Driving Fail Viewers Edition #3
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Driving Fail Viewers Edition #3. Huge thanks to all my viewers who send in clips, and even to those who don't! Was the VW Polo in the thumbnail at fault?
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I'm the cyclist in clip 11 starting at 7:15 and I have to say I'm a bit disappointed with your analysis but I think it reflects a learning point for yourself if I may. I'm glad to see that some of your viewers have it on the money too in the comments. I gave you some reflections I made in the initial email but you probably don't have that to hand when recording audio.
Everything about the car's position, from a left position at the junction he joins from, selecting the lane to take the first left, and maintaining a position to take the second left predicts against him taking the right turn he did.
The learning point for yourself is that the speed of cyclists is very dependant on the gradient and you need to be aware of gradient changes to predict cyclists' actions. I do not in-fact accelerate down the hill but maintain my speed by coming off the power completely and gently applying the brakes.
Further, for the duration of the road I am not in the blind spot (I recall seeing the face of the driver). as he brakes for the speed hump, at which point I am not in the blind spot. Though I was suspicious of the car as it emerged from the junction, the point at which I realise the risk increases is when he continues to brake after the zebra crossing and it is at the point the he brakes hard that I enter the blind spot which is the key point of my reflection.
My road position, being to the right of him is good if he turns left or continues straight and communicates to following vehicles my intention that they should not be overtaking at this point.
Your comment that I have "very little road sense" is I think deeply unfair and represents a lapse in the integrity of your analysis.
Thanks a lot for first of all sending in the clip and secondly your response. I knew that you wouldn’t be overjoyed with my analysis but unfortunately it still stands. When you mention gradient in relation to predict a cyclists actions I shake my head in disbelief. Just use your brakes more! If I had a collision because I was too close to someone I wouldn’t dream of saying “I was going downhill” Too often the road cyclist has little else on their mind other than rate of travel, and too few pick their time to use speed at sensible times. You even admit in your own comment when risk was increasing, but at that same point alarm bells had been ringing in my head for a while. If you had concerns about the emerging vehicle at the start and rode how you did, it ratifies my quote of “Little road sense” I expect you to also to be less than happy with my response, but sometimes what seems to be a harsh word can teach us most. Please see my words in the way they are meant, which is to increase road safety and reduce risk for yourself and everyone who reads this. Kindest regards, Ashley.
Basically, he is saying (and thinking) that cycles are second class vehicles and should concede to cars at all times, and probably shouldn't be on the roads at all. Very poor analysis. How dare you ride so fast !!
No, far from it. I'm a cyclist myself but I don't treat every ride like the Tour de France!
After watching that clip, the Skoda has it's indicators on, you couldn't have slowed down and let him turn?
BTW @Alan Jones did you watch the video? Perhaps you should to see how many of the clips are “Pro” cyclist. This alone makes a mockery of the words you type. This channel is all about road safety and if more roadies took my advice rather than jumping to each other’s defence all the time, less would be statistics in RTC’s. If you think before you ride as much as you do before you type, you’re in trouble.
This is the secret "How you deal with other people mistakes make the difference." lack of empathy is our problem on the road, Your are right Mr. Neal
Get told Jared!!!
Didn't expect to see you here Jack 😂
What's Jack doing ere?
Not from your dedicated driving Channel hm?
Wtf are you doing here
Bruh, this aint your area of UA-cam lmao
11:36 - Why do people feel it necessary to immediately drift out to the middle lane? Really gets my goat, that.
Whenever i see 2 cars coming up a slip lane I just know the 2nd one is going to go straight into the middle lane. Muppets!
I mean for me it just crazy , use some common sense not to jump straight to middle lane it doesnt matter there are cars or not . You never know who can come very fast from back .
They do that because they are too stupid to think you cannot undertake. I wish everybody would do it for it would take a lot of time off my journey.
Made my comment for me 🙂. It’s an appalling practice. Not even ten seconds to look and figure out what’s happening. Always gotta keep an eye out for these people joining the motorway.
I was about to comment exactly this, why can't people sit in the left lane and mirror check/blind spot. Everyone is in a hurry to get into another lane that causes an accident and then blames the other driver.
Learning to drive is only one part, the second part of driving is to understand the psychological aspects of road users.
Agreed. The second part is understanding that not everyone obeys the rules like they should
Also we need to understand that not everyone has the same ability/confidence to drive as we might have and I think that causes a lot of frustration and impatience from other drivers.
Learning to drive ??? Many instructors just teach pupils to pass the test. There is a big difference in knowing how to drive to pass your test, and how to drive on the roads "for real".
"second part of driving is to understand the psychological aspects of road users."
Which is a very easy and quick lesson.
They are all insane and incompetent.
Stick to that and you won't go far wrong.
I found that after a year of driving you can see the signs that someone is about to do something really stupid.
Almost like a sixth sense
It seems like a lot of collisions or problems could be avoided if every road user does proper checks for the current situation, and also be more calmer if others make mistakes. Even the best drivers will make mistakes sometimes. No point in getting angry about it!
