5:32 guarantee that yellow beetle has sat in lane two for no reason for the past 5 miles then all of a sudden “oh shit I need this exit.” Absolutely clueless, and dangerous too
@@ralphmillais5237 some of us are above sitting in the middle lane and endangering other road users by veering over lanes to exit a motorway. But that's mainly because we remember how motorways work and concentrate when using them
Well done Bart for stopping. So many cammers just drive on their merry way without stopping after witnessing a crash. That dash cam evidence can save a lot of time and trouble for the innocent party.
Definitely, proves the fault of the blue driver for failure to yield, and will allow the poor white vehicle owner to get full compensation for the accident.
@@themanofthehour5665 The left lanes were closed. The other people went through Lane Closed signs, and can expect points if the gantry had cameras. Jeff was in the right.
8:05 This is the sort of driver who will plough into the back of a broken-down vehicle in the live lane of a so-called "smart" motorway because they think the gantry warning signs don't apply to them. 🤬
It’s soo frustrating as all the drivers needed to be in one lane, the other lanes were clearly marked X which means you cannot drive in them, people have no patience these days…
@@literallyjase Even better if they got visited and had enquiries about their state of mind, and the need to go and do driver training again before the next time they get keys.
I’ve been a passenger with three different elderly drivers who fixedly concentrate ONLY on the road ahead, never once looking to their sides. Terrifying. Also went with one at night who didn’t notice the speed bumps and went full-pelt across them.
I feel for Jeff, his clip highlights how dangerous "smart" motorways can be. Many a time I've had an HGV 3mm off my back bumper because I drop to 50 when the signs dictate it. The locals have an encyclopedic knowledge of where the cameras are so only abide by the limit for that gantry leaving you like a rolling road block. Also, brake checking needs to be punished far more severely to try and stamp it out. Preferably with the culprits losing their licence for a long time. What is the mindset anyway? "I'll show you who's boss by stamping on the brakes" followed 5 seconds later by "WTF?! YOU HIT ME". Well.... Who's fault is that then?
@@joshuatk59 I can’t believe we’re persisting with them, just admit they were a mistake and revert back to a proper hard shoulder, I’m always nervous if I see somebody stopped on one.
It's more the fact you are making people under take you, just move left and let traffic flow. Then merge into the single lane later on, don't sit in the outside lane for 20mins when all 4 lanes are still open
Does anyone else find watching these videos makes you a safer driver and teaches you what not to do in situations? I even, always look to make sure it's clear at green lights.
It certainly helps with hazard perception and some of the, lets call it constructive banter between those with opposing views, can add some interesting observations on some incidents. Although i fear all too many are just here to watch near misses and road rage, without actually learning anything in particular.
Yep, it’s good visual reinforcement of something my dad taught me years ago. Assume that everyone else on the road is an idiot and that they are likely to do something stupid at any moment. More seriously I would point you to Ashley Neal’s videos if you really want to keep learning how to be a safer driver.
10:30, Thanks for stopping, presumably to give the dashcam footage over etc. Always the right thing to do and the amount of cammers that drive off with invaluable evidence in an insurance claim is amazing to me.
Crash like that doesn't really need video, pretty cut and dry for insurers to deal with -- was a decent hit, I'd be checking everybody is okay and nobody needs an ambulance.
@@streaky81 Yeah for sure, was just a good example of someone stopping after an acciednt. Should always even if you're not involved when you have footage IMO.
Clearly is aggressive on the road (as seen in previous clip) and drives too fast for road conditions. He obviously thinks he's some sort of elite driver, considering how many clips he uploads.
Wrong approach, you’re supposed to speed up to 90mph swerve round the car, horn on full blast whilst shouting ‘I’VE GOT IT ON DASHCAM’ at the top of your lungs
@@BedsitBob Don't know where the clip is from so pure speculation here as I dont know how quickly those lights change, but as a coach driver myself it could be he'd passed the point of no return and the safest option was to keep going. Some of the traffic lights in my area change stupidly fast (and often for no reason as well) and slowing down as much as you can SAFELY and proceeding is sometimes safer than slamming on and giving your passengers a broken nose when they nut the seat in front of them.
Unless I missed it, was that a whole compilation without minor infractions at a mini-roundabout? Can't believe it. Some terrific examples of people having no patience and not knowing when it's safe to go around a bus
In the third clip, why couldn't the person in the Renault just put their hand up and acknowledge their error. It's people not doing small things like this to diffuse situations, that causes road rage incidents.
@@TobyBonham yellow zig zags do mean school but its only a 20 if its posted. But my point is that a horn is used to let people know you're there, and I think they probably knew you were there.
@@TobyBonham bearing in mind, it might be a school zone but the 20/03/2022 was a Sunday so it wouldn't even be in effect. Bike overtook, looked like they're both still going less than the speed limit (exhaust makes the bike sounds more aggressive when accelerating) and the car driver got pissed that someone overtook them. There was no cars ahead, no blind bends, it was safe to pass. If the bike wants to speed ahead and potentially injure themselves. They should let them instead of aggressively honking the horn for absolutely no reason for that long. No wonder the guy stopped like "wtf? I didn't endanger anyone"
I suppose technically you could say they were warning the biker that they had apparently missed the absolutely massive 20 sign, but on the other hand it's not an individual's job to police the roads. I think I would've uttered "twat" under my breath and been done with it.
Was out for a walk yesterday, counted 6 people jumping the lights, one was a mother with kids in the back setting a fine example for the next generation....
A car pulled up beside me quite fast and went over the line, red light was on way before he turned up then just carried on through 🤦♀️had to double check that lights hadn't changed without me noticing
Same… It’s not that smart motorways are dangerous, it’s that people are dangerous, stupid and selfish… I’ve been in the same situation many a time on the way back from the airport late at night, absolutely not reason for lanes to be closed and for the 40mph limit, but i’m the only sucker doing 40-45 in the correct lane and everyone else is smashing past like the signs don’t exist… Not the road or the signs fault, people are just selfish
If everyone followed the rules they wouldn't be dangerous at all. You could say that about any highway regulation, they're ALL dangerous if 90% of people completely ignore it. 'Red lights are dangerous because people stop at them'. If lanes are closed and the remaining lane is at a 40mph limit (legally enforceable as it has a red ring round it - so those people thinking it's not enforceable are greatly mistaken), then you should drive in the remaining lane at a limit of 40mph. The people complaining they do it too early, are the same people that cause them to be done too early because they're not complying with it. Same with the speeders complaining limits are too low, they're that low because of how many people exceed them.
Bart is a star doing the rare but decent thing! Stopping at the scene of the accident and hopefully giving his details to the car that got rear ended so they can use the video to prevent any lies from the driver at fault! Well done 👍
If you're paying attention and can see you are about to be rear ended, releasing the brakes lessens the impact on you physically, as the energy is transferred into moving the car forward without resistance from the brakes.
8:05 Guarantee you the white car flashing and the numpties undertaking Jeff spout off "smart motorways are dangerous cos they ain't got hard shoulders innit" without a hint of irony.
what's odd there is the flashing car had the empty lanes to overtake from if he thought breaking the law was ok, so why did he not just use them sooner? Or was he stupid? OK he was stupid thinking he was telling the cammer off.
7:23 loving the fact you have to be anonymous, because you’re scared to out your name in for people to criticise why you beeped the bike for no reason at all😂
Guessing bike was going well over the speed limit. Clearly says it's a 20 zone for that bit of road. Couldn't see what time limits are for the yellow zigzags are, but did the biker check it was legal to stop where he did?
Astonishing footage at 7:50. Only one car seemed to be interested in the fact the other 3 lanes were closed and the 40mph speed limit and that was the camera car!
The other three lanes were due to close further ahead, they weren't closed until the crosses were displayed. The undertaking and the speeding were clearly wrong, but with a clear view of the empty road ahead it wasn't necessary to sit in the outside lane from such an early point.
I am not justifying the actions of other drivers, but anyone who's driven on the M25 or M1 at night with lane closures like this will often have experienced miles of overhead lane closures with nothing in them only to then drive under a national speed limit sign over all four lanes with no explanation. You should always follow the instructions and rules of the road (in this case there were roadworks), but those in charge of these overhead gantry restrictions should make sure they are consistent. I've driven under one that said national speed limit, next one said 30 mph, next one said national speed limit again. Very dangerous if not carefully monitored.
@@shardlake Thing is if you look at the speed on the dash cam it drops by a couple of MPH then speeds up just before the collision, so god knows what they were doing.
9:48 is a prime example of why you should stop trying to give way to people unnecessarily and being completely oblivious to everything behind you. I swear some people are offering special favours to get their license.
@@Captain-Cardboard what? You can clearly see the black car in front of the cammer stop and encourage the cyclists to cross before the lights have changed. This is very dangerous.
For that matter, Daz is hardly the brain of Britain himself - you can see the bimmer is a liability doing god only knows what swinging out onto the wrong side of the road without indicating... The clever thing to do is, naturally, to undertake, right? 🤦♂️ BMW is driven badly, but Daz has a cheek pointing that out given his own stupidity... And compounds the silliness by sending it in, too 😂😂😂
6:19 : ABS and ASC saved that absolutely typical knobber of an Audi driver from a one way ticket to a meet and greet with the local scenery. Hope they spilled their triple macchiato frappe with extra sprinkles all over their tracksuit.
