AUDI SQ5 Dash cam footage Dangerous overtake Somerset

[BrownBottle]

This thread just keeps on giving.

OP gets done over by Audi even after trying to close the door almost putting him into oncoming.

Attempts to get his own back by uploading the video and creating a thread on PH with the Audi drivers reg. number plastered all over the title which doesn't go to plan and backfires on him.

Removes video and pretends he's handed it over to the Police.

So much fail, I can't wait for the next installment

[AyBee]

Anybody get a copy before the OP took it down please?

[PorkInsider]

BrownBottle said:

This thread just keeps on giving.

OP gets done over by Audi even after trying to close the door almost putting him into oncoming.

Attempts to get his own back by uploading the video and creating a thread on PH with the Audi drivers reg. number plastered all over the title which doesn't go to plan and backfires on him.

Removes video and pretends he's handed it over to the Police.

So much fail, I can't wait for the next installment

Yes, we're all looking forward to the next instalment of you talking out of your ring.

[Some Gump]

jbsportstech said:

No probably not lets hope your loved ones don't die in a head on with the audi.

I hope not too. The thing is - I've only had 1 thing that even remotely comes as a near miss on the road, and it's because some sorry wker in a Zafira decided he didn't want to be overtaken, and closed the previously comfortable gap I was aiming for.
I presume it was because he was so unhappy with his lot in life that he was somehow threatened by my aging Boxster and decided he didn't like me on the basis of the car I drove, but we didn't stop to chat and I'll never know.
Did I whinge at the internet, or tell the police? Of course not. I thought back at what happened and reminded myself that I was partly to blame. I had mistakenly / lazily left it in 5th and just tried to cruise past which meant my time exposed to danger was too long. If I'd dropped it down and done a more decisive overtake, I'd have avoided putting any of the onus on the other driver _not_ being a dick.


Now, lets look at your video. I have no idea what happened before the start of your vid, whether you'd been flirting with Audi boy etc, because we don't see that. So, I'll concentrate on what we do see. You continue to accelerate until you have to brake for the Fiesta in front. I can only think of 3 scenarios that can explain that:
You have no ability to think ahead and are therefore a st driver, or
You didn't know the Audi was coming until he was alongside (pointing to st obervation and therefore a crap driver), or
You were trying to keep the Audi behind because - well just because.
I can't see a 4th scenario.


I'm not defending the Audi driver. It's a built up area and given that you've already admitted you were speeding, that means that they're speeding more and thefore more of a tit. There are plenty of times and places for copious speeding, but residential areas are never it. Audi man is guilty of tttery on a large, large scale. However, it's clear to me that (s)he's decided to overtake you and was going to go into the gap, but you closed that gap. When you closed it, they took a (clearly wrong) split second decision to go round the fiesta dangerously close to the bollard, rather than dive in front of you and effectively brake test you. Neither option available is good.

YOU CREATED THAT SITUATION. You gave a bad driver the choice of 2 bad maneuvers, and in effect added to the carnage. You see this sort of ste all the time with the helmet cam warrior cycling types, most of whom have terrible observation / roadcraft / decision making skills and lo and behold get into situations that are bad enough to post on the internet.

There are loads of bad drivers on the roads, which we all have to compensate for every day. Even good drivers make mistakes. Instead of spending your time trying to be some sort of internet vigilante, have a look at your own driving and improve your ability to compensate for the muppets out there. If, at some point in the future you feel like being an internet vigilante, remember that you have to be whiter than white if you're criticizing others, or you'll get called out on it.

Sending a video of yourself speeding in a built up area to the police - whether it was motivated by trying to race another car or not?

[Centurion07]

I'm going with that^ too.

[johnfm]

Some Gump said:

Am I the only one hoping that the OP gets the ire of the police for intentionally closing the gap to the Fiesta to prevent the overtake? Would be pleasantly ironic.

You're not the only idiot, no. There've been a number of you on this thread.

[johnfm]

BrownBottle said:

This thread just keeps on giving.

OP gets done over by Audi even after trying to close the door almost putting him into oncoming.

Attempts to get his own back by uploading the video and creating a thread on PH with the Audi drivers reg. number plastered all over the title which doesn't go to plan and backfires on him.

Removes video and pretends he's handed it over to the Police.

So much fail, I can't wait for the next installment

I see you've been to your creative writing class today.

[johnfm]

Wills2 said:

jbsportstech said:

Nothing to do with the post just its gone to the police so i have removed for them to do their investigation. Would the resident clairvoyants like tell me the out come and maybe next sats lottery numbers to?

Why are you sending this stuff to the Police? What have you suffered from? Apart from a bruised ego......

A decent defensive driver would have seen him haring up in the rear view mirror and backed off.

I seriously hope this dash cam craze isn't going to mean we have people "en masse" creating dangerous situations in some desperate attempt to gain some attention and do someone over, we've already had a few on PH and it's concerning.

Are you yet another retard who celebrates the freedom to drive like a dangerous fkwit on public roads? The Audi driver is a danger to the public.

Is that not obvious?