I suffered with really bad anger towards other drivers when they made a simple mistake or when ever I was tailgated. Eventually, my stress lead to being involved in an crash. My lesson I'm teaching myself by watching your videos, is to let things go, remind other drivers they made a mistake and carry on with my day. Your description of the events happening in these videos gives me that gentle reminder of how to react in different situations.
Keep up the fantastic work Ash!!
You were one of those fucking idiots i hated on road
Something just gave me a laugh whilst watching this. On one of the clips when the cammer blasted their horn, someone got cut up outside my house and blasted their horn at the same time. It confused me a bit because it sounded like my phone suddenly got surround sound.
5:15 It's beyond ridiculous what they'll class as a write off. It's only dented 2 doors, a quarter panel, and some very light damage on the other panels. Such a shame because it's a practically brand new car which looks very repairable. I hate car insurance companies.
If it's classed as a write off (if it exceeds a % of the value of the car) then it will be sold at auction as damaged but repairable. It won't be crushed if it is deemed repairable.
the pillar inbetween the doors was damaged and that means repairing a heap more. It is possible the chasis itself is bent out of shape.
From my non-expert eye, I'd guess it comes down to whether that floor/the chassis is damaged.
It got repaired wasn’t a write off and it was only 3 months old at the time of the accident
I think many people are underestimating how much of a precision instrument cars are these days with all of the sensors that are in it. It's easy to get something misaligned after such a collision.
Jared's passenger is 100% right about how he handled the situation but he isn't a "speeding boy racer" when he's doing 40-44mph in a 50mph that looks like it should be 60mph lol.
I love this! So many dash cam compilation videos don't say anything when the camper is the one in the wrong. Thanks for telling us straight!
How u deal with other peoples mistakes is what sets u apart.
Well said
first time finding this channel and at last you tube clips to educate and not gratify mistakes/ inexperience or attitude.
My father taught me to drive in the late 70's and his best advice was " 50% of driving is anticipation " . Still use it now.
I always go way slower when there's low sun I'm my eyes because you cant see aswell
You should also go slow if there is a low sun behind you because people won't be able to see you very well.
Roundabouts have to be my pet hate in the uk! People don’t understand what lane to be in, they don’t understand it’s give way to the right or traffic already on the roundabout, they can’t stay in their lane they take the race line, they fly onto the roundabout making it difficult for larger slower vehicles to safely join, they go flying past other vehicles giving that car ahead no room for an error, there’s so much more I could ramble on about 😂
Not using indicators on roundabouts is also a big issue.
gixxerman69 yeah nothing worse than giving way to someone for them to turn down the street you’ve just come from 🤦🏻♂️
And mini roundabouts, how many drivers don't even attempt to go around the circle painted on the road, even when it's an actual hump! They end up driving directly at a vehicle attempting to clear the roundabout, when had they cornered properly they would nicely tuck behind it and keep things flowing well. Same with straight-lining roundabouts, pure laziness with steering! 😠😂
Itchy Scratch totally agree and when you enter a mini roundabout with caution because you can’t see traffic to the right and they floor it at you? They don’t realise they have to give way to you already on it!
Round here roundabout priority is generally based on how German your car is
9:08 for clip 13 is a common mistake. The driver pulling out is only seeing the car pulling in, which obscures the car behind it (the cam car). We need to be thinking about what traffic can hide. Could it hide a bike, motorcycle, or in a different scenario, a pedestrian (?).
Yeah, people wait for a hazard to clear, and then they feel they have the all clear to go, but really they should reassess the situation.
When you are taught to drive you should be taught if you think it's not safe, don't go.
If you can't be sure it's clear then, in that case don't go. Yes you might miss a gap, but you've also potentially saved a hell of a lot of insurance money.
Clip 12; I’ve been faced with a similar bad overtake, I was driving an 18tonne truck, a cyclist coming toward me, car behind them going at quite a lick so I eased off the gas, gently braked, and the car decided against the overtake. I eased back on the gas, & the car went for it. One emergency stop, 3 write offs & one life saved. Was toward the end of the last shift of 6, with, up to then, NO harsh braking events. (Luckily we Don’t have a bonus linked to driving, but even if we did, I’d rather avoid the crash than get the bonus).
Jarod’s lecture... fair review.
Clip 18. Damned good advice Ashley. And yes, I would guess a good 30+% of dashcam compilation clips are roundabouts like that
Lots of interesting and thought provoking clips and commentary - great selection. I think Jarrod is my favourite. Feel sorry for the Polo driver. I wonder if the young lady who lost her wing mirror knew about acceleration sense and engine braking going down that hill?
I'd like also if I may to share something that happened the other day. I was out in my wife's Fiesta doing my usual trying to make safe progress within the speed limit. I had a young lad in another Fiesta behind me. He was following close and I could see from the scowl he had on him that he was getting impatient. Sure enough he went tearing past at the first marginal opportunity, cut in front and then roared off onto the dual carriageway going straight across three lanes of traffic. Instead of getting wound up I thought "driving fail" and the thought made me smile.
