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

[carreauchompeur]

Dangerous overtake? Not in the slightest!

Doesn't excuse the utterly manic actions after then, but did they really need to flash him? Nyet.

[SmoothCriminal]

Munter said:

The Friday escape from Taunton:

I pretty much though this was going to result in a collision. Avensis driver could possibly do with looking before entering roundabouts:
https://youtu.be/AoBEV2b2RTU

What an absolute .

Looked like the van driver stopped hope he gave the driver some choice words.

[JamesRF]

Wish I had a camera fitted to my car after last nights incident on the M25.

Coming out of the Dartford tunnel around 7pm, busy traffic in the average 50 zone. I'm in lane 3 with a Mercedes G Wagon AMG right up behind me, couldn't move over as middle lane is chocker and I'm still passing vehicles doing around 57/58 but this idiot is literally trying to push me out the way. Give him the flash of the hazards hoping he would back off but that just enraged him even more, flashing his headlights constantly and swerving around behind me.

Another 30-40 seconds pass and a gap opens up in the middle lane so I indicate and start to move across. Well he decides to go between me and the other car up the inside and cutting back in front of me just missing my front bumper, then stamps on the brakes almost sending me in to the back of him. He then takes off with a C class he's in convoy with. Both on foreign plates and what I think looked matt black wraps with some gold writing on them saying 'Rally'.

Hopefully they head back to wherever they came from soon as their driving is utterly ridiculous.

[Jonmx]

carreauchompeur said:

Dangerous overtake? Not in the slightest!

Doesn't excuse the utterly manic actions after then, but did they really need to flash him? Nyet.

Not sure it's the best overtake in the world, given the weather conditions and on the approach to a junction, but agreed, the flash was unnecessary. It seems to be the way of the world these days though, flashing, hooting and waving at perfectly legal overtakes.
Shame it's so hard to see the driver in that footage, but you'd think the driver in the cam car would have got enough of a view to give a description. Though he may well be the archetypal DCW who's a hero behind the wheel, but shakes like a stting dog at the potential for a real world interaction causing his memory to go to pot.

[Alucidnation]

zedx19 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM_Ac_Ee-v0

Some superb driving on the way up to the van near miss...

Have you passed that on to his employer?

[Drive Blind]

andy118run said:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/education/dash_cam_foo...

One that popped up in my local paper today.
Direct youtube link here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUo76zT84_I

It must be only part of the story, something obviously went on before the clip begins. The cam car flashes the over taker. Don't know if this is what annoys him.
But what follows is pretty crazy. Not sure how the CPS can believe there is not enough evidence to bring a charge.

there was nothing wrong with the overtake but DCW just couldn't help himself could he?

I'm not excusing the Focus driver in any way but it just goes to show what happens when you cross paths with a nutter.

[Crafty_]

ashleyman said:

Not quite sure what happened before this but I'm lost for words. SO dangerous.

Lorry road rage on M25

https://youtu.be/pwqf6Y84HPg

Both should lose their licence for that, pissing about with a fuel tanker is utterly stupid.

[TheTrash]

Drive Blind said:

there was nothing wrong with the overtake but DCW just couldn't help himself could he?

I'm not excusing the Focus driver in any way but it just goes to show what happens when you cross paths with a nutter.

In the article it states there was some confusion at the previous roundabout. Confusion

[Matt-il77s]

problemchild1976 said:

Call the police.....

its not an insurance thing its leaving the scene of an accident!

please call them!

my friends wife did similar in a car park and panicked and drove off....cctv used and she was up in front of the judge!

she won't be leaving the scene again

JJ

Same thing happened to the pool car at work, it was actually someone else's dashcam that caught it and they sent it to us. They ended up getting a knock on the door from the police.

[acer12]

Mandat said:

mac96 said:

andy118run said:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/education/dash_cam_foo...

One that popped up in my local paper today.
Direct youtube link here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUo76zT84_I

It must be only part of the story, something obviously went on before the clip begins. The cam car flashes the over taker. Don't know if this is what annoys him.
But what follows is pretty crazy. Not sure how the CPS can believe there is not enough evidence to bring a charge.

That was scary. Still, the lesson is clear- don't hoot/flash for no reason. Especially if you already think the target has just done something which makes them a nutter.
And, in that clip, the original overtake didn't look THAT bad anyway. A bit close admittedly.

Quite. The road rage was initiated by the DCW with his flashing of headlights. The problem with road rage is that there is always a risk of coming across a bigger nutter than yourself, where matters then easily escalate, as in this example.

According to the article it all kicked off earlier where there was "confusion" at a roundabout, as DCW has selectively edited this out he may not be the daddy hero he is protraying himself to be.

Not condoning the action of the other driver, it's just DCWs editing clips that annoys me

[poing]

andy118run said:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/education/dash_cam_foo...

One that popped up in my local paper today.
Direct youtube link here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUo76zT84_I

It must be only part of the story, something obviously went on before the clip begins. The cam car flashes the over taker. Don't know if this is what annoys him.
But what follows is pretty crazy. Not sure how the CPS can believe there is not enough evidence to bring a charge.

Having lived there for a while I'm going to use an acronym doctors are fond of and just call it NFN.

