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

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  • #3992
    Patrickheg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭Patrickheg


    bladespin wrote: »
    I've yet to see a luas breaking the lights, funny though, I see cars, vans, lorries etc. break them several times every day. :rolleyes:

    http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/lapse-by-driver-of-luas-led-to-crash-with-bus-29102210.html
    :rolleyes:


  • #3993
    bladespin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,432 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Patrickheg wrote: »
    http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/lapse-by-driver-of-luas-led-to-crash-with-bus-29102210.html
    :rolleyes:

    Wasn't there for that, any others? On the spin to the shop there I counted 2 cars breaking reds. :0
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  • #3994
    kingtut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭kingtut


    bladespin wrote: »
    I've yet to see a luas breaking the lights, funny though, I see cars, vans, lorries etc. break them several times every day. :rolleyes:

    I agree completely, people run red lights every day, in fact I saw someone doing it yesterday.

    It has been a while since I saw a luas doing it but it has happened in the past.

    A relative of mine was killed a few weeks back due to a crash between the luas and a BMW and their is a rumour that the luas broke the red although they are still investigating. The amount of incosiderate/crazy drivers on the road is unbelievable.


  • #3995
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Anyone listening to Joe Duffy! Dash cam in action.


  • #3996
    n0brain3r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭n0brain3r


    I know not a dashcam but had to be shared

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwqRqIvo4GU


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  • #3997
    lintdrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    Bus driver was well out of line there. The lack of professionalism is bewildering.


  • #3998
    coolisin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭coolisin


    I have to agree bus driver reacted sh1t.

    The way I've being treated by a Dublin bus driver in the past it was only a matter of time until one was caught being a complete idiot on camera.

    Think the cyclist has a little to blame not reading the situation in the run up he should've pulled back a little, not saying bus driver was in the right more read the situation and back up a little.


  • #3999
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    lintdrummer wrote: »
    Bus driver was well out of line there. The lack of professionalism is bewildering.

    Probably, but there were a lot of cyclists all around the bus to be watching for, overtaking on the right, overtaking on the left, cycling in the middle of the bus lane, really is time for them to remove the "mandatory" cycle lanes and put them to better use giving people in ALL classes of traffic more room on Dublin's evermore congested streets

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057222705


  • #4000
    n0brain3r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭n0brain3r


    I had a look at some of his other videos and he could do with toning it down a bit. In defense of Dublin bus my experience of drivers has been over overwhelmingly positive but this guy was way out of line. I wonder did something happen before the video to wind him up.


  • #4001
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    n0brain3r wrote: »
    I had a look at some of his other videos and he could do with toning it down a bit. In defense of Dublin bus my experience of drivers has been over overwhelmingly positive but this guy was way out of line. I wonder did something happen before the video to wind him up.

    Anyone who has comments disabled on all their YouTube videos must be a dick of the highest order.


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  • #4002
    highdef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,484 ✭✭✭highdef


    What an over reactive guy....the bus moved a few inches over the line and there was plenty of room for the cyclist to continue. I'm not a regular cyclist but when I am cycling on main roads, I keep to a few inches from the kerb....just enough so that my pedals won't hit the kerb. I'd never actually need the full width of the the cycle lane. I don't understand why so many cyclist seem to have a need to cycle a few feet from the kerb. In his defence, the cyclist probably thought the bus was going to infringe further into his lane but it did not really.


  • #4003
    n0brain3r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭n0brain3r


    Had a closer look a cyclist passes the bus on the outside and another cyclist moves across in front of the bus just before the bus drifts into the cycle lane. I'm guessing the driver was attempting to pass that cyclist on the inside and crossed into the cycle lane by accident certainly didn't swerve into it.

    The bus had started to drift before he pulled along side and he was only at the rear axle when it was apparent it would infringe on the cycle lane the cyclist should of pulled his brakes instead of accelerating into the closing gap.

    Bad reaction from the driver but he made a mistake reacting to other road users nothing deliberate on his part.


  • #4004
    dashcamdanny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭dashcamdanny


    highdef wrote: »
    What an over reactive guy....the bus moved a few inches over the line and there was plenty of room for the cyclist to continue. I'm not a regular cyclist but when I am cycling on main roads, I keep to a few inches from the kerb....just enough so that my pedals won't hit the kerb. I'd never actually need the full width of the the cycle lane. I don't understand why so many cyclist seem to have a need to cycle a few feet from the kerb. In his defence, the cyclist probably thought the bus was going to infringe further into his lane but it did not really.

    The bus is not allowed to be in the cycle lane when there is a bike using it.
    Plain and simple. A cyclist should ride approximately 65cm from the curb and motorist should leave them the same in room as a bike has to avoid drains and can swerve.
    The bus driver should be disciplined for this. If he cant keep an eye for others, he should not be doing that job.
    A few inches is all a cyclist has. And are very vulnerable.
    The fact that the dublin bus death toll seems to rise a lot would not inspire confidence in their driving skills.
    I commute via bike to work where I drive for a living.


  • #4005
    jameshayes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,741 ✭✭✭jameshayes


    n0brain3r wrote: »
    I had a look at some of his other videos and he could do with toning it down a bit.

    He obviously thinks he is a good cyclist/has good roadcraft. I would love to throw him into a RoSPA assessment and see how he would get on, wouldn't get out the gate I'd imagine. Knób.


  • #4006
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭BMJD


    dashcamdanny wrote: »
    The fact that the dublin bus death toll seems to rise a lot would not inspire confidence in their driving skills.

    have you a source for this?


  • #4007
    lintdrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    Probably, but there were a lot of cyclists all around the bus to be watching for, overtaking on the right, overtaking on the left, cycling in the middle of the bus lane, really is time for them to remove the "mandatory" cycle lanes and put them to better use giving people in ALL classes of traffic more room on Dublin's evermore congested streets

    Yes, I'm not saying he was at fault for what happened, simply that he shouldn't have lost the head and said what he did.