This slip road is only about 500 yards off the exit from a roundabout. The sign has been flattened so many times by people trying to go round it too fast/late that I believe they have just stopped putting it back up when it gets hit now.
7:25 - Biker put no one in danger and did nothing to you. No wonder they stopped to see what was wrong with you. Judging by your use of the handbrake I'm willing to bet you got into an embarrassing and unnecessary altercation outside your vehicle which you'd rather not let us see hence the footage cutting short.
@@TykitFleine WONT SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!! Grab more pearls mate. The biker honestly did nothing wrong and to make a safe overtake you normally have to rev your engine.
Well, yes, I agree with you in principle, but it would help enormously if they didn't put these signs up so far in advance of any actual incident that drivers just come to see them as crying wolf.
@@rogerking7258 Surely the reason that they put them so far in advance is in order to warn drivers like the ones in the clip who don't notice on the 1st, 2nd or 3rd warning.
@@rogerking7258 It would help more if the drivers were intelligent enough to understand the reason for the signs to be well in advance. It's almost like operating a motor vehicle is a skilled task not everyone is mentally cut out for..
@@glenn1534 Please don't get me wrong, I'm not defending those drivers, but on one occasion I came across these signs and it was FIVE miles before we passed the incident, which was just a car changing a tyre in one of those emergency refuges that they think is a suitable substitute for a proper hard shoulder. It's really no wonder that drivers become cynical about the need to observe this law.
7:46 This sums up driving in the UK nowadays. You’re doing the right thing, obeying the speed limit and observing what the signs are stating, whilst seemingly everyone else has little patience and no regards for the rules.
Sitting in the 3rd lane miles before the closure is an absolute joke 😂 well deserved in my opinion. People like you are the problem and why motorways are all clogged up 😂 laughable
How can people say Jeff was wrong?? The. Signs say move right, which means move right as soon as you can. It also shows a 50mph limit. Jeff clearly didn't cut the Merc, which was speeding, up. Jeff slows down to 40mph, with the other 3 lanes now being closed, with red crosses above them. All the other cars - Fail to move over in time. Fail to move out of closed lanes. Fail to stick to the speed limits.
I agree. Only thing I'd say, is it did look like he may have been doing about 30 during some of the 50 stretches. But still no excuse for the other drivers
This is why we have to have national campaigns telling us how a Red X and a Move Left/Right sign works, because apparently people are just beyond hope 🤣
And considering they’re now adding cameras to closed lanes to catch drivers out , Jeff was in the right , which shows how fucking stupid motorways are now
@@andyuk2010 imagine then posting comments that show you clearly have no idea 😂🤣 I bet some of these people indicate right when they want to go straight ahead on a roundabout 😂
Whilst I agree that the X1/X3 (not a real BMW) should have indicated it’s intentions, anyone with any sense would have held back for a second or two to make sure it wasn’t about to make the twat manoeuvre it did.
@@notmenotme614 im not saying the cammer was wrong. just saying that the whole situation would have just been better if theyd stopped instead of forcing their way through. driving isnt about being right, its just about helping everyone for the best flow and in this case it slowed the cammer down to push their way through instead of just waiting
@@ethanleighton9060 you expect cammer to hit the brakes to let the Volvo overtake? It would be ‘nice’ of cammer but they are under no obligation whatsoever, so the Volvo driver can get to fuck and wait, honestly
Red cross on the motorway and so many cars driving in the wrong lane, plus over the speed limit, can get a heafty fine if caught and there was a speed camera sign overhead too. Hope they all get what they deserve!
@@leeowen4989 this 100%. Heard a radio advert the other day telling people to go left if they have an issue, and herein lies the problem; you're sharing the road with people who have the calibre of intelligence whereby they need to be told not to stop in the passing lanes wherever possible
@@cafe405 It does make you wonder, we have had motorways with overhead gantries since at least the 90s. I remember my dad explaining them to me back then. The only change as far as signage goes is that on a smart motorway the reduced speed limits are mandatory. The red X has meant the same thing for a long time, do not pass this sign in this lane. You can't even say you didn't see it or there was no warning......
@@leeowen4989 The Red X was valid when I took my test in the 70s, though it was very rare to ever see one other than on tidal flow roads, which are not motorways anyway. The advent of Smart motorways has made it a fairly common sight. Still, so many drivers either ignore or are ignorant of them. I think the first one I ever saw was on the M25 in the early 90s.
@@lightningpete I think it is to educate others. Even if it was crash for cash, you still need to maintain a following distance whereby you can stop if the vehicle in front suddenly does.
A few months back I had the driver in front suddenly stop in front of me, we were doing about 30 MPH, I always keep my distance from the car in front, and he stopped in front of me while I was moving to change lanes. I'm 60 years old and my reactions were a heck of a lot faster than this guy, I stopped without rear ending the car in front. Unfortunately the car behind me wasn't so quick and went into the back of my car..........
if you look back at the video at 8:12 mark you can clearly see Jeff applies the brakes. You can see the red lights reflect of the car number plates behind me. Why is he brake checking? To me that’s careless driving and for that reason alone can land him in trouble. He braked and slowed his vehicle down way below the 40 sign causing danger to cars behind him. He did not need to brake at all. He slowed down so much after that, that cars then was undertaking him due to his lower speed
@@Jatt.Lalkar The muppet speeding in the SUV is just trying to intimidate Jeff into moving into a lane that is closing. That is the problem here. Too many of these types on our roads. We don’t know from the footage what speed Jeff was doing either. He was doing as the gantry signs indicated. Moving to the only live lane and probably not exceeding the temporary speed limit. If you can’t see this you are part of the problem.
@@LavisP Actually, we do - the motorway lane lines are 2m long with a 7m gap. Couple this knowledge with the time required to pass them, and you have velocity. 38mph approaching the 40mph limit gantry, from a very rough calculation. I could be more exact but why bother, it's in the ballpark.
3:41 I don't think the oncoming car had a red light. Reason for this is the lower of the 2 sets of lights in front of the cammer's car has a filter light below the standard green.
They did not. I know this junction well being a delivery driver in the area, this happens far too often. There is in fact a right turn signal on those lights, the oncoming vehicle likely didn't jump a red.
07:46 Jeff - of course all the other drivers are upset at you being stupid enough to read the road signs. Just imagine the chaos if everyone did what the signs said!
Joseph @ 3:20 wondering why he sees so many incidents, because his poor driving helps create them. You do know the reason the car creeps out from the parked traffic is the reason you should use appropriate speed. Is your licence out of ready brek?
It's obvious he was distracted by the green car on the right and wasn't paying any sort of attention to what he was doing, driving through the crosshatchings at the start of that clip was a nice touch to.
3:35 Joseph asks what people are doing, maybe just take it easy man your first clip racing with that car clearly has the first part cut out and then following beeping the corsa you've sped up, just chill man, seem to be in a rush everywhere. Slow down instead of swerving.
8:40 I think most people, who use the motorways regularly, are so used to signs being wrong that they wait until the actually get to the thing that they have to slow down for. On numerous occasions I've seen warning signs, and when i got there, there was nothing and the signs had gone back to the national speed limit symbol.
They put the signs up before they have put the roadworks in place. This is to create a safe environment for workers to set up the cones and signs in the closed lanes. Also, driving in a red X is illegal and gantry cameras will catch you doing it, they don't just flash for speed.
There's advisory signs and mandatory signs, anyone who ignores mandatory signs deserves the bad news in the post. For advisory speeds, I always used to reckon that a 60 mph sign meant be prepared to slow ahead; the 40 mph one meant that traffic will almost certainly come to a stop or near-stop ahead.
The signs are not wrong - they are instructions you follow. The thing you have to slow down for is the sign, and if it works you should indeed usually not see whatever circumstance they were set for. That's the whole point.
@@LeoneNut No, they're not. The signs give orders just like any fixed speed limit sign, stop sign, and so forth. They are for you to follow, not for you to go 'nah, probably nothing' and carry on regardless.
I'll never understand why people are willing to commit suicide and murder just to make an exit. If you miss your exit just take the next one and double back, so much safer for all concerned.
The clip sent in by jeff,that was shocking, the number of people in that clip alone who had a complete disregard for what the overhead signs were telling them to do 😳
Want to play devils advocate here though as this comment section is always filled with people saying you should use all available lanes until last possible meter when roadworks. Ps I agree with you that they all should have been doing designated speed in the one lane
@@varese501 The speed limit dropped from 60 to 40, and the guidance regarding smart highways is that should the overhead signs say lane is out or have a speed limit posted, it's effective from that sign, not several yards down
@J G Normally yeah, that's the most efficient way of doing it but in this case you're not allowed to drive under the "lane closed" motorway signs so everyone should have been in the right lane well before the cones and anyone driving under the red X signs were in the wrong...
The only problem is Jeff is in the fast lane, the lanes that are marked as closed haven’t come up yet, as you can see a lot of cars are undertaking Jeff, as Jeff is an obstruction, if Jeff wants to go that slow, move over so they can over take safely. This is an accident waiting to happen.
@@debbieclarke5076 258 Red flashing light signals and a red ‘X’ on a sign identify a closed lane in which people, stopped vehicles or other hazards are present. You MUST follow the instructions on signs in advance of a closed lane to move safely to an open lane MUST NOT drive in a closed lane. A sign will inform you when the lane is no longer closed by displaying a speed limit or the word ‘END’ Jeff was right
I hope Jeff sent that clip to the police.You have a 4 lane motorway with 3 lanes closed and a 40 limit in the overtaking lane at night _maybe_ there's a good reason for it? Maybe there are people working in the road, maybe there's been an accident? No?
