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

Well done and well said. You took the correct course of action.

A merging lane is exactly that - a lane to merge.

It's not a STOP or a YIELD junction.

You're supposed to be able to match the speed of the mainline traffic in order to join the main carriageway not saunter along.

All to often we see the opposite at stop and yeild junctions.

I don't like the usual pile on to the video poster, but for a little perspective on how I view the video.

By the time they brake, you're already gaining on them. This is limiting your and their options and freedom to accelerate or brake to match speed. I understand why you over took them (so you aren't forced to stop too), but by doing that, the red car now has no room to merge as you're in lane 1 - so now they have no option but to stop.

Hanging well back from the car in front as you join the motorway gives you far more options.

Merges like below are downright dangerous IMO, so I let the other car join before I even enter the turn. Have been beeped and had people trying to overtake me as I held back.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5261084,-8.8707974,3a,75y,359.73h,80.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3LYunIZXZ2RPTXOY0mwSeQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.8610429,-8.9374543,3a,75y,137.02h,86.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVGBkaVz-wyyK3rbij35xxg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I wouldn't stop necessarily just give a ton of space, if the road is very busy I'd carry on a bit further and wait to see them join. No hard shoulder makes it very dangerous, and the bridge and signs make it very difficult to look for approaching traffic to your right.

I've come around the corner carrying a bit of speed in order to merge, with another car behind me, and found a car stopped in front of me. Then you're left sitting stopped (as the red car above) as the last car has the advantage in moving out first and I have to give way as they're in the lane already.

It's really about managing space in front and behind to give yourself as much space to accelerate safely and not allow the guy behind to cut you off and leave you in the merging lane as can happen. It's very easy to fall into the belief when driving a more powerful care that others are dawdling along when they're actually trying too.

My own car isn't the fastest in the world, but it is 250bhp and I use it all when I need to.

I'm in two minds on this one - but I can't see the location of the car as the light went green, and the Gards obviously had a better view.

But if the car had cleared the white line before the red which has happens to me all the time here, they they are inside the bounds of the junction.

As such, are they entitled to continue? Are the other cars obliged to let her finish the move? ie: they can also only proceed on green if safe to do so?

I obviously would have stayed put and not crossed traffic at this location, but my mother failed her driving test for staying put when a light went red, as she had already crossed the white line and was told she should have continued.

Location:https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3099011,-6.2833201,3a,75y,308.99h,77.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjB9QzMlG-SgK1oBJlgIbkg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I'd doubt they were past the line in time. The lights on the right road would already have been (at the very least) amber at the start of the clip. From the traffic lights without filter lights I've encountered, there's usually a few seconds where all lights are red to allow any traffic stranded by amber to clear the junction.

As for entitlement to continue, yes you should be allowed continue, but that doesn't mean barrel through a junction without a care in the world like this driver who looked neither way at either the cyclist they just missed or the cars entering the junction on green. With driving like that, Occam's razor would suggest they ran the red light.

Bleedin' Scooter.........

That's meath council for you, where I live the 50km/h zone has unbroken line, hardly anyone slows down on the entry from it from the eastbound 80km/h zone. On the westbound there is a ramp, once the cars go over the ramp, there's always some muppet overtaking a slow moving truck, exceeding speed limit by at least 30 km/h. On this road there are about 20 houses with access to this road.

And when leaving the 50 km/h zone, the white line becomes solid, crazy!

Very close.

Interesting that if he was walking with his bike the blame might have been different