nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

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

biko

Follow on from the first one

Kicking off with a classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Vvh9exNqs

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

n1ck

Craftylee wrote: »

On the phone while driving - had to use my horn to get past him. I sent a complaint to the company

I hope you included a link to the video!

Craftylee

On the phone while driving - had to use my horn to get past him. I sent a complaint to the company

Pretzill

Thargor wrote: »

No crashes or anything but a bit surreal, looks like a pc game. China/Pakistan border:

Wow those mountains -

josip

^^^^^^^
You need to tilt your dashcam down, you're getting too much sky!

Thargor

No crashes or anything but a bit surreal, looks like a pc game. China/Pakistan border:

Harcrid

Its amazing how often you can pick out the car who's going to cause everything even before anything happens!

inforfun

Another small shunt....

https://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7473677/f37a6247/maximale_schade_veroorzaken.html

Joeface

Small Shunt ,Happens in the first few seconds .

Silent Running

n1ck wrote: »

I was, I called them (the reason I followed him) - I sat up parked for a bit too as he stopped at a takeaway to see if they came.. they never did.

And there lies the problem. Like the stupid bint doing her nails joining the motorway, a lot of people have realised that there is close to zero risk of any consequences for their behaviour, other than maybe crashing. The Gardaí have left us to our own devices on the roads. A lot of people will behave in a safe and courteous fashion. But I fear that the balance has tipped to the point where the majority now behave in a careless and downright dangerous fashion!

n1ck

ewj1978 wrote: »

I'd have been onto the guards for that one. Someone could have been seriously hurt.

I was, I called them (the reason I followed him) - I sat up parked for a bit too as he stopped at a takeaway to see if they came.. they never did.

ewj1978

n1ck wrote: »

Someone had a few too many watching the England game?

Wide on every corner, overshot the red light, crossed the road multiple times and finally clipped the kerb coming off the roundabout....

I'd have been onto the guards for that one. Someone could have been seriously hurt.

fullstop

tcawley29 wrote: »

Quite possible he may not have been familiar with the roundabout, gotten on, noticed the sign was not for where he wanted to go and realized it was the next exit off the motorway.

Generally if people are unfamiliar or unsure about a road they will slow down to try to figure out where to go...the van was accelerating around the outside trying to overtake the traffic is what it looks like - remember the cam car is a driving school so he probably thought he'd use the roundabout to overtake the learner.

You see him come into the picture at 47 seconds in the clip. He doesn't take the first exit and as josip says why would he take the second to rejoin the road he just left?

fritzelly

What a frigging idiot

mrsoundie

A small bit of idiocy at 01:01 but main event at 01:59

n1ck

Someone had a few too many watching the England game?

Wide on every corner, overshot the red light, crossed the road multiple times and finally clipped the kerb coming off the roundabout....

n1ck

Red lights do not apply to some BMW drivers...

The infamous roundabout

josip

tcawley29 wrote: »

josip not to be argumentative or anything but how do you know thats what the white van intended to do. Maybe he was going to be taking the same exit as the black car.

No argumentativeness taken

Thanks to whoever sent the Google maps location earlier, it's possible to go and have a look at the exit.

There are 2 exit lanes.
If for a very weird reason the van driver wanted to rejoin the road they just left, they would have taken the leftmost of the 2 exit lanes and never collided with the black car.

Kevin Finnerty

tcawley29 wrote: »

Quite possible he may not have been familiar with the roundabout, gotten on, noticed the sign was not for where he wanted to go and realized it was the next exit off the motorway.
Its all hearsay to be honest, I don't know either drivers intentions here, neither do you (unless you have personally spoken to both)
Absolutely nothing excuses the black car for their inattentiveness though

Watched it again there now the van was actually taking his third exit and in the wrong lane in doing so. The Peugeot was wrong at all costs but the white Citroen? van should not have been there. Easily preventable accident

tcawley29

Kevin Finnerty wrote: »

Why would he get onto the roundabout to go straight through?

Quite possible he may not have been familiar with the roundabout, gotten on, noticed the sign was not for where he wanted to go and realized it was the next exit off the motorway.
Its all hearsay to be honest, I don't know either drivers intentions here, neither do you (unless you have personally spoken to both)
Absolutely nothing excuses the black car for their inattentiveness though

Kevin Finnerty

tcawley29 wrote: »

josip not to be argumentative or anything but how do you know thats what the white van intended to do. Maybe he was going to be taking the same exit as the black car.

