The "S**t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread (Vol 6)

[PorkRind]

Driver101 said:

The first clip. The driver sees the lorry veering over and still pushes through.

1.58. The biker sees what the Audi is going to do and accelerates to block him. Why put your life at risk?

The first location in taht video was the Wingfield to Trowbridge in Wiltshire by vaggs farm !

[5s Alive]

Byker28i said:

Watch this at 1:50... plus quite a few careless moments
4 mins - handy lorry had a forklift

4:25 - 6:00 Cycling not quite so embedded into the Dutch driving psyche as I'd imagined.

[saaby93]

Gareth79 said:

trackdemon said:

Caravaner made a mistake (or, more likely, was taking the piss and queue jumping). They could have resolved the whole thing by not driving directly into the vehicle which was quite legally and correctly proceeding next to them

Also after the 0:20 mark the line goes solid, so from that point it was simply outright illegal for them to move across, no matter what anybody else was doing.

There's quite a bit of argument can be generated about when you can cross a solid line to get into lane and when police are going to use their discretion to enforce it.
Driving into an obvious collision to teach someone a lesson when it could all have been avoided is on another level.
For how long was the junction put out of use just because someone with a dashcam felt that a crash was the higher moral ground?

[saaby93]

5s Alive said:

Byker28i said:

Watch this at 1:50... plus quite a few careless moments
4 mins - handy lorry had a forklift

4:25 - 6:00 Cycling not quite so embedded into the Dutch driving psyche as I'd imagined.

3:40 impressive with fork lift

[Saleen836]

This one at 9.05 is very close to where I live and there has been a huge amount of accidents on this stretch of road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI-bQvvCwHE&t=...

[monthefish]

Saleen836 said:

This one at 9.05 is very close to where I live and there has been a huge amount of accidents on this stretch of road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI-bQvvCwHE&t=...

I have no idea what happens at 9:05?

[Blakewater]

monthefish said:

Saleen836 said:

This one at 9.05 is very close to where I live and there has been a huge amount of accidents on this stretch of road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI-bQvvCwHE&t=...

I have no idea what happens at 9:05?

The blue Tiguan on the left has already been hit by something going past. The front wing is crumpled, the wheel buckled and sticking out and someone has stuck some sort of warning triangle to the side of it.

There's a road near me where someone had a similar thing happen to their Mercedes when they have a driveway to park on. It sat on the road bashed in for weeks. They've got a Passat to replace it and still park it on the road in the way of danger.

[trackdemon]

saaby93 said:

trackdemon said:

saaby93 said:

trackdemon said:

If you've missed your turn off, or are just trying to jump the queue and barge in you don't just move into a lane that already has traffic there - especially so if it's a HGV. The truck could have conceded the space, but why should he? It wasn't him making the mistake.

Just because someone makes a mistake, doesnt mean someone else should make it worse if they can do something about it.
Highway code states the obvious when it says everyone has a duty to avoid an incident if they can.
It was as clear as night follows day that the caravan needed to move into lane- the truck could easily have slowed up with losing more than a second or so.
Instead what - how many people held up for how many hours in total - how much in insurance

Just ease up, make way if necessary, dont make a situation worse and try some ogmios
And yes we've done it to dust a number of years ago and there are still people preferring to take the collision as a solution

Victim blaming at its best. Just to be clear, as it seems you may have missed it: the caravaner drove into the truck. Your points are correct but aimed at the wrong person:

"It was as clear as night follows day that the caravan needed to move into lane"

Indeed it was. Just as it was equally clear they were taking the piss, or could have taken the extraordinarily easy option of rectifying their own mistake by carrying on to the next junction

"Just because someone makes a mistake, doesnt mean someone else should make it worse if they can do something about it."

