The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread (Vol 4)
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brightbluesmurf said:
LOL how embarrassing crashing in a Morrison car park
Brilliant (although I feel sorry for the owner of the car he hit). Starts outside Argos (council), swears at concerned pedestrian (council), reveals garish Matalan shorts (council) and then when you think it couldn’t get any more council he explains to his victim that he’s only got three minutes to reach the job centre 
Now before I get struck down for snobbery, I grew up on a council estate and my mum still lives on it, but you get the odd family who barely drag their kids up and ruin it for everyone else.
Edited by foxbody-87 on Tuesday 17th July 17:18
One Amp Andy said:
I've noticed in many of these clips that the 'aggrieved' dashcammer slams on and actually stops. Regardless of how much room they actually had.The 'perp' has accelerated away, usually without anything like an incident, and we're left with a shouty dashcammer sat still on a roundabout holding up the poor b
ds behind them.
These 'close calls' are usually accompanied with wails and howls of horror.
There is the problem of lens distortion making everything look faster and further away, as well as making things at the side of the car, look as if they're in front, as well as bonnet curvature, my dashcam can't see the front 2/3 of my bonnet at all.ds behind them.These 'close calls' are usually accompanied with wails and howls of horror.
funkyrobot said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYV9Ii6sAQY&t=...
Seeing more of this behaviour lately. Why would anyone want to stop a cyclist filtering?
It's a road which looks difficult to pass on, possibly the van has sat behind the cyclist for the last 20 mins waiting for a safe place to overtake, finally made it. then hit a queue, cyclist overtakes again rinse & repeat. Difficult to tell as we dont; get the run up to it.Seeing more of this behaviour lately. Why would anyone want to stop a cyclist filtering?
Totally not the right thing to do and I'm not trying to justify it but it's understandable how people can get frustrated. Cyclists should be aware of what is behind them and could pull over for 1 minute and let traffic pass, but I've rarely seen it happen.
When I cycle, albeit in suburban areas, parked cars often makes it difficult for traffic to pass me. I tend to hop up on the pavement when it's safe to do so to allow people to pass. Occasionally I get a thank you flash. A lot of the issues in this thread are because people are to busy enforcing their own rights without having any empathy for others.
hornmeister said:
It's a road which looks difficult to pass on, possibly the van has sat behind the cyclist for the last 20 mins waiting for a safe place to overtake, finally made it. then hit a queue, cyclist overtakes again rinse & repeat. Difficult to tell as we dont; get the run up to it.
Totally not the right thing to do and I'm not trying to justify it but it's understandable how people can get frustrated. Cyclists should be aware of what is behind them and could pull over for 1 minute and let traffic pass, but I've rarely seen it happen.
When I cycle, albeit in suburban areas, parked cars often makes it difficult for traffic to pass me. I tend to hop up on the pavement when it's safe to do so to allow people to pass. Occasionally I get a thank you flash. A lot of the issues in this thread are because people are to busy enforcing their own rights without having any empathy for others.
There's massive painted islands at the beginning of the video...Totally not the right thing to do and I'm not trying to justify it but it's understandable how people can get frustrated. Cyclists should be aware of what is behind them and could pull over for 1 minute and let traffic pass, but I've rarely seen it happen.
When I cycle, albeit in suburban areas, parked cars often makes it difficult for traffic to pass me. I tend to hop up on the pavement when it's safe to do so to allow people to pass. Occasionally I get a thank you flash. A lot of the issues in this thread are because people are to busy enforcing their own rights without having any empathy for others.
If that was the case then the cyclist is not actually holding him up at all, it's all the other cars.
Wood for the trees comes to mind.
hornmeister said:
funkyrobot said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYV9Ii6sAQY&t=...
Seeing more of this behaviour lately. Why would anyone want to stop a cyclist filtering?
It's a road which looks difficult to pass on, possibly the van has sat behind the cyclist for the last 20 mins waiting for a safe place to overtake, finally made it. then hit a queue, cyclist overtakes again rinse & repeat. Difficult to tell as we dont; get the run up to it.Seeing more of this behaviour lately. Why would anyone want to stop a cyclist filtering?
Totally not the right thing to do and I'm not trying to justify it but it's understandable how people can get frustrated. Cyclists should be aware of what is behind them and could pull over for 1 minute and let traffic pass, but I've rarely seen it happen.
When I cycle, albeit in suburban areas, parked cars often makes it difficult for traffic to pass me. I tend to hop up on the pavement when it's safe to do so to allow people to pass. Occasionally I get a thank you flash. A lot of the issues in this thread are because people are to busy enforcing their own rights without having any empathy for others.
In the first image you can see the rider looks behind, then the pair move over to deliberately ride in the middle of both lanes. They did this for some time to deliberately block the road.
80sMatchbox said:
There's massive painted islands at the beginning of the video...
If that was the case then the cyclist is not actually holding him up at all, it's all the other cars.
Wood for the trees comes to mind.
Surely that's where the van did overtake the cyclist?. It's what's before that that matters. There could have been miles of single track road that the van was stuck behind the cyclist and that's why it tried to stop the cyclist overtaking back if there was more of that to follow.If that was the case then the cyclist is not actually holding him up at all, it's all the other cars.
Wood for the trees comes to mind.
Dick move of course, but I was just answering the question why the dick move was even contemplated as the OP couldn't think of a reason for it.
No trees were harmed in the construction of my responses.
Byker28i said:
From a different thread but this was sunday. A convoy of 5 cars, two get past, the rest are held up for a long way.
In the first image you can see the rider looks behind, then the pair move over to deliberately ride in the middle of both lanes. They did this for some time to deliberately block the road.
Can you post a link please?In the first image you can see the rider looks behind, then the pair move over to deliberately ride in the middle of both lanes. They did this for some time to deliberately block the road.
zedx19 said:
Technically the scooter user is correct apart from he should be displaying a flashing amber beacon. If he was to use the pavement he has to limit his speed to 4 mph.lyonspride said:
There is the problem of lens distortion making everything look faster and further away, as well as making things at the side of the car, look as if they're in front, as well as bonnet curvature, my dashcam can't see the front 2/3 of my bonnet at all.
I see your point. However, this is a little over the top.funkyrobot said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYV9Ii6sAQY&t=...
Seeing more of this behaviour lately. Why would anyone want to stop a cyclist filtering?
The reason (assuming they don't know each other) is probably because the cyclist is not making use of the shared cycle path on the right of the screen.Seeing more of this behaviour lately. Why would anyone want to stop a cyclist filtering?
I know the road and I've cycled the shared path myself many, many times. Lots of cyclists ignore it though. Not sure why.
Bennet said:
I know the road and I've cycled the shared path myself many, many times. Lots of cyclists ignore it though. Not sure why.
From DfTRide at a sensible speed for the situation and ensure you can stop in time. As a general rule, if you want to cycle quickly, say in excess of 18 mph/30 kph, then you should be riding on the road.
So anyone on a road bike doing more than 18mph, which I do regularly despite being an OAP, should be on the road
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