I believe that the insurance industry has a "report line" for people to call/email if they suspect insurance fraud, could be worth finding that and sending the video in.
It could also simply be some old duffer who panicked and hit the brake instead of the accelerator when they realized what they had done.
Although I agree with you, report what offence ? The Gardai hands are tied on this as there is no crime. Can you report to insurance ombudsman or is that possible ? If that registration pops up again soon and some other poor soul gets caught by these guys, maybe, although I doubt it, it could be used against them as premeditated.
I reckon I'd be reporting that one all right. Highly, highly dangerous, particularly with the oncoming car. If somebody's instinct had been to swerve around him instead of stopping so abruptly, could have been a head-on collision with serious or even fatal consequences.
Insurance scam. He braked as the dash cam car was close. Of course the dash cam footage would be his/her undoing.
F'ing hell, I'd report that, crazy dangerous, either some sort of insurance scam or driver shouldn't be on the road.
One from last weekend. Slow pull out onto main road, it happens. What you should do then is get up to speed and not what this lad did. Very glad I had new tyres on the front! Some language 🤐
Avensis?
Is that trees or something on the tractor's left? The owner of that property needs a stern talking to as well
Without the dashcam footage, they've no way of knowing on what side of the road the collision took place.
It's tractor's word against Avensis' word.
Car driver is an idiot, but I think liability would go against the tractor
Good shout. You could be right.
I'd hazard a guess the car driver was on the phone, judging by the driving up to that point.
I'm inclined to agree with this. Tractor driver seems to be as far to his left as possible. Car driver clearly wasn't.
Also, car driver had this much clearance to the white line at 0:44 in the video, just before the crash occurred:
But by 0:47, he/she had drifted right out to the line:
So, just as I'd be thinking myself "wide load approaching, better slow down and keep in to the left", car driver here instead veers towards the wide object.
Don't know what way liability would fall when insurance companies or a court come to decide things, but car driver could definitely have done more to avoid it.
I've been told in the past that being a bit over the white line is less important than the fact that both vehicles were moving at the time.
In which case each fixes their own.
Longer version. Shows both doors and rear O/S wing torn off. Hopefully everyone that may have been in the Toyota are ok.
The car driver should have moved more to the left, there was at least 30cm to the kerb, as for the tractor, there seems to be no clearance the other side , so it couldn't move any further to its left.
It looks like the road narrows a bit at the crash site.
While I personally would have given the tractor more space, the edge of the car is 4 to 6 inches away from the white line while the tractor is a good 4 inches over the line and the trailer seems to be even wider. It's hard to see how much space the tractor had on his left but I note the second tractor is fully within their lane. Regardless of how much space he had, if the tractor is too wide for the road he's driving on it's still his responsibility to take account of that and not barge up the road thinking people will get out of his way.
The driving over the white line seems to be endemic now regardless of what people are driving. If it were up to me anyone caught going around a bend on or over the white line would lose their license. There's no excuse for it.
The car was a bit all over the place, crossing the white line for no reason and about to again when he hit the tractor which looked like he had no choice but to be on the white line but quality isn't great
Kingscourt?
Tractor Veers over the line, their fault.
Tractor clearly drifted into the on coming lane of traffic. Clear as day really that he's at fault.
Who is at fault here? (Not my video)
Very true. I travel on that particular stretch twice a day and I have to admit I saw plenty of much more dangerous maneuvres than aforemetioned one throughout the years.
Driver was unwell and was taken to hospital.
Exactly what i was thinking, and she went straight back to the call rather than give the child any attention or education.
There aren't many overtaking opportunities between Tubbercurry and Collooney. I've seen a few questionable manoeuvres on that road
Children are always in danger of running into the road. Luckily the driver was alert and travelling at a slow enough speed to be able to stop.
Important phone call overrides child safety
Double Lines overtake, facing oncoming traffic on a hill. With line of traffic ahead of him so got nowhere.
'L' plated car too. Was actually closer than appears in clip. Poor driver & poor decision but no accident.
A little one scoots into the road.
Ah - didn’t cop the speed was showing in it
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