@@ashley_neal correct use of horn and light flash in highway code lost on most and so widely used for aggressive or self righteous reasons that most can misinterpret their correct use. I got sworn at for pipping the horn on the approach to a blind single lane bridge... 😑
I went on holiday from Hastings, East Sussex to Darlington, its a 5 hour journey which is the longest I have ever driven in a single journey. I made a couple of mistakes on the way home, I was meant to be in the left lane for the A1M but ended up on the M11, there were 2 lorries (one over taking the other) so I couldn't move across safely, instead I just carried on and jumped off at the next junction on the M11, the satnav guided me back, simple, no hassle, no fuss, no dangerous driving, yes it added 15 minutes to the journey but who cares we made it home safe. The other mistake I made was on the M25 when merging at junction 23, I was in the wrong lane, luckily at 11pm the roads were fairly quiet and I was able to correct without causing concern to other vehicles. I always say its better to be late home than drive dangerously and not get home. Drive safe everyone and thanks for the video as always!
Adam, as a driver with over 10 years of experience (lots of motorway driving and a few silly but minor accidents), I highly appreciate and respect your attitude towards driving. It's always better to be safe than to get into a big mess, especially at night. Many accidents are easily avoidable. Experience is one factor, but presence of mind and awareness of the situation is of utmost importance. I wish you many more years of safe and fun driving! Cheers!
@@RetroAdz my friends moved up there for work. We truly miss them and there was a lot for my 6 year old to do up there. Some of the views were amazing and it was very weird going from farm land to more industrial factories.
7:02 - Wow. Your learner did well not to swerve. That could've caused a terrible accident. Usually mums make their kids walk on the inside of them, but this mum doesn't bat an eyelid when the kid steps off the pavement!
I love how supportive and patient you are with your learner driver. My instructor was 90% of the time absent and on his phone. I wish all the drivers are like you. Much love from Serbia
Your instructor could have got 6 points and a £200 fine as instructors are classed as being in charge of the vehicle and just as much a 'driver'. Something I leanrt only in last few years!!
Me too, Almondsbury Interchange M4/M5 - the car hit the vee in the Armco and went right over the top of it, and ended up sat trapped on the grass the other side (well, I don't suppose it was driveable after that anyway...).
Thanks putting all these together! Been driving 20 years and I watch these to keep myself fresh and also give myself a bit of a chuckle at the same time.
9:09 how does this jaguar follow so closely litterally behind a van with a roll of carpet like about to fall out right out... some people cant think straight loading a van like this, others cant folling a van loaded like this in that way. Ash you should have mentioned this lol, for me it was surprising this wasnt the clip when I first saw this. Doesnt matter anyway, maybe you left it in as a bonus for us to discover ourselves haha! keep up the great work improving road safety!
I'm sticking up for the lorry driver in that clip . We will never know exactly how it went down but in most instances the lorry pulls out to overtake a slow moving or badly merging car, the car speeds up to match the lorry speed and the lorry hits its limiter or an incline. He doesn't want to block the overtaking lane but doesn't really want to drop in behind the ignorant doylem in the car again and mistakes are made.
I was taught to never overtake on an intersection. As for highways, don't attempt an overtake in the last half a mile before your supposed exit. If already overtaking, finish or abandon it to prepare for merging out onto the exit ramp. It's the bad planning that causes people to miss their exit and some erratically try to fix it with dangerous manoeuvres, there is no shame in admitting your own mistakes and fix them safely, even if that means taking the next exit.
Exactly my point if I miss a junction slip way I would rather go to the nearest roundabout or sip way and turn around than just trying swerving over and my then causing an accident or a pile up even
Religiously sticking to a rule of thumb is bad planning. You should be judging every situation on its merits - abruptly abandoning an overtake might cause the following traffic to have to brake suddenly and cause a jam. People being too timid to overtake the slow traffic in the inside lane before a junction often causes large queues on the motorway. Conversely, perhaps it wouldn't even be safe to overtake a mile from the junction, let alone half a mile. What do you mean about overtaking on an intersection? I think do this perfectly safely on a daily basis.
That is the best way. My driving instructor called it "go with the lane you got, not the one you wanted". Works with satnav too, it'll figure it out...
As a retired HGV driver that clip on the overtake it looked like the white car sped up to stop the truck getting past quite a regular thing cars dawdle along slower than the speed limit, most trucks will sit on that speed limit for hours its a thing they have to do or nothing would get delivered.
@@ashley_neal not a "lesson", subtle defensive/non-aggresive move to encourage them to back off or move on without horn or lights. Daydreaming motorist gets alerted to presence & fixes their error... hopefully. Bear in mind that the truck driver may have timed the manoeuvre to be back in lane 1 before the black BMW caught up....however the white car driver may have succumbed to the herd instinct & matched the overtaking vehicle's speed
@@ashley_neal No not a "lesson". Howyanowski Explains succinctly here on that, however i do think that the car driver could use a few lessons. Do you know a good driving instructor?
Been driving the best part of a decade, but still looking to learn and openly admit I still make mistakes. Planning, space and time are a huge part of safe, low stress motoring. Not just for yourself but everyone else.
Mistakes will always happen, it's how you react, deal with and learn from the mistakes that are the important things ;) Speaking from experience of learning the hard way here!
Yes and the white road markings are so badly worn in most towns that visitors often get into the wrong lane by mistake, despite planning ahead. Good drivers recognise this and kindly allow them to correct their error.
The van coming off the motorway was actually quite measured driving after realising they needed to get off they waited for the truck to pass before coming over. Was it late and unplanned OFC but given the light traffic in the middle lane it was also safe. That being a safe manoeuvre would likely not be if traffic was heavier as they would need to slow in the middle lane to achieve it.
I'm guessing your lorry driver overtook the white car, and then the white car realized they had been overtaken and crowded on throttle to get back in front.
@@ashley_neal addendum: to be clear, had there been a collision, I would have assigned fault to both, but it would have been the car for offensive driving and the lorry for failure to anticipate offensive driving.
Whilst not condoning the action I think it was frustration on the part of the lorry driver having to overtake a car dawdling then being stranded in the middle lane when the car speeds up. Regular occurrence unfortunately.
Ashley, I must thank you for the "keep bad drivers in front, stay in control" mentality you've thought me, I noticed the car behind me almost drove of the road (dual carriage) and kept closing distance more and more. I decided to pull off for 1 minute, ran into an accident about 10 kms later, they'd ran into the back of another car, so happy I learned your ethics
I go into hyper surveillance mode when I get by a motorway exit lane as the antics of those desperate to get off or back on are somewhere between madness and suicidal
I think the " I must overtake the learner " mentality is because the reality is the learner is often the only one sticking to the speed limit and others want to drive faster . That red car made me laugh , I won't write what I thought of him .
I don't think the mentality is right, and I also condone speeding, however I often find learners tend to do a few miles an hour under the speed limit on their speedo, usually 27-28 in a 30 or so on there, and that's often 3+ mph out, so they're often doing about 25 in a 30 in reality. Overtaking doesn't really save much time although I think people feel frustrated when they're going much slower than they want to, especially when they're in a rush
I've had that feeling of getting ahead of a learner but try and remember these videos from Ashley. Generally with me though I think this if the learner I come across is driving well below the speed limit. Never bothers me people who drive doing the limit
@@olii9062 I think this is also down to some people in much more modern cars having the digital speedos that display speed to a single digit. If a learner is travelling at an indicated 28 or so, but is actually 25 then the driver in the car behind might be seeing 25 or less on their speedo and get annoyed at the speed difference. I'm guilty of overtaking learners, but I always do it in the safest manner possible, same with cyclists and 50cc bikers.
