Ash's Driving Fail July | A Safe Separation?
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6:09 this is some of the best piece of teaching/advice you can give to anybody just because somebody isn't meant to do something and you are in the right it doesn't mean you should just carry on with what you're doing - half of those dash cam 'near miss' videos are filled with people plowing on at speed just because it's their 'right of way'. I've started to teach my 13 year old daughter things like this when she's in my car (that and correct lane discipline on the motorway, where she already points out people not moving to the right), always assume that other cars are going to do something stupid.
Clip #1. She learned absolutely nothing from that near miss; but was right back again seconds later...even before clearing the bridge at the end of Melling Rd. Clip #3. Counting the time-lapse of passing lamp posts, that rozzer was only just over 1 second behind.
If you look closely she has a "Dream Catcher" hanging from her rear view mirror. I think she uses this a lot whilst it blocks her view of the road and what is going on with traffic, she can imagine she is an excellent driver in her dreams.
Passenger in clip 1 isn't wearing a seatbelt either, she had to catch herself.
@@keith6400 That sort of driver will never improve. You've only got to look at the way they entered the turning (Lancing Drive) towards the end of the clip.
Nor did she indicate coming out of junction
and turned into the wrong side of the road when turning into that junction, i see so many people do that and its insane
Then that utter fool who had a near miss in the first clip carried on driving just as close. They don't even have enough brain cells to learn from their mistakes. Unbelievable.
And the passenger wasn't wearing their seatbelt either 🤷♂️
It never happens to them, until it does. Often with tragic consequences.
@@CommodoreVic20 Well I've never met anyone who was killed in a road accident, so it doesn't ever happen.
Not unbelievable, very believable....getting a car is seen as the in thing to do, sadly some folks can't hack it, and it shows in their poor road skills, and seeing any further than their nose ends!
@@CommodoreVic20 Tragic consequences, and not always for themselves.
I think there are two types of drivers. Those who just care about getting from a to b. Those who care about getting from a to b while always being safe and responsible. There's such a mixture on the roads and it's scary to see sometimes
Absolutely agree
You missed type 3: those who must get from a to b as quick as humanly possible! Oh, and type 4: those who are way too focused on reprimanding other drivers while getting themselves worked up into a state, probably forgetting why they were travelling from a to b in the first place.
Clip 1 - Dunning-Kruger effect. I see it all the time, they lack the ability to gauge their own inadequacies so assume their skill is far superior as they simply cannot understand what they lack.
@@ts757arse be more Bob!
I don’t think they care about skill. They put no more effort into driving than they do operating a washing machine.
@@ts757arse That is literal explanation of the Dunning-Kruger effect.... just proof it exists!
What really bugs me is people who tailgate in the left hand lane of a motorway while driving at the speed limit. If they want to pass me (albeit while exceeding the speed limit), just overtake me. I won't stop them. Otherwise, no need to be so close to me at that speed on a motorway. One time I could see the driver was holding his mobile phone on a call the entire time which is even more dangerous while tailgating on a motorway.
Yep, I drive a motorcycle on the motorway regularly. If something causes me to come off my bike or if I have to rapidly slow down, tailgating could kill me. I do not understand why so many would rather sit a few meters back then just take the open one or two lanes and go round me.
@@CandyMan2001 oh 100 percent, I was instructed during training that if you have someone tailgating you that you shouldn't slow down to try and increase the separation in front because if they bump you and you fall off you will end up under there wheel.
In the city you would usually just filter past the car in front so that you have some space between you them ... Not an effective strategy on the motorway so if someone does tailgate you, you have no real choice but to speed up.
I'm surprised you meet other cars in the left lane... round here they are usually sat in the middle or right. I often sit in the left lane, with a nice big stopping distance travelling about 0.25mph slower than the other 2 lanes who are all nose to tail. Mind when the shit hits the fan they dive into my lane taking up my stopping distance :-(
Seeing as the fiesta on Melling Road ended up swinging into Lancing Drive, they're likely to be local and should know the issues on the Blue Anchor bridge of people turning onto Melling Road and then accelerating as they come over the bridge - which just shows up their poor driving even more.
Yep, and they cut the corner of Lancing Drive so badly that they entered on the wrong side of the line.
and do you want to bet on them sticking to under 20mph?
@@cargy930 Do you thing they were on something ?
