Dash cam thread 2 (car videos only, no commenting on videos)

tedpan · 22-02-2018 9:02am

inforfun wrote:

Dont think he was serious with that speeding remark.....

You can only hope!!

AndyBoBandy · 22-02-2018 9:55am

dickwod1 wrote: »

My channel's videos featured on RTE's Prime Time last week.

Did they use any more clips that weren't yours?

I notice the one at the entrance to Artane Castle was shown twice, that was my neck of the woods!! (and 20-25 years ago, I was probably pulling the same manoeuvre daily!!)

inforfun · 22-02-2018 11:35am

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7371523/f04ed438/automobilist_heeft_gelukje.html

Kamili · 22-02-2018 11:55am

one from yesterday, Crash on the M50 yesterday morning (took the actual crash out of the footage)
But Emergency services trying to get through and some selfish **** in a red van can't be bothered to get out of the way and blocks them. No excuse as both the garda car and the ambulance had the blues and twos on loudly and everyone else manages to get out of the way.

Can't see in the vid but the driver of the Garda car was blowing the horn at them like nobody's business and gesturing wildly - not sure why they didn't get out and have a word afterwards.

Asinine behaviour IMO, even if it was only for a few seconds.

https://youtu.be/-oR0WSIw0LM

accensi0n · 22-02-2018 12:03pm

Kamili wrote: »

one from yesterday, Crash on the M50 yesterday morning (took the actual crash out of the footage)
But Emergency services trying to get through and some selfish **** in a red van can't be bothered to get out of the way and blocks them. No excuse as both the garda car and the ambulance had the blues and twos on loudly and everyone else manages to get out of the way.

Can't see in the vid but the driver of the Garda car was blowing the horn at them like nobody's business and gesturing wildly - not sure why they didn't get out and have a word afterwards.

Asinine behaviour IMO, even if it was only for a few seconds.

https://youtu.be/-oR0WSIw0LM

From what I can tell you've completely misinterpreted that. He tried to get out of the way almost immediately, but moved to the right to give them the hard shoulder space, it was the wrong decision for the situation but he did move.

Kamili · 22-02-2018 12:07pm

accensi0n wrote: »

From what I can tell you've completely misinterpreted that. He tried to get out of the way almost immediately, but moved to the right to give them the hard shoulder space, it was the wrong decision for the situation but he did move.

Not at all, the garda car had to blow the horn repeatedly and solidly to get them even to make a decision move at all, from sitting watching the garda car and hearing the angry horn blowing, it was very clear the driver of the van had no intention to move out of the way. May not be clear at all from the vid but the garda was exceptionally frustrated.

The van driver tried to merge into the motorway, which was blocked, so had no space to move into, when they could have gone into the hard shoulder which was free.

humberklog · 22-02-2018 12:07pm

Sure the red car should've moved but I'm curious as to why the emergency services weren't using the hard shoulder lane?

Kamili · 22-02-2018 12:16pm

humberklog wrote: »

Sure the red car should've moved but I'm curious as to why the emergency services weren't using the hard shoulder lane?

It was right at the slip road on to the motorway and the cars behind had all moved into the start of the hard shoulder behind to allow the emergency services through - they took the path of least resistance till they got blocked by the red van who sat in their way. They could not go into the hard shoulder as the red van didn't move over and there was not enough room for the Garda car to fit between the white van and red van into the hard shoulder.

inforfun · 22-02-2018 12:16pm

Yep, emergency service take the hard shoulder en no one needs to move.

The way they try now creates a mess, some try to get out of their way by moving into the hard shoulder which is logic.
But logic isnt for all of us so there will be people trying to get out of their wat by going to try to move into the lane at the right of them.

Kamili · 22-02-2018 12:19pm

inforfun wrote: »

Yep, emergency service take the hard shoulder en no one needs to move.

The way they try now creates a mess, some try to get out of their way by moving into the hard shoulder which is logic.
But logic isnt for all of us so there will be people trying to get out of their wat by going to try to move into the lane at the right of them.

Except this was right at the slip road on at J11, so there was no hard shoulder wide enough for them to take yet, the cars had to move out of the way.

inforfun · 22-02-2018 12:21pm

Ok, but did they come all the way like this or moved in from the hard shoulder to avoid the exit?

Kamili · 22-02-2018 12:24pm

inforfun wrote: »

Ok, but did they come all the way like this or moved in from the hard shoulder to avoid the exit?

The slip is split into two lanes, a shorter merge lane and a longer lane, they came down the longer lane as the shorter one was blocked with people trying to merge.

The red van was oblivious to the emergency services and tried to merge right, into a lane which was solid with traffic. thus blocking them. They were clearly not paying attention to what was going on behind and didn't see the rest of the cars behind them pull in left.