I agree, but as a BMW driver who uses indicators... People purposely cut me off and move back in from overtakes really close and without indicators because they simply tar us all with the same brush. I've had countless close calls from people who clearly just see a BMW and go close behind, swing out without indicators and then swing back in front of me almost bumper to bumper.
Certainly most of the blame should be directed at the BMW for not using their indicators, but as I see it some blame still lies with Daz for not assessing the situation and anticipating the manoeuvre. There are any number of reasons why the car in front may make a sudden turn without indicating, and I get the impression Daz might be one of those impatient drivers who takes any opportunity to hastily undertake the car in front.
@@Zerobob26 Agreed. Driver moving into the oncoming lane should be a tell. Going down the inside like that isn't the wisest thing to do, BMW should've indicated early though.
if you look back at the video at 8:12 mark you can clearly see Jeff applies the brakes. You can see the red lights reflect of the car number plates behind him. Why is he brake checking? To me that’s careless driving and for that reason alone can land him in trouble. He braked and slowed his vehicle down way below the 40 sign causing danger to cars behind him. He did not need to brake at all. He slowed down so much after that, that cars then was undertaking him due to his lower speed
It’s common in the uk - owning the road, or poor perception of risk. The bike begins overtake when the car is doing 13mph and the car maxed out at 22mph, so unlikely speeding bike. There appears to be a school there, but closed (or inactive entrance). The chevrons are not enclosed within a solid line. Perfectly legal overtake. Yet the car starts a potential road rage situation. It’s actually good practice for bikes to overtake at slow situations like that, as they’ll typically nip past easily before reaching the speed limit; just have to be careful of the gritty middle part of the road near the islands.
Absolutely nothing, unless there was something happening in the rear we couldn't see. All I saw was a biker overtaking a slow moving car. Most likely just one of those drivers that hates that there are bikers who are brave enough to do legal overtakes and they can't stand it.
@@BaalsMistress yes, but it still should’ve stopped after someone started beeping. Plus it does have mirrors. End of the day: Wagon reverses into stationary vehicle
I came to the comments to find out what I'd missed here. I'd guess this was the outcome of the car drivers interaction with that biker earlier along that road.
I'd love a legit reason for this clip too apart from the driver been a complete wet rag, probably in his 80's and miserable that the biker is doing what every biker does.. nothing wrong with this at all
2:12 Blinker fluid is a rare & expensive option in a BMW 3:11 Cocain is a hell of a drug. 6:20 Audi - Vorsprung durch Technik. They must have hit the brakes so hard and fast that the brake assistant thought "I'm on board" and initiated the emergency braking.
3:43 I know that junction and that driver would have had a green light. You would have had a green arrow if they're light was red. Many close calls and crashes there.
@@jamesb8854 I don't see the filter arrow. If it's dark and not illuminated and not very visible, then there's an issue. The accident black spots around me are mostly where there are filter lights.
9:47 that's one of the most stupidest things i've ever seen anyone do. The driver of that merc needs to have their licence revoked. They probably think they did a good thing too...
Looks like the merc was driving perfectly. Look carefully above the merc towards the beginning of clip and you'll just see the brake lights/top of another vehicle in front. The merc is stopping to avoid blocking the crossing.
@@sg4279 Maybe, it's hard to tell. But looking at it closer, the traffic down the road seems to be flowing fast, so unless there's a hidden left turn thats blocked and I can't see it, there should have been no reason to stop.
For stopping at a crossing? Not even illegal, you can give way to people wanting to cross, but it's up to the people crossing to determine whether it's safe or not. Think you need your head checked.
Shout-out Jeff the only person actually driving properly during his clip, 40 mph with only the outside lane available. So many cars driving over 40 on the inside lanes undertaking. So stupid honestly
if you look back at the video at 8:12 mark you can clearly see Jeff applies the brakes. You can see the red lights reflect of the car number plates behind me. Why is he brake checking? To me that’s careless driving and for that reason alone can land him in trouble. He braked and slowed his vehicle down way below the 40 sign causing danger to cars behind him. He did not need to brake at all. He slowed down so much after that, that cars then was undertaking him due to his lower speed
Idiot cammer. They were definitely the victim no denying it; not saying the truck was innocent in anyway. But they had every opportunity under the sun too avoid that.
7:46 Try driving to the limit in the UK and see the queue of cars behind you - including the "straight off the Autobahn" Mercedes driven by the powerfully-built company director. Add the "I don't know what the red X means" brigade, and factor in the "lesser-spotted rule-abider" Jeff. That Merc driver needs banning.
I've watched this channel for years, and this is the first week I am genuinely terrified... Not of the clips, but the number of people saying Jeff @7.45 is in the wrong. Yellow arrows say to pull over as soon as safe to do so. Jeff had. The speed limit is a limit, not a target. So he may have been doing 40mph in the 50, and 30mph in the 40... But that is ALSO safe Never EVER pass under a red X. EVER!!! (unless told to so by a police of traffic officer) The number of comments on here saying anything other than that is a terrifying example of how many people there are willing to break those rules, and become an accident themselves in the future!
Haven't noticed any comments aimed at Jeff yet but I would say that doing 10mph slower than the rest of the traffic flow can be just as dangerous as going 10mph faster. Safest way to drive is be predictable so if the motorway is a 70 limit try to drive close to that speed if safe to do so.
@@DominiqueGilbert14 yes, I can see that. I wasn't stating that he should have been doing 70 and wouldn't expect him to. It was a response to the comment of driving 10mph below the speed limit is fine. While totally legal it can be dangerous if going considerably slower than the rest of the traffic flow.
@@craigmarsh9676 my bad, I thought you were saying drive 70. I wouldn’t say driving 10 under the limit is dangerous at higher speeds, but certainly can be in 30s to 50s roads.
@@DominiqueGilbert14 When it's the only available lane of traffic driving appreciably below the limit, especially when it's an additional restriction like here, is liable to work up people behind you, which makes them dangerous.
Nope. The old "tell tale" of seeing if your lights were on (checking to see if your dash was lit up) is now redundant. Most cars are lit up like a bloody iPad. Not to mention, DRLs that only illuminate the front of the car is a recipe for disaster when it's misty or foggy, especially with numpties behind the wheel.
The driver of the car who crashed before approaching the roundabout, What the hell were you doing? Looking at your phone 📱? You had plenty of time to break. No excuses. Unless your breaks failed which is unlikely. An absolute disgrace 😤
@@Silverbullet767 That was nothing like a crash for cash scenario. The other car didn't pull into a small gap in front of the cammer and then jam on the brakes for a staged scenario. The cammer was driving a little too close, but even inthis case, if the cammer was alert, it should have been possible to stop in the (just under) 2 second gap, but I saw little sign that there was even an attempt at braking. Indeed, quite the reverse because he dashcam shows the car travelling at 28 mph when the car in front braked and it was showing 30 mph at the point of impact. In other words, there was no sign of braking at all either on the dashcam or the attitude of the car (the nose did not dive). Almost certainly the cammer was distracted by something as, from what I can see, he/she ploughed straight into the back of the car in front with unabaited speed.
The clip from Jeff is a perfect example of why I can't wait for all the gantry cameras to get the upgrade to catch those who ignore the lane closures as well as the speed limit. A double hit of penalties for those who speed on through may convince them to follow the rules in future. That shunt at 10:18, not only too close for the speed, but watching the GPS readout, a complete lack of attention. There seems to be no attempt to change speed until the impact does it for the driver. Almost certainly worth a WDC. Seems to be the same for the follwing clip, the driver of blue figured they would be able to make it onto the roundabout and didn't watch the vehicle in front. Hey, there is a thought. Imagine if insurance companies started submitting clips they receive to the police. They could make a lot of money from increased premiums from drivers with convictions.
2:29 I heard a theory about why people do stuff like this. When people are near their destination (especially home), they subconciously let their guard down. That is why this guy did this with absolutely no observation or situational awareness.
There are 3 lanes on the lead up to the roundabout. Left hand lane is 1st exit. Middle for 2nd and 3rd and right lane for 3rd and 4th exits. The exit where the crash nearly happed was the 2nd. Cammer was in the right lane.
if you look back at the video at 8:12 mark you can clearly see Jeff applies the brakes. You can see the red lights reflect of the car number plates behind him. Why is he brake checking? To me that’s careless driving and for that reason alone can land him in trouble. He braked and slowed his vehicle down way below the 40 sign causing danger to cars behind him. He did not need to brake at all. He slowed down so much after that, that cars then was undertaking him due to his lower speed
@@Paulf1fan how can you say that cars undertaking him are in the wrong? What if the cars undertaking are doing the speed and Jeff doing way below the speed
5:32 guarantee that yellow beetle has sat in lane two for no reason for the past 5 miles then all of a sudden “oh shit I need this exit.” Absolutely clueless, and dangerous too
Standard level of driving in this country. People not looking further than the end of their bonnet.
Yep, guaranteed thick as mince.
I agree with you totally, but then again I did it myself only a couple of weeks ago! None of us is above being a pillock now and again!
I get the feeling the camera car was sitting in the middle lane before and then after too.
