The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Dashcam" Thread

[longshot]

stuart313 said:

Not mine but it shows another person using a left lane at a roundabout to go straight on. This time it doesn't go quite as planned for him.

It is another stupidly laid out junction though.

https://youtu.be/WY3-qz-UyHc?t=3m46s

The lane markings don't seem to make sense do they.
I think the mid digit at 4.22 seems to have sealed the deal.

[Funk]

longshot said:

stuart313 said:

Not mine but it shows another person using a left lane at a roundabout to go straight on. This time it doesn't go quite as planned for him.

It is another stupidly laid out junction though.

https://youtu.be/WY3-qz-UyHc?t=3m46s

The lane markings don't seem to make sense do they.
I think the mid digit at 4.22 seems to have sealed the deal.

The biker put himself in that position but ultimately it's a meeting of two pricks on the road.

No excuse for the pathetic behaviour of both imo.

[GrumpyTwig]

Funk said:

longshot said:

stuart313 said:

Not mine but it shows another person using a left lane at a roundabout to go straight on. This time it doesn't go quite as planned for him.

It is another stupidly laid out junction though.

https://youtu.be/WY3-qz-UyHc?t=3m46s

The lane markings don't seem to make sense do they.
I think the mid digit at 4.22 seems to have sealed the deal.

The biker put himself in that position but ultimately it's a meeting of two pricks on the road.

No excuse for the pathetic behaviour of both imo.

I watched this before but failed to notice the biker kicking the car, I mean what's he expect when while the car was initially in the wrong and driven aggressively trying to box him in kicking the car makes it only go one way.

[eldar]

Funk said:

The biker put himself in that position but ultimately it's a meeting of two pricks on the road.

No excuse for the pathetic behaviour of both imo.

You think all three acted equally badly?

[carlove]

It's a bit stupid to kick the car of someone who is that agitated. Obviously the Peugeot man who looks like a Peugeot person is the biggest tt, he probably shouldn't be on the road with that level of aggression.

[Funk]

eldar said:

Funk said:

The biker put himself in that position but ultimately it's a meeting of two pricks on the road.

No excuse for the pathetic behaviour of both imo.

You think all three acted equally badly?

I'm not going to assign percentages of blame but I will say this:

• should the bike have put himself in the car's blind spot coming up the inside? No.
• should the bike have anticipated that the car would move left after passing the restricted lane? Yes.
• should the bike have given the car the finger? No.
• should the car have driven aggressively to pursue the bike? No.
• should the car have driven that close to the bike? No.
• should the biker have kicked the car? No.
• should the driver and passenger have gotten out of the car and assaulted the biker? No.

Could this all have been avoided if the biker hadn't started it? In my view, yes.

As I say, a meeting of morons (biker for giving the finger, kicking the car and driver/passenger for being aggressive, knuckle-dragging mouthbreathers).

[chris1roll]

Need to do a u turn? Why not find a laby or a side road?
Ain't nobody got time for that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0iKN73SICA

[All that jazz]

chris1roll said:

Need to do a u turn? Why not find a laby or a side road?
Ain't nobody got time for that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0iKN73SICA

Never mind the bumper, put the video on loop from 0:10 to 0:12 - wtf is that noise he makes?

[charlie84rum]

Surely if the biker had seen the Top Gear public information film regarding current Peugeot drivers he would have simply given them a wide berth...

[VolvoT5]

Funk said:

The biker put himself in that position but ultimately it's a meeting of two pricks on the road.

No excuse for the pathetic behaviour of both imo.

I see what you are getting at and to an extent I agree. Giving it the middle finger and acting like a jerk when you are the vulnerable road user on a bike is not a smart move at all....... however nearly running someone over and then jumping out of your car to start beating them up is really taking things to a whole new level!

I hope the police looked closely at the incident.

[Martyboy84]

Following an accident that made me purchase a dash cam I've been really lucky, no idiots at all really.

Closest was this numpty. Not sure how to display youtube correctly (my bad)

Heading along quite content, was a saturday so the bus lane was open. Can't really see it from the clip but he pulls into my lane slightly, goes back to his own lane then cuts across me without indicating... A shake of the head was seemingly enough to make him apply the brakes. Bit of a silly thing to do.

https://youtu.be/8MjSK27tDv4

Edited by Martyboy84 on Wednesday 27th May 18:01

[stuart313]

Why does his indicator come on with his brakes?

