Dashcam danger

[ProgRocker]

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[AlabamaShrimp]

I tried doing a dashcam up with an old phone but it just jumps round like a git making it nearly unwatchable

[Largactil]

I really should get one for Ireland - Over there, slip road man at 2 mins would have nailed it over the chevrons and into your lane...And no-one would have batted an eyelid... 

[willswitchengage]

 

Norwich UK Dashcam

 

 

[garethj]

Looks pretty normal to me for the first couple of minutes I watched.  And not particularly aggressive either; I reckon that's quite good by today's standards.

 

If you get annoyed by this kind of thing, it might help if you shrugged it off a bit easier.  You won't change the bad drivers in this world by posting it on youtube, learn to let go is my advice.

[vulgalour]

Bad drivers are everywhere, sometimes they're even in your own mirrors.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Sod if there are bad drivers or not I wanted to do it for when I'm behind/passing chod and can't get a pic of it

[chrisjvm]

Big Brothers little helpers....Bless.

[Anglevan]

I've just back from touring Sweden and Denmark in my mitsubishi. The driving was brilliant, great roads, little traffic, good drivers. Got back to UK yesterday and had nowt but ars*hole drivers all the way back home.

[meggersdog]

I should have had a dash-cam the other day,just for the comedy.

I'd collected a little Suzuki Alto to take into work.Driving through a village with traffic calming either end I slowed to around 20mph in a 30 zone about 200 yards from one of these give way traffic calmers.Young lad in the car behind decides I'm going too slow and he can make it before the road goes down to one lane.He didn't make it as there was a horse and rider in the way and the reason I slowed.He put his arm out of the window as a sorry and I let him back in. Made me smile as I was in a tiny little car yet matey-boy couldn't see half a ton of horse and it's rider wearing a yellow tabard 50-100 yards infront.

[greengartside]

I know pretty much all of those roads!

 

You should do a dashcam video of the A143 between Diss and Bury St. Edmunds - you think these drivers are idiots?! Wait until you drive that road.

[inconsistant]

You are Alistair Stewart AICMFP

[Hairy Bob]

Some of the time it is relatively hard to see what is going on because of the writing, it might be better if you type at the top of the screen.

[Chas4545]

If you go down to the Salhouse to South Walsham rd, park up and wait , you will be able to film a Mahoosive tractor with an even mahoosiver trailer being driven by a first class selfish twit who will be on the phone cos he always is . His day will come , I just hope he takes nobody else out.

 

The police will take your phone and will get it inspected for calls if you crash and hurt someone. And yes, we can all see you are texting.

 

Ask the twit who got 6 years hard time yesterday for exactly that.

 

Oh, and sorry, but the traffic looks  NFN to me (Normal for Norfolk) Good film though and I guess its not far away from being compulsary.  I did worry that I might be on there......

[Felly Magic]

I know pretty much all of those roads!

 

You should do a dashcam video of the A143 between Diss and Bury St. Edmunds - you think these drivers are idiots?! Wait until you drive that road.

My Mrs drives the road regularly the other side between BSE & Haverhill, and there are some real arsecrisps on there, she was driving a bus along there the other day and almost had a head on when some cockmunch in an Audi was on the wrong side of the road on an almost blind bend

[jakebullet]

Needs MOAR Russians.

 

Have one of mine. Traffic was doing 70 mph on the A5 30 seconds earlier.

 

 

N how to cross the road, Kendray style:

 

[Felly Magic]

That was a bloody close call there with that retarded ped!

[jakebullet]

Yep. Very lucky I wasn't showing the video to plod to explain why they was scraping laddo off the road. Mind, it also fuelled my paranoia so I added air horns, and a second cam looking backwards.

[Micrashed]

I have a dash cam.

 

It cost £17 off eBay.

 

On a daily basis I suppose it captures some evidence of poor driving. However I have it for one reason and one reason only and that is to hopefully prevent this type of thing cocking up my insurance :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTqHc617PMU

 

And not because I want to turn into a Daily Mail reader and increase my risk of a stroke or aneurysm 

[michael1703]

Danger?

 

What danger?

 

I've had more danger walking through the house barefoot with the lights off in close proximity to a coffee table

[chaseracer]

Needs MOAR Russians.

 

Have one of mine. Traffic was doing 70 mph on the A5 30 seconds earlier.

 

Pffft.  Stoneydelph, Tamworth.

 

Nuff sed...

[406V6]

I'm with garethj on this one. Quite normal driving by Thames Valley standards and that van at the start giving the cyclist a wide berth was a good careful move. If you're getting upset by driving like this I suggest taking a few deep breaths or something like it - none of us would want you to keel over with a stress-induced heart attack.

[garethj]

Needs MOAR Russians.

 

Have one of mine. Traffic was doing 70 mph on the A5 30 seconds earlier.

 

 

In the cyclist's defence, it's an A road and not a motorway so cyclists are allowed there.  Also in his defence, heading towards the oncoming traffic gives you a better chance of launching yourself into the grass if someone drifts over the white line into you.