@@ralphmillais5237 some of us are above sitting in the middle lane and endangering other road users by veering over lanes to exit a motorway. But that's mainly because we remember how motorways work and concentrate when using them
Well done Bart for stopping. So many cammers just drive on their merry way without stopping after witnessing a crash. That dash cam evidence can save a lot of time and trouble for the innocent party.
This, nothing infuriates me more it's like people lose their humanity behind the wheel.
Definitely, proves the fault of the blue driver for failure to yield, and will allow the poor white vehicle owner to get full compensation for the accident.
Jeff is just being a t*at. Hogging the right lane and not letting overtaking vehicles pass. Stay in the left lane in future.
@@themanofthehour5665 The left lanes were closed. The other people went through Lane Closed signs, and can expect points if the gantry had cameras. Jeff was in the right.
@@themanofthehour5665 Not relevant, but OK.
8:05 This is the sort of driver who will plough into the back of a broken-down vehicle in the live lane of a so-called "smart" motorway because they think the gantry warning signs don't apply to them. 🤬
Unfortunately it's more likely they will plough into a highways agency worker who was supposed to be protected by the red X and speed limit
It’s soo frustrating as all the drivers needed to be in one lane, the other lanes were clearly marked X which means you cannot drive in them, people have no patience these days…
Hope they got flashed on the cams
Hope they all got banned
@@literallyjase Even better if they got visited and had enquiries about their state of mind, and the need to go and do driver training again before the next time they get keys.
Some people are just oblivious to anything else around them. It’s hard to believe even half of these muppets hold a diving licence!😂
Getting more and more dangerous as the years go on to many fools getting a licence from cereal boxes
Let alone that they can swim!
They probably don’t have a driving licence hence why they are such muppets behind the wheel
I’ve been a passenger with three different elderly drivers who fixedly concentrate ONLY on the road ahead, never once looking to their sides. Terrifying. Also went with one at night who didn’t notice the speed bumps and went full-pelt across them.
...and then they send their clips in 🤣🤣🤣
I feel for Jeff, his clip highlights how dangerous "smart" motorways can be. Many a time I've had an HGV 3mm off my back bumper because I drop to 50 when the signs dictate it. The locals have an encyclopedic knowledge of where the cameras are so only abide by the limit for that gantry leaving you like a rolling road block.
Also, brake checking needs to be punished far more severely to try and stamp it out. Preferably with the culprits losing their licence for a long time. What is the mindset anyway? "I'll show you who's boss by stamping on the brakes" followed 5 seconds later by "WTF?! YOU HIT ME". Well.... Who's fault is that then?
Drives me mad that the Highways Agency insist they’re safe when there are mountains of evidence to show they’re not safe at all.
@@joshuatk59 I can’t believe we’re persisting with them, just admit they were a mistake and revert back to a proper hard shoulder, I’m always nervous if I see somebody stopped on one.
Ive had the same thing, My speedo says 50mph but the GPS on google maps says 46mph, and i get a HGV on my back bumper,
It's not the smartness of the motorway that's the issue, it's the idiocy of the motorists.
It's more the fact you are making people under take you, just move left and let traffic flow. Then merge into the single lane later on, don't sit in the outside lane for 20mins when all 4 lanes are still open
Does anyone else find watching these videos makes you a safer driver and teaches you what not to do in situations? I even, always look to make sure it's clear at green lights.
It certainly helps with hazard perception and some of the, lets call it constructive banter between those with opposing views, can add some interesting observations on some incidents. Although i fear all too many are just here to watch near misses and road rage, without actually learning anything in particular.
No. They just make me incredibly fucking angry and so glad I do not own a car so I don't have to share space with these nutters.
Being better prepared at the junctions when I'm on the faster road. Too many puller outers.
Yep, it’s good visual reinforcement of something my dad taught me years ago. Assume that everyone else on the road is an idiot and that they are likely to do something stupid at any moment.
More seriously I would point you to Ashley Neal’s videos if you really want to keep learning how to be a safer driver.
@Tetrastar - think of green as "proceed if it is safe and clear to do so", always a mantra for avoiding accidents
10:30, Thanks for stopping, presumably to give the dashcam footage over etc. Always the right thing to do and the amount of cammers that drive off with invaluable evidence in an insurance claim is amazing to me.
Drive off laughing, at that.
Crash like that doesn't really need video, pretty cut and dry for insurers to deal with -- was a decent hit, I'd be checking everybody is okay and nobody needs an ambulance.
@@streaky81 Yeah for sure, was just a good example of someone stopping after an acciednt. Should always even if you're not involved when you have footage IMO.
And by law if you witness and accident and no one stopped you have to stop to give assistance
@@organiccold Which law is that?
I bet the person in the second clip would have driven off if it wasn't for the pedestrians
3:10 Check your speed Joseph, bad driving from both of you
Clearly is aggressive on the road (as seen in previous clip) and drives too fast for road conditions. He obviously thinks he's some sort of elite driver, considering how many clips he uploads.
Bit rich coming from you.
What did the other car do wrong? What am I missing?
1:49 is a great example. No horn, no shouting, just ABS engaging to avoid an accident.
Yeah boring as hell though
Wrong approach, you’re supposed to speed up to 90mph swerve round the car, horn on full blast whilst shouting ‘I’VE GOT IT ON DASHCAM’ at the top of your lungs
Probably didn't have time to react with the horn.
9:40 He/she definitely needs reporting.
They shouldn't be driving a pedal car, let alone a coach.
Theres no give way markers on the road for the cam car so could assume the other vehicle was running a red?
@@michaelh7741 The fact the cammer had a green light, indicates the coach ran a red.
@@BedsitBob Don't know where the clip is from so pure speculation here as I dont know how quickly those lights change, but as a coach driver myself it could be he'd passed the point of no return and the safest option was to keep going. Some of the traffic lights in my area change stupidly fast (and often for no reason as well) and slowing down as much as you can SAFELY and proceeding is sometimes safer than slamming on and giving your passengers a broken nose when they nut the seat in front of them.
@@douts88 Absolute nonsense. There is no excuse for a larger vehicle to run a red as any other.
@@dedistaulapanodki6293 You've never driven a large vehicle have you son?
Unless I missed it, was that a whole compilation without minor infractions at a mini-roundabout? Can't believe it.
Some terrific examples of people having no patience and not knowing when it's safe to go around a bus
the first one, the car was already out and overtaking. it would have taken nothing for the oncoming car to slow down to allow the pass.
@@twoseventhree at 3:50? the bus was already setting off lol
You missed 3:47 the oncoming car actually had a green light. Hawkeye S HM spotted the reflection on the lamp post in another thread.
@@andyalder7910 that wasn't a mini roundabout or someone overtaking a bus?
Lack of mini-roundabouts but plenty of minis making mistakes 😂
In the third clip, why couldn't the person in the Renault just put their hand up and acknowledge their error. It's people not doing small things like this to diffuse situations, that causes road rage incidents.
A millennial girl, thinks she is the center of the universe.
Young woman. Didn't you know, they can't do anything wrong, it's YOUR fault.
Because she is an entitled wokist.
Yep! Couldn't agree more with you. My two biggest peeves on the road are people not apologising for their mistakes and people that dont say thankyou.
@@real-eyes-realise-real-lies Not just on the road, but in everyday life as well.
Hope those Red X motorway gantries had cameras, absolute baboons
I believe they do
@@g8ymw only some do :(
Nah those gantries dont lol.
What the Jeff one he was in everybodies way he need to move the hell over
@@SBM851 ah, so you missed the fact there’s been lane closure signs, red X symbols and speed limits on the over head gantries?
7:25 - why are you angrily punching the horn? Because somebody overtook you? That's pathetic.
I thought the yellow zig-zags might have given away it's a school with a 20mph limit...
@@TobyBonham yellow zig zags do mean school but its only a 20 if its posted. But my point is that a horn is used to let people know you're there, and I think they probably knew you were there.
@@TobyBonham And?
@@TobyBonham bearing in mind, it might be a school zone but the 20/03/2022 was a Sunday so it wouldn't even be in effect. Bike overtook, looked like they're both still going less than the speed limit (exhaust makes the bike sounds more aggressive when accelerating) and the car driver got pissed that someone overtook them. There was no cars ahead, no blind bends, it was safe to pass. If the bike wants to speed ahead and potentially injure themselves. They should let them instead of aggressively honking the horn for absolutely no reason for that long. No wonder the guy stopped like "wtf? I didn't endanger anyone"
I suppose technically you could say they were warning the biker that they had apparently missed the absolutely massive 20 sign, but on the other hand it's not an individual's job to police the roads. I think I would've uttered "twat" under my breath and been done with it.
Quite a refreshing reaction at 1:18 no horns, not screaming, just the sigh of someone who has lost all faith in Britain's drivers 😂
They didn't even wave what a knob!!
These kinda clips belong on Ashley Neal, we only want chaos on this channel!
@@123MondayTuesday haha facts. with that smooth scouse voice over.
Would've been hypocritical for them to do so. They were equally at fault for the incident.
2:42 well done WIll, trying to deflect the truck to save the learner... much respect bud.
It's amazing how many people see Red lights as a suggestion rather than an order to stop
Was out for a walk yesterday, counted 6 people jumping the lights, one was a mother with kids in the back setting a fine example for the next generation....
IIRC Amber means stop, Red means wait for Green. But you try stopping on Amber & everyone behind are doing emergency stops.
