Driving like this happens all the time in Cheshire, the only thing people care about is getting past the cyclist. Completely unaware of changes in the road situation and other vulnerable road users around.
9:25 1. Pressure someone into making a decision when they may not have full awareness of the risks. 2. Sit and watch as it produces an expensive and embarrassing car crash. 3. Disappear and leave others to deal with the consequences. I call this "doing a David Cameron" for reasons I probably can't elaborate upon without falling foul of the comment policy.
This honestly frustrates me more than random clips of poor driving. Like although maybe not "legally", is still is literally causing a collision. A shame they cant be held responsible at all. So pointless to let the van out ugh, words cant describe the fustration hahaha
They should be held responsible, by stopping in the carriageway it means you have control of the road and you are responsible for stopping all the traffic behind. The van should stay in place until the cammer has moved on, the cammer wasn't on a giveaway. Driving without due care.
Clip 1 is the PERFECT example of why you should always be able to slow down, not swerve, to avoid any incident. Even with the slow speeds involved, if the driver swerved to the right instinctively to avoid the car, they could have injured the pedestrians quite badly. If you are a driver who swerves to avoid incidents when braking is a better possibility, have a look at your driving and change the way you drive immediately
@@leedorney Ah makes sense - Yeah definitely agree. It is sometimes necessary, even if you're doing everything correctly. I'm mainly making reference to those appalling dashcam videos that we've all seen where someone takes about 10 seconds to react to something in front of them, then swerves at the last second without even attempting to break😂
At around 8:29, I've had that happen several times from the perspective of me being the cam car and an emergency vehicle coming up behind. I move over and yes the vehicle directly behind overtakes me, sometimes even honking their horn. But they soon realize why I pulled over! Just goes to show how bad some drivers are at using their mirrors, as this is a common occurrence.
Yes, me too. Shows how little drivers watch their rear view mirrors. Also, I had a lane hog in lane 2 of a two lane dual carriageway, driving under the speed limit, refusing obstinately to get out of the way. I saw a police car coming up behind with blue lights going so I moved into lane 1 and slowed slightly. Lane hog still sat in lane 2 with the police car behind, its lights and siren going full blast. Took ages before she woke up and moved back into lane 1. Wow.
11:00 had a chap do that to me, directly behind a police officer, one time. on my return trip, the officer STILL had him by the side of the road giving him a rethink.
4:42 - I drive for a living and it's quite common to see HGV drivers in 50mph limits, sitting on their limiter at 56mph, tailgating and trying to bully other vehicles out of the way.
I had a similar incident - I sent the footage to the company and they did respond and apologise for their driver's behaviour. I also sent the footage to the police, who responded "not interested"!
That pedestrian crossing one. That happened way too frequently at a crossing near my local train station. I pushed the council to install speed bumps eitherside of it to slow people down. Sad that it comes to that but i think it's made that crossing safer
10:22 "It's obviously the mini in the wrong." There's two sets of lane markings! I would say whoever painted/designed that junction is at fault for this. The same problem as with multi-lane roundabouts that aren't turbo roundabouts or gyratories: what you're allowed to do depends on where you entered the roundabout. Which leads to the situation where you end up with someone to your left who is allowed to continue around.
@10:28 actually it depends where the mini and your viewer came from. It's junction 7 of the A14 near Kettering. If they were both coming from the A14 (westbound - W) then your viewer is in the wrong as the left two lanes are marked for taking the second major exit (ignoring the private farm access before the A14 W exit) to the A43. But if both come from any other direction both of those two lanes are marked for the A14 W. If both came from different directions then I'd still suggest it's your viewer. The white lines don't show that you should move over one lane, though they obviously don't always! Context is important!
So, which set of markings apply for you really depends on where you came from? Is there a written rule that supports that? Genuinly interested as non-UK resident.
That lorry driver in the viewers clip 4:22 seems too common for me. How they bullied their way into that VW Passat is always happening to me. Whenever I see a slower speed limit approach, a lorry driver always goes over the speed limit and tries to bully in front when there's a queue! But when the national speed limit returns, guess what, you just go past them! They should be fully banned from driving and given a jail sentence for these type of behaviours!