Would not report a violent thug wandering down your street with a knife because he hasn't stabbed anyone yet?

fkwit.

[Ken Figenus]

Even if he did give it some beans to close the gap and (wrongly) prevent the Audi driver willy waving its the Audi that should have backed off and called off his manouver rather than gun it to a crazy level. You can see how foolish the Audi driver was by his second action passing the Fiesta and almost hitting the bollard. That sunk the Audi driver for me and this is where the wrath should rightly be directed - OP will have learnt a lesson too no doubt.

Pissing about like this on the road is extremely foolish - don't get remotely involved next time mate. You can see what a nutter he was... People like that end up in prison for their driving so don't ever get close and I hope he/she gets done and you a ticking off from a proper copper

[anonymous-user]

Joeguard1990 said:

Yes, you are a grass.

By that standard so is anyone who reports something to the police. The police can't function without the help of the public. Regardless of what the OP did or didn't do, it didn't justify the quite-possibly-dangerous driving by the Audi driver. I'd rather the driver be punished like the driving deserves to be.

Joeguard1990 said:

Maybe it's just the way I was brought up, but I would never post video footage of someone driving fast, doing something silly, etc. unless someone was injured at the time as a result or something was damaged, let alone waste my own time handing it in to the police for my own self-satisfaction.

That would be based on the outcome as opposed to the risk. Improving road safety is about educating / punishing people when they present risk, not when it's too late and their risky behaviour has led to a bad outcome.

[Driver101]

johnfm said:

Some Gump said:

Am I the only one hoping that the OP gets the ire of the police for intentionally closing the gap to the Fiesta to prevent the overtake? Would be pleasantly ironic.

You're not the only idiot, no. There've been a number of you on this thread.

There's a few people that stand out for their idiotic conduct during this thread and you're one of them.

Why on earth are you behaving in such a manner and throwing all the insults at people?

You seem incredibly defensive for something that doesn't involve you and taking it to a very personal level.

It's a discussion forum. It'd be good if you didn't behave like a 5 year old.

Edited by Driver101 on Wednesday 7th October 06:49

[jbsportstech]

Some Gump said:

I hope not too. The thing is - I've only had 1 thing that even remotely comes as a near miss on the road, and it's because some sorry wker in a Zafira decided he didn't want to be overtaken, and closed the previously comfortable gap I was aiming for.
I presume it was because he was so unhappy with his lot in life that he was somehow threatened by my aging Boxster and decided he didn't like me on the basis of the car I drove, but we didn't stop to chat and I'll never know.
Did I whinge at the internet, or tell the police? Of course not. I thought back at what happened and reminded myself that I was partly to blame. I had mistakenly / lazily left it in 5th and just tried to cruise past which meant my time exposed to danger was too long. If I'd dropped it down and done a more decisive overtake, I'd have avoided putting any of the onus on the other driver _not_ being a dick.


Now, lets look at your video. I have no idea what happened before the start of your vid, whether you'd been flirting with Audi boy etc, because we don't see that. So, I'll concentrate on what we do see. You continue to accelerate until you have to brake for the Fiesta in front. I can only think of 3 scenarios that can explain that:
You have no ability to think ahead and are therefore a st driver, or
You didn't know the Audi was coming until he was alongside (pointing to st obervation and therefore a crap driver), or
You were trying to keep the Audi behind because - well just because.
I can't see a 4th scenario.


I'm not defending the Audi driver. It's a built up area and given that you've already admitted you were speeding, that means that they're speeding more and thefore more of a tit. There are plenty of times and places for copious speeding, but residential areas are never it. Audi man is guilty of tttery on a large, large scale. However, it's clear to me that (s)he's decided to overtake you and was going to go into the gap, but you closed that gap. When you closed it, they took a (clearly wrong) split second decision to go round the fiesta dangerously close to the bollard, rather than dive in front of you and effectively brake test you. Neither option available is good.

YOU CREATED THAT SITUATION. You gave a bad driver the choice of 2 bad maneuvers, and in effect added to the carnage. You see this sort of ste all the time with the helmet cam warrior cycling types, most of whom have terrible observation / roadcraft / decision making skills and lo and behold get into situations that are bad enough to post on the internet.

There are loads of bad drivers on the roads, which we all have to compensate for every day. Even good drivers make mistakes. Instead of spending your time trying to be some sort of internet vigilante, have a look at your own driving and improve your ability to compensate for the muppets out there. If, at some point in the future you feel like being an internet vigilante, remember that you have to be whiter than white if you're criticizing others, or you'll get called out on it.

Sending a video of yourself speeding in a built up area to the police - whether it was motivated by trying to race another car or not?

I have reported over the internet to the police, why would people question otherwise.

I have on a number of occasions admitted to my errors in the clip and have taken the criticism > shouldn't of closed on the first van so fast needed to brake so firm but it did seem to slow as the lanes changed. Had i been going slower it may not have happen but the audi booted it around 10 cars after that and they are not all to blame are they'?

