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

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.

Good advice there. I did have a copy of Roadcraft at one stage 🙂

I'm very surprised that truck drivers insurance company didn't try to pursue it.

But it's no surprise to see people on here try to equate flashing lights, with a brake test that resulted in a serious collision, four damaged vehicles, and serious injuries.

There is zero equity between the two.

The thing with trying to drive at a safe distance behind another vehicle to be able to stop in time is that the shitehawks who do what that BMW did, continually reduce that gap by diving in from another lane.

On motorways in France, they have long lines painted on the side of the road; 'traits' which are guides to the distance you should keep behind another vehicle. Two 'traits' at motorway speeds is designated a safe distance.

So even if that truck was keeping a safe distance, inevitably it would be closed up by idiots weaving from lane to lane in the vain hope of somehow advancing in heavy traffic.

Stupid driving…….hard to see but the light was red when he flew through………

Scary! Phone or fell asleep I wonder?

Wow. They side swiped the truck!