The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread Vol II

[carlove]

Just to clarify he braked hard to start his turn, then put his indicator on. Plus he was one of the 45 everywhere people. Naturally for the type of car and it's driving style it was a farm shop he turned into.

[Blakewater]

Swanny87 said:

rongagin said:

skahigh said:

Agreed, the knob at 1:55 is one of my pet hates. The woman should have looked before walking her kid out in to the road but she had right of way as pedestrians do when crossing a road that a vehicle then decided to turn in to. Almost no drivers seem to be aware of this.

Agreed +1

On the flip side of this, what annoys me is the amount of people who think the pedestrian has right of way all the time. "I has right of way innit bruv, so I just walk out innit".

She was a bit careless, but when people like her meet people like him who get aggressive and engage in "assertive" behaviour in their cars around schools and children we get more people like her wanting restrictions on motorists.

All the speed humps and 20mph limits and cameras are indirectly the result of people like him who are totally intolerant of anyone else sharing the roads and sometimes making mistakes and misjudgments and who get aggressive at the slightest thing with everybody and anybody, or at least with those who they think are weaker than themselves and are soft targets.

I can foresee this clip being used by every 20's Plenty, pro cyclist, anti motorist pressure group to prove right their opinions of motorists as being aggressive towards vulnerable road users.

[blueg33]

Gary C said:

littlebasher said:

Impasse said:

Youtubeski

So basically, a crash in one of those comes with a death sentence

In the unlikely event i visit Russia, i'll make sure i rent a car NOT made there!

Give Australia a miss too or a VW

http://youtu.be/-x3UTROQajk

Mind you, old vehicles just like the lada's, shows how much things have moved on

If you buy a car called Jiaglin Landwind you get everything you deserve

[Vipers]

ashleyman said:

Vipers said:

Whoops undertaking, maybe the car driver thought he would stay in L3. Hope he's OK.

Regardless of what happened and who's in the wrong etc... Car shouldn't have been in L3!

Absolutely.

[Vipers]

rongagin said:

skahigh said:

Agreed, the knob at 1:55 is one of my pet hates. The woman should have looked before walking her kid out in to the road but she had right of way as pedestrians do when crossing a road that a vehicle then decided to turn in to. Almost no drivers seem to be aware of this.

Agreed +1

What ever happened to the green cross road. Her and others like her are basically bloody idiots. It's no good lying in the road saying "I had the right way", with half a leg hanging off.

[skahigh]

Vipers said:

rongagin said:

skahigh said:

Agreed, the knob at 1:55 is one of my pet hates. The woman should have looked before walking her kid out in to the road but she had right of way as pedestrians do when crossing a road that a vehicle then decided to turn in to. Almost no drivers seem to be aware of this.

Agreed +1

What ever happened to the green cross road. Her and others like her are basically bloody idiots. It's no good lying in the road saying "I had the right way", with half a leg hanging off.

Ahem

[Alucidnation]

Flibble said:

Alucidnation said:

I think i would prefer someone indicating before they braked

Why? I like people to signal before they turn as much as the next man, but brakes are a signal so what's the issue?

I never said i had an issue with it, merely just stating my preference.

[Munter]

I see 5 bit's of bad driving in the 1st clip.

https://youtu.be/ywOPXkVplzg

The Taxi driver only saw the Saab on his 2nd look. I wasn't 100% sure he was going to see it myself.

And following on from the discussion of pedestrians in junctions. I'm always giving way too them at that junction. Not every pedestrian is fast, and they can need a bit of time to get across.

[hornetrider]

Ludicrous riding from the headcam biker in this clip, yet it's being presented as the pedestrians fault.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3567037/Th...

[poing]

hornetrider said:

Ludicrous riding from the headcam biker in this clip, yet it's being presented as the pedestrians fault.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3567037/Th...

He clearly accelerated at the guy, aggressive and dangerous for no real reason.

[MarkRSi]

Flibble said:

Alucidnation said:

I think i would prefer someone indicating before they braked

Why? I like people to signal before they turn as much as the next man, but brakes are a signal so what's the issue?

That would probably be true if they pressed the brake lightly enough to show brake lights initially, before apply more pressure to slow down, and agree about using the indicator appropriately when passing multiple junctions.