Actually I think the people who run red lights know that they should stop. What they need to learn is that it means NOW, not 30 seconds later.
A car pulled up beside me quite fast and went over the line, red light was on way before he turned up then just carried on through 🤦♀️had to double check that lights hadn't changed without me noticing
I live in a city centre and I walk to work. Not a week goes by when I won't almost get hit by a driver ignoring red lights.
Jeff's clips perfectly demonstrate how dangerous the smart motor way system actually is.
I don't think they are inherently dangerous, just most people don't understand how they're meant to work.
Same…
It’s not that smart motorways are dangerous, it’s that people are dangerous, stupid and selfish…
I’ve been in the same situation many a time on the way back from the airport late at night, absolutely not reason for lanes to be closed and for the 40mph limit, but i’m the only sucker doing 40-45 in the correct lane and everyone else is smashing past like the signs don’t exist…
Not the road or the signs fault, people are just selfish
If everyone followed the rules they wouldn't be dangerous at all. You could say that about any highway regulation, they're ALL dangerous if 90% of people completely ignore it. 'Red lights are dangerous because people stop at them'. If lanes are closed and the remaining lane is at a 40mph limit (legally enforceable as it has a red ring round it - so those people thinking it's not enforceable are greatly mistaken), then you should drive in the remaining lane at a limit of 40mph.
The people complaining they do it too early, are the same people that cause them to be done too early because they're not complying with it. Same with the speeders complaining limits are too low, they're that low because of how many people exceed them.
Oh Daz, asking a BMW driver if their indicators work...classic
But yet he sees someone pulling off a sus manoeuvre and still thinks the smartest thing to do is wiggle around them
@@TheElmoProject75 He has the same type of Hazard perception as a cable I laid this morning.
@@TheElmoProject75 and on the side where a known liability driver has a bigger blindspot to boot... Awful from Daz.
Bart is a star doing the rare but decent thing! Stopping at the scene of the accident and hopefully giving his details to the car that got rear ended so they can use the video to prevent any lies from the driver at fault!
Well done 👍
Legend has it, the car that Bart saw get hit actually made it home and onto the driveway from that nudge.
If you're paying attention and can see you are about to be rear ended, releasing the brakes lessens the impact on you physically, as the energy is transferred into moving the car forward without resistance from the brakes.
@@EvilGav I give my wife the same advice when she's about to get rear ended, darling just release the brakes, it'll lesson the impact.
@@Simon-nk7ji crying m8 🤣 crying, kudos👍
Look on the bright side, the car that got a push ended up doing 100 mpg
@@olderthangodsdog29 Cheer up my man, you could be married to my Mrs. ❤️🔥
8:05 Guarantee you the white car flashing and the numpties undertaking Jeff spout off "smart motorways are dangerous cos they ain't got hard shoulders innit" without a hint of irony.
@@Black-Circle Are you high?
@@Black-Circle didnt realise the red x meant "edit dashcam footage!!!" 🤣
He's best ignored, he comes on here to troll.
what's odd there is the flashing car had the empty lanes to overtake from if he thought breaking the law was ok, so why did he not just use them sooner? Or was he stupid? OK he was stupid thinking he was telling the cammer off.
5:21 that was an excellent "Jesus Christ!" Well done sir!
Joke's on me; soon as I saw DPD van approach a roundabout at 1:36, I was watching him like a hawk...!
I laughed far too much at this.
I think we all try and predict the cunt 😂
7:23 loving the fact you have to be anonymous, because you’re scared to out your name in for people to criticise why you beeped the bike for no reason at all😂
Outside a school dangerous place to overtake!!!
Guessing bike was going well over the speed limit. Clearly says it's a 20 zone for that bit of road. Couldn't see what time limits are for the yellow zigzags are, but did the biker check it was legal to stop where he did?
@@ianmckenney9080 Cammer was doing bang on 20MPH
Doesn't matter biker didn't do anything wrong
@@alexandercruisey2880 They were speeding outside a school.
5:50 whenever I see driving like that I always expect to see a police car chasing it.
Astonishing footage at 7:50. Only one car seemed to be interested in the fact the other 3 lanes were closed and the 40mph speed limit and that was the camera car!
The other three lanes were due to close further ahead, they weren't closed until the crosses were displayed. The undertaking and the speeding were clearly wrong, but with a clear view of the empty road ahead it wasn't necessary to sit in the outside lane from such an early point.
@@johnmoore2342 Hmm, don't those arrows at @7:50 mean "Move over now", red crosses mean you should already have moved over.
@@johnmoore2342 rubbish, the arrows mean to move to the adjacent lane. Good look with your theory test.
I am not justifying the actions of other drivers, but anyone who's driven on the M25 or M1 at night with lane closures like this will often have experienced miles of overhead lane closures with nothing in them only to then drive under a national speed limit sign over all four lanes with no explanation. You should always follow the instructions and rules of the road (in this case there were roadworks), but those in charge of these overhead gantry restrictions should make sure they are consistent. I've driven under one that said national speed limit, next one said 30 mph, next one said national speed limit again. Very dangerous if not carefully monitored.
@@carlostaylor5756 You don't mean to say smart motorways are more dangerous than dumb motorways? Shocking
With the DJ Crucial clip, we don't exactly know why the car in front came to a sudden stop, we do know that DJ obviously was not paying attention.
With the distance they had, I doubt even paying attention would have helped.
@@shardlake Thing is if you look at the speed on the dash cam it drops by a couple of MPH then speeds up just before the collision, so god knows what they were doing.
@@caphowdy666 I think you got that one already "Not paying attention" :)
Tailgating/being to close is the culprit here.DJ back off please!
To be honest it was so quick, but I have learned my lesson on this one, fair point to the comments :)
9:48 is a prime example of why you should stop trying to give way to people unnecessarily and being completely oblivious to everything behind you. I swear some people are offering special favours to get their license.
Perhaps the traffic in lane one had stopped just after the crossing, hence the driver was unable to proceed?
the cyclist/pedwstrian failed to give priority when it was a red-man on the crossing?
@@Captain-Cardboard what? You can clearly see the black car in front of the cammer stop and encourage the cyclists to cross before the lights have changed. This is very dangerous.
Joseph tear-arsing it past parked cars in the darkhaving the audacity to ask what other drivers are doing. Drive to the conditions.
Daz, at 2:10 "do your indicators not work?"
BMW driver: "nah mate, didn't pay the monthly subscription, did I? And me arse is cold and all."
"I'm not paying 79p each time I use them, bloody microtransactions"
For that matter, Daz is hardly the brain of Britain himself - you can see the bimmer is a liability doing god only knows what swinging out onto the wrong side of the road without indicating... The clever thing to do is, naturally, to undertake, right? 🤦♂️
BMW is driven badly, but Daz has a cheek pointing that out given his own stupidity... And compounds the silliness by sending it in, too 😂😂😂
daz should slow down and drive better himself
6:19 : ABS and ASC saved that absolutely typical knobber of an Audi driver from a one way ticket to a meet and greet with the local scenery.
Hope they spilled their triple macchiato frappe with extra sprinkles all over their tracksuit.
Best comment I have read all week 🤣
Same here.Meet and greet with the scenery was what done it for me🤣🤣🤣
This slip road is only about 500 yards off the exit from a roundabout. The sign has been flattened so many times by people trying to go round it too fast/late that I believe they have just stopped putting it back up when it gets hit now.
Female driver on her way to Ash Primary school to drop off her child in the morning unfortunately.
@@will2048 School run Mum's are the absolute worst drivers on the road.
7:25 - Biker put no one in danger and did nothing to you. No wonder they stopped to see what was wrong with you. Judging by your use of the handbrake I'm willing to bet you got into an embarrassing and unnecessary altercation outside your vehicle which you'd rather not let us see hence the footage cutting short.
I think the problem is revving and possibly speeding right outside of a school
Exactly, what a wet wipe. Small penis syndrome, can't be allowing a 125 to overtake xD
If a motor bike is going to overtake you, just let it.
@@TykitFleine WONT SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!! Grab more pearls mate. The biker honestly did nothing wrong and to make a safe overtake you normally have to rev your engine.
@@TykitFleine good visibility with not a child in sight, also date stamp shows it was a Sunday.
MarcysTV knows how to respond to a hazard properly. A rare breed.
Don't know what's worse? Joseph M's driving skills...or the fact that he was out raced by a Ford Fiesta!
Hope all the drivers that went through the red crosses in the motorway get a heavy fine.... Good job stopping Bart.
Well, yes, I agree with you in principle, but it would help enormously if they didn't put these signs up so far in advance of any actual incident that drivers just come to see them as crying wolf.
@@rogerking7258 Surely the reason that they put them so far in advance is in order to warn drivers like the ones in the clip who don't notice on the 1st, 2nd or 3rd warning.
@@rogerking7258 It would help more if the drivers were intelligent enough to understand the reason for the signs to be well in advance. It's almost like operating a motor vehicle is a skilled task not everyone is mentally cut out for..
@@glenn1534 Please don't get me wrong, I'm not defending those drivers, but on one occasion I came across these signs and it was FIVE miles before we passed the incident, which was just a car changing a tyre in one of those emergency refuges that they think is a suitable substitute for a proper hard shoulder. It's really no wonder that drivers become cynical about the need to observe this law.
