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

Tzardine wrote: »

My poor ears at 6.10. And what is the deal with the two at the end who leg it after their mate is knocked down ??

It's not their mate.
Dash cam is on the bus which those people just disembarked from, so that's why they walk together towards pedestrian crossing. But it doesn't look like they were there together.

Woodpecker1 wrote: »

I know the car should have been able to stop BUT why did he look then blindly walk out in front of a car travelling to fast to stop??

Natural order at work there.

I'd assume that the bus was obscuring his view of the car.

yoshiktk wrote: »

Ah Polish people, I love 'em. Keep these coming, I might recognise somewhere I know!

RandomAccess wrote: »

In last clip, its interesting how the two people closest to him ****ed off instead of helping! I suppose they thought he was dead and maybe got a shock but still.

I posted a full video from this incident 10 days ago here as I also though it was interesting to see peoples reactions directly after the accident.

RandomAccess wrote: »

One from today. Read below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmIz6Vhre7Y

In the clip I reckoned there was a Red light and a Green Left arrow for the Mondeo, and that the Audi had ran a red. But was this the case? I am not that familiar with the setup of that junction.

Does anyone know the lights at this junction?
Cos maybe I am wrong

Ps, the clip is blurry at the start, I think its a video edit or youtube artefact. Might have to upload it again later.

That's pretty common there. Both sets of lights go green at the same time. Usually the cars coming from the Audi's side yield to the car in front of you in my experience there. Silly set-up

runawaybishop wrote: »

You can see the car across the ditch from ages away though

Just because the jeep can see him, doesn't mean he can see the jeep (i think its a jeep anyway!)

RandomAccess wrote: »

One from today. Read below


In the clip I reckoned there was a Red light and a Green Left arrow for the Mondeo, and that the Audi had ran a red. But was this the case? I am not that familiar with the setup of that junction.

Does anyone know the lights at this junction?
Cos maybe I am wrong

Ps, the clip is blurry at the start, I think its a video edit or youtube artefact. Might have to upload it again later.

As Bazmedic said, both sets of lights go green and the Audi should have yielded as technically from his side he was given a right arrow so was making a right turn across a lane of traffic.

It's a bitch of a junction as the visibility of cars coming from the left is crap.

jameshayes wrote: »

Driver looks like he was going fairly fast to be honest, not surprised the car didn't see him

Cabaal wrote: »

Yeah thought that myself, road is likely a 80km limit. It looked abit faster then that to be honest

You're both wrong, 77km/h.

jameshayes wrote: »

Just because the jeep can see him, doesn't mean he can see the jeep (i think its a jeep anyway!)

Filmed from corolla, silver car was a suzuki SX4 (reg number can be read) - compact car.

But anxiously waiting for more critics.

runawaybishop wrote: »

You can clearly see the other cars windows - they just didn't look.

^^ This! ^^

As been mentioned above, silver car can be seen from quite a distance (and I saw it perfectly and early), and even when it stopped at junction I could see its windows, so driver could see my car as well, especially I always drive with my dipped lights on.



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If anyone has ideas on how the junction could be improved, I might stick it onto fixmyarea.com and see if anything comes of it.

I think part of the problem is that the R109 is really no longer the 'main' road, I think the road markings should show a line curving around the corner to convey the fact that if you follow the course of the Audi, you are making a right turn off of the main road.

Just an idea anyway. The other option would be to combine a green arrow for left with a flashing orange arrow for right, instead of the traditional green. But I don't know if that is likely to be approved.

I have seen flashing orange arrows elsewhere (near clontarf for example), along with red arrows for that matter (near John McCormack bridge in east wall area)


edit, this is the location. It is in chapelizod as many already know.
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/53%C2%B020'54.0%22N+6%C2%B020'33.7%22W/@53.3480906,-6.3423452,523m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0

RandomAccess wrote: »

edit, this is the location. It is in chapelizod as many already know.
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/53%C2%B020'54.0%22N+6%C2%B020'33.7%22W/@53.3480906,-6.3423452,523m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0

And this is what the other fella saw
https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.348159,-6.342309,3a,75y,303.28h,88.34t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sts5gdavC6CgD3190Fcr_Uw!2e0

If you are not familiar with the area that could be a easy one to miss.

And I'm out. I'm not here for the Jibber Jabber. I want videos. I might post videos in the future but other than that...

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RangeR wrote: »

And I'm out. I'm not here for the Jibber Jabber. I want videos. I might post videos in the future but other than that...

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Seemed like largely constructive conversation to me lately.
Whatever about the jibber jabber (the lifeblood of any forum btw), I definitely don't think anyone comes here to read dramatic pronouncements from people that they're leaving the thread. I mean, just leave if you're leaving. Don't tell us all about it.