@@highpath4776 They were nearly on Ashley's back seat! :D
Im sure if they had been first to the bridge, they wouldn’t have stopped or sounded their horn.
I used to think that all tailgaters were doing so aggressively, but then I was tailgated most of the way home from work by a really mild mannered colleague who wouldn't say boo to a goose. I had a chat to her about it over coffee and she wasn't even aware her distance was too close, she was aware of the 2 second minimum rule but "just eyeballed it" so left the same gap no matter what speed.
I agree. Often, people who tailgate are just dopey and distracted, rather than aggressive. I have noticed that they almost NEVER pull back, no matter what you do (eyeball them, slow down, speed up, wave etc.)
I was a tailgater back when I had just gotten my license. I wasn't an aggresive driver at all but I just didn't adjust when speeds increased. I learned it the hard way when one day I got out of my town towards the capital and suddenly on a motorway traffic started to stop and i just barely could control my car not to crash to the back of the car in front
I agree too, _most_ of the time it's because they are just plain stupid, so there is no way of informing them they are too close, such as a screen wash (I reckon if my screen wash lands on your screen, you're too damned close and in fact, some will drop back). The only option is to at least double my following distance to the vehicle in front - most of my tailgaters do so in situations where I couldn't conceivably drive any quicker - and hope that if I do have to stop suddenly, they don't ruin my day. A rear dashcam will provide evidence of persistent poor driving if they do chuff me up the back end.
Laura - I think you are absolutely right. It seems that different people have different ideas about what a good distance should be. I've had lifts with friends where they were driving much closer than I would. They weren't being aggressive. It was just the distance that they thought was right.
The other thing I've noticed is that some people get closer to some cars or types of cars. When I drive my wife's Vw Up! I see drivers tailgating me much more than when I'm driving my bigger car, even though I am doing the same speed and driving in the same way. It seems that some drivers feel they can bully a small car (and maybe a learner) where they wouldn't do it to a bigger car. They might not even know they are doing it.
@@PedroConejo1939 I do the screenwash thing too 😂
The blue Ford Fiesta was obviously running late for a multi million pound deal with ITV, to reinstate The Jeremy Kyle Show.
Clip #1 - driving like a moron and the passenger isn’t wearing a seatbelt ... 🤔 Darwin really was on to something ...
I remember how strange it felt when seatbelts became mandatory.... and I can remember clearly, because thats how it feels now if I move WITHOUT a seatbelt
Really makes you wonder if they don't get absolutely mad with the alarm that goes off (supposedly) when driving without a seatbelt.
And the way it cut that corner at the end.
clips like this make me wish it was not such a pain to set up a rear facing dash cam
@@moosevision8113 For me all it took was one incident where a car went to overtake me when the vehicle in front of me and myself slowed for a large patch of deep muck on the road and their wheels went straight into it causing them to lose control, first skidding into the verge then turning to skid towards oncoming traffic while facing perpendicularly to the road and it stopped inches from said line of oncoming traffic. National limit road with that oncoming traffic probably doing 50+ mph, had they slide sideways into the front of that it wouldn't have been pretty, and that's what had me realise the hassle is worth it, although for me at the time I hadn't thought about a rear camera, the front only camera was to protect myself if an incident occurred so that people can't just blame the young male driver if anything happened (I've had a dashcam from the moment I started driving at 17 when insurance didn't give a discount for one, it still doesn't here in NI), but that made me realise I needed the back to be covered too.
Some would say the hassle of installing any dashcam isn't worth it, but it isn't for many who have been involved in incidents or just seen too many dashcam compilations of the worst drivers on the roads (I'm the latter :) ). Better to have a rear camera I'd say, especially with distracted driving only rising with all the touch screen crap being thrown into cars, meaning more risk of being rear-ended.
7:42 He was triggered by the distant set of lights. You do need to lookahead but you also need to be aware of your near surroundings
That's an incredible spot
Glad to hear you’re ok after contracting COVID. All the best for a full, speedy recovery.
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Agreed, covid is no joke. 6 months later and I have bubbles in my eardrum from my bad sinuses 😭
You seem like a really good teacher and explain things clearly with an emphasis on safety - nicely done.
I must say Ashley what an outstanding example you set to your learners. I see a lot of comments about your tone being strict or causing panic, but ultimately you are teaching people to take hazardous situations seriously. And the reassurance that follows the “incidents” is just heartwarming - it really shows your level of professionalism. It’s lovely to see an instructor which can both instruct well and personally connect with the pupil. This is what learning to drive should be all about.