I had to think twice though a little further up the road where I made a mistake myself. Nothing too drastic but a little lapse meant I went a bit off line and had to correct sharply enough for my daughter in the back to notice. She said "but daddy, I thought you watched Ashley Neal?" We both had to agree that I might well have made it onto driving fail myself in that instance.
Clip 15, Jarrod, be told lad, forward planning is the key 😉
@10:47 the voice of reason for sure. Good chap!
Imagine if all bad drivers had someone like the Jared clip in the passenger seat. 😂
Clip #10..when he realized he was going to be next to the lorry at the lights, he shit a brick, and went into the right hand lane
Jareds dad and Ashley should have said something about overtaking over a solid white line.
The dressing down Jarrod got was so funny 🤣 my Dad used to give me the same ones when I was learning
Crazy horn guy showed what a coward he was as he makes sure he's far over in the right lane and hidden by the van gotta love the car warriors
Clip 15 the passenger said everything for you Ashley. Lol.
That's a good dad telling his son off
I find it so baffling that people don’t look on roundabouts like @5:05 I see it daily, would’ve slowed when that other car approached the roundabout - was obvious they weren’t gonna stop.
Also I always wonder how lane hogs don’t notice that everyone is padding them on the wrong side
"Some aspects of smart motorways leave a lot to be desired", that has to be the understatement of the year.
As a Learner, it scares me shitless watching these vids.... But I like to think I'm also learning possible situations and scenarios 🤔
Thanks so much 👍
I’ve been driving for over 10 years. I drive for a living, and I work on motorways. I’m still learning to drive.
I watch quite a few of these compilation videos (mostly but not all American - a lot of their mistakes happen in the UK too) but this channel, along with its driving instruction videos from Ashley is by a significant margin the best learning channel I've encountered. You'll get used to recognising the 'body language' of the confused and the stupid drivers and learn to anticipate their actions. As is stated, it is how you react to other people's mistakes that sets you apart as a driver. At least you're here, watching and learning, not imagining you already know it all. All the best with the lessons.
@@PedroConejo1939 Wise words.... Thanks Pedro 👍
@@midlandsdriver9667 Wow... you've been driving for 10 years, drive for a living (i.e. driving regularly), AND you even say you work on the motorways... yet you're big enough to say you're still learning!!!
I salute you! 👏👏👍👍👍
@@midlandsdriver9667 very good mindset 👍
That A2 roundabout, no one keeps in their own lane anyway. Everytime I'm on it, i get cut up 🤣
@11:24 nobody could anticipate that lunatic.
The last one, parking into oncoming traffic, I will try my hardest if possible to park on the side of the road of which the traffic is facing to stop this from happening.
The thing that Jareds dad didn't mention, wrong side of the road over the brow of a hill, that is an absolute no no in any circumstance
Dad and son I past my test 58 years ago and the one thing my dad told me is you never stop learning I still am
My favourite is the bright green truck who pushed his way up the inside lane next to the tanker lorry, then had to brake sharply to avoid contact. Rather ironic that it said “Cooperative” on the side of his truck given his uncooperative driving!
Clip #10, I do get miffed when this happens to me, loads of space behind me but the vehicle joining my lane can't join behind me, it has to join ahead and I have to brake to get a safe separation. But the cammers reaction is so out of proportion.
But Jared getting told was the fav clip.
Do people not do a simple check over the shoulder when changing lanes? Especially on a motorway when they have plenty of time to do so.
I get goosebumps when I see the BMW steering wheel in the intro everytime, the music helps too..I’m hoping to get the m3 competition but maybe I’ll have to get divorced first
At 10:00 i thought I recognised the road. I drive that road every day to work.
3:14 I had something similar happen. Coming onto a roundabout I couldn't see onto the exit of the dual carriage way that far, but plenty enough to get out in time and speed up, which is limited to 50mph anyway, now bare in mind this roundabout is light controlled, but where I'm coming onto it isn't. There's is green.
So barely any cars coming through, it's clear and I exit, when I get to the center lane, a car then becomes visible that's approaching really fast from the dual carriageway (probably speeding too) and has to lock on their wheels.
Like, slow the hell down you're approaching a roundabout at stupid speeds for one, and chances of them going in the lane they're supposed to be was slim.
Yet, it was somehow my fault and they blasted the horn. Actually appalling how some people use roundabouts.
Brilliant feedback. Fair and balanced
Wasn't expecting to run into a clip from somewhere I know here but that clip at 3:03 is coming out of the Morrisons car park in Wellington, Telford. That's no more than a 2-3 minute cycle from where I was living before Brexit forced me to move my business out of the UK. Strange to see somewhere so familiar though guess its a small world out there after all heh.
The Cyclist clip is Castle Circus road Torquay and you should not turn right from the left lane. 50°28'05.8"N 3°31'55.2"W
@5:00 situation is common for me (happens about 10 times in past 5 years), but as a biker, always paying attention for cars coming from left, so never crashed, and because riding a bike, i've got more "space" to escape. Still very dangerous...
