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

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  • #4202
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭BMJD


    So the van in front of me was doing 50-55 km/h in a 60 zone, not exactly mind-numbingly slow but Mr. Focus in his "1.4 but quicker than a Ferrari" couldn't bear to be held up any longer. He turned left a few hundred metres later, which makes his unnecessary dangerous overtaking all the more pointless.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWgi_cT4Tis


    Also, I'm not one for the "think of the children" type hysterics, but a few seconds before the start of this clip, I passed the location where a young mother was killed and her newborn baby was seriously injured by a car which went out of control, just a few months ago.


  • #4203
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭BMJD


    and this is what a load of cement bags spilled on the M50 looks like :pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHAmlaivT6Q


  • #4204
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    Maybe I've missed it on this forum but has anybody seen the Blaupunkt Dash cam -

    Blaupunkt dvr-a 1.0 full hd dash camera

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blaupunkt-DVR-A-1-0-Full-Camera/dp/B00H2JOJHW

    Autoexpress reviewed some earlier -http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/accessories-tyres/85714/car-camera-reviews-2014-dash-cam-test


  • #4205
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,859 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    BMJD wrote: »
    and this is what a load of cement bags spilled on the M50 looks like :pac:

    Add that with this and you'll have enough for a new extension!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axz3Cjrg-24


    I imagine if you were trailing that truck and your car got covered in cement it'd need some fast attention!


  • #4206
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BMJD wrote: »
    and this is what a load of cement bags spilled on the M50 looks like :pac:

    Good thing it wasn't raining otherwise the hard shoulder would be harder than usual!:D


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  • #4207
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭BMJD


    at least it wasn't a wet monday morning!


  • #4208
    Sterling Archer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Sterling Archer


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

    And this is why you always consider the outside lane a "passing lane" ... that section around Bunratty is very bad for this kind of thing.


  • #4209
    finnharpsboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,171 ✭✭✭finnharpsboy


    was flour not cement :P


  • #4210
    Neilw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,837 ✭✭✭Neilw


    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.

    There should be an instant ban for doing something as stupid as that.

    I've twice met cars going the wrong way down an exit off them M50, the guards saw one of them and the other realised her mistake and turned around.


  • #4211
    joujoujou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,847 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    After 8 hours on night shift lady in black focus was still quick enough to brake. ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9CGE6oEZTM


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  • #4212
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfl_Hda8AZ8


  • #4213
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Right ok! my light was amber, but his theirs was red!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THBX6KgCJXo


  • #4214
    Plopli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭Plopli


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Right ok! my light was amber, but his theirs was red!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THBX6KgCJXo

    I don't know the exact light sequence at the place but given the position of the white line a bit backward from the light, their light may have been green/amber when they crossed it and they were only clearing the intersection.

    Your light turn amber at 0:22 and I would expect their to do the same. I think they at that point they are well past the white stopping line.

    Your lights were a very dark shade of amber ....
    They turn from amber to red at 0:25 and you're on the line.


  • #4215
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You were both "Amber Gamblers" tbh.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4TDEPP1R9Q


  • #4216
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Plopli wrote: »
    I don't know the exact light sequence at the place but given the position of the white line a bit backward from the light, their light may have been green/amber when they crossed it and they were only clearing the intersection.

    Your light turn amber at 0:22 and I would expect their to do the same. I think they at that point they are well past the white stopping line.

    Your lights were a very dark shade of amber ....
    They turn from amber to red at 0:25 and you're on the line.

    Nah, I go through that junction at least 20 times a week, and the only reason I didn't get through on a green light was because I laid off just a little....
    I knew within seconds those guys where going to be stuck in no mans land, hence holding up the traffic coming from the other side, hence nearly causing me to ram them, hence maybe injuring me or worse.... There side off said junction only gets a Right turn green light for about 10 secs, then I get green and their 'straight' on stays green untill the sequence hits red... The last car that nearly got rammed by me would have paid for everything.


  • #4217
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,954 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Nah, I go through that junction at least 20 times a week, and the only reason I didn't get through on a green light was because I laid off just a little....
    I knew within seconds those guys where going to be stuck in no mans land, hence holding up the traffic coming from the other side, hence nearly causing me to ram them, hence maybe injuring me or worse.... There side off said junction only gets a Right turn green light for about 10 secs, then I get green and their 'straight' on stays green untill the sequence hits red... The last car that nearly got rammed by me would have paid for everything.
    There is no "no mans land" in a situation like this - if a vehicle has legally moved forward into the middle of junction waiting for a green arrow which doesn't come on and their light turns red and traffic has stopped, they are in control of the junction. IMO looking at the video, you had ample time to stop when your amber light came on. Amber = stop unless unsafe to do so. The Civic could then have made his right turn legally and safely. I suspect that both of you would be held partly liable if there had been a crash.

    It's not as simple as your first statement that "my light was amber, but his was red!". You should have stopped and he would then have been in control of the junction.

    Here is a similar incident from this thread where the dashcam car had a green light but accelerated to "make it". Very poor driving.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88831110&postcount=2859


  • #4218
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    There is no "no mans land" in a situation like this - if a vehicle has legally moved forward into the middle of junction waiting for a green arrow which doesn't come on and their light turns red and traffic has stopped, they are in control of the junction. IMO looking at the video, you had ample time to stop when your amber light came on. Amber = stop unless unsafe to do so. The Civic could then have made his right turn legally and safely. I suspect that both of you would be held partly liable if there had been a crash.

    It's not as simple as your first statement that "my light was amber, but his was red!". You should have stopped and he would then have been in control of the junction.