Sorry to Clarify, the emergency services had only just come on at the junction.

What Username Guidelines · 22-02-2018 12:36pm

humberklog wrote: »

Sure the red car should've moved but I'm curious as to why the emergency services weren't using the hard shoulder lane?

Thought the same but given it’s just at/after a merge/junction, perhaps everyone behind cammer had moved left instead to save the gardai having to cut across the line of merging cars?

Kamili · 22-02-2018 12:38pm

What Username Guidelines wrote: »

Thought the same but given it’s just at/after a merge/junction, perhaps everyone behind cammer had moved left instead to save the gardai having to cut across the line of merging cars?

nail on the head, the emergency services had only joined the motorway at the junction themselves.

What Username Guidelines · 22-02-2018 12:42pm

Kamili wrote: »

nail on the head, the emergency services had only joined the motorway at the junction themselves.

Ah, I thought they were already on the motorway and attempting to get passed the merging traffic and a sea of cars had parted, even more confused that they didnt push their way in on the left from the beginning of the slip. But sure these lads do this every day, I'm sure they know more than me

SuperS54 · 22-02-2018 2:05pm

Mod edit

fancy pigeon · 22-02-2018 5:10pm

Nothing exciting, but a truck fell in a ditch local to me. Story goes he overtook a tractor and trailer beforehand, then realised he was going too fast and muled it into the ditch. No warning to say the road was closed, no diversion, just in on top of the fun before you know it. The second bit is daylight approaching from the other direction

Please ignore the squeaky brakes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb9uBCBXDhM

Damien360 · 22-02-2018 9:53pm

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Nothing exciting, but a truck fell in a ditch local to me. Story goes he overtook a tractor and trailer beforehand, then realised he was going too fast and muled it into the ditch. No warning to say the road was closed, no diversion, just in on top of the fun before you know it. The second bit is daylight approaching from the other direction

Please ignore the squeaky brakes!

There could have been a UFO on screen for all I could see :pac:

Thargor · 22-02-2018 11:04pm

Damien360 wrote: »

There could have been a UFO on screen for all I could see :pac:

The brakes sounded like the X-Files theme at one point aswell.

fritzelly · 22-02-2018 11:13pm

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Nothing exciting, but a truck fell in a ditch local to me. Story goes he overtook a tractor and trailer beforehand, then realised he was going too fast and muled it into the ditch. No warning to say the road was closed, no diversion, just in on top of the fun before you know it. The second bit is daylight approaching from the other direction

Please ignore the squeaky brakes!

Tell the truth - you were on the way home from the pub and you saw the flashing blue lights and with no NCT, driving licence, insurance or tax you decided to do a quick U turn

CiniO · 23-02-2018 2:32am

inforfun wrote: »

Well, if anything the EU has accomplished with their open border policies, it is that it turned The Netherlands into an Eastern European country as it comes to dashcam footage.

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7370017/37a26f16/dashcam_compilasie_uit_hollandistan.html

Are you suggesting that most drivers causing that mayhem are immigrants to Netherland and Dutch roads weren't like that before?

Sterling Archer · 23-02-2018 2:48am

Who here made it into the compilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKhKwsfv7vQ

OldMrBrennan83 · 23-02-2018 6:21am

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fancy pigeon · 23-02-2018 9:32am

fritzelly wrote: »

Tell the truth - you were on the way home from the pub and you saw the flashing blue lights and with no NCT, driving licence, insurance or tax you decided to do a quick U turn

Didn't I bump into you in the pub earlier, you had the 35 with one working light yes?!

Damien360 wrote: »

There could have been a UFO on screen for all I could see :pac:

It was pretty shonkadelic alright, even from a distance you couldn't see much... It was moreso trialing a different video editor and seeing what quality the output was, so far so good... The 2nd half of the clip anyway!

Next edited video will be better, I hope

inforfun · 23-02-2018 11:31am

CiniO wrote: »

Are you suggesting that most drivers causing that mayhem are immigrants to Netherland and Dutch roads weren't like that before?

No Cathy, i am saying that the dashcam footage starts to look the same.

tedpan · 23-02-2018 11:46am

Shane_ef wrote:

Who here made it into the compilation

I think you have to send the footage to Welsh drive. Think it's made up of four cammers. Awesome job

SuperS54 · 23-02-2018 2:10pm

Stupid overtaking maneuvers on mountain roads are unfortunately common here, as are tour bus accidents and also drinking driving. Perfect storm in this one, truck driver was later found to be over the limit...at 7.40am. Full story at http://taiwanenglishnews.com/4-injured-after-tour-bus-crashes-during-illegal-overtake/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ9igl1sEwY

23-02-2018 5:41pm

SuperS54 wrote: »

Stupid overtaking maneuvers on mountain roads are unfortunately common here, as are tour bus accidents and also drinking driving. Perfect storm in this one, truck driver was later found to be over the limit...at 7.40am. Full story at http://taiwanenglishnews.com/4-injured-after-tour-bus-crashes-during-illegal-overtake/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ9igl1sEwY

No mention of any sanction for the bus driver who caused the crash in the first place!.