Caravaner made a mistake (or, more likely, was taking the piss and queue jumping). They could have resolved the whole thing by not driving directly into the vehicle which was quite legally and correctly proceeding next to them

Thanks for proving my point
The Highway Code says nothing about trying to teach someone a lesson, otherwise we'd all be driving about in dented jalopies

HC does say Duty to avoid
How many parties there failed to use their duty to avoid

I expected nothing less, you're a well known contrarian round these parts. That's just a fancy word for troll really.

How do you know he was teaching a lesson? Perhaps he was just proceeding forward, completely in the assumption nobody would be dumb enough to deliberately crash into him. Note the use of words: "deliberately crash into him". Because he didn't cause the crash, the idiot alongside did.

"How many parties there failed to use their duty to avoid"

1: the caravaner, the only one who changed lanes into a vehicle, literally driving into the truck. Not that you'll agree, because your position is always contrary and victim blaming.

[Sticks.]

trackdemon said:

"How many parties there failed to use their duty to avoid"

1: the caravaner, the only one who changed lanes into a vehicle, literally driving into the truck. Not that you'll agree, because your position is always contrary and victim blaming.

trackdemon said:

....The truck could have conceded the space, but why should he?....

Because he has a duty of care to avid an accident.

[InitialDave]

How is there an argument over the idea that, if it looks like someone is going to hit you, maybe it's better to avoid that?

"But it's their fault!" Yes, and? Even if it's someone else's fault, it's still hassle to deal with.

[Ron240]

Sticks. said:

Because he has a duty of care to avid an accident.

Next time you are on a motorway try this experiment - attempt to force your way into lanes that are currently occupied by other vehicles and see if you get lucky and they all brake to let you in without causing a collision.
One helpful tip though...if you put your indicator on it will absolve you of all blame even if there is a collision.

[Ron240]

Something else for us to talk about rather than dodgy caravan drivers.

[Sticks.]

Ron240 said:

Sticks. said:

Because he has a duty of care to avid an accident.

Next time you are on a motorway try this experiment - attempt to force your way into lanes that are currently occupied by other vehicles and see if you get lucky and they all brake to let you in without causing a collision.
One helpful tip though...if you put your indicator on it will absolve you of all blame even if there is a collision.

So if someone (stupidly) did that you wouldn't brake?

[eldar]

PH sticker on the brake checker at 6.35?

[Cold]

eldar said:

PH sticker on the brake checker at 6.35?

Nah. But I can see why you'd think that.

It looks like one of those signs you have to put in your window when you're not allowed within half a mile of a school.

[mac96]

eldar said:

PH sticker on the brake checker at 6.35?

Let's hope that was the previous owner!

[saaby93]

InitialDave said:

How is there an argument over the idea that, if it looks like someone is going to hit you, maybe it's better to avoid that?

"But it's their fault!" Yes, and? Even if it's someone else's fault, it's still hassle to deal with.

Every week someone posts up DCW footage - usually of roundabouts where someone makes a mistake and the DCW instead of trying to make allowances and avoid, thinks it's their god given right to try to make things worse, sometimes crash, make a video and send it in to show us what a numpty they've been.

Same for overtakes, someone gets it wrong, the highway code says drop back if necessary to allow the overtake to complete.
The DCW numpty tries to make it worse by preventing the overtake and sends it in to prove it ( that they are a numpty)

[CoolHands]

Ron240 said:

Something else for us to talk about rather than dodgy caravan drivers.

The second last one of a kia turning into the bus. What a brain dead moron. For once I actually feel sorry for a bus driver

[Bonefish Blues]

(Dis)honorable mention to the individual who couldn't see that a bin lorry might just be reversing in that scenario...toot toot, and toot again.

[carlove]

CoolHands said:

The second last one of a kia turning into the bus. What a brain dead moron. For once I actually feel sorry for a bus driver

Looks like the bus is driving along the hatched area, to get past the Kia, I'm guessing because the Kia didn't let them get ahead at the merge point.
As much as I hate the self appointed merge in turn police, these two are both idiots, but one is a professional driver in something that can cause a lot of damage, and should have just braked and gone behind the Kia.