Dashcam footage and dangerous driving

[R8VXF]

mrtwisty said:

R8VXF said:

...the red mist descended when he performed that manoeuvre, and yes I did speed up...

...and thats where you crossed the line I'm afraid. Not as bad as the twunt in the bcgt, but a little pot/kettle unfortunately.

Crossed what line? What I did was in no way dangerous was it?

Edited by R8VXF on Tuesday 3rd March 10:27

[mrtwisty]

Chrisgr31 said:

mrtwisty said:

Old Loon has been being a bit aggressive lately (mostly out of character I would add). Don't take it personally, I'm sure he'll get that sand out of his vagina soon.

Does have a point on this occasion though

There's having a point, and there's delivering the point in a civilised way. He has been a little out of order (imho obviously) a few times recently, it just isn't necessary if your point is valid.

[Boydie88]

Munter said:

I think these guys like to do that.
http://policewitness.com/report-incident/

I've only uploaded a few videos to you tube when I started using my phone as a dash cam...then realised I was becoming "one of them"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffXe445bzM

One of my biggest hates on the road are s that can't use lanes on roundabouts.

[mrtwisty]

R8VXF said:

mrtwisty said:

R8VXF said:

...the red mist descended when he performed that manoeuvre, and yes I did speed up...

...and thats where you crossed the line I'm afraid. Not as bad as the twunt in the bcgt, but a little pot/kettle unfortunately.

Crossed what line? What id did was in no way dangerous was it?

Not dangerous no, but allowing someone else's actions on the road to bring on 'red mist' isn't a good sign.

Oh and I'm not keen on living in a society where every infringement is recorded and reported. I've made silly mistakes in the past, I'm sure you have as well.

[R8VXF]

mrtwisty said:

Not dangerous no, but allowing someone else's actions on the road to bring on 'red mist' isn't a good sign.

Oh and I'm not keen on living in a society where every infringement is recorded and reported. I've made silly mistakes in the past, I'm sure you have as well.

I see what you are saying, but there are silly mistakes and then there is ish driving like this.

[herewego]

R8VXF said:

silverfoxcc said:

It is an endorsable offence to enter/cross a hatched area bordered by solid white lines

So he is a knob and bang to rights if plod was there

And IMO really bloody dangerous. When wet the lines are slippery and plenty of crap gathers on there which could blow a tyre. If he had lost control going over that section he could well have taken out the Range Rover.

I had seen him driving like a muppet previously and let it go, the red mist descended when he performed that manoeuvre, and yes I did speed up to get his numberplate once I saw the RR change lanes.

Sounds like it wasn't a momentary lapse but regular aggressive driving.

[LoonR1]

R8VXF said:

And IMO really bloody dangerous. When wet the lines are slippery and plenty of crap gathers on there which could blow a tyre. If he had lost control going over that section he could well have taken out the Range Rover.

I had seen him driving like a muppet previously and let it go, the red mist descended when he performed that manoeuvre, and yes I did speed up to get his numberplate once I saw the RR change lanes.

When had you "seen him driving like a muppet previously"? If it was on this journey then that makes the whole thing quite likely to be similar to what I posted earlier.

[R8VXF]

herewego said:

Sounds like it wasn't a momentary lapse but regular aggressive driving.

That was my thinking. If he had been going into Cobham from the roundabout he would have then had to cut up someone on the exit of the roundabout, but as I didn't see this I cannot make that call.

[LoonR1]

R8VXF said:

I had seen him driving like a muppet previously and let it go, the red mist descended when he performed that manoeuvre, and yes I did speed up to get his numberplate once I saw the RR change lanes.

When had you "seen him driving like a muppet previously"?

[LoonR1]

double post as kept getting an error message

[R8VXF]

LoonR1 said:

When had you "seen him driving like a muppet previously"? If it was on this journey then that makes the whole thing quite likely to be similar to what I posted earlier.

A bit further back chopping and changing lanes. At one point he had been directly behind me then as I indicated into lane 1 he accelerated past me and then performed the manoeuvre in the footage.

[Driver101]

R8VXF said:

LoonR1 said:

When had you "seen him driving like a muppet previously"? If it was on this journey then that makes the whole thing quite likely to be similar to what I posted earlier.

A bit further back chopping and changing lanes. At one point he had been directly behind me then as I indicated into lane 1 he accelerated past me and then performed the manoeuvre in the footage.

