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

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  • #5612
    dashcamdanny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭dashcamdanny


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Which statistics exactly?

    WRT the Safe Cross Code, it is being taught, and imo is misguided in that it attempts to make children entirely responsible for their own safety on the road.

    Have a look at this RSA promotional gimmick, and if you can spot a pedestrian crossing facility for children anywhere in the imagery, please let me know.

    I remember well how intense road safety was when I was a kid.

    We would have to watch videos on road safety on a weekly bases when they used to roll the big tv into the class room.
    Before we got to watch what we were supposed to see. ROSPA in the late 80s would visit each school yearly and give every child reflectors as well as lessons on road and bike safety and posters would all over the school. In primary 6, age 10, kids were given a cycling proficiency test at school and certs and prizes were handed out after.

    The RSA dont go anywhere near this level for my children.

    As for the facts on young teenagers. Well the information all over the net is fairly extensive. Those mobile phones are a scourge for both drivers and pedestrians safety. Zombie mode..



    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/17/cell-phone-walking-injuries-rise/2824515/

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2344933/Pedestrian-mobile-phone-injuries-DOUBLE-years.html

    http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/distractwalk.htm

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/512070/Third-of-pedestrians-at-risk-due-to-mobile-phones

    http://www.voanews.com/content/pedestrian-distracted-walking-dangers/1611944.html


  • #5613
    Plopli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭Plopli


    bear1 wrote: »
    The only country I'd say is the most polite to pedestrians is Belgium.

    In Belgium, the law make it very clear that in case of an accident between a motorcycle/car/van/truck and a pedestrian/cyclist the larger's insurance will always have to pay for it (and thus loss of B/M and so on), whoever is responsible and without way to wiggle out of it.

    This is made very clear in any training you get and in lot's of TV spots.
    That may help somehow at raising awareness.


  • #5614
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    dashcamdanny wrote: »
    ROSPA in the late 80s would visit each school yearly and give every child reflectors as well as lessons on road and bike safety and posters would all over the school. In primary 6, age 10, kids were given a cycling proficiency test at school and certs and prizes were handed out after.

    The RSA dont go anywhere near this level for my children.


    And the result of their efforts? A year-on-year, decade-upon-decade decline in the number of children walking and cycling to school in the UK and Ireland, with many parents citing danger on the roads as a determining factor.

    Well done RoSPA and the RSA.
    Half of parents driving their children to UK primary schools live under a mile away, walk-to-school campaigners say.

    The charity Living Streets says the numbers walking to school are falling.

    A survey of 1,000 parents it commissioned from YouGov found that one in four parents said they did not consider walking their child to school.

    However, four out of five said they had walked to school when they were young. Schools across the UK are marking walk-to-school week.

    The National Travel Survey for 2011, published last year, showed that 49% of children aged between five and 10 walked to school. That was down from 53% in 1995-97.

    At secondary level, 39% of children were walking, down from 42%.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/education-22570898

    Did you spot any pedestrian crossing facility for children in the RSA "Safe Cross Code" game?


  • #5615
    irishmover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭irishmover


    Got my first dashcam over a week ago. See idiotic things everyday on the Brisbane roads but this has been the biggest incident i've encountered yet with the Dashcam. Thought I'd share.



  • #5616
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    irishmover wrote: »
    Got my first dashcam over a week ago. See idiotic things everyday on the Brisbane roads but this has been the biggest incident i've encountered yet with the Dashcam. Thought I'd share.


    Brisbane motorways = free for all.. Undertaking, crazy lane changes, motorbikes driving in the hard shoulder are par for the course. I find it weird that the police are such rule nazis over here and yet the motorways seem untouched bar speed cameras.


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  • #5617
    irishmover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭irishmover


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Brisbane motorways = free for all.. Undertaking, crazy lane changes, motorbikes driving in the hard shoulder are par for the course. I find it weird that the police are such rule nazis over here and yet the motorways seem untouched bar speed cameras.

    Tailgate capital of Australia. Drive the motorways everyday. Main reason for getting the camera.

    I've sent a report to the QLD police along with link to video. Interesting to see what happens considering a plea by the police a couple of weeks ago to the public to 'dob' bad drivers in.


  • #5618
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭Thoie


    irishmover wrote: »
    Got my first dashcam over a week ago. See idiotic things everyday on the Brisbane roads but this has been the biggest incident i've encountered yet with the Dashcam. Thought I'd share.

    I never knew the M50 went as far as Brisbane - I've never gone further south than J16.


  • #5619
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bloody dog!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKUfr_NfKUo


  • #5620
    huggs2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 457 ✭✭huggs2


    Silver car cuts in at last moment. Close one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eddkL0bUgxo


  • #5621
    Tragedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭Tragedy


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

    Tempted to report the taxi driver, breaking a red light on to a main road that is always incredibly busy with Emergency Services = really really stupid.


