The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread (Vol 4)

[Vipers]

Harpoon said:

Is this a new one?

https://twitter.com/kh4l1d23/status/10544204395676...

Busy on the phone..........................

[Vipers]

Bullett said:

I can't think of a single situation that would result in me sitting in L3 in those conditions with the exception of a total lock up of the entire running gear which hasn't happened here.

I'm going to be given 100 options now, so await my parrot.

I recall watching a traffic cop prog on UK telly, brand new Range Rover, just conked out in the outside lane near Birmingham, something buggered up in the management system, busy road, driver couldnt move over two lanes of moving traffic, so it does happen, not often though.

Same thing to a bus of kids going to a show, again outside lane M6 around Birmingham.

[Vipers]

jamei303 said:

4x4Tyke said:

The reason it is disputed is that he's bloody flying given the principle of stopping in the distance you can see to be clear.

He does just about stop in the distance he can see at the beginning of the clip, and would have done if he hadn't have gone off road. Obviously the oncoming lorry means that distance wasn't sufficient.

So we can drive around through lanes and town on the wrong side of the road, and as long as no one is injured, the police wont book me, yes pull the other one.

Cant tell me they are powerless to do something about situations like this, I thought I saw a double bend sign in the clip, the trucker would have had a similar sign on the approach to that spot.

[andy118run]

Vipers said:

I recall watching a traffic cop prog on UK telly, brand new Range Rover, just conked out in the outside lane near Birmingham, something buggered up in the management system, busy road, driver couldnt move over two lanes of moving traffic, so it does happen, not often though.

Same thing to a bus of kids going to a show, again outside lane M6 around Birmingham.

Yep, I recall that as well. Probably something like Motorway Cops which seems to be repeated on a very regular basis.

Not wishing to flog a dead horse as the topic of smart motorways/closed lanes is discussed frequently on PH.

However, if anybody is interested, here's the stranded Fiat video with a little clip of the previous gantry as it illuminated its red crosses. The time stamp shows around 3 minutes of crawling along between gantries displaying the closed lanes. Both also stated 'stranded vehicle'. You'd think with all this info people would do the right thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pByUVVhu8rI

[wack]

andy118run said:

The time stamp shows around 3 minutes of crawling along between gantries displaying the closed lanes. Both also stated 'stranded vehicle'. You'd think with all this info people would do the right thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pByUVVhu8rI

You'd think but they're the same kind of people that will drive past a line of traffic queuing for an exit then just stop in lane 2 with their indicator on , they should be charged with dangerous driving

[anonymous-user]

Harpoon said:

Is this a new one?

https://twitter.com/kh4l1d23/status/10544204395676...

Do you have to download the softporn filter or is it an option on the camera?

[silverfoxcc]

Ref the what video are you looking at? question


Perhaps if the poster was to actually copy the links before he comments it would help a lot

I know asking fro a bit of help on here is asking for the moon on here but nothing ventured...

I like many others are not bloody [hysic when sometimes it refers to a clip 25 posts back

C'mon lads help us out please

[4x4Tyke]

Harpoon said:

Is this a new one?

https://twitter.com/kh4l1d23/status/10544204395676...

Yes, probably stomping accelerator instead of the brake.

[4x4Tyke]

silverfoxcc said:

Ref the what video are you looking at? question

Mostly the earlier/shorter version of this

andy118run said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pByUVVhu8rI

Some of them are talking about the BMW flying around a blind Z bend at 80+ and meeting a truck overtaking a cycle that was in the Sun.

[Vipers]

4x4Tyke said:

Harpoon said:

Is this a new one?

https://twitter.com/kh4l1d23/status/10544204395676...

Yes, probably stomping accelerator instead of the brake.

I suggested earlier maybe on the phone.

[CoolC]

Cheeky bugger on my drive home this evening. Temporary roadwork lights don't apply to Astra man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhGvNggtd8

[wack]

I was behind 4 cars approaching a very long yellow box working out in my head whether I could clear it as the lights ahead were changing

excuse the language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rgyll4hF00

[4x4Tyke]

Vipers said:

4x4Tyke said:

Harpoon said:

Is this a new one?

https://twitter.com/kh4l1d23/status/10544204395676...

Yes, probably stomping accelerator instead of the brake.

I suggested earlier maybe on the phone.

After striking the bus, it seems to accelerate towards the post.

[Drive Blind]

andy118run said:

2. What alarmed me more was the (probably hundreds of) vehicles who ignored the lane 3 and 4 closures and happily proceeded beyond the big red 'Xs'. The gantry in the clip was not the first to display the lane closures - there was one 3 or 4 minutes before this one which switched the 'Xs' on just as I was nearing it. Hence, no exaggeration to say probably hundreds of vehicles ignored the lane closures.

Its the same mentality when folk encounter a 'road closed' sign. They drive past it and keep on driving until they encounter the reason for the road closure.

[Biker's Nemesis]

wack said:

I was behind 4 cars approaching a very long yellow box working out in my head whether I could clear it as the lights ahead were changing

excuse the language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rgyll4hF00

I dunno what to say!

[jamei303]

Drive Blind said:

Its the same mentality when folk encounter a 'road closed' sign. They drive past it and keep on driving until they encounter the reason for the road closure.

I think this is because there appears to be confusion between "Road Closed" and "Road Ahead Closed" amongst not only the public but also the people putting up the signs.

[Solocle]

jamei303 said:

Drive Blind said:

Its the same mentality when folk encounter a 'road closed' sign. They drive past it and keep on driving until they encounter the reason for the road closure.

I think this is because there appears to be confusion between "Road Closed" and "Road Ahead Closed" amongst not only the public but also the people putting up the signs.

I especially hate it when the "road ahead closed" signs are placed in the middle of the road, sometimes making it extremely difficult to pass them safely. Yes, I read the first one. I don't need them leaping out of the sides of the road at me.

[StuTheGrouch]

Biker's Nemesis said:

wack said:

I was behind 4 cars approaching a very long yellow box working out in my head whether I could clear it as the lights ahead were changing

excuse the language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rgyll4hF00

I dunno what to say!

"Thanks for sharing such a dull and pointless video"

[Blue Oval84]

Mr2Mike said:

Rawwr said:

Do you really not understand what the signs are doing?

Buggering up traffic flow. The whole point of controlled speed limits is to reduce traffic to a speed that keeps it all moving smoothly. Constantly changing the speed limits up and down within a short distance achieves the opposite.

The idea of the reduced speed limit on the approach to some congestion is that it allows the congestion to clear before more cars pile into the back of the queue and come to a stop, then take ages to get going. That's why you get phantom traffic jams that move down a motorway like a Mexican wave with absolutely no apparent reason.

If the system works correctly, then by the time you get to the front you're [/i]supposed[/i] to find no traffic jam, as it all cleared.

Of course it seems that understanding of this is concept is very limited, leading to many people thinking it's worked when it's failed, and that it's failed when it's actually worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goVjVVaLe10

This video does a good explanation of the phantom jam, and it doesn't take a huge leap of understanding to see how slowing traffic down on the approach is supposed to work.

[Alucidnation]

Not particularly exciting but..


https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/17001272.dr...