Dash cam thread 2 (car videos only, no commenting on videos)

Damien360

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Spook_ie wrote: »

It's not a bike lane, it's a cycle track and cycle tracks are not exclusive to cycles, hence the broken white line

Well, if you want to be really pedantic (and it seems like you do), it is an advisory cycle track - a highly visible advisory cycle track, that there is no excuse for any driver not seeing.

In fairness, some of those cycle tracks take almost half the available road. Parts of Kimmage road and Wainsfort road are ridiculous for both drivers and cyclist. Do a Google Earth of Wainsfort road to see what I mean. It is like this in a lot more places.

AndrewJRenko

Damien360 wrote: »

In fairness, some of those cycle tracks take almost half the available road. Parts of Kimmage road and Wainsfort road are ridiculous for both drivers and cyclist. Do a Google Earth of Wainsfort road to see what I mean. It is like this in a lot more places.

Not quite relevant to the original discussion, but I'm not sure I see what the problem is. If the cyclist is there, you're have to find a safe space to overtake, regardless of whether there is an advisory cycle lane present or not.

Spook_ie

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Not quite relevant to the original discussion, but I'm not sure I see what the problem is. If the cyclist is there, you're have to find a safe space to overtake, regardless of whether there is an advisory cycle lane present or not.

The problem is that you seem to think the driver couldn't see a section of red tarmac, where actually all that happened was they misjudged the kerb and rubbed off it.

AndrewJRenko

Spook_ie wrote: »

The problem is that you seem to think the driver couldn't see a section of red tarmac, where actually all that happened was they misjudged the kerb and rubbed off it.

I responded to another poster who was making excuses for why the driver couldn't see it;


https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=107805527&postcount=3268


Short of having a Mariachi band playing a special tune to point it out, it really couldn't be any clearer. There is no excuse for not seeing it.


Actually, I think the driver DIDN'T see the cycle track because he wasn't looking at the road - he was looking at his phone, like we all see drivers doing around us every day. If a cyclist or possibly even a pedestrian had been in the wrong place at the wrong time, someone could have been seriously hurt.

I did two trips outside of Dublin over the past month, and using phones at the wheel seems to be even worse - even on motorways, travelling at motorway speeds, there were drivers tapping their phones and holding phones to their ears for calls. There were tractor drivers and heavy truck drivers on their phones, along with lots of car drivers.


It's a big problem.

But that's just my guess, and I could be wrong. Maybe he 'misjudged' it as you say, which is pretty piss-poor driving too in my book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft5Mru4bNiA

ganmo

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

I responded to another poster who was making excuses for why the driver couldn't see it;


https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=107805527&postcount=3268


Short of having a Mariachi band playing a special tune to point it out, it really couldn't be any clearer. There is no excuse for not seeing it.


Actually, I think the driver DIDN'T see the cycle track because he wasn't looking at the road - he was looking at his phone, like we all see drivers doing around us every day. If a cyclist or possibly even a pedestrian had been in the wrong place at the wrong time, someone could have been seriously hurt.

I did two trips outside of Dublin over the past month, and using phones at the wheel seems to be even worse - even on motorways, travelling at motorway speeds, there were drivers tapping their phones and holding phones to their ears for calls. There were tractor drivers and heavy truck drivers on their phones, along with lots of car drivers.


It's a big problem.

But that's just my guess, and I could be wrong. Maybe he 'misjudged' it as you say, which is pretty piss-poor driving too in my book.

I wasn’t making excuses, I was trying to understand how it happened. You have to know how mistakes were made to avoid them yourself...that is if you make mistakes

V8 Interceptor

Cop on phone crashes into cyclist

<only car cams in this thread, no bike cams>

tedpan

V8 Interceptor wrote:

Cop on phone crashes into cyclist

Already shared a few weeks ago, you've got to get in faster..

V8 Interceptor

tedpan wrote: »

Already shared a few weeks ago, you've got to get in faster..

Dang! And I call meself a V8?

TallGlass

Deleted User wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft5Mru4bNiA

That car driver at the start of that video needs to be put off the road. Seems to think it's reasonable once 'he' believes he didn't cause an accident that it's okay to go on his merry way after.

Hope he was reported.

Isambard

TallGlass wrote: »

That car driver at the start of that video needs to be put off the road. Seems to think it's reasonable once 'he' believes he didn't cause an accident that it's okay to go on his merry way after.

Hope he was reported.

I think it rather illustrates why you don't attempt to overtake across a junction

Isambard

Isambard wrote: »

I think it rather illustrates why you don't attempt to overtake across a junction

Yes, the road markings are clear that the road ahead is hazardous.

bazz26

V8 Interceptor wrote: »

Dang! And I call meself a V8?

Lazy V8?

Isambard

bazz26 wrote: »

Lazy V8?

needs a turbo

Spook_ie

For about the 100th time. Not dashcam

Spook_ie

Graphic Content Comments Say He Survived

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBzltpNkF7w

jimmynokia

Just LOL https://youtu.be/c3nsD-xnovs

Alanstrainor

jimmynokia wrote: »

Just LOL https://youtu.be/c3nsD-xnovs

Camera needs just a little nudge downwards I think!

jimmynokia

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Camera needs just a little nudge downwards I think!

bi
Yeah it gets moved quite a just bought a new one today anyway so it wont be an issue again..

StereoSound

Woman driving a Nissan Note on the wrong side of the road.... Knocklyon opposite SuperValu Dublin 16.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSriW1-v1A

bazz26

Senior person would be my guess, they tend to like the Note.

job seeker

^ I hope she takes "Note" of her sh1t driving..

Must have been looking at a mobile phone or something..

OldMrBrennan83

Nah no chance. I doubt anyone that drives one of them Notes has anything to look at on a phone, if they have a phone at all. They just had no idea they'd joined a two way road after being on a dual lane one way.

jimmynokia

Was it a rentacar I find them the most to commit silly offences with tourists in them.

OldMrBrennan83

jimmynokia wrote: »

Was it a rentacar I find them the most to commit silly offences with touists in them.

Couldn't see too many rental companies still having 15's.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7497517/8dd32f23/cadeautje_voor_je.html

Up up and away

Patww79

Patww79 wrote: »

Nah no chance. I doubt anyone that drives one of them Notes has anything to look at on a phone, if they have a phone at all. They just had no idea they'd joined a two way road after being on a dual lane one way.

Plus they were totally oblivious to the road markings at the lights, and the lights.

StereoSound

bazz26 wrote: »

Senior person would be my guess, they tend to like the Note.

It was not a senior.. She looked young enough, early 20s. She looked back at me in her rear view mirror and definitely a young person.

Truckermal

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

https://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7497517/8dd32f23/cadeautje_voor_je.html

Up up and away

Cyclists fault definitely.

Emmersonn

StereoSound wrote: »

It was not a senior.. She looked young enough, early 20s. She looked back at me in her rear view mirror and definitely a young person.

Probably stoned. :eek: