The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Dashcam" Thread
Discussion
marked1 said:
Caught this today. Unfortunately the camera was at an angle and was facing the sun. Had to slam my brakes on to let him through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D-g4mz6Oh0&fe...
Does the car coming other way brake? Hard to see from the video, but it looks like he is too busy flashing his lights to tell off the Merc! It amazes me how little people protect themselves when driving. Too busy trying to be tough to avoid a head-on!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D-g4mz6Oh0&fe...
Funk said:
GrumpyTwig said:
harlowrog said:
Every time I come on the forum I see a couple of pages added to this thread and think 'oh good, some more videos to watch' and every time I'm let down because its just two more pages of f
king arguing, take it somewhere else for fks sake because I'm guessing most people are as pissed off as I am with it.
Here here.king arguing, take it somewhere else for fks sake because I'm guessing most people are as pissed off as I am with it.It's my f
king thread - post some more videos of muppetry you throbbers!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbeR72cFT1I
NoNeed said:
LOL @ the 10 second horn press. You could see that manoeuvre coming a mile off.CoinSl0t said:
All that jazz said:
LOL @ the 10 second horn press. You could see that manoeuvre coming a mile off.
How is the clairvoyancy business going these days?
Car driver spending all their time looking in the mirror making sure truck doesn't get past instead of focusing on lane signage. The moment the lane started opening out to peel off I could tell from their road positioning that they wanted to stay on the motorway. No "clairvoyancy" required, it's a sixth sense you develop when you drive them for a living.
CoinSl0t said:
Yeah, bloody truck driver should have been prepared for that last second lane change.
How is the clairvoyancy business going these days?
Yep, everybody knows he or she isn't going to Ikea at Wednesbury like millions do. How is the clairvoyancy business going these days?
I know exactly what the trucker means though. The car driver doesn't want a truck in front of them, which is fine, but insists at travelling at a similar speed as the truck but without using CC, which means the speed is constantlyy changing. In a truck you can be stuck with someone like that for literally a hundred miles.
If the people who want hgvs confined to lane 1 succeed we can look forward to a hell of a lot of congestion caused by these people.
Edited by heebeegeetee on Tuesday 30th June 08:08
All that jazz said:
Brilliantly, thanks!
Car driver spending all their time looking in the mirror making sure truck doesn't get past instead of focusing on lane signage. The moment the lane started opening out to peel off I could tell from their road positioning that they wanted to stay on the motorway. No "clairvoyancy" required, it's a sixth sense you develop when you drive them for a living.
Can I just say that in a recent thread All That jazz told myself and others that we're full of sCar driver spending all their time looking in the mirror making sure truck doesn't get past instead of focusing on lane signage. The moment the lane started opening out to peel off I could tell from their road positioning that they wanted to stay on the motorway. No "clairvoyancy" required, it's a sixth sense you develop when you drive them for a living.
t. Words "pot" and "kettle" certainly spring to mind. Just so we know, the Wednesbury junction J9 M6 is one of the country's busiest, used by tens of thousands daily. To know that a car is not going to leave where tens of thousands do, displays a level of clairvoyancy or "sixth sense" that a lottery win or a few must be under the belt by now.
The junction is so busy that it is now partially closed as it causes problems with the nearby M5 junction, and there is talk now of permanent closure.
The junction is so busy that it is now partially closed as it causes problems with the nearby M5 junction, and there is talk now of permanent closure.
heebeegeetee said:
Just so we know, the Wednesbury junction J9 M6 is one of the country's busiest, used by tens of thousands daily. To know that a car is not going to leave where tens of thousands do, displays a level of clairvoyancy or "sixth sense" that a lottery win or a few must be under the belt by now.
The junction is so busy that it is now partially closed as it causes problems with the nearby M5 junction, and there is talk now of permanent closure.
I didn't know it was going to move. But given it was one of "those" drivers as he was describing, in a small car...I'd considered it quite likely. And I wasn't surprised when it did.The junction is so busy that it is now partially closed as it causes problems with the nearby M5 junction, and there is talk now of permanent closure.
Around here they do it all the time. They cannot cope with reading the signs that say "Use hard shoulder for Jx Only". So they don't expect to be filtered off, and they swerve into lane 1 at the last moment.
If you genuinely didn't think it was likely that car would pull that manoeuvre...well it explains a lot.
Munter said:
I didn't know it was going to move. But given it was one of "those" drivers as he was describing, in a small car...I'd considered it quite likely. And I wasn't surprised when it did.
Around here they do it all the time. They cannot cope with reading the signs that say "Use hard shoulder for Jx Only". So they don't expect to be filtered off, and they swerve into lane 1 at the last moment.
If you genuinely didn't think it was likely that car would pull that manoeuvre...well it explains a lot.
Knowing the area as I do, and know the type of driver as I do, I know the car is as likely to go one way as the other. I wouldn't bet on either way though.Around here they do it all the time. They cannot cope with reading the signs that say "Use hard shoulder for Jx Only". So they don't expect to be filtered off, and they swerve into lane 1 at the last moment.
If you genuinely didn't think it was likely that car would pull that manoeuvre...well it explains a lot.
