Nasty situation - not easy to avoid?

[Otispunkmeyer]

TooMany2cvs said:

Vyse said:

Remember this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-0E2Nxtm6o

Jesus. Wept.

Chuffing Nora.... Vid says she survived as well and recovered ok! I hope she spent every last one of her pounds on lotto tickets after that!

[HustleRussell]

Otispunkmeyer said:

TooMany2cvs said:

Vyse said:

Remember this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-0E2Nxtm6o

Jesus. Wept.

Chuffing Nora.... Vid says she survived as well and recovered ok! I hope she spent every last one of her pounds on lotto tickets after that!

Euros. Typical Belgian driving standards IME.

[havoc]

Leins said:

EazyDuz said:

But how can the cam car driver see well enough through the Skoda to see the slowing traffic in front of it? You can't see it in the video, in fact the rear window has quite a big reflection of the sky on it, so you wouldn't see and therefore anticipate the slowed traffic in front of the Skoda.

The Skoda has moved slightly to the left a while before it reacts, so the driver of the camera car should have been able to see further up the road by positioning himself slightly to the righthand side of lane 3. In fact, presuming the camera itself is attached in the centre of the car (in line with the rear-view mirror), I think they were ideally placed to see further up the road

If they couldn't see past the Skoda then they were too close IMO. It's why I don't particularly like sitting behind tall and wide vehicles like vans or SUVs, so tend to drop back further to allow for a lack of visibility

This.

In the video, the Dashcam guy bears most of the responsibility...really not sure how he didn't see this, not like he was behind a van or he was in a Caterham...


It does seem to be getting worse on the roads - I was travelling back up the M40 last night (usually a comparatively-well-behaved M-way for driving standards, vs M25/M6/M42/M1), and leaving a sensible gap in Lane-3* in twilight / dark conditions was difficult.
- 3 times I was undertaken - twice they did me and the car in front, cutting into the VERY small gap that the car in front was leaving. The other one undertook me then had to brake immediately as everyone in front was slowing down - I'd seen it hence the gap I was leaving, muppet in the nearly-new Audi A4 hadn't...
- Then there was the Disco driver who was clearly the self-appointed police, sitting in Lane-3 for far too long with nothing in front of him and ignoring flashed lights from behind (If I'd been younger and on my own I may have undertaken him...too big a risk now)
- ...and there were far too many people who just seemed fixated on the car in front and found themselves repeatedly braking as the traffic ebbed-and-flowed (Disco driver was doing this too - being stuck for too long behind a moron in a large/wide car who isn't paying any attention is not pleasant or relaxing)




* I wanted to travel faster than the cars in front - moving into the occasionally-vacant lane-2 would have just seen multiple people behind me close up the gap.

[The Mad Monk]

havoc said:

* I wanted to travel faster than the cars in front - moving into the occasionally-vacant lane-2 would have just seen multiple people behind me close up the gap.

I don't doubt that the cars in front wanted to travel faster than the cars in front of them..... and so on.

[havoc]

The Mad Monk said:

havoc said:

* I wanted to travel faster than the cars in front - moving into the occasionally-vacant lane-2 would have just seen multiple people behind me close up the gap.

I don't doubt that the cars in front wanted to travel faster than the cars in front of them..... and so on.

Me either...which is why I was waiting, unlike the impatient idiots keen on causing accidents.