@@dylandajhharwood5566 maybe , but the thing is that everybody was a learner once , and everybody would have driven those speeds to get there licences so it mostly boils down to impatience and selfishness .
6:10 Putting on makeup while stationary in traffic is absolutely fine. Right up until you get nudged from behind and put the mascara brush through your eye. Even if the car behind has stopped, a concertina can happen.
Yep, clip 1 - totally correct with your analysis. Clip 2 - I knew something like that was going to appear round that bend behind and overtake. Overtaking doesn’t gain more than a few seconds in a busy area. A big white Volvo SUV undertook me (dual lane) crossed back over…turned right at the mini roundabout…..pulled into a driveway. 100% pointless. …..went in doors and said “I showed that Honda who was boss, ha ha ha”. BCSD?
That was almost like one of those psychological tests to which there's no "correct" answer. Do you hit the kid or swerve and hit the other car killing the driver (and possibly yourself too)?
Why did you flash the mercedes? Just trying to tell them off for inconveniencing you? They were concerned that if you came infront they wouldn't have space to safely get left. I can't really see what they did wrong. And flashing them seems to go against what you usually teach.
Clip2, 1:15 I think I would have positioned close to the centre line, and been ready to apply the right signal as the van approached from behind. Encourages a lot to remain behind, and look further ahead, although does not always work. Clip14, 12:33 I think the white car probably increased speed once the truck was alongside, as many do, leaving the truck stranded. Trucker may have been trying to make a point, not a good idea, but I can understand why.
Agreed. In clip 2, I thought the cam car could have been much closer to the parked lorries to make it clearer to van that we're stopping to let someone through.
On the subject of make up, I go with the same mindset as phones and food. If the vehicle is not parked then focus on driving. Even when stationary in traffic, you don't know if an emergency vehicle is approaching or if another vehicle might lose control making you have to take action. At train gates or traffic lights, it's not necessary but it's mindset I try to keep.
As a bus driver I get the "thinks i've pulled in" all the time, even if I'm just in a queue of traffic others behind go to pull round me, even today I was stopped at a road works traffic light and two cars (though I think the second was sheep following the first) pulled out to go round me, even though there was plenty of roadwork signs leading up to it that we'd passed telling them.
Fun fact. In the states we don't use lights at roadworks unless it is going to be a long project. We have live people with traffic control lollipop signs to direct traffic, and it is a fairly desirable job for working class people.
@Lancashirelad got friends who lived here for a while and are back in scotland, and when we visited we were talking about things and he mentioned when he first saw our flagmen, he thought they must be convict labor to have such a job.
@Lancashirelad can't do good road construction in bad weather, but you'll see emergency crews flagging traffic around a crash in the worst of weather. - or there's the occasional emergency repair job. but in fact, one of the few times I've seen lights used was when a section of road washed out in a storm, and they installed a set of lights for a couple months while they waited for it to stop raining so they could repair it.
@@kenbrown2808 And much more efficient. Her in England one firm digs the hole, another repairs the pipes and a third sets up the traffic lights. The problem is they sometimes complete the work days before the lights are removed, usually over a weekend. Very frustrating. I wish I had the courage to throw both sets of lights and the cones into the hedge. But I haven't.
@@quietenglishman4179 reminds me of a time our highway department closed the main highway going north to south because of snow. by the time they finally opened it at two o'clock the next day under threat of public revolt, the only snow left on the ground was a tiny rill off on the shoulder, and the coldest temperature I saw was 40 degrees (US - 5 degrees metric)
Clip 1, if I ever have to pull in that far to the left to let a vehicle pass, I always put a right signal on just to to prevent people going past. Only the very stupid would overtake a vehicle seemingly turning right.
“Only the very stupid would overtake a vehicle seemingly turning right”. As some one who is on two wheels a lot of the time I’ll probably get to test that theory just the once. :D
@@iainreeve4522 hence the flash first, and wait until they respond by creeping forward. This is always a negotiation, the meeting car may also attempt to yield
Funnily enough, I had the "thinks they've pulled into park" thing happen yesterday. Approaching a blind bend in the road just prior to a T-Junction. (Roads are small and Vans/Trucks parked on the left means you can't see and if vehicles turn into your road, you need to reverse). Anyway, I see the front of a white vehicle as I approach and tuck in a little to give them room, the van right up my arse prompts an overtake so I beeped to warn him as he was ragging it. He slowed and spotted the car and promptly reversed back behind me.
@@DubiousOstrich not always. Same happened me yesterday even with indicator on. Later he pulled out in front of someone and started giving them grief! Probable better for me that he was ahead instead of up my rear...
@@DubiousOstrich I was going to say that: they do that all the time on the continent. It's most useful but, like flashing your lights to let someone go, probably not in the Highway Code.
Wow! What a range of opinions about the use of the lights. This should be considered as a learning point for many. For me - a brief flash of the lights means the driver is trying to help me in some way.
I'm tendng to spot occasions now where my driving could have been better. When I realised that I had erred recently, I did say "That's poor, Steve". Thanks for your great instructive videos. There is nothing wrong with admitting you have made a mistake as long as you learn from it.
What we do in Belgium in the first 2 situations is the car giving way/getting out of the way, putting their indicators on. In our case the left indicators, in UK's case right indicators, so traffic behind knows you're not pulling in to park, but your intention is to move forward again as soon as traffic has passed.
Re: the clip at around 2:00, this is one of the most maddening things I've found while driving. Why do people close down space when you want to change lanes for gods sake, it doesn't affect how fast they get to their journey. Then again, it's the same answer as why people tailgate or brake check - they just don't think.
6:33 If I may, I've seen countless dashcam videos where traffic is stopped for seemingly no reason but it turns out a pedestrian was crossing. I wouldn't have passed the queue at this speed. EDIT: I'm no perfect driver myself, and I'm not claiming I am
That last bit made me chuckle. I used to learn the bits of road prone to ice on my winter drives to work by the places where I saw German cars in the ditch!
A couple of years ago while commuting to London via M1 I had a guy behind me who was using electric shaver. Could not believe my eyes. I've let him pass, at least he wasn't my problem anymore.
@Ashley why did you flash the Mercedes in clip #3? Edit: I see you've answered this question. Unless the camera massively distorts the view to the traffic lights. It looks like the traffic lights plenty far away for you both to stop comfortably and your light flash was a rebuke.🧐🧐🧐
"No issues with the ovetaking grey car" in clip 5. There were side roads and off road parking areas alongside that road and they didn't complete the manouver before passing one. People dont always check left before turning in that direction only to meet an overtaking car. Two wrongs make a mess.
Those first two video happened to me just last week. Driving a Emergency Response truck, I slowed down and came to a stop as cars blocked both sides of the road and a larger light Goods Vehicle approaching, I kept my break lights on deliberately and did not use my left indicator or hazard lights. I was rather shocked a Fiat 500 deliberately drove around me drove head on at the LGV making them have to stop. The distance and who had more of an obstruction is subject to opinion, but I guess the Fiat's view was obstructed by my truck. Regardless, I didn't give any indication that I was parked I thought.
