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

[ro250]

Levin said:

Ron240 said:

I didn't expect the chap who hopped out of the Bentley to start something to be sent packing following a bking. That's the big surprise for me this week.

Most likely because he saw the driver had a dashcam. It acts as a suit of armour for the mouthy DCW.

[saaby93]

donkmeister said:

carlove said:

surveyor said:

I'd include the guy who crashed / nearly crashed after losing visibility in rain, then stopping where the next person without visibility would clout them...

I never understand why people speed in the rain, it seems driving to the conditions is some sort of secret.
He was going 75 on the dashcam, which would probably be 80 on his speedo, which is just stupid in that weather. It really does annoy me people not driving to conditions, a pet hate of mine.

I nearly aquaplaned (felt it going but regained control, it was luck not skill) at 60 on a motorway, even at that speed everyone was passing me.

Presumably the reason his car conked out was because he forced water into the air intake... The fact that no-one else stacked into him whilst he was merrily parked up there would indicate that he was indeed the stupidest driver around there at that time, as everyone else managed to avoid it/him.

I've always thought the French system of different speed limits, weather-depending, is pretty decent even if common sense would make it redundant. The only problem I think we'd have with it in the UK is that we struggle with the notion of rain as a binary condition - is it raining, or is it actually light drizzle? In East Anglia the traditional dialect even has a word for "there's a sort of dampness in the air that will wet you through, but it's not quite raining"... That word is "bange", should anyone feel a pressing need to describe such a weather condition in future.

That road needs sorting too, there shouldnt be standing water like that - otherwise there'll be quite a few croppers there

[Ron240]

ro250 said:

Most likely because he saw the driver had a dashcam. It acts as a suit of armour for the mouthy DCW.

Except the DCW wasnt being mouthy at all...it was Bentley boy who went all roid rage.

[Levin]

Funk said:

That wasn't the case unfortunately; 'Roid Boy was the one talking aggressively to the dashcammer he pulled out in front of.

I had to watch the clip again and now I'm a little gutted. I thought the cammer went straight to DEFCON 1.

[ro250]

Ron240 said:

ro250 said:

Most likely because he saw the driver had a dashcam. It acts as a suit of armour for the mouthy DCW.

Except the DCW wasnt being mouthy at all...it was Bentley boy who went all roid rage.

I was talking more generally. In this case the cammer tailgated him to show his displeasure with Bentley Boy pulling out. Bet he wasn't banking on him getting out.

(Not defending anyone. As with most of these scenarios, one person is in the wrong and the other driver's reaction then makes them wrong too)

[Funk]

ro250 said:

Levin said:

Ron240 said:

I didn't expect the chap who hopped out of the Bentley to start something to be sent packing following a bking. That's the big surprise for me this week.

Most likely because he saw the driver had a dashcam. It acts as a suit of armour for the mouthy DCW.

Watch it again - you have it backward. The dashcammer was not the mouthy shouty one, that was the dhead in the chav'd up Bentley.

Levin said:

Funk said:

That wasn't the case unfortunately; 'Roid Boy was the one talking aggressively to the dashcammer he pulled out in front of.

I had to watch the clip again and now I'm a little gutted. I thought the cammer went straight to DEFCON 1.

It would definitely be nice to see the idiot party get their comeuppance or bite off more than they can chew every once in a while.

[monthefish]

(Not sure if this FB link will work)

https://fb.watch/dYf6zYPDgm/

Seems the police are now going to town prosecuting using submitted dashcam footage.

At 1:55 - hope they also prosecuted DCW for being in the outside lane and not overtaking

2:10 - this happens persistently on motorways everywhere. I’m amazed (but glad) to see it being clamped down on. 6 months disqualification too!!

[Vipers]

monthefish said:

(Not sure if this FB link will work)

https://fb.watch/dYf6zYPDgm/

Seems the police are now going to town prosecuting using submitted dashcam footage.

At 1:55 - hope they also prosecuted DCW for being in the outside lane and not overtaking

2:10 - this happens persistently on motorways everywhere. I’m amazed (but glad) to see it being clamped down on. 6 months disqualification too!!

Some absolute crackers there, good on them, keep up the good work and shop the idiots on our roads.

[gusm2]

monthefish said:

(Not sure if this FB link will work)

https://fb.watch/dYf6zYPDgm/

Seems the police are now going to town prosecuting using submitted dashcam footage.

At 1:55 - hope they also prosecuted DCW for being in the outside lane and not overtaking

2:10 - this happens persistently on motorways everywhere. I’m amazed (but glad) to see it being clamped down on. 6 months disqualification too!!

Won't work if you don't have FB

[Demhcs]

Vipers said:

monthefish said:

(Not sure if this FB link will work)

https://fb.watch/dYf6zYPDgm/

Seems the police are now going to town prosecuting using submitted dashcam footage.

At 1:55 - hope they also prosecuted DCW for being in the outside lane and not overtaking

2:10 - this happens persistently on motorways everywhere. I’m amazed (but glad) to see it being clamped down on. 6 months disqualification too!!

Some absolute crackers there, good on them, keep up the good work and shop the idiots on our roads.

Time to keep Freeman on speed dial - some (not all) of those were perfectly acceptable lane changes. Interesting to see failing to identify prosecuted in more than a few cases rather than the actual offence... Good 'ol S172, totally not flawed at all...

When will merely thinking about doing 35 in a 30 finally be made a thought crime??

Time for some foreign plates...

