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

[Alucidnation]

Close Calls Comp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYMi3zRWQXc

[Blakewater]

Atomic12C said:

Blakewater said:

ashleyman said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqzLhHJZK6c

Swift vs Van

I had an idiot do this to me last night, ...

This happens a lot.
The onus is surely on the driver changing lane to maneuver in to a suitable space for the vehicle at hand (or wait for someone courteous enough to provide a space).
The main problem on our roads in the UK is that drivers do not have any patience these days.
So what we see in that video is a van driver forcing his way in to a non-space due to lack of patience.
If there were injury as a result surely the van driver would be held at fault?

In my case it was right by a sign that says, "Merge in turn," and 99% of the time people do cooperate with me there. Whatever the actual priority, what's the point in deliberately driving up to the bumper of the car in front to stop traffic merging in turn and flowing smoothly from both lanes? Why then follow it up with jeering at me and giving me the finger? I wasn't trying to force my way ahead, the guy ahead of me merged ahead of the guy in front of the Focus driver no problem and I was looking to merge normally without being overly forceful. No driving at him, no gestures or horn sounding.

Junctions like that should work like a funnel, rather like placing a bollard in a doorway so people approach it from the sides and get through faster than they would straight on in single file. People who obstruct the flow of traffic just to make some point about how they have priority and point three on page 92 of the Highway Code says they don't have to let someone change lanes or merge or pull out of a sideroad contribute hugely to congestion on our ever busier roads. They're not driving along minding their own business, they're deliberately seeking confrontation even if it's the passive aggressive sort where they keep staring ahead like they're pretending they're not really doing anything in relation to you being there. It's a power trip for them.

If you met these people at a doorway they probably wouldn't barge through ahead of you, but if they did you would think they were dicks. Why is it suddenly acceptable when it causes traffic jams and potentially damage to cars and even danger to life and limb?

[carlove]

Re the Swift vs Van video and debate.

I was driving on a two lane road today, noticed the C Class just ahead but in the left only lane(I was in right lane) put his right indicator on, so I did something unbelievable, I eased off and flashed him in, added about 1 second to my journey, led to no altercation, no childish bunching up, no risk of an accident, just got on with my drive home feeling relaxed.

[Mike_Mac]

carlove said:

Re the Swift vs Van video and debate.

I was driving on a two lane road today, noticed the C Class just ahead but in the left only lane(I was in right lane) put his right indicator on, so I did something unbelievable, I eased off and flashed him in, added about 1 second to my journey, led to no altercation, no childish bunching up, no risk of an accident, just got on with my drive home feeling relaxed.

Out! Get out now!! There's no place for that kind of behaviour here!

(and leave your card at the door as you go!)

[Cfnteabag]

Vipers said:

Could just be the lane the car was in was already moving faster than the lane the ambulance was in. To pass a slower car you pull over to the right and "overtake" it.

If you pull to the left to pass, then you are "undertaking".

However if your lane is moving faster than the lane to your right I have thought this is not undertaking.

I was under the impression from here that there is no such thing as undertaking on the road. Overtaking is the act of moving ahead of a vehicle travelling in the same direction as you, it doesn't matter if you pass them on the left or the right.

👍

[poing]

Alucidnation said:

Close Calls Comp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYMi3zRWQXc

Best video posted on here for a while! Although that might be because we've had so many pages of arguing about nothing as always

[MGTS]

Blakewater said:

80sMatchbox said:

Johnnytheboy said:

For some reason your link doesn't work:
?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mgIYGbM4QI#t=221....

I presume the cyclist was all ready to blame the driver when he stopped...

There's a load of drivers being tts but it's the cyclist you pick out.

At 2.40 does Chappers, the motorcyclist, turn left just to chase the van driver and give her abuse when she's apologised twice, or is he changing lanes into the side of the van? If he was intending to turn left in the first place, surely he should have stayed in the inside most lane as he went round the corner, which wouldn't have put him in immediate conflict with the van driver even if she shouldn't have turned left from the second lane. If he went out of his way to have a go at someone, and wasn't even going to be diffused by profuse apologies for a mistake that did no harm in the end, that just makes him look like a bit of a berk.

