ahh but apparently that is "sling shotting" and thus "gaining an advantage" garbage of course and by far the safest solution, but when going all round stay to the right so no one goes in front of you
Yep, i did this the other day, i probably could have made the exit but it really wasnt worth the risk as they say. And only took another minute to circle around and get into the right position.
Many of these issues stem from the kind of society we live in. There's bad driving through poor education and awareness but most of these stem from the kind of narcissistic society we live in and one of the traits of narcissism is the complete disregard and awareness of others.
Narcisididiifid ... I'll use the alternative word "AUDI" Woe betide the helpless .... with an AUDI up their arse, flashing their headlights and peeping their horn ... at 82mph I honestly think anybody that buys an AUDI should get 6 points on their licence from the start ... and must drive perfectly for the next 7 years to get the points off, proving that they can safely drive without indicators (no Audi is fitted with indicators, that's for sure - I've never seen any Audi indicate in all of my 33 years of driving - not once!)
One thing I dislike about multi-lane roundabouts is that when approaching them, there are no road markings indicating the correct lane for going straight. As a result, you find yourself in the near side lane. Then, just a few yards from the roundabout, markings appear indicating that lane is for left turns only. Consequently, your stuck because the other lanes are already full.
The signage and layouts for these types of junctions is often very poor and doesn't help drivers get in the correct lane in the first place, and often doesn't help guide them around towards the correct exit. A few days ago I was at a big junction like this and sat in a very slow queue in the left lane as I thought that was the best one for the exit I needed, but there were no signs or marking to which lanes you should use. It turned out that I could have also used lane 2 for my exit, and that would have saved me a lot of time and not being sandwiched between big HGVs. The other issue is that so many drivers are reliant on SatNav and they follow the instructions barked at them from that, which often is too late or simply incorrect to get the correct lane. They listen to the SatNav rather than reading the signs and lane markings.
Agreed, when traffic is queuing the limited information with on the road surface is completely covered up too by the cars in front and the sat nav isn't always correct
That happens around here (Aberdeen) with many ordinary junctions. One in particular (Lang Stracht) has two lanes, both marked as ok for straight ahead, on approach to a set of lights at a left side road. Then just as you get within 100 yards of the lights, the left lane suddenly becomes left turn only. I know about it now, so always approach those lights in the right lane. But it took me a few times before I was used to it.
And Oh thank you Ashley, you saved me £4000 with your car vertical link, I was minutes away from buying a car and thought about the advice you gave out as it seemed a bit cheap. Clicked your link and the car had £8000 of outstanding finance with 4 years remaining. The seller tried lying saying it had been cleared, so I called the finance company, who were lets say very interested and said, dont buy it or it will be repossessed from you.
yeah, i was looking at vans during the summer this year, seen one that meet the specs i wanted, thought i best be sure and used car vertical and found out the van still had finance left to pay by the owner, i didnt even go to look at the van as i would be hoping that they pay off the debt when i give them the money. its a mine field trying to find a vehilce at a good price that is also honest.
My partner has been advised to change her car by the garage we use as it won't pass the next MOT without a lot of welding, she saw one she liked, I ran a car vertical check on it and it turns out its been written off twice, both times when it was relatively young. The MOT history isn't great either, so we didn't buy it
I used Car Vertical before buying my current car. I was a little suspicious initially as it was over 9 years old and only had 31.500 miles. The report came back clean, so I went to look at the car and it was perfect; no problems at all with the purchase or subsequently.
I'm surprised Ashley wasn't more critical of the dash cam driver with the Blue BMW, she was too close to it taking off at the roundabout and should have held back when there was no indication from the BMW, i was waiting for if she had done so she would " have made this a non event " but it didn't come....
do you really expect a bmw driver to indicate? lol the driver that sent the clip in did say they should have kept a pocket of space so they already knew they had done wrong in keeping themselves safe, no need for Ash to to be more critical.
Thought the same, was clearly following impatiently and tried to force her way into lane 1. BMW didn't cross into her lane, she crossed into his, clear fault of cammer
My thoughts too. Can't recall a clip I didn't agree with Ashley's analysis before, but unless I'm missing something, this analysis seemed bizarre to me - sure, the BMW driver had a part in this, but seemed like the cammer was eager to quickly move to the left lane to stop before the red light (again, unless I'm missing something). And I see little to jump to the conclusion that it was a cash for crash scenario.
The yob throwing stuff at pedestrians at 9:23 may have induced me to call 999 to give plod a chance of catching the passenger as well as the driver. I was once hit by a glass bottle thrown from a van and would have been very grateful to someone being a good citizen.
the passenger may have got away in the three or four days days it would take the plod to visit to take a statement before doing anything else. The days when the police would react in real time have long gone for road traffic misbehaviour
@@trueriver1950 That wasn't 'road traffic misbehaviour', that was assault. Repeatedly. The police should be contacted ASAP when that's witnessed. It doesn't matter whether we think they're slow to react etc. At the very least the car might be spotted later and taken off the road.
Watching this just makes me feel depressed. The standard of driving in the UK has declined a lot over the past 20 - 25 years. I mean it was pretty bad even make then but it has gotten worse. People are just becoming more and more selfish in my opinion.
Thank you for featuring my cycling clip Ashley, the driver of the BMW wasn’t focused on what was developing further ahead. But at least the driver was understanding when I explained why I had stopped.
In a 10s clip we see: - Impatiently badgering a cyclist, peeping them and gesturing - Passing the van with barely any space, doesn't even wait for the van to park up - Turns out of the junction without indicating Some people should not have a license.
13:22 There was a massive derailment that killed a train crew just a few days ago from an abnormal load stuck on a crossing, absolutely stupid and can be deadly
From what I can see this seems particularly prevalent with truckers in the US. One reason I think is that these are almost always freight trains a mile long with hundreds of wagons and several locos, and if you do get stuck at a level crossing, you are going to be there a long time. Add to that the fact that these trains are often quite slow-moving compared to a 125 mph passenger train and it seems to encourage drivers to gamble.
@@davidjones332 You'll be there even longer if the train hits you. Or maybe you won't be, and St. Peter will be yelling to God 'We've got another one, boss..!'
PKP regularly publishes video clips of level crossing misuse (in Poland, where they operate). Recently there was one involving two trains closely following on parallel tracks. The crossing lifted the barriers after the first train passed, then put them back down again, with red lights flashing continuously. A lorry driver got through the first barrier (tearing it off its mounting in the process) but then stopped at the second one, blocking his way off the crossing. A minute later, an express train smashes into it - fortunately having worked off most of its speed beforehand through emergency braking. A second video clip shows the view from the train's dashcam, and you can hear the distinctive tones of the "Radiostop" signal being sent to halt all trains within range.
At 1:53 yes I've seen those hired bikes "abandoned" on the pavement. One solution to cut down on this would be for the rider to have to slot the bike back into an authorised collection point stand and if they fail to do so, the credit card they used to originally release the bike gets charged an extra fee or fine
@ibs5080 That is how they used to work. However bikeys complained that the bike racks were not where they wanted to go (think anti-car brigade that say we should all use public transport) and now these limeys are abandoned anywhere. Funny how people get all outraged when a car parks partially on the pavement, due to lack of parking provision, yet these limeys are now getting dumped anywhere and everywhere, often totally obstructing the pavement. Yet we never hear the pro-bikeys (anti-car) using the same argument, saying 'private property should not be left on public streets'.
The bike (& scooters) are intended to be left anywhere safe* so somebody can use them from where they are & their live location is shown in a phone app. *anywhere safe means to the side of a path, so they are not an obstruction for pedestrians. You are required to take a photo of them at the end of your journey to prove they have been parked responsibly. I regularly see them in the middle of paths when they could just as easily be placed at the side. I don't hear of any surcharges for bad parking though. These should be introduced/increased.
@@wibbley1 your bias is so on show it hurts. So many cars park awfully on the pavements, to the extent where the path is completely blocked. Now I do think these bike share bikes do need better systems in place for ensuring they’re parked well (taking a photo of the entire path with bike in frame to be verified quickly by a worker could be one solution, with a warning and/or fine for repeated offenses) but of course it won’t be perfect. Maybe cities could start putting lots more bike racks & bike parking areas around - they take up so much less space than car parking spots per vehicle. But apart from major cities, car parking is almost always way too frequent, encouraging people to drive when better options could be made available instead. The issue is it takes huge amounts of space to park a car for every person who might want to go into a city/town.
There is always the possibility someone came along and kicked them over. Probably didn't, but with the behaviour on show in this compilation I wouldn't be surprised either.
We had e-bikes for hire here in Aberdeen for a while. They weren't stored in racks, just left standing about, they couldn't be used unless paid for by an 'app' (one reason I never used them, don't have or want a 'smart' phone) so I suppose they had some locking mechanism. They were always lying around having been knocked over. After a couple of years, they all suddenly vanished as quickly as they had appeared. I can't honestly recall ever seeing anyone ride one.
1) Always give BMW's a wide berth 2) Always give BMW's a wide berth at night. 3) Always give BMW's a wide berth at night particularly when they have four occupants...
I'd love to know the outcome of the insurance. The precedent set is that you can't assume the car in front will turn off even if they're located in an incorrect lane. The BMW is established in their lane, and the cam car collides with them from behind after leaving insufficient braking distance, therefore the cam car is fully responsible for the collision. Is that ridiculous to anyone who's driven a car? Yes. But liability is about precedent, not what ought to be correct.
At around 1:12 , good job by the oncoming van to wait whilst the Nissan Micra ran their red light. This demonstrates how vital it is to make sure oncoming traffic will actually stop for their red light before you make a right turn. I also recall one of Ashley's videos where he mentioned that if you are in the middle of a junction waiting to turn right, when your light turns red, it doesn't always mean the oncoming traffic will also be facing a red light. I was actually very surprised to learn this.
I don't get the lack of criticism on the roundabout. The BMW didn't drive well and perhaps crash for cash was involved but why the cammer changed lanes into the side of a car is beyond me. As for the one with someone throwing things from the car. I don't care if the family sees it. I hope the police do and take action.
I agree that I think it could have been avoided, with both keeping a pocket of space and reacting a little quicker, but I believe the lane change was to exit, it didn't look like it at first to me either, but the "straight ahead" was a 2 lane exit and they were going to take lane 2. So the crossing lane 1 on the roundabout makes sense to exit, just would have been better without hitting the BMW/fraudster
you might want to have another look at the layout at 4:13. the cammer is coming in from the south-bound side, and you only have a choice of left (for north-bound a38) or right (for south-bound a38). you wouldnt expect anyone to turn right, move into the left (outside) lane of the roundabout, then keep going round, as that is doubling-back on yourself. almost no-one will be doing that from either lane, and the lane markings really should reflect that, as it's really not clear (based on the markings alone) why the BMW should not be trying to go that direction from that lane.
@@groundbeef662 Definitely better to avoid the collision. I always look at it from a motorcycle point of view and any collision with a car is to be avoided at all costs 😀
@@konradgreen2567 Forget about the road layout, there is a bright blue car in front of her and she just ploughs straight into it like it's not there? She has to be on drugs or the worst driver in the world? It's just bizarre...
Those e-bikes are SO useful for quick turnarounds and I use them at least once a month even though I've got a normal bike. But then people treat them like disposable toys and leave them all over. It's one of those "This is why we can't have nice things" scenarios.
Something the clip with the bike in the carpark has guven me cause to say "if someone is stopped in a position and you see no reason for it, have a think why they have stopped there". Because quite often, they will have seen something further ahead that you havent. Not always, people stopping randomly does happen, but normally they have a reason
Absolutely. It's not 'that idiot has stopped', it's 'what has made them stop?' That process has often allowed me to identify hazardous situations those behind me have blythely driven into.
