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

[C.A.R.]

Muddle238 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.

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.

Agreed - this is crap overtaking by the cam car. You notice this a lot more when driving along with cruise control on - other vehicles unable to maintain a steady speed, problematic when there are more than 2 lanes. They move out, accelerate unnecessarily to complete the overtake sooner, only to match the speed of cars in adjacent lanes, often drawing level and effectively becoming a rolling road block. The cam car in this example was initially happy going along at 50mph - what changed? The opportunity to get onto YouTube presented itself, of course.

[Munter]

C.A.R. said:

The cam car in this example was initially happy going along at 50mph - what changed? The opportunity to get onto YouTube presented itself, of course.

That's balls. He's stuck behind the truck and indicating the whole time he's in lane 1. Then accelerates to 70 as he's pulling into the gap in lane 2. Then tries to block the car in lane 3 from getting back to lane 2, and for that is a plonker, agreed.

But he was never happy at 50.

[Mandat]

EazyDuz said:

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.

Yes, a good driver will take all these things into account, and also won't be hanging around in other people's blind spots.

[C.A.R.]

Munter said:

That's balls. He's stuck behind the truck and indicating the whole time he's in lane 1. Then accelerates to 70 as he's pulling into the gap in lane 2. Then tries to block the car in lane 3 from getting back to lane 2, and for that is a plonker, agreed.

But he was never happy at 50.

Be that as it may - but he's stuck at 50 because of poor forward-planning, it's nobody else's fault he couldn't change lanes in advance of being stuck right up behind a lorry! You see this all the time too, you can spot these tw*ts miles off because you can see their brake lights. You shouldn't need to use brakes on a motorway unless there's a hazard or congestion.

Grinds my gears. Why can't everybody just drive flawlessly like us?!

[budgie smuggler]

Mandat said:

EazyDuz said:

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.

Yes, a good driver will take all these things into account, and also won't be hanging around in other people's blind spots.

Agreed Mandat, but nonetheless the fault is not the dashcammer in this case, it's the person who made the move either without checking their blindspot or knowingly into a stupid gap. And that is regardless of indicators being used or not.

[Engineer792]

C.A.R. said:

Muddle238 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.

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.

Agreed - this is crap overtaking by the cam car. You notice this a lot more when driving along with cruise control on - other vehicles unable to maintain a steady speed, problematic when there are more than 2 lanes. They move out, accelerate unnecessarily to complete the overtake sooner, only to match the speed of cars in adjacent lanes, often drawing level and effectively becoming a rolling road block. The cam car in this example was initially happy going along at 50mph - what changed? The opportunity to get onto YouTube presented itself, of course.

If you had watched the video a bit further back you would have seen the derestriction sign at the end of the roadworks. He was speeding up steadily from the roadworks 50mph limit, as was everyone else with the exception of the lorry in L1.
So, still accelerating, he pulled into L2 to pass the lorry, and as he was just coming up to his target speed of 69mph, the woman passed him and switched her indicator on.
He did not speed up any more from that point, and, for him to have made space for her to pull in at that point would have meant he would have had to slow down pretty sharpish - which was rather unreasonable for the woman to have expected him to do.
Bear in mind that she would also have been accelerating out of the 50mph limit, and so she would have had ample opportunity to slot in behind him.

ETA: Watching the rest of the video, she just happily continued on in L2 until the end, and with apparently nobody behind in L3 wanting to pass, I can't see why she was seemingly so hell-bent on changing lanes when she did.

Edited by Engineer792 on Tuesday 21st March 14:04

[Mandat]

budgie smuggler said:

Agreed Mandat, but nonetheless the fault is not the dashcammer in this case, it's the person who made the move either without checking their blindspot or knowingly into a stupid gap. And that is regardless of indicators being used or not.

Quite right. The DCW won't necessarily be at fault if a collision occurs, however that does not mean that he then cannot be legitimately criticised for not driving defensively in the first place.