7:46 This sums up driving in the UK nowadays. You’re doing the right thing, obeying the speed limit and observing what the signs are stating, whilst seemingly everyone else has little patience and no regards for the rules.
Indeed, what a bunch of loons…
Sitting in the 3rd lane miles before the closure is an absolute joke 😂 well deserved in my opinion. People like you are the problem and why motorways are all clogged up 😂 laughable
@@Black-Circle do you drive a white Mercedes by any chance?
Do you actually think Jeff was going 40mph?
@@Black-Circle It doesn't matter. The lanes are closed, you may not use them, why is irrelevant.
2:21 no Daz, it's a BMW, idicators are an optional extra that nobody takes.
I'm glad in that first clip they came to a stop blocking the cycle lane. Brought a solitary tear of joy to me
How can people say Jeff was wrong??
The. Signs say move right, which means move right as soon as you can. It also shows a 50mph limit.
Jeff clearly didn't cut the Merc, which was speeding, up.
Jeff slows down to 40mph, with the other 3 lanes now being closed, with red crosses above them.
All the other cars - Fail to move over in time. Fail to move out of closed lanes. Fail to stick to the speed limits.
I agree. Only thing I'd say, is it did look like he may have been doing about 30 during some of the 50 stretches. But still no excuse for the other drivers
This is why we have to have national campaigns telling us how a Red X and a Move Left/Right sign works, because apparently people are just beyond hope 🤣
And considering they’re now adding cameras to closed lanes to catch drivers out , Jeff was in the right , which shows how fucking stupid motorways are now
@@KayMac1 unless someone is going to do the calculations 🤷🏼♂️
@@andyuk2010 imagine then posting comments that show you clearly have no idea 😂🤣
I bet some of these people indicate right when they want to go straight ahead on a roundabout 😂
2:20 No one ever has asked a BMW driver that question. 🤣
They cut the video short, so we missed the answer "What are indicators?" 😅
Whilst I agree that the X1/X3 (not a real BMW) should have indicated it’s intentions, anyone with any sense would have held back for a second or two to make sure it wasn’t about to make the twat manoeuvre it did.
Yes the BMW is in the wrong, but most people could have seen that coming from space.
4:00 - I love how she put her window down as if she was about to explain how she was actually in the right
i mean she wasnt in the right but the cammer made it 10 times worse. she coulda just stopped like most normal people would have
@@ethanleighton9060 The person filming was on the correct side of the road.
@@notmenotme614 Not what they were saying
@@notmenotme614 im not saying the cammer was wrong. just saying that the whole situation would have just been better if theyd stopped instead of forcing their way through. driving isnt about being right, its just about helping everyone for the best flow and in this case it slowed the cammer down to push their way through instead of just waiting
@@ethanleighton9060 you expect cammer to hit the brakes to let the Volvo overtake? It would be ‘nice’ of cammer but they are under no obligation whatsoever, so the Volvo driver can get to fuck and wait, honestly
Red cross on the motorway and so many cars driving in the wrong lane, plus over the speed limit, can get a heafty fine if caught and there was a speed camera sign overhead too. Hope they all get what they deserve!
People moan and say smart motorways are dangerous...... nahh people driving like tits make it dangerous.
@@leeowen4989 this 100%. Heard a radio advert the other day telling people to go left if they have an issue, and herein lies the problem; you're sharing the road with people who have the calibre of intelligence whereby they need to be told not to stop in the passing lanes wherever possible
For a moment I wondered why Jeff was in that lane then I saw the red X's. He was the only one doing everything right.
@@cafe405 It does make you wonder, we have had motorways with overhead gantries since at least the 90s. I remember my dad explaining them to me back then. The only change as far as signage goes is that on a smart motorway the reduced speed limits are mandatory. The red X has meant the same thing for a long time, do not pass this sign in this lane. You can't even say you didn't see it or there was no warning......
@@leeowen4989 The Red X was valid when I took my test in the 70s, though it was very rare to ever see one other than on tidal flow roads, which are not motorways anyway. The advent of Smart motorways has made it a fairly common sight. Still, so many drivers either ignore or are ignorant of them. I think the first one I ever saw was on the M25 in the early 90s.
10:10 DJ, you’re pretty brave sending in a clip where you’re clearly at fault.
probably to educate others..
Or was it a crash for cash?
Does the half-second rule not trigger once you install a cam?
@@lightningpete I think it is to educate others. Even if it was crash for cash, you still need to maintain a following distance whereby you can stop if the vehicle in front suddenly does.
A few months back I had the driver in front suddenly stop in front of me, we were doing about 30 MPH, I always keep my distance from the car in front, and he stopped in front of me while I was moving to change lanes. I'm 60 years old and my reactions were a heck of a lot faster than this guy, I stopped without rear ending the car in front. Unfortunately the car behind me wasn't so quick and went into the back of my car..........
@@Lynnimod Sorry to hear that. Since smartphones came along, inattentive driving has become endemic.
2:15 " do your indicators not work? " nah mate it's a BMW 🤣
10:23 channeling the spirit of DJ Crucial
The amount of comments about Jeff being in the wrong on the motorway ! Scary.
if you look back at the video at 8:12 mark you can clearly see Jeff applies the brakes. You can see the red lights reflect of the car number plates behind me. Why is he brake checking? To me that’s careless driving and for that reason alone can land him in trouble. He braked and slowed his vehicle down way below the 40 sign causing danger to cars behind him. He did not need to brake at all. He slowed down so much after that, that cars then was undertaking him due to his lower speed
@@Jatt.Lalkar The muppet speeding in the SUV is just trying to intimidate Jeff into moving into a lane that is closing. That is the problem here. Too many of these types on our roads. We don’t know from the footage what speed Jeff was doing either. He was doing as the gantry signs indicated. Moving to the only live lane and probably not exceeding the temporary speed limit. If you can’t see this you are part of the problem.
@@LavisP Actually, we do - the motorway lane lines are 2m long with a 7m gap. Couple this knowledge with the time required to pass them, and you have velocity. 38mph approaching the 40mph limit gantry, from a very rough calculation. I could be more exact but why bother, it's in the ballpark.
He did brake test the dick in the white car tho, and I would have just kept out of their way till a little later, then moved across
@@Jatt.Lalkar oh, he's applying the brakes to slow to the indicated legal limit. What a monster. /s
3:41 I don't think the oncoming car had a red light. Reason for this is the lower of the 2 sets of lights in front of the cammer's car has a filter light below the standard green.
You may well be right, if it was red then the black car at the start of the clip jumped it as well.
They did not. I know this junction well being a delivery driver in the area, this happens far too often. There is in fact a right turn signal on those lights, the oncoming vehicle likely didn't jump a red.
@@typicalbrummie3852 GPS co-ordinates?
I'm inclined to agree that the cammer may have been at fault but not realised
@@andyalder7910 52.451520, -1.778794 It's outside the Morrisons on the A45
07:46 Jeff - of course all the other drivers are upset at you being stupid enough to read the road signs. Just imagine the chaos if everyone did what the signs said!
Would you like a sarcasm tag with that...... or.....................
@@andyo1737 here, a sarcasm tag for each of you 🙃🙃. 🤪👍
@@cookiemonster2299 haha
Was desperately hoping the other cars would get flashed by a camera but they never catch the truly bad drivers, just the slightly inattentive ones.
@@CycolacFan I like to flash people who are speeding just as the go passed an overhead gantry, so they think it was a camera.
Joseph @ 3:20 wondering why he sees so many incidents, because his poor driving helps create them. You do know the reason the car creeps out from the parked traffic is the reason you should use appropriate speed. Is your licence out of ready brek?
He seems to have a video in every compilation and I think it’s always been him who’s the worst driver in the footage.
It's obvious he was distracted by the green car on the right and wasn't paying any sort of attention to what he was doing, driving through the crosshatchings at the start of that clip was a nice touch to.
Joseph M clearly racing the Fiesta at 3:10, bet you conveniently didn't send in the 30 secs before that.
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@@thedoctor007dfw does it effect you what cars people drive
@@alexsmith7354 no. I apologise for my behaviour. Thanks Alex
Also worth noting the front end of the Fiesta has already hit something by the look of it.
@@alexsmith7354 *affect
Well done Jeff for being the only person who knows how to drive👌
In lane 4 of a motorway. Selfish lane hogger
Lanes 1; 2 and 3 are closed, that’s what the ❌ means. Only lane 4 is open and it has a mandatory 40mph limit.
Jeff the Jerk hogging the overtaking lane
I was waiting for a Berk in a Merc, there is one every week! At first I thought Jeff was lane hogging until you see those red crosses
@@Dan_druft mong
Smart motorways appear to be working as intended then 😂
Smart motorways, mostly dumb drivers lol
There was me thinking, “Wow, this is the first video where the cammer isn’t to blame.” In comes Joseph M to ruin it.
Daz kinda wrote off that possibility pretty early on surely?
3:35 Joseph asks what people are doing, maybe just take it easy man your first clip racing with that car clearly has the first part cut out and then following beeping the corsa you've sped up, just chill man, seem to be in a rush everywhere. Slow down instead of swerving.
8:40 I think most people, who use the motorways regularly, are so used to signs being wrong that they wait until the actually get to the thing that they have to slow down for. On numerous occasions I've seen warning signs, and when i got there, there was nothing and the signs had gone back to the national speed limit symbol.