I don't think the second clip had anything to do with the A pillar. I think it was more to do with the cammer being on a bicycle, and the driver thinking of cyclists as 'Lesser road users'
One of the favourite places for people to dump Lyme hire bikes locally is on the tactile paving in front of a light controlled pedestrian crossing by the way out of the local Morrisons supermarket. Y'know, the bit of paving put there specifically to help blind people navigate. You couldn't cause more inconvenience and risk if you actively tired.
The clip of the Porsche in the wrong lane on the roundabout is so annoying to me. They can see he’s made a mistake, both comment on it, then close the gap and honk to make it worse 🤦♂️
I'll be a little controversial here, but the lane markings make that a dual carriageway. If the lane markings broke for a distance then it would be a roundabout, but as they are continuous and the the traffic in the other direction is separated then it's a dual carriageway. They may not have had the chance to brake hard as there could be other traffic close on their rear, hence closing the gap. The Christmas quiz question is: which car makes do we often see making last minute exits from dual carriageways or motorways on Ashley's channel?
@@hypergolic8468the Porsche is in the inside lane crossing all lanes of traffic. They shouldn’t be allowed to do it when they can go round the roundabout again instead of making the cammer plus other cars brake
A lot of the cammers do that, and while they technically remain in the right it is also bad road manners. People do mistakes, just let it pass and move on with the day.
I agree with the sentiment. Completely different sentiment but if you enter a mini roundabout and there's a traffic to you right and you turning right but the car behind you is turning left so getting impatient. Normally I leave a gap before turning right. Yesterday I saw the right side shifting slowly so I made my way onto roundabout and then some wally starts hooting why. So impatient
@@Kenjh71yes always the ones creating lasting issues, it’d be a non issue to most of us and as the other guy says just get on with the day. These people: make sure it’s as bad as it can be, save the video, moan about it to anyone who will listen, send it into YT. Who has the time to do that?
That last clip - Black Ice is lethal, I was once through a hedge between two trees on a bend, before I realized what was happening. It happens that fast.
11:35.. I Get this all the time, you hold back because there is an issue in front and people behind get impatient because the only thing they are looking at is your rear bumper.
lol, riding a motorbike... always looking about ten cars ahead, at least. one reason we would rather be in front of you all... coming down the freeway the other day, saw a mattress a good 2km ahead... and then at least twenty people almost slam into it as i approached... watch in the rearview as eventually someone did slam into it... later in the news... fifteen car pileup. urban street? sure, stop and drag it off. with everyone demonstrating their complete lack of situational awareness doing 110kmh+ on three lanes? no... good samaritan is not a good idea...
I usually skip over the sponsored parts of videos, but because of the way that you have incorporated the Car Vertical report into the story of the clips, you have made it worth watching.
Yes, he did it calmly and explained politely why he was stopping which the BMW driver understood. I wonder if other famous online cyclists would have taken the same approach?
@@davem9204 Could you imagine if Jeremy vine id the exact opposite of what he currently does and instead just calmly informs a driver who did something stupid like the bimmer did why he did x thing? Maybe people wouldn't be so critical to the point he gets all pisched off and disables the comments or starts a major ban wave lmao I'm still yet to be blocked by him but ah well. when it does I'll wear that block like a badge of honour lmfao
I'm glad the cyclist managed to diffuse that situation with the BMW. So many times on twitter you see a cyclist initiate a confrontation when there doesn't need to be and it just looks awful especially when they're trying to advocate for road safety.
@@MattCantor21 I suspect the BMW driver was wondering why you’d stopped - you seem to have stopped really far back from where the van was going to be reversing and the van was still rolling forwards at that point - though clearly you’d correctly preempted the manoeuvre.
@@royfontaine5526I’m usually quite switched on with picking up on these situations, many road users are not so good. I’ve witnessed many times drivers driving too close to the vehicle in front and then when they need to reverse into a parallel parking spot, the driver behind has to do that awkward reverse to make space that should have been there.
@@MattCantor21 I agree and I’m the same. I just think it looks a little too far back to me and the guy behind you had no clue why you’d stopped, though he should have hung back to read the situation. It’s difficult to get these things perfectly right all the time though and there are so many variables. Fortunately everything was ok on this occasion and no raised tempers either.
@@royfontaine5526 indeed we all make mistakes, myself included. I don’t see any reason to raise my temper in these situations, I’m far from a rager and find it better to keep calm and polite.
At around 8:25 the incident between our cammer and the caravan. Another reason to behave yourself rather than try to make something of it: Even though traffic is currently free flowing at motorway speeds, you never know if there may be a standstill further up ahead. You don't then want the other driver and their passengers to get out and confront you. Similarly if you intend to stop at the next service station. And no, it's never happened to me but there have been incidents where I was glad I made it a non event, aa there was subsequently an unexpected hold up further ahead.
Agree there. Just yesterday I was coming up to 2 sets of traffic lights close together and the first set turned amber. Slowed down and came to a stop. During that time a merc driver behind me was flashing his lights and horning at me 🙄. Even if I did go past just when it went red the 2nd set of lights would have went red so basically wanted me to jump 2 red lights to save 1 minute of their journey.
HI Ashley. At 00:00. I love Bell Bollards ! They are like an iceberg. To argue it more carefully, the job of that bollard is to protect pedestrians and the street furniture from the actions of careless drivers. A bell bollard does that. Plus they are so robust that they are almost impossible to damage so a driver cannot easily damage one and do a hit and run, unlike a post bollard, so the cost of the careless driving goes back to the driver - not to the local council. And a dent in their pride and joy may well be one form of education that will succeed. It's far better than a pedestrian in hospital. I've seen far too many cases where a Council has listened to complaints and removed a bollard, and a pedestrian or other vulnerable road user is then injured in the same spot.
I love them too. They are everywhere in London. Whenever I was delivering to customers who had them on the corners of their road, I refused to deliver their goods. It was obvious the local councils didn't want trucks down there, so I was only too happy to comply. Great opportunity to get back early My how we chuckled when customers phoned up to complain about aborted deliveries and the extra redelivery cost.
@@rainbowevil No and No. No way was I going to start dragging pallets of goods over any distance just because some useless customer lives in a house unsuitable for artics. My level of competence is way in excess of what's required, I just chose not to baby sit people who couldn't be bothered to read terms and conditions and find out what type of vehicle was suitable for their road. Nice try at a veiled insult though.
I disagree about the crash for cash. For the simple reason that the accident was too easily avoided and the BMW didn't do anything aggressive like sudden braking to make the accident more likely.
maybe, but they did drive all the way round a roundabout in the outside lane (a serious mistake by itself), and the direction they tried to go would have them doubling back on themselves. not impossible, if they made a mistake, but very un-usual and therefore quite un-expected.
I thought it looked more like a combination of someone who didn’t know which way to go (late exit of the motorway and wrong lane on the roundabout) and bad driving.
6:48 When a car is "brought into trade', that is bought by someone in the motor trade for further processing then, as long as the dealer handles it properly, the dealer isn't recorded as a new registered keeper. So if a car is acquired by an insurance company and then sold to a dealer for repair neither will be recorded as previous keepers on the V5. So if one was the 1st owner of a vehicle, it was written off, the written off car sold into trade and then repaired and sold retail to a member of the public the member of the public it was sold to would be recorded as the 2nd owner.
Trade plates cost a lot of money, so smaller car repair places (father and son places usually) will just eat the cost of putting an extra owner on the car.
If they were following at more than 0.5 second following distance they'd have had time to react. Tailgating, not paying any attention to what's going on in front of them and didn't react at all to the BMW. On their phone maybe?
Yeah, You can see the BMWs brake lights as well. Why did the cammer drive directly into the BMW that was directly in front of them? I do not understand why Ashley is defending her when it's her lack of skill that caused the accident. Fiat 500 behaviour imo.
@@blacktemplar2377he thought the car in front was going straight on and attempted to pass on the right side while exiting. The driver in front wasn't the greatest,, but cammer is at fault for assuming and driving too close
I watched it and was like what on earth? It looks deliberate. Edit: I have changed my mind since watching more of the video. I commented having just reached that time stamp on the video. The failure for the 4 guys to pass over the details would have been a raging red flag for me and I'm cammer called the police.
That's what I was thinking, I'm surprised Ashley didn't point it out. The viewer sees the problem happening and even says out loud "no, mr porsche" and moves in to close him off instead of just hanging back. Could have made it a complete non-event.
Ah, that first clip is my colleague in W6 DCT. other drivers and I wondered how the trailer rims were bent but nothing mentioned on the defects. I believe that trailer is still on a VOR
That clip infuriated me because taht driver had plenty of space to pull straight and get out of that situation unscathed. Just needed to be more patient with it.
@@RichPAFC1987take the room in the road you’re in, not the road you’re turning into, that’s the space you can actually dominate. Or so my instructor told me.
@@chrisbrookes1167Sometimes you need both, but yes, take as much as you need in your current road is ultimately the best solution if push comes to shove.
It's a sad fact that these clips highlight the 'norm' on our roads today. I think you are doing an excellent job of educating people into becoming defensive drivers by changing attitudes.
@johnneil4777 Yep the road use standards are rapidly declining. London is now a s'hole. So much diversity and bringing with it a diverse attitude and skill level. What with the lawless bikeys and either hard-of-thinking or dangerous drivers, London is not a place I enjoy travelling in. Not even safe on the busses, there is always trouble from fare-dodgers or unruly passengers. It was never this bad 20 years ago. I think it started with the hot-hatches becoming affordable to the youth in the 90's. Then with the increased population in cities by those without the intelligence or means to afford a car, confined to two wheels, clearly demonstrating their lack of intelligence every time they pedal.
The A38 clip was 100% dodgy, the only other exit is back on yourself, to Birmingham or not, they knew where they were going and wanted that car to crash into her, but IMO she had plenty of time to react and go into the empty space on her right, would be surprised if it was ruled in her favour. All the lads will most likely claim for whiplash n all that
In my view, it was dodgy because of their refusal to hand over details. As for the late exit from the dual carriage way and indecisiveness on the roundabout, if there was no reason to suspect a motive, then that would say to me that they were just unfamiliar with the location. The cammer's positioning and assumptions on the roundabout were poor and a major contribution to the incident in my view.
Why on earth did she try to pass them in that spot too made it easy for them if it was crash for cash. Stay behind or stay staggered no reason for her to be trying to overtake there, and by that I mean leave the roundabout faster than the BMW is doing. Something to try and prove? Lose lose.
Yep, seems dodgy. 4 up in a beamer. Only other exit is where they came from. The may have been genuinely lost, showing poor driving standard exiting the motorway and using the roundabout. For a crash for cash, they would have needed far more than a minor tap & bent door. This may explain why they did not want to give details, as they needed a better crash for a claim. Lone female driver and a four-up beamer. Cammer lady should have dialled 999 immediately, for her own safety. Even if plod do not attend, her whereabouts and beamer details would be recorded. But how on earth did cammer-car crash into them? Beamer was clearly in her vision, in the lane she wanted to take. Maybe she is just another hard-of-thinking driver and could not think of any other option to get into that lane other than drive into the beamer.
Actually the exit they came from is one way only, it's an M6 toll exit and it's not possible to join the toll road back on this roundabout. There are two directions they can go - to Birmingham (right) and to Lichfield/Burton (left). The toll is usually taken to avoid the absolute shit show that is the M6 near Birmingham, if this wasn't done on purpose then it's probable they didn't see they needed the left exit immediately and decided to go around the roundabout again to go towards Lichfield or Burton.
I can relate the the last clip: 4 New tires, going round a roundabout, between 15 and 20 MPH, hit black ice or diesel and wound up with my rear on the roundabout after 1 complete 360, it was scary as heck.
I had a similar thing many years ago, going round a roundabout slowly (a lot slower than I normally would as I wasn't entirely sure on my exit and there was no-one else around to hold up) and suddenly zero grip and the car just did a pirouette. It must have been oil/diesel and it was too warm for ice.