Keep it up mate! 🙏🏻
I sincerely hope you will make a full recovery, Ashley.
Take care, and thanks for making the video during your recuperation.
imagine having this guy as a driving instructor he seems so calm and friendly,nice relaxing voice just what u want and need as a learner driver to make your experience feel better
One thing I'm always thankful for as a newer driver with a couple of years of limited driving is the fact that I've got a load of patience. There seems to be very few situations where exercising a bit of patience before during or after can't help you solve or even diffuse a situation. And the more clips like these I see, as well as the nice driving stuff (where Jon roams), the more I hope I never lose that!
Thank you to all the contributors and especially Ashley for putting these teachings out there. It's like having a perpetual driving instructor any time you need it.
When people tailgate I feel I need to adjust my speed to compensate for there decreased stopping distance. The closer u get the slower I’ll go.
Even though I’m a well experienced driver, I’ve been watching your videos a lot recently. Considering training to be an instructor myself… I had a first time (and hopefully last time) experience last night with a tyre disintegrating last night on the motorway, now I was able to get it safely out of the live lane on three tyres, helped my my ability to feel where the weight was shifting and react accordingly… would you consider making a video on how to handle emergency situations like this?
I wish you a full recovery without complications, Ash. Thanks for the upload!
I extremely dislike when people travel so close behind me. Especially when you have to make a turn or something, what I can’t understand is doing this to a driving learner. Just makes people anxious….
I get this all the time too. Sometimes I feel like I am the only one who obeys the 30 limit.
Happens to me all the time. I'm a learner who travels at the speed limit, and I feel as though 3/4 of all the cars that have ever driven behind me are close enough to kiss my ass.
Same, some one was right behind me on the weekend, instead of getting aggy I simply pulled over and let them pass me, but then they started going really slow, like me moving out of their way annoyed them?? You can’t win, they also started spraying their screen wash after slowing down (I had my roof down)
@@Andrestander124 In some situations, I don't think that you should have to obey a 30 limit, I feel like sometimes it's just easier to go faster on an open road where you can see everything fine and there are no dangers, that way risk is reduced from tailgaters who will tailgate you hard to go faster. Obviously, it shouldn't be like that but as Ashley said you have to fix other peoples mistakes and the only way to stop them tailgating is by going a bit faster.
@@BazamO ...And if you go faster and they still tailgate?
It’s that question again… “how would that police car have driven behind you if you were a police car” ;)
To be fair I think everyone is more patient, understanding and careful if they have friends, family or workmates driving in front of them.
I have seen 3 police car on the M4 playing tag with each other. taping the rear of the car then going ahead and the other car trying to keep up waving in and out of traffic and tag his bumper and this was on a buzzy part of the M4 with no warning lights on.
@@ray_llewe9147 ngl, thats a cool idea for a bumper cart game
They do travel pretty close together when they are on convoy, but then they would be following an experienced driver who wouldn't do an emergency stop for a squirrel. I always give driving school cars a bigger gap because I don't want them constantly watching me through their mirror.
@@mdlouie This is a perfect exercise to use when you are dealing with traffic, bad or otherwise. Imagine yelling out of the window at a friend who has just bought a new car... 😬
Tailgating and its close relative "changing lanes into someone else's stopping distance" are incredibly stupid, but fortunately seem to be one area of driving where the UK is much better than our continental cousins. Even German drivers, generally held as a shining example of the result of more thorough driver education and rule-following, seems to eschew the 2 second rule and favour the 2 nanosecond rule.
So nice to see support for learners at times! Hated having the L plates on because of the way people treated me, shocked me how differently I was treated once they were off!
Sorry to hear you've had Covid Ashley, hope your feeling better. Tailgating is one of my pet hates I sometimes ask the kids to open the boot and let them in when I get tailgated.
It's surprising just how much his cameras extend the apparent distances: the first silly cow (and the copper in #3) are no more than 1 second behind (the speed bumps make a really good reference) and yet she closes up again the instant her little surprise has passed and starts gesticulating.
As my father used to say, "where do these people get their licences from, Sainsbury's or somewhere?"
I hate tailgaters, especially at night, the headlights really put me off
Don't worry, they try to get close enough where their headlights are eclipsed by the back of your car. How nice of them.
