The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Dashcam" Thread
Discussion
JT361 said:
The speeding Micra hits the Paramedic vehicle and everybody carries on driving as if nothing happened.Edited by Martin4x4 on Saturday 3rd October 20:16
General Price said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk6LwuT-awM
Thermobaric said:
Guys, new vid. Let's move on. Some good ones in this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyxDeeuwBMs
2m 10sec - Strrrrrriiiiike!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyxDeeuwBMs
SpeedMattersNot said:
hat, on a NSL single lane road, or a 40mph road...or a 20mph road past a school, you move out of their way before you get tail-gated? b
ks!
Never, not once in near 30 years. ks!I stick to 30s 40s 20s and 50s rigidly and have never been caught speeding. If someone wants to overtake me in such a limit, I let them get on with it. Not my job or business to hinder them. If they f
k up or get caught, that's their look out. Dual carriageways, Mways, I drive at the speed I chose to overtake when I lined to and stay to the left. And if I am overtaking I don't f
k about and go past people at half an mph relative speed, I make sure my speed I'd sufficient to pass them, overtake and move back left. if someone comes up behind me going quicker, I' rarely have to move over as I am doing that anyway as soon as I'm past the vehicle I am overtaking. It's all pretty simple, I keep my eyes open, spend as much time looking backwards as forwards, drive how I feel safe driving and let others get on with how they want to drive. It's really not hard.
Now being observant as I am, if I wanted to go out and f
k about messing people's journeys up, getting into altercations with them and then rant and rave about it on the net, I'd be pretty good at it, but I'm content with the way I do things, tbh. Palms said:
Maybe s3fella is a tailgater and thinks that driving 2 foot from the guy in front is ok so its ok for them to be that close to his rear?
No chance that you have never been tailgated in 28 years
Well not that I would consider 'tailgating' no. As I say, I've never been caught speeding and only had one accident, (which was just my car) in all that time also. And I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles in the UK and tens of thousand in USA,Europe and Far East. No chance that you have never been tailgated in 28 years
Maybe I'm 'lucky' or maybe I just have a good sense of staying out of trouble? Maybe some people who think they're doing nothing wrong 'attract' incidents because they are a bit s
tter than they realise. Btw, if your definition of tailgating is 2ft from your bumper, I'd suggest that happens to anyone very rarely indeed. Got sit in traffic with a car behind , they will rarely be that close, but look how big they are in you mirrors! Closest I've seen a vehicle to another which was a road rage incident unfolding behind me, and looked very ugly indeed on the m5, was a car stuffed up behind some young girl who'd just pulled out to l3 when car was in her blind spot. Cue angry man driving horribly close at 80mph, but as they both passed me, he was still about 2 or 3 meters behind her. Far far too close, looked scary as hell, completely ridiculous, the worst case I' and my missus have witnessed, but still a good 6 to 10 ft away.
So full of st that it's almost funny. A lot of people tailgate as their usual driving distance - not trying to overtake; not a road rage incident; just how they drive. The only way to stop them doing it is to slow down and speed up until they get the message that you want them to keep a safe distance.
t that it's almost funny. A lot of people tailgate as their usual driving distance - not trying to overtake; not a road rage incident; just how they drive. The only way to stop them doing it is to slow down and speed up until they get the message that you want them to keep a safe distance.jke11y said:
Looks like the camera car pulled the standard move of closing the gap because he saw him coming and wanted to "teach him a lesson" or some other lunacy.
That doesn't justify the subsequent (continued) overtake of the Fiesta, just avoiding the island, which indicates, to me, that the Audi driver is the Lunatic, not the Cam Car.Mike_Mac said:
jke11y said:
Looks like the camera car pulled the standard move of closing the gap because he saw him coming and wanted to "teach him a lesson" or some other lunacy.
That doesn't justify the subsequent (continued) overtake of the Fiesta, just avoiding the island, which indicates, to me, that the Audi driver is the Lunatic, not the Cam Car.I'd love to see the footage from the last 10 mins, I suspect these two had been interacting for a while before. I'm wondering who the OP is overtaking to be in the outside lane away from them lights, (what happened to stay left), I suspect he's just trying not to be overtaken by the Audi.
Pair of tools.
s3fella said:
Palms said:
Maybe s3fella is a tailgater and thinks that driving 2 foot from the guy in front is ok so its ok for them to be that close to his rear?
No chance that you have never been tailgated in 28 years
Well not that I would consider 'tailgating' no. As I say, I've never been caught speeding and only had one accident, (which was just my car) in all that time also. And I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles in the UK and tens of thousand in USA,Europe and Far East. No chance that you have never been tailgated in 28 years
Maybe I'm 'lucky' or maybe I just have a good sense of staying out of trouble? Maybe some people who think they're doing nothing wrong 'attract' incidents because they are a bit s
tter than they realise. Btw, if your definition of tailgating is 2ft from your bumper, I'd suggest that happens to anyone very rarely indeed. Got sit in traffic with a car behind , they will rarely be that close, but look how big they are in you mirrors! Closest I've seen a vehicle to another which was a road rage incident unfolding behind me, and looked very ugly indeed on the m5, was a car stuffed up behind some young girl who'd just pulled out to l3 when car was in her blind spot. Cue angry man driving horribly close at 80mph, but as they both passed me, he was still about 2 or 3 meters behind her. Far far too close, looked scary as hell, completely ridiculous, the worst case I' and my missus have witnessed, but still a good 6 to 10 ft away.