I think putting on make up even when stationary is wrong. There is a time and place to do that and also when cars in front start to move the distracted person may nudge forward without paying attention because they suddenly realize the cars in front have moved or someone behind her beeps and in surprise is likely to rush into moving forward in response while not fully focussed.
The that was overtaking the car would be sat at 55mph on cruise control probably approached the car that was messing about with a phone usually at 48mph so as they would have started overtaking them the car driver realised the lorry was coming past but carnt have a lorry in front so they put therr foot down so they couldn't pass
The lady putting makeup on at the lights made me chuckle, I once saw a lady sat at a set of lights who produced a serial bowl, Cornflakes, and milk and proceed to eat them as we set off when the lights went green. Long before I had a dashcam unfortunately
Lol what 😂🤣. I remember seeing a lady scoffing down eclairs and other stuff in her car 🤦. Sounds harmless but could be driving without due care and attention. Honestly as a guy I don't get why women put make up on. Girls look nice the way they are without makeup.
At 12:30, to be fair. I don't think he forgot that the white car was there, but got rather frustrated by the matching speed. Happens to me a lot of the time as well. People driving slow in front, so I want to overtake them, but unfortunately the truck has a limiter. When I am overtaking they start to match my speed or even speed up again. Straight up bullying.
The thing is, I see all these videos and think meh, this is just driving - it happens every day. Avoiding other drivers that are not following the rules is "normal". It shouldn't be, but it is, and I feel sorry for Ashley and his pupils, who have to highlight such behaviour. The important thing is to accept this, and let it go - don't let it wind you up. That said, keep up the good work with the driving educational videos 👍
Audi and Mercedes on the end. I do not like people performing other tasts behind the wheel, not even make-up with a trafficlight. Many times people do not see it turning green. I was expecting you to say something about the Blue van. Nice video again. Still learning here!
I was on the M4 just before junction 2 and was stationary and the car next to me, she was putting on makeup and hit the car in front. You could see her surprise look on her face.
German Vehicles involved in the minor accident where and Audi and Mercedes. looked like a bit of shunt happend as the result of one following too close behind the other and the traffic suddenly slowed in to a temporary traffic queue
...because the Fast & Furious wannabe in the red Corsa is PO'd that you've just gone past him again... 🤣 Some people are way too easily triggered to be driving. BMW & Audi... Ooh. Close... My fave story is of the bad snow we had in 2010. I was on the M3, from Winch into London. All traffic at about 40 - 50 in the left lane. Middle lane had some track marks in the snow and no-one had used lane 3. All of a sudden, a black BMW went past at about 60-70 in the middle lane, followed closely by a Jag XF. My passenger and I both passed comment. About a mile further up the road we saw a car in the hard shoulder... One Jag XF with a staved in front end... We chuckled...
Rewatching this…. That merc in lane 2 closing the gap to block you out. That’s happened to me a few times and if I remember correctly while I was driving the learner car too. I think people do it deliberately.
I personally think that the blue car in clip 1 should have put on their right indicator the moment they immediately pulled in to let the car behind them know that they were waiting, however that would only work on the basis that the other car saw the blue car pull in.
I seen many weird things like this. A common one is the people who start creeping forward to do right turn at a junction so they can get round quickly cutting off oncoming traffic.
I wouldn't have bothered with the headlight flash on the Mercedes to be honest. Aside from being an incorrect use of the lights, it wasn't going to make the situation any better. I also think you were a bit, let's call it 'proactive' when you realised that he wasn't going to let you move across, you were hard up against the right edge of the lane and maintained your speed, once you realised he was going to shut you out you could have just backed off the throttle a little and you wouldn't have been sat alongside him for so long. People like that are simply not going to let you out and protesting just makes you both angrier. Also, with that poor lane discipline there's every chance he'd try and switch lanes on you mid roundabout so I'd have just stayed behind him or at least staggered to the point that you can dip the brakes and avoid him if he moves across. However it's easy to fall prey to the red mist sometimes and I'm far from the first. Love that clip of the red corsa. Got to get ahead so badly that he has to perform a dangerous overtake, but a complete lack of forward planning and judgement meant you ended up ahead of him anyway.
@@ashley_neal I’m fairly sure he was aware of your presence and even if you were doing it for that reason, it would still have been better to just not signal because it doesn’t matter what you MEANT the signal to be, you have to consider what the recipient will take the signal to mean.
@@ashley_neal I've got to agree with Callum on this one. If I know for a fact a flash or a honk would provoke aggression without a significant benefit, I would avoid it. If a benefit outweighs the potential reaction I would. He was positioned next to a space anyway, so if he drifted right on the roundabout, you and them would be safe.
For the first 2 clips in these situations my driving instructor advised me to preferably put on a right signal when waiting at obstructions if your positioning could be misunderstood
I gunned it and lane changed in front of a space closer and they honked at me lol. There was a slower driver in front though and it was in a 20 so perhaps I was in the wrong too. I usually just go in behind a space closer - less hassle, they can have their thirty feet of road space.
Thought clip #11 with the red Corsa barging through was going to be about the blue van at the start with the dodgy looking load and rear door open, if I as the car following I’d certainly be much further back.
When the barriers lift up after the train has gone by, the amount of people who keep glancing down as they move off, because they were fiddling with their phone when waiting, but cannot seem to put it down when it is time to drive. Either you're in a rush, and cannot pull up and park to answer your messages, or you're able to pull over to mess with your phone. There is no need to try and do both.
Although I'm not condoning the lorry drivers pull in I can relate to it. It is very common for cars to speed up as your passing them, i don't know why, don't want to be overtaken by the truck or their mind has wandered and being passed by the truck brings their attention back. But it is a source of stress for the driver. Moving out to overtake usually results in some cars waiting behind you and if you pull in without passing anything you can be subjected to a lot of abuse in for form of hand gestures or brake checks.
I was driving through Port Charlotte in Florida once where there was multiple sets of traffic lights something like every quarter to half mile and there was a Woman putting on makeup, drinking coffee and talking on the phone which was tucked under her chin and steering with her knees. She was in the outside lane and beside me for four sets of traffic lights which turned red every time we got near them so stop go and she was accelerating hard every time a light went green and caught the red every time. To this day I don't know how she managed it but it was obviously normal to her and all the other drivers around. Not surprising that there was so many rear end shunts wherever we went in the US.
I hope it is comforting to all of you that BMW drivers are also not good at driving in Germany! There is a lot of hate towards them (and rightfully so...). However, I am shocked that so many drivers of Audis or VWs are not doing a good job either in the UK, they certainly are not - mostly - behaving that way here :D
The clip at 2 minutes is an interesting conundrum. Common sense says to indicate to let the driver behind know you'd like to move across to lane 2 but I failed my HGV test for doing this based on the Highway Code saying "When it is safe to do so, signal to indicate your intentions to other road users and when clear, move over." The fact that there wasn't a gap to move across into (as in this case shown by Ashley) was deemed to be not "safe to do so". I have no idea what the examiner expected me to do as he had just said to turn right at the roundabout that was coming up.
