ken wrote: » That's why he was walking around your car. First time seeing a Leitrim man in the wild. It's a sight to behold.
Max Power1 wrote: » It's your fault, shouldnt brake for a deer. This whole "rear ended automatically makes the rear ender at fault" thing is utter bollox anyway. We should add in an addendum which envisages the type of stupidity shown by the megane driver, and the ignorance shown by the golf driver. OP (of the video) completely not at fault.
vibe666 wrote: » 1st part is some clown getting stuck under the N3 bridge in Mulhuddart today. you can see at the start of the video that his passenger had got out and had a look to see if they would make it under. seems like the far side is lower than the near side tho, as he gets stuck on the other side. not sure if you can make out the scraping noise in the video.
CiniO wrote: » Just out of curiosity why did you overtook that van, even though there was something coming from the other side? You forced the other car to brake quite harshly.
Gosub wrote: » If I was the oncoming driver I would be happy to let the cars get away from behind the van so he could reverse out of the trouble and clear the road. But I guess all drivers aren't as thoughtful and considerate as I am. :P Maybe the oncoming driver is though.
vibe666 wrote: » here we go. :rolleyes: no i didn't, i didn't force him to do anything, he was already braking for the other car in front and i had plenty of time to get round and back in again and in reality he was hardly braking at all. the car behind me also followed as well and the oncoming driver stopped to let him and a couple of others past the van.
The_Nipper_One wrote: » I don't think CiniO is trolling, he's technically right that you probably shouldn't have overtaken given that you impeded the other cars progress necessitating that he stop. It isn't an acceptable excuse that he was already slowing for the other car, as 1. it's not really good practice to follow a car through an overtake and 2. once the car infront of you had gone the guy coming towards you had right of way. As for him letting a few more cars overtake; what was he supposed to do, drive head on into them? Right of way can only be given, never taken.
That's something I notice about a lot of drivers in this country though. If there's a long street with parked cars on one side, and you meet a car coming towards you on your side of the road as it comes into view, you will wait as they have already begun their maneuver. However, if another car appears on the road and notices that you are stopped, they will rush up behind the other car or begin advancing towards you, when actually they're supposed to wait and give way to you.
Black_Knight wrote: » Vibe666 overtook the van because I stopped the oncomming cars to let everyone behind the van by.
Oncoming traffic in no way had to break hard. The silver golf seen me well in advance and slowed down to stop.
CiniO wrote: » Exactly. I see most drivers in Ireland seem to think, that if they have obstruction on their side of the road, then they are allowed to overtake forcing oncoming traffic to stop. Come on guys - if obstruction is on your side of the road, then you have to wait until oncoming traffic passes by - not the other way around. Vibe666 is perfect example of it.
CiniO wrote: » Sorry man, but it's not what we can see on the video.
Black_Knight wrote: » If we did that, we would of had single car after single car coming against us and no car would of been able to pass. It was the easier option rather than asking 20 cars to back up into Mulhuddart. Im not say any of it was right, but I think people should be able to look back retrospectively and say, yeah, that was probably the best way for everyone to resolve that situation.
Black_Knight wrote: » Probably because the van was blocking the cameras view of the far side of the van. The car seen me, I was there. End of story.
CiniO wrote: » You also had no right to stop the traffic or even try directing the traffic. .
CiniO wrote: » Maybe he'd seen you, but you had no warranty he was going to stop. And at the same time you were waving other cars to go.
Black_Knight wrote: » If that was you in the Silver Golf, I bet you'd keep driving just so you could be right. :pac:
CiniO wrote: » Possibly yes, because I don't tent to stop on some random person waving me to stop.
rizzodun wrote: » Personally I think Black_Knight and Vibe are both at fault, Knight for being the passenger, not having a Hi-Vis or lollipop, maybe a couple of flares too, Vibe for not having a rear facing camera so he cannot prove how much traffic was building up behind him. :rolleyes:
Black_Knight wrote: » Damn. I was gonna make the hi-vis joke earlier but didnt think itd land. I was wrong, hilarious! Yeah Vibe! Get your act together.
Black_Knight wrote: » CiniO caught on camera.... being right! (ignore the seatbelt for this joke) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK96AABQGd4
The_Nipper_One wrote: » Anyway, when it comes down to it you know we are right, I guess that's why you're resorting to some personal attacks against another poster (mods?)
