Dangerous driving

I'm sure the other driver was well aware of your presence and the potential danger, so there was absolutely no need to sound the horn in those circumstances, regardless of how tempting it might have been.

Plus, people who engage in this kind of behaviour usually don't react kindly to any kind of reaction, be it sounding the horn, flashing your lights or hand gestures.

I cant see any footage, but based on what you've said the other driver was completely in the wrong on both fronts.

Firstly - on the overtake. There is no debating that one.

And second - on the aggressive reaction.

I dont see any issue with you beeping the horn.

My own view on this - is that driving seems to have become, and I'm using the phrase paradoxically.....a 'safe space' for those who want to vent their anger and engage in law breaking. That is to say, there is seldom any consequence for people who routinely break the law on the roads - and then when dude does see a consequence, i.e. you beeping the horn - he raise the ante by acting aggressively.

Doesnt matter that he was in the wrong. He wants to win the argument. And again, there is no consequence for him here when he does react aggressively.

If he behaved like that in a pub he'd be thrown out. But somehow on the roads its ok.

Overtaking on continuous white lines is very common here. I do not exceed the speed limit and the roads locally generally allow maximum legal speed, so I don't hang around dawdling at under the limit either.

People overtake on unbroken whites all the time. Whether due to lack of knowledge or not caring I don't know, but it happens as a matter of course.

I never use the horn under these circumstances, the maneuver has been completed so the horn will not warn and it shouldn't be needed to let the other driver know you are there if he has passed you.

The safe "workaround" is maybe a tad unusual for a few I meet on the road, but pay frequent attention as to what is coming in the rear view mirror and leave plenty of space between yourself and the car in front so that the reason for the unbroken line does not hit the offender when he has no space to drop into.

Fairly crazy driving by the other guy, particularly the attempted overtake/undertake - very dangerous.

It would be good to see the original overtake for completeness, but there's no excuse for that kind of aggressive driving.

You should report it to Gardai via TrafficWatch and give them the video footage.

I drive for a living and between working and commuting, I probably spend over sixty hours a week on the road. Pretty much every time I see someone doing something stupid or dangerous, they're doing it in a Nissan Qashqai.

You should report that to the Gardai, absolutely mental stuff no matter what happened beforehand.

Do you have video of the original overtake where he crossed a solid white line?

That lunatic needs to be removed from the road. Brake check, common enough crap. The very poor attempt of overtake, common enough. The undertake on the hard shoulder in inexcusable. Given the low sun, the visibility was poor, could have been anyone walking or a car stopped. I don't think the gardai will do anything if you report but that person will be a statistic very soon based on that.

they have a dashcam. they posted the footage.

A nasty incident to be involved in and thankfully it did not become worse. Good job with the dashcam. If you want the Gardai to do anything you must bring this to their attention otherwise nothing will be done and 171 D Qushqai can carry on driving like lunatic.

There was nothing mild about their driving.

Didn't say the driving was mild, I said in the scale of things that will get the Garda attention then this incident is...

It is careless driving, if not dangerous driving. the gardai prosecute people for this all the time. with the footage this would be a very easy case to prosecute.

My reply was posted before the video was posted and i hope you didnot take a day off work in order to reply to my post

Some years ago whilst commuting from Wexford to South Dublin, a motorist overtook me, and several cars, crossing a continuous white line (before the M11 was opened). I made a mental note of the reg plate and caught a glimpse of the driver from my rearview mirror as he overtook.

He then overtook more cars in front of us, just about avoiding some oncoming cars from the Dublin direction. About an hour later I came across the vehicle in South Dublin, stopped at a junction. I wrote down the number, and make of the car and could see the driver quite clearly.

When I got to the office later that morning, I wrote (e-mailed I think) the Guards with details. A few days later, I was contacted by the Guards and was asked to make a statement - which I did at my local station. A few months later, the station nearest the incident phoned and asked would I go to court if need be - I said yes. Maybe a week or two later, a sergeant phoned to say the motorist had pleaded guilty and was fined. No need to attend court. Hopefully, I did the guy a favour that morning - and also fellow motorists.

Jesus.

OP, please report this. Thankfully, an accident didn't happen this time and no one was hurt, but who knows next time this lunatic could end up killing some innocent person who is just going about their day.

Please don't let this go when you have the evidence right here to do something about it.

You know it's the right thing to do. 👍

As already said, even if the OP was doing the same or worse, it does not diminish the dangerous/careless driving in the footage.

At a time when our road deaths are at a 10 year high I find anyone saying there's nothing to see here and it happens every day is in denial! This is exactly the kind of behaviour that's causing accidents and deaths.

That maneuver looks incredibly dangerous and puts so many other lives at risk. It is a very busy road. I'd have no hesitation in sending that clip on to the Garda Traffic Corps .

There's no channel to report issues like this to the Roads Policing Unit (as the Traffic Corps are now known).

If you want to report it, you can use the Garda Trafficwatch phone line, or report it to the station where the incident occurred. It gets allocated at the local station, sometimes to a Roads Policing garda or sometimes to a front line garda.

You got the right Garda. Last Thursday on M2 at ashbourne, a car overtook me at 150kph (approx) during snow/slush conditions, then tailgated a van who was caught behind HGV, followed by another dangerous overtaking.

He was again stuck behind HGV on ashbourne turn off so I beeped him as i passed. He came back on motorway to pursue me and attempted to run me off the road which I only avoided by going into the hard shoulder.

The Guards (there were 5 in front office) gave me cock and bull story, "Oh there's a car up there now", without asking where he went. I gave the cars reg but they didn't take my contact details, at which point I realised that they were just trying to get rid of me.

I see life threatening dangerous driving at least once a week and the reality is that there is almost no enforcement and lots of avoidable deaths.