The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread Vol 3

[Robatr0n]

ashleyman said:

Robatr0n said:

ashleyman said:

Robatr0n said:

FredAstaire said:

xjay1337 said:

That mini in the first clip.

ffs.

Yeah, I'd be pissed off if an Amber gambler crashed into the back of me too.

Yeah he did make a gamble but if you were the mini would stop where you're not suppose to stop?

Put some glasses on and watch the clip again. There was no stop line, he stopped at the repeater lights. Assuming there was no accident, the traffic to the right wouldn't have been able to turn right thanks to that tit stopping where he wasn't suppose to.

Just a badly designed junction. There's one close to me that's similar. I always thought it was a repeater set for the traffic going straight but because there is a stop line it applies to traffic joining too. I got caught out a few weeks back when a van stopped for the red and I almost didn't. Now I'm paranoid about it because for the last 4 years I've been driving through what is technically a red light.

Come out of here and turn right: https://goo.gl/maps/tWaWRWKiRto

I understand where you're coming from but watch the clip again. There's no stop line where the Mini stopped. I wouldn't have stopped there and would have been correct not to have.

I know and mentioned that in the latter half of my post which you didn't quote. I wouldn't have stopped either but as there's junctions where the lights ARE a hard stop with a line and everything, it's understandable he might have been confused.

I didn't selectively quote anything. Have a read back up there ^.

It's pretty simple. Some junctions are confusing but this isn't. As I'd sure 99% of people would agree, you'd have to be a complete moron to stop there.

Would I have accelerated through an amber light? No.

Edit - You clearly edited your post after I quoted it. I didn't delete a thing. Just bad timing.

[danllama]

There's really some dense people on PH sometimes.

It's not bloody hard. If there is slow traffic on a slip road leaving or joining a flowing motorway, its better, if possible, so stay in lane 2, to avoid conflict and allow traffic to join, unexpectedly or not.

That is universal advice, that would have served the DS driver well.

[Cliftonite]

ashleyman said:

Just a badly designed junction. There's one close to me that's similar. I always thought it was a repeater set for the traffic going straight but because there is a stop line it applies to traffic joining too. I got caught out a few weeks back when a van stopped for the red and I almost didn't. Now I'm paranoid about it because for the last 4 years I've been driving through what is technically a red light.

Come out of here and turn right: https://goo.gl/maps/tWaWRWKiRto

It quite clearly IS a light that should be stopped at if red! It controls the pedestrian crossing. Seems you (and any nearby pedestrians) have been very lucky to get through the past four years unscathed!

[ashleyman]

Cliftonite said:

ashleyman said:

Just a badly designed junction. There's one close to me that's similar. I always thought it was a repeater set for the traffic going straight but because there is a stop line it applies to traffic joining too. I got caught out a few weeks back when a van stopped for the red and I almost didn't. Now I'm paranoid about it because for the last 4 years I've been driving through what is technically a red light.

Come out of here and turn right: https://goo.gl/maps/tWaWRWKiRto

It quite clearly IS a light that should be stopped at if red! It controls the pedestrian crossing. Seems you (and any nearby pedestrians) have been very lucky to get through the past four years unscathed!

Yes, I have been extremely lucky, but it also makes me empathise with the Mini driver in the clip being discussed.

[FredAstaire]

Robatr0n said:

Yeah he did make a gamble but if you were the mini would you stop where you're not suppose to stop?

Put some glasses on and watch the clip again. There was no stop line, he stopped at the repeater lights. Assuming there was no accident, the traffic to the right wouldn't have been able to turn right thanks to that tit stopping where he wasn't suppose to.

I wouldn't stop where the the mini did. I wouldn't go through on amber like the camera car did. And I would be looking forwards, like the camera car obviously wasnt.

[lord trumpton]

Has anyone noticed the pedestrian at the lights waiting to cross?

Mini goes through 1st set on green

Pedestrian presses crossing button and both sets change to amber

Mini sees pedestrian waiting and also lights go to amber

Camera car goes through amber 1st set

Mini stops for red light

Camera car crashes into Mini

It's the camera cars' fault - no question. People are blaming the mini because they didn't jump the light?

[blueg33]

danllama said:

There's really some dense people on PH sometimes.