They put the signs up before they have put the roadworks in place. This is to create a safe environment for workers to set up the cones and signs in the closed lanes. Also, driving in a red X is illegal and gantry cameras will catch you doing it, they don't just flash for speed.
There's advisory signs and mandatory signs, anyone who ignores mandatory signs deserves the bad news in the post. For advisory speeds, I always used to reckon that a 60 mph sign meant be prepared to slow ahead; the 40 mph one meant that traffic will almost certainly come to a stop or near-stop ahead.
The signs are not wrong - they are instructions you follow. The thing you have to slow down for is the sign, and if it works you should indeed usually not see whatever circumstance they were set for. That's the whole point.
@@LeoneNut No, they're not. The signs give orders just like any fixed speed limit sign, stop sign, and so forth. They are for you to follow, not for you to go 'nah, probably nothing' and carry on regardless.
Gotta love the Matrix signs, 90% always wrong and cause more congestion than normal
That merc driver is a knob flashing his lights when it literally says the outside lane is 40mph. I don’t get peoples hurry these days. 8:05
impatient and utterly shitty drivers..... it's all "me me me" these days.
For anyone who's interested, the timestamp is 8:05.
@@kayfj4903 my bad I forgot to include it 🤣
@@Dedubya- but he's the head of marketing for Pringles across the entire Reigate area so he can't just hang around doing 40mph all day.
@@awild10 😂😂😂😂
Joseph M needs to calm down, grow up and treat driving as a potentially life-threatening activity rather than a console game.
Tag it please with a time stamp so we know where in the video to look thanks
@@beasty7063 And less than 3 minutes earlier you made your own comment contribution, without a timestamp.....
@@jonathanmcleod5560 yet I’ve corrected it you haven’t 🤣
@@beasty7063 too lazy to find a timestamp yourself and you still critique others lmao
@@beasty7063 it's 3:10 👍
DJ Crucial with the perfect example of why a proper following distance is longer than most people allow. Amazed he sent the clip in tbh.
I'll never understand why people are willing to commit suicide and murder just to make an exit. If you miss your exit just take the next one and double back, so much safer for all concerned.
But that would require some intelligence and decency.
They don't see it that way. "Only other people get into accidents, it will never happen to me" - Every person in an accident ever
Bad drivers never miss their exit.
Roundabouts too, they’re round! Just go round and you make the exit you want safely.
The clip sent in by jeff,that was shocking, the number of people in that clip alone who had a complete disregard for what the overhead signs were telling them to do 😳
Want to play devils advocate here though as this comment section is always filled with people saying you should use all available lanes until last possible meter when roadworks. Ps I agree with you that they all should have been doing designated speed in the one lane
Totally agree , but did Jeff do an even dumber thing and brake check the plank behind him ?. 8:11
@@varese501 The speed limit dropped from 60 to 40, and the guidance regarding smart highways is that should the overhead signs say lane is out or have a speed limit posted, it's effective from that sign, not several yards down
@J G Normally yeah, that's the most efficient way of doing it but in this case you're not allowed to drive under the "lane closed" motorway signs so everyone should have been in the right lane well before the cones and anyone driving under the red X signs were in the wrong...
@@JG-mv4cn Highway code rule 258 says you "MUST follow the instructions on signs in advance of a closed lane to move safely to an open lane"
2:43 - That truck driver needs reporting before he kills somebody
7:55 well done to Jeff for not letting that numpty bolox intimidate him.
The only problem is Jeff is in the fast lane, the lanes that are marked as closed haven’t come up yet, as you can see a lot of cars are undertaking Jeff, as Jeff is an obstruction, if Jeff wants to go that slow, move over so they can over take safely. This is an accident waiting to happen.
No such thing as a fast lane
@@debbieclarke5076 258
Red flashing light signals and a red ‘X’ on a sign identify a closed lane in which people, stopped vehicles or other hazards are present. You
MUST follow the instructions on signs in advance of a closed lane to move safely to an open lane
MUST NOT drive in a closed lane. A sign will inform you when the lane is no longer closed by displaying a speed limit or the word ‘END’
Jeff was right
@@debbieclarke5076 bzzz wrong
@@debbieclarke5076 The arrows state to pull over to the OUTSIDE OVERTAKING LANE (no such thing as a fast lane) so he was in the right
I hope Jeff sent that clip to the police.You have a 4 lane motorway with 3 lanes closed and a 40 limit in the overtaking lane at night _maybe_ there's a good reason for it? Maybe there are people working in the road, maybe there's been an accident? No?
If you could read the registrations I'd agree, although people would rather post them here, i'd prefer to see most of those drivers banned.
I would have done the same as the other cars to be honest
@@AppleUK2000 There's no cameras for closed lanes on parts of the motorway, hope to see you banned soon.
@@james-5560 I have a clean licence and forsee no change to that..
@@AppleUK2000 And you shouldn't be allowed out without supervision.
2:14 Beamer, personal plate, chance of using indicator = 0
I agree, but as a BMW driver who uses indicators... People purposely cut me off and move back in from overtakes really close and without indicators because they simply tar us all with the same brush. I've had countless close calls from people who clearly just see a BMW and go close behind, swing out without indicators and then swing back in front of me almost bumper to bumper.
Certainly most of the blame should be directed at the BMW for not using their indicators, but as I see it some blame still lies with Daz for not assessing the situation and anticipating the manoeuvre. There are any number of reasons why the car in front may make a sudden turn without indicating, and I get the impression Daz might be one of those impatient drivers who takes any opportunity to hastily undertake the car in front.
@@Zerobob26 Agreed. Driver moving into the oncoming lane should be a tell. Going down the inside like that isn't the wisest thing to do, BMW should've indicated early though.
Jeff, not the hero we need but the hero we deserve
Looks like he was going 30 mph
if you look back at the video at 8:12 mark you can clearly see Jeff applies the brakes. You can see the red lights reflect of the car number plates behind him. Why is he brake checking? To me that’s careless driving and for that reason alone can land him in trouble. He braked and slowed his vehicle down way below the 40 sign causing danger to cars behind him. He did not need to brake at all. He slowed down so much after that, that cars then was undertaking him due to his lower speed
7:22 What did the biker do that warranted the car driver to sound their horn?
He had the cheek to easily overtake the cammer when the cammer was clearly giving it some wellie him/herself.
Maybe speeding if the car was already doing the limit. Who knows, was a tad strange.
the karen did not like begin overtaken ,after karens and bmw's do own the road you know . 😉
It’s common in the uk - owning the road, or poor perception of risk.
The bike begins overtake when the car is doing 13mph and the car maxed out at 22mph, so unlikely speeding bike.
There appears to be a school there, but closed (or inactive entrance). The chevrons are not enclosed within a solid line. Perfectly legal overtake. Yet the car starts a potential road rage situation.
It’s actually good practice for bikes to overtake at slow situations like that, as they’ll typically nip past easily before reaching the speed limit; just have to be careful of the gritty middle part of the road near the islands.
Absolutely nothing, unless there was something happening in the rear we couldn't see. All I saw was a biker overtaking a slow moving car. Most likely just one of those drivers that hates that there are bikers who are brave enough to do legal overtakes and they can't stand it.
The very first clip and we’re already off to a great start 😂 I think Peter must have mistaken his horn for his reverse gear
Or there was a vehicle behind him?
He was smashing the horn before he stopped behind the lorry. Bad driver.
He probably expected the lorry driver to be at least semi capable of driving. Simple mistake.
@@DobbsyLondon The lorry was already reversing at that point.
@@BaalsMistress yes, but it still should’ve stopped after someone started beeping. Plus it does have mirrors.
End of the day:
Wagon reverses into stationary vehicle
Glad Bert stopped. I hope he gave them his dashcam footage!
5:50 Was there, by any chance, a police car following?
Driven like the saying “drive it like you stole it”
7:25 Overtaken in a completely normal manner. I wonder what this was really about...
I was puzzled by this too, it is a school zone but there don't seem to be any kids around, possibly a 20 limit?
Definitely a 20mph limit, you can see it posted on the left just after the turn.
A 20 limit, which the cammer was exceeding.
I came to the comments to find out what I'd missed here. I'd guess this was the outcome of the car drivers interaction with that biker earlier along that road.
I'd love a legit reason for this clip too apart from the driver been a complete wet rag, probably in his 80's and miserable that the biker is doing what every biker does.. nothing wrong with this at all
The clip from Big M gaming is truly terrifying
Love that the passenger complains about her ears! Bloody lucky that's all she had to worry about thanks to his swift dodge.
Came here to say the same thing. That gave me a knot in my stomach just watching!
Hats off to you bart for stopping, bmw must have been asleep 🙄
A compilation that will have you on the edge of your seat the whole time!
2:12 Blinker fluid is a rare & expensive option in a BMW
3:11 Cocain is a hell of a drug.
6:20 Audi - Vorsprung durch Technik. They must have hit the brakes so hard and fast that the brake assistant thought "I'm on board" and initiated the emergency braking.
3:43 I know that junction and that driver would have had a green light. You would have had a green arrow if they're light was red. Many close calls and crashes there.
Glad you spotted that, came to say the exact thing, anyway on with the vid.
I don’t know this junction and even I can see they have a filter arrow that isn’t illuminated
@@jamesb8854 I don't see the filter arrow. If it's dark and not illuminated and not very visible, then there's an issue. The accident black spots around me are mostly where there are filter lights.