You are chopping and changing lanes and speed too. The video just starts as you are moving into the inside lane only 50-100 yards before the exit.

The two of you arrived at the exit with only space for one car, you, to squeeze in.

I earlier posted that you were reacting to catch the other driver and you called me a "weirdo". You've since admitted that you indeed change your driving to capture him.

I've got a feeling somewhere on another forum a Bentley driver will be cursing a Vauxhall driver about his driving on the road.

[surveyor]

I'm temped with a Dash cam at present, but really only as an 'independent witness'.

Would I never put it on youtube? Probably I might, but more as a discussion piece and not for every ;little thing. I'd have to be really pissed off to want to go to the bother of showing to the Police.....

Still, what's holding me off is the lack of 360 degree visibility. Most of the damage done to my cars over the years would be when I'm parked or outside the coverage of the camera.

Still I'd have liked to to have caught the pickup truck towing the horse over the motorway in Ireland....

[LoonR1]

R8VXF said:

A bit further back chopping and changing lanes. At one point he had been directly behind me then as I indicated into lane 1 he accelerated past me and then performed the manoeuvre in the footage.

And yet there you are in front of him again despite his erratic "chopping and changing lanes". I posted a scenario earlier. I stand by that. I think you tried to teach him a lesson and are now just angry that his driving got him ahead of you and you're being petty about it. I'll gyarantee both of you were drivig in a daft manner but you've happily edited it just to show the 20 seconds or so of his final piece of poor driving.

If this isn't the case explain to me how someone doing what he did in front of you has ended up behind you again.

[R8VXF]

LoonR1 said:

R8VXF said:

A bit further back chopping and changing lanes. At one point he had been directly behind me then as I indicated into lane 1 he accelerated past me and then performed the manoeuvre in the footage.

And yet there you are in front of him again despite his erratic "chopping and changing lanes". I posted a scenario earlier. I stand by that. I think you tried to teach him a lesson and are now just angry that his driving got him ahead of you and you're being petty about it. I'll gyarantee both of you were drivig in a daft manner but you've happily edited it just to show the 20 seconds or so of his final piece of poor driving.

If this isn't the case explain to me how someone doing what he did in front of you has ended up behind you again.

At no point before this piece of footage was I behind him. Not sure where you got that from.

[LoonR1]

R8VXF said:

At no point before this piece of footage was I behind him. Not sure where you got that from.

So he was behind you and you saw him "chopping and changing lanes" enough to decide he was doing this badly. I know we observe what's going on behind us, but to pick out this one car and describe it as "earlier" suggests a break in your interaction not one continuous piece as you're now suggesting.

[allergictocheese]

LoonR1 said:

So he was behind you and you saw him "chopping and changing lanes" enough to decide he was doing this badly. I know we observe what's going on behind us, but to pick out this one car and describe it as "earlier" suggests a break in your interaction not one continuous piece as you're now suggesting.

Place yer bets, ladies and gentlemen. Mr. I Have A VXR sees Bentley loafing at speed from behind. Not wanting surrounding traffic to be alerted to the presence of a vehicle that might just be faster than the Vauxhall, he boots said Antipodean 3 box, only to be annihilated by 18 tonnes of posh Passat. Mr. VXR switches brain transmission to spite mode and bleats on the internet about how he had to speed all over the place to give his camera a slight glimpse of said uberwagon exiting stage left.

[LoonR1]

allergictocheese said:

Place yer bets, ladies and gentlemen. Mr. I Have A VXR sees Bentley loafing at speed from behind. Not wanting surrounding traffic to be alerted to the presence of a vehicle that might just be faster than the Vauxhall, he boots said Antipodean 3 box, only to be annihilated by 18 tonnes of posh Passat. Mr. VXR switches brain transmission to spite mode and bleats on the internet about how he had to speed all over the place to give his camera a slight glimpse of said uberwagon exiting stage left.

My money's on this, as I said earlier in the thread, albeit not quite so eloquently

[R8VXF]

Meh, if that is what you two would like to think then fair enough. You are wrong though.

Yes, my driving is not beyond reproach, but I still contend the fact that nothing I did was dangerous whereas the bcgt driver was definitely driving dangerously. At least we can agree on that, Shirley?

[LoonR1]

Never said he wasn't. You've admitted to an undertake earlier, which whilst technically not illegal is still a move that's likely to pique plod's interest too. Chasing after the Bentley is also a no no.