It's not bloody hard. If there is slow traffic on a slip road leaving or joining a flowing motorway, its better, if possible, so stay in lane 2, to avoid conflict and allow traffic to join, unexpectedly or not.

That is universal advice, that would have served the DS driver well.

If lane 1 is clear and the ds had a faster vehicle behind the HWC makes it clear that the ds should move across.

I think DS was moving over into a clear lane 1 so as not to hog the middle lane.

Totally the z4 at fault.

[Hoink]

lord trumpton said:

Has anyone noticed the pedestrian at the lights waiting to cross?

Mini goes through 1st set on green

Pedestrian presses crossing button and both sets change to amber

Mini sees pedestrian waiting and also lights go to amber

Camera car goes through amber 1st set

Mini stops for red light

Camera car crashes into Mini

It's the camera cars' fault - no question. People are blaming the mini because they didn't jump the light?

I might be due a parrot...but what red light? The red light is for the right filter/turn.

Cam car should have stopped in time though. It sounds like he is on the phone so might not have been paying attention.

[Munter]

danllama said:

There's really some dense people on PH sometimes.

It's not bloody hard. If there is slow traffic on a slip road leaving or joining a flowing motorway, its better, if possible, so stay in lane 2, to avoid conflict and allow traffic to join, unexpectedly or not.

That is universal advice, that would have served the DS driver well.

The DS drive should have occupied the same physical space as the white van in lane 2. In order to avoid potentially colliding with someone who might or might not pull out of the queue.

Cracking idea. You try that and let us know how it go's.

[Cliftonite]

lord trumpton said:

Has anyone noticed the pedestrian at the lights waiting to cross?

Mini goes through 1st set on green

Pedestrian presses crossing button and both sets change to amber

Mini sees pedestrian waiting and also lights go to amber

Camera car goes through amber 1st set
8
Mini stops for red light

Camera car crashes into Mini

It's the camera cars' fault - no question. People are blaming the mini because they didn't jump the light?

The Mini stopped at a red light REPEATER. He should not have done that.

[mickmcpaddy]

gowmonster said:

new uk dash cams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S70gK4H-zQM

I honestly dont get how people cant tell the difference between those that are genuinely lost or just need to get on with their day and those that are absolute wkers.

Now I hate busses as much as the next person but I also understand that they dont have lightning acceleration and cant wait there all day, sometimes they just need to pull out, same for lorries. Its pointless beeping them, you just look like a tt. Similarly with a van, if you dont have a passenger with you its almost impossible to see what is coming from the left if the view is behind you, so you pull out gingerly hoping someone will cut you some slack, alas its usually a self obsessed wker you meet.

Its the wkers on the road you meet that deseve to be punted off or given a good kicking, take the grey Audi in the last clip, there is no way on earth I would have let him back into the queue, the van driver should have forced him to reverse all the way back to the beginning.

[Engineer792]

Munter said:

danllama said:

There's really some dense people on PH sometimes.

It's not bloody hard. If there is slow traffic on a slip road leaving or joining a flowing motorway, its better, if possible, so stay in lane 2, to avoid conflict and allow traffic to join, unexpectedly or not.

That is universal advice, that would have served the DS driver well.

The DS drive should have occupied the same physical space as the white van in lane 2. In order to avoid potentially colliding with someone who might or might not pull out of the queue.

Cracking idea. You try that and let us know how it go's.

Had the DS driver been occupying said physical space than the white van would not have been, would he?

[AndyDubbya]

Engineer792 said:

Munter said:

danllama said:

There's really some dense people on PH sometimes.

It's not bloody hard. If there is slow traffic on a slip road leaving or joining a flowing motorway, its better, if possible, so stay in lane 2, to avoid conflict and allow traffic to join, unexpectedly or not.

That is universal advice, that would have served the DS driver well.

The DS drive should have occupied the same physical space as the white van in lane 2. In order to avoid potentially colliding with someone who might or might not pull out of the queue.

Cracking idea. You try that and let us know how it go's.

Had the DS driver been occupying said physical space than the white van would not have been, would he?

The DS is going faster than the van - looks to me like he pulled in from L2 to L1 to pass on the van's nearside, between it & the queue on the slip road. Unwise in the extreme.

[Engineer792]

AndyDubbya said:

Engineer792 said:

Munter said:

danllama said:

There's really some dense people on PH sometimes.