@@thomasknight21 I think my problem was that I didn't move right or try to push my way in I simply indicated right just like Ashley has done in the clip in the hope that someone would let me in, and they did so everything I did was safe. The issue seemed to be that I indicated when there was no gap and the examiner suggested that would intimidate the other drivers who would think I was going to move across on them. If I'd gone straight on then I would have had the same problem at the next roundabout ahead as both lanes went ahead towards the motorway island and at that time of day it's chocca with traffic.
6:15 as long as she looked better after applying the makeup then no problem. It's when you get more of a fright seeing them with makeup than without, that's when the problems start.
12:44 The lorry driver probably knew the car was there but probably tried to overtake that car about 50 times and every time he tried the car sped up so the lorry could not overtake and he got pissed off. Not saying his actions were justified but it can be very frustrating as you are lmit to a max of 56 mph.
Clip 8 was some excellent observation skills, when I see children on a narrow path I always slow down as shown in this clip you never know what they might do.
Me too. If possible, I'll drive on the opposite side of the road just in case. One thing I've learned about the predictability of young children is that they're totally unpredictable.
One of the reasons cyclists ignore red lights is traffic lights ignore cycles. Traffic lights are triggered by a large metal object, a car, passing over the road in front of them. If you're on a cycle you could sit and stare at a red light all day, it won't change until a car comes up behind you. After waiting a few times cyclists learn to ignore red lights.
Back when we lived in moscow my mum would often put her makeup on while driving which eventually got her into 2 minor accidents lol. She stopped and hasn't had an accident since
Damn, in the last clip I guessed the cars involved in the crash were an audi and a BMW but it was an audi and a merc. At least I got the country and one of the makes correct 😅
There is a part of the road near me where a slip road joins and leaves a multi lane road, if you come down the slip road with a right indicator on people on the main carriageway try to pass then slam on the brakes to join the slip road, now if someone matches me I just carry on back off the road (I can get to my destination either way but they seem a little upset 😈)
I’ve only ever put make up on once. It was at a party and I was drunk and we were all being stupid. But if anyone else wants to go ahead, them I’m not bothered..
I think you’re wrong about the lorry and the white car. The white car was probably sitting at a lower speed than the lorry. The lorry driver didn’t want to lose momentum by having to slow down and knowing full well that they need to keep a safe distance between the vehicle in front. Therefore, they pulled into the second lane to try and pass the slower car. It’s normally at that point the car driver realises they are moving too slowly and they start to accelerate. There was another lorry a little bit ahead of the white car which suggests that the car driver doesn’t like to drive faster than 55mph. Most hgv’s are restricted to 56mph.
NZ rule states that you CAN NOT ride across on ANY zebra crossing on a bicycles. You must dismount you're bicycles and walk across the zebra crossing on foot.
clip 14, i feel the lorry driver didnt forget the white car was there but was unsure where in its blind spot the white car was as it looks like it sped up enough to be hovering between side blind spot and front corner blind spot. possibly the truck driver moved over slightly as an ultimatium to the car to either speed up out of danger or slow down out of danger to let the lorry back in. the lorry cant sit in lane 2 forever. its a terrible way to do it but some people need to learn the hard way not to mess around with lorry blind spots and speeds. where are those people going to be educated if the lorry didnt move slightly over?
Saw a lady doing her eye makeup during a down pour doing 70mph on the A1 yesterday. Eye make up too, poke yourself in the eye with one of those doing 70mph and you have a whole world of trouble, not to mention all the other problems it automatically cause
A few weeks ago when my dad and I was driving on a dual carriageway on our way to take my theory test we had just entered the carriageway when a tractor with a bale carrier cut across the median from the right side over our side which was the left side to get into a side road making us brake harshly because we were at the front at the time it happened they also made all the other cars brake abruptly. It was a massive scare for me as it was the first time anything like that had happened to me while I was in the car.
I think the drive in clip 13 was from my home town in South Wales. We see this standard of driving all the time and has become normal and accepted by the local police how do nothing about it when they see it. 🤣
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2:40 interested in the reason for the flash.
Being close to the lights just wanted him to have realised I was behind in case they changed 👍🏼
@@ashley_neal haha I commend you finding a reason ash!
@@ashley_neal I suspect the other driver misinterpreted meaning behind the flash, as i did and the above commenter.
@@ProMilkshake or perhaps we interpreted the flash 8n the way it was meant.....
@@ashley_neal correct use of horn and light flash in highway code lost on most and so widely used for aggressive or self righteous reasons that most can misinterpret their correct use. I got sworn at for pipping the horn on the approach to a blind single lane bridge... 😑
7:10 can't believe the kid's parents/sister/whoever those adults are didn't seem to react in any way to their child almost committing suicide
I went on holiday from Hastings, East Sussex to Darlington, its a 5 hour journey which is the longest I have ever driven in a single journey. I made a couple of mistakes on the way home, I was meant to be in the left lane for the A1M but ended up on the M11, there were 2 lorries (one over taking the other) so I couldn't move across safely, instead I just carried on and jumped off at the next junction on the M11, the satnav guided me back, simple, no hassle, no fuss, no dangerous driving, yes it added 15 minutes to the journey but who cares we made it home safe. The other mistake I made was on the M25 when merging at junction 23, I was in the wrong lane, luckily at 11pm the roads were fairly quiet and I was able to correct without causing concern to other vehicles. I always say its better to be late home than drive dangerously and not get home. Drive safe everyone and thanks for the video as always!
Adam, as a driver with over 10 years of experience (lots of motorway driving and a few silly but minor accidents), I highly appreciate and respect your attitude towards driving. It's always better to be safe than to get into a big mess, especially at night. Many accidents are easily avoidable. Experience is one factor, but presence of mind and awareness of the situation is of utmost importance. I wish you many more years of safe and fun driving! Cheers!
People go on holiday to Darlington??
@@RetroAdz my friends moved up there for work. We truly miss them and there was a lot for my 6 year old to do up there. Some of the views were amazing and it was very weird going from farm land to more industrial factories.
@@Chalkie1983 reading this comment now from Darlington! Glad you enjoyed your trip here!
7:02 - Wow. Your learner did well not to swerve. That could've caused a terrible accident.
Usually mums make their kids walk on the inside of them, but this mum doesn't bat an eyelid when the kid steps off the pavement!
Yeah, she doesn't really like him
I love how supportive and patient you are with your learner driver. My instructor was 90% of the time absent and on his phone. I wish all the drivers are like you. Much love from Serbia
I think I would probably have switched instructor. You are paying for their time, they should give it to you.
Your instructor could have got 6 points and a £200 fine as instructors are classed as being in charge of the vehicle and just as much a 'driver'. Something I leanrt only in last few years!!
The best "late exit" from a motorway I've ever seen ended with the car sat on top of the ARMCO where the two lanes divided. Very satisfying!
I think I saw the same one, or maybe it is a challenge the useless drivers set themselves?
You've missed the one ashley showed in an earlier video where a white van man made his own slip road, then.
BMW / Audi / Mercedes / Range Rover by any chance? :)
Me too, Almondsbury Interchange M4/M5 - the car hit the vee in the Armco and went right over the top of it, and ended up sat trapped on the grass the other side (well, I don't suppose it was driveable after that anyway...).
