AUDI SQ5 Dash cam footage Dangerous overtake Somerset

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Joeguard1990 said:

So it wouldn't bother you then if you handed in the footage and not only did the police charge the Audi driver, they then used the footage to work out how fast you were travelling and also sent you an FPN with 3 points and a £100 fine...? How is it fair that one person should be charged with their actions based on video evidence and not the other?

What are you saying that if a police officer stops a car doing 40 in a 30 and gives them words or advice and then on the same stretch stops a car for doing 50plus on the wrong side of the road causing to cars to evasive action he is duty bound to be fair and impartial and let that driver off with words of advice a well? Or does only relate to video footage, so if they find one of the oncoming cars was uninsured they should follow that up as well, were do we stop?

One crime is speeding the other is dangerous driving but both must be prosecuted in the pursuit of farness.

I have reported the matter to the police in nearly 12 months I have seen a few things on my cams but this is not just minor speeding so I have reported it.

Edited by jbsportstech on Tuesday 6th October 15:49

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Driver101 said:

It's very clear you are speeding. If his figures are 100% accurate I don't know. It's very clear you are way over 30mph.

Ok accepted my speed exceeds 30mph

Driver101 said:

He claims to have used frame by frame video to calculate 46mph. You didn't really dispute the 46mph claim.

Don't agree

Driver101 said:

I know you are wrong. Why would I be scared? Why are you going down the route of attacking me and making up all sorts of nonsense? That's three posts on the trot you've introduced more irrelevant drivel.

So you say

Driver101 said:

What was the reason you were so eager to get off the lights?

I had been held up for a while by drivers not using the two lane system on the road in question the road ahead looked empty and lane 2 was empty whilst sat at the lights I decided wrongly that firm acceleration was needed.

Driver101 said:

Why did you just happen to be speeding when a faster car was wanting passed in a 30mph zone?

Don't know like I said the audi came to the party late.

Driver101 said:

Why did you accelerate late on when the Audi made a pass late?

I was accelerating the audi noses passed me and I brake, I DID NOT TRY AND BLOCK A 300NHP CAR WITH MY 140BHP again for the cheap seats.

Driver101 said:

Why go so much quicker up to the back of the van when there was absolutely no need?

...as I said got away noting worse than being lane 2 in a merge and dawdling along to without a plan to merge. The fiesta slowed after the two lanes ended, I assume due to turning off.

Driver101 said:

Why not upload a clip of the video with sound? You uploaded an increased length video when requested, why not one with sound? The sound won't be that bad from that dashcam.

Sound is disabled as I don't like the quality again for the hard of understanding.

Driver101 said:

If you hadn't accelerated, the Audi would have been easily through and have pulled in on time. Don't twist that to say I approve what the Audi driver was doing.

So I am not to make progress ever again for fear of getting in the way of brain damaged toddlers who drive and might try and go faster than me.

Driver101 said:

Every single part of your behaviour during that video highlights your eagerness to keep the Audi behind.

Hooray for clairvoyants, or I was just trying to make progress after being stuck in traffic but you have a gift there.

Driver101 said:

You were driving aggressively and he joined in your game.

So what don't ever accelerate hard or drive faster than the limit or you only have yourself to blame if someone tries to 'join your game' I don't play in the bus!

Yey another win for the pistonhead clairvoyants.

Edited by jbsportstech on Tuesday 6th October 16:25

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Ian Geary said:

Video now deleted...guess this post didn't go quite to plan.

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?

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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.

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

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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

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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.

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Driver101 said:

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.

I love how you post your opinion as certified fact.

The audi tried to overtake late at last minute I made good progress along that section arguably to much progress if I wanted to block the audi I would of stayed out.

I had been driving along minding my own business when the audi nosed passed not using much of his power after the throw in arrows very late indeed.

I not sure how many times I can state what I did and how many time you post your version of events as certified fact disputing my version, We aren't going to agree. My story has not changed.

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La Liga said:

o one cares about your self-indulgent endless made-up experiences with the police. Tell us the one where the police riot van and council tried to stop you having a BBQ, or the one where you were all attacked with knifes, or the one where money was stolen, or your mate was arrested, or the one where you were 'harassed' by someone knocking on your car window, or the one...

