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

[EVOTECH3BELL]

8IKERDAVE said:

Bit of a guilty pleasure of mine watching these dashcam videos on Youtube. However, I've spotted quite a few common trends:

1) Any form of overtaking is seen as wreckless even though I've seen numerous examples of the camera car being overtaken in a safe manor and then hammering the overtaker with abuse. I guess looking at the 'why does nobody overtake' thread explains a lot of this.

2) About 80% of the accidents / incidents shown could have been avoided by taking evasive action. I understand that it can be annoying if someone is trying to force into your space but my primary focus when driving is making sure I get wherever I'm going safely and without incident. It seems a lot of people are that struck on 'being right' they're prepared to put themselves in a dangerous position to prove a point. Odd!

3) People stopping for ages after a near miss. So a car pulls across your path causing you to stop, said car moves away but the camera car sits there whinging and moaning for 30 seconds in a vulnerable position irritating everyone around them until they pluck up the courage to move away. Again, very odd.

I find myself quite often thinking "that could have easily been avoided". I'm by no means a perfect driver and therefore make mistakes now and then but a lot of these cammers seem to drive around seeking out trouble. Seems a bit strange to say the least.

Spot on

[jimmytheone]

"Escaped serious injury" somehow!
Gained 7 points and £384 fine + victim surcharge, etc

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11863367/...

start vid at 1.10 ish, zoomed at 1.49

[mac96]

Frimley111R said:

Number 3 is one of my 'favourites'. Pause for dramatic affect and all that. I'm just wating for the DCW to get rear-ended! Most incidents are nothing much at all either.

That's like motorcyclists with a helmetcam who turn around to glare at a vehicle that has done something silly and is now behind them- glaring at the culprit is suddenly more important than looking where they are going. I find myself mentally crossing my fingers that another idiot doesn't pull out and kill them.

[Frimley111R]

jimmytheone said:

"Escaped serious injury" somehow!
Gained 7 points and £384 fine + victim surcharge, etc

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11863367/...

start vid at 1.10 ish, zoomed at 1.49

'.... but accepted that he had lost control of the vehicle.' No st Sherlock!

[Bonefish Blues]

Frimley111R said:

jimmytheone said:

"Escaped serious injury" somehow!
Gained 7 points and £384 fine + victim surcharge, etc

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11863367/...

start vid at 1.10 ish, zoomed at 1.49

'.... but accepted that he had lost control of the vehicle.' No st Sherlock!

McRae gpt lionized for that sort of thing!

[trackdemon]

If that had been some 56yo bank manager instead of a 20yo lad I wonder if the punishment would have been the same? Seems a bit harsh from an admittedly crap quality video, but it looks like he was spooked by the oncoming car and probably dropped a wheel into the verge.... game over. On a 60mph road that'd be plenty to send you tumbling. Not sure why it's DWDC

[jimmytheone]

trackdemon said:

If that had been some 56yo bank manager instead of a 20yo lad I wonder if the punishment would have been the same? Seems a bit harsh from an admittedly crap quality video, but it looks like he was spooked by the oncoming car and probably dropped a wheel into the verge.... game over. On a 60mph road that'd be plenty to send you tumbling. Not sure why it's DWDC

It looks to me like he came over the brow/round the bend on the wrong side of the road (cutting the corner), suddenly found a car so widened the line before having to tighten it to make it round the corner. That tight-wide-tight line caused the back to come round et voila!

[trackdemon]

jimmytheone said:

trackdemon said:

If that had been some 56yo bank manager instead of a 20yo lad I wonder if the punishment would have been the same? Seems a bit harsh from an admittedly crap quality video, but it looks like he was spooked by the oncoming car and probably dropped a wheel into the verge.... game over. On a 60mph road that'd be plenty to send you tumbling. Not sure why it's DWDC

It looks to me like he came over the brow/round the bend on the wrong side of the road (cutting the corner), suddenly found a car so widened the line before having to tighten it to make it round the corner. That tight-wide-tight line caused the back to come round et voila!

Hmmmm, vid is nowhere near good enough to see if that's the case but your version is entirely plausible - not that it says so in the piece. I just see a car pass another car and immediately afterwards skid off, to me eyes looking like it's dropped a wheel on grass. I'd still venture someone who's not a young lad would have been treated differently (perhaps with a better story to recant as to what happened....).

[donkmeister]

Unfortunately this video may shake the faith of those who cling to the hope that Germany is the last bastion of high driving standards...



Surprisingly similar to UK dashcams in that it's mostly minor cock-ups and red light jumpers, with an occasional blaring horn "could have seen that a mile off" non-incident.

