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

[surveyor_101]

Drive Blind said:

what annoys me is the 'pointless overtake to get nowhere' comment or similar.

These comments are becoming more common amongst the dashcammers.
So overtaking is illegal these days and we've all just to sit behind you at 40mph?

clue is in the name, audi ALLROAD, they can use all the road!'

[Blakewater]

silentbrown said:

Stickyfinger said:

It must be "real science" that causes it....

All those electrocuted birds...

Although raptor wingspan vs airgap sizes are critical!

I was always told that birds could sit on uninsulated cables and not be electrocuted because they weren't touching the ground and completing a circuit.

A guy who used to be in the army told me a story about a soldier who tried to disentangle a tall aerial on a tank that got wrapped around overhead wires in Iraq. He touched the aerial and became stuck to it as the electricity ran through him, then someone else grabbed hold of him and became equally stuck. A third guy came along, grabbed a piece of wood and knocked the first guy off the aerial so hard he broke his legs.

He was teaching a first aid course and telling a tall tale with a moral about how to safely deal with someone being electrocuted, if you can't stop the electricity supply knock them away with something that doesn't conduct electricity but don't hit them stupidly hard, so the whole thing could have been made up.

[shost]

Drive Blind said:

what annoys me is the 'pointless overtake to get nowhere' comment or similar.

These comments are becoming more common amongst the dashcammers.
So overtaking is illegal these days and we've all just to sit behind you at 40mph?

Yup must be. Overtook one by one a queue of cars following a old army land rover travelling at 30 below the national on a single carriageway. Long flash of lights by the car behind the lands. Presumably because I filled his safety gap. So I have to say I slammed on my brakes because clearly there was something wrong with my car as there was nothing wrong with my overtake.

[blueg33]

shost said:

Drive Blind said:

what annoys me is the 'pointless overtake to get nowhere' comment or similar.

These comments are becoming more common amongst the dashcammers.
So overtaking is illegal these days and we've all just to sit behind you at 40mph?

Yup must be. Overtook one by one a queue of cars following a old army land rover travelling at 30 below the national on a single carriageway. Long flash of lights by the car behind the lands. Presumably because I filled his safety gap. So I have to say I slammed on my brakes because clearly there was something wrong with my car as there was nothing wrong with my overtake.

All was good until the last bit when you joined the idiots

[heebeegeetee]

blueg33 said:

Blakewater said:

Australian lorry driver rams a car at a merge point. Despite many people saying the car driver crossed a solid white line, you can see the lane markings between the vehicles at the beginning of the video. When the lorry hits the car it forces it onto the hard shoulder.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3773116/Tr...

Truck driver speeded up to block the merge. What a knob!

If that isn't a classic blind spot incident I don't know what is. As soon as the truck becomes aware he pulls back.

[ashleyman]

Some good ones in here:

https://youtu.be/27ZTnuxPPVg

[Stickyfinger]

ashleyman said:

Some good ones in here:

https://youtu.be/27ZTnuxPPVg

good ones ??.........lane cutting and horns, that's it for the UK

[ambuletz]

quite afew people there with the inability to stop at the line properly on a side road.'oops sorry. oh might aswell drive on like i have priority'. I've had many people who do this end up reversing back in shame when I've made eye contact with them.

[ashleyman]

Stickyfinger said:

ashleyman said:

Some good ones in here:

https://youtu.be/27ZTnuxPPVg

good ones ??.........lane cutting and horns, that's it for the UK

Apart from the usual rubbish of poor driving that's in every compilation there a few examples of bad driving.

Lots of accelerating into a situation and 'getting annoyed' too!

[hondafanatic]

Stickyfinger said:

ashleyman said:

Some good ones in here:

https://youtu.be/27ZTnuxPPVg

good ones ??.........lane cutting and horns, that's it for the UK

I reckon a good proportion of those where just down to a lack of patience and/or consideration.

[blueg33]

heebeegeetee said:

blueg33 said:

Blakewater said:

Australian lorry driver rams a car at a merge point. Despite many people saying the car driver crossed a solid white line, you can see the lane markings between the vehicles at the beginning of the video. When the lorry hits the car it forces it onto the hard shoulder.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3773116/Tr...

Truck driver speeded up to block the merge. What a knob!

If that isn't a classic blind spot incident I don't know what is. As soon as the truck becomes aware he pulls back.

Truck must have been able to see the roof of the car at the very least, truck is driving right up to the righthand edge as he is trying to push past the merging car.

If you look at the panels on the wall the truck speeds up before it hits the car.

Yes car driver should have accelerated a bit more to merge, but you can see the truck drivers head and project a line from his eyes to the car. He could see the car.

Aus police think both were at fault, so in their better qualified opinion it was not a classic blind spot incident

[heebeegeetee]

blueg33 said:

Truck must have been able to see the roof of the car at the very least, truck is driving right up to the righthand edge as he is trying to push past the merging car.

If you look at the panels on the wall the truck speeds up before it hits the car.

Yes car driver should have accelerated a bit more to merge, but you can see the truck drivers head and project a line from his eyes to the car. He could see the car.

Aus police think both were at fault, so in their better qualified opinion it was not a classic blind spot incident

Well I've been in that situation many a time as a former hgv driver, and how cars can disappear from view never ever failed to amaze. See the roof? Never, maybe the front of the bonnet but deffo not the roof.

You can't drive the car for them; if drivers choose to lurk in your blind spot there isn't much you can do. If they choose to move over on you whilst in your blind spot there isn't a lot you can do. Been there, done that.

You are definitely more certain than I am about what the truck can see but have you ever spent much time in one?

[matchmaker]

ambuletz said:

quite afew people there with the inability to stop at the line properly on a side road.'oops sorry. oh might aswell drive on like i have priority'. I've had many people who do this end up reversing back in shame when I've made eye contact with them.

Probably PH company directors - "look at me, last of the late brakers". wkers.

[PoleDriver]

"Ironic Driving Caught On Cam"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshir...

[ambuletz]

what a strange person. There was plenty of room for them to overtake.

[blueg33]

matchmaker said:

ambuletz said:

quite afew people there with the inability to stop at the line properly on a side road.'oops sorry. oh might aswell drive on like i have priority'. I've had many people who do this end up reversing back in shame when I've made eye contact with them.

Probably PH company directors - "look at me, last of the late brakers". wkers.

How is being a Director relevant to this? There seems to be a huge PH chip on shoulders about Directors. For 90% of the stuff on here its totally irrelevant, you may just as well say "window cleaners" or d"deep sea divers"

[ambuletz]

First time I'm hearing it. It is rather odd though.

[zeb]

I think it maybe a reference to the powerfully built company directors......

[xjay1337]

But I thought we were all company directors, all earning 100k + a year and we all liked making our employees suffer??

[xRIEx]

ambuletz said:

what a strange person. There was plenty of room for them to overtake.

I think it was more the principle of highlighting the fact millions get spent on providing facilities for a demographic that then go unused by that demographic.