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

Mycroft H

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRC7RO2tOJQ

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Iwannahurl

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

The car must have been stolen

The driver was way over the speed limit on an urban road, therefore the vehicle was stolen?

Must be an awful lot of stolen cars in this country so.

In Galway, for instance: https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/478816405664849920/photo/1

gutteruu

Iwannahurl wrote: »

In Galway, for instance: https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/478816405664849920/photo/1

Doing speed checks on a 50kph empty dual carraigeway at night! How about they go back 100 yards to the roundabout and do everyone for driving like gob****es. Or better still, catch a criminal!

Iwannahurl

gutteruu wrote: »

Doing speed checks on a 50kph empty dual carraigeway at night! How about they go back 100 yards to the roundabout and do everyone for driving like gob****es. Or better still, catch a criminal!

But they must be stolen cars, right?

http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=13426

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Iwannahurl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ff-H7Rar44

pauld

http://youtu.be/rDKKn1Wd_JM

[Deleted User]

Iwannahurl wrote: »

The driver was way over the speed limit on an urban road, therefore the vehicle was stolen?

Must be an awful lot of stolen cars in this country so.

In Galway, for instance: https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/478816405664849920/photo/1

No. A car overtaking several cars directly after a junction on a busy urban 50 kmph stretch at probably twice the limit indicates that it might be stolen.

And yes. There are a lot of stolen cars in the country

[Deleted User]

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

No. A car overtaking several cars directly after a junction on a busy urban 50 kmph stretch at probably twice the limit indicates that it might be stolen.

And yes. There are a lot of stolen cars in the country

I wouldn't just assume it was stolen (OK it's likely that it was), but some clowns "drive it like it was stolen" just for the thrill of it.

Iwannahurl

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

No. A car overtaking several cars directly after a junction on a busy urban 50 kmph stretch at probably twice the limit indicates that it might be stolen.

And yes. There are a lot of stolen cars in the country

According to the RSA about 8 in every ten cars on 50 km/h urban arterial and "urban national" roads are breaking the speed limit. I'm afraid it's a bit too convenient to believe that the extreme speeders among them are most likely in stolen cars.

Back to the ass-saving dashcams:

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

[Deleted User]

Iwannahurl wrote: »

According to the RSA about 8 in every ten cars on 50 km/h urban arterial and "urban national" roads are breaking the speed limit. I'm afraid it's a bit too convenient to believe that the extreme speeders among them are most likely in stolen cars.

Fair enough. But the overtaking as well as the speed is a huge factor there. If you know that stretch of road, you'd know that anyone could have come out of anywhere. Its full on dangerous driving and deserves a ban

Iwannahurl

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Fair enough. But the overtaking as well as the speed is a huge factor there. If you know that stretch of road, you'd know that anyone could have come out of anywhere. Its full on dangerous driving and deserves a ban

I know lots of stretches of road where there are side roads, exits and driveways, and motorists still drive at lunatic speeds.

A couple of years ago I was about to take a left turn out of this filling station on a 50 km/h stretch of the N84 in Galway, with the kids in the back. I slowly approached the roadway and looked to my right for oncoming traffic. As I was turning my head to look to the left, a car flashed by at high speed, overtaking outside the continuous white line. Had I accidentally lurched forwards, or exited without checking, we were all dead. The car wasn't stolen.

Last year, early one Saturday morning, I was about to turn right out of this petrol station, situated on a 50 km/h residential/arterial road. I had checked to my right, then to my left, and was about to look right again. In that couple of seconds a car sped by from right to left at what must have been close to 100 km/h, if not over it. It wasn't a stolen car, just one of the upper-end speeders on that road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2XpkyJTacc

bear1

I'd seriously doubt that lad was going 100mph.

Red Nissan

bear1 wrote: »

I'd seriously doubt that lad was going 100mph.

No he wasn't. Probably doing about sixty.

maceocc2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxP75cYl1w

ardle1

maceocc2 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxP75cYl1w

Eh! does he not know if he continues on round the round-about he will find himself a multitude off choices about what to do next, oh and his exit will still be there!!:rolleyes:

Mick55

Very last minute, very close to the cones!

RainyDay

Mick55 wrote: »

Very last minute, very close to the cones!

I got confused the first time I went through that junction, as the signage isn't great. IIRC, it says Castleknock in the left hand lane and Blanch in the next lane. But if you want to go to Blanch village, you're better off in the 'Castleknock' lane.