[mac96]

trackdemon said:

jimmytheone said:

trackdemon said:

If that had been some 56yo bank manager instead of a 20yo lad I wonder if the punishment would have been the same? Seems a bit harsh from an admittedly crap quality video, but it looks like he was spooked by the oncoming car and probably dropped a wheel into the verge.... game over. On a 60mph road that'd be plenty to send you tumbling. Not sure why it's DWDC

It looks to me like he came over the brow/round the bend on the wrong side of the road (cutting the corner), suddenly found a car so widened the line before having to tighten it to make it round the corner. That tight-wide-tight line caused the back to come round et voila!

Hmmmm, vid is nowhere near good enough to see if that's the case but your version is entirely plausible - not that it says so in the piece. I just see a car pass another car and immediately afterwards skid off, to me eyes looking like it's dropped a wheel on grass. I'd still venture someone who's not a young lad would have been treated differently (perhaps with a better story to recant as to what happened....).

No one had told the young man that all loss of control events are preceded by a Muntjac deer running across the road...

[Cold]

EmailAddress said:

ro250 said:

carlove said:

Driver got lucky here, if the bollard hit the front not the back of the car(if this Ami counts as a car), I'm not sure it would have been survivable. Strong bollards though!

So, driver keeps going round a corner trying to get it onto 2 wheels, then eventually tips it. What a knob!

Not just any corner...

[Driver101]

It is fair to add this one.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PFuMkEEU8WnywuaiA...

400bhp, 7 seconds of WOT accelerating into 3rd gear. Probably 70mph in a built up residential zone with cars lining the street. Half the houses in darkness so it is either late or early. The time recorded on the video suggests shortly after 5am.

According to the driver and a couple of subsequent posts we all have moments like this?

Who else has moments of madness that involves full bore starts in a residential area to show how loud your exhaust is and go on to 70mph in a 30mph zone?

[donkmeister]

Driver101 said:

Who else has moments of madness that involves full bore starts in a residential area to show how loud your exhaust is and go on to 70mph in a 30mph zone?

I've got a mate who's generally a really nice guy, but occasionally he does stuff like that and I think "what a ".

So I suspect on average there is at least one such incident per person, but that it's due to a small percentage of people doing it many times.

[GiantCardboardPlato]

donkmeister said:

Unfortunately this video may shake the faith of those who cling to the hope that Germany is the last bastion of high driving standards...



Surprisingly similar to UK dashcams in that it's mostly minor cock-ups and red light jumpers, with an occasional blaring horn "could have seen that a mile off" non-incident.

I do like how there is a narrator to tell us how stupid everyone is being though.
My experience of driving in Germany is everyone has less patience/tolerance for small mistakes. There is a bit more accountability, I’d say. I think high driving standards probably would be indicated by the frequency of stupid mistakes/accidents (though Germany has more than UK I believe, or at least more injuries/fatalities), rather than by the severity of them.

[Frimley111R]

GiantCardboardPlato said:

I do like how there is a narrator to tell us how stupid everyone is being though.

Don't quote me on this but I think this is something to do with YT preferring videos with narration or something like that.

[Sixsixtysix]

Frimley111R said:

GiantCardboardPlato said:

I do like how there is a narrator to tell us how stupid everyone is being though.

Don't quote me on this but I think this is something to do with YT preferring videos with narration or something like that.

I think it's to do with monetisation - if you are just showing clips, no money, so they add their "comments" on them.

[Krikkit]

GiantCardboardPlato said:

donkmeister said:

Unfortunately this video may shake the faith of those who cling to the hope that Germany is the last bastion of high driving standards...



Surprisingly similar to UK dashcams in that it's mostly minor cock-ups and red light jumpers, with an occasional blaring horn "could have seen that a mile off" non-incident.

My experience of driving in Germany is everyone has less patience/tolerance for small mistakes. There is a bit more accountability, I’d say. I think high driving standards probably would be indicated by the frequency of stupid mistakes/accidents (though Germany has more than UK I believe, or at least more injuries/fatalities), rather than by the severity of them.

Most of the driving, I find, is exactly as the UK although with less patience for dawdling as above. e.g. at a set of lights, if you aren't moving as the lights go green you'll often get honked at.

The place they're a bit better is on the autobahn, but even then you get an occasional stroker.

[Fermit]

jimmytheone said:

"Escaped serious injury" somehow!
Gained 7 points and £384 fine + victim surcharge, etc

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11863367/...

start vid at 1.10 ish, zoomed at 1.49

Probably so embarrassed at driving a lasses car that he thought topping himself would be the lesser of two evils.

[havoc]

Krikkit said:

The place they're a bit better is on the autobahn, but even then you get an occasional stroker.

Lane discipline absolutely, but I've found they're a lot fonder of tailgating (like the Dutch).

[Krikkit]

havoc said:

Krikkit said:

The place they're a bit better is on the autobahn, but even then you get an occasional stroker.

Lane discipline absolutely, but I've found they're a lot fonder of tailgating (like the Dutch).

Very true, I sometimes wonder if they do it because it's illegal to flash their lights. The Dutch are a mystery all to themselves.