The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Dashcam" Thread

[Bennet]

Stickyfinger said:

wibblebrain said:

Seems to me that this is another case of you entering into protracted pointless repetitive arguments. If you want a full half hour discussion why not get each other's phone number and do it in private instead of cluttering up this thread and subjecting us all to your childish arguing.

Forum = Discussion
Discussion = Points of difference/agreement discussed

feck off = don't read it them = click your mouse

To be fair, the logic "It might be antisocial but technically I'm allowed to do this, so fk everyone else" is quite pertinent to the thread.

[qube_TA]

the importance of checking mirrors when overtaking:

http://gfycat.com/SlipperySimplisticIraniangroundj...

[Stickyfinger]

Bennet said:

To be fair, the logic "It might be antisocial but technically I'm allowed to do this, so fk everyone else" is quite pertinent to the thread.

WTF ? Anti social ? give me a break you over hyped twit, like we prevented you discussing anything....click next and stop trying to be the forum police.

[ORD]

Stickyfinger said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAucK7Rox4g

Ouch...saved by a truck driver

Am I the only thinking that the truck driver drove pretty badly until the moment of impact? He left the car no room at all at the transition point, did not brake when he saw it was weaving a bit, and just hung around alongside it...perfectly placed for an accident.

[Stickyfinger]

ORD said:

Am I the only thinking that the truck driver drove pretty badly until the moment of impact? He left the car no room at all at the transition point, did not brake when he saw it was weaving a bit, and just hung around alongside it...perfectly placed for an accident.

On review, he does not seem to of made much room, ? but did he see as much as the dash cam did if he was watching the road ahead ?

[ORD]

Stickyfinger said:

On review, he does not seem to of made much room, ? but did he see as much as the dash cam did if he was watching the road ahead ?

Fair point. Nonetheless, I learned pretty young that hanging out alongside another car, especially at transition points, is not a sensible way to drive. An experience lorry driver should, in my view, have taken steps to minimise the risk of a collision there.

There is far too much of a "Not my fault" attitude among dashcammers. Amazing that this clip is used as an example of excellent driving! I would have thought that not ploughing into a car would be the starting point...

[Stickyfinger]

ORD said:

Fair point. Nonetheless, I learned pretty young that hanging out alongside another car, especially at transition points, is not a sensible way to drive. An experience lorry driver should, in my view, have taken steps to minimise the risk of a collision there.

There is far too much of a "Not my fault" attitude among dashcammers. Amazing that this clip is used as an example of excellent driving! I would have thought that not ploughing into a car would be the starting point...

Yep

[wibblebrain]

Stickyfinger said:

wibblebrain said:

Seems to me that this is another case of you entering into protracted pointless repetitive arguments. If you want a full half hour discussion why not get each other's phone number and do it in private instead of cluttering up this thread and subjecting us all to your childish arguing.

Forum = Discussion
Discussion = Points of difference/agreement discussed

feck off = don't read it them = click your mouse

Discuss by all means, but please don't engage in endless circular arguing that consumes a big proportion of the thread and goes on and on and on and on until most of us are sick of wading through the posts in search of one that is actually interesting and actually on topic.

As I said it's OK to discuss the point to a certain degree but if you want to debate something endlessly it makes sense to take that somewhere else.

[heebeegeetee]

Bennet said:

wibblebrain said:

heebeegeetee said:

Stickyfinger said:

Your ability to ignore cause and effect is astonishing even when admitting it impacts on your attention when driving as well.
Statistically you are 100% wrong.

I will ignore the blame them for all comment because that is bks and inserted to gain some bks reaction.

The cause is his bad driving. The effect is his running into the car in front.

The cause of his bad driving is debatable and irrelevant, but if you think the cause is the cyclist, what caused the cyclist to shout at him, if not his bad driving?

Seems to me that this is another case of you entering into protracted pointless repetitive arguments. If you want a full half hour discussion why not get each other's phone number and do it in private instead of cluttering up this thread and subjecting us all to your childish arguing.

Agreed. Post your opinion once if you really have to, then shut the fk up.

Bloody hell. Those are days-old posts that you've had to quote, to accuse of prolonging an argument and even go to the trouble of posting an ancient cartoon.

[heebeegeetee]

ORD said:

Am I the only thinking that the truck driver drove pretty badly until the moment of impact? He left the car no room at all at the transition point, did not brake when he saw it was weaving a bit, and just hung around alongside it...perfectly placed for an accident.

It can look like that from the viewpoint of watching it on a film and having your attention drawn to the one particular car doing one particular thing.

It is completely different in the actual event of course, when you have to watch everything else going on. When you say "did not brake when he saw it was weaving a bit" we don't know that the driver did see it weaving a bit. We saw it because we're told to, and of course we aren't monitoring mirrors or watching what's going on ahead etc etc.

Watching something in replay is entirely different from being there at the time.

[warp9]

NoNeed said:

zedx19 said:

"Idiot in a Mercedes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKTQ4QFxcpE&fe...

Again not me, just found on Reddit this morning.

He or she needs to be removed from the roads before real harm is done.