Edited by Mandat on Tuesday 21st March 21:09

[liner33]

The new Dash Cams Owners Australia one in case anyone has missed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCwqm6cHubs

[LarJammer]

I don't normally bother uploading vids but this motorbiker seemed to overreact somewhat...

https://youtu.be/gER-8BVPQuI?t=40s

[GTIAlex]

liner33 said:

The new Dash Cams Owners Australia one in case anyone has missed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCwqm6cHubs

New in 2014 perhaps.

[Momentofmadness]

LarJammer said:

I don't normally bother uploading vids but this motorbiker seemed to overreact somewhat...

https://youtu.be/gER-8BVPQuI?t=40s

Gives a beep and a dismissive wave?

Hi-vis and hazards flashing when filtering does make him a bid of a throbber though

[poing]

mp3manager said:

Nicked from elsewhere.

https://youtu.be/1HX1kf2baP4

So the truck driver being overtaken had time to lean on the horn but didn't manage to lose even a single mph in speed? The car driver was an idiot but that's hardly an excuse.

[Vipers]

poing said:

mp3manager said:

Nicked from elsewhere.

https://youtu.be/1HX1kf2baP4

So the truck driver being overtaken had time to lean on the horn but didn't manage to lose even a single mph in speed? The car driver was an idiot but that's hardly an excuse.

Must have a death wish, idiot of the highest magnitude.

[Engineer792]

poing said:

mp3manager said:

Nicked from elsewhere.

https://youtu.be/1HX1kf2baP4

So the truck driver being overtaken had time to lean on the horn but didn't manage to lose even a single mph in speed? The car driver was an idiot but that's hardly an excuse.

So just how much speed do you think a truck can lose in a second or two, and how much of a difference do you think that would have made?

[poing]

Engineer792 said:

poing said:

mp3manager said:

Nicked from elsewhere.

https://youtu.be/1HX1kf2baP4

So the truck driver being overtaken had time to lean on the horn but didn't manage to lose even a single mph in speed? The car driver was an idiot but that's hardly an excuse.

So just how much speed do you think a truck can lose in a second or two, and how much of a difference do you think that would have made?

You're right, he should just keep going to prove a point and not worry about the human life.

[EazyDuz]

poing said:

So the truck driver being overtaken had time to lean on the horn but didn't manage to lose even a single mph in speed? The car driver was an idiot but that's hardly an excuse.

Good troll job. If you're serious, do you really think the average truck driver has enough mental capacity to manage two tasks at once?

[mac96]

poing said:

Engineer792 said:

poing said:

mp3manager said:

Nicked from elsewhere.

https://youtu.be/1HX1kf2baP4

So the truck driver being overtaken had time to lean on the horn but didn't manage to lose even a single mph in speed? The car driver was an idiot but that's hardly an excuse.

So just how much speed do you think a truck can lose in a second or two, and how much of a difference do you think that would have made?

You're right, he should just keep going to prove a point and not worry about the human life.

Truck also doe not seem to move to the left at all. Not much room, but a few inches and 1mph might have been the difference between life and death. Not just the car driver's life- might be kids in the back, and the other truck might have gone on to hit other traffic if it had a head on with the car.
I am not blaming truck driver- he had little time to think-but he could have responded better. A lesson!

[poing]

EazyDuz said:

poing said:

So the truck driver being overtaken had time to lean on the horn but didn't manage to lose even a single mph in speed? The car driver was an idiot but that's hardly an excuse.

Good troll job. If you're serious, do you really think the average truck driver has enough mental capacity to manage two tasks at once?

The average truck driver is a far better driver than the average car driver in my experience.

[Vipers]

poing said:

EazyDuz said:

poing said:

So the truck driver being overtaken had time to lean on the horn but didn't manage to lose even a single mph in speed? The car driver was an idiot but that's hardly an excuse.

Good troll job. If you're serious, do you really think the average truck driver has enough mental capacity to manage two tasks at once?

The average truck driver is a far better driver than the average car driver in my experience.

Car driver has absolutely no idea of the significance of the white hashed lines, imagine the carnage if he had been a few millimetres closer to that truck.

[Blakewater]

Not sure if this guy was deliberately messing with the lorry driver or if he just moved in for something coming up fast behind and lost power, maybe on an incline.

People forget the limitations cars had over thirty years ago.

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