23-02-2018 5:43pm

inforfun wrote: »

No Cathy, i am saying that the dashcam footage starts to look the same.

I think that it's a simple case that as the number of vehicles fitted with cameras increases, the chances of catching "Russian style" crashes also increases.

jimmynokia · 23-02-2018 6:06pm

There are no words but maybe there is.. https://youtu.be/keP3e7-HjuY?t=4

CiniO · 23-02-2018 6:36pm

inforfun wrote: »

No Cathy, i am saying that the dashcam footage starts to look the same.

While living here in Ireland I watch all crash compilations from Poland, and you can see some crazy stuff there (not as crazy as form Russia but still).
One could think that Polish roads must be lethal and very dangerous.

However I lived there in Poland for 25 years up to around 2007, and driven there for everyday for 8 years, and never really seen or experienced any of the mad stuff you see on those dashcam compilations.
I still go there regularly and spend there good few weeks every year, and all traffic seem going normal way.

Possibly it's exactly same scenario with Dutch dashcam videos.
You got different impression of road safety/behaviour when you lived there, and you get different one when watching a set of road accident videos from there in a compilation.

I can even nearly bet, each one of us here could go to Russia, drive for a month all across the country, and don't experience a single incident which all of us watch on Russian compilations.

Seve OB · 23-02-2018 7:22pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

No mention of any sanction for the bus driver who caused the crash in the first place!.

Just before impact you can see the truck spin out of control and into the into the oncoming lane

punisher5112 · 23-02-2018 8:15pm

jimmynokia wrote: »

There are no words but maybe there is.. https://youtu.be/keP3e7-HjuY?t=4

What a pleb

skibum · 23-02-2018 8:16pm

Seve OB wrote: »

Just before impact you can see the truck spin out of control and into the into the oncoming lane

Yeah, because he shat himself when he saw a bus barrelling down on his side of the road, hit the brakes, wet road, rest is history....

23-02-2018 8:25pm

Seve OB wrote: »

Just before impact you can see the truck spin out of control and into the into the oncoming lane

It's hard to believe he would have handled it any better if sober.

Isambard · 23-02-2018 8:32pm

came across this , there are several episodes

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

TramCAR of course

23-02-2018 8:41pm

Lorry driver head cam, something different - just be aware it could make you sick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPA1O9_MkI

fritzelly · 23-02-2018 8:46pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Lorry driver head cam, something different - just be aware it could make you sick.

Unwatchable - getting motion sickness

fritzelly · 23-02-2018 8:50pm

Isambard wrote: »

came across this , there are several episodes

TramCAR of course

Like demolition derby lol

24-02-2018 12:16am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw7b9K5HcS8

chewed · 24-02-2018 12:30am

jimmynokia wrote:

There are no words but maybe there is..

Was that in Navan retail Park?

24-02-2018 2:33am

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

jaxxx · 24-02-2018 2:44am

Deleted User wrote: »

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

That truck at 1:15... that's straight out of Grand Theft Auto or something, cannot believe it's actually real. The hell was wrong with that truck driver. Drunk, health problem? Jesus :eek:

jaxxx · 24-02-2018 3:38am

I despise brake checking, but...

jimmynokia · 24-02-2018 8:02am

chewed wrote:

Was that in Navan retail Park?

Yep. Just opposite new garage.

bear1 · 24-02-2018 10:09am

Very poor lane discipline in the States.

Isambard · 24-02-2018 11:05am

jaxxx wrote: »

That truck at 1:15... that's straight out of Grand Theft Auto or something, cannot believe it's actually real. The hell was wrong with that truck driver. Drunk, health problem? Jesus :eek:

video is reversed, looks like left side driving ....

24-02-2018 11:42am

Isambard wrote: »

video is reversed, looks like left side driving ....

He crashes in the original as well :P
Looks like total brake failure or driver incapacitated.

Isambard · 24-02-2018 2:39pm

Deleted User wrote: »

He crashes in the original as well :P
Looks like total brake failure or driver incapacitated.

I wasn't commenting on the comment, just denoting which video I was commenting on.

fritzelly · 24-02-2018 2:56pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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

Did that driver actually get flung out the door? (Last clip)

Dash cam thread 2 (car videos only, no commenting on videos)

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