Why is this instructor so patient and kind. I don't even drive, I'm 15 and i want him to be my maths tutor... even when mistakes happen, he's so calm about it.
Sorry to hear that you caught Covid, I hope you’re feeling better now
@Terry Winter calm down buddy
@Terry Winter Your life can't be that sad?
@Terry Winter 100 percent correct
@Terry Winter funny how the test only responds to people who are actually unwell, but shows negative on those who are well
Terry, answer me this: why do so many people get a negative test result?
You claim it just always comes back positive, then WHY DO POSITIVITY RATES CHANGE?
Tell me Terry, do you even know what the positivity rate is?
@Terry Winter Terry mate, with this level of intellect we need to get you working for the government or with the top epidemiologists instead of responding to UA-cam comments whilst sitting in your 4-day old pants.
Tailgating a learner's car is just one of the ridiculous things that I experienced when I was in the process of preparing for my driver's license. Horns, tailgating, swearing, fingers. I had it all, including on my exam. What I didn't have is such a considerate, confidence-building and detailed in his explanations instructor. I hope your pupils know how rare and valuable your presence and guidance is. I am going to go back behind the wheel after a very long time as purely a passenger, so those videos are an absolute treasure.
That lorry be driving and taking that bend like he is in a damn Ferrari...
That's what happens when you pay peanuts and can only get drivers from 3rd world countries
@@XaviRonaldo0
Wat! little england is fast approaching.🇪🇺🇮🇪
Probably an empty trailer, he could be running out of time on his tacho, still no excuse for speeding though.
Excellent as always, many thanks. Ashley, could you please cover safe distance on a busy dual carriageway? Whether driving in the inside lane or an overtaking lane, if I observe the two second rule, other vehicles will again and again change lanes into the safe space in front, compromising my safety. What to do? Should I always fall back? And progress slower than anyone else? Not to mention other drivers' irritation... etc! Trouble is, sadly, only a very small proportion of drivers keep that safe space.
Sometimes it's easier to stick at 74/75 and be moving through traffic, rather than being left behind. Unlikely you'd be prosecuted by a camera and you can manage space better when you're not being overtaken
"Only a fool breaks the two second rule"
In my local area a driver on the first day of his job driving a cement mixer went through a roundabout too fast, needless to say a top heavy large vehicle making a sharp turn at speed didn’t end well, so now a crane is trying to pull it back up right and traffic in the area is calamitous as the roundabout was the only entry in the area to the main bridge over the local river.
A short career of a cement mixer driver!
I hope you are feeling better @Ashley!
Very interesting videos. I have commented before but after 25 years of instructing until retirement I have literally seen all this so many times. I remember once coming up to blind narrow bridge to find a large lorry coming the other way. We stopped safely as did the car behind but the next four didn’t and all crashed into one another. Out of courtesy we stopped as witnesses. Several of the other drivers tried to blame my learner for stopping. If a vehicle pulls out in front I sometimes found the learner taking no action. On commenting I was greeted with ‘well if I’d had an accident it wouldn’t have been my fault’. One young man on being pulled up by me for erratic behaviour said ‘ so what if I smash your car up, they will give you another one tomorrow’. That was his last lesson with me. I’m pleased to say I retired with a grade A after all those years!
Bahahaha the first lady waved her hand looking cross at the temerity of stopping and being safe! Pffft! Only bad drivers need to do that in her world!
Hope you are recovering well from covid Ashley my lad! It took me a few months, not going to lie, so I hope it takes you much less time than me!
Tailgating seems to be the norm. Some are aggressive bullies trying to force the car in front to get out of the way or drive faster but most don't realize or understand what they are doing. There are those who are in a hurry and think that they will reach their destination faster if they sit 2 meters from your bumper instead of the recommended 2 seconds. Some terrified somebody might squeeze in the gap and increase their journey time by 2 seconds. Then there are the brain dead, I sat next to a driver on a 70mph dual carriageway 12 o clock at night nothing else on the road except a young woman in her Fiesta doing 50 mph about 2 to 3 meters in front for 2 miles. I mentioned several times he was too close but he didn't get it, he was too busy talking. The woman was clearly getting anxious thinking she had a stalker behind and eventually I told him for Christs sake overtake her she is beginning to look really scared.