    Here is a similar incident from this thread where the dashcam car had a green light but accelerated to "make it". Very poor driving.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88831110&postcount=2859

    Dear dear me! the naivety off some posters to a simple straight forward video clip, if you knew this particular junction you would know, that you can not make your way and get 'stuck' in the middle off said junction unless you enter illegally... From the stop line to the right turn literally takes 2 secs, if you know your about to lose your green light, which most local people do, well then most people speed up and make it from the stop line to the right turn in 1 sec.... So without a shadow of a doubt those two cars entered the junction illegally. The only reason my light was amber as I went through was because I suspected these guys would possibly make a dash for it. I certainly wasn't going to stop dead as it flipped into amber, it wouldn't have been safe to do so, my mind and eyes where occupied with said drivers. Anyway I'd say that second driver has learned his lesson(after all we all make mistakes)....


  • #4219
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Dear dear me! the naivety off some posters to a simple straight forward video clip, if you knew this particular junction you would know, that you can not make your way and get 'stuck' in the middle off said junction unless you enter illegally... From the stop line to the right turn literally takes 2 secs, if you know your about to lose your green light, which most local people do, well then most people speed up and make it from the stop line to the right turn in 1 sec.... So without a shadow of a doubt those two cars entered the junction illegally. The only reason my light was amber as I went through was because I suspected these guys would possibly make a dash for it. I certainly wasn't going to stop dead as it flipped into amber, it wouldn't have been safe to do so, my mind and eyes where occupied with said drivers. Anyway I'd say that second driver has learned his lesson(after all we all make mistakes)....


    So what you are saying is you deliberately pushed on through, wrongly by mine and most other people in this thread it seems, an amber light was because you suspected others might have done something wrong themselves???

    Charming.


  • #4220
    rocky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,785 ✭✭✭rocky


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    Here is a similar incident from this thread where the dashcam car had a green light but accelerated to "make it". Very poor driving.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=88831110&postcount=2859

    Excuse you... the light to turn right was red for that car that... turned right.


  • #4221
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    maceocc2 wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxP75cYl1w
    Two lanes before the roundabout, two lane roundabout, two lanes after the roundabout. Not sure.
    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.
    Give the video to the Gardai, and see if they can find him. The driver may be a repeat offender.


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  • #4222
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,929 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Right ok! my light was amber, but his theirs was red!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THBX6KgCJXo

    You had ample time to stop for the amber light. Your speed seems to be slow enough to stop.
    In fact you didn't even clear the junction when the light had gone to red.
    Sorry, but you shouldn't have ran the light and then complain about the Civic.
    And I seriously don't get the "it only went amber as you were watching the cars" sentence, are you saying you deliberately ran the amber to see if the cars would then move in front of you?


  • #4223
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,929 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Nah, I go through that junction at least 20 times a week, and the only reason I didn't get through on a green light was because I laid off just a little....
    I knew within seconds those guys where going to be stuck in no mans land, hence holding up the traffic coming from the other side, hence nearly causing me to ram them, hence maybe injuring me or worse.... There side off said junction only gets a Right turn green light for about 10 secs, then I get green and their 'straight' on stays green untill the sequence hits red... The last car that nearly got rammed by me would have paid for everything.

    Are you a car crash investigator? Why would the Civic have paid for everything?


  • #4224
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭BMJD


    hey this lane on the right looks nice, I think I'll stay there at half the speed limit

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85xES7vh1Pg


  • #4225
    Sam Quentin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    bear1 wrote: »
    You had ample time to stop for the amber light. Your speed seems to be slow enough to stop.
    In fact you didn't even clear the junction when the light had gone to red.
    Sorry, but you shouldn't have ran the light and then complain about the Civic.
    And I seriously don't get the "it only went amber as you were watching the cars" sentence, are you saying you deliberately ran the amber to see if the cars would then move in front of you?

    In all fairness, he did admit he ran the amber light in the 'heading' off his post, and I'm not surprised the far light had gone red as he was clearing the junction after what had just happened. Yes he was driving at a decent enough speed to 'maybe' stop probably beyond the line! Stopping distance at 50kph I think is 24 metres(correct me if I'm wrong).


  • #4226
    b318isp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭b318isp


    BMJD wrote: »
    hey this lane on the right looks nice, I think I'll stay there at half the speed limit

    Similar to my experience yesterday, Pug 307 in middle lane of the N7...at 60kph, left lane completely clear. Caused havoc as basically 3 lanes of traffic had to make their way around her via the right hand lane.


  • #4227
    Hammer Archer
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,694 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    BMJD wrote: »
    hey this lane on the right looks nice, I think I'll stay there at half the speed limit
    Rabble Rabble Rabble Undertaking Rabble Rabble Worse than Hitler Rabble.


  • #4228
    Taylor365
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭Taylor365


    b318isp wrote: »
    Similar to my experience yesterday, Pug 307 in middle lane of the N7...at 60kph, left lane completely clear. Caused havoc as basically 3 lanes of traffic had to make their way around her via the right hand lane.
    What?

    Undertake slowly and give her the eyes with a menacing stare..


    60% of the time, it works every time!


  • #4229
    b318isp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭b318isp


    Taylor365 wrote: »
    What?

    Undertake slowly and give her with a menacing stare..


    60% of the time, it works every time!

    Yep, some of that happened - and even plenty flashing and horn blowing didn't make the slightest difference.


  • #4230
    seagull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭seagull


    The N7 from Newlands cross heading outbound is the worst stretch I've encountered for lane discipline.


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  • #4231
    phill106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,834 ✭✭✭phill106


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

    He was arrested after a chase
    http://clareherald.com/2014/06/19/wrong-way-driver-arrested-after-chase-67509/


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