  • #4008
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,064 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    In my opinion the cyclist Wanted to be hit by the bus and he would have proof that the bus pulled in on him. The bus driver shouldn't have said what he did but he was speaking out of frustrations and he prob realised the outcome of an accident between a 20/30 ton bus and a bike.


  • #4009
    dashcamdanny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭dashcamdanny


    BMJD wrote: »
    have you a source for this?

    ? It was all over the news in many occasions.

    Google people killed by dublin bus . To many to list here.


  • #4010
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    dashcamdanny wrote: »
    ? It was all over the news in many occasions.

    Google people killed by dublin bus . To many to list here.

    The one where the driver was cleared of the charges or the one where a pedestrian pushed the fella under the bus?

    How about you do the googling and provide the sources.

    Telling someone to 'Google' it is like pointing someone towards a library and telling them to look it up.


  • #4011
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Caliden wrote: »
    The one where the driver was cleared of the charges or the one where a pedestrian pushed the fella under the bus?

    How about you do the googling and provide the sources.

    Telling someone to 'Google' it is like pointing someone towards a library and telling them to look it up.

    I was thinking the exact same thing.


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  • #4012
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    dashcamdanny wrote: »
    ? It was all over the news in many occasions.

    Google people killed by dublin bus . To many to list here.

    Or go to the RSA stats page (which is all buses in Dublin not just Dublin Bus), this is also no. of collisions not deaths so one collision could be one death or multiple will still only show 1:

    2012 0
    2011 0
    2010 0
    2009 1
    2008 2
    2007 2
    2006 1
    2005 3

    I realise it misses the big ones such as the 2004 crash and more recent ones.


  • #4013
    Sterling Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Sterling Archer


    dashcamdanny wrote: »
    ? It was all over the news in many occasions.

    Google people killed by dublin bus . To many to list here.

    So you don't have a source or official figures.

    http://www.rsa.ie/en/RSA/Road-Safety/Our-Research/Deaths-injuries-on-Irish-roads/

    RSA Website 8 cyclists killed in 2012 country wide, does not say by what means

    And like you said doing by doing a quick google i found there is 1 recent article about a cyclist being killed by a bus from .... 2008.

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  • #4014
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Shane_ef wrote: »
    Now MORE Videos
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-iOeLGSNvQ


  • #4015
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭BMJD


    dashcamdanny wrote: »
    ? It was all over the news in many occasions.

    Google people killed by dublin bus . To many to list here.


    I wasn't trying to be smart with you, I was genuinely interested in reading more about this. You made it sound like Dublin Bus was the new Al Qaeda.


  • #4016
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    pauld wrote: »
    http://youtu.be/tg5UPb4J7YU

    no patience while on his mobile phone

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5UPb4J7YU


    Just to embed this as well and re-iterate the one comment:

    05 D 66482, you are a wanker of the highest order


  • #4017
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5UPb4J7YU


    Just to embed this as well and re-iterate the one comment:

    05 D 66482, you are a wanker of the highest order

    I don't think he even realised that other car was stopped to let pedestrians go.
    Complete lack of orientation of his surroundings.
    I don't know about Ireland, but in Poland passing a vehicle which stopped in front of pedestrian crossing, is a offence with highest fine and with highest amount of penalty points


  • #4018
    jimbis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭jimbis


    CiniO wrote: »
    I don't think he even realised that other car was stopped to let pedestrians go.
    Complete lack of orientation of his surroundings.
    I don't know about Ireland, but in Poland passing a vehicle which stopped in front of pedestrian crossing, is a offence with highest fine and with highest amount of penalty points

    Major problem on our roads that I just cannot grasp, how people can drive with tunnel vision like that. Too busy concentrating on their destination than their surroundings.... Leaving it up to the better/smarter driver/pedestrian to avoid them. But they won't learn till the worst happens unfortunately :(


  • #4019
    wonski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,683 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    CiniO wrote: »
    I don't think he even realised that other car was stopped to let pedestrians go.
    Complete lack of orientation of his surroundings.
    I don't know about Ireland, but in Poland passing a vehicle which stopped in front of pedestrian crossing, is a offence with highest fine and with highest amount of penalty points

    He didn't even take a time to see what happens around him.
    Cars do park in spots like this one regularly ( in my area it happens all the time - you stop and wait, wait and realize it is an empty car actually:mad:), but a presence of another car in front of him should make him think about what happens, not to mention the pedestrian crossing the road;).


  • #4020
    Nino Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    jimbis wrote: »
    Major problem on our roads that I just cannot grasp, how people can drive with tunnel vision like that. Too busy concentrating on their destination than their surroundings.... Leaving it up to the better/smarter driver/pedestrian to avoid them. But they won't learn till the worst happens unfortunately :(

    I can't see from the video, but his actions have mobile phone written all over it, I'm sure he didn't realize that the van was stopped for pedestrians, he probably never will know, he's probably at home right now complaining about how draconian the new mobile phone laws are, completely oblivious to the fact that he could have killed someone while talking on his phone.


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  • #4021
    moxin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭moxin


    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    In my opinion the cyclist Wanted to be hit by the bus and he would have proof that the bus pulled in on him. The bus driver shouldn't have said what he did but he was speaking out of frustrations and he prob realised the outcome of an accident between a 20/30 ton bus and a bike.

    He is the same cyclist who had the famous "Motorist Meltdown" video a while back that went viral with hundreds of thousands of views. Too much publicity made him take it down but there are other copies out there! :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jRKq9d8Uh4


    As you can see, he ain't any angel at all.


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