That last one reminded me of an almost trouser filling moment over 20 years ago. I used to do an early morning delivery round for a bakery starting around 4am and the usual FWD Fiat Ducato was in for repairs after being hit outside the shop. The rental I was given instead was an extra long wheelbase RWD Merc Sprinter. About 7:30am as the sun came up and snow had begun to melt my confidence was increasing as I went on to a narrow council estate road. 2 bends in quick succession and as I came around the second one, the van went sideways on me, almost touching parked cars on both sides of the road. They don't, or at least didn't when I learned, teach you how to deal with that, but fortunately I had plenty of RWD experience. I let go of all the pedals, gave some very gentle tweaks on the steering and it came back good, facing the right direction with no harm done.
The clip around 0:56 at the mini roundabout is such a common one. I've seen countless dash cam clips of virtually identical situations that this should always put you in high alert.
There's a mini-roundabout near me in a similar layout where on-coming cars often don't give way to the right-turner like this. I'm often the one doing the right-turn, so I try and tweak my speed on approach so I'm not reaching the give-way line at the same time at the on-coming car, reducing the chance of conflict.
it should be a MANDATORY part of getting a license. 99% of todays drivers have trouble controlling a car with full traction, let alone when it doesnt...
Just to add, you can't steer if your front wheels aren't moving. See this all the time in crash videos on ice. Everyone locks their wheels and still tries to steer lmao
@@_XRMissie and 99% of todays drivers have no idea whatsoever how to control a car when its got full traction, let alone doing something "unusual"... getting sideways should be a mandatory part of the driving test... feel far safe with a "hoon" driver that knows how to drift, than a nervous nellie that doesnt know what indicators, headchecks, or general awareness are...
That first one has the ubiquitous 'blind spot, take care' sign on the back of the lorry. I think a sign like that is better placed inside the drivers cab!
@@paradiselost9946 that road was neither tight nor congested. In any case, that's no excuse for continuing to move forward when there's clearly an obstruction. Protocol in this scenario is to immediately halt the vehicle, apply parking brakes, then leave the cab to do a walk around. I have excellent spatial awareness and would have made a much better job of that turn.
2:14 cammer needs to make things like that a non-event. Porsche driver needs to learn to go right round and not change lanes like that. It is a ROUNDABOUT.
You're right but she deliberately blocked him and sped up to do so, instead of holding back for MAYBE a second to avoid an event but I guess she needed the clip.
Personally don’t get this one. If cammer used their head they should have let Porsche go and then carried on. Instead, to make a point, they try the block and waste more time. Porsche was clearly in wrong lane but who hasn’t chosen the wrong lane by accident before.
At around 9:00 and bollards again. Another bollard situation to watch out for is those retracting bollards to limit vehicle access in certain areas of city centres. You have to pull up and press the intercom to request access. If approved, they remotely lower the bollards. The issue is if a second vehicle behind then tries to follow the first one. Many cases here in Canterbury where the 2nd vehicle gets impaled on the rising bollards. There are signs warning "No tailgating" but not everyone pays attention.
There is a famous bus gate in Manchester that claimed a few vehicles tailgating a bus. You may have seen those. Apparently there was a bus gate in Peckham, South East London, and it claimed a few vehicles. It was removed after a while.
I remember the bell shaped bollard 8n Wimbledon claiming a few cars. It was in the local newspaper. Most of the readers comments sided with the bollard. 😂
The new one I have noticed is that when on a road with an obstruction, so say a few parked cars, if on the opposite side people now just veer out into the middle of the road and try to bully you to a stop, even though you may be already in the single carriageway left, or if cars on their side with large gaps between, no thought of pulling back in to allow you to proceed. Then it's all gestures and and the like as if the fault of the driver on the side of the carriageway with no obstructions. We have two cars, a 4x4 estate and a little shopping trolly 1.0 litre, also very noticeable how this happens more in our smaller car and if the cars doing it are SUV's and the like. Just "I shall not be impeded" lazy driving, the same as the people who straddle the white lines in rural areas, even into blind bends thesedays. Everyone I speak too, including professionals say it's never been worse, some sort of mass stupidity / anger / entitlement has taken over in the UK.
Also, the person coming down the wrong side of the road reminds me of when I was going down a country road and came up to a Range Rover. I sat still, as they only had to reverse 5 metres, compared to my 50 metres, round a corner, with another car behind me. I just crossed my arms until they moved
I remember when I was bus driving, I had pulled out to overtake a number of parked cars on the nearside. As soon as I'd committed, a Range Rover came around the corner and stopped in fron of me, sounding his horn very aggressively. In my defence, I should point out that the parked cars were on a slight curve and oncoming vehicles were not easily visible. It was also a very quiet residential road. Anyway, he kept gesturing at me to reverse. Now apart from company regulations, which forbid drivers to reverse with passengers on board (unless there's a banksman) I simply couldn't see well enough in the feeble apologies for mirrors that I had. So I tried to explain to him that I couldn't, but he wasn't having it and continued to sound off, both verbally and by horn. So I just switched off the engine and got out my newspaper. He gave up after a couple of minutes after that and drove past me on the pavement..! Should I be glad we never had CCTV on the buses at that time or not..? 🤣
Why are you saying your viewer is in the right with the A38 video? There’s one simple rule on the road - don’t crash into anyone. She could have avoided slamming into the BMW and just expected them not to exit. Plus why would she exit onto a ramp from the inside lane of a roundabout.
Same, they moved over to the left lane ready to take the next exit. Most roundabouts are even marked as such. This 1 had no marking so that's what I'd expect someone to do.
@@Veyron_fan but you still don’t slam into them. You slow down to either let them exit or you let them go so you can take the exit. The cammer instead decided the best thing to do in the roundabout is accelerate. Never assume anyone’s going to do anything and just anticipate what might go wrong.
I don't think he said they were. He just said that the other car did what they did to deliberately get into that accident. Part of the point of this channel is about trying to get out of this "in the right" attitude. Cammer already fessed up to making a mistake so there wasn't much else to analyse there.
"why would she exit onto a ramp from the inside lane of a roundabout" because there are 2 lanes for the exit, and 2 lanes on the roundabout. if the BMW was doing the correct thing, that would not have been a problem, but the BMW was in the outside lane and went all the way round a roundabout, which you should not be doing on a multi-lane roundabout. also, the direction they tried to go is actually back on themselves, so not something which you'd expect, and certainly not from the outside lane.
That very first clip with the HGV mounting the bollard. I've seen similar with an Audi in the picturesque village of Woodstock just outside Blenheim Palace. They were turning a sharp corner in the village and didn't see the low bollard. In tbe Audi's case, they didn't actually mount the bollard but did some rather expensive looking damage to rve side of their car.
Roundabouts are confusing for people unfamiliar with the area and when the direction signs don't point to where you want to be, and also if SatNav isn't available. So we MUST expect the unexpected from other drivers.
Re at 5:22 the BMW driver not giving their details to the our cammer. I've often wondered about this in terms of what if the other driver / occupants are being aggressive or threatening? Are you still legally obliged to give a threatening party your details, including your full name and address? Or can you just call in the accident to the police with your details, the reg number of the other vehicle and they can then link the whole incident together? I certainly wouldn't want someone who I perceive to be a threat to know where I live or to know my full name.
from what i know, if you decide you are in danger being in a situation like that, call the police and give them the reg of the other car if you have it as well as your details and tell them you have driven away because you feel threatened. as long as you work with the police in the hours or days going forward it is usually fine. you can use your phone to call the police while driving if its an emergency.
By law you're supposed. Although if there's a potential threat of future retaliation due to the demeanour of the other person(s), I see no reason why you can't provide your details to the police officer attending the scene instead. There's definitely some legal precedents that need setting to really put that one into stone though.
Can someone explain the clip starting at 8:36? Ashley says the left lane is a "left turning lane". But the white Fiat 500 turned left, albeit starts the turn late. Was this it? Or am I missing something?
@fizzog12 I intensely dislike the term 'hurty words'. What do you mean by it, precisely..? Sometimes, words can be very hurtful and even damaging to someone's life.
100% right, we're beyond tipping point. I think the main issue is distraction and the fact we can't concentrate for more than a few minutes. That obviously affects other things we do in life but driving is probably the most dangerous and I blame social media, it's ruining us.
For the last clip.. Sweden have this great lesson for new drivers, it’s on a skid pan and teaches new drivers how to correct skids and spins in adverse conditions. Not only does having the correct tyres for the weather have an advantage but having some basic lessons make a huge difference. Braking rarely solves much at all, 99.99% of your viewers don’t even know that you can steer with the accelerator.
I noticed a lot of the roundabouts near me have turned into spiral roundabouts and people are confused by them, because you can effectively go right from the left lane.
in july i was back driving in the UK after many years (not so much driving) in germany. multi-lane roundabouts was the area for which i most prepared myself in advance, largely with ashley's (but also others') videos. it's frightening, but not difficult, just a few simple rules to be followed. result: non events.
@andrewdigby5114 Multi-lane roundabouts would work fine if people using them could actually drive. Similarly, spending much time away from public transport in south London, I needed to get around by bus. I was shocked by the change. Gone has polite queuing, letting the elderly on first followed by boarding in the order one has been waiting. Passengers now push & shove & just a pile-on, like we see in poorer countries and laughed at on those Clive James tv shows all those years ago. This same diverse attitude is now evident on the roads. Just driving in any direction they want, showing no concern or consideration for others. Certain types are attracted to particular car brands, which is why they get stereo-typed. Bikeys in London are the worst. Probably because they account for some of the poorest of the population, without the intelligence to pass a driving test or means to buy a car. I witnessed a fat copper one night, who had obviously been sent out to police the lawless bikeys. They just rode around him, refusing his lawful orders to stop. It was quite comical to watch. Copper resorted to just shouting 'get some lights' as the lawless bikeys rode past.
At around 2:19 I do feel multi lane roundabouts have always been problematic and I don't see it improving. Some of these are so called "spiral" roundabouts where the lane you are in takes you to your exit if you follow the original markings. There again, some of these roundabouts aren't spiral. Issues can arise when drivers aren't familiar with a particular roundabout and hence may not know at the onset whether it's spiral ir if they need to change lanes for their exit.
7:26 An example of why you don’t start silliness with complete strangers. A lot of people are far too willing to take things to the absolute extreme to prove a point. You never know what kind of psycho you’re dealing with.
@bestintheworld568 Van towing a caravan. Red flag. As-you-likies. Best just keep clear & let them do what they are going to do. They care not if the van or caravan gets damaged. They will just go 'collect' another one.
That Ford driver at 15:18 is exactly how I used to behave. Shocking when I see others doing it thinking I used to be that bad There will always be a driver wanting to get as far up the road as possible. Leave a large gap and let them in front, they will only do a dangerous overtake on you later or force you off the road at a merge in turn As you say Ashley, they are unteachable and one day they will get their comeuppance, either through accident or law
Since there really are now warmer winters and less snow and ice than there was in the 60's and 70's people are obviously going to find it challenging when it does happen, because they are just not used to dealing with it. If we do get a blast of the past type if winter, it will cause a lot of disruption. The recent floods have caused havoc because people think their cars are amphibious. Hope no one thinks they're on a one horse open sleigh.
I can't recommend doing a course on driving on ice/snow enough. It's is well worth the fun, even if you never need to put it into practice. Yet when you do, you're going to be very happy you've done a course on it.
9:23 that “trouble maker” sun strip is likely also illegal, if it protrudes 1cm into the swept area of the windscreen in front of the driver. That’s £100 and 3 points.
On the clip you analysed, there are only 2 exits and 3 entrances. There was absolutely no way of anticipating that the BMW was going to do a 360 round the roundabout from the outside lane. It still illustrates the importance of staggered formation.