I really don't understand the mentality it is so much more relaxing, comfortable and safe to back off a little to a 2 second gap instead of having to constantly accelerate and brake.and if its too slow overtake at a safe point, you get a better view of what is coming the other way from further back and can start accelerating earlier for a faster overtake. If the road is too busy to overtake then most likely you ain't going to get there faster whether they are in your way or not. A lot people just seem to like getting stressed while driving and stressing everybody else.
i always have this problem, i drive the speed limit and recently had a blackbox so i drive normally but people seem to love my rear end
I'd get a blackbox sticker if I were you. Helps explain the supposed lack of speed to impatient drivers.
😂
That sounds kinda dodgy 😂
@@dreamcrusher112 I don’t have one anymore thankfully
@@connor4475 It also sounds kinda doggy too.
starting my driving lessons in Merseyside in september, rly weird having these videos be so familiar lol
your vids have been really informative and helpful, appreciate ya
In that case I would recommend watching more, as you may well pick up tips on unusual/awkward sections of road that might help on your test
Talking of fixing others mistakes on test, I think the best thing to do for the last clip would be to firstly begin slowing as soon as the bus begins to pull out, then when the situation developed further, stop before the junction and allow the taxi to cross in front and clear space for the bus. Hopefully that wouldn’t be any sort of issue for an examiner?
The police should know better, you seem to capture a lot of their bad habits and behaviour. With me you guys will always have a road ally, affording you as much time and space as you need, even to the point I irritate other road users who dont, keep up the good work.
not just Police, Ambulance drivers as well. more specifically the Minibus's used for Non Emergency Patient Transport which do have "Ambulance" written on them.
quite often I have seen PCSO driving police cars, which to be honest I do not agree with. I think the police car was close, sometimes tactically they creep for varying reasons, but not justified here.
I have the dark suspicion that they wanted the learner driver to get nervous and drive too fast. Then they would have had the best reason to intervene.
They’re just dip shits, like 90% of people on the roads
Using "Only a fool breaks the two second rule" it's clear the police maintained a two second gap. Just use scenery in the clip and the amount of distance is fine. Certainly not tailgating. Better to give learners 3-4 second gap, especially if they seem completely inexperienced, perhaps.
Pulling up to the lights you had not taken them to the stop line over the trigger grid
What is it with tailgating in UK,? seems a problem with so many drivers,it's second nature to many, basically intimidation on the road.
Sorry to hear you had COVID. Just getting over it myself. Hope you feel better and thanks for the content.
That final clip; I suspect the bus was trying to move forward to allow your learner to pass so the taxi could go; it had become a circular situation where none of you could make progress until one of the others did. It would have been better if, once your learner saw the bus in front of him, he slowed and then waved the taxi through in front of him, as it was he seemed too busy yapping and slowed rather late blocking the taxi, etc.
Or... and I know this is radical... the bus could have waited until it was clear for him to emerge instead of, you know, pulling out in the path of a learner.
Be very wary of learner drivers deciding if it’s safe for you to pull out in front of them… good way to fail a driving test too if they make any signal not approved by the Highway Code.
@@cargy930 Actually I think that if the taxi wasn’t there, the bus would have been able to pull out without problems. Either way you can’t control what other people do, only what you do. Given the bus did pull out, it would have then been better to reduced speed.
In so many dashcam videos (and I’m talking about in general, not this specific video), the cammer plows on as it is “their right of way”. Sometimes you just need to accept that something has happened which technically shouldn’t have and act accordingly to de-escalate the situation.
A couple of seconds spent avoiding an accident far outweighs being technically correct, spending 15 minutes on the roadside arguing who was at fault, exchanging details, talking to insurance companies for over a year…
@@Bin216 I don't disagree about general dashcam videos. But we aren't discussing those here. You were talking about this specific clip, and that's the one to which we're both referring.
It's all very well talking about "if the taxi wasn't there". But the taxi *was* there. It was there for the *entire* clip. So there was no point where the bus could've pulled out without causing problems to multiple vehicles on the major road.
Could the learner have fixed it immediately by stopping sooner? Possibly. But I think it would have called for emergency braking that was unwarranted by the situation. I also know that had such braking been essential Ashley would have used his dual controls without hesitation (it's his job, after all).
It took the pupil and the taxi driver working together to fix what the bus driver created here. And I think both drivers did a cracking job given what the bus driver left them both to play with.