[EazyDuz]

TheTrash said:

In the article it states there was some confusion at the previous roundabout. Confusion

Does no one else find it weird that for the entire 2 minutes the focus driver had stopped, his head remains completely still.
No looking into the mirrors, no turning around, pointing and swearing. Just sat there like a statue.
Obvious nutter is obvious.

[mp3manager]

Nicked from elsewhere.

https://youtu.be/1HX1kf2baP4

[anonymous-user]

poing said:

Having lived there for a while I'm going to use an acronym doctors are fond of and just call it NFN.

whatever happened to prove a point he smashes up his own car...

[Discopotatoes]

Cliftonite said:

John145 said:

imdeman87 said:

Idiot Woman M62 Dash Cam UK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juIQ8aDKw6Y

DCW at fault, clear left indication, hanging around in blind spot. Obvious conclusion is obvious.

Do not overlook the DCW increasing speed while being overtaken!

You lot must be on drugs if you think that was the van drivers fault, he was over taking the lorry then gaining on the car in front of the lorry, not hanging around in a blindspot FFS, its the overtaking cars fault for changing lanes when it wasn't clear,too many idiots on the road think that an indicator is a god given right to move over, its an indication of intent and should only be used when there is a clear space to do so.

[Dave Hedgehog]

Discopotatoes said:

Cliftonite said:

John145 said:

imdeman87 said:

Idiot Woman M62 Dash Cam UK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juIQ8aDKw6Y

DCW at fault, clear left indication, hanging around in blind spot. Obvious conclusion is obvious.

Do not overlook the DCW increasing speed while being overtaken!

You lot must be on drugs if you think that was the van drivers fault, he was over taking the lorry then gaining on the car in front of the lorry, not hanging around in a blindspot FFS, its the overtaking cars fault for changing lanes when it wasn't clear,too many idiots on the road think that an indicator is a god given right to move over, its an indication of intent and should only be used when there is a clear space to do so.

a good driver would see the indication and allow for the other driving being a twonk and back off to give room to prevent any issue

a self entitled knobber would defend his righteous space and then rant about the other driver

[Discopotatoes]

Dave Hedgehog said:

Discopotatoes said:

Cliftonite said:

John145 said:

imdeman87 said:

Idiot Woman M62 Dash Cam UK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juIQ8aDKw6Y

DCW at fault, clear left indication, hanging around in blind spot. Obvious conclusion is obvious.

Do not overlook the DCW increasing speed while being overtaken!

You lot must be on drugs if you think that was the van drivers fault, he was over taking the lorry then gaining on the car in front of the lorry, not hanging around in a blindspot FFS, its the overtaking cars fault for changing lanes when it wasn't clear,too many idiots on the road think that an indicator is a god given right to move over, its an indication of intent and should only be used when there is a clear space to do so.

a good driver would see the indication and allow for the other driving being a twonk and back off to give room to prevent any issue

a self entitled knobber would defend his righteous space and then rant about the other driver

but how do we know he saw the indicator, it may have been block by his A pillar,

[EazyDuz]

Discopotatoes said:

but how do we know he saw the indicator, it may have been block by his A pillar,

In that case its the DCW's fault for terrible observations.
One should always have view of other near by vehicles indicator lights.

[Big Rod]

mp3manager said:

Nicked from elsewhere.

https://youtu.be/1HX1kf2baP4

That bit of road is less than a mile away from where I live. The road has ample stretches offering excellent overtaking opportunities so why that bellend thought that particular move was a good idea is beyond me.

Saying that, the vast majority of accidents on that road are caused by misjudged overtakes, perhaps the landscape draws motorists into a false sense of security or encourages impatience.

Many accidents on that road also close it causing heavy traffic through the historic villages along the coast causing them to get snarled up.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.0646574,-3.61247...

[Muddle238]

Discopotatoes said:

Cliftonite said:

John145 said:

imdeman87 said:

Idiot Woman M62 Dash Cam UK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juIQ8aDKw6Y

DCW at fault, clear left indication, hanging around in blind spot. Obvious conclusion is obvious.

Do not overlook the DCW increasing speed while being overtaken!

You lot must be on drugs if you think that was the van drivers fault, he was over taking the lorry then gaining on the car in front of the lorry, not hanging around in a blindspot FFS, its the overtaking cars fault for changing lanes when it wasn't clear,too many idiots on the road think that an indicator is a god given right to move over, its an indication of intent and should only be used when there is a clear space to do so.

I reckon the van driver is being a bit of a throbber here, intentional or not. Initially he's at 50mph in L1, when he pulls out to L2 as the Fiesta passes him, he's accelerating through 62mph. He continues to accelerate up to 70mph, by doing so happens to maintain a fixed position in the blind spot of the Fiesta, whereby also blocking the Fiesta in L3. Fiesta wants to move across but the van driver decides not to facilitate other road users.

This is a bug bear of mine, if I'm in L3 overtaking slower traffic in L2 due to a pair of HGVs overtaking, you can guarantee as soon as the HGV pulls in, the throbbers in L2 will floor it, blocking you in the outside lane. Yes I could put my foot down and blast past the lot, but it's not always possible with a vehicle in front.