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

I think Mercs are becoming the new Beemers. Always seems to be one glued to my back bumper lately.

Bizarre, regardless of whether he thought he had a green man surely anyone would at least look up the road before crossing?

Without a dashcam you'd be totally screwed on that one.

Motorcyclist and pillion passenger both testify that they saw sees pedestrian waiting, at the lights, as he should be. Reasonable.
Pedestrian, if they survive, says they were stopped, and only crossed after seeing the green man.

There is almost no scenario where a jury would believe that, after stopping at the lights, the pedestrian randomly decided to walk into your path.

Looked very close. I'd be clenching in your position watching that on the road.

That driver will come a cropper if he keeps on taking chances like that 🫣

Don't care about monetisation so it can stay as is.

First flash was because he cut me up and forced me to slow down, second time was a 'f off' as if you look closely at his driver's window, he's gesticulating wildly at me.

I and two cars behind me were taken out by a tipper truck, bill is the trucks despite him being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They all were provided the footage.

Yeah, given the abruptness of the brake check he never had a chance.

They 'weren't involved' from an insurance perspective as I stopped short enough from them to ensure that they weren't hit (straight from my insurance company's mouth).

I've tried following up with the Gardaí, no acknlowledgement of my queries. It's been six months, I have to try and let it go for my own sake, but not without making the evidence public first.

I was waiting to overtake the trucks in lane 2 with traffic in front of me - look at the speed readout, I was accelerating up to 95kph and he forced me to slow down to 65kph in a 100kph zone.

The flash was to indicate, 'hey, you just cut me up'. If that's aggression, then I don't know what to say.

(Edited to remove unnecessary jab)

Point taken, but in my defence I always try and avoid getting too close to cars in front, and it can look (as in the video) that I was hogging. Believe me, I was just wanting to get the overtake done and return to lane 1 as swiftly as I could.

Take that higher, some Guards are very lazy, it depends what station you go to.

Yeah, if there was one thing I wish I'd done differently it would have been not to react to him throwing shapes with that second light flash.

I usually am quite aware of leaving myself an escape route should the worst happen but I never thought in a million years that the BMW would bring me to a halt where heavy traffic is merging from a number of slips and going from 80 to 100kph (it's the N7 outbound at Newland's Cross). It really was the perfect storm.

Luckily I wasn't badly hurt, just some minor neck and back pain. The first gentleman who was hit by the tipper ended up with a fractured verterbra, so I was told, but was expected to recover.

The mental scars are worse, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I've sought counselling as I've realised I've a touch of PTSD. That will heal with time too, I hope.

Edit: to your last point, there's a certain amount of catharsis in opening this up and taking the comments, good and bad. I'll try to take both kinds in a positive manner.