Dash cam thread (car videos only)

26000 Elephants

Patww79 wrote: »

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But the clio was over his line before OP got to his - How could it have been close?

simdan

26000 Elephants wrote:

But the clio was over his line before OP got to his - How could it have been close?

I think the point is that he didn't even look right, showing no caution at all.

neris

RobertFoster wrote: »

I've always wondered about that section of road where the taxi was pulled in in your video. It's marked as a (albeit short) hard shoulder, but it's treated as two lanes, especially at busy times. I wonder could you be done for it.

Theres similar on the other side aswell as you come off the roundabout. They are ridiculous places to have hard shoulders for such a short stretch. If everyone was to treat them as hard shoulders and not use them as lanes the traffic would be backed up alot worse then it is now. That whole road from the M1/M50 to Clare Hall is a complete **** up really

savagethegoat

26000 Elephants wrote: »

But the clio was over his line before OP got to his - How could it have been close?

t did seem to me as if the two cars crossed their lines more or less at the same time

chewed

neris wrote: »

Theres similar on the other side aswell as you come off the roundabout. They are ridiculous places to have hard shoulders for such a short stretch. If everyone was to treat them as hard shoulders and not use them as lanes the traffic would be backed up alot worse then it is now. That whole road from the M1/M50 to Clare Hall is a complete **** up really

I actually emailed Fingal Co Co about this stretch of road before and the useless need for hard shoulders and the fact that everyone ignores them. This was the response...

"I just spoke to the Traffic Engineer who told me that this road was considered a National Road but was downgraded to a regional road, in conjunction with the NRA. The Traffic Engineer says that we will not be removing the hard shoulder at this location as it is needed in case someone breaks down. There are no plans to change the layout of this road. I hope this answers your question."

In case someone breaks down? Even if you had 2 active lanes, traffic could still use the 1 lane to overtake a potential breakdown!

AndyBoBandy

Truck driver down in Cork swerving in his lane, and as expected, he was playing with his mobile phone.
(recorded on my 'travel' dash cam as I'm in the rental car)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6zS_4hIxao

simdan

Not the usual Dash cam clip here. I was cleaning the car out and the dogs escaped. Remembered that all the footage was recorded!

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

robbiew

simdan wrote: »

Not the usual Dash cam clip here. I was cleaning the car out and the dogs escaped. Remembered that all the footage was recorded!

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

do your pets have opposable thumbs looked like they had a blast..

simdan

robbiew wrote: »

do your pets have opposable thumbs looked like they had a blast..

LOL! I think they must do, they are too bold!

Atlantic Dawn

simdan wrote: »

Not the usual Dash cam clip here. I was cleaning the car out and the dogs escaped. Remembered that all the footage was recorded!

A cam on one of the dogs would have been great to see what mischief they got up to when they legged it, they might have met up with the rest of the local crew :pac:

simdan

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

A cam on one of the dogs would have been great to see what mischief they got up to when they legged it, they might have met up with the rest of the local crew :pac:

Haha maybe the next purchase will be GoPros for their foreheads!

BohsCeltic

This fella decided to just cross the road without looking despite there being loads of pedestrian crossings.
My windscreen and jets were full of tree sap hence the squeaking and the reason i was going slower than normal .
Wide angle lens makes it look further than it actually is.

At least he acknowledged his mistake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfMxxEQFX0

allthedoyles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us9azKbSitE

When you to let off one car and the next driver decides to go ahead too .

savagethegoat

why would you do that? you'll get rear-ended one day!

AndyBoBandy

Indeed, why would you do that? It's a roundabout!

Kind of defeats the point!

simdan

allthedoyles wrote:

When you to let off one car and the next driver decides to go ahead too .

Why are you stopping to let people go, especially on a roundabout? It's quite dangerous.

allthedoyles

simdan wrote: »

Why are you stopping to let people go, especially on a roundabout? It's quite dangerous.

The vid is gone off YT - its a local thing to give way to traffic on the left at this mini roundabout

Special Circumstances

allthedoyles wrote: »

its a local thing to give way to traffic on the left at this mini roundabout

classic.
"My father's father yielded to the left on this roundabout, and so will you son"

shietpilot

I met the 50 year old female accountant today in her 1.3 Corsa! She bleedin' beeped back at me too!

simdan

shietpilot wrote: »

I met the 50 year old female accountant today in her 1.3 Corsa! She bleedin' beeped back at me too!

What a dope! How do you know she's 50 and an accountant?

Alanstrainor

This is a dashcam thread, dashcams only, no helmet or cycling cameras to be posted.

shietpilot

simdan wrote: »

What a dope! How do you know she's 50 and an accountant?

I don't, just joking really. It's mad how others drive on the roads and probably pay 3-4 times less on their insurance premiums though.

savagethegoat

allthedoyles wrote: »

The vid is gone off YT - its a local thing to give way to traffic on the left at this mini roundabout

you can't have "local things" on an N road.90% of traffic isn't local.

Mycroft H

Second clip is downright dangerous, you're always guaranteed terrible driving on the single carriageway sections of the N11. Two clips near Enniscorty, one coming in and the other coming out.

gutteruu

Mycroft H wrote: »

Second clip is downright dangerous, you're always guaranteed terrible driving on the single carriageway sections of the N11. Two clips near Enniscorty, one coming in and the other coming out.

I don't usually agree with reporting but that video should definitely be shown to the cops. They will kill someone yet.

Falcon L

gutteruu wrote: »

I don't usually agree with reporting but that video should definitely be shown to the cops. They will kill someone yet.

Those fellas are untouchable. Culture me hole!