@@CaseyJonesNumber1 But here's the really important critical question: Did the driver at least signal their intentions? Safety first after all...
Thanks putting all these together! Been driving 20 years and I watch these to keep myself fresh and also give myself a bit of a chuckle at the same time.
9:09 how does this jaguar follow so closely litterally behind a van with a roll of carpet like about to fall out right out... some people cant think straight loading a van like this, others cant folling a van loaded like this in that way.
Ash you should have mentioned this lol, for me it was surprising this wasnt the clip when I first saw this. Doesnt matter anyway, maybe you left it in as a bonus for us to discover ourselves haha! keep up the great work improving road safety!
I'm sticking up for the lorry driver in that clip . We will never know exactly how it went down but in most instances the lorry pulls out to overtake a slow moving or badly merging car, the car speeds up to match the lorry speed and the lorry hits its limiter or an incline. He doesn't want to block the overtaking lane but doesn't really want to drop in behind the ignorant doylem in the car again and mistakes are made.
Agree absolutely! looked like the car was speeding up/overtaking in the inside lane
As an HGV vehicle driver in Australia this happens often.
I was taught to never overtake on an intersection.
As for highways, don't attempt an overtake in the last half a mile before your supposed exit. If already overtaking, finish or abandon it to prepare for merging out onto the exit ramp. It's the bad planning that causes people to miss their exit and some erratically try to fix it with dangerous manoeuvres, there is no shame in admitting your own mistakes and fix them safely, even if that means taking the next exit.
Exactly my point
if I miss a junction slip way I would rather go to the nearest roundabout or sip way and turn around than just trying swerving over and my then causing an accident or a pile up even
I was taught to be in the left lane at least 1 km before your exit.
Religiously sticking to a rule of thumb is bad planning. You should be judging every situation on its merits - abruptly abandoning an overtake might cause the following traffic to have to brake suddenly and cause a jam. People being too timid to overtake the slow traffic in the inside lane before a junction often causes large queues on the motorway. Conversely, perhaps it wouldn't even be safe to overtake a mile from the junction, let alone half a mile.
What do you mean about overtaking on an intersection? I think do this perfectly safely on a daily basis.
@@jeremystanger1711 On the other hand, have a plan but be prepared to change it based on conditions...
That is the best way. My driving instructor called it "go with the lane you got, not the one you wanted". Works with satnav too, it'll figure it out...
Clip 14 I think the white car sped up because they can't be overtaken by a lorry.
I was just about to say that, as a hgv driver myself, it happens daily
Yup and then when lorry moves back over white car will then reduce his speed again, happens all the time
Yep. Also HGV driver , pull out to pass, hit the limiter as they accelerate and left in no mans land.
Even had caravans do it to me.
Guys not the smartest driving instructor blaming the HGV driver there
@@Denzillify tbf the lorry driver's move was a tad aggressive if it was a get out of the way message.
As a retired HGV driver that clip on the overtake it looked like the white car sped up to stop the truck getting past quite a regular thing cars dawdle along slower than the speed limit, most trucks will sit on that speed limit for hours its a thing they have to do or nothing would get delivered.
So to teach the car a lesson................
@@ashley_neal not a "lesson", subtle defensive/non-aggresive move to encourage them to back off or move on without horn or lights. Daydreaming motorist gets alerted to presence & fixes their error... hopefully.
Bear in mind that the truck driver may have timed the manoeuvre to be back in lane 1 before the black BMW caught up....however the white car driver may have succumbed to the herd instinct & matched the overtaking vehicle's speed
@@ashley_neal No not a "lesson". Howyanowski Explains succinctly here on that, however i do think that the car driver could use a few lessons. Do you know a good driving instructor?
I agree. I bet the chap in the white car finished his text and was able to focus on his driving again and so sped up.
Been driving the best part of a decade, but still looking to learn and openly admit I still make mistakes. Planning, space and time are a huge part of safe, low stress motoring. Not just for yourself but everyone else.
Mistakes will always happen, it's how you react, deal with and learn from the mistakes that are the important things ;)
Speaking from experience of learning the hard way here!
Been driving nearly 40 years in 2 different countries and I'm still learning (especially from Ashleys videos). Happy to admit it.
@@ianl1052 48 years for me and I was going to post the same comment. You never stop learning.
Yes and the white road markings are so badly worn in most towns that visitors often get into the wrong lane by mistake, despite planning ahead. Good drivers recognise this and kindly allow them to correct their error.
@@quietenglishman4179
Valid point.
The van coming off the motorway was actually quite measured driving after realising they needed to get off they waited for the truck to pass before coming over. Was it late and unplanned OFC but given the light traffic in the middle lane it was also safe. That being a safe manoeuvre would likely not be if traffic was heavier as they would need to slow in the middle lane to achieve it.
I'm guessing your lorry driver overtook the white car, and then the white car realized they had been overtaken and crowded on throttle to get back in front.
Is that a reasonable defence then?
@@ashley_neal nope, just an explanation. the lorry driver should have been surprised if it DIDN'T happen.
@@ashley_neal addendum: to be clear, had there been a collision, I would have assigned fault to both, but it would have been the car for offensive driving and the lorry for failure to anticipate offensive driving.
Whilst not condoning the action I think it was frustration on the part of the lorry driver having to overtake a car dawdling then being stranded in the middle lane when the car speeds up. Regular occurrence unfortunately.
Yep, car doing 45mph, truck pulls alongside at 55, car then realises it can do 60.
Ashley, I must thank you for the "keep bad drivers in front, stay in control" mentality you've thought me, I noticed the car behind me almost drove of the road (dual carriage) and kept closing distance more and more. I decided to pull off for 1 minute, ran into an accident about 10 kms later, they'd ran into the back of another car, so happy I learned your ethics
I go into hyper surveillance mode when I get by a motorway exit lane as the antics of those desperate to get off or back on are somewhere between madness and suicidal
I think the " I must overtake the learner " mentality is because the reality is the learner is often the only one sticking to the speed limit and others want to drive faster .
That red car made me laugh , I won't write what I thought of him .
I don't think the mentality is right, and I also condone speeding, however I often find learners tend to do a few miles an hour under the speed limit on their speedo, usually 27-28 in a 30 or so on there, and that's often 3+ mph out, so they're often doing about 25 in a 30 in reality. Overtaking doesn't really save much time although I think people feel frustrated when they're going much slower than they want to, especially when they're in a rush
I've had that feeling of getting ahead of a learner but try and remember these videos from Ashley. Generally with me though I think this if the learner I come across is driving well below the speed limit. Never bothers me people who drive doing the limit
Me personally , I'd rather have the learner in front anyway . That way I have much less risk involved if they were to lose control for any reason .
@@olii9062 I think this is also down to some people in much more modern cars having the digital speedos that display speed to a single digit. If a learner is travelling at an indicated 28 or so, but is actually 25 then the driver in the car behind might be seeing 25 or less on their speedo and get annoyed at the speed difference. I'm guilty of overtaking learners, but I always do it in the safest manner possible, same with cyclists and 50cc bikers.
@@dylandajhharwood5566 maybe , but the thing is that everybody was a learner once , and everybody would have driven those speeds to get there licences so it mostly boils down to impatience and selfishness .