It's not bloody hard. If there is slow traffic on a slip road leaving or joining a flowing motorway, its better, if possible, so stay in lane 2, to avoid conflict and allow traffic to join, unexpectedly or not.

That is universal advice, that would have served the DS driver well.

The DS drive should have occupied the same physical space as the white van in lane 2. In order to avoid potentially colliding with someone who might or might not pull out of the queue.

Cracking idea. You try that and let us know how it go's.

Had the DS driver been occupying said physical space than the white van would not have been, would he?

The DS is going faster than the van - looks to me like he pulled in from L2 to L1 to pass on the van's nearside, between it & the queue on the slip road. Unwise in the extreme.

My bad, I was under the misapprehension that the DS was moving from L1 to L2.

However, had it just stayed in L2 behind the van then it still would not have been "occupying the same physical space"

[Blakewater]

Bit of an idiot move from this BMW driver, though we can't see behind to see how close he was and how clear his intentions to pass were when the camera car driver decided to go straight out to the outside lane.

http://www.carscoops.com/2017/02/bmw-m6-scares-bej...

[xjay1337]

Hoink said:

I might be due a parrot...but what red light? The red light is for the right filter/turn.

Cam car should have stopped in time though. It sounds like he is on the phone so might not have been paying attention.

Id agree with that.

[Mr2Mike]

Cliftonite said:

The Mini stopped at a red light REPEATER. He should not have done that.

Correct, and neither should cam car have accelerated to attempt to get through an amber. Yet another meeting of two cocks.

Edit: On second view the mini actually stopped for someone at a pedestrian crossing with lights at red, even though the same lights are also repeaters. He also didn't stop inside the inside the yellow hatched area, so seems like a legitimate stop.

Edited by Mr2Mike on Sunday 19th February 17:05

[Rich_W]

Mr2Mike said:

Cliftonite said:

The Mini stopped at a red light REPEATER. He should not have done that.

Correct, and neither should cam car have accelerated to attempt to get through an amber. Yet another meeting of two cocks.

Edit: On second view the mini actually stopped for someone at a pedestrian crossing with lights at red, even though the same lights are also repeaters. He also didn't stop inside the inside the yellow hatched area, so seems like a legitimate stop.

Edited by Mr2Mike on Sunday 19th February 17:05

There's no solid white line by the repeater lights. Therefore it's not a stop point.

I was stuck behind some a few weeks back who stopped at a repeater light for no fking reason! Didn't crash into the back of them like matey did though. We sat there for a complete multi junction cycle of light changes. And of course we were blocking a lighted exit from a car park because they were thick!

Useless fk!

[danllama]

Munter said:

danllama said:

There's really some dense people on PH sometimes.

It's not bloody hard. If there is slow traffic on a slip road leaving or joining a flowing motorway, its better, if possible, so stay in lane 2, to avoid conflict and allow traffic to join, unexpectedly or not.

That is universal advice, that would have served the DS driver well.

The DS drive should have occupied the same physical space as the white van in lane 2. In order to avoid potentially colliding with someone who might or might not pull out of the queue.

Cracking idea. You try that and let us know how it go's.

Yes, you're right, it was a much better idea to undertake and collide with a queue dodger!

[surveyor]

Rich_W said:

Mr2Mike said:

Cliftonite said:

The Mini stopped at a red light REPEATER. He should not have done that.

Correct, and neither should cam car have accelerated to attempt to get through an amber. Yet another meeting of two cocks.

Edit: On second view the mini actually stopped for someone at a pedestrian crossing with lights at red, even though the same lights are also repeaters. He also didn't stop inside the inside the yellow hatched area, so seems like a legitimate stop.

Edited by Mr2Mike on Sunday 19th February 17:05

There's no solid white line by the repeater lights. Therefore it's not a stop point.

I was stuck behind some a few weeks back who stopped at a repeater light for no fking reason! Didn't crash into the back of them like matey did though. We sat there for a complete multi junction cycle of light changes. And of course we were blocking a lighted exit from a car park because they were thick!

Useless fk!

This happened to me in Cheltenham - I was stranded behind the pillock for 2 light changes, blocking one of the busies junctions in the town. I was not popular - he was less popular....