Mycroft H

gutteruu wrote: »

I don't usually agree with reporting but that video should definitely be shown to the cops. They will kill someone yet.

I rang Enniscorty Garda Stn who put the message through to the traffic lads. It's all I could do.

gutteruu

Falcon L wrote: »

Those fellas are untouchable. Culture me hole!

Maybe the transit but other 2 cars don't look like they are our cultured friends.

Kenjataimu

It looked like they were chasing the first car imo.

Falcon L

gutteruu wrote: »

Maybe the transit but other 2 cars don't look like they are our cultured friends.

A couple of months ago I was sitting waiting to board the ferry at Fishguard. A very nice, brand new, cabrio Merc pulled into the lane beside me. Out popped a lot of culture. There is no typical car/van anymore.

Mycroft H

Kenjataimu wrote: »

It looked like they were chasing the first car imo.

Could have been. Either way it was properly dangerous. There was a lot of cyclists/runners/walkers/agri vehicles in the hard shoulder that afternoon.

OldMrBrennan83

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josip

Mycroft H wrote: »

I rang Enniscorty Garda Stn who put the message through to the traffic lads. It's all I could do.

What can the guards do without reg numbers?
Did they ask you to send on the dashcam footage?

Mycroft H

josip wrote: »

What can the guards do without reg numbers?
Did they ask you to send on the dashcam footage?

No, I didn't mention it. I'll send them a mail/tweet

26000 Elephants

Mycroft H wrote: »

No, I didn't mention it. I'll send them a mail/tweet

Unless you are willing to sign a statement and stand up in court against them, I wouldn't bother.

dickwod1

Patww79 wrote: »

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Playing in 1080p for me, might be your own internet connection (reset modem)

Clip 2 Hope thay have a specsavers in that garage
Clip 3 If the truck couldn't get back in safely then he shouldn't be overtaking in the first place.

Mycroft H

26000 Elephants wrote: »

Unless you are willing to sign a statement and stand up in court against them, I wouldn't bother.

Yea, I figured as much. I've no idea what they did when going through enniscorty, did the fly through the town?

dickwod1 wrote: »

Playing in 1080p for me, might be your own internet connection (reset modem)

You tube renders the 360 first and then the 1080 in the background when uploaded.

OldMrBrennan83

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Mycroft H

Patww79 wrote: »

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I did the very same earlier today

bear1

3 idiots in that last video. Best way for them to go ahead and kill someone.
Wonder if the Focus was stolen and the van and Golf were giving chase. I'd have just called the police tbh rather than risk mine or some innocent victims life.

Special Circumstances

Falcon L wrote: »

A couple of months ago I was sitting waiting to board the ferry at Fishguard. A very nice, brand new, cabrio Merc pulled into the lane beside me. Out popped a lot of culture. There is no typical car/van anymore.

White merc + yellow reg in limerick = culture.

neris

Special Circumstances wrote: »

White merc + yellow reg in limerick = culture.

Plain van (uaually white) with no company name or business + roof light/beacon usually = culture aswell

chewed

looking at all these recent videos, I keep thinking they're from a foreign country with sun and blue skies! :rolleyes:

Mycroft H

chewed wrote: »

looking at all these recent videos, I keep thinking they're from a foreign country with sun and blue skies! :rolleyes:

I see you're still in stage one. :pac:

Sterling Archer

Ruthlessly stolen from reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfig6Ez84QA

Cop came up to me and said 'You know what you did that caused this
right?' I said 'Yea, i cut it too close when i went to the left lane'.
He said 'Don't do that again, you never know what can happen'. The cop
was really nice about it.

Bigus

^^^^^^^^^^^

That exact thing happened to me on the M50 recently albeit at a much higher and more dangerous speed , cutter upper braked from 100 kph to Zero in the same manner , ( brake test then swerve and second brake test to Zero ,when I went for the first gap)unbelievable for him to come to a full stop on the M50 ! Lucky enough my sons car, I was driving (with N plates which I think caused the rage) had brand new Discs and pads on all four corners , enabled me to brake harder and get around him, the other side.

He was so sure I hit him that I could NOW see him in MY mirror climbing out onto the M50 slow lane to see the now "phantom me "stuck in his back bumper , but as he was in a van he didn't see me swerve around him because he was too busy looking in his mirrors , oh for a dash cam that day , he'd be locked up now.

Hammer Archer

I cycle, I obey the ROTR, but these two morons (among others) give the rest of us a bad name (and yes, the second one is cycling the wrong way up the M3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KzMn5jBWVI

Next up, have a listen to the radio in this clip. A Simpsons legend lives on in Phibsboro apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv30PctWbhw

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AndyBoBandy

2 videos from Friday just gone;

First one is of the immediate aftermath of a crash northbound on the M8 involving a Land Cruiser and what looks like a vintage pick up truck/car/ute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvJ8ZCek5FY

Second was a few hours later on the M50, almost a pile up, I don't know what caused it (besides everyone being too close to the car in front. I plead guilty), but at the beginning, you see a car (Fluence?) in lane 2 changing into lane 3, only to abort and pull straight back into lane 2. maybe he caused it, or maybe he saw what was about to happen and bailed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prAi7e9c2SI

(almost) a poor start to the bank holiday weekend

bertie4evr

An American one. A van is hogging the left lane, so a driver calls the number on the back and asks him to move.

Starts at 1:00

simdan

A few examples of poor driving from today. Before you say the word "Undertake" The overtaking lane hoggers are a danger to other drivers. It seems they are oblivious to anyone around them

Enjoy..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7-oS0n9NUE