Even as a van driver I find some junctions are not designed properly to accommodate larger vehicles! They just expect you to block all lanes of traffic as you're forced to turn from the middle of the road, partially using the oncoming lane. I can only imagine how bad it must be for lorry drivers
4:50 onwards. Yes a subscription to car vertical would be handy in suspected crash for cash situations to tend one's mindset from the polite and helpful (regardless of fault) to the guarded and aloof. A car that has many people in, driven poorly and with a five or more recent history of dings, scrapes etc. has to ring alarm bells. Nice logic there Ashley. That being said a front and rear dash cam is the ultimate. It may be supposition but it appears to me that boyo was checking for a dash cam and knowing evidence exists they knew it was a dud and wanted to get away without giving any details. Again entirely supposition, but the circumstance do fit. Sorry for the trouble the lady has been caused!
Not many people apart from taxis and Ashley have them, but I wouldn't be without my internal camera (Viofo T130, thanks for the info on them, Ashley..!). I don't rely on it normally, but I always imagine a scenario where I have a crash and the other driver accuses me of being on my phone or whatever. I can then point to the dashcam and say 'No I wasn't..!' The only issue I have is that I haven't yet found a computer application (not a smartphone 'app) that allows viewing of all three cameras simultaneously, they only allow two at the most. I hate looking at things on a tiny screen, I like to use at least a laptop if not my desktop computer.
I had a similar skid in heavy snow some years back. While driving probably less than 10mph (I knew it was bad), I came to a slight left hand bend, and yet I slowed by taking my foot off the accelerator, and did not touch the brake. Despite this, I still did 270, and mounted the pavement in a T reg Escort, knocking a tyre off on the drivers side through hitting the curb sideways. Also, your clip with the caravan - I think the driver might not have had full control as he turned his head to argue with the van driver. It's possible he didn't keep the wheel straight.
16:00 the instinct to hit the brakes is strong when there's a loss of control, but it's so important not to touch them in this situation. This is where cycling, in particular mountain biking, has a lot to offer drivers. You soon learn that braking on a low friction surface is a very bad idea!
This is why everyone should be forced to do skid pan training and bridge throw drills as part of the test as in some other countries. Most can’t handle the Tesco trolley stepping out let alone their car.
10:50 Always like Ashley using my clips - Thank You! The bin lorry was too close to the car in front. I think the road markings possibly confused the two old ladies in the car. A scary moment for them. I had an artic behind and made quick decision not to stop incase a)the artic couldn't/didn't stop in time and b)the artic would be more visible to traffic behind while the car sorted itself out with a little reverse.
At around 1:20 perhaps a good reason for the UK follow other countries and ban parking against the traffic at all times. Currently it's only illegal at night. Interestingly, the Uk driving test includes pulling up and parking on the right, as if to actually encourage this practice. This clip was particularly bad, as the offending car crossed over immediately after turning into the side street. And into a taxi bay no less, though they don't appear to be a taxi.
This was my clip and I was on a lesson with one of my learners. The driver and the front passenger both walked into a Weatherspoons around the corner, maybe they were very thirsty ….. hence the rush to dump the car illegally. 😂 Seriously though, we were lucky didn’t end in a head on smash.
The last clip highlights the need for post test training. Skid pan training is an essential skill. Its often counter intuitive and turning in to the skid and not breaking, using power to drive out of it. We should encourage the take up of skills through reduced VED. Education and road design is the way to reduce RTC not arbitrary speed limits
Passed my test last week finally got on the road yesterday, having a blast apart from the fact that it seems people around me seem to drive worse because now I don't have an L Plate
Hired bikes were a problem in my city, until people started chucking them in the river. Now the hire company charges extra for leaving one somewhere other than where they tell you too, and they have a van that goes around collecting and moving them
3:12 If the cammer looks at your videos and sent it to you, you’d have thought they would learn from you, stagger on a roundabout and don’t under or over take, especially if the cars by you look hesitant.
The first mini roundabout has a double dashed line and clear give way sign . Conflicting information the other side has no give way, yet it has a roundabout sign.
On that stretch of road they put the give way sign to doubly remind people the main road doesn't have priority and to give way to the joining road on the right. There's also about 15 mini roundabouts in a mile along there!
The thing that scares me the most is the fact that a lot of drivers genuinely believe they're driving correctly. There's two sections in my daily commute that always has people in the ring lane.
Last clip - fit winter tyres! Summer tyre compound hardens as the temperature drops below 7C (45F), resulting in reduced grip and increased wear. Winter tyres work much better on all surfaces in the cold.
there was a renovation done on one of the roundabouts near me, it has been widened, traffic lights removed, more lane more options, better flow - perfect. Quite frankly much easier, lanes are marked out through out, but what happens there is mayhem, I go through it once a day min and every time i have an encounter. People cant do roundabouts. maybe in addition to speeding course if offence committed there should be mandatory few hours with instructor? i think i would help a lot.
@ 1'56....have you ever been round the Sherrifhall roundabout where the A1 meets the A720 City Bypass? It's carnage between 6 and 9 in the morning and 4 and 6 in the evening. Given that it's one of the main routes into the Royal Infirmary for emergency ambulances, many drivers are totally oblivious to blues and twos coming their way, probably because they're on the phone or fiddling with the satnav.
The clip with the lad hanging out of the Golf throwing things - was he throwing eggs? I saw on a local Facebook group (my parent's area) that a few drivers were getting their cars egged while driving along, obviously causing distress and danger when it hits the windscreen. Maybe there's some sort of daft viral online thing going around encouraging people to throw eggs at people? It's a shame John Prescott isn't around any more to sort them out!
Throwing things, even just eggs, can be dangerous. A few years ago, a motorcyclist lost the sight in pne eye, when an egg was thrown at him, as he passed by. His visor was open, so the egg hit him in the eye. The pranksters probably thought that the egg would just splatter over the visor, and the rider would flick it open.
@@johnbooth5199 I remember once when I was bus driving in Birmingham (yes, I know, but someone had to do it..!) and I pulled up to a stop where a couple of young lads were waiting. As soon as I opened the doors, they let fly with a box of eggs. Fortunately we had screens on the cab doors, so I didn't get the full effect, but enough made its way through the holes in the screen that allowed me to hear what passengers were saying to make me have to return to garage to get cleaned up. Sorry to hear about the motorcyclist though, I used to ride before financial issues caused me to sell the bike (needed the car for work). I rarely rode with my visor fully open though, maybe just a crack if I was feeling a bit warm.
I'm wary of anybody towing a caravan. I fear for the brain cells of anyone who thinks two weeks in one of those things in a field with dozens of others is a good way to spend a holiday..! I prefer canal boats, you don't have the hassle of road traffic and you meet some amazing people. And there's no drink/drive limit on the cut..! Although some people I've seen on boats make me think it might be a good idea if there was 🤣
a popular thing near me is to have right hand on steering wheel at 10, fingers of left hand loosely attached to steering wheel at 4 so they can hold phone in the palm of hand and use thumb to scroll.
If it’s crash for cash stop making it so easy for them she had no need to try pass him there anyway wait 3 seconds until you’re off the roundabout especially given the unpredictable nature of people on roundabouts I think she was trying to prove something it being a BMW and all. Still bad driving from both of them.
I've seen plenty of drivers on roundabouts moving lanes like that BMW did, and they weren't shaping to take the same exit the cammer was. it was easily avoidable this one.
@2:15 cam driver sees, has time to comment on, and still drives into the situation. @13:15 whilst I agree about red lights and stopping, in the US that crossing wait can be 20+ minutes, due to the overly long cargo trains, hence a lot of people try to get through.
People have always struggled on the multi lane roundabouts. You'd think it would be easy to realise if your crossing a line your changing lanes ... but no. It is easy to get in the wrong lane. It's often only painted on the road a few car lengths before the roundabout and when there's traffic you can find yourself stuck in the wrong lane. But if its busy just go the wrong way and come back 🤷♂️
Regarding the Nissan barging in, it reminds me of the saying "poor planning on your part, doesn't constitute an emergency on my part" i.e. I don't have to let you in because you failed to plan early enough.
13:00 great bit of driving from the van on the right! Best to add a bit to your journey than the time spent after a collision. Clearly paying attention to whats happening around them too!
The clip at at 3:00 was hard to watch, it was clear the blue car wasnt entirely sure where they were going for enough time before the crash to know to expect the unexpected from the blue car And it seemed as if zero attempt to stop/avoid a crash was made by the camera car..
I come from the land of roundabouts (I'm from Skelmersdale). No traffic lights unless you want to use the motorway. So if you are learning to drive, you need to go further afield for traffic lights but great for roundabouts!
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If you are going to miss your exit on a roundabout - go around! it's a circle, get it right next time!!!
Was gonna comment the same thing but you beat me to it! Amazing the risk people will take to save themselves 10 seconds.
ahh but apparently that is "sling shotting" and thus "gaining an advantage"
garbage of course and by far the safest solution, but when going all round stay to the right so no one goes in front of you
Yep, i did this the other day, i probably could have made the exit but it really wasnt worth the risk as they say. And only took another minute to circle around and get into the right position.
bad drivers never miss their exit
@@aleopardstail I've seen that video and remain sceptical of it leading to a successful prosecution unless the accused is daft enough to cough to it.
Many of these issues stem from the kind of society we live in. There's bad driving through poor education and awareness but most of these stem from the kind of narcissistic society we live in and one of the traits of narcissism is the complete disregard and awareness of others.
Very true.
Absolutely this!
Could not agree more.
And not driving too fast or with insufficient gap ahead of you that you have time to react….
Narcisididiifid ... I'll use the alternative word "AUDI"
Woe betide the helpless .... with an AUDI up their arse, flashing their headlights and peeping their horn ... at 82mph
I honestly think anybody that buys an AUDI should get 6 points on their licence from the start ... and must drive perfectly for the next 7 years to get the points off, proving that they can safely drive without indicators
(no Audi is fitted with indicators, that's for sure - I've never seen any Audi indicate in all of my 33 years of driving - not once!)
One thing I dislike about multi-lane roundabouts is that when approaching them, there are no road markings indicating the correct lane for going straight. As a result, you find yourself in the near side lane. Then, just a few yards from the roundabout, markings appear indicating that lane is for left turns only. Consequently, your stuck because the other lanes are already full.
The signage and layouts for these types of junctions is often very poor and doesn't help drivers get in the correct lane in the first place, and often doesn't help guide them around towards the correct exit. A few days ago I was at a big junction like this and sat in a very slow queue in the left lane as I thought that was the best one for the exit I needed, but there were no signs or marking to which lanes you should use. It turned out that I could have also used lane 2 for my exit, and that would have saved me a lot of time and not being sandwiched between big HGVs.
The other issue is that so many drivers are reliant on SatNav and they follow the instructions barked at them from that, which often is too late or simply incorrect to get the correct lane. They listen to the SatNav rather than reading the signs and lane markings.
I believe where a roundabout has non-standard laneage there should be a sign post on approach. This is in addition to markings which wear out.
Agreed, when traffic is queuing the limited information with on the road surface is completely covered up too by the cars in front and the sat nav isn't always correct
That happens around here (Aberdeen) with many ordinary junctions. One in particular (Lang Stracht) has two lanes, both marked as ok for straight ahead, on approach to a set of lights at a left side road. Then just as you get within 100 yards of the lights, the left lane suddenly becomes left turn only. I know about it now, so always approach those lights in the right lane. But it took me a few times before I was used to it.
If in doubt, stay right and you can slingshot the roundabout if you were wrong and then can't make a lane change
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I'm surprised Ashley wasn't more critical of the dash cam driver with the Blue BMW, she was too close to it taking off at the roundabout and should have held back when there was no indication from the BMW, i was waiting for if she had done so she would " have made this a non event " but it didn't come....
do you really expect a bmw driver to indicate? lol
the driver that sent the clip in did say they should have kept a pocket of space so they already knew they had done wrong in keeping themselves safe, no need for Ash to to be more critical.