Maybe you should give them a bit of space. I always leave a two seconds gap in hat situation it's less energy just to put your cruise control down a bit and let them in and get some free mileage in
@@matthewv4170 Matthew. First of all: sorry for writing this book. Second I am a lorry driver. And let met say this: THANK YOU. You seem to be aware of the problem which causes many many traffic jams. Which is: Not enough space between people. BUT, and there is a major but here, one that needs special pants. BUT now i have to get to the point: I am a lorry driver, and i drive in my lorry like i drive in my car, like you drive in your car. You say you always leave a 2 second gap. Grow it a bit larger, make it 3 or 4 seconds. Who cares? Continu this habit and you have no stress on the road. BUT!!!! THIS LORRY DRIVER is a complete disgrace for the professional Lorry drivers like myself. This lorry driver will cause something which i have seen a few too many times. Which is: A car stuck between 2 lorries, and an entire family wiped off the face of this earth by a driver who did not appreciate the load they are driving with. In this case the viewer did the correct thing even though mr Neal said he would probably have created a gap to have the lorry switch lanes. ME, my opinion: The viewer did the right thing by keeping that gap closed. Because it is obvious what this lorry driver is doing. You do not want him to be behind any other vehicle. Especially not a car without trailer. And so the viewer kept him in lane 1, which i would have done myself as well. To keep him cool. I can not agree with what you say about giving him a bit of space. I never have to act like this lorry driver, and people create space for me. It is called anticipating stuff. Know when you need to switch lanes to make it effortless. Do not wait until the very last moment to switch lanes. Many drivers turn on their signal and expect others to immediately fit them in. It does not work like that. Turn on the blinker a quarter to half a minute earlier and it solves a lot of problems.
@@matthewv4170 PS: Why do i disagree? Why do i not give him space? Because i wanna control him. I know i am the safe driver of the 2. So i am gonna control him. So, he stays in his lane, because i wont give him room. Then if he has space to switch lanes behind me, he will most likely be riding my bumper. BUT I do not care. I keep a gap open in front of me to make sure i can safely come to a stop, but he can also safely come to a stop. And that is how i will drive in front of him. In rare instances it works and they grow a brain by themselves. But sometimes it needs encouraging. What works is a sign that lights up in your back window that asks the question: Would you tailgate a police officer? I made one myself, and i turn it on when i need to. And guess what? People all of a sudden seem capable of growing a brain.
@@bertjesklotepino id rather him being behind someone else than me. You can survive a lorry going into the back of someone else. You can't when a lorry goes into the back of your car Also he didn't really leave the merge to last minute and you didn't see the video of what happened before hand. There was a lot of bad drivers in the clip tbh
At around 1:20, this is one reason why I often detest these multi lane roundabouts. They are fine in theory but in practice,so much can go wrong. YT is full of dash cam incidents at multi lane roundabouts.
Both lanes shown were heading to the same exit if you read the road numbering and the dashed line guides drivers towards the chosen exit, but the car that crossed the path joined the roundabout at the previous exit, so they didn't in effect give way to the vehicle already on the roundabout, even if they did join after it passed. The cam car could've chosen the next lane but maybe it wasn't familiar with the junction or the driver had perceived some other danger that made it choose the lane it had chosen.
It's not knowing what you're doing and where you're going that's the issue. There's a great combo of stupid in this clip though... going around in the left lane and cutting across all the lanes for your exit last minute.
@@m1mbz These roundabout designs are really stupid, there shouldn't be a situation where 2 roundabout lanes both exit onto a slip road, where the driver in the left lane still has the right to keep going round the roundabout. It's asking for accidents. Personally I'd get rid of all the "double lane exits" and just say you always have to merge into the outside lane before exiting.
9:30.. perfect example of someone trying to be nice that actually causes the accident, By stoping to let the van out he is actually is creating a blind stop so the van then makes a dangerous unsighted emerge.
I have had drivers have a go at me before as I refused to move from a side road when the road was clear in front of them. Similar situation with it being dual lane and traffic coming the other direction as well. They were flashing and waving but I looked them square in the eye and said “No” just as a lorry came passed them. They then realised why and continued but was still shaking their head me in amazement that I didn’t go 🤷🏻♂️
2:13 the nice cold winter morning one - I think the car might have been parked by the hedge and started to move off just before the drivers could see each other's cars, and then they moved gradually to the correct side of the road as the camera car approached.
While the driver at 7:03 may be poor at reversing, like said in the video at least they didn't hit anything or anyone. Normally videos of poor reversing usually including hitting something or someone, so at least they go out without any harm done. And fair play to everyone else around who was patient and no one honking their horns.
6:25 The cyclist was clearly indicating that they were turning right and the driver just totally ignored them to overtake - this has happened to me on the bike before, and it's a horrible experience. So many drivers treat people on bikes with no care whatsover...it's so different to the attitude across the Channel and the North Sea.