In 99% of cases though there's only the single junction, they brake/slow when they're close to passing said junction when following traffic expects then to pass it, then possibly indicate as the last second before turning which serves no purpose to anyone. Because they're knobs

[Spanna]

hornetrider said:

Ludicrous riding from the headcam biker in this clip, yet it's being presented as the pedestrians fault.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3567037/Th...

Set off rather quick with a pedestrian in the road in front of him. Sometimes peds need time and space to manoeuvre just like vehicles.

[anonymous-user]

hornetrider said:

Ludicrous riding from the headcam biker in this clip, yet it's being presented as the pedestrians fault.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3567037/Th...

yep, stupid but head cam means, 'not my fault.'

[Vipers]

The Spruce goose said:

hornetrider said:

Ludicrous riding from the headcam biker in this clip, yet it's being presented as the pedestrians fault.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3567037/Th...

yep, stupid but head cam means, 'not my fault.'

Observation and anticipation lacking.

[rainmakerraw]

Vipers said:

Observation and anticipation lacking.

"Mr Evans said he sees this sort of thing happen regularly even though he has only been riding his bike for a few months."

[ORD]

Vipers said:

The Spruce goose said:

hornetrider said:

Ludicrous riding from the headcam biker in this clip, yet it's being presented as the pedestrians fault.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3567037/Th...

yep, stupid but head cam means, 'not my fault.'

Observation and anticipation lacking.

Why isn't the DM sorry 'Lunatic biker heading for 100mph town centre joyride nearly kills pedestrian'.

The biker was aiming for a 0-100mph sprint from what I can see and here. Even without such an obvious pedestrian, that's fking stupid. I see these power ranger tts doing the same thing on residential streets around where I live. Pond life.

[Stickyfinger]

Vipers said:

The Spruce goose said:

hornetrider said:

Ludicrous riding from the headcam biker in this clip, yet it's being presented as the pedestrians fault.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3567037/Th...

yep, stupid but head cam means, 'not my fault.'

Observation and anticipation lacking.

Soon to donate

[Blakewater]

rainmakerraw said:

Vipers said:

Observation and anticipation lacking.

"Mr Evans said he sees this sort of thing happen regularly even though he has only been riding his bike for a few months."

Yet Mr Evans thinks the solution to the problem is to carry on riding like a lunatic and film it all on a helmet cam to try and absolve himself of responsibility come the day he actually collides with someone. If it happens regularly, he ought to have worked out that racing starts from the lights aren't safe for him or anyone else.

I suspect he may have been trying to deliberately buzz the pedestrian to teach him a lesson and got a scare himself when the pedestrian stepped back.

I saw an old chap knocked down when he tried to dodge across a dual carriageway on the red man at a pedestrian crossing. He was trying to bypass the zig-zag round the railings that stop people going directly across by aiming to go over the landscaped part of the central reservation but a young guy in a BMW coming down the outside lane hit him and sent him flying through the air like a rag doll. The driver was charged with Death By Dangerous Driving after the old chap died in hospital and it was found he was driving excessively fast.

Even when police were carrying out their investigations with the car involved, people were dodging past the police officers at the roadside and across the road as the car was being lined to be accelerated down the road for a braking distance test.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/14228012...

This isn't far from where those guys in the Audi RS5 were driving like loonies.

It's not illegal for pedestrians to cross on the red man. Many do, and they don't understand that traffic at junctions can be coming from many different directions. They'll have a quick glance left and right and step out in front of traffic coming round the corner or be taken out by traffic suddenly setting off. I got caught out the other day on a new bit of road where the crossing lights are lit but not wired up to change with the traffic lights, but fortunately the drivers waited for me to cross. Just because someone crosses on a red man, it doesn't mean that you as a motorist, motorcyclist or cyclist are absolved of blame if you hit them.

Edited by Blakewater on Saturday 30th April 23:37

[Janesy B]

Mr Evans is a bell.

[ambuletz]

biker was largely in the wrong. however i doubt the ped listening to music mattered, he didn't put much care into his surroundings. biker should have been cautious and ridden defensively (as a biker should) as there was a ped on the road.