Dash cam saves your ass (no Roundabout stuff please :)

Now thats a scary situation...what an a$$hole no matter what you did or didnt do...it wasnt that close a miss for that crazy reaction by him....

blahblah06 wrote: »

Ive just had a shocking experience with a driver getting out of his car and trying to open my own car door..

Video on way

Basically, went into the left lane didn't see him indicate until last minute car pillar was blocking. stopped allowed him out.

He stuck his fingers up at me which u can see then jammed on his brakes and got out of his car then attempted to open my car

Excuse the language and yes I did pull out in front of the mondeo but I wasn't waiting around and u can hear me apologise.

what do use think

Ye that was the reg.

LOL chilly I tried. Have her number anyway as a witness and if I need a discount of membership I'm sure she would oblige lol

blahblah06 wrote: »

Ive just had a shocking experience with a driver getting out of his car and trying to open my own car door..

Fair play. I would have made him my new bonnet ornament!

Here's a bit from yesterday. Idiot gaurds drove all the way from where I met them in Drogheda to Dublin in overtaking lane at 70mph. (sorry about bad quality)

More idiots from last week whilst we are at it! Good job I don't trust anyone to use lanes properly. The black micra with the ould one stayed going and just about missed me.

lovelyhurler wrote: »

Re: the first guy - apart for the slight cut off, what else did he do wrong?
Oh, and BTW, you were in the incorrect lane for your exit.;)

Oh here we go again. I changed the lane I used to always use, to suit the official way the RSA teach Irish drivers. Legally I am correct although I do agree we should use the other lane, but theres been and epic amount of discussion on this already.

And apart from crossing lanes twice ? I could have driven up beside him like normal and would have got my front smashed going onto roundabout and side smashed whilst on it. Its only because I know Irish drivers are idiots, I always hold back.

Not being bad here but you seemed to me to be going a bit fast for such a built up area... in theory you should have been going slow enough to react and stop before the old woman in the black micra.

squod wrote: »

I use the holder on the sun visor to hold a pocket DVR. Passenger side like.

Good thinking, i have the witness app for the iphone and got a mount from vodafone but it vibrates really badly

smilgy wrote: »

Thought this was interesting, cyclist at 0:57 getting pulled.

Is this your video, what camera are you using?
Great quality.

the aftermath of a car crash on the M9 today at 5pm

ironclaw wrote: »

Maybe I'm missing local knowledge, but second exit, the left lane is correct.

http://www.rulesoftheroad.ie/images/j&r_roundabouts_straight-ahead.jpg

It's third exit or greater, your in the righthand lane.

nope, the number of exits isn't relevant. unless otherwise directed by road markings, signs or the garda, where there are 2 lanes entering a roundabout, the left hand lane should be used up to and including any exit that would be equiv. to going straight on if the roundabout wasn't there.

it's usually referred to as the 12 o'clock rule, but unfortunately, there was (and to some extent still is) a lot of ambiguity in the irish RotR and it appears that half of irish drivers were taught to count their exits and the other half were taught the 12 o'clock rule.

you can find dozens of threads on here (and one with a poll which came out at almost a 50/50 split on the vote) and elsewhere showing the confusion, but the official response directly from the RSA was that the 12 o'clock rule is the official correct way to navigate roundabouts, unless otherwise directed by signage/markings/garda.

but the whole thing has been done to death though, so we probably shouldn't go any further off topic. i'm sure someone will be disagreeing with me before too long, but before you do, feel free to have a read through the below thread, or just skip to the last couple of posts to save yourself some time.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056163797&page=48

ironclaw wrote: »

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Find me a major, two lane, un-sign posted, unmarked roundabout where more than one exit occurs within the 180 degree's from when you enter (Not including the straight on) They are exceptionally rare and either way, the rules are clearly defined. The only place the 'counting rule' fall down is if there is more than two exits before the straight on.

This one is N6 turn off for Tullamore. There are loads of them all over the country!

http://goo.gl/maps/HGxuJ

http://goo.gl/maps/GJJZX

2 more within a few hundreds yards of each other.

They changed a lane in blanchardstown SC at the roundabout beside the liberty building, left lane is for 1st exit and the right lane for 2nd and 3rd exit. Kind of defeats the purpose of showing them adds telling you what is the correct way to pass through a roundabout