Such terrible arrogant "me, me me" cycling...rather than thinking they have to fit in with the flow of traffic they are having their own private race on the roads....overtaking on the left, then deliberately blocking the traffic they've just overtaken. Idiot. It's cyclists like this that give us good ones a bad name.
I hope that Bath International Transport driver was reported both to the company themselves and to the police. He needs a permanent lorry driving ban as he is a complete disgrace and shouldn't be in charge of something that big.
Not once when the horn was sounded in these clips did the 'offending' vehicle disappear. If you have time to sound your horn, you have time to take evasive action.
Re: merge in turn, I drove up the A1 a couple of weeks ago, encountering the single lane contraflow at Barnsdale Bar. Despite signs instructing drivers to "Use Both Lanes When Queueing" and "Merge in Turn", it was largely a single lane of traffic by 800yds before the restriction.
If I had to use a merge in turn area like that very often, I think I'd stick a matrix board in my back window saying "USE BOTH LANES" as I cruised down the empty lane to merge correctly :')
What Barnsdale Bar have you been driving on? Sure, lane 2 moves faster from a fair few people opting to merge back earlier, but, excepting when lorries move out to play block, people tend to be pretty good at using both lanes and merging in turn. Maybe you hit it on a bad day - but as someone who lives off that junction, I mostly can't fault the driving! My main complaint is that it should be open again by now. If the bridge was/is that bad, surely it's a danger to drive over at all!
If google maps is showing red and indicating a delay on a dual carriageway I breathe a sigh of relief upon seeing these signs. I then know that the estimated delay is based largely upon drivers queuing in the lane which remains open and my delay, taking the lane which closes, will be much much shorter. Couple of weeks back, I was cruising in lane 2 towards a lane closure, about 10 seconds behind the car in front (it had been standing traffic a couple of times) so I didn't have to keep braking and gear changing. Man behind flapping his arms around because I wasn't stuck on the car in front's bumper. Seeing a gap in lane 1, he undertakes me at speed and then starts gesticulating at one of these signs as I go past, he has now joined the queue of stationary traffic, over half a mile from the closure. I continue on at 20mph to find 3 cars in lane 2 at the point of closure. Thinking about it, I imagine his arm flapping when behind me was because he thought I should have moved closer to the car in front to find a gap in the traffic in lane 1 so we could have both moved over.
At around 1:38 although I very occasionally cut across car parking rows in an empty car park, I am very wary of doing this. I also generally avoid taking short cuts at an angle. If you ever see an airport taxiing area for aircraft, they have specifically marked roadways that all airport service vehicles have to abide by. Otherwise there would be all kinds of random driving manoeuvres, all taking random lines and shortcuts and thus increasing risk. Similar principle to consider with regular car parks.
10:28 "even though it's the mini in the wrong" there are always commenters in American dashcam channels who will berate anyone who suggests avoiding a crash when someone else is in the wrong.
@@lilacspooge Absolutely not. You can see markings right of the camera vehicle guiding lane 2 into the exit. There's no way in the world lane 1 would be permitted to continue around.
@@user-mv5zt8qd9l look at the planning board coming from the A14, both lanes go right. Which is where I assumed the traffic was coming from… on review I’ve probably got the starting location of the traffic wrong (as it’s more likely coming from the a43 but as the video has been cut short you cant tell that for a fact. I’m likely wrong on this occasion, but if coming from the A14 both lanes go right.
The bike one (10:00) could be part readiness and part bike - Drop bar bike presumably rigid fork, looks like he has a bit of lean on coming round the roundabout hard braking in that situation will wipe you. To quote sheldon brown "The steeper you lean, the less you can brake". Need to right yourself and straighten up before you can brake hard.
The driver was an absolute disgrace. If they had floored it when they realised their mistake, they would have been clear. But instead, they stopped right in the path of the cyclist when they had a clear road ahead.
I've been driving for nearly 40 years now probably averaging 20k per year. I've had 2 parking scrapes , 3 curbed wheels, an incident with a lorry which took my door mirror off through roadworks on the M25 which I really had no control over. READ THE ROAD. Read what could happen, make scenarios in your head and do that everytime the scene changes. That's thousands of times per mile. It's FUN. That's why we enjoy driving. KEEP SAFE.
Many of these clips show that all we can control is our own cars and many were driving with the ability to avoid the dodgy careless drivers. Examples on at least two occasions where on coming cars were partly on the wrong side of the road. And the hazard perception drivers were going at a speed where they avoided anything serious happening.