This is a topic about the OP and his videos. You writing rubbish which isn't true doesn't help anyone but yourself.

Freemasons with the secret handshake.

I expect!

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Driver101 said:

Where do you think the Audi was before?

The OP had already offered the information that he took off harshly from the lights as he was frustrated with the traffic. He's also just sat there at a red light. He's only driven a few seconds up the road.

Do you not think the Audi was always behind him?

Seems to slipped your attention that someone who knows the area and the road has stated my speed was too fast (ok fair enough I take criticism) however they have experienced the aforementioned audi and it has been seen to drive in a similar manor by that person as well.

Does that suggest that it is in the darkest realms of possibly that a) the audi driver may well of done a last minute dangerous overtake and driven in that manor whether I had been speeding along that section or not.

Is not becoming clear that the driver is dangerous and if someone doesn't take action they could well cause a fatality.

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thescamper said:

Lysander Road in Yeovil, site of some of the most atrocious driving I have ever had the misfortune to witness.

OP you were in the wrong, anything more than 30 along that piece of road is idiotic, however the guy driving the Q5 is a complete cock not just on your video either, that is how he always drives.

DRIVER 101?

Here we go

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Centurion07 said:

I'll admit it's not obvious (it is a people carrier after all) but at the four second mark (of the shorter vid) just as he passes the painted merge arrow, you can see a noticeable rise from the camera car, combined with the scenery getting faster and the gap to the car in front decreasing a lot quicker than before. As I said, it's subtle, but to my eyes, and a few others it would seem, it's definitely there.

The video does look odd the way its been compressed.

I remember hitting the steering wheel button and '100 shot of NOS" kicking in maybe it was that?

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Driver101 said:

The video wasn't poor quality that I watched. It was HD. As I said from the start, I guessed that the people who were struggling to see the later acceleration were watching in low quality.

All you've done through this thread is be awkward and dish out childish insults.

There's countless people, including professionals who call the incident the same as me.

It could be everyone else seeing something that isn't there, or maybe the case is you might not have the judgement you think you have. I'm very much in belief of the second option.

For the last fking time, I'm not fking biased. You can say it 1 million times, you're still wrong. Jesus fking christ. I have no reason to be biased. I've watched the video and listened to the OP. On that basis I don't believe him. That is not a bias for the umpteenth time.

I have given my opinion on what I seen. I've explained over and over why I have that opinion. Why you just want to niggle on and on asking the same things I don't know.

Go pick an argument with someone else who can't see it from your side. I won't respond to you again.

I think previously you stated you had been hung out to dry in your boxster by a zafira when doing a last minute over take on a merge lane. Or was that someone else?


Your comments their suggest maybe a slight basis as this situation is uncanny in the similarities. You have accused the zafira driver i.e. me of hanging the audi out to dry but a last minute nose rise on my zafira and turn of speed in your opinion as the home office and IPCC lead expert of vehicle collisions.

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Driver101 said:

The video wasn't poor quality that I watched. It was HD. As I said from the start, I guessed that the people who were struggling to see the later acceleration were watching in low quality.

All you've done through this thread is be awkward and dish out childish insults.

There's countless people, including professionals who call the incident the same as me.

It could be everyone else seeing something that isn't there, or maybe the case is you might not have the judgement you think you have. I'm very much in belief of the second option.

For the last fking time, I'm not fking biased. You can say it 1 million times, you're still wrong. Jesus fking christ. I have no reason to be biased. I've watched the video and listened to the OP. On that basis I don't believe him. That is not a bias for the umpteenth time.

I have given my opinion on what I seen. I've explained over and over why I have that opinion. Why you just want to niggle on and on asking the same things I don't know.

Go pick an argument with someone else who can't see it from your side. I won't respond to you again.

I think previously you stated you had been hung out to dry in your boxster by a zafira when doing a last minute over take on a merge lane. Or was that someone else?