Why would he get onto the roundabout to go straight through?

tcawley29

josip not to be argumentative or anything but how do you know thats what the white van intended to do. Maybe he was going to be taking the same exit as the black car.

iwillhtfu

I don't think the black car was entirely at fault there.

He didn't exit on the same ramp as the cam car and I would say the van pulled out in front of him onto the roundabout.

Black car wasn't taking first exit but the one after and van was cutting up his inside not allowing him to exit as intended. Yes black car is guilty of lack on attention but the van willingly put himself there.

Also he made up some ground on that exit ramp because you don't see him and then he's there.

Either way I'd say it was a sticky bum moment and lucky not to have gone over. He could've landed on another car below.

josip

fritzelly wrote: »

Looking closer I never noticed the turn off - that explains the sharp veer - black car in the wrong lane
White van was in the correct lane assuming he was going the same way as the cammer but its really inconsequential

Black car was taking his/her 3rd exit, could have moved left sooner admittedly, but that was the correct lane to be in for most of their time going around the roundabout.

White van was taking his/her 3rd exit but intended going three quarters of the way around the roundabout in the outside lane, which is not the correct lane.

I've spared no expense to come up with the following

Zatoichi

Second woman was cleaning her nails with basically her wrists on the steering wheel ...while joining a motorway.

fritzelly

Looking closer I never noticed the turn off - that explains the sharp veer - black car in the wrong lane
White van was in the correct lane assuming he was going the same way as the cammer but its really inconsequential

tcawley29

josip wrote: »

Before we all crucify the black car driver can everyone watch the video from the 40s mark?
The black car that was exiting across the white van had presumably come from the exit to the right of the one that the cam car, the black car immediately behind it and the white van, came from.
Because that black car was taking what for it was its 3rd exit, it was correctly in the right hand lane on the roundabout and was taking a 2 lane exit so I don't think it was doing a whole lot wrong.
Impossible to tell if it was indicating or not form that angle.

The van on the other hand was taking, what for it was it's 3rd exit, but approached the roundabout in the wrong lane for that.
I suspect to jump ahead of the cars ahead of it on the roundabout.
It undertook those cars on the roundabout and was in the process of undertaking the black car when it was trying to exit.

Maybe the black car could have been more aware, but if I was a solicitor/barrister with a choice of which side to take in court, it would be the black car driver.

Nah I still think the black car is at fault. Regardless of whether the white van is in the wrong lane or not the black car absolutely did not check either their mirror or blind spot, possibly both by the looks of it and they're about to learn a very expensive lesson.

Just because someone is in the wrong lane does not mean another driver has the right to ram them off the road either

Edit: I did watch again 5 times to see if I could see it from your point of view but I simply cannot.

josip

Before we all crucify the black car driver can everyone watch the video from the 40s mark?
The black car that was exiting across the white van had presumably come from the exit to the right of the one that the cam car, the black car immediately behind it and the white van, came from.
Because that black car was taking what for it was its 3rd exit, it was correctly in the right hand lane on the roundabout and was taking a 2 lane exit so I don't think it was doing a whole lot wrong.
Impossible to tell if it was indicating or not form that angle.

The van on the other hand was taking, what for it was it's 3rd exit, but approached the roundabout in the wrong lane for that.
I suspect to jump ahead of the cars ahead of it on the roundabout.
It undertook those cars on the roundabout and was in the process of undertaking the black car when it was trying to exit.

Maybe the black car could have been more aware, but if I was a solicitor/barrister with a choice of which side to take in court, it would be the black car driver.

fritzelly

Pretzill wrote: »

Is it not because the black car (two cars behind dash cam) veers into the white vans path?

Thats the car I'm talking about, veers left sharply, not like he was changing lanes

seagull

There's no way the van was avoiding that. He was more than level with the black car when it made its move. The car just pulled across with no indication, and I'm presuming without looking, and hit him in the door. I'm guessing the video will end up with the authorities, and the driver of the black car will wind up with a very large bill, and hopefully a ban.

Seve OB

looks like the black car took a very late dive for the onramp to the motorway.
van really should have swung left down the onramp, but very difficult to have the reaction to do that.
i'd say he had brown pants after