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  • #5622
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #5623
    D.C.W.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2 ✭D.C.W.


    Why do a lot of taxi drivers take a red light as a mere suggestion to stop?


  • #5624
    BMJD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭BMJD


    Tragedy wrote: »
    Tempted to report the taxi driver, breaking a red light on to a main road that is always incredibly busy with Emergency Services = really really stupid.

    you can get his details, including a photo of his head, on the taxi driver check app

    the dithering moron in the Aygo needs a boot up the arse as well


  • #5625
    magpie1987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭magpie1987


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGcVF_Nia6g


    Some eejit in a 09 VW golf overtaking on a continuous white.
    Lucky the oncoming vehicle wasn't going any faster


  • #5626
    GrumpyMe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    Tragedy wrote: »
    ...Tempted to report the taxi driver, breaking a red light on to a main road that is always incredibly busy with Emergency Services = really really stupid.

    Report the pair of them!

    Stupid impatient taxi driver - wrong side of a (short) continious white line, wrong side of the road at junction, no indication and runs red.:mad:

    Stupid Toyota Aygo driver - enters yellow box(at hospital entrance) and stops (look at shadow), passenger side brake light not functioning, no indication before left turn manoeuvre, waits with green filter until pedestrians begin to cross, then proceeds through red making multiple attempts to enforce right of way against traffic with green lights! Moron!:eek:


  • #5627
    hairybelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭hairybelly


    Thats exactly how people are killed every weekend on Irish roads. Stupid **** like that.


  • #5628
    IP freely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭IP freely


    Edit; Created its own thread as I don't want to cause off topic conversation.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057306836

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DttuqAP0h4


  • #5629
    joujoujou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,273 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    AFAIK some 4WDs can't be tested on roller thing (in terms of braking effort), so they take a decelerometer into a car and do it like above. :)


  • #5630
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #5631
    Dawn Rider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Dawn Rider


    Tragedy wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmXLKnSkyhU

    Tempted to report the taxi driver, breaking a red light on to a main road that is always incredibly busy with Emergency Services = really really stupid.

    That looks like the taxi that I saw doing the exact same thing at that location during the summer...
    Only that time, the prick gave the car in front a long blast of the horn as he started the maneuver.


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  • #5632
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    WTF that's crazy stuff.

    Is that in and around the children's hospital?


  • #5633
    Tragedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭Tragedy


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    WTF that's crazy stuff.

    Is that in and around the children's hospital?

    The queue is on Cooley Road turning on to Crumlin Road, Crumlin A&E is up the ramp at 1:10 and ALL ambulances/escort vehicles access it via junction the Taxi drives up the wrong side on a red at.


  • #5634
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,041 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Towing: (only first 30s action)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkprwJU8xvo


  • #5635
    wonski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,679 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    CiniO wrote: »
    Towing: (only first 30s action)

    :D:eek::confused:

    WTF

    This video shows how simple things can go wrong. And how important it is to look in the mirror;)


  • #5636
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    I wike wabbits!:o
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByIU8xH2E4A


  • #5637
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    Report that taxi indeed, shocking behavior regardless of what the Igo did.


  • #5638
    Killinator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭Killinator


    Approaching the Limerick side of the Shannon tunnel (yesterday at about 2:45), and it was closed for a few minutes(don't know why)
    But why should you wait in traffic when you can reverse down the overtaking lane back to the nearest on-ramp which has to be about a 1/2 kilometer back.
    Also note that traffic started moving about 20 seconds after he started going backwards which means traffic coming towards the tunnel would be arriving on with no idea of a stoppage and this complete bellend reversing towards them!:mad:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PO3AGKW7U0


  • #5639
    h3000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭h3000


    Killinator wrote: »
    Approaching the Limerick side of the Shannon tunnel (yesterday at about 2:45), and it was closed for a few minutes(don't know why)
    But why should you wait in traffic when you can reverse down the overtaking lane back to the nearest on-ramp which has to be about a 1/2 kilometer back.
    Also note that traffic started moving about 20 seconds after he started going backwards which means traffic coming towards the tunnel would be arriving on with no idea of a stoppage and this complete bellend reversing towards them!:mad:

    08TN2509 I think.

    Registration 08TN2509
    Make. MAZDA
    Model 3
    Description 1.4 COMFORT 5DR
    Engine Capacity (cc)

    0118 999 881 999 119 725 3



  • #5640
    wardy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭wardy2


    first day using a dash cam and got this



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  • #5641
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    wardy2 wrote: »
    first day using a dash cam and got this


    Doesn't seem to have been any indication by the driver at all - probably looking for parking, and spotted the car park - doesn't like like the cyclist slowed or braked at all either, so I guess he never saw the car coming.

    That cyclist might well be out of pocket for injuries or damage to the bike, so you might like to tag the video with the location and date, just to help him find it.


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