The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Dashcam" Thread

[SuperchargedVR6]

Spangles said:

PoleDriver said:

Well, we're one hour and 10 posts in and all we have is the usual PH bhing and not a single dash-cam clip!

Don't think my driving can be criticised in this one but we'll see.

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

Ahhh, the good old Stanway slip road. That kind of schitt is a daily occurrence there. Next. The standard of driving in Essex / Suffolk is appalling.

[VolvoT5]

HTP99 said:

Geekman said:

Crafty_ said:

So is this going to turn in to a dashcam wker thread ?

If so, I have a nomination: https://youtu.be/_0iODbJik3E

Be warned, language is absolutely terrible, so definitely NSFW or if little people are around.

Oh and wait for the end

^that guy is hilarious, think he might actually be the biggest wker of all the youtube dashcam brigade.

Some people seriously need to sit back and take a look at themselves and become a little less angry, that guy and his wife were the biggest nobbers of the lot; fancy getting that angry about people jumping reds, people making mistakes and people being in the wrong lane, chill out you "s"!

^This. And their entire vocabulary seems to consist of f***ing and C***. I notice they disable comments on all their videos.... obviously had some negative feedback at one point and couldn't stand it.

Half those clips show drivers pulling out on him, but most are nowhere near him and require no evasive action at all. I can't figure out why he is getting so totally outraged.

Edited by VolvoT5 on Tuesday 19th May 16:48

[barker22]

heebeegeetee said:

The lane arrows are for guidance only, they're not instructional or compulsory, but yes, I think he was looking to overtake him, having ignored miles of safe opportunity to do so.

Well you're wrong. Like many PH's I don't go out trying to overtake anything that is moving, especially when they are travelling at the posted limit.
As you mentioned there was plenty of opportunities to overtake, but that wasn't on the agenda. Not until the Clio braked hard infront.

Edited by barker22 on Tuesday 19th May 17:48

[Petrol Only]

PoleDriver said:

stoned!

Surely not? Being stoned is hardly known for turning people into an absolute lunatic. Reefer madness that way please.

You need to report that driver. That was absolutely shocking. Hopefully wont be a next time. All you could have done is take a different exit on that roundabout. That guy needs a stiff word from a copper at the very least!

[Lucas Ayde]

TwistingMyMelon said:

Clio in front was a complete lunatic what a knob

Only answer is not to get involved at all, as soon as I see any knob traits I stay well away, I definitely wouldn't have overtaken, as they you have the knob behind you, where you have less visual on what they are going to do next. Plus I would have turned off at the first opportunity and had a breather

Having said the above we all have off days, in my 20s I had loads of arguments and minor road rages with drivers, I might have been technically "right" but I got involved and dragged down to their level, sometimes ending in punch-ups. It just was never worth it, I now accept lots of people are poor drivers and to avoid them at all costs.

Now with Kids, I just drive defensively and try and avoid and stay out the way of all idiots and thus all the confrontations have gone. Well nearly....

I totally agree - I tend to get quite annoyed at idiotic driving but recently have come to realise that there's no point getting upset about other people being stupid on the road and make an effort to just let it go.

There's so much stupidity around that if you let it get to you, driving will just wind you up generally and let's face it - you can't fix 'stupid'.

Nothing you can realistically do is going to fix their lack of road sense or make them better at driving. You just have to accept that a lot of people are as thick as two short planks and work around it so that it doesn't unduly impact on you.

As you say, once you see signs of knobbish driving characteristics, back off and give the cretin an extra wide berth. Don't enter a situation where they can screw you up by doing something stupid in their car. Either that or blast past at the earliest safest opportunity and leave them well behind. You don't really want to be anywhere near them on the road if you can help it.

[CCM604e]

Lucas Ayde said:

I totally agree - I tend to get quite annoyed at idiotic driving but recently have come to realise that there's no point getting upset about other people being stupid on the road and make an effort to just let it go.

There's so much stupidity around that if you let it get to you, driving will just wind you up generally and let's face it - you can't fix 'stupid'.

Nothing you can realistically do is going to fix their lack of road sense or make them better at driving. You just have to accept that a lot of people are as thick as two short planks and work around it so that it doesn't unduly impact on you.

As you say, once you see signs of knobbish driving characteristics, back off and give the cretin an extra wide berth. Don't enter a situation where they can screw you up by doing something stupid in their car. Either that or blast past at the earliest safest opportunity and leave them well behind. You don't really want to be anywhere near them on the road if you can help it.