"but as a biker I am also an inconsiderate a$$hole who doesn't follow rules"
That one with the locking on, is an MOT failure, it's a 14 plate, it has ABS and the ABS did not trigger that means there is a warning light on the dashboard about ABS and any warning lights on your dashboard, is an MOT failure, people seem to forget you can be done for on the spot MOT failure if you have a warning light you should not be driving the car.
blind spot??
turn your head around mate
good on the cammers for avoiding accidents in those situations but its the duty of the one joining the motorway to make sure he does it safely
I think you forget to tell something about clip #10: It's also illegal to use your horn when there is no dangerous situation. The aggressive honking was not only irritating for other drivers, it could also scare someone to do something dangerous and cause an accident. I don't know why that guy was aggressive about that tiny mistake of the truck driver, but he should learn to handle his anger. You can be disappointed that someone made a mistake like that, but when you get angry because of that tiny mistake you have a real problem. What is the next step? Brake check? Cutting someone off? I would have slowed down to give him some space. My first driving lesson on the highway an Audi driver cut me off a little. I just lifted my foot of the gas pedal and let him take some room. Then I speeded up to the normal speed again. No drama and we both were on our way.
Clip 11 - Torquay!! Good to see :)
Slow down Jared, increases speed even more before slowing down. Good telling off much needed.
I disagree with the focus on speed in clip 15. They're doing 45 mph max on a 50 mph road and were nearly involved in an incident showing that speed has often got nothing/very little to do with bad driving. Complacency with speed could have contributed, but I'd only be able to speculate about that in suggesting a mindset of 'I'm not speeding so won't be catching up on anything'. Officially police reports place 'excess speed' as a contributing factor in only 5% of reportable incidents (those with injuries, major and minor, and/or deaths). Not once were they 'speeding' as their passenger keeps suggesting, but yet they were nearly deadly for the cyclist. Observation is entirely the problem there, poor observation kills, not speed, but yet that's what everyone is obsessed with. Poor or inadequate observation (officially called something else but I can'tr remember what it is right now) is listed as a factor in 38% of reportable incidents.
Edit; (this single following paragraph added)
Clip 20 is a possible result of speed enforcement too. Don't exceed the speed limit. Probably 30 mph for that road and they don't exceed that. They then think they'll be fine, 'why would the speed limit be 30 mph if it wasn't safe to do there', without the proper education of how to observe, how important visibility is in the speed you can carry, etc, to be able, encouraged to think otherwise in each situation.
Speed enforcement isn't actually done to prevent or reduce the likelyhood of incidents occurring. Limits are only for reducing the severity of the injuries *when* you get hit, so you'll 'only' be paralysed/debilitated/traumatised for the rest of your life instead of killed *when* you get hit crossing the road by a driver not paying attention, at least that seems to be how authorities see it anyway. 1930-1935, no speed limits across the whole of the country, approximately 800 fewer deaths occurred in that time, possibly for the first year of no limits country wide, but I can't recall that specific detail so I won't claim it to be the case.
If someone can't drive fast safely when the conditions enable it then it's a training problem or a simple lack ability not a speed issue, otherwise pilots and passengers would drop dead on takeoff and deaths would only have increased dramatically from the days or Model T Fords that at anything over 40 mph would be throwing pistons out of the engine to the world we're in not where road cars (performance focused at that but still road cars) have broken the 300 mph mark, which isn't the case.
Excess speed being a factor in only 5% of accidents is vastly different to the fact that speed in terms of trying to get where you’re going quicker is a factor in nearly all accidents, going slower, being more patient and erring towards waiting would eliminate far more than 5% of accidents.
@@cjeam9199 Going slower doesn't compensate for people not looking where they're going. The most common collision on UK road is driving into the back of someone else in traffic, you can't go much slower than being stationary. If people were taught to the advanced (RoSPA, IAM) level then potentially 90+% of collisions would be prevented, and training to that level enables the elimination of speed limits while maintaining that level of safety, simply driving slower will not reduce incidents that significantly.
Getting somewhere quicker isn't speed related. If you walk around a building you can get to a destination quicker by taking a shorter route while not walking any faster. Walking the shorter route and tripping over a cable across the floor isn't an incident that results from going quicker, because you're not actually moving faster than you would have been on the longer route. Speed is specifically how fast you're moving, so running into someone stepping out of a door on any route through the building, regardless of whether it could get you to your destination quicker, when it could have been avoided by walking, i.e. going slower, is an incident where speed is a factor. You could be taking a scenic route that takes longer even when running, not getting to you destination quicker but speed is a factor. So if police reports show speed as a factor in only 5% of incidents then it's going to be accurate.
Just in case you didn't know, there's a list of over 80 possible factors that police can list as contributing to an incident (not accident, accident suggests no one is at fault, they're officially called RTIs (Road Traffic Incidents) (at least they were the last time I checked)).
destination 'quicker' is by not stopping when you should, not necessarily by speeding or driving too fast for the conditions.
Mark Wright Nonsense. Going slower definitely compensates for people not looking, because it gives them time to get around to looking, and gives them longer to react when they do finally get around to looking.