Thought the same, was clearly following impatiently and tried to force her way into lane 1. BMW didn't cross into her lane, she crossed into his, clear fault of cammer
My thoughts too. Can't recall a clip I didn't agree with Ashley's analysis before, but unless I'm missing something, this analysis seemed bizarre to me - sure, the BMW driver had a part in this, but seemed like the cammer was eager to quickly move to the left lane to stop before the red light (again, unless I'm missing something). And I see little to jump to the conclusion that it was a cash for crash scenario.
Yeh strange how he didn't jump on her in all honesty - he has many times B4 with others...
Because he's too busy trying to think of how he can add his car vertical sponsor to the video.
The yob throwing stuff at pedestrians at 9:23 may have induced me to call 999 to give plod a chance of catching the passenger as well as the driver. I was once hit by a glass bottle thrown from a van and would have been very grateful to someone being a good citizen.
I was hit in the eye by an egg, which earned me a trip to the hospital because my cornea was scratched.
the passenger may have got away in the three or four days days it would take the plod to visit to take a statement before doing anything else.
The days when the police would react in real time have long gone for road traffic misbehaviour
@@jaycee330 Nasty. I went to hospital because of the pain in my ribs, but nothing broken.
@@trueriver1950 That wasn't 'road traffic misbehaviour', that was assault. Repeatedly. The police should be contacted ASAP when that's witnessed. It doesn't matter whether we think they're slow to react etc. At the very least the car might be spotted later and taken off the road.
Watching this just makes me feel depressed. The standard of driving in the UK has declined a lot over the past 20 - 25 years. I mean it was pretty bad even make then but it has gotten worse. People are just becoming more and more selfish in my opinion.
Thank you for featuring my cycling clip Ashley, the driver of the BMW wasn’t focused on what was developing further ahead.
But at least the driver was understanding when I explained why I had stopped.
Afternoon Matt, Thanks for sending in and giving us a great example on how to deal with that situation properly.
Must get past, fails to look ahead.
In a 10s clip we see:
- Impatiently badgering a cyclist, peeping them and gesturing
- Passing the van with barely any space, doesn't even wait for the van to park up
- Turns out of the junction without indicating
Some people should not have a license.
@@defragsbin and kids toys belong in a park not on the road
13:22 There was a massive derailment that killed a train crew just a few days ago from an abnormal load stuck on a crossing, absolutely stupid and can be deadly
Saw that clip - awful
I know the clip was Stateside, but ignoring railway crossing lights is endemic here too. Needs to be treated with the same severity as drink-driving.
From what I can see this seems particularly prevalent with truckers in the US. One reason I think is that these are almost always freight trains a mile long with hundreds of wagons and several locos, and if you do get stuck at a level crossing, you are going to be there a long time. Add to that the fact that these trains are often quite slow-moving compared to a 125 mph passenger train and it seems to encourage drivers to gamble.
@@davidjones332 You'll be there even longer if the train hits you. Or maybe you won't be, and St. Peter will be yelling to God 'We've got another one, boss..!'
PKP regularly publishes video clips of level crossing misuse (in Poland, where they operate). Recently there was one involving two trains closely following on parallel tracks. The crossing lifted the barriers after the first train passed, then put them back down again, with red lights flashing continuously. A lorry driver got through the first barrier (tearing it off its mounting in the process) but then stopped at the second one, blocking his way off the crossing. A minute later, an express train smashes into it - fortunately having worked off most of its speed beforehand through emergency braking. A second video clip shows the view from the train's dashcam, and you can hear the distinctive tones of the "Radiostop" signal being sent to halt all trains within range.
At 1:53 yes I've seen those hired bikes "abandoned" on the pavement. One solution to cut down on this would be for the rider to have to slot the bike back into an authorised collection point stand and if they fail to do so, the credit card they used to originally release the bike gets charged an extra fee or fine
@ibs5080 That is how they used to work. However bikeys complained that the bike racks were not where they wanted to go (think anti-car brigade that say we should all use public transport) and now these limeys are abandoned anywhere.
Funny how people get all outraged when a car parks partially on the pavement, due to lack of parking provision, yet these limeys are now getting dumped anywhere and everywhere, often totally obstructing the pavement.
Yet we never hear the pro-bikeys (anti-car) using the same argument, saying 'private property should not be left on public streets'.
The bike (& scooters) are intended to be left anywhere safe* so somebody can use them from where they are & their live location is shown in a phone app.
*anywhere safe means to the side of a path, so they are not an obstruction for pedestrians. You are required to take a photo of them at the end of your journey to prove they have been parked responsibly. I regularly see them in the middle of paths when they could just as easily be placed at the side. I don't hear of any surcharges for bad parking though. These should be introduced/increased.
@@wibbley1 your bias is so on show it hurts. So many cars park awfully on the pavements, to the extent where the path is completely blocked.
Now I do think these bike share bikes do need better systems in place for ensuring they’re parked well (taking a photo of the entire path with bike in frame to be verified quickly by a worker could be one solution, with a warning and/or fine for repeated offenses) but of course it won’t be perfect. Maybe cities could start putting lots more bike racks & bike parking areas around - they take up so much less space than car parking spots per vehicle.
But apart from major cities, car parking is almost always way too frequent, encouraging people to drive when better options could be made available instead. The issue is it takes huge amounts of space to park a car for every person who might want to go into a city/town.
There is always the possibility someone came along and kicked them over. Probably didn't, but with the behaviour on show in this compilation I wouldn't be surprised either.
We had e-bikes for hire here in Aberdeen for a while. They weren't stored in racks, just left standing about, they couldn't be used unless paid for by an 'app' (one reason I never used them, don't have or want a 'smart' phone) so I suppose they had some locking mechanism. They were always lying around having been knocked over. After a couple of years, they all suddenly vanished as quickly as they had appeared. I can't honestly recall ever seeing anyone ride one.
Cammer car was way too close to the blue BMW.
Agreed.
Agreed…keep back & out the way. I wrote what I experienced today in the main comments.
If they want to do that, give them room to do it in front.
1) Always give BMW's a wide berth
2) Always give BMW's a wide berth at night.
3) Always give BMW's a wide berth at night particularly when they have four occupants...
I'd love to know the outcome of the insurance. The precedent set is that you can't assume the car in front will turn off even if they're located in an incorrect lane. The BMW is established in their lane, and the cam car collides with them from behind after leaving insufficient braking distance, therefore the cam car is fully responsible for the collision.
Is that ridiculous to anyone who's driven a car? Yes. But liability is about precedent, not what ought to be correct.
Yes I’d be very surprised if they weren’t at least held partly responsible by the insurance company
At around 1:12 , good job by the oncoming van to wait whilst the Nissan Micra ran their red light. This demonstrates how vital it is to make sure oncoming traffic will actually stop for their red light before you make a right turn. I also recall one of Ashley's videos where he mentioned that if you are in the middle of a junction waiting to turn right, when your light turns red, it doesn't always mean the oncoming traffic will also be facing a red light. I was actually very surprised to learn this.
I don't get the lack of criticism on the roundabout. The BMW didn't drive well and perhaps crash for cash was involved but why the cammer changed lanes into the side of a car is beyond me. As for the one with someone throwing things from the car. I don't care if the family sees it. I hope the police do and take action.
I agree that I think it could have been avoided, with both keeping a pocket of space and reacting a little quicker, but I believe the lane change was to exit, it didn't look like it at first to me either, but the "straight ahead" was a 2 lane exit and they were going to take lane 2. So the crossing lane 1 on the roundabout makes sense to exit, just would have been better without hitting the BMW/fraudster
you might want to have another look at the layout at 4:13. the cammer is coming in from the south-bound side, and you only have a choice of left (for north-bound a38) or right (for south-bound a38). you wouldnt expect anyone to turn right, move into the left (outside) lane of the roundabout, then keep going round, as that is doubling-back on yourself. almost no-one will be doing that from either lane, and the lane markings really should reflect that, as it's really not clear (based on the markings alone) why the BMW should not be trying to go that direction from that lane.
@@groundbeef662 Definitely better to avoid the collision. I always look at it from a motorcycle point of view and any collision with a car is to be avoided at all costs 😀
@@konradgreen2567 Forget about the road layout, there is a bright blue car in front of her and she just ploughs straight into it like it's not there? She has to be on drugs or the worst driver in the world? It's just bizarre...
@konradgreen2567 was easily avoided but she decided to change lanes anyway
Those e-bikes are SO useful for quick turnarounds and I use them at least once a month even though I've got a normal bike. But then people treat them like disposable toys and leave them all over. It's one of those "This is why we can't have nice things" scenarios.
Something the clip with the bike in the carpark has guven me cause to say "if someone is stopped in a position and you see no reason for it, have a think why they have stopped there". Because quite often, they will have seen something further ahead that you havent. Not always, people stopping randomly does happen, but normally they have a reason
Absolutely. It's not 'that idiot has stopped', it's 'what has made them stop?' That process has often allowed me to identify hazardous situations those behind me have blythely driven into.
I don't think the second clip had anything to do with the A pillar. I think it was more to do with the cammer being on a bicycle, and the driver thinking of cyclists as 'Lesser road users'
100% can clearly see the whole of the drivers head until they are almost on the give way line at the roundabout.
One of the favourite places for people to dump Lyme hire bikes locally is on the tactile paving in front of a light controlled pedestrian crossing by the way out of the local Morrisons supermarket. Y'know, the bit of paving put there specifically to help blind people navigate. You couldn't cause more inconvenience and risk if you actively tired.
We have that problem in Melbourne Australia. At least our new council banned the scooters. Same ones, Lyme.
The clip of the Porsche in the wrong lane on the roundabout is so annoying to me. They can see he’s made a mistake, both comment on it, then close the gap and honk to make it worse 🤦♂️
I'll be a little controversial here, but the lane markings make that a dual carriageway. If the lane markings broke for a distance then it would be a roundabout, but as they are continuous and the the traffic in the other direction is separated then it's a dual carriageway. They may not have had the chance to brake hard as there could be other traffic close on their rear, hence closing the gap.
The Christmas quiz question is: which car makes do we often see making last minute exits from dual carriageways or motorways on Ashley's channel?
@@hypergolic8468the Porsche is in the inside lane crossing all lanes of traffic. They shouldn’t be allowed to do it when they can go round the roundabout again instead of making the cammer plus other cars brake
A lot of the cammers do that, and while they technically remain in the right it is also bad road manners. People do mistakes, just let it pass and move on with the day.
I agree with the sentiment. Completely different sentiment but if you enter a mini roundabout and there's a traffic to you right and you turning right but the car behind you is turning left so getting impatient. Normally I leave a gap before turning right. Yesterday I saw the right side shifting slowly so I made my way onto roundabout and then some wally starts hooting why. So impatient
@@Kenjh71yes always the ones creating lasting issues, it’d be a non issue to most of us and as the other guy says just get on with the day. These people: make sure it’s as bad as it can be, save the video, moan about it to anyone who will listen, send it into YT. Who has the time to do that?
That last clip - Black Ice is lethal, I was once through a hedge between two trees on a bend, before I realized what was happening. It happens that fast.
It wasn't even black ice in that clip, it was clearly visible. The driver was likely inexperienced, unobservant or both.
diesel can be pretty interesting as well... especially on two wheels!
11:35.. I Get this all the time, you hold back because there is an issue in front and people behind get impatient because the only thing they are looking at is your rear bumper.
lol, riding a motorbike... always looking about ten cars ahead, at least. one reason we would rather be in front of you all...
coming down the freeway the other day, saw a mattress a good 2km ahead... and then at least twenty people almost slam into it as i approached...
watch in the rearview as eventually someone did slam into it... later in the news... fifteen car pileup.
urban street? sure, stop and drag it off.
with everyone demonstrating their complete lack of situational awareness doing 110kmh+ on three lanes? no... good samaritan is not a good idea...