Clip #12
Lorry undertook the van, and changed lanes over the solid white line too. Van was stuck in the wrong lane due to the lorry's illegal actions.
6:10 Putting on makeup while stationary in traffic is absolutely fine. Right up until you get nudged from behind and put the mascara brush through your eye. Even if the car behind has stopped, a concertina can happen.
Yep, clip 1 - totally correct with your analysis.
Clip 2 - I knew something like that was going to appear round that bend behind and overtake.
Overtaking doesn’t gain more than a few seconds in a busy area.
A big white Volvo SUV undertook me (dual lane) crossed back over…turned right at the mini roundabout…..pulled into a driveway.
100% pointless.
…..went in doors and said “I showed that Honda who was boss, ha ha ha”.
BCSD?
7:01 My absolute worst fear. Parents; keep an eye on your kids near roads!
That was almost like one of those psychological tests to which there's no "correct" answer. Do you hit the kid or swerve and hit the other car killing the driver (and possibly yourself too)?
Why did you flash the mercedes? Just trying to tell them off for inconveniencing you? They were concerned that if you came infront they wouldn't have space to safely get left. I can't really see what they did wrong. And flashing them seems to go against what you usually teach.
I don't even live in Europe continent but given the common stereotypes that I hear from you guys I would guess BMW and Audi in that accident
That was my guess. Can anyone confirm what they were?
@@Chris-im3ys Audi and Mercedes
Clip2, 1:15 I think I would have positioned close to the centre line, and been ready to apply the right signal as the van approached from behind. Encourages a lot to remain behind, and look further ahead, although does not always work.
Clip14, 12:33 I think the white car probably increased speed once the truck was alongside, as many do, leaving the truck stranded. Trucker may have been trying to make a point, not a good idea, but I can understand why.
Yip i agree with you on both points
Agreed. In clip 2, I thought the cam car could have been much closer to the parked lorries to make it clearer to van that we're stopping to let someone through.
Agreed, the cam car was so far from the lorry in front that the van would've assumed we were pulled up...
On the subject of make up, I go with the same mindset as phones and food. If the vehicle is not parked then focus on driving.
Even when stationary in traffic, you don't know if an emergency vehicle is approaching or if another vehicle might lose control making you have to take action.
At train gates or traffic lights, it's not necessary but it's mindset I try to keep.
As a bus driver I get the "thinks i've pulled in" all the time, even if I'm just in a queue of traffic others behind go to pull round me, even today I was stopped at a road works traffic light and two cars (though I think the second was sheep following the first) pulled out to go round me, even though there was plenty of roadwork signs leading up to it that we'd passed telling them.
Fun fact. In the states we don't use lights at roadworks unless it is going to be a long project. We have live people with traffic control lollipop signs to direct traffic, and it is a fairly desirable job for working class people.
@Lancashirelad got friends who lived here for a while and are back in scotland, and when we visited we were talking about things and he mentioned when he first saw our flagmen, he thought they must be convict labor to have such a job.
@Lancashirelad can't do good road construction in bad weather, but you'll see emergency crews flagging traffic around a crash in the worst of weather. - or there's the occasional emergency repair job. but in fact, one of the few times I've seen lights used was when a section of road washed out in a storm, and they installed a set of lights for a couple months while they waited for it to stop raining so they could repair it.
@@kenbrown2808 And much more efficient. Her in England one firm digs the hole, another repairs the pipes and a third sets up the traffic lights. The problem is they sometimes complete the work days before the lights are removed, usually over a weekend. Very frustrating. I wish I had the courage to throw both sets of lights and the cones into the hedge. But I haven't.
@@quietenglishman4179 reminds me of a time our highway department closed the main highway going north to south because of snow. by the time they finally opened it at two o'clock the next day under threat of public revolt, the only snow left on the ground was a tiny rill off on the shoulder, and the coldest temperature I saw was 40 degrees (US - 5 degrees metric)
Briiliant channel learnt a lot from watching which has improved my driving awareness and attitude, thanks Ash
Nice one Ian!
9:08 I was waiting for "can you spot the hazard here?" Already spotted. lol AND the red car! WOW!
Clip 1, if I ever have to pull in that far to the left to let a vehicle pass, I always put a right signal on just to to prevent people going past. Only the very stupid would overtake a vehicle seemingly turning right.
“Only the very stupid would overtake a vehicle seemingly turning right”. As some one who is on two wheels a lot of the time I’ll probably get to test that theory just the once. :D
The problem with a right signal is that the car coming towards you might interpret it as you want to pull out now.
@@iainreeve4522 hence the flash first, and wait until they respond by creeping forward. This is always a negotiation, the meeting car may also attempt to yield
Funnily enough, I had the "thinks they've pulled into park" thing happen yesterday. Approaching a blind bend in the road just prior to a T-Junction. (Roads are small and Vans/Trucks parked on the left means you can't see and if vehicles turn into your road, you need to reverse). Anyway, I see the front of a white vehicle as I approach and tuck in a little to give them room, the van right up my arse prompts an overtake so I beeped to warn him as he was ragging it. He slowed and spotted the car and promptly reversed back behind me.
Right hand indicator solves that problem
@@DubiousOstrich not always. Same happened me yesterday even with indicator on. Later he pulled out in front of someone and started giving them grief! Probable better for me that he was ahead instead of up my rear...
@@DubiousOstrich I was going to say that: they do that all the time on the continent. It's most useful but, like flashing your lights to let someone go, probably not in the Highway Code.
Wow! What a range of opinions about the use of the lights.
This should be considered as a learning point for many.
For me - a brief flash of the lights means the driver is trying to help me in some way.
I'm tendng to spot occasions now where my driving could have been better. When I realised that I had erred recently, I did say "That's poor, Steve". Thanks for your great instructive videos. There is nothing wrong with admitting you have made a mistake as long as you learn from it.
At 7:11 the mother was totally oblivious.
Looked is if she was more interested in checking her phone.
@@cupofcustard yup! Then she’d have it to hand to film the carnage and scream blue murder at the car driver
What we do in Belgium in the first 2 situations is the car giving way/getting out of the way, putting their indicators on. In our case the left indicators, in UK's case right indicators, so traffic behind knows you're not pulling in to park, but your intention is to move forward again as soon as traffic has passed.
Re: the clip at around 2:00, this is one of the most maddening things I've found while driving. Why do people close down space when you want to change lanes for gods sake, it doesn't affect how fast they get to their journey. Then again, it's the same answer as why people tailgate or brake check - they just don't think.
6:33 If I may, I've seen countless dashcam videos where traffic is stopped for seemingly no reason but it turns out a pedestrian was crossing. I wouldn't have passed the queue at this speed.
EDIT: I'm no perfect driver myself, and I'm not claiming I am
That last bit made me chuckle. I used to learn the bits of road prone to ice on my winter drives to work by the places where I saw German cars in the ditch!
A couple of years ago while commuting to London via M1 I had a guy behind me who was using electric shaver. Could not believe my eyes. I've let him pass, at least he wasn't my problem anymore.
@Ashley why did you flash the Mercedes in clip #3?
Edit: I see you've answered this question. Unless the camera massively distorts the view to the traffic lights. It looks like the traffic lights plenty far away for you both to stop comfortably and your light flash was a rebuke.🧐🧐🧐
The bad drivers registration numbers should be put on a database so insurance companies can mitigate the risk of insuring them with a higher premium.