Well put

[Fish]

Go on I'll bite...

http://vidmg.photobucket.com/albums/v152/mrsfish/j...

BMW M6 driver being a tool, overtake of me in traffic train over double whites round blind bend followed by circa 90mph + multiple overtake round slight bend over crest...all in a 50.

Basically a total tt. Also with private plate. Unfortunately the camera angle doesn't really highligh just how dangerous and close it is because it is very wide angle..

[SeeFive]

barker22 said:

SeeFive said:

The only observational error the camera man made was not to notice that the Clio had no left turn signal on when he was in a left turn only lane. But we all know how many people exit roundabouts with no signal. Yes, pure defensive driving, I.e., regarding anyone on the road as being capable of any error at any time would say that the pass was not on, but real life and probability intervenes now and again. He took enough care to take successful evasive action.

The error was on the filmed Clio, and subsequent behaviour was appalling.

Even if the left hand lane was straight on, I could have been turning right and he still entered the right hand lane. There was no need.
As mentioned before, in hindsight I should have just gone a different route. I could have also just booted it off after I got past him initially. I was going somewhere specific, I shouldn't have to deviate due to dangerous drivers on some sort of power trip.
Should I have crashed into him at the roundabout as I was in the correct lane? People in the caravan/lorry thread seemed t think that as worse

I know. I am supporting you on this as you may have seen in my previous posts. I am just addressing the defensive driving thoughts with a little bit of reality.

You (maybe subconsciously) had enough defensive nous to recognise that there was a possibility that it could happen and gave yourself the opportunity to evade if necessary. Your driving was ok in my book. Not aggressive, in the correct lane for your manoeuvre and the other guy made an error, carved you up from the wrong lane (which is not great but everyone makes the odd mistake) but then went on to behave like a total idiot going forward, which should be viewed as aggressive, dangerous and unacceptable in anyone's book.

I cannot see what else you could have done than try to pass him afterwards unless you had hours to crawl along in bottom gear behind him. Why the hell should you go out of your way to avoid the tt and take a different route. He deserves to be nicked. A quick post on sp&l might help that happen.

[heebeegeetee]

CoinSl0t said:

heebeegeetee said:

The lane arrows are for guidance only, they're not instructional or compulsory, but yes, I think he was looking to overtake him, having ignored miles of safe opportunity to do so.

Genuine response, but really?

Yes, I think so. Firstly, those road marking cause too much trouble imo, they seemingly punish the driver who is trying to do the correct thing by driving in the correct lane, they can cause local-v-non-local issues (which may be what is happening here), and so on.

But to put my point another way, the camera car does not seem in a hurry and keeps well back, but at the first opportunity to get tangled up with the other car the camera driver is in there like a shot. It doesn't make sense, imo.

Of course the Clio driver should have stayed in lane, I believe he is under no obligation to turn left, but incorrectly crosses the white line (its as if both drivers are very keen to trip over each other) and then of course goes on to behave like a complete and utter knob.

[MarkRSi]

Looks like the only reason the OP "suddenly" catches up is due to the Clio braking heavily for the roundabout rather than said OP speeding up. Also it looked like there was a left lane anyway, so regardless of road markings (which are only advisory I believe?) they could have gone straight keeping to their lane and allowing the OP time to back off without a near miss.


Report them I say.

[Bennet]

barker22 said:

Well here is my contribution caught on camera tonight. The Clio driver blatantly knew what he was doing, tried to ram me off the road and block an overtake after I wanted out.
All because he cut me up, I never even gave him the horn(no inuendo intended)
The Clio comes into play at the roundabout but I started the video before to show there was no previous provocation. I let him overtake because I thought he was on some power trip and that he would f**k off. I was wrong.

http://youtu.be/YwU1yHL54QM

Young lad, I reckon. I'd say that began because he thought you were trying to overtake him on the roundabout and his initial cut accross your lane is actually deliberate for the purpose of blocking your "overtake", where as you just think he's going left. I remember when I used to feel that to be overtaken was to be shown up. (Never did anything like that though.)

[Bennet]

barker22 said:

zedx19 said:

Another point, what do you drive that seems to struggle getting past a 1.2 Clio?? :P

I mentioned before.
A 2.0 Clio Albeit in the wrong gear initially, I also lifted mid overtake as you can see when he was edging me towards the kerb.