Sorry to hear that you've been unwell. I would have hoped that the police car would have been driven better.
I'm not surprised tbh; I saw one a few years back rear end a learner. :( Old Bill like many others aren't good drivers anymore.
Hope you are recovering OK. That first car the blue ford, that made me cringe, I'm not sure if the driver and passenger were talking and driver was getting distracted, but even after the near miss the distance did not increase straight away. One thing I find is once someone has got too close they will nearly always stay that same distance instead of jus easing of the accelerator and creating the space.
Lived in Liverpool for 8 years and learned how to drive in the city. This video made me feel nostalgia for the North West.
Hope all is okay post Covid-19.
That bus driver in the last clip. He should be aware of the length of the bus and that he was painting himself into a corner.
The learner should have anticipated a possible gridlock of the junction and held back.
@@Ben31337l Because a learner has that much situational awareness and ability to plan ahead to be able to solve other people's mistakes?
@@Ben31337l Well, the learner could have stopped, but then again, the bus could just not have gone seeing as the taxi turning right didn’t go…
That’s the biggest thing there, who does a right turn like that when the vehicle waiting to enter the side road hasn’t gone?
@@clickrick Idk, it is possible. ^^
I think that could have also been part of the instructor, as a type of lesson to plan ahead and read the situation and help the learner solve it.
@@jcskyknight2222 True that, notice that I never excused the bus driver for their mistakes.
But then again, I think forcing yourself into traffic from a side road into traffic regardless of the size of the vehicle is just rude and inconsiderate to other road users because, to some degree or another right, you're going to block traffic depending on how wide the road actually is.
It seems to be a common thing these days to not provide a good, safe gap between vehicles. This is why so many accidents happen every day on main roads. If people are THAT close they are reducing their visibility around the car in front.
Clip #1: no need to worry, they had a dream catcher!
7:52. I was once waiting at some lights next to a police car. when the car in front of us decided to just go at a red light after stopping for it, I looked sideways at the police and they just threw their hands up and gave a wry smile. that made me laugh.
OK, this might be a slightly tongue in cheek comment, but the point of keeping a safe following distance is so that if necessary, you can stop quickly enough to avoid an accident - well it appears the Fiesta in the first clip did stop without hitting you so it seems the driver was actually following at a safe distance. I mention this because I once came around a bind corner to find a pedestrian ambling across the road; they proceeded to have a rant at me for going too fast to stop and I had to point out that not only had I stopped in plenty of time without hitting them, but my ABS hadn't activated so it hadn't even been a full on emergency stop. Don't think he understood what ABS was though!
2:07 probably the angle of the dashcam but did that blue car seriously cut that big a corner turning in that she was in the right hand lane?!?
It's not the angle of the dash cam.
I love at the end of clip one, the driver enters that junction on the wrong side of the road.
Yep - it totally shows the mindset of that driver.
That white Vauxhall at 6:37 minutes, wouldn't happen to be one of your school cars by any chance? - Just that with a tiny pinch of imagination [ A5 HDT ] could easily be read as [ ASH DT ] (ASH Driver Training).
Looking at the car that nearly "tupped" your own on the bridge - I had a similar scenario behind me about a year or so ago. A driver, not really paying attention, distracted by [a mobile phone or] something was hanging off my back bumper on Selby by-pass. I was not happy nor comfortable with a [less than attentive] driver following so close behind me, so I took a sharp jink to the left, into one of the long lay-bys (in one end and out the other) with no big loss of speed. As I did so, the tailgating driver seemed to be suddenly lost/panicked, and swerved left and right before regaining a straight line. I concluded that the [less than attentive] tailgating driver was actually using my car's back end, in their peripheral vision, to guide them along the road - Not looking where they're going, just "hanging on to the back of the car in front". Once I'd disappeared from view, their lane guidance system (my car) wasn't there for them any longer, leaving them to suddenly have to figure it out for themselves. It slowed them down, and with a busy roundabout just a couple of hundred yards ahead, it was not a bad thing that they did. I could envisage stopping at the roundabout, and the tailgating car behind, piling into the back of mine. - It is not possible to drive safely whilst distracted, and I'm not prepared to have my beloved classic Volvo written off by someone who thinks "multitasking" at the wheel is acceptable.
Very well put. Just curious to ask what year and model of classic Volvo you have?