 

And with a sharp junction signposted to the left, I wouldn't be doing 70mph there anyway.

 

how to cross the road, Kendray style:

 

 

The next one is almost a textbook case from the driving school.  On the right there's the ghost island on the road, probably a sign that the road is too wide for pedestrians to cross in one go so there's perhaps a central refuge up ahead.  So we know there'll be pedestrians around, and it's a difficult road to cross.

 

There's signs for a hospital on the left, everyone leaving hospital is a bit disorientated and their mind is elsewhere.  Maybe they've been to see a relative who's about to die, perhaps they've just spent 4 hours in A&E waiting room and there's not a single kid with a saucepan on his head like in the Bash Street Kids.  Maybe they're still in shock after paying six pounds a day to fucking park.

 

But what moves this situation into the Gold Medal class is that we're approaching the brow of a hill, so limited visibility.  Stick them all together, and that kind of thing probably happens quite often.

 

There's no doubt the pedestrian should have looked, and full marks for stopping in time.

 

I think the biggest issue I see with dash-cams is we're all looking to blame someone else.  What are we, six years old?  A bit more effort in avoiding the accident and the stress, and a bit less in finger pointing would make the roads a lot better.

 

Agreed on the post about avoiding insurance scams, when a car full of blokes reverse into me and all claim I drove into them and need whiplash compensation, I'll wish I had one.

[Micrashed]

 

Agreed on the post about avoiding insurance scams, when a car full of blokes reverse into me and all claim I drove into them and need whiplash compensation, I'll wish I had one.

This one cost £17, the picture quality is shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUtZF1PwvMI&list=UUPSGjs-zgOQLs0P2VfWbowQ

 

However its good enough in the event of a bump/scam which is all I want it for. The same camera can be had for a tenner now off teh bay.

[dave21478]

This one cost £17, the picture quality is shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUtZF1PwvMI&list=UUPSGjs-zgOQLs0P2VfWbowQ

 

However its good enough in the event of a bump/scam which is all I want it for. The same camera can be had for a tenner now off teh bay.

 

There is a list of people I want to punch in the face. Jean Michel Jarre is pretty high up that list.

[dave21478]

Mine is pretty decent. Its one of those G1W £30 from ebay jobs that comes on a slow boat from China. It records in proper 1080 HD, although I have to reduce the quality before I upload to the youtubes as my connection is really slow.

However, it only ever captures me swearing a lot and talking to myself like a proper mental. Oh and the slow attrition as bits fall off my cars.

 

Example..If you buy Value brand wipers at least keep the clips off your old Bosch ones to avoid these sort of occurrences...

(apologies for the pottymouth)

 

http://youtu.be/zRNLo9iJbQg

[AlabamaShrimp]

Mine is pretty decent. Its one of those G1W £30 from ebay jobs that comes on a slow boat from China. It records in proper 1080 HD, although I have to reduce the quality before I upload to the youtubes as my connection is really slow.

However, it only ever captures me swearing a lot and talking to myself like a proper mental. Oh and the slow attrition as bits fall off my cars.

 

Example..If you buy Value brand wipers at least keep the clips off your old Bosch ones to avoid these sort of occurrences...

(apologies for the pottymouth)

 

http://youtu.be/zRNLo9iJbQg

That's one day of the best videos I've seen all week and is making me look forward to it raining to see if my 75p wipers do the same

[HillmanImp]

In the cyclist's defence, it's an A road and not a motorway so cyclists are allowed there.  Also in his defence, heading towards the oncoming traffic gives you a better chance of launching yourself into the grass if someone drifts over the white line into you.

 

I often find myself having to shout at pedestrians (normally quite young) who are walking with their back to the traffic as drive on a lot of country roads round this way. Who doesn't teach their kids this?

 

But it did make me think one day, why don't cyclists do this? However its probably because a cyclist can almost do the same speed as a car in many urban situations so it wouldn't work. I probably want to lower the impact of the car hitting me by travelling away from it rather than hitting it at full pelt. 

[Albert Ross]

Not entirely sure that indicating to return to Lane 1 is a requirement...... It's "assumed" that the vehicle that has overtaken you WILL return to Lane 1... Whether he does or not, is no concern of yours, unless they hit you whilst doing it... and regards the braking space? They "should" be travelling faster than you to have overtaken you in the first place. Unless you have added a few mph to your speed whilst they were overtaking.....

[garbaldy]

Not entirely sure that indicating to return to Lane 1 is a requirement...... It's "assumed" that the vehicle that has overtaken you WILL return to Lane 1... Whether he does or not, is no concern of yours, unless they hit you whilst doing it... and regards the braking space? They "should" be travelling faster than you to have overtaken you in the first place. Unless you have added a few mph to your speed whilst they were overtaking.....

 

it also looked like he left you the two second gap before pulling in so not a problem in my eyes.

lane discipline on the large roundabout looked a bit suspect. 

as for the little van comment being over the line, yes he was but did you then undertake up the slip road ?