I've often noted that car x can feel boringly slow to drive and car y can feel decently fast. But attempt to get past x in y when he has his foot down and the difference is a lot smaller than you feel like it should be. Painfully so when the fastness of car y is primarily a product of high revs.

Edited by Bennet on Tuesday 19th May 19:01

[Gandahar]

Fish said:

Go on I'll bite...

http://vidmg.photobucket.com/albums/v152/mrsfish/j...

BMW M6 driver being a tool, overtake of me in traffic train over double whites round blind bend followed by circa 90mph + multiple overtake round slight bend over crest...all in a 50.

Basically a total tt. Also with private plate. Unfortunately the camera angle doesn't really highligh just how dangerous and close it is because it is very wide angle..

Agree. Thanks for posting.

The thing is here that the electronics his car has had lead to a sort of cloak of invincibility which backs up his preconceived notion that his car is a lot faster than slower cars so he can go through them like a knife like butter.

One day though things always conspire against you if you take liberties. I'm guessing he has not learnt the hard way yet and is living in a bubble. Notice I say "He". A woman would hardly ever drive like that. Shows what is driving him on, not something between his ears, just between his legs.

[Dr Jekyll]

Gandahar said:

I'm guessing he has not learnt the hard way yet and is living in a bubble. Notice I say "He". A woman would hardly ever drive like that. Shows what is driving him on, not something between his ears, just between his legs.

Interesting syllogism here

All bad drivers are male.
This was a bad driver.
Therefore even though we couldn't see him we can safely assume the driver was male.
This proves that all bad drivers are male.

Personally I've seen all varieties of bad driving from all genders.

[WongJr]

barker22 said:

It shouldn't be!!
Will sort it out now
http://youtu.be/YwU1yHL54QM new link, give it a minute or 2

Edited by barker22 on Tuesday 19th May 14:17

Edited by barker22 on Tuesday 19th May 14:17

How come the whole thing was wobbling? I felt seasick watching it.

[Funk]

WongJr said:

barker22 said:

It shouldn't be!!
Will sort it out now
http://youtu.be/YwU1yHL54QM new link, give it a minute or 2

Edited by barker22 on Tuesday 19th May 14:17

Edited by barker22 on Tuesday 19th May 14:17

How come the whole thing was wobbling? I felt seasick watching it.

He's accidentally ticked the box for YouTube's amazing 'stabilisation' feature which makes it look like you're on the bow of a ship in a force 10 gale.

[WongJr]

Funk said:

He's accidentally ticked the box for YouTube's amazing 'stabilisation' feature which makes it look like you're on the bow of a ship in a force 10 gale.

Ah right, that explains it. Thanks.

[knitware]

A quick mash up from my new NextBase 402g dash cam.

Just a typical weekend drive. It's quite therapeutic to look back on incidences, there's nothing too bad occurring just the usual, me, me, me.

https://youtu.be/zewbY0sfzsk

[harlowrog]

Mr GrimNasty said:

Both as bad as each other. Car with camera made the first aggressive move - if you can't see it, you shouldn't be driving.

I thought it was only me that could see this. Agree he turned out to be a complete wazzock but you tried to 'do him' on a roundabout, and not a particarly big one at that, when its dead quiet and the pair of you are getting a bit of a move on, even if he'd stayed in his lane you would of been cutting across the front of him exiting the roundabout where your lane rapidly disappears, pointless manoeuvre, its not like the lead car was dawdling around was it?

[SeeFive]

harlowrog said:

I thought it was only me that could see this. Agree he turned out to be a complete wazzock but you tried to 'do him' on a roundabout, and not a particarly big one at that, when its dead quiet and the pair of you are getting a bit of a move on, even if he'd stayed in his lane you would of been cutting across the front of him exiting the roundabout where your lane rapidly disappears, pointless manoeuvre, its not like the lead car was dawdling around was it?

Yes maybe it was, because you clearly missed a lot of important stuff. Watch the film again closely or read the freakin thread from page 4. The left lane was painted up as left turn left only. The guy should not have been taking the same exit as cam man, so his wide lane would not disappear - it would be the natural continuation. The left lane should disappear as it was marked turn left. The other Clio braked heavily on entry to the roundabout in L1 as if to turn left but no indication, it was not the camera guy accelerating to pass. Even if was the case, would you say it was ok to straight line a roundabout with someone trying to pass you?

So what level of "move on" were they doing in your opinion? In mine it looked quite sedate with a good 2 second gap maintained between the cam car and the wker whatever the speed.