@@hippopotamus86 it’s not illuminated because the cam car doesn’t have right of way 🤦🏼♂️ it will turn green when they do
Same bro I live up those ends and the cammer definitely was in the wrong
9:47 that's one of the most stupidest things i've ever seen anyone do. The driver of that merc needs to have their licence revoked. They probably think they did a good thing too...
Looks like the merc was driving perfectly. Look carefully above the merc towards the beginning of clip and you'll just see the brake lights/top of another vehicle in front. The merc is stopping to avoid blocking the crossing.
@@sg4279 Maybe, it's hard to tell. But looking at it closer, the traffic down the road seems to be flowing fast, so unless there's a hidden left turn thats blocked and I can't see it, there should have been no reason to stop.
@@sg4279 are you sure, road looks clear to me. But then I am watching on a phone so maybe missing something
For stopping at a crossing? Not even illegal, you can give way to people wanting to cross, but it's up to the people crossing to determine whether it's safe or not. Think you need your head checked.
From the angle and the clip we can't really draw any conclusions whether it was clear ahead or not
Shout-out Jeff the only person actually driving properly during his clip, 40 mph with only the outside lane available. So many cars driving over 40 on the inside lanes undertaking. So stupid honestly
if you look back at the video at 8:12 mark you can clearly see Jeff applies the brakes. You can see the red lights reflect of the car number plates behind me. Why is he brake checking? To me that’s careless driving and for that reason alone can land him in trouble. He braked and slowed his vehicle down way below the 40 sign causing danger to cars behind him. He did not need to brake at all. He slowed down so much after that, that cars then was undertaking him due to his lower speed
@@Jatt.Lalkar Repeating it over and over again doesn't make you any more correct you know...
@@localzuk it's called freedom of speech..? Jog on 🤡
@@245thegreat Ah yes, because what I said somehow affected their right to freedom of speech? That clown image you looking at yourself in the mirror?
People with dash cams are the safest drivers on the road and never make mistakes.
The damage to the "blind spot take care" sticker in the first clip is just fantastic foreshadowing. 😂
Idiot cammer. They were definitely the victim no denying it; not saying the truck was innocent in anyway. But they had every opportunity under the sun too avoid that.
7:46 Try driving to the limit in the UK and see the queue of cars behind you - including the "straight off the Autobahn" Mercedes driven by the powerfully-built company director. Add the "I don't know what the red X means" brigade, and factor in the "lesser-spotted rule-abider" Jeff. That Merc driver needs banning.
DJ Crucial, only a fool breaks the two second rule.
This phrase was the winner in a recent road safety campaign, just beating the second place slogan of: "Only a [redacted] tailgates the car in front"
2:21 "Do your indicators not work?" It's a BMW, what do you think?
People don’t like generalisations but I swear everyone I’ve seen in the UK with a BMW is an idiot
May favoured verbal in those circumstances is, "Why don't you spend an extra fiver and get one with indicators?"
1 and 3 Series driver here. I always indicate *before* manoeuvring (and cancel when required as well). Yes, I have a horn growing out of my head 🦄
@@John-ks6si I thought you flew everywhere? 😉
'DJ crucial to keep your distance' 😂
I've watched this channel for years, and this is the first week I am genuinely terrified...
Not of the clips, but the number of people saying Jeff @7.45 is in the wrong.
Yellow arrows say to pull over as soon as safe to do so. Jeff had. The speed limit is a limit, not a target. So he may have been doing 40mph in the 50, and 30mph in the 40... But that is ALSO safe Never EVER pass under a red X. EVER!!! (unless told to so by a police of traffic officer)
The number of comments on here saying anything other than that is a terrifying example of how many people there are willing to break those rules, and become an accident themselves in the future!
Haven't noticed any comments aimed at Jeff yet but I would say that doing 10mph slower than the rest of the traffic flow can be just as dangerous as going 10mph faster.
Safest way to drive is be predictable so if the motorway is a 70 limit try to drive close to that speed if safe to do so.
@@craigmarsh9676 but the speed limit is 50 then 40 there, not 70, if you look at the overhead gantries
@@DominiqueGilbert14 yes, I can see that. I wasn't stating that he should have been doing 70 and wouldn't expect him to.
It was a response to the comment of driving 10mph below the speed limit is fine. While totally legal it can be dangerous if going considerably slower than the rest of the traffic flow.
@@craigmarsh9676 my bad, I thought you were saying drive 70. I wouldn’t say driving 10 under the limit is dangerous at higher speeds, but certainly can be in 30s to 50s roads.
@@DominiqueGilbert14 When it's the only available lane of traffic driving appreciably below the limit, especially when it's an additional restriction like here, is liable to work up people behind you, which makes them dangerous.
10:11 And this is why you need to stay back from other cars, something the majority of motorists fail to do in this country.
"Surely he must be paying attention if he's driving 3ft off my bumper" errr no.
Niall P at 1:39, it never ceases to amaze me that in poor visibility like that, how few drivers put their lights on
Nope. The old "tell tale" of seeing if your lights were on (checking to see if your dash was lit up) is now redundant. Most cars are lit up like a bloody iPad.
Not to mention, DRLs that only illuminate the front of the car is a recipe for disaster when it's misty or foggy, especially with numpties behind the wheel.
The driver of the car who crashed before approaching the roundabout, What the hell were you doing? Looking at your phone 📱? You had plenty of time to break. No excuses. Unless your breaks failed which is unlikely. An absolute disgrace 😤
*brake....unless you meant time to break the car ahead.
I love starting my day with high blood pressure 😂
Either there are a lot of stolen vehicles in this week's compilation or there are a lot of drivers who *really* need the toilet...
7:46 I should not be amazed - there are so many drivers who have no idea of the rules of the road and what road signs mean.
10:11 DJ Crucial, why would you send in footage of you badly rear-ending the car in front?
usually people send in clips thinking that because they have footage the other driver is in the wrong xD
@@cerberus276gaming6 and commenters assume that everybody submitting a clip thinks they’re in the right
Crash for cash that one. Cammer needs to pay attention, loads of time to react.
@@Silverbullet767 at least 2 and a bit seconds before impact, plenty of time to at least press the brake pedal, let alone stop.
@@Silverbullet767 That was nothing like a crash for cash scenario. The other car didn't pull into a small gap in front of the cammer and then jam on the brakes for a staged scenario. The cammer was driving a little too close, but even inthis case, if the cammer was alert, it should have been possible to stop in the (just under) 2 second gap, but I saw little sign that there was even an attempt at braking. Indeed, quite the reverse because he dashcam shows the car travelling at 28 mph when the car in front braked and it was showing 30 mph at the point of impact. In other words, there was no sign of braking at all either on the dashcam or the attitude of the car (the nose did not dive).
Almost certainly the cammer was distracted by something as, from what I can see, he/she ploughed straight into the back of the car in front with unabaited speed.
The clip from Jeff is a perfect example of why I can't wait for all the gantry cameras to get the upgrade to catch those who ignore the lane closures as well as the speed limit. A double hit of penalties for those who speed on through may convince them to follow the rules in future.
That shunt at 10:18, not only too close for the speed, but watching the GPS readout, a complete lack of attention. There seems to be no attempt to change speed until the impact does it for the driver. Almost certainly worth a WDC. Seems to be the same for the follwing clip, the driver of blue figured they would be able to make it onto the roundabout and didn't watch the vehicle in front.
Hey, there is a thought. Imagine if insurance companies started submitting clips they receive to the police. They could make a lot of money from increased premiums from drivers with convictions.
2:29 I heard a theory about why people do stuff like this. When people are near their destination (especially home), they subconciously let their guard down. That is why this guy did this with absolutely no observation or situational awareness.
Peter F just waiting for someone to say it's your fault for being in the van drivers blind spot. 😂😂😂
Tom 7:03 did that arrow say turn right at roundabout? Couldn’t work out
There are 3 lanes on the lead up to the roundabout. Left hand lane is 1st exit. Middle for 2nd and 3rd and right lane for 3rd and 4th exits. The exit where the crash nearly happed was the 2nd. Cammer was in the right lane.
Yes, the arrow at GPS 52.980151, -0.018472 says he may turn right from lane 2.
@@dizzydozdb does he win a prize
Hope all the idiots that undertook Jeff under the red x get some points and a nice fine
My exact thoughts.Well done to Jeff for obeying and not feeling pressured by the hideous Merc behind him👍🏻
@@sticksman7819 and you just know the sort of person who chooses to drive that kind of car in that fashion has issues they’ve never dealt with.
if you look back at the video at 8:12 mark you can clearly see Jeff applies the brakes. You can see the red lights reflect of the car number plates behind him. Why is he brake checking? To me that’s careless driving and for that reason alone can land him in trouble. He braked and slowed his vehicle down way below the 40 sign causing danger to cars behind him. He did not need to brake at all. He slowed down so much after that, that cars then was undertaking him due to his lower speed
@@Jatt.Lalkar can you show us what his speed was exactly?? All the other cars undertaking him are in the wrong and they'll get what they deserved
@@Paulf1fan how can you say that cars undertaking him are in the wrong? What if the cars undertaking are doing the speed and Jeff doing way below the speed
@6:55 100% seen that on a hazard perception video, if not it should be one
It still amazes me the amount of vehicles that just pull out no indication or effort to accelerate.
Women drivers...tut tut.
I'm just glad the dog was ok.