[anonymous-user]

He probably thought you were in the wrong for trying to block him into the bus lane rather than letting him merge. Not saying that was your intent but it's easy to see how he would have thought that from the relative speeds and positions of the cars.

Whole thing looked completely avoidable. Just give people room and let them get on with it.

[ORD]

charltjr said:

He probably thought you were in the wrong for trying to block him into the bus lane rather than letting him merge. Not saying that was your intent but it's easy to see how he would have thought that from the relative speeds and positions of the cars.

Whole thing looked completely avoidable. Just give people room and let them get on with it.

+1.

The poster caused the issue by trying to block a perfectly sensible merge.

[Funk]

ORD said:

charltjr said:

He probably thought you were in the wrong for trying to block him into the bus lane rather than letting him merge. Not saying that was your intent but it's easy to see how he would have thought that from the relative speeds and positions of the cars.

Whole thing looked completely avoidable. Just give people room and let them get on with it.

+1.

The poster caused the issue by trying to block a perfectly sensible merge.

Glad it wasn't just me thinking that.

[Hackney]

heebeegeetee said:

I'm going to say this is wrong. Perhaps we could do with some clarification on this, (haven't got time to check myself) but those arrows are for guidance only, they are not an instruction, and the lane isn't left turn only. The clio should not have straight-lined the roundabout, but he is under no obligation to turn left, which means camera man is going to chop across the front of him if he's not careful.

I think it's a local v non-local situation, (hence the difference in braking between the two cars)and as I've observed myself over many year, locals do seem to like to go out of their way to come into conflict with anyone they perceive to be making a mistake, imo.

So he's local because he knows everyone straight-lines the roundabout using the turn left lane, or he's not local because he has to brake hard at the roundabout?

Some (national) clarification is definitely needed on these "guidance" lanes.
If they're only guidance then what's the point in spending money in marking them out? 90% of people accept the guidance and use the correct lane, 10% either know it's guidance and do something unexpected by the other 90% or don't know it's only guidance and think it's THE LAW but go on to ignore it anyway and do something unexpected by the other 90%

My own personal favourite for this is the A1North to M25 roundabout where they may aswell have painted "ah feckit, do what ever the hell you like" on the road as "M25 West", "M25 West", "Services" and "M25 East" are about as well observed as the dark side of pluto.

[DE15 CAT]

Funk said:

ORD said:

charltjr said:

He probably thought you were in the wrong for trying to block him into the bus lane rather than letting him merge. Not saying that was your intent but it's easy to see how he would have thought that from the relative speeds and positions of the cars.

Whole thing looked completely avoidable. Just give people room and let them get on with it.

+1.

The poster caused the issue by trying to block a perfectly sensible merge.

Glad it wasn't just me thinking that.

My opinion, poster was just moving along, priority goes to outside lane ie any traffic wanting to change lane should wait for a gap in this situation as not queueing i think merge rule doesn't apply. Very judgemental my next thought ladder on roof probably labouring dhead who bullies his way around (as demonstrated by brake testing his ignorance got him what he wanted why be more of a wker) too impatient for waiting probably parks in the same ignorant fashion.

[ORD]

DE15 CAT said:

My opinion, poster was just moving along, priority goes to outside lane ie any traffic wanting to change lane should wait for a gap in this situation as not queueing i think merge rule doesn't apply. Very judgemental my next thought ladder on roof probably labouring dhead who bullies his way around (as demonstrated by brake testing his ignorance got him what he wanted why be more of a wker) too impatient for waiting probably parks in the same ignorant fashion.

But this is precisely the attitude that leads to problems on the road - "I have priority, so you'll have to brake to a stop and wait ages for a gap", rather than just easing off for one second to let someone pull across. A very minor inconvenience to avoid someone getting stuck. A bit of courtesy would go a long way these days!

[Martyboy84]

He had no reason to be in my lane and didn't indicate. He was in my lane partially and I do slow down which is how he ends up in the same lane. Not quite sure anything I did justified a brake check.

[ORD]

Martyboy84 said:

He had no reason to be in my lane and didn't indicate. He was in my lane partially and I do slow down which is how he ends up in the same lane. Not quite sure anything I did justified a brake check.

Of course not. Nothing justifies that kind of behaviour from him. But, in my view, your reluctance to ease off was not perfect driving (although we all refuse to behave politely at times, so it's not a big deal )