I know that bit of road quite well. I'm pretty sure that the right lane that the Merc is originally in, suddenly changes to a right turn which is really easy to get caught out on, so can sort of understand why he dives into the middle lane. What you don't see in the footage as it then jumps about a mile up the road, is what happens between the Merc suddenly swapping lanes and then when he starts braking and swerving.

I'd be willing to bet there was an exchange between the two drivers for the Merc to act like that. While I don't condone their behaviour, I rather think there is more to this story than meets the eye.

[Stickyfinger]

heebeegeetee said:

Bloody hell. Those are days-old posts that you've had to quote, to accuse of prolonging an argument and even go to the trouble of posting an ancient cartoon.

LOL....Heebee....we do agree

[saaby93]

ORD said:

Stickyfinger said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAucK7Rox4g

Ouch...saved by a truck driver

Am I the only thinking that the truck driver drove pretty badly until the moment of impact? He left the car no room at all at the transition point, did not brake when he saw it was weaving a bit, and just hung around alongside it...perfectly placed for an accident.

The car only did the same as the car and trailer in front
It may not be obvious to the unitiated what youre supposed to do there

[Blue Oval84]

saaby93 said:

ORD said:

Stickyfinger said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAucK7Rox4g

Ouch...saved by a truck driver

Am I the only thinking that the truck driver drove pretty badly until the moment of impact? He left the car no room at all at the transition point, did not brake when he saw it was weaving a bit, and just hung around alongside it...perfectly placed for an accident.

The car only did the same as the car and trailer in front
It may not be obvious to the unitiated what youre supposed to do there

Whether or not the lorry could have done more to avoid that, the fact is that the car swerved across a lane marker into L2 and swiped the lorry. How the fk could they not tell that was going to happen? Why would you just allow your car to swipe into the side of a chuffing great lorry?

The fact that a lorry was overtaking them tells me a lot about their level of competence on a motorway.

[Pete317]

Blue Oval84 said:

The fact that a lorry was overtaking them tells me a lot about their level of competence on a motorway.

There was a 50mph limit in force there, complete with average speed cameras

Edited by Pete317 on Thursday 27th August 16:55

[wibblebrain]

Blue Oval84 said:

How the fk could they not tell that was going to happen? Why would you just allow your car to swipe into the side of a chuffing great lorry?

The lorry was probably in the blind spot of the driver's door mirror.

[Mr GrimNasty]

warp9 said:

NoNeed said:

zedx19 said:

"Idiot in a Mercedes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKTQ4QFxcpE&fe...

Again not me, just found on Reddit this morning.

He or she needs to be removed from the roads before real harm is done.

I know that bit of road quite well. I'm pretty sure that the right lane that the Merc is originally in, suddenly changes to a right turn which is really easy to get caught out on, so can sort of understand why he dives into the middle lane. What you don't see in the footage as it then jumps about a mile up the road, is what happens between the Merc suddenly swapping lanes and then when he starts braking and swerving.

I'd be willing to bet there was an exchange between the two drivers for the Merc to act like that. While I don't condone their behaviour, I rather think there is more to this story than meets the eye.

Yes it's obvious something happened not on this clip, the Merc used the RH lane to get ahead, has no issue with the car immediately behind him, then starts playing silly buggers with the camera car. 99.9% probability the camera car did something aggressive/stupid to provoke it.

[CoolHands]

the camera car kept the merc out, that was all. The merc then repaid camera car for the heinous offence. Presumably the deliberate heavy braking is enough for a driving without due care & attention offence?

[saaby93]

Blue Oval84 said:

saaby93 said:

ORD said:

Stickyfinger said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAucK7Rox4g

Ouch...saved by a truck driver

Am I the only thinking that the truck driver drove pretty badly until the moment of impact? He left the car no room at all at the transition point, did not brake when he saw it was weaving a bit, and just hung around alongside it...perfectly placed for an accident.

The car only did the same as the car and trailer in front
It may not be obvious to the unitiated what youre supposed to do there

Whether or not the lorry could have done more to avoid that, the fact is that the car swerved across a lane marker into L2 and swiped the lorry. How the fk could they not tell that was going to happen? Why would you just allow your car to swipe into the side of a chuffing great lorry?

The fact that a lorry was overtaking them tells me a lot about their level of competence on a motorway.

Isnt it the truck company putting out the company view
Its obvious the car isnt sure whats it's supposed to be doing, theyve even highlighted it.
As far as the car is concerned it's stayed in lane with the hard shoulder to its left. It hasnt swerved into lane as the video suggests.
Everyone is travelling at 49.9 or 50.1mph due to the SPECs. The truck could easily have travelled at the same speed as the car, so not alongside until after that lane change

From the cars point of view its the truck thats crept up alongside and sideswiped it

If they want the non savvy to change lanes they need to stick down some decent white lines and erase the hard shoulder line and perhaps use some of those pogo sticks

Which way did the insurance go, or are they still contesting it?

Edited by saaby93 on Thursday 27th August 17:56

[cootuk]

Looks to me like the car got confused between the hard shoulder solid line and the new cats eyes moving the lanes over. Lots of drivers dont seen to like using the hard shoulder, even where signs instruct it.