Mick55

RainyDay wrote: »

the signage isn't great..

Completely agree, if you don't know the junction it is a confusing one.

maceocc2

I recently posted one here of the same juction, only someone jumped into the slip road to blanch. Really bad signage, the big over heads should be much earlier

Caliden

RainyDay wrote: »

I got confused the first time I went through that junction, as the signage isn't great. IIRC, it says Castleknock in the left hand lane and Blanch in the next lane. But if you want to go to Blanch village, you're better off in the 'Castleknock' lane.

And if you want to get to Castleknock relatively quickly, at the roundabout you come to you take the Blanchardstown exit and go down by the bell pub.

Otherwise you end up at the whore of a junction across from Auburn Ave where the light synchronisation is useless and only 3-5 cars get to turn right at this junction:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir//53.3812929,-6.3573806/@53.3805615,-6.3581533,18z/data=!4m3!4m2!1m0!1m0

kevin65

Keep an eye out for the silver Mercedes.

http://youtu.be/Ei1csH7JhCw

Met him on the way into Limerick on Wednesday morning. Thanks be to God no-one was killed.

Hammer Archer

What the actual fcuk? That's 3 (on camera) in as many weeks nearly.
Looks like there was no number plate on it. Stolen?

kevin65

Can't say if it was stolen, there is a reg plate on it, but can't make it out fully as he was going so fast. Looks like 04-C-xxxx.

Probably some doddery old f*cker. A toyota people carrier and a motorbike passed me just before this so they could have met this guy head on!

b318isp

kevin65 wrote: »

Keep an eye out for the silver Mercedes.

http://youtu.be/Ei1csH7JhCw

Met him on the way into Limerick on Wednesday morning. Thanks be to God no-one was killed.

Frightening, seeing that.

PeteK*

bear1 wrote: »

I'd seriously doubt that lad was going 100mph.

Iwannahurl wrote: »

In that couple of seconds a car sped by from right to left at what must have been close to 100 km/h, if not over it.

Red Nissan wrote: »

No he wasn't. Probably doing about sixty.

Bear1, Iwannahurl posted km/h which is basically what you're saying, Red Nissan.

kevin65 wrote: »

Keep an eye out for the silver Mercedes.

http://youtu.be/Ei1csH7JhCw

Met him on the way into Limerick on Wednesday morning. Thanks be to God no-one was killed.

That's mad.. they're going so fast they're almost on top of you before you see them.

rameire

thats crazy speed the merc is doing,
Ive always thought about how I would react if I came across a car head on.
Ive always thought Id have time to slow down, put lights and hazards on and try to slow or stop the person,
the reality is, you may not have a chance
but if you do, get the fcuk out of the way and call the Gardai, and pray nobody hits the idiot driving like a tool.

kevin65

b318isp wrote: »

Frightening, seeing that.

It would make you think twice about being in the right hand lane on a dual carriageway without a clear view of the road ahead. After he passed me, I was like 'did I really see that???'.

wonski

PeteK* wrote: »

Bear1, Iwannahurl posted km/h which is basically what you're saying, Red Nissan.

That's mad.. they're going so fast they're almost on top of you before you see them.

The video owner claimed it was 100 mph.

It wasn't that fast clearly.

slimjimmc

kevin65 wrote: »

It would make you think twice about being in the right hand lane on a dual carriageway without a clear view of the road ahead. After he passed me, I was like 'did I really see that???'.

I know what you mean, I've recently become very hesitant about overtaking near bends.

Imo it's long overdue that we have "STOP : wrong way" signs displayed towards wrong way traffic for at least 1km before every motorway/DC exit but I suspect nothing proactive will be done until at least 5 people or a politician's relative are killed.:mad:

[Deleted User]

slimjimmc wrote: »

I know what you mean, I've recently become very hesitant about overtaking near bends.

Imo it's long overdue that we have "STOP : wrong way" signs displayed towards wrong way traffic for at least 1km before every motorway/DC exit but I suspect nothing proactive will be done until at least 5 people or a politician's relative are killed.:mad:

Putting up proper "No Entry" signs would be a good start rather than the old style "no straight ahead" signs as those signs are non standard and many foreign drivers wouldn't notice them (even more so now that the proper signs are widely used elsewhere). Flashing red lights activated by motion sensors would alert those who ignore the No entry signs and after that a set of angled spikes to puncture the tyres!

K.Flyer

Another take on drivers breaking Red Lights...