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

[carinaman]

Laurel Green said:

UK Dash Cameras - Compilation 33 - 2019 Bad Drivers, Crashes + Close Calls.

I don't know if the Triumph rider not accelerating half through the junction would have made any difference?

Not being so close to the Civic, hanging back a bit more would have given the Picanto driver more chance to spot the motorcycle?

Beeping the horn at 29 seconds in may've got Picanto driver to stop or put their foot down?

I've seen a Motorcycle training video by a Texan with a winky eye who recommends weaving a bit at junctions to make yourself more visible.

[snake_oil]

Laurel Green said:

UK Dash Cameras - Compilation 33 - 2019 Bad Drivers, Crashes + Close Calls.

More DCWs throwing themselves across mini roundabouts to catch the moment on cam.

[mac96]

carinaman said:

Laurel Green said:

UK Dash Cameras - Compilation 33 - 2019 Bad Drivers, Crashes + Close Calls.

I don't know if the Triumph rider not accelerating half through the junction would have made any difference?

Not being so close to the Civic, hanging back a bit more would have given the Picanto driver more chance to spot the motorcycle?

Beeping the horn at 29 seconds in may've got Picanto driver to stop or put their foot down?

I've seen a Motorcycle training video by a Texan with a winky eye who recommends weaving a bit at junctions to make yourself more visible.

That's just below Newlands Corner in Surrey; quite likely biker had just emerged from car park a few hundred yards back(popular with bikers).

I can't put my finger on what's wrong with the junction but I have seen various similar near misses there (not actual collisions) and I have had to do an emergency stop when someone sailed out in front of me, then saw me and stopped in the middle of the road. And I was driving a car.

Hanging back is a good idea - it seems to be a standard 'bunching up' point.

[Monkeylegend]

dibbers006 said:

I feel like fking Nostradamus watching these now.

There is barely a single one I can't anticipate.

And that's not being big-headed. It's literally telegraphed through situational awareness, road position, time, motion and vehicular attitude.

To be fair we are watching knowing something is going to happen though so probably easier for us to anticipate particularly when viewed through the camera lens.

[Starfighter]

Sadly, that is not always the case. So many non-events.

[Initforthemoney]

A few crashes from ATW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIhfQ2mErcg

Highlight at 6:50.

Edited by Initforthemoney on Monday 19th August 16:07

[JM]

Laurel Green said:

UK Dash Cameras - Compilation 33 - 2019 Bad Drivers, Crashes + Close Calls.

Looked like a few of the vehicles caught out/dithering/in the wrong lane on roundabouts were foreign registered. At least one truck and a couple of cars.


Plus the UK Panamera in Europe, wtf was that about.

[HTP99]

mac96 said:

carinaman said:

Laurel Green said:

UK Dash Cameras - Compilation 33 - 2019 Bad Drivers, Crashes + Close Calls.

I don't know if the Triumph rider not accelerating half through the junction would have made any difference?

Not being so close to the Civic, hanging back a bit more would have given the Picanto driver more chance to spot the motorcycle?

Beeping the horn at 29 seconds in may've got Picanto driver to stop or put their foot down?

I've seen a Motorcycle training video by a Texan with a winky eye who recommends weaving a bit at junctions to make yourself more visible.

That's just below Newlands Corner in Surrey; quite likely biker had just emerged from car park a few hundred yards back(popular with bikers).

I can't put my finger on what's wrong with the junction but I have seen various similar near misses there (not actual collisions) and I have had to do an emergency stop when someone sailed out in front of me, then saw me and stopped in the middle of the road. And I was driving a car.

Hanging back is a good idea - it seems to be a standard 'bunching up' point.

I know it well as I live just down the road and frequently drive to Shere.

It is a nightmare junction and like you I can't work out exactly why, I think it is the angle in relation to the main road and there is not alot of visible road when looking right, so anything approaching just seems to appear out of nowhere and it is generally a steady stream so you end up taking chances.

[Rikk]

No idea what this guy was late for...
A13 Newham Way, 50mph average speed camera zone.

https://youtu.be/VcXffBmQWLs

[RazerSauber]

JM said:

Plus the UK Panamera in Europe, wtf was that about.

I think we'd need to see more information on that one. Must be a reason for it, most likely the Porsche has had the same treatment from the camera car and we've got a cut down version to make the DCW's point. He could've used the hard shoulder to get away too, I would have.

[zedx19]

Rikk said:

No idea what this guy was late for...
A13 Newham Way, 50mph average speed camera zone.

https://youtu.be/VcXffBmQWLs

Wow, absolutely bonkers driving.

[Defconluke]

JM said:

Looked like a few of the vehicles caught out/dithering/in the wrong lane on roundabouts were foreign registered. At least one truck and a couple of cars.

See it all the time from foreign registered trucks. It makes me wonder if they are taught to stay in the inside lane to make entry and exit from roundabouts easier vs. being in the correct lane for where they are going.

[Dave Hedgehog]

Rikk said:

No idea what this guy was late for...
A13 Newham Way, 50mph average speed camera zone.

https://youtu.be/VcXffBmQWLs

delivering the stolen 150k g wagon to the docks before merc activate the tracker

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/9756250/mercedes-s...

[wack]

Laurel Green said:

UK Dash Cameras - Compilation 33 - 2019 Bad Drivers, Crashes + Close Calls.

I wonder if the girl at 1:39 realises just how close she came to death

DY13JXM needs some education about how to ride a bike

[Gareth79]

wack said:

I wonder if the girl at 1:39 realises just how close she came to death

DY13JXM needs some education about how to ride a bike

I suspect they are still busy cleaning their trousers...

[Dromedary66]

wack said:

DY13JXM needs some education about how to ride a bike

When you're scooting along from mugging to mugging you don't have time to stop for lights.

[Frimley111R]

Initforthemoney said:

Highlight at 6:50.

Edited by Initforthemoney on Monday 19th August 16:07

[untakenname]

Lots of foreign registered cars not being able to cope with roundabouts in that compilation.
Not sure what that walt in the Porsche was doing, who sticks a CB radio type/sized antenna on their car these days?

[Mandat]

untakenname said:

Not sure what that walt in the Porsche was doing, who sticks a CB radio type/sized antenna on their car these days?

The occupants of the cam car were speaking Polish, and I assume that this was filmed on the motorway in Poland.

CB radios are still popular in Poland, presumably for avoiding police speed traps, etc.

[Vipers]

Gareth79 said:

wack said:

I wonder if the girl at 1:39 realises just how close she came to death

DY13JXM needs some education about how to ride a bike

I suspect they are still busy cleaning their trousers...

When the twunt on the bike undertakes the car at mega leptons.