Getting somewhere quicker is precisely speed related. That’s what speed is. How far you’ve gone versus how quickly you’ve got there. If you’re in a hurry, so decide you won’t follow the walkway that’s cleared and marked and end up tripping over a cable that accident could have been entirely avoided if you slowed down and taken the route you were supposed to. That is precisely an accident that is caused by speed, because it could have been prevented by slowing down.
@@cjeam9199 How do so many collisions happen in stop start traffic below 10 mph compared to anywhere else if speed is the cause?
Getting somewhere quicker isn't "precisely speed related". You can take a shorter route and avoid stopping where you should to get there quicker and not travel any faster in the journey, i.e. you can drive a major, high traffic flow route at all the posted speed limits then get to your destination quicker by taking a shorter, less traveled route and avoid stopping at traffic lights and still not exceed any posted speed limits, even though smaller roads tend to have lower limits. You can get places quicker with a lower average speed.
The main way drivers cause incidents on major routes when they're trying to make up time are by failing to stop when lights change, failing to give way at roundabouts and failing to merge in turn where lanes end. They will have a very similar average speed over the course of their journey as every other driver as they cannot drive faster when they're in the flow of the rest of the traffic, but they cause incidents by jumping lights and the like previously mentioned. They're not going at a greater speed so how can a non-existent greater speed be a factor in the incidents occurring?
Mark Wright All of those things will be speed related, because people are trying to beat the lights, get into that gap, and get ahead of the person in the next lane, because they’re all trying to get where they are going faster. Collisions in stop start traffic at 10mph happen because people are impatient due to being stuck in the stop start traffic, because they want to go faster so they aren’t late to work, or can get home on time.
Very goid program .drivers can learn a lot from these clips.thankyou
12:20, The big roundabout next to Tesco on the Silk Road
"It's how you deal with other people's mistakes that sets you apart".
Yup.
Il have to send some clips in, I got some cracking clips Iv saved.
Favourite: Clip 10. OK so you may be concerned that the cammer is going to have a stroke but that looks like a deliberate barge-in by the truck driver. There is plenty of room behind the cammer's car for him to have moved over to the left lane safely, yet he chose to carry on until the last possible moment before moving across. With a wet road and rain, plus heavy spray the truck driver should have known how selfish and dangerous his move was, as the car he barged in front of would have been covered in spray from the truck and may have lost control on the slippery surface, braking to avoid the truck - maybe the cammer left a bit of a gap to the traffic ahead for this very reason- slippery road, spray, allow a bit more of a gap for safety only to see an impatient truck push in. Over-reaction to this move? almost certainly but it looks like it was intentional by the truck (he signals as soon as he has passed the car) and was totally uncalled for, putting the cammer into danger all for the sake of the truck saving a couple of seconds of journey time. Clip 11: cyclist was lucky, Skoda made no attempt to get into the right lane before cutting over to turn. If the cyclist had been a car instead, what would have happened? Sticking your indicator on does not give you an automatic right to make a move across someone else's path
Personally, clip 11 looks like the driver is attempting to give him room as he goes past, but fails to make it past and panic decides to go in front. Car drivers are rarely going to back off and tuck in behind a bike. Both could have done better.
After seeing that lot, think I’ll stay home tomorrow.
The clip at the roundabout where the silver car went into them, the silver car must have been on there phone, how do you miss a car literally a meter infront of you.
Also exciting to see clips from my neck of the woods.
3:38 - these traffic lights that do not work for the crossing. If a pedestrian was willing to cross - is it still to be considered as a crossing? In other words, does the driver have to deal with it as if it were a zebra crossing or does the pedestrian have to consider the crossing doesn't exist?
Some of these cammers: "Am I just unlucky or do I just run into all the idiots on the road?"
There's a clue perhaps, if you feel like you run into more idiots than usual for your time on the road, its entirely possible you might be part of the problem...
“Slow down, you’re doing 50!” 44 actually. Poor Jared.
4:50 wrong lane though? They are going straight ahead so why are they straight lining the roundabout?
Oof, poor Jared got a real roasting there :(
I think more videos with focus of blindside and blindzone would be nice.
11:45 doesn't matter if he is in the blind the spot the car shouldn't be moving over 2 lanes at once they should do the proper checks and then move over
the golden one, he got told
favourite clip, dad v jared
yes the (I'm guessing dad) was good to tell him to take it easy but telling him to slow down in a 50 when he's only doing 44 and telling him to go under 40 in a 40 for no good reason is whats leading to this generation of drivers who sit 10 mph under a limit and fail to make road progress
How do I send in clips?
People usually upload their clips to Google Drive or similar and then send me a sharing link. 👍🏼
@@ashley_neal
I have a clip but it's me recording the actual dashcam, I assume this wouldn't be ok?
Thanks for the quick reply love the channel
Got to be jarrod, i know the road well & his dad definitely knows the score, many youngsters have died on b4114 over the last few years.
Didn’t the car stop after the collision
All drivers should do a lifesaver before pulling across or turning, it was drummed into me for my bike test many, many years ago and have used it whilst driving ever since. A Quick Look over my right shoulder, tells me what’s about.
A lot of one handed driving at the start Ashley !