The crash was still so avoidable…
Most crashes are. That's why the police now call them RTCs (Road Traffic Collisions) instead of RTAs (Road Traffic Accidents).
@@TestGearJunkie. I remember that thanks to Hot Fuzz. Also that they're called policemen officers now. 😋
@@benjamindrayton1380 Ah, Hot Fuzz, got that on DVD, must fish it out and watch it again 😅
I usually skip over the sponsored parts of videos, but because of the way that you have incorporated the Car Vertical report into the story of the clips, you have made it worth watching.
@KernowRoadcam Ash needs to pay for his new biking hobby somehow. He certainly won't be getting any sponsorship from the bike retailers 😂
I don't mind the Car Vertical ads. I used them when purchasing my current car. Very useful.
@@TestGearJunkie. Ash has to pay for his new bike, lycra super-hero costumes and his subscription to bikey weekly somehow ;o)
The cycle telling the BMW was A class.
Thanks, the driver didn’t have good observations.
Yes, he did it calmly and explained politely why he was stopping which the BMW driver understood. I wonder if other famous online cyclists would have taken the same approach?
@@davem9204
Being calm is better than getting angry in these situations.
the cyclist in the clip was me by the way.
@@MattCantor21 You handled it well.
@@davem9204 Could you imagine if Jeremy vine id the exact opposite of what he currently does and instead just calmly informs a driver who did something stupid like the bimmer did why he did x thing?
Maybe people wouldn't be so critical to the point he gets all pisched off and disables the comments or starts a major ban wave lmao
I'm still yet to be blocked by him but ah well. when it does I'll wear that block like a badge of honour lmfao
I'm glad the cyclist managed to diffuse that situation with the BMW. So many times on twitter you see a cyclist initiate a confrontation when there doesn't need to be and it just looks awful especially when they're trying to advocate for road safety.
Thank you!
It’s not worth the confrontation, I always try and diffuse the situation where possible.
@@MattCantor21 I suspect the BMW driver was wondering why you’d stopped - you seem to have stopped really far back from where the van was going to be reversing and the van was still rolling forwards at that point - though clearly you’d correctly preempted the manoeuvre.
@@royfontaine5526I’m usually quite switched on with picking up on these situations, many road users are not so good. I’ve witnessed many times drivers driving too close to the vehicle in front and then when they need to reverse into a parallel parking spot, the driver behind has to do that awkward reverse to make space that should have been there.
@@MattCantor21 I agree and I’m the same. I just think it looks a little too far back to me and the guy behind you had no clue why you’d stopped, though he should have hung back to read the situation. It’s difficult to get these things perfectly right all the time though and there are so many variables. Fortunately everything was ok on this occasion and no raised tempers either.
@@royfontaine5526 indeed we all make mistakes, myself included. I don’t see any reason to raise my temper in these situations, I’m far from a rager and find it better to keep calm and polite.
At around 8:25 the incident between our cammer and the caravan. Another reason to behave yourself rather than try to make something of it: Even though traffic is currently free flowing at motorway speeds, you never know if there may be a standstill further up ahead. You don't then want the other driver and their passengers to get out and confront you. Similarly if you intend to stop at the next service station. And no, it's never happened to me but there have been incidents where I was glad I made it a non event, aa there was subsequently an unexpected hold up further ahead.
Agree there. Just yesterday I was coming up to 2 sets of traffic lights close together and the first set turned amber. Slowed down and came to a stop. During that time a merc driver behind me was flashing his lights and horning at me 🙄. Even if I did go past just when it went red the 2nd set of lights would have went red so basically wanted me to jump 2 red lights to save 1 minute of their journey.
It was such an avoidable incident - slow moving vehicle approaching an even slower moving vehicle .... hold back
HI Ashley.
At 00:00. I love Bell Bollards ! They are like an iceberg.
To argue it more carefully, the job of that bollard is to protect pedestrians and the street furniture from the actions of careless drivers. A bell bollard does that.
Plus they are so robust that they are almost impossible to damage so a driver cannot easily damage one and do a hit and run, unlike a post bollard, so the cost of the careless driving goes back to the driver - not to the local council.
And a dent in their pride and joy may well be one form of education that will succeed. It's far better than a pedestrian in hospital.
I've seen far too many cases where a Council has listened to complaints and removed a bollard, and a pedestrian or other vulnerable road user is then injured in the same spot.
I love them too. They are everywhere in London.
Whenever I was delivering to customers who had them on the corners of their road, I refused to deliver their goods.
It was obvious the local councils didn't want trucks down there, so I was only too happy to comply.
Great opportunity to get back early
My how we chuckled when customers phoned up to complain about aborted deliveries and the extra redelivery cost.
The nemesis of the incompetent driver
@HalfTheWorldAway-gf3wg you don’t sound like a good person.
@HalfTheWorldAway-gf3wg could you not just park somewhere legally? Maybe a level of competence that exceeds your level.
@@rainbowevil No and No. No way was I going to start dragging pallets of goods over any distance just because some useless customer lives in a house unsuitable for artics.
My level of competence is way in excess of what's required, I just chose not to baby sit people who couldn't be bothered to read terms and conditions and find out what type of vehicle was suitable for their road.
Nice try at a veiled insult though.
I disagree about the crash for cash. For the simple reason that the accident was too easily avoided and the BMW didn't do anything aggressive like sudden braking to make the accident more likely.
maybe, but they did drive all the way round a roundabout in the outside lane (a serious mistake by itself), and the direction they tried to go would have them doubling back on themselves. not impossible, if they made a mistake, but very un-usual and therefore quite un-expected.
@@konradgreen2567 people often do that if they are unfamiliar with the area.
I thought it looked more like a combination of someone who didn’t know which way to go (late exit of the motorway and wrong lane on the roundabout) and bad driving.
6:48 When a car is "brought into trade', that is bought by someone in the motor trade for further processing then, as long as the dealer handles it properly, the dealer isn't recorded as a new registered keeper. So if a car is acquired by an insurance company and then sold to a dealer for repair neither will be recorded as previous keepers on the V5. So if one was the 1st owner of a vehicle, it was written off, the written off car sold into trade and then repaired and sold retail to a member of the public the member of the public it was sold to would be recorded as the 2nd owner.
Trade plates cost a lot of money, so smaller car repair places (father and son places usually) will just eat the cost of putting an extra owner on the car.
3:07 100% cammers fault.
If they were following at more than 0.5 second following distance they'd have had time to react.
Tailgating, not paying any attention to what's going on in front of them and didn't react at all to the BMW.
On their phone maybe?
The way the Blue BMW pulled up at the lights after the slip road would have had me waiting for them to clear off out of my sight before I moved off.
Yeah, You can see the BMWs brake lights as well. Why did the cammer drive directly into the BMW that was directly in front of them? I do not understand why Ashley is defending her when it's her lack of skill that caused the accident. Fiat 500 behaviour imo.
@@blacktemplar2377he thought the car in front was going straight on and attempted to pass on the right side while exiting.
The driver in front wasn't the greatest,, but cammer is at fault for assuming and driving too close
I watched it and was like what on earth? It looks deliberate.
Edit: I have changed my mind since watching more of the video. I commented having just reached that time stamp on the video.
The failure for the 4 guys to pass over the details would have been a raging red flag for
me and I'm cammer called the police.
2:15 you saw the situation but would rather close the gap and get on the horn. People make mistakes its not that deep.
That's what I was thinking, I'm surprised Ashley didn't point it out. The viewer sees the problem happening and even says out loud "no, mr porsche" and moves in to close him off instead of just hanging back. Could have made it a complete non-event.
Ah, that first clip is my colleague in W6 DCT. other drivers and I wondered how the trailer rims were bent but nothing mentioned on the defects. I believe that trailer is still on a VOR
That clip infuriated me because taht driver had plenty of space to pull straight and get out of that situation unscathed. Just needed to be more patient with it.
Exactly @@DAFPvnk, should have straddled both lanes to turn left at the junction. Cars will not give you room to swing into their side of the road.
@@RichPAFC1987take the room in the road you’re in, not the road you’re turning into, that’s the space you can actually dominate. Or so my instructor told me.
@@chrisbrookes1167Sometimes you need both, but yes, take as much as you need in your current road is ultimately the best solution if push comes to shove.
Thornton Rd/Cemetery Rd Bradford... quite decent driving for round here...
It's a sad fact that these clips highlight the 'norm' on our roads today. I think you are doing an excellent job of educating people into becoming defensive drivers by changing attitudes.
@johnneil4777 Yep the road use standards are rapidly declining. London is now a s'hole. So much diversity and bringing with it a diverse attitude and skill level.
What with the lawless bikeys and either hard-of-thinking or dangerous drivers, London is not a place I enjoy travelling in.
Not even safe on the busses, there is always trouble from fare-dodgers or unruly passengers.
It was never this bad 20 years ago. I think it started with the hot-hatches becoming affordable to the youth in the 90's. Then with the increased population in cities by those without the intelligence or means to afford a car, confined to two wheels, clearly demonstrating their lack of intelligence every time they pedal.
The A38 clip was 100% dodgy, the only other exit is back on yourself, to Birmingham or not, they knew where they were going and wanted that car to crash into her, but IMO she had plenty of time to react and go into the empty space on her right, would be surprised if it was ruled in her favour. All the lads will most likely claim for whiplash n all that
In my view, it was dodgy because of their refusal to hand over details. As for the late exit from the dual carriage way and indecisiveness on the roundabout, if there was no reason to suspect a motive, then that would say to me that they were just unfamiliar with the location. The cammer's positioning and assumptions on the roundabout were poor and a major contribution to the incident in my view.
Why on earth did she try to pass them in that spot too made it easy for them if it was crash for cash. Stay behind or stay staggered no reason for her to be trying to overtake there, and by that I mean leave the roundabout faster than the BMW is doing. Something to try and prove? Lose lose.
Yep, seems dodgy. 4 up in a beamer. Only other exit is where they came from. The may have been genuinely lost, showing poor driving standard exiting the motorway and using the roundabout.
For a crash for cash, they would have needed far more than a minor tap & bent door. This may explain why they did not want to give details, as they needed a better crash for a claim.
Lone female driver and a four-up beamer. Cammer lady should have dialled 999 immediately, for her own safety. Even if plod do not attend, her whereabouts and beamer details would be recorded.
But how on earth did cammer-car crash into them? Beamer was clearly in her vision, in the lane she wanted to take. Maybe she is just another hard-of-thinking driver and could not think of any other option to get into that lane other than drive into the beamer.
Actually the exit they came from is one way only, it's an M6 toll exit and it's not possible to join the toll road back on this roundabout. There are two directions they can go - to Birmingham (right) and to Lichfield/Burton (left). The toll is usually taken to avoid the absolute shit show that is the M6 near Birmingham, if this wasn't done on purpose then it's probable they didn't see they needed the left exit immediately and decided to go around the roundabout again to go towards Lichfield or Burton.
She would have had more time to react if she wasn't so close to the bmw.
I can relate the the last clip: 4 New tires, going round a roundabout, between 15 and 20 MPH, hit black ice or diesel and wound up with my rear on the roundabout after 1 complete 360, it was scary as heck.
I had a similar thing many years ago, going round a roundabout slowly (a lot slower than I normally would as I wasn't entirely sure on my exit and there was no-one else around to hold up) and suddenly zero grip and the car just did a pirouette. It must have been oil/diesel and it was too warm for ice.
That last one reminded me of an almost trouser filling moment over 20 years ago.