"No issues with the ovetaking grey car" in clip 5. There were side roads and off road parking areas alongside that road and they didn't complete the manouver before passing one. People dont always check left before turning in that direction only to meet an overtaking car. Two wrongs make a mess.
Those first two video happened to me just last week.
Driving a Emergency Response truck, I slowed down and came to a stop as cars blocked both sides of the road and a larger light Goods Vehicle approaching, I kept my break lights on deliberately and did not use my left indicator or hazard lights. I was rather shocked a Fiat 500 deliberately drove around me drove head on at the LGV making them have to stop. The distance and who had more of an obstruction is subject to opinion, but I guess the Fiat's view was obstructed by my truck.
Regardless, I didn't give any indication that I was parked I thought.
A corsa AND A Adidas tracky at like 50 years old, oh man, he classy.
I think putting on make up even when stationary is wrong. There is a time and place to do that and also when cars in front start to move the distracted person may nudge forward without paying attention because they suddenly realize the cars in front have moved or someone behind her beeps and in surprise is likely to rush into moving forward in response while not fully focussed.
The that was overtaking the car would be sat at 55mph on cruise control probably approached the car that was messing about with a phone usually at 48mph so as they would have started overtaking them the car driver realised the lorry was coming past but carnt have a lorry in front so they put therr foot down so they couldn't pass
The lady putting makeup on at the lights made me chuckle, I once saw a lady sat at a set of lights who produced a serial bowl, Cornflakes, and milk and proceed to eat them as we set off when the lights went green. Long before I had a dashcam unfortunately
Lol what 😂🤣. I remember seeing a lady scoffing down eclairs and other stuff in her car 🤦. Sounds harmless but could be driving without due care and attention.
Honestly as a guy I don't get why women put make up on. Girls look nice the way they are without makeup.
For the final clip, BMW and Audi.
Edit: Damn, so close.
I guessed the same. What are they though? Audi and Merc? I'm not familiar with all the models of each and not sure what they are.
@@sereveti it looks like an Audi A3 and a Merc C Class Coupe
@@sanfordcurtis8242 Ty!
The hatched markings are bounded by solid lines - so are not intended to be driven over.
At 12:30, to be fair. I don't think he forgot that the white car was there, but got rather frustrated by the matching speed. Happens to me a lot of the time as well. People driving slow in front, so I want to overtake them, but unfortunately the truck has a limiter. When I am overtaking they start to match my speed or even speed up again. Straight up bullying.
The thing is, I see all these videos and think meh, this is just driving - it happens every day. Avoiding other drivers that are not following the rules is "normal". It shouldn't be, but it is, and I feel sorry for Ashley and his pupils, who have to highlight such behaviour. The important thing is to accept this, and let it go - don't let it wind you up. That said, keep up the good work with the driving educational videos 👍
Audi and Mercedes on the end. I do not like people performing other tasts behind the wheel, not even make-up with a trafficlight. Many times people do not see it turning green. I was expecting you to say something about the Blue van. Nice video again. Still learning here!
I was on the M4 just before junction 2 and was stationary and the car next to me, she was putting on makeup and hit the car in front. You could see her surprise look on her face.
out of curiosity, could you also see her surprised look transferred to the airbag? or was it not that hard a hit?
"It's time to put on make up on the muppet show tonight".
German Vehicles involved in the minor accident where and Audi and Mercedes. looked like a bit of shunt happend as the result of one following too close behind the other and the traffic suddenly slowed in to a temporary traffic queue
...because the Fast & Furious wannabe in the red Corsa is PO'd that you've just gone past him again... 🤣 Some people are way too easily triggered to be driving.
BMW & Audi...
Ooh. Close...
My fave story is of the bad snow we had in 2010. I was on the M3, from Winch into London. All traffic at about 40 - 50 in the left lane. Middle lane had some track marks in the snow and no-one had used lane 3. All of a sudden, a black BMW went past at about 60-70 in the middle lane, followed closely by a Jag XF. My passenger and I both passed comment. About a mile further up the road we saw a car in the hard shoulder... One Jag XF with a staved in front end... We chuckled...
Second clip, regardless of positioning, signal right while stationary? It is your intention to move off again, planned long before the van arrived.
Rewatching this….
That merc in lane 2 closing the gap to block you out.
That’s happened to me a few times and if I remember correctly while I was driving the learner car too.
I think people do it deliberately.
I personally think that the blue car in clip 1 should have put on their right indicator the moment they immediately pulled in to let the car behind them know that they were waiting, however that would only work on the basis that the other car saw the blue car pull in.
I seen many weird things like this. A common one is the people who start creeping forward to do right turn at a junction so they can get round quickly cutting off oncoming traffic.
I wouldn't have bothered with the headlight flash on the Mercedes to be honest. Aside from being an incorrect use of the lights, it wasn't going to make the situation any better. I also think you were a bit, let's call it 'proactive' when you realised that he wasn't going to let you move across, you were hard up against the right edge of the lane and maintained your speed, once you realised he was going to shut you out you could have just backed off the throttle a little and you wouldn't have been sat alongside him for so long. People like that are simply not going to let you out and protesting just makes you both angrier. Also, with that poor lane discipline there's every chance he'd try and switch lanes on you mid roundabout so I'd have just stayed behind him or at least staggered to the point that you can dip the brakes and avoid him if he moves across. However it's easy to fall prey to the red mist sometimes and I'm far from the first.
Love that clip of the red corsa. Got to get ahead so badly that he has to perform a dangerous overtake, but a complete lack of forward planning and judgement meant you ended up ahead of him anyway.
The correct use of a flash is lost on many. Have a look at the pinned comment! 👍🏼
@@ashley_neal I’m fairly sure he was aware of your presence and even if you were doing it for that reason, it would still have been better to just not signal because it doesn’t matter what you MEANT the signal to be, you have to consider what the recipient will take the signal to mean.
If other people who don't understand it's proper use take it the wrong way, that's their problem not mine 👍🏼
@@ashley_neal Well, until they drive dangerously towards you because of that action.
@@ashley_neal I've got to agree with Callum on this one. If I know for a fact a flash or a honk would provoke aggression without a significant benefit, I would avoid it. If a benefit outweighs the potential reaction I would. He was positioned next to a space anyway, so if he drifted right on the roundabout, you and them would be safe.
For the first 2 clips in these situations my driving instructor advised me to preferably put on a right signal when waiting at obstructions if your positioning could be misunderstood
I gunned it and lane changed in front of a space closer and they honked at me lol. There was a slower driver in front though and it was in a 20 so perhaps I was in the wrong too. I usually just go in behind a space closer - less hassle, they can have their thirty feet of road space.
Thought clip #11 with the red Corsa barging through was going to be about the blue van at the start with the dodgy looking load and rear door open, if I as the car following I’d certainly be much further back.
You should become a sat nav voice command, you are the man for it and it would be hilarious.
cannot wait to start driving and sending you in clips.
im turning 17 in feb and so excited lol
R.I.P.
I thought that clip 11 was going to be about that dodgy load the blue van had. That carpet hanging out the back didn't look safe at all!
Ditto!