Good spot! That’s my bad habit, but I only do it when risk is virtually zero. As soon as anything could happen my hands are back up and ready. 👍🏼
I like the tone of your response Ashley , we all make mistakes and most definitely I do. I have learnt a lot from your videos , despite driving for over 50 years . David Foster.
I have to agree what was it “Jared”? Was driving a bit dangerously but I don’t think saying “driving like a boy racer” is a fair comment... I can be classed as that as I have a Ford Fiesta (2019) with a modified exhaust a remap and induction kit with exterior mods! I love my cars and all things like this! However I have never caused a near miss and will always drive to conditions give cyclists room and slow down on time. I will speed sometimes (late at night on a dead straight road with no houses or anything near by).
I had a similar situation to clip 17, altho i was a little further ahead than the cammer. Someone then comes speeding up the slip way, i had nowhere to go, besides he had the whole slip way to sort himself out instead of trying to merge immediately after the hash markings. He then managed to get into lane 1, quickly proceeding to get into lane 2, over took me & beeped at me like it was my fault he was driving like a d***. I didnt rise to it, just let the muppet carry on! BMW driver too (at least he used his indicator).
The dad scolding his son was funny and the last one was probably the son on his own 😂😂😂
I think a brief observation comment and a discussion later would have been better. Overloading a new driver with information - without dual controls - is irresponsible and further distracts them from the road like if they were taking part in a phone call.
@@justanotherviewer4821 Sometimes a good telling off does the trick, especially with the hazard perception, and the thinking of “what if your brakes fail” it opens the mind to other thoughts then and there and then they will use that from that second on as a reaction of “oh sh*t, yeah he’s right”
Brings back memories of my own dad telling me off for going too fast and breaking too late!
I never over or undertake on a roundabout unless there is a queue in their lane, it has saved me so many times when a car has changed lanes , and drivers don't always indicate.
The father and son incident was good , the son was speeding towards the cyclist , the dad explained you can't see what might come over the hill towards you, and there was a solid white line , stating this to stay in between the lane lines.
That driver getting angry at a lorry changing lanes needs to lay off the viagra
Indeed. Yes Mr Lorry driver messed up. It happens. Maybe his sat nav was a bit slow that day. If it were me, I would have just had a shake of the head and a tut or two, and a few quiet words to myself and let the lorry in. It wouldn't have inconvenienced / endangered me any.
@@gixxerman69 My satnav is always slow, heck, sometimes I've left the roundabout it's now telling me to read.
That's google maps through android auto on the built in dash thing.
Nightmare!
It's more annoying the fact it's a bloody red light!
gixxerman69 me too, but that was bloody dangerous driving from the lorry driver especially in those conditions. However I would’ve let the idiot in.
What if it was a BMW instead of a lorry ??
Zulisian google maps on CarPlay can be absolutely piss poor at times. I’ve had it where it just flies off the road and lags for ages
Clip 7 is one that highlights a big problem on UK roads, people fly onto roundabouts and then complain when someone pulls out in front of them without ever considering if their own speed is the problem. Had a few arguments with friends about it after they've blasted their horn at someone who clearly made the best decision that they could.
Poor polo is a 69 plate too!! 😬😬 Worst nightmare!
surely with the dashcam evidence that should be resolved quickly and the other driver's insurance will pay out entirely?
New 69 polo hit. Worst nightmare getting hit in a nice new car. 😬
That was my polo, only 3 months old. It wasn’t a write off, they ended up repairing it but coz of COVID it all got delayed....
Thomas Davies I hope you weren’t too serious hurt. Do you know if there was any repercussions for the other driver ?
J H no one was injured thankfully, and I’m not sure what repercussions there were for the other driver. All my repairs were done through their insurance though.
Jarrod was so fixated on getting past the cyclist, I doubt he saw the near miss of the van in front and had one himself. Tunnel vision at its finest
Yep the MGIF (must get in front) was strong in Jarrod, as it is in a lot a motorists. The times I have been close passed whilst cycling just so the car can get to the red light 3 seconds sooner.
I don't think Jarrod was doing it on purpose, therefore it's not a must get in front incident. A lot of drivers fixate on the things that they are most scared of and see little else. This is the most likely cause of this incident.👍🏼
@@ashley_neal Fair point. To be fair, most MGIF incidents that I have witnessed are not malicious, but the result of drivers just not thinking or planning ahead. They see a cyclist and immediately think they will be travelling slowly, therefore they need to be in front of them. Almost a case target fixation it seems. On the rare occaisions that I have discussed the MGIF with them, most were unaware that they had done something silly. I did have one very baffling one though. A driver passed me (30 limit and I was doing about 20) and immediately after passing me they turned left into a side road causing me to have to brake quite sharply (a classic left hook). It was such a bad bit of driving I thought a word or two was in order. Having asked why they overtook so near to when they were going to turn, the driver simply replied that they "wanted to get past me". I explained that what they did was dangerous and pointless, but they just couldn't see it, and just kept repeating that they wanted to get past me. Oh and to ice the cake, so to speak, they couldn't resist spouting out the tired old road tax nonsense. I left it there as some people, it seems, are beyond help.