Choppers (the biker) is absolutely and completely 150% in the wrong and the van driver drove spot on. This roundabout is at marsh mills in Plymouth and both left lanes go off to "City" which is the first exit. The car in front of the biker was wrong as well, as he should have been in L3 to go straight on

[mph999]

I presuming this chap had crap tyres ... He didn't appear t be going fast and the car behind had no issues ...

https://youtu.be/D-i9xLQ-Y5I

[Blakewater]

carlove said:

Re the Swift vs Van video and debate.

I was driving on a two lane road today, noticed the C Class just ahead but in the left only lane(I was in right lane) put his right indicator on, so I did something unbelievable, I eased off and flashed him in, added about 1 second to my journey, led to no altercation, no childish bunching up, no risk of an accident, just got on with my drive home feeling relaxed.

At this merge point and a few others local to me, the council have tried to combat the issue of people not allowing those in the outside lane to merge by putting the arrows in the inside lane pointing out so those in the outside lane have priority and technically can choose whether or not to allow the self righteous inside lane users to merge out. If you zoom out of Street View to the older Google Earth image you can see the arrows here used to be in the outside lane pointing in.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7403848,-2.48481...

People in the inside lane will still bunch up and maintain the dead ahead stare so no one can merge with their line of traffic.

The only reason these two lane sections of road exist is to get traffic through the junction from two separate directions. At the junction linked to above traffic will queue round the corner from Asda so traffic coming from the bridge on the opposite side has to go into the outside lane, otherwise it's going nowhere when the lights change. Where I had the incident with the Focus guy, there are two lanes so traffic from different directions can all exit the roundabout rather than clog it up.

People will still say those using the outside lane are queue jumping and the junctions are badly designed and should only have one lane to prevent it. They have fragile egos and think everyone is out to get the better of them.

[Alucidnation]

The last time i looked, this was the The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" thread and not somewhere for everyone to try and outdo each other with their superior and knowledge of the rules and regulations of driving/cycling/walking.


If you want to do that, fk off and create your own thread, and leave this one for the subject matter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icopwLTYII4

Edited by Alucidnation on Saturday 1st October 13:37

[ambuletz]

not really cutting up tho is it? its merging into 1 lane, van is infront, stay behind. being on the right doesn't mean you can overtake when you're meant to merge. Does it?

[MWM3]

Alucidnation said:

The last time i looked, this was the The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" thread and not somewhere for everyone to try and outdo each other with their superior and knowledge of the rules and regulations of driving/cycling/walking.


If you want to do that, fk off and create your own thread, and leave this one for the subject matter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icopwLTYII4

Edited by Alucidnation on Saturday 1st October 13:37

The Police car was in the wrong here. Simple fact is the lanes merge and van was always ahead.

[Fore Left]

ambuletz said:

not really cutting up tho is it? its merging into 1 lane, van is infront, stay behind. being on the right doesn't mean you can overtake when you're meant to merge. Does it?

Surely you're supposed to indicate?

[pinchmeimdreamin]

100% police car in the wrong, the van was well in front of him.

What could he pull him for?

[wc98]

mph999 said:

I presuming this chap had crap tyres ... He didn't appear t be going fast and the car behind had no issues ...

https://youtu.be/D-i9xLQ-Y5I

slow puncture ? not checked tyre pressures for a long time ? certainly looked fairly slow to be having any problems.

[Bonefish Blues]

Am in agreement. Incident created by the police.

[Blue Oval84]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

100% police car in the wrong, the van was well in front of him.

What could he pull him for?

To tell him that the bus lane was not in operation and therefore his insistence on forcing a lane change was unnecessary? (based on the video description anyway!)

[Cliftonite]

Blue Oval84 said:

pinchmeimdreamin said:

100% police car in the wrong, the van was well in front of him.

What could he pull him for?

To tell him that the bus lane was not in operation and therefore his insistence on forcing a lane change was unnecessary? (based on the video description anyway!)

There was also one of those pesky cyclists in the way of the van, so van driver could not keep a steady course!

[Stickyfinger]

Cliftonite said:

There was also one of those pesky cyclists in the way of the van, so van driver could not keep a steady course!

because his brakes have failed ? maybe he needs another ticket as well then ?

[heebeegeetee]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

100% police car in the wrong, the van was well in front of him.

What could he pull him for?

Changing lanes without indicating?