It's not just about slow overtakes or lane hogging, I've been tailgated in moderately fast moving, nose-to-tail traffic in lane 1 where there's nowhere to go to let anyone pass
also happens in fast moving traffic when there's a queue of quicker vehicles waiting to overtake a MLH or a truck overtaking a truck
None of us have anywhere to go, but on more than one occasion some knob has decided to tailgate until the blockage clears, sometimes it turns out that once the blockage DOES clear, I'm travelling quicker than them at my normal pace anyway so what was the point?
stargazer30 said:
Thermobaric said:
Guys, new vid. Let's move on. Some good ones in this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyxDeeuwBMs
2m 10sec - Strrrrrriiiiike!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyxDeeuwBMs
KAgantua said:
s3fella said:
What he said!
People who accuse others of "tailgating" are usually holding them up. In 28 years of driving, hundreds of thousands of miles all over the world, I've honestly never been what I would consider "tailgated". I occasionally see someone come up behind faster, but I am moved out of their way before they are close enough to ever been seen as "tailgating".
100% agreed - ive only ever been tailgated once and that was a BMW on a quiet county lane (30MPH limit) who revved the nuts off the engine, overtook in a puff of smoke and clutch smell, never to be seen again.People who accuse others of "tailgating" are usually holding them up. In 28 years of driving, hundreds of thousands of miles all over the world, I've honestly never been what I would consider "tailgated". I occasionally see someone come up behind faster, but I am moved out of their way before they are close enough to ever been seen as "tailgating".
Think it was stolen poss....
M4cruiser said:
Rubbish, I must say. I get tailgated when there is no where I can go to "move out of their way". I.e. there is something ahead of me, & something to both sides. What am I supposed to do, dig a tunnel or take off?
And I've been tailgated before even when there IS somewhere for them to go.Memorably, one quiet evening on the M6 Toll when I was sat in L1 on cruise at 70mph. No other traffic around to be seen. I became aware of a car slowly gaining on me in L1 in the distance. Over the course of the next few miles it slowly caught up to the point where it was behind me.
It was then that the driver of this Q5 decided that it was far too much effort to move to L2 to pass, and instead spent the next 3-4 miles following my Touareg so closely that I couldn't see his front plate in my mirror.
Eventually, I got so fed up of this that I knocked the cruise control off to encourage him to pass. I'd coasted down to 45mph before he eventually got the hint, pulled out and tore off into the distance.
Utterly baffling. There was no other traffic around, and I'd not encountered him earlier in the journey either.
JT361 said:
Umm....Is it just me or does the bike at 2:50 deliberately crash? And in the world of 'interesting' overtakes : https://www.facebook.com/leon.goodwin/videos/10153...
JT361 said:
Surely the chap on the bike should of seen that at 2.52ORD said:
So full of st that it's almost funny. A lot of people tailgate as their usual driving distance - not trying to overtake; not a road rage incident; just how they drive. The only way to stop them doing it is to slow down and speed up until they get the message that you want them to keep a safe distance.
That's not the only way to stop them. In fact, it's a good way to wind someone up. The way to end the tailgating would be pulling over when possible instead of actively trying to change someone else's driving.t that it's almost funny. A lot of people tailgate as their usual driving distance - not trying to overtake; not a road rage incident; just how they drive. The only way to stop them doing it is to slow down and speed up until they get the message that you want them to keep a safe distance./holierthanthou
JT361 said:
fking hell that vauxhall at around 1.58 - 2.25 needs kneecapping
edit plus the motorcyclist at 2.50 is a total moron
Edited by CoolHands on Sunday 4th October 11:11
simoid said:
That's not the only way to stop them. In fact, it's a good way to wind someone up. The way to end the tailgating would be pulling over when possible instead of actively trying to change someone else's driving.
/holierthanthou
Fair point. I would do that if the person was bonkers or getting wound up. Most people tailgate without even knowing they are doing it. And they then get grumpy because driving like that is really stressful. So much better to be able to around the car in front so that nothing comes as a surprise./holierthanthou
legless said:
M4cruiser said:
Rubbish, I must say. I get tailgated when there is no where I can go to "move out of their way". I.e. there is something ahead of me, & something to both sides. What am I supposed to do, dig a tunnel or take off?
And I've been tailgated before even when there IS somewhere for them to go.Memorably, one quiet evening on the M6 Toll when I was sat in L1 on cruise at 70mph. No other traffic around to be seen. I became aware of a car slowly gaining on me in L1 in the distance. Over the course of the next few miles it slowly caught up to the point where it was behind me.
It was then that the driver of this Q5 decided that it was far too much effort to move to L2 to pass, and instead spent the next 3-4 miles following my Touareg so closely that I couldn't see his front plate in my mirror.
Eventually, I got so fed up of this that I knocked the cruise control off to encourage him to pass. I'd coasted down to 45mph before he eventually got the hint, pulled out and tore off into the distance.
Utterly baffling. There was no other traffic around, and I'd not encountered him earlier in the journey either.
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