There is a perception on here that all mpv/zafira drivers are all sad broken men unhappy with their life and feel emasculated if anyone want to go faster than. Thats a bit like people saying all audi's are terrible drivers I not anti audi I have a a3 for 12 month until august when i got mk7 golf r. I am not unhappy with my 4 beautiful daughters and the zafira is the missus car I have a daily driver. if you like later in the footage I allow to motorbikes to pass and both thank me, proving I don't have an issue with being overtaken, i can upload.

I said i had been going around 40 the fiesta suddenly slowed down and if the audi really wanted to pass me i didn't have the power to stop him or the need to. If i had been going 30 and the audi did a last minute overtake at 40 what would you say? The audi driver choose a very last minute overtake and could of used a bit more power for some reason noses past and decides to wake up. I broke to let them in they choose to take off like a loon. They carried on driving like a loon into the distance overtaking just not the exit of the roundabout.

Edited by jbsportstech on Wednesday 7th October 06:55

[V8 Fettler]

Would the police be interested in the video if there was no collision? Poor driving being endemic.

[blueg33]

Can't see the vid. But the name calling on this thread is pathetic.

The roads are full of bad drivers, maybe Audi man had a back story (daughter just rushed into hospital - been there and I drove like a man possessed to get to the hospital). Maybe he is an idiot, maybe he made s mis judgement.

Looks like op isn't taking criticism well which looks childish.

Not one single driver is perfect but in my view, a better driver does all he can not to make s bad situation worse. From the comments it looks like the op may have failed at this.



Ps those SQ5's are quick.

[hombrepaulo]

I`m with the OP on this one - anyone who cant get past a 1.8 Zafira doing "40ish", in a car with over 300bhp needs to look at how they approach an overtake. Audi driver should have committed to the overtake sooner or backed off completely when he saw the OP accelerate.
If the Audi driver had committed to the overtake properly the actions of the OP would have made very little difference

[blueg33]

hombrepaulo said:

I`m with the OP on this one - anyone who cant get past a 1.8 Zafira doing "40ish", in a car with over 300bhp needs to look at how they approach an overtake. Audi driver should have committed to the overtake sooner or backed off completely when he saw the OP accelerate.
If the Audi driver had committed to the overtake properly the actions of the OP would have made very little difference

Surely that depends on relative speeds to start with?

[jbsportstech]

blueg33 said:

Can't see the vid. But the name calling on this thread is pathetic.

The roads are full of bad drivers, maybe Audi man had a back story (daughter just rushed into hospital - been there and I drove like a man possessed to get to the hospital). Maybe he is an idiot, maybe he made s mis judgement.

Looks like op isn't taking criticism well which looks childish.

Not one single driver is perfect but in my view, a better driver does all he can not to make s bad situation worse. From the comments it looks like the op may have failed at this.



Ps those SQ5's are quick.

Not that according to some I was able to shut the door and the audi could barely cope with a

Not that according to some I was able to shut the door and the audi 309bhp could barely cope with 140bhp family bus with variable value timing kicking like vtec and taking off its not a turbo nor a cdti. It inconceivable to some that the audi decided to ease past me having missed all the signs that merge was ending and thrown in arrows at the end of the merge where he is coming into contact with oncomings and he eases past me already doing more than 30, so not showing he is driving to hospital and then taps the brake pedal before flooring it and going on the manoeuvre in question.

[hombrepaulo]

Cant stand people who try to overtake you at a 1mph differential with a merge approaching. If that was the case I too would have taken control of the situation and accelerated to create a gap for the Audi to slot into behind - rather than wait for them to decide where they were going. If this was the case Audi driver clearly didnt like it.

[Greendubber]

johnfm said:

Are you yet another retard who celebrates the freedom to drive like a dangerous fkwit on public roads? The Audi driver is a danger to the public.

Is that not obvious?

Would not report a violent thug wandering down your street with a knife because he hasn't stabbed anyone yet?

fkwit.

Nice,for someone who said they were leaving the thread about 5 pages ago you certainly have a lot to say for yourself.... Most of it rude and abusive rubbish.

[Driver101]

jbsportstech said:

Not that according to some I was able to shut the door and the audi 309bhp could barely cope with 140bhp family bus with variable value timing kicking like vtec and taking off its not a turbo nor a cdti. It inconceivable to some that the audi decided to ease past me having missed all the signs that merge was ending and thrown in arrows at the end of the merge where he is coming into contact with oncomings and he eases past me already doing more than 30, so not showing he is driving to hospital and then taps the brake pedal before flooring it and going on the manoeuvre in question.

Nobody has said anything of the sort. It's also not what the video shows and you're twisting things again.

The Audi did out accelerate you as it has more performance. You did accelerate at a lesser rate in attempt to beat him to the merge.

Nobody is saying that a Zafira is as fast as a SQ5 and you managed to shut the door on him.

The attempt was there to do so though.

That's quite a common thing to see on the roads. Seen it hundreds of times.

You are criticising the Audi driver for lack of forward planning. You're the guy that was claiming the road was clear ahead a few posts ago.

Even with the evidence of the video, you still can't get your story straight.