@@ibs5080 A choice of three! My favourite is the 1999 S70, but there is also the 1999 V70 and the 1974 145, the mustard coloured one, but then it seemed that most Volvos in the 1970s were mustard colour - I think, without looking, it was officially known as "Safari Yellow"!
At 8:09 was that a learner driving? Who ever was driving seemed oblivious to the bus and the car waiting to turn. Then I ask why did "no one" stop short of the car so it could turn and in turn allow the bus to turn?
2:35 similar thing happened to my mum and I a couple days ago where we had a huge lorry travelling at speed and right up behind us.. not to mention it’s one of those lorries that carry the huge tanks of milk from dairy farms etc. With a huge force like that behind him all it takes is a sudden stop from us or the car infront for him to cause a huge accident.. it was kinda scary.. we pulled over and let him go infront instead haha
When people drive as close as that Fester in clip 1, I suddenly find my windscreen is really dirty and needs a very long clean with loads of screen wash. It can take a minute of continuous spray to clear it. Strange.
7:40 “nothing coming, I’ll just run this red light!”
The thumbnail was all I needed to watch this 😂
The young lady driving the blue Fiesta, what was she doing?
A. Tying to bump off her boyfriend who was not wearing a seatbelt?
B. Checking the back of your head for dandruff?
C. Just checking out your number plate?
4:10 That could have been a fatal collision. Honnestly, you're better off unloading your car from the other side
Hence that's a double fault situation (two drivers, each making a mistake), they were in fact very lucky. Most of the times that ends up to collision.
That bus one near the end tickled me. Last year we had some temporary bollards put in our town and one of the buses, trying to circumvent these during their route, ended up getting themselves stuck at a narrow road on a sharp bend. 😂
While it did look amusing, it did show how one act of selfishness can impact everyone around you. That incident blocked an important thoroughfare out of the town centre, inconvencing and frustrating a whole load of people, and all because of one impatient driver. Don't be that guy.
7:40 I think the driver reacted at the light changing on the junction ahead.
Hope your Covid clears soon. There’s a lorry on its way to an accident - going to be a bad one too. As for that police driver, I have no words.
There is a belief in USA that certain police (bad ones looking to fill a quota or something)will tailgate excessively a target vehicle that they hope to pressure into speeding or otherwise making a mistake so that a stop and/or ticket can be issued.
Glad you're feeling a bit better now. I bet you thoroughly disinfect your car including the pedals! :-)
Kirby Industrial Estate clip: Shocking that a lorry trailer was just dumped on the opposite side of road, no cones or warning reflectors visible to oncoming traffic?
There were a couple of occasions of beeping coming from your car (I think) in this video. One was after the bad emerge from the junction and one was after the red light jumper. Is that you reaching across and beeping, Ashley?
That one series in blue overtake to cut in. Shocking
8:08
would you see something weird was going to happen and slow down\keep away till it resolved itself?
Not wearing a seatbelt is brave of the lady in orange
I think you misspelt "stupid" 🤣
Bravery and stupidity are easily confused
@@RichO1701e thin line between the two!
At least the windscreen is there to catch her.
Give her a break, she's training for a Darwin award.
I've recently entered the driving school again. trying to get a motorbike license. I'm used to stupid stuff happening from driving a car for years.
But the amount of times people squeeze in front of you or do stupid overtakes has surprised me. It seems to be more frequent than usual. It personally doesn't phase me, but it's so unnecessary to put learners through that.
Yes why is it exactly those with least control tail gate. Indeed
What is it about ford fiestas and terrible driving on your channel? I drive a Ford Fiesta and I try really hard not to drive like on these clips.
Speaking of, in the first clip, I reckon people aren't taught to appreciate following distance. Where I'm from, people will follow right up your bumper on a freeway doing 100km/h, and I don't think they are being malicious at all, they just have no idea how crazy dangerous that is. I think your ford fiesta was the same thing.
I think they are taught, but they just forget as soon as they get their licence.
Why do some people overtake and then swing into a side road?
What is the thinking behind that?
7.44 looking to far ahead to the next lights
Does no one slow down for speed bumps any more?