When the barriers lift up after the train has gone by, the amount of people who keep glancing down as they move off, because they were fiddling with their phone when waiting, but cannot seem to put it down when it is time to drive.
Either you're in a rush, and cannot pull up and park to answer your messages, or you're able to pull over to mess with your phone.
There is no need to try and do both.
Although I'm not condoning the lorry drivers pull in I can relate to it. It is very common for cars to speed up as your passing them, i don't know why, don't want to be overtaken by the truck or their mind has wandered and being passed by the truck brings their attention back. But it is a source of stress for the driver. Moving out to overtake usually results in some cars waiting behind you and if you pull in without passing anything you can be subjected to a lot of abuse in for form of hand gestures or brake checks.
I was driving through Port Charlotte in Florida once where there was multiple sets of traffic lights something like every quarter to half mile and there was a Woman putting on makeup, drinking coffee and talking on the phone which was tucked under her chin and steering with her knees. She was in the outside lane and beside me for four sets of traffic lights which turned red every time we got near them so stop go and she was accelerating hard every time a light went green and caught the red every time. To this day I don't know how she managed it but it was obviously normal to her and all the other drivers around. Not surprising that there was so many rear end shunts wherever we went in the US.
Some have a fair idea how long they will wait at a particular automated traffic signal, can be particularly long in a filter lane.
Great video ash, also hope the member of the family which was ill is feeling better and hope everyone’s doing well :)
I hope it is comforting to all of you that BMW drivers are also not good at driving in Germany! There is a lot of hate towards them (and rightfully so...). However, I am shocked that so many drivers of Audis or VWs are not doing a good job either in the UK, they certainly are not - mostly - behaving that way here :D
Great video, learned lots, thanks for sharing!
The clip at 2 minutes is an interesting conundrum. Common sense says to indicate to let the driver behind know you'd like to move across to lane 2 but I failed my HGV test for doing this based on the Highway Code saying "When it is safe to do so, signal to indicate your intentions to other road users and when clear, move over." The fact that there wasn't a gap to move across into (as in this case shown by Ashley) was deemed to be not "safe to do so". I have no idea what the examiner expected me to do as he had just said to turn right at the roundabout that was coming up.
Hi Ian - I bet your examiner expected you to go straight on at the roundabout just to show you understood it wasn't safe to move to the right.
@@thomasknight21 I think my problem was that I didn't move right or try to push my way in I simply indicated right just like Ashley has done in the clip in the hope that someone would let me in, and they did so everything I did was safe. The issue seemed to be that I indicated when there was no gap and the examiner suggested that would intimidate the other drivers who would think I was going to move across on them. If I'd gone straight on then I would have had the same problem at the next roundabout ahead as both lanes went ahead towards the motorway island and at that time of day it's chocca with traffic.
6:15 as long as she looked better after applying the makeup then no problem. It's when you get more of a fright seeing them with makeup than without, that's when the problems start.
12:44 The lorry driver probably knew the car was there but probably tried to overtake that car about 50 times and every time he tried the car sped up so the lorry could not overtake and he got pissed off. Not saying his actions were justified but it can be very frustrating as you are lmit to a max of 56 mph.
@7.05 Damn. I nearly kicked foot through the floor when I seen that kid step out.
The one with the lorry happened to my grandma, she was pushed off the road.
Clip 8 was some excellent observation skills, when I see children on a narrow path I always slow down as shown in this clip you never know what they might do.
Me too. If possible, I'll drive on the opposite side of the road just in case. One thing I've learned about the predictability of young children is that they're totally unpredictable.
One of the reasons cyclists ignore red lights is traffic lights ignore cycles. Traffic lights are triggered by a large metal object, a car, passing over the road in front of them. If you're on a cycle you could sit and stare at a red light all day, it won't change until a car comes up behind you. After waiting a few times cyclists learn to ignore red lights.
I don't mind people applying make-up, especially if they aren't particularly aesthetically pleasing. Just not while they're in charge of a vehicle!
Back when we lived in moscow my mum would often put her makeup on while driving which eventually got her into 2 minor accidents lol. She stopped and hasn't had an accident since
Damn, in the last clip I guessed the cars involved in the crash were an audi and a BMW but it was an audi and a merc. At least I got the country and one of the makes correct 😅
The clip with the lady putting on makeup reminded me of the time I saw my english teacher driving along, brushing his teeth ..... lol
4:42 No issues with the grey car overtaking? No indication? Passing several junctions?
The clip at 12:08 i am pretty sure it was a new driver in an unfamiliar place not sure about exactly where he should be.
There is a part of the road near me where a slip road joins and leaves a multi lane road, if you come down the slip road with a right indicator on people on the main carriageway try to pass then slam on the brakes to join the slip road, now if someone matches me I just carry on back off the road (I can get to my destination either way but they seem a little upset 😈)
12.40 the white car maybe speedy up as they were being overtaking by a lorry?
That van at 9.07 mins, his load didn't look secure at all, like it could drop at any moment out of those back doors! 😱
As we know Ashley paints his nails before getting behind the wheel - good job 👍😉
I’ve only ever put make up on once. It was at a party and I was drunk and we were all being stupid.
But if anyone else wants to go ahead, them I’m not bothered..
I think you’re wrong about the lorry and the white car. The white car was probably sitting at a lower speed than the lorry. The lorry driver didn’t want to lose momentum by having to slow down and knowing full well that they need to keep a safe distance between the vehicle in front. Therefore, they pulled into the second lane to try and pass the slower car. It’s normally at that point the car driver realises they are moving too slowly and they start to accelerate. There was another lorry a little bit ahead of the white car which suggests that the car driver doesn’t like to drive faster than 55mph. Most hgv’s are restricted to 56mph.
NZ rule states that you CAN NOT ride across on ANY zebra crossing on a bicycles. You must dismount you're bicycles and walk across the zebra crossing on foot.
clip 14, i feel the lorry driver didnt forget the white car was there but was unsure where in its blind spot the white car was as it looks like it sped up enough to be hovering between side blind spot and front corner blind spot. possibly the truck driver moved over slightly as an ultimatium to the car to either speed up out of danger or slow down out of danger to let the lorry back in. the lorry cant sit in lane 2 forever. its a terrible way to do it but some people need to learn the hard way not to mess around with lorry blind spots and speeds. where are those people going to be educated if the lorry didnt move slightly over?
Saw a lady doing her eye makeup during a down pour doing 70mph on the A1 yesterday. Eye make up too, poke yourself in the eye with one of those doing 70mph and you have a whole world of trouble, not to mention all the other problems it automatically cause
A few weeks ago when my dad and I was driving on a dual carriageway on our way to take my theory test we had just entered the carriageway when a tractor with a bale carrier cut across the median from the right side over our side which was the left side to get into a side road making us brake harshly because we were at the front at the time it happened they also made all the other cars brake abruptly. It was a massive scare for me as it was the first time anything like that had happened to me while I was in the car.
glad you sorted it, and be sure it won't be the last.
last clip...got 1 out of 2. Went for Audi & BMW; Audi & Merc I think?!
At the end I was thinking about a Mercedes rear ending a Ford. Wasn't to far off.
I think the drive in clip 13 was from my home town in South Wales. We see this standard of driving all the time and has become normal and accepted by the local police how do nothing about it when they see it. 🤣
I voted Audi & BMW. Nearly got it!