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

bear1 · 27-11-2013 01:51PM

fuppin hell, nice driving there

brokenarms · 27-11-2013 01:54PM

He could have stopped the car before the incident.

bear1 · 27-11-2013 02:12PM

brokenarms wrote: »

He could have stopped the car before the incident.

How? I couldn't see there was an accident behind that bend.
You can hear the the car constantly braking and the ground is wet.
He did well to avoid that

AfterDusk · 27-11-2013 02:19PM

brokenarms wrote: »

He could have stopped the car before the incident.

Possibly, but he could have had someone up his 4rse. We can't see what's in his rear view mirror

AltAccount · 27-11-2013 02:21PM

I can't hear it, did he start adjusting speed when the brake lights come on at 10secs or did he wait till he could see the accident?

Black_Knight · 27-11-2013 02:49PM

AltAccount wrote: »

I can't hear it, did he start adjusting speed when the brake lights come on at 10secs or did he wait till he could see the accident?

Sounds like only when he seen the 1st warning triangle, and just ignored the braking by the other car. Sounds like he clips the 2nd triangle and loses the back end. Did well to catch it though.

Poor form to ignore the other car braking, but did well to weave his way though it all.

joujoujou · 27-11-2013 03:10PM

According to informations provided by driver, he just hit the triangle.

And there was black ice on top of the bridge.

I know that place, that's in my home city.

bear1 · 27-11-2013 03:13PM

At 0.13 you can hear his brakes come on, I'm wearing headphones so I hear rumbling noises which sound like heavy braking.
Plus I imagine that car started sliding due to the wetness as you can hear the car hitting the warning triangle.
I stand by my opinion that it was some good driving

mitosis · 27-11-2013 03:19PM

bear1 wrote: »

How? I couldn't see there was an accident behind that bend.
You can hear the the car constantly braking and the ground is wet.
He did well to avoid that

The other guy managed to slow and stop in time.

Mycroft H · 27-11-2013 03:22PM

Did well to hold it though he came a bit fast into the corner.

rizzodun · 01-12-2013 02:34AM

Some lucky pedestrians at 0.40

Celly Smunt · 01-12-2013 02:53AM

rizzodun wrote: »

Some lucky pedestrians at 0.40

God,got serious shivers at 2:59.

mitosis · 01-12-2013 01:53PM

rizzodun wrote: »

Some lucky pedestrians at 0.40

Does a red light mean something different in Russia? :eek:

flazio · 01-12-2013 02:29PM

Possibly one of the earliest Dash Cams ever, from 107 years ago in San Francisco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnDjmNNC9So

K.Flyer · 01-12-2013 02:42PM

mitosis wrote: »

Does a red light mean something different in Russia? :eek:

Probably the same as here, going by the amount of drivers breaking lights here including a Dublin CIE bus flying through a late red narrowly missing the micra in front of me.

mitosis · 01-12-2013 03:28PM

flazio wrote: »

Possibly one of the earliest Dash Cams ever, from 97 years ago in San Francisco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnDjmNNC9So

Awesome, thanks! Tram-cam.

Amazing to see cars sharing the streets with horses and horse drawn covered wagons. And there are so many trams, like two a minute :eek:

rizzodun · 04-12-2013 08:40PM

Watch out for:

Bailout @ 0.46
Surprise! @ 1.02
Surprise! 2 @ 1.13
Confetti car @ 2.18
James Bond @ 2.27

rizzodun · 05-12-2013 07:34PM

Anyone who encountered the high winds today might find this relevant.

Ken. · 05-12-2013 07:39PM

rizzodun wrote: »

Anyone who encountered the high winds today might find this relevant.

Just as well youtube doesn't do smellavision.

Odyssey 2005 · 05-12-2013 07:48PM

ken wrote: »

Just as well youtube doesn't do smellavision.

Jebus. I nearly shat myself......and I'm at home in my kitchen.:eek::eek:

dr.fuzzenstein · 05-12-2013 09:10PM

Definite brown trouser moment.

Vojera · 05-12-2013 09:19PM

Fair play to him/her for not panicking (or at least not in any way I could see).

eringobragh · 06-12-2013 04:54AM

Non eventful video :pac: - don't seem to encounter much these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWuSgiTOzTs

dr.fuzzenstein · 06-12-2013 10:17AM

As long as it's only footballs they're throwing, it seems not too bad. It's when they drop manhole covers off motorway bridges, that you're're in trouble.

eringobragh · 06-12-2013 08:07PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

As long as it's only footballs they're throwing, it seems not too bad. It's when they drop manhole covers off motorway bridges, that you're're in trouble.

True enough

Sterling Archer · 06-12-2013 08:12PM

Although I don't really fancy having a football hit off the wind-shield at 70 mph

CiniO · 06-12-2013 11:19PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

As long as it's only footballs they're throwing, it seems not too bad. It's when they drop manhole covers off motorway bridges, that you're're in trouble.

Football might be more than enough to injure or kill someone.
Less than a year ago, close to my home place in Poland three young lads invented a game where they were throwing pieces of ice (it was February) from to bridge above the motorway on vehicles.
One of those pieces hit the windscreen of an artic truck, got in, hit the driver, who eventually lost control, crashed and died.

Cedrus · 06-12-2013 11:48PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

As long as it's only footballs they're throwing, it seems not too bad. It's when they drop manhole covers off motorway bridges, that you're're in trouble.

It's not what the football itself does that matters, it's the influence of the sudden flying object on the driver that may cause a tragedy. I saw this sh!te happening twice on the ring road in Clonmel during the summer. First time the ball hit the middle of the trailer and the driver swerved a bit but no major drama, second time the ball hit right at the front of the trailer and the truck driver swerved square into the oncoming lane. God was watching, because how there wasn't a pile up was a miracle to me.

wonski · 08-12-2013 03:18AM

CiniO wrote: »

Football might be more than enough to injure or kill someone.
Less than a year ago, close to my home place in Poland three young lads invented a game where they were throwing pieces of ice (it was February) from to bridge above the motorway on vehicles.
One of those pieces hit the windscreen of an artic truck, got in, hit the driver, who eventually lost control, crashed and died.

In the above scenario - judging by the video dr.fuzzenstein commented on - even a brick wouldn't do such damage.
Throwing things of a bridge is mental, and we all know this. The guy on the video just bounced the ball of the trailer. Non comparable in my view.

Thoie · 08-12-2013 03:53AM

rizzodun wrote: »

Anyone who encountered the high winds today might find this relevant.

Unfortunately I don't have a video, but a few years back I was heading northbound on the M8, and was overtaking two of those lorries crossing the Blackwater. As I was mid way past the two, both of them got caught by a gust of wind, both were alongside me on what appeared to me to be two wheels. I had nowhere to go so just dropped gear and put the boot down while screaming "**** **** **** **** ****". I suspect the lorry drivers were saying something similar. Fair play to them, once I was out of the way they got themselves settled. The three of us pulled in at the next "rest" spot and said "woah" a lot. I no longer overtake anything on that bridge, regardless of the weather.

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

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