I used to do an early morning delivery round for a bakery starting around 4am and the usual FWD Fiat Ducato was in for repairs after being hit outside the shop. The rental I was given instead was an extra long wheelbase RWD Merc Sprinter.
About 7:30am as the sun came up and snow had begun to melt my confidence was increasing as I went on to a narrow council estate road.
2 bends in quick succession and as I came around the second one, the van went sideways on me, almost touching parked cars on both sides of the road.
They don't, or at least didn't when I learned, teach you how to deal with that, but fortunately I had plenty of RWD experience.
I let go of all the pedals, gave some very gentle tweaks on the steering and it came back good, facing the right direction with no harm done.
Think these clips are why, since the lockdowns, i have anxiety about going out on the road. No one care anymore 😢
You can keep yourself safe by driving defensively and not relying on other road users to do the right thing. Takes a bit more effort though.
It's so much worse since lockdown.
The attitude of other people is shocking now. Not just on the roads but everywhere. They all think they are special, all better than everyone else.
Since e lockdowns, ppl hav given in 2 fear-mongers n agreed 2 sth vile. N they hav thus changed, most of them, n not 4 e better.
The clip around 0:56 at the mini roundabout is such a common one. I've seen countless dash cam clips of virtually identical situations that this should always put you in high alert.
There's a mini-roundabout near me in a similar layout where on-coming cars often don't give way to the right-turner like this. I'm often the one doing the right-turn, so I try and tweak my speed on approach so I'm not reaching the give-way line at the same time at the on-coming car, reducing the chance of conflict.
I don't recommend anyone to try this but it helps to learn about snow and ice on empty, unused roads or empty, closed, big car parks.
Many years ago I was lucky to get useful experience on a disused airfield under several inches of snow.
it should be a MANDATORY part of getting a license. 99% of todays drivers have trouble controlling a car with full traction, let alone when it doesnt...
16:03 in this situation, slowly let off the accelerator, and do not under any circumstances even tap the brakes. just countersteer.
Just to add, you can't steer if your front wheels aren't moving. See this all the time in crash videos on ice. Everyone locks their wheels and still tries to steer lmao
@@_XRMissie and 99% of todays drivers have no idea whatsoever how to control a car when its got full traction, let alone doing something "unusual"... getting sideways should be a mandatory part of the driving test...
feel far safe with a "hoon" driver that knows how to drift, than a nervous nellie that doesnt know what indicators, headchecks, or general awareness are...
Best advice is to look where you want the car to go not where it's going and yeah, off the brakes
In fact in a FWD vehicle, more throttle can help stabilise it
That first one has the ubiquitous 'blind spot, take care' sign on the back of the lorry. I think a sign like that is better placed inside the drivers cab!
lets see you drive a truck on tight congested roads...
@@paradiselost9946 that road was neither tight nor congested. In any case, that's no excuse for continuing to move forward when there's clearly an obstruction. Protocol in this scenario is to immediately halt the vehicle, apply parking brakes, then leave the cab to do a walk around.
I have excellent spatial awareness and would have made a much better job of that turn.
never ceases to amaze me wanting to merge as far up the road as possible instead of ensuring you get in as early as possible so you dont miss it
2:14 cammer needs to make things like that a non-event. Porsche driver needs to learn to go right round and not change lanes like that. It is a ROUNDABOUT.
You're right but she deliberately blocked him and sped up to do so, instead of holding back for MAYBE a second to avoid an event but I guess she needed the clip.
Personally don’t get this one. If cammer used their head they should have let Porsche go and then carried on. Instead, to make a point, they try the block and waste more time. Porsche was clearly in wrong lane but who hasn’t chosen the wrong lane by accident before.
I’ve found recently people are more happy to get into a crash by doing a dangerous manoeuvre than to just simply go around the island again.
At around 9:00 and bollards again. Another bollard situation to watch out for is those retracting bollards to limit vehicle access in certain areas of city centres. You have to pull up and press the intercom to request access. If approved, they remotely lower the bollards. The issue is if a second vehicle behind then tries to follow the first one. Many cases here in Canterbury where the 2nd vehicle gets impaled on the rising bollards. There are signs warning "No tailgating" but not everyone pays attention.
There is a famous bus gate in Manchester that claimed a few vehicles tailgating a bus. You may have seen those. Apparently there was a bus gate in Peckham, South East London, and it claimed a few vehicles. It was removed after a while.
I remember the bell shaped bollard 8n Wimbledon claiming a few cars. It was in the local newspaper. Most of the readers comments sided with the bollard. 😂
The new one I have noticed is that when on a road with an obstruction, so say a few parked cars, if on the opposite side people now just veer out into the middle of the road and try to bully you to a stop, even though you may be already in the single carriageway left, or if cars on their side with large gaps between, no thought of pulling back in to allow you to proceed.
Then it's all gestures and and the like as if the fault of the driver on the side of the carriageway with no obstructions. We have two cars, a 4x4 estate and a little shopping trolly 1.0 litre, also very noticeable how this happens more in our smaller car and if the cars doing it are SUV's and the like.
Just "I shall not be impeded" lazy driving, the same as the people who straddle the white lines in rural areas, even into blind bends thesedays. Everyone I speak too, including professionals say it's never been worse, some sort of mass stupidity / anger / entitlement has taken over in the UK.
or people have a minor fender bender, and just STOP where they are. no thought that maybe they should go a few metres and get off the road...
Also, the person coming down the wrong side of the road reminds me of when I was going down a country road and came up to a Range Rover. I sat still, as they only had to reverse 5 metres, compared to my 50 metres, round a corner, with another car behind me. I just crossed my arms until they moved
I remember when I was bus driving, I had pulled out to overtake a number of parked cars on the nearside. As soon as I'd committed, a Range Rover came around the corner and stopped in fron of me, sounding his horn very aggressively. In my defence, I should point out that the parked cars were on a slight curve and oncoming vehicles were not easily visible. It was also a very quiet residential road.
Anyway, he kept gesturing at me to reverse. Now apart from company regulations, which forbid drivers to reverse with passengers on board (unless there's a banksman) I simply couldn't see well enough in the feeble apologies for mirrors that I had. So I tried to explain to him that I couldn't, but he wasn't having it and continued to sound off, both verbally and by horn.
So I just switched off the engine and got out my newspaper. He gave up after a couple of minutes after that and drove past me on the pavement..! Should I be glad we never had CCTV on the buses at that time or not..? 🤣
Why are you saying your viewer is in the right with the A38 video? There’s one simple rule on the road - don’t crash into anyone. She could have avoided slamming into the BMW and just expected them not to exit. Plus why would she exit onto a ramp from the inside lane of a roundabout.
I must admit I thought the cammer turned into the car when it seemed obvious they weren’t going to take the exit.
Same, they moved over to the left lane ready to take the next exit. Most roundabouts are even marked as such. This 1 had no marking so that's what I'd expect someone to do.
@@Veyron_fan but you still don’t slam into them. You slow down to either let them exit or you let them go so you can take the exit. The cammer instead decided the best thing to do in the roundabout is accelerate. Never assume anyone’s going to do anything and just anticipate what might go wrong.
I don't think he said they were. He just said that the other car did what they did to deliberately get into that accident. Part of the point of this channel is about trying to get out of this "in the right" attitude. Cammer already fessed up to making a mistake so there wasn't much else to analyse there.
"why would she exit onto a ramp from the inside lane of a roundabout"
because there are 2 lanes for the exit, and 2 lanes on the roundabout. if the BMW was doing the correct thing, that would not have been a problem, but the BMW was in the outside lane and went all the way round a roundabout, which you should not be doing on a multi-lane roundabout.
also, the direction they tried to go is actually back on themselves, so not something which you'd expect, and certainly not from the outside lane.
That very first clip with the HGV mounting the bollard. I've seen similar with an Audi in the picturesque village of Woodstock just outside Blenheim Palace. They were turning a sharp corner in the village and didn't see the low bollard. In tbe Audi's case, they didn't actually mount the bollard but did some rather expensive looking damage to rve side of their car.
Roundabouts are confusing for people unfamiliar with the area and when the direction signs don't point to where you want to be, and also if SatNav isn't available. So we MUST expect the unexpected from other drivers.
You could’ve stopped after the first 5 words 😁
That CarVertical transition was smoother than the brains of drivers we see on roads today.
Re at 5:22 the BMW driver not giving their details to the our cammer. I've often wondered about this in terms of what if the other driver / occupants are being aggressive or threatening? Are you still legally obliged to give a threatening party your details, including your full name and address? Or can you just call in the accident to the police with your details, the reg number of the other vehicle and they can then link the whole incident together? I certainly wouldn't want someone who I perceive to be a threat to know where I live or to know my full name.
from what i know, if you decide you are in danger being in a situation like that, call the police and give them the reg of the other car if you have it as well as your details and tell them you have driven away because you feel threatened. as long as you work with the police in the hours or days going forward it is usually fine. you can use your phone to call the police while driving if its an emergency.
By law you're supposed. Although if there's a potential threat of future retaliation due to the demeanour of the other person(s), I see no reason why you can't provide your details to the police officer attending the scene instead.
There's definitely some legal precedents that need setting to really put that one into stone though.
@@douglasreid699Report to Police as soon as you can
She crashed into them
Can someone explain the clip starting at 8:36?
Ashley says the left lane is a "left turning lane". But the white Fiat 500 turned left, albeit starts the turn late. Was this it? Or am I missing something?
08:43
You're missing the car in front of the fiat
9:52 I hope the police have seen this and they do something about it!
Amazing how people like that seem incapable of growing up.
You've obviously got more conscientious police where you live than those around me.
@@trueriver1950upload it and the police will action it
Defo needs reporting to the police via the police upload portal
@fizzog12 I intensely dislike the term 'hurty words'. What do you mean by it, precisely..? Sometimes, words can be very hurtful and even damaging to someone's life.
100% right, we're beyond tipping point. I think the main issue is distraction and the fact we can't concentrate for more than a few minutes. That obviously affects other things we do in life but driving is probably the most dangerous and I blame social media, it's ruining us.
I couldn’t help but laugh at 10:53 - that’s a very festive reaction for this time of year. 😄
For the last clip.. Sweden have this great lesson for new drivers, it’s on a skid pan and teaches new drivers how to correct skids and spins in adverse conditions. Not only does having the correct tyres for the weather have an advantage but having some basic lessons make a huge difference. Braking rarely solves much at all, 99.99% of your viewers don’t even know that you can steer with the accelerator.
I noticed a lot of the roundabouts near me have turned into spiral roundabouts and people are confused by them, because you can effectively go right from the left lane.
in july i was back driving in the UK after many years (not so much driving) in germany. multi-lane roundabouts was the area for which i most prepared myself in advance, largely with ashley's (but also others') videos. it's frightening, but not difficult, just a few simple rules to be followed. result: non events.
@andrewdigby5114 Multi-lane roundabouts would work fine if people using them could actually drive.
Similarly, spending much time away from public transport in south London, I needed to get around by bus. I was shocked by the change. Gone has polite queuing, letting the elderly on first followed by boarding in the order one has been waiting. Passengers now push & shove & just a pile-on, like we see in poorer countries and laughed at on those Clive James tv shows all those years ago.
This same diverse attitude is now evident on the roads. Just driving in any direction they want, showing no concern or consideration for others.
Certain types are attracted to particular car brands, which is why they get stereo-typed.
Bikeys in London are the worst. Probably because they account for some of the poorest of the population, without the intelligence to pass a driving test or means to buy a car. I witnessed a fat copper one night, who had obviously been sent out to police the lawless bikeys. They just rode around him, refusing his lawful orders to stop. It was quite comical to watch. Copper resorted to just shouting 'get some lights' as the lawless bikeys rode past.