My biggest worry with cyclists "holding people up" is at least 1 person will be impatient and almost cause an accident if a bigger vehicle is in front. I will happily sit behind a cyclist for miles on end but as soon as another vehicle turns up I start over thinking.
@@Asfixiator7 The annoying thing with cyclists is that they are on very fast roads doing tractor speed. It's very easy to be doing 50 on a corner and meet a cyclist in a precarious position.
My favourite clip has to be the lorry driver taking the trouble - and risk - of warning other motorists. A sportsman would get an OBE for less. When an Earl gets an OBE do they become an Earlobe?
At my uni there is a lecturer called Dr Earl and me and my friends call him Earlobe precisely for this reason (although he doesn't have an OBE, but we wish he did)
3:20 I get this all the time as an HGV Driver - so many people enter roundabouts too fast and get a sudden surprise that im pulling out in front of them (because they were invisible at the time I was entering the roundabout) at a low speed and blocking their whole path. It is ridiculous
I literally just had this coming home tonight from cannock and heading onto the M6. I was at a roundabout where my immediate right is covered by a sharp corner and I can't see round it. I'm approaching at 15 in second and out of nowhere a white golf comes flying out, clearly too fast for the roundabout and I have to slam on the breaks half on the roundabout.
Approach speed is as important as making sure it's safe, he would have been part blame if I'd hit him because of his idiocy thinking the roads are empty at 11pm.
2nd roundabout north of my depot is a nightmare, blind to traffic to the right until it’s 30-60m from the junction, plus a delightful lag on the pedal to gas (modern computerised sh**e) in the auto unit, you just get going & have to stop so often it reaches the point where stopping again is dangerous so you just gotta go, while matey is heavy on the horn and brakes cos They were going too fast.
You and me both, mate.
Feel sorry for the owner of the polo beats, such a nice car.
Insurance must have went up like mad 😭
It is a great car tht was only 3 months old at the time of the accident. No change to insurance yet though, all repairs were sorted by the other persons insurance
@@thomasdavies442 was only saying as I've got the same car vw polo beats, same colour and same alloys. Hope it got sorted, lovely dub/vag car it is tbh. The amount of unexperienced drivers on road is crazy, even if you're safe, that doesn't mean others will be 😟
The polo gti+ is a spaceship
Does 42 in a 50 oh yeah “Speeding” 😂
i like the jared clip his dad i think gave a perfect bollocking and explained it all to a tee, he probably felt stupid after but it was a good life lesson
fur king el if someone drives like that when learning they need to be taken off the roads completely that was completely mindless reckless and irresponsible of Jared to continue at the same rate of speed on approaching the cyclist he should of slowed in advance as his father says in the clip until he could see that the road was clear as he was also on a hill
@@JamesA1 My only issue with what the dad said is "you were speeding", the road was a 50 and according to the cam he was doing 45, even if you want to claim the GPS in the cam isnt accurate it wouldnt be so far inaccurate that 46 could be significantly over 50, maybe the car registered 52 at most there. I have this issue with my car and know for a fact my speedo is significantly off at higher speeds as when following it for 70 on the motorway im being overtaken by everything, and my dads car says hes doing 63 when following me at "70"
@@JamesA1, I don’t think they were learning, more newly qualified, or Dad was at fault for not coaching earlier.
All the motoring organisations agree that So called Smart Motorways were the worst idea ever. Especially as they have caused several deaths.
I believe they are being phased out.
It’s not so much the concept, more the way all ALR Smart Motorways are built following the trial build (M42). The original build and concept had refuges every 800m, and automatic camera monitoring throughout, so any issues were picked up within seconds and controls put out. AFTER the trial, to save money, refuges every 2KM, large stretches not covered with ANY camera, and few automatic cameras, so issues can have resulted in multiple collisions before controls come in.
@@paulcollyer801 Honestly I think there needs to be some important changes to the law and driving culture in the UK to make them work safely also. First and foremost on that list would be implementing a law similar to Germany mandating the creation of an emergency lane upon joining stationary traffic. In effect this would mean something like lane 1 must form a queue as far to the left as possible when traffic stalls, similarly to the right for all other lanes thus creating a gap between lanes 1 and 2 for EV's. This would in effect remove the need for a dedicated hard shoulder for emergency access since the space is created dynamically when traffic stalls enough for it to be needed since ultimately this only really becomes essential when traffic stalls and queues bumper to bumper. Blue lights and exemptions are usually adequate to make progress in flowing traffic but a complete stall is another matter.
Granted this still doesn't solve the issue of providing a safe space for sudden breakdowns where even limping a relatively short (
@@seraphina985, you speak wise words. Ftr, the original plan for All Lane Running Had full coverage with radar & cameras, and was very rapid in responding with lane closures, but as with so much these days, the demo kit is perfect, the production is not.
Big shout out to Jarrod's old man!
6:05 it's people like these who accelerate to close the gap when someone puts on their indicator that make driving unpleasant
Yes it's the fastest he went in the whole clip. He's obviously a bit of a spanner! 😀
Yea there was plenty of space to let lorry in .