Had one today, driving on the east bound m62 smart section so 4 lanes, I’m on the inside at 60-70 guy behind I see in rear view is approaching very fast undercutting the adjacent 3 lanes, and then sat on my rear end, i then made a mistake in that I didn’t realise this lane only went to the off-road to the next junction (I honestly don’t believe there was signage advising of this) anyway guy behind who could have overtaken me at any point literally loses his mind when I indicate and pull into next lane undertakes and starts shouting out the window throwing the brakes on etc, I probably cost him 20s over about a mile absolute melon.
Jaw-dropping reality, indeed!
The last clip (8m05s) had me wincing. think I'd have pulled up before the junction to allow the car to clear, then the bus. But I guess they are learners and they are learning.
With the car so close behind? I think not!
@@ashley_neal Ahh, there was no rear footage until after the bus was being/had been passed so I have no idea of any following vehicles.
1:33 Utter Lunacy! Including the oncoming silver car that's two near misses in less than 5 seconds! Was that first miss a factor in them almost rear ending Ashley?
Love the way you don't blur the number plate. That 6 should be a G.
How advanced was the last guy (bus clip)? He seemed very aware! Most learners don't recognise the danger of what's directly Infront of them let alone those happening around them.
Probably instructor training
Over-use of the horn on some of those clips though, Ash?..
Hope you're feeling better now :)
Who remembers rear window signs or boot stickers saying,
"If you can read this, you are too close"
Even older ones said "If I STOP, can YOU?"
Tailgating and poor distance perception have always been with us since the dawn of the horseless carriage!
Horses, of course, have more sense.
Keep the content coming alwys look forward to it
The one on the industrial estate was a bit tricky for your learner. Only way to know they were turning and not just rejoining the lane was the brake lights. Shame they couldn’t have just been a little more patient, but they got away with it this time…
Edit: Oh, and the pulling out in front of learner drivers and lorries is misunderstanding of the physics at play. Both are seen to be slower because they tend to accelerate slower. Unfortunately the same is usually true for the deceleration…
well done on the overtake on the person riding a cycle, unlike the 'RED' instructor I had yesterday whose charge overtook me in a 40 zone just before the brow of the hill with less than a metre to my hand.
After following them to the nearby carpark I asked why the instructor thought that was a safe overtake, (no indicator either to those behind or ahead), she said they were "nowhere near you" and moved her hands to indicate about metre for overtaking.
She's getting reported for unsafe instruction and careless driving.
Was that you beeping or the car behind in the first clip? If it was yourself was it to warn oncoming traffic on the blind summit or warn the car behind that you would likely have to stop?
Shocking driving on their part either way,
Thanks
Why is it, that the more hazardous the road conditions are, the closer "tailgaters" get?
The dvsa should do a study on how many new drivers fail because of scenarios "experienced drivers" on the road create.. You can not teach an ape to drive well but you can teach an ape to pass a test 😉
In the first clip, was the passenger not wearing a seatbelt?
The disrespect for learner drivers is outrageous. Give them respect, give them space, how on earth are idiots pressurising them ever a safe manoeuvre?
Credit due Ashley. Constantly learning from you and I'm a full license holder.
Judging by the bump as the cammer and blue Fiesta went over the speed bumps, it was 2 seconds behind for the most part... my guess is that a) They weren't paying attention. b) Had no anticipation/understanding of the road ahead (prob didn't see road signs).
What are the chances that merc only pulled out because you are a learner vehicle? And that police car following needs to take two on their stopping distances and set a better example. Hope the covid symptoms weren’t too bad for you too.
I have one thing to add, emergency vehicles in the daytime in the sun should use their sirens when responding, twice nearly ive near hit my car into pavement and walls trying to avoid one as its nearly impossible to see their sirens in the sun unless you staring at them. I have also witnessed a few other people nearly crash due to same reason, the cop cars just pull put with lights on with no warning in this sun its hard to see, they should put siren on first so people can be aware. Its one of the only bad things they do in this weather that i find dangerous. I have a few clips saved somewhere showing how dangerous some of them came and how difficult it actually is to see in the full brightness of the sun
Drivers of emergency service vehicles are taught, among other things, to treat stop signs (which includes red traffic lights) as "give way" signs.
Not "you have priority and should barge through", as some seem to do.
It's a real joy to watch some of the best police drivers making progress, safely.
1st one would've been doing that pretty quickly with me as I slow wayyyy down for speed bumps. At that speed my suspension would be wrecked, lol (heavy car)
Ashley carphone warehouse using your intro music lol
So does DankPods (a UA-camr)