourth pedestrian crossing

The roundabouts mean that traffic on the N25 have to yield to cars coming out of a lane and out of the L&N car park after getting a litre of milk and the paper.

The sooner the by pass is finished the better.

ThisRegard · 08-09-2016 11:23AM

Patww79 wrote: »

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Especially us cyclists who manage to own more than one car, and several bikes, we pay 'road', and lots of other taxes several times over don't you know.

Such nonsense is forever perpetuated, and thanked, by the ignorant.

OldMrBrennan83 · 08-09-2016 11:44AM

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