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Dash cam videos thread 3.4 (embedded car dash-cams only)

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  • #1652
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,604 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    chooseusername wrote: »
    Why I never pull in to the hard shoulder to invite an overtake,
    like the white squashy did there.

    People really don't like when you don't pull in for them. I drove to Mayo from Dublin last year and got tailgated hard several times. I wouldn't mind the majority of the road was flat, open stretches with good visibility and very little traffic in the opposite lane. Cruise control set to 105kph the whole time. Absolutely no need for it than wanting to get their own way.


  • #1653
    cpoh1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭cpoh1


    DaveyDave wrote: »
    People really don't like when you don't pull in for them. I drove to Mayo from Dublin last year and got tailgated hard several times. I wouldn't mind the majority of the road was flat, open stretches with good visibility and very little traffic in the opposite lane. Cruise control set to 105kph the whole time. Absolutely no need for it than wanting to get their own way.

    I always pull over for people personally if its safe to do. Why inconvenience another road user unnecessarily? Similarly on country roads, if i am in the camper and there are a few cars behind i will pull over into a lay-by and let people pass.

    For the video above, making a poor decision to pull in on a left hand bend does not make never pulling in for other road users the right way to behave on the our roads.


  • #1654
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    From the ROTR (emphasis added) page 71.

    'If a driver wants to allow a vehicle behind them to overtake, they may pull in to the hard shoulder briefly (but do not continue driving in the hard shoulder) as long as no pedestrians or cyclists are already using it and no junctions or entrances are nearby.'

    If you're pushing on at the speed limit, to hell with whoever is behind you. Let them overtake when they can. I'm not going to risk driving in the hard shoulder at 100kph.

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  • #1655
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,852 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    hoodie6029 wrote: »
    From the ROTR (emphasis added) page 71.

    'If a driver wants to allow a vehicle behind them to overtake, they may pull in to the hard shoulder briefly (but do not continue driving in the hard shoulder) as long as no pedestrians or cyclists are already using it and no junctions or entrances are nearby.'

    If you're pushing on at the speed limit, to hell with whoever is behind you. Let them overtake when they can. I'm not going to risk driving in the hard shoulder at 100kph.

    If you hit someone or burst a tyre see how quick they stop to help too.


  • #1656
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,604 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    cpoh1 wrote: »
    I always pull over for people personally if its safe to do. Why inconvenience another road user unnecessarily? Similarly on country roads, if i am in the camper and there are a few cars behind i will pull over into a lay-by and let people pass.

    For the video above, making a poor decision to pull in on a left hand bend does not make never pulling in for other road users the right way to behave on the our roads.

    Eh, I was in no way inconveniencing anyone, they could have easily overtaken if they wanted to. This was on the N5, long open stretches with clear visibility and very little oncoming traffic. I passed a few slower vehicles myself no problem they just wanted to bully me into driving in the shoulder at 100kph.


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  • #1657
    cpoh1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭cpoh1


    DaveyDave wrote: »
    I passed a few slower vehicles myself no problem they just wanted to bully me into driving in the shoulder at 100kph.

    I think your imagination is running wild on you.


  • #1658
    cpoh1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭cpoh1




  • #1659
    Mr Snow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭Mr Snow




  • #1660
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,608 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Your best movie yet and we only get to see the trailer? :)


  • #1661
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,780 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    When uploading did YT ask if there was actually any video there?


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  • #1662
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mordeith wrote: »
    Just a few minor bits and pieces

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

    That first clip on the roundabout; you were lucky to come away with your life and the way you had to blast the horn.


  • #1663
    howareyakid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭howareyakid


    There's a few stretches of the N5 that have anything but wide open spaces and even hard shoulders for that matter! I agree about pulling in on the hard shoulder though: if driving at or close to the speed limit I wouldn't tend to pull in.


  • #1664
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭mordeith


    salonfire wrote: »
    That first clip on the roundabout; you were lucky to come away with your life and the way you had to blast the horn.

    I know sure. I should have titled it 'OMG, close call HORROR smash!'


  • #1665
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,852 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    salonfire wrote: »
    That first clip on the roundabout; you were lucky to come away with your life and the way you had to blast the horn.

    No harm blowing and letting a wanker know they’re being a wanker.


  • #1666
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,780 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    iwillhtfu wrote: »
    Sounds like it happened over here and looks like he went under the trailer. :eek:

    Nothing graphic just a stupid overtake into a right turning tractor and trailer.

    https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=kIyD_1594516325&p=1
    > https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=114004952&postcount=586


  • #1667
    bladespin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,533 ✭✭✭bladespin




    One from last week.
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  • #1668
    bladespin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,533 ✭✭✭bladespin




    Another one, shocked at the taxi, but the car behind - wtf?
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  • #1669
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mickey see, mickey do!


  • #1670
    bladespin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,533 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Mickey see, mickey do!

    Mickey saw, sat there a while and then did lol, wouldn't instill a lot of confidence.
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  • #1671
    DopeTech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,191 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    Very quick clip from today.

    Perhaps a tyre master but hasn't mastered the art of driving yet.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6kyYkF3Ue8


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  • #1672
    kenmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭kenmm


    bladespin wrote: »


    Another one, shocked at the taxi, but the car behind - wtf?

    It appears like the taxi (and probably the second driver) has already proceeded beyond the stop line before the dash cam approaches. Hard to tell if they jumped the red here (Although - not sure what he was waiting on.. maybe thought the pedestrian was going to cross?)


    Unless you know something else about the sequence of these lights OP?


  • #1673
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,877 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Ouch!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKrHrQpn7Ys


  • #1674
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    lucky no one was working in that lane!


  • #1675
    kirving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,368 ✭✭✭kirving


    Obviously not the cars fault, but the slow/stopped traffic in the truck's lane is visible quite a while away and they shouldn't have gone for the overtake. Very unlucky to be launched by the barrier.


  • #1676
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kevin Irving wrote: »
    Obviously not the cars fault, but the slow/stopped traffic in the truck's lane is visible quite a while away and they shouldn't have gone for the overtake. Very unlucky to be launched by the barrier.
    I think he was lucky the barrier flipped him, the alternative would have been to be crushed!


  • #1677
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,608 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Couldn't help but shout "Obstruction ref!" when I saw that.
    Like a big lumbering defender who has to body check the nippy striker who's about to race onto a pass.


  • #1678
    wonski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,679 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    Kevin Irving wrote: »
    Obviously not the cars fault, but the slow/stopped traffic in the truck's lane is visible quite a while away and they shouldn't have gone for the overtake. Very unlucky to be launched by the barrier.

    I get your point, but shouldn't the professional drivers on the right be more aware of what's happening in front of them?

    What truck drivers in Poland do is another story, though.

    All that matters is that they think they are the best lol.


  • #1679
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,780 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    No MSM there :D


  • #1680
    phill106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,838 ✭✭✭phill106




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  • #1681
    Zonda999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Zonda999


    phill106 wrote: »

    https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/man-taken-to-hospital-after-collision-with-tractor-and-mower/

    Same indicent referenced here.
    A male in his 40s was taken to Midlands Regional Hospital with non-life threatening injuries

    I say he was lucky he hit that part of the mower, otherwise could have been a very different result. Ridiculous manoeuvre to try and pull off.


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