[Ron240]

monthefish said:

(Not sure if this FB link will work)

https://fb.watch/dYf6zYPDgm/

The clip beginning at 2:42 with the Ford Ka overtaking on a bend on wrong side of the road against oncoming traffic.
The registered keeper failed to identify the driver...so why has the drivers face been blurred out?
I mean presumably they cannot be identified.

[Funk]

gusm2 said:

monthefish said:

(Not sure if this FB link will work)

https://fb.watch/dYf6zYPDgm/

Seems the police are now going to town prosecuting using submitted dashcam footage.

At 1:55 - hope they also prosecuted DCW for being in the outside lane and not overtaking

2:10 - this happens persistently on motorways everywhere. I’m amazed (but glad) to see it being clamped down on. 6 months disqualification too!!

Won't work if you don't have FB

That does annoy me when there's a much better video hosting service online that you don't have to create an account for to watch.

fk Facebook, frankly. I'll never have an account with them.

In fact I think we should instigate a rule that videos should be publicly watchable without needing Facebook etc, otherwise the thread could very quickly die out.

[gazza285]

Demhcs said:

Time to keep Freeman on speed dial - some (not all) of those were perfectly acceptable lane changes. Interesting to see failing to identify prosecuted in more than a few cases rather than the actual offence... Good 'ol S172, totally not flawed at all...

When will merely thinking about doing 35 in a 30 finally be made a thought crime??

Time for some foreign plates...

Non of those were even approaching acceptable.

[saaby93]

monthefish said:

(Not sure if this FB link will work)

https://fb.watch/dYf6zYPDgm/

Seems the police are now going to town prosecuting using submitted dashcam footage.

At 1:55 - hope they also prosecuted DCW for being in the outside lane and not overtaking

2:10 - this happens persistently on motorways everywhere. I’m amazed (but glad) to see it being clamped down on. 6 months disqualification too!!

At 2:10 - what was wrong with the van pulling out - doesnt everyone expect that ?

[BrassMan]

monthefish said:

(Not sure if this FB link will work)

https://fb.watch/dYf6zYPDgm/

Seems the police are now going to town prosecuting using submitted dashcam footage.

At 1:55 - hope they also prosecuted DCW for being in the outside lane and not overtaking

2:10 - this happens persistently on motorways everywhere. I’m amazed (but glad) to see it being clamped down on. 6 months disqualification too!!

1:19 looks like it was taken from a bicycle. Legal or not, cycling there has to be close to suicidal.

[gazza285]

BrassMan said:

1:19 looks like it was taken from a bicycle. Legal or not, cycling there has to be close to suicidal.

Due to the poor standard of driving on that road?

[Bonefish Blues]

Message there seems to be that endangering cyclists results in more lenient punishment than car-on-car collisions?

[Solocle]

BrassMan said:

1:19 looks like it was taken from a bicycle. Legal or not, cycling there has to be close to suicidal.

You try avoiding the A38 if you're heading towards Exeter, a little further north of where the video is from:


And note the contours.

When cycling LEJOG, I took a detour of about an additional 6 miles to avoid the 15 miles of dual carriageway A30 across Bodmin Moor. But, when I turned onto my planned back road route into Launceston, there was a lot of gravel, so I stuck to the A road instead, and that meant a couple of miles on the A30. Which actually wasn't any bother.



I also missed my turning at Okehampton, I was having too much fun doing over 40 mph. The subsequent 10 mph uphill was a bit less fun on a road like that.

As all purpose roads, there's no requirement for there to be a viable alternative route. See also, the A303:


So, if it's suicidal to ride there, how about rigidly enforced 30 mph speed limits on such roads, until a scheme that separates the high speed and low speed traffic to the satisfaction of both parties is implemented? I'm sure such a measure would focus minds on the inadequacy of the current system.

Such a scheme made this quite a good cycle route, although there was still motor traffic using it with a 60 mph speed limit.


What you don't get to do is criticise people for legally using the most convenient route, when it's incumbent on drivers to account for slow moving traffic on such roads. Obviously it's not possible even when you're only doing 50 mph

Edited by Solocle on Thursday 30th June 08:32

[saaby93]

Solocle said:

So, if it's suicidal to ride there, how about rigidly enforced 30 mph speed limits on such roads, until a scheme that separates the high speed and low speed traffic to the satisfaction of both parties is implemented? I'm sure such a measure would focus minds on the inadequacy of the current system.

For some reason accident rates are inverse to speed limits - more accidents in lower speed limits.
One reason is that on high accident roads rather than fix the real problem it can be easier for the authorities to impose a lower speed limt.
Another is people including pedestrians are less cautious on lower limit roads

Why call for a rigid 30 limit if it's going to make a road less safe?

[Solocle]

saaby93 said:

For some reason accident rates are inverse to speed limits - more accidents in lower speed limits.
One reason is that on high accident roads rather than fix the real problem it can be easier for the authorities to impose a lower speed limt.
Another is people including pedestrians are less cautious on lower limit roads

Why call for a rigid 30 limit if it's going to make a road less safe?

Because if the national speed limit were 30 mph except 70 mph on motorways, I think you'd see a lot more blue lines pop up on the map.

I suppose an alternative would be to keep the 70 limit, but to barricade off lane 1 for slow traffic. That would make overtaking and junctions fun...

What shouldn't happen is you build a dual carriageway on an old public right of way that predates cars, then bully the non-motorised users off. That's effectively what has happened, though.