To be fair, the cammer overreacted, but the lorry had loads of space behind the car. Bear in mind the size of the lorry and the fact that dashcams make it seem that there's more space than there is, and there was probably barely enough space in front of the car for the lorry. Having said that, I do agree with Ashley's comment though - the cammer needs to chill out.
Yep, made himself look a tit in that clip, plenty of room for the lorry to get in, but he just has to get infront.
@@ADAMLFC92 What about the space behind the cammer's car? That lorry dived last minute for that exit.
7:37 i think the skoda knew what he was doing and saw the cyclist the whole way as this was a one way street he had the wrong lane to turn right, no indicator and sudden steering all to just get ahead of the cyclist. im a keen cyclist also and wouldve been just as aware but to be fair the cyclist had no idea the skoda was going to turn until.. he did.. suddenly i guess i dont know how to end that in english
I would have just let the lorry in it would have been the safer and nicer thing to do because it's not like he got anywhere faster because they stopped at the Same lights anyway lorry driver probably forgot he had to get off so exited late iv done it before I'm sure everyone has nearly missed there exit
Exactly the right mind set, even if an HGV is completely in the wrong you just get out of the way as much as possible and as safety as possible, no amount of being in the right is worth loosing your car over and an HGV will always win in a fight🤣
@@edwardpurkis1084 yh I'd rather not be flate under a lorry and keep my no claims bonus because iv been driving about 2 years now and my insurance has gone down loads since my first time on the road witch was £1800 for a 1.4 diesel now iv got a van for work so need it to be on the road not under a lorry lol
Ethan keenan i wish more people on the road had that attitude and knew how to drive. My daily is a 26ton Left Hand Drive truck😂 which attracts idiots to it apparently.
@@edwardpurkis1084 yh I see idiots all the time in lorrys blind spots cutting them up
agree . only one loser when you clash with something that big
The fast the road, the faster you die. Sounds like an Alan Partridge line but very true. Love it.
Sounds like a reason to go faster.
Poor Polo..
Clip 6 - yeah blind spot but no excuse for not moving your head and looking imo
Clip 11 - Blind spot or not the car is aware he was there, He saw him in that lane seconds earlier at the give way.
The cyclist didn't accelerate both of them are on the brakes (check his levers), he knew the danger he was not going up the side of it.
You can't completely stop every time a driver could do something crazy, the car turned right from the left lane without indicating (until after the turn) Cyclist slowed and left himself enough room to be able to avoid the car.
Taking it to its logical extreme... If you were cycling along a major road and a car was waiting on the minor would you stop just in case the driver decided to pull out on top of you? you would have put yourself in that danger by cycling in front of him.
Clip 13 - Malory could see a junction ahead but matched speed just behind a large vehicle that was turning in this would make her completely invisible to any car that would be waiting to pull out, didn't she put herself in that position like the cyclist in clip 11?
For clip 11, never assume a driver saw. "Looked but did not see" is a very common factor in collisions at junctions, perhaps the single most prevalent factor.
Cant imagine the mental state of someone sending in a clip where they're in the car honking the horn and swearing. What??
Probably 'ill expose this clip and everyone else will see what sorta idiot I have to deal with'
He’s probably sent it to every other dashcam channel on UA-cam and been slagged off in the comments in every last one of them so thought he’d try here instead so he could finally find someone who agrees with him… Nope!
The absolute arrogance of the truck cutting in at the last minute forcing the car to take evasive action borders on 'driving without due care'. There was ample time and a huge gap behind the car to get in for the exit, but no, he must get one more vehicle ahead. Totally pointless as he has to stop at the lights with the traffic.
The car driver however as Ashley says does himself no favours by losing his temper. Far better to have complained to the company and sent your clip in to them (and the dvsa) so they could educate their driver etc. The lorry will no doubt have multiple cameras that would back up the car driver's evidence,.
Unfortunately with all that horn blowing and actually trying to keep the truck out with his road position, he has lost the moral high ground. The horn means 'I am here'. The truck driver knows you are there because he has deliberately decided to carve you up, so all the anger means nothing to him.
Before anyone says the truck driver may not know the area etc, the incident was at Darford and the company are based at Purfleet a few miles away. The fact the driver exited at the leftmost exit of a multi lane slip shows he knew the area. Possibly as a bulk vehicle he is doing multiple short trips in a day and is frustrated at the traffic impeding him.
Not worth arguing with a truck, they know they will win.
don't know that the truck driver deliberately cut in, looks like a mistake to me. The camera cars reaction was dreadful.
At 11:24 I tought that was a meteor for a second.
2:46 Blind spot was no excuse for that. Besides a mirror, you are also provided with a window for your convenience.
11:57 Seemed quite reasonable for that car to come out in that gap. I live in a town known for its roundabouts and you really have to take these gaps or you will be sitting there all day.
13:18 That can happen when parking on the wrong side. Someone in a van parks in front of you and blocks your visibility when you want to get out.
That polo shouldn't be write off, its 2 doors and a rear quarter panel as long as no structural damage underneath. With how new the car is I camt see that being written off. Both those doors only cost 2 to 300 to fix each