At around 2:19 I do feel multi lane roundabouts have always been problematic and I don't see it improving. Some of these are so called "spiral" roundabouts where the lane you are in takes you to your exit if you follow the original markings. There again, some of these roundabouts aren't spiral. Issues can arise when drivers aren't familiar with a particular roundabout and hence may not know at the onset whether it's spiral ir if they need to change lanes for their exit.
The last clip is exactly why more people should get skid plate training.
7:26 An example of why you don’t start silliness with complete strangers. A lot of people are far too willing to take things to the absolute extreme to prove a point. You never know what kind of psycho you’re dealing with.
@bestintheworld568 Van towing a caravan. Red flag. As-you-likies. Best just keep clear & let them do what they are going to do.
They care not if the van or caravan gets damaged. They will just go 'collect' another one.
“Care in the community” don’t forget! They could be proper mental!
That Ford driver at 15:18 is exactly how I used to behave. Shocking when I see others doing it thinking I used to be that bad
There will always be a driver wanting to get as far up the road as possible. Leave a large gap and let them in front, they will only do a dangerous overtake on you later or force you off the road at a merge in turn
As you say Ashley, they are unteachable and one day they will get their comeuppance, either through accident or law
Since there really are now warmer winters and less snow and ice than there was in the 60's and 70's people are obviously going to find it challenging when it does happen, because they are just not used to dealing with it.
If we do get a blast of the past type if winter, it will cause a lot of disruption.
The recent floods have caused havoc because people think their cars are amphibious. Hope no one thinks they're on a one horse open sleigh.
I couldn't tell you if multi-lane roundabouts are any better or worse these days. I still just close my eyes and go for it! 🙈🏎️😂
I can't recommend doing a course on driving on ice/snow enough. It's is well worth the fun, even if you never need to put it into practice. Yet when you do, you're going to be very happy you've done a course on it.
9:23 that “trouble maker” sun strip is likely also illegal, if it protrudes 1cm into the swept area of the windscreen in front of the driver. That’s £100 and 3 points.
On the clip you analysed, there are only 2 exits and 3 entrances. There was absolutely no way of anticipating that the BMW was going to do a 360 round the roundabout from the outside lane. It still illustrates the importance of staggered formation.
Even as a van driver I find some junctions are not designed properly to accommodate larger vehicles! They just expect you to block all lanes of traffic as you're forced to turn from the middle of the road, partially using the oncoming lane. I can only imagine how bad it must be for lorry drivers
4:52 yikes following way too close imo
4:50 onwards. Yes a subscription to car vertical would be handy in suspected crash for cash situations to tend one's mindset from the polite and helpful (regardless of fault) to the guarded and aloof. A car that has many people in, driven poorly and with a five or more recent history of dings, scrapes etc. has to ring alarm bells. Nice logic there Ashley. That being said a front and rear dash cam is the ultimate. It may be supposition but it appears to me that boyo was checking for a dash cam and knowing evidence exists they knew it was a dud and wanted to get away without giving any details. Again entirely supposition, but the circumstance do fit. Sorry for the trouble the lady has been caused!
Not many people apart from taxis and Ashley have them, but I wouldn't be without my internal camera (Viofo T130, thanks for the info on them, Ashley..!). I don't rely on it normally, but I always imagine a scenario where I have a crash and the other driver accuses me of being on my phone or whatever. I can then point to the dashcam and say 'No I wasn't..!' The only issue I have is that I haven't yet found a computer application (not a smartphone 'app) that allows viewing of all three cameras simultaneously, they only allow two at the most. I hate looking at things on a tiny screen, I like to use at least a laptop if not my desktop computer.
Thanks for including my clip at 1:56, nice to see so no comments about my driving this time 😆
I had a similar skid in heavy snow some years back. While driving probably less than 10mph (I knew it was bad), I came to a slight left hand bend, and yet I slowed by taking my foot off the accelerator, and did not touch the brake. Despite this, I still did 270, and mounted the pavement in a T reg Escort, knocking a tyre off on the drivers side through hitting the curb sideways.
Also, your clip with the caravan - I think the driver might not have had full control as he turned his head to argue with the van driver. It's possible he didn't keep the wheel straight.
16:00 the instinct to hit the brakes is strong when there's a loss of control, but it's so important not to touch them in this situation.
This is where cycling, in particular mountain biking, has a lot to offer drivers. You soon learn that braking on a low friction surface is a very bad idea!
This is why everyone should be forced to do skid pan training and bridge throw drills as part of the test as in some other countries. Most can’t handle the Tesco trolley stepping out let alone their car.
10:50 Always like Ashley using my clips - Thank You! The bin lorry was too close to the car in front. I think the road markings possibly confused the two old ladies in the car. A scary moment for them. I had an artic behind and made quick decision not to stop incase a)the artic couldn't/didn't stop in time and b)the artic would be more visible to traffic behind while the car sorted itself out with a little reverse.
Thanks for sending in!
At around 1:20 perhaps a good reason for the UK follow other countries and ban parking against the traffic at all times. Currently it's only illegal at night. Interestingly, the Uk driving test includes pulling up and parking on the right, as if to actually encourage this practice.
This clip was particularly bad, as the offending car crossed over immediately after turning into the side street. And into a taxi bay no less, though they don't appear to be a taxi.
This was my clip and I was on a lesson with one of my learners. The driver and the front passenger both walked into a Weatherspoons around the corner, maybe they were very thirsty ….. hence the rush to dump the car illegally. 😂 Seriously though, we were lucky didn’t end in a head on smash.
Only illegal at night if not in a marked bay. Don't think it's ever enforced on residential streets either.
The last clip highlights the need for post test training. Skid pan training is an essential skill. Its often counter intuitive and turning in to the skid and not breaking, using power to drive out of it. We should encourage the take up of skills through reduced VED. Education and road design is the way to reduce RTC not arbitrary speed limits
Passed my test last week finally got on the road yesterday, having a blast apart from the fact that it seems people around me seem to drive worse because now I don't have an L Plate
Hired bikes were a problem in my city, until people started chucking them in the river. Now the hire company charges extra for leaving one somewhere other than where they tell you too, and they have a van that goes around collecting and moving them
3:12 If the cammer looks at your videos and sent it to you, you’d have thought they would learn from you, stagger on a roundabout and don’t under or over take, especially if the cars by you look hesitant.
The first mini roundabout has a double dashed line and clear give way sign . Conflicting information the other side has no give way, yet it has a roundabout sign.
On that stretch of road they put the give way sign to doubly remind people the main road doesn't have priority and to give way to the joining road on the right.
There's also about 15 mini roundabouts in a mile along there!
The thing that scares me the most is the fact that a lot of drivers genuinely believe they're driving correctly. There's two sections in my daily commute that always has people in the ring lane.
What is a 'ring lane' ??? This is a genuine question, I have never heard the term before.
@TestGearJunkie. *Wrong lane. I often make typos as I'm using my phone.
@@TestGearJunkie. I'm assuming it's a "wrong" that got fiddled by autocorrect
@@user-mv5zt8qd9l Could be.
This clips will help me so much when I eventually cross the channel for a trip in the UK.
Last clip - fit winter tyres! Summer tyre compound hardens as the temperature drops below 7C (45F), resulting in reduced grip and increased wear. Winter tyres work much better on all surfaces in the cold.
Last clip…reduce your speed in icy conditions. It doesn’t matter what is underneath you if you are too fast 👍
there was a renovation done on one of the roundabouts near me, it has been widened, traffic lights removed, more lane more options, better flow - perfect. Quite frankly much easier, lanes are marked out through out, but what happens there is mayhem, I go through it once a day min and every time i have an encounter. People cant do roundabouts. maybe in addition to speeding course if offence committed there should be mandatory few hours with instructor? i think i would help a lot.
A professor in anger said that if you try to create the perfect scenario for anger it would look exactly like driving!!!!
@ 1'56....have you ever been round the Sherrifhall roundabout where the A1 meets the A720 City Bypass? It's carnage between 6 and 9 in the morning and 4 and 6 in the evening. Given that it's one of the main routes into the Royal Infirmary for emergency ambulances, many drivers are totally oblivious to blues and twos coming their way, probably because they're on the phone or fiddling with the satnav.
Know it well, I hate that junction..!
The clip with the lad hanging out of the Golf throwing things - was he throwing eggs? I saw on a local Facebook group (my parent's area) that a few drivers were getting their cars egged while driving along, obviously causing distress and danger when it hits the windscreen. Maybe there's some sort of daft viral online thing going around encouraging people to throw eggs at people? It's a shame John Prescott isn't around any more to sort them out!
Throwing things, even just eggs, can be dangerous. A few years ago, a motorcyclist lost the sight in pne eye, when an egg was thrown at him, as he passed by.
His visor was open, so the egg hit him in the eye.
The pranksters probably thought that the egg would just splatter over the visor, and the rider would flick it open.
@@johnbooth5199 I remember once when I was bus driving in Birmingham (yes, I know, but someone had to do it..!) and I pulled up to a stop where a couple of young lads were waiting. As soon as I opened the doors, they let fly with a box of eggs. Fortunately we had screens on the cab doors, so I didn't get the full effect, but enough made its way through the holes in the screen that allowed me to hear what passengers were saying to make me have to return to garage to get cleaned up.
Sorry to hear about the motorcyclist though, I used to ride before financial issues caused me to sell the bike (needed the car for work). I rarely rode with my visor fully open though, maybe just a crack if I was feeling a bit warm.
I'm always wary of vans towing caravans
They're usually driven by people who travel.
I'm wary of anybody towing a caravan. I fear for the brain cells of anyone who thinks two weeks in one of those things in a field with dozens of others is a good way to spend a holiday..! I prefer canal boats, you don't have the hassle of road traffic and you meet some amazing people. And there's no drink/drive limit on the cut..! Although some people I've seen on boats make me think it might be a good idea if there was 🤣
a popular thing near me is to have right hand on steering wheel at 10, fingers of left hand loosely attached to steering wheel at 4 so they can hold phone in the palm of hand and use thumb to scroll.
If it’s crash for cash stop making it so easy for them she had no need to try pass him there anyway wait 3 seconds until you’re off the roundabout especially given the unpredictable nature of people on roundabouts I think she was trying to prove something it being a BMW and all. Still bad driving from both of them.
I've seen plenty of drivers on roundabouts moving lanes like that BMW did, and they weren't shaping to take the same exit the cammer was. it was easily avoidable this one.
@2:15 cam driver sees, has time to comment on, and still drives into the situation.
@13:15 whilst I agree about red lights and stopping, in the US that crossing wait can be 20+ minutes, due to the overly long cargo trains, hence a lot of people try to get through.
People have always struggled on the multi lane roundabouts. You'd think it would be easy to realise if your crossing a line your changing lanes ... but no. It is easy to get in the wrong lane. It's often only painted on the road a few car lengths before the roundabout and when there's traffic you can find yourself stuck in the wrong lane. But if its busy just go the wrong way and come back 🤷♂️
Being nice always makes the other side look stupid
Regarding the Nissan barging in, it reminds me of the saying "poor planning on your part, doesn't constitute an emergency on my part" i.e. I don't have to let you in because you failed to plan early enough.
13:00 great bit of driving from the van on the right! Best to add a bit to your journey than the time spent after a collision. Clearly paying attention to whats happening around them too!
What's the best way to send in a clip? If I try via email it says file size too big.
You'd have to use a service like iCloud or google photos, which allows you to send a share link to others.
Jesus Christ. This arrives on my algorithm and I haven't seen 1-67.
I'm in trouble now 🤣🤣
The clip at at 3:00 was hard to watch, it was clear the blue car wasnt entirely sure where they were going for enough time before the crash to know to expect the unexpected from the blue car
And it seemed as if zero attempt to stop/avoid a crash was made by the camera car..
I come from the land of roundabouts (I'm from Skelmersdale). No traffic lights unless you want to use the motorway. So if you are learning to drive, you need to go further afield for traffic lights but great for roundabouts!