Munter said:
I didn't know it was going to move. But given it was one of "those" drivers as he was describing, in a small car...I'd considered it quite likely. And I wasn't surprised when it did.
Around here they do it all the time. They cannot cope with reading the signs that say "Use hard shoulder for Jx Only". So they don't expect to be filtered off, and they swerve into lane 1 at the last moment.
If you genuinely didn't think it was likely that car would pull that manoeuvre...well it explains a lot.
Around here they do it all the time. They cannot cope with reading the signs that say "Use hard shoulder for Jx Only". So they don't expect to be filtered off, and they swerve into lane 1 at the last moment.
If you genuinely didn't think it was likely that car would pull that manoeuvre...well it explains a lot.
All that jazz said:
Munter said:
I didn't know it was going to move. But given it was one of "those" drivers as he was describing, in a small car...I'd considered it quite likely. And I wasn't surprised when it did.
Around here they do it all the time. They cannot cope with reading the signs that say "Use hard shoulder for Jx Only". So they don't expect to be filtered off, and they swerve into lane 1 at the last moment.
If you genuinely didn't think it was likely that car would pull that manoeuvre...well it explains a lot.
Around here they do it all the time. They cannot cope with reading the signs that say "Use hard shoulder for Jx Only". So they don't expect to be filtered off, and they swerve into lane 1 at the last moment.
If you genuinely didn't think it was likely that car would pull that manoeuvre...well it explains a lot.
CoinSl0t said:
Munter said:
If you genuinely didn't think it was likely that car would pull that manoeuvre...well it explains a lot.
Yet another clairvoyant, unfortunately the lorry driver didn't have your benefit of foresight.It's a very common thing for bad drivers to do. I see it every few hours of motorway driving. Given the trucker had identified the bad driver, and the bad driver was running in the hard shoulder (legally), and there was a junction coming up where they would be filtered off. This all adds up to a very good chance that it'll swerve into lane 1.
If you spend any time on motorways either improve your anticipation. Or please get off them. Because otherwise you are as dangerous as the car driver.
heebeegeetee said:
All that jazz said:
Brilliantly, thanks!
Car driver spending all their time looking in the mirror making sure truck doesn't get past instead of focusing on lane signage. The moment the lane started opening out to peel off I could tell from their road positioning that they wanted to stay on the motorway. No "clairvoyancy" required, it's a sixth sense you develop when you drive them for a living.
Can I just say that in a recent thread All That jazz told myself and others that we're full of sCar driver spending all their time looking in the mirror making sure truck doesn't get past instead of focusing on lane signage. The moment the lane started opening out to peel off I could tell from their road positioning that they wanted to stay on the motorway. No "clairvoyancy" required, it's a sixth sense you develop when you drive them for a living.
t. Words "pot" and "kettle" certainly spring to mind. Not sure about clairvoyancy and the car was pretty well planted in the coming off lane.
However on past behaviour I'd have eased back just in case
Munter said:
Please get off our roads.
It's a very common thing for bad drivers to do. I see it every few hours of motorway driving. Given the trucker had identified the bad driver, and the bad driver was running in the hard shoulder (legally), and there was a junction coming up where they would be filtered off. This all adds up to a very good chance that it'll swerve into lane 1.
If you spend any time on motorways either improve your anticipation. Or please get off them. Because otherwise you are as dangerous as the car driver.
Don't get too excited. Firstly, there's no point to this line of conversation 'cos it's not relevant to anything, nothing happened as a result of the car leaving or staying on the m'way. For me the issues are that the car slowed down before through chevrons, and then the fact that I know only too well that the trucker may now have a car in front of him that will continually change speed for however long the car's journey may be.It's a very common thing for bad drivers to do. I see it every few hours of motorway driving. Given the trucker had identified the bad driver, and the bad driver was running in the hard shoulder (legally), and there was a junction coming up where they would be filtered off. This all adds up to a very good chance that it'll swerve into lane 1.
If you spend any time on motorways either improve your anticipation. Or please get off them. Because otherwise you are as dangerous as the car driver.
But just as a point of interest and relevant to nothing in partic - The m'way in the clip is the M6 elevated section over Birmingham. Many years ago permission was granted to build an enourmous set of retail parks right by that junction, including Ikea, all the major electrical and homeware stores, chain restarants and a cinema. This has resulted in enormous congestion in that area and on that m'way.
Because of the elvated construction it's not really possible to widen the m'way to cope with the traffic, and so hard shoulder running has been introduced. This then created extra probelms for traffic using the nearby M5/M6 junction.
So now J9 has had a partial closure - the southbound entry slip has been closed for months, and may never re-open. God knows what this has done for local traffic in the area, or for journey times for commuters who used to use that junction.
The issues are compounded by the fact that the junction is approached by quite a tight bend by m'way standards, in both directions north and south. Then there is the fact that the traditional 300-200-100 markings have been removed as part of the hard shoulder running scheme, and the only indication of the slip lane is that a solid line changes to a broken line.
There have been so many issues at that junction that as I said, there have been reports in local media of closing the whole junction completely. I guess they would rebuild J10 (yet again) to take the Ikea and retail park traffic to and from the m'way.
To my mind building such enormous retail parks beside m'ways removes the point of the m'way - instead of the m'way relieving congestion it is used to create it.
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