Your comments their suggest maybe a slight basis as this situation is uncanny in the similarities. You have accused the zafira driver i.e. me of hanging the audi out to dry but a last minute nose rise on my zafira and turn of speed in your opinion as the home office and IPCC lead expert of vehicle collisions.

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Driver101 said:

The video wasn't poor quality that I watched. It was HD. As I said from the start, I guessed that the people who were struggling to see the later acceleration were watching in low quality.

All you've done through this thread is be awkward and dish out childish insults.

There's countless people, including professionals who call the incident the same as me.

It could be everyone else seeing something that isn't there, or maybe the case is you might not have the judgement you think you have. I'm very much in belief of the second option.

For the last fking time, I'm not fking biased. You can say it 1 million times, you're still wrong. Jesus fking christ. I have no reason to be biased. I've watched the video and listened to the OP. On that basis I don't believe him. That is not a bias for the umpteenth time.

I have given my opinion on what I seen. I've explained over and over why I have that opinion. Why you just want to niggle on and on asking the same things I don't know.

Go pick an argument with someone else who can't see it from your side. I won't respond to you again.

I think previously you stated you had been hung out to dry in your boxster by a zafira when doing a last minute over take on a merge lane. Or was that someone else?


Your comments their suggest maybe a slight basis as this situation is uncanny in the similarities. You have accused the zafira driver i.e. me of hanging the audi out to dry but a last minute nose rise on my zafira and turn of speed in your opinion as the home office and IPCC lead expert of vehicle collisions.

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thescamper said:

Lysander Road in Yeovil, site of some of the most atrocious driving I have ever had the misfortune to witness.

OP you were in the wrong, anything more than 30 along that piece of road is idiotic, however the guy driving the Q5 is a complete cock not just on your video either, that is how he always drives.

I not sure why this got missed by so many or whether its been ignored as it didn't suit the arguments and berating of me.

A person familiar with the road and has previous experience of the audi and states they always drive like a but case.

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4rephill said:

"Yes, because I drive an Audi!"

OP: If you want to join the Stasi generation of motorists, spying on other motorists and grassing them up to the authorities for every single indiscretion they make then just go ahead and do it! - You don't need to ask the PH-massive first if you should.

(And let's be honest, the Audi driver in the footage is driving like a complete (and dangerous) twt!)

I would say though that you'd better be careful not to make any mistakes or errors ever when you're out and about driving, because one day a Stasi motorist might record your indiscretion and decide to report you to the police!

Personally, I find it quite sad that we now live in a World where people are so eager to act as stooges for the authorities in this way, but that's just the way the World is going!

I would say to your reply I have had a dash cam my main car for going on 9 months. This is the first clip I have posted and reported to the police after adding one to my family bus.

I agree i like many make mistakes and to post/report every minor driving faux par is not correct.

However in this case the audi choose the most dangerous and crazy course and continued to drive like this into the foreground. My concern is its not just bad driving errors in judgement. It is in fact a wilful arrogance that causes them to drive in such a manor that they risk the lives all all road users in their path. this is further backed up by someone on this thread who says this driver is known to them and has past history of always driving like a nut case Is not a case of duty to point a person this reckless out to the authorities or do you think he should be left until such time they kill someone?

If you watch the fiesta overtake he came close to oncoming cars and a cyclist?

Edited by jbsportstech on Saturday 10th October 21:30

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REALIST123 said:

Amazing that so much can be said, for so long, over such a fking triviality.

If you loved ones had been in a car in his path and had a head on would that be trivial?

maybe your right i have heard nothing form the avon & somerset police however they maybe busy stopping their chief harassing the local woman

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Greendubber said:

You're still arguing with people...

surprise surprise you have an old audi a3 if the SQ5 had been citroen picasso I think you wouldn't have called me a dick head.

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Police are taking action on the basis of the footage

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funkyrobot said:

Against you?

Yes one hopes so I mean according to folk on here I swerved from lane to an was going between 37-46mph and I did or did not boot it to block the audi.

Turns out police have had complaints about the audi and seem keen to use my footage to deal with the driver once and for all.#

Pistonhead law what is the fine for driving a zafira @ 37-46mph in a 30 20 lashes?