The second clip at 0:51 I think was more positioning rather than speed that caused that one. I am all for reducing speeds on roundabouts, especially the larger spiral ones, as having a 40mph limit is asking for trouble (I refer everyone to your 20mph riding video from yesterday) It is clear (well, from watching on the sofa) the markings show the cammer should be getting into the middle lane for the exits coming up. The other driver is a twonk womble for undertaking in the wrong lane on a roundabout regardless of any speed / positioning from the cammer
The cammer was in the correct lane. This is the Raigmore Interchange in Inverness. I live there and use it everyday. If you look at the road markings, it states twice that the lane heads for ‘Perth A9 South’ which is where they exited 👍🏻
@georgebeaton4544 The lane to their left also went that direction, hence my comment about positioning rather than speed led to that. If it was busier then fine, use lane 2 but in quieter time it can potentially lead to confusion. Not taking anything away from the other driver who was completely wrong, just some friendly (sofa bound) observations but completely take onboard what you say about them being in the correct lane 👍
@@smilerbob I agree with you that the left lane is the better choice. Drivers tend to drive way to fast on this interchange which may have led to the cammer driving a bit too slow 🙂
@@georgebeaton4544 If you are following the road markings for directions to the letter then there is nowhere for you to join the a9 southbound via the left lane unless you are coming from the a96 or have mistakenly exited from the a9 and want to get back on it. This is because the road markings only direct traffic heading to the A9N into the right lane when exiting from the B951. Like I said in my main comment, bear scotland messed it up when re designing the layout. Both middle and right lanes should be marked for the A9N just prior to the first overpass because that is the point where traffic from the B951 diverges.
7:00 I assumed that they just couldn't judge the length of their vehicle and thought it was much tighter than it was but I think you've got it spot on with them stopping as soon as their reverse sensor starts beeping (and not knowing what that means)
10:00 When I got my first road bike with drop handlebars and rode it in traffic for the first few times I did something a bit similar to that when I slowed down quite slowly, I found it took me a while to get used to the brake levers on drop handlebars and the totally different force, motion and location they need compared to normal bars. I'm used to it now but was something to consider
@@ashley_neal When you are riding on the hoods of the drops which most people do most of the time you have to use the top of the brake levers which you don't get as much leverage as you would if you were on flat bar brakes, especially if they are not adjusted well. That being said once you are used to them you can stop quickly and easily lock the wheels up. Your viewer didn't seem to make much of an attempt to actually slow down, you can hear the brakes start to drag but not much speed change happens
With the lorry at 5:00 we can't see what's behind the cammer, it's entirely possible that with traffic that heavy slowing down to back off wasn't the most viable option. Don't want to accidentally brake check someone
@@MrGBH exactly, and just at the last frame we see a flashing orange light in the left lane, so there was possibly a slower moving vehicle there. Another factor is that modern lorries have gps based speedometers which is why they always seem to go faster than passenger car numpties doing 5 mph less than the limit.
10:29 awfully designed junction as it depends which way you are coming from. traffic coming from the A14 can continue all the way round, therefore both drivers are correct (assuming mini came from A14)
That third clip with instructor and learner going into a car park is my home town, Abergavenny. It used to be all open at the top there but young boy, maybe girl, racers used to make a racket at night so they put up a barrier with a gate at one end to lock. The exit is at bottom on traffic lights and only an entrance. And you can see that when quiet, you still get the show offs. Interesting decision by instructor to halt the car. I suppose he didn't know if that BMW was going out (where you shouldn't do) or carrying around the car park.
@@vertigoEdits Bit of a limited sample size though. I wouldn't expect him to scream and wave his hands for such a minor issue. Or call out encouragement to the BMW driver for acting like a fool.
@@theaikidoka yeah i just meant he could've at least chuckled. it's not something you see every day and the student took it lightheartedly too. but at the end of the day i don't really care hahaha
I can relate to the car park reversing footage, having only passed back in June, going from the car I learned in to something much smaller has made me ability to judge distance behind go out the window (if you'll pardon the pun).
At 1:16, I have no idea what Ash is trying to say by saying "I do think my viewer's speed and their positioning had a lot to do with that incident". It looks like a) our viewer did an excellent job making that a non-event b) our viewer might have needed a right turn immediately after exiting this roundabout, so it's not reasonable to say our viewer should have been in the left lane just because a near miss occurred this one time. To give Ash the benefit of the doubt, maybe our cammer should have checked the left wing mirror and started reducing speed sooner? Anyways, I feel 10:28 was a more appropriate example of sub-optimal speed and position from our cammer, as they could have reduced their speed as soon as the Mini came into view.
@@user-mv5zt8qd9l Too slow overall speed is a good point. This may have to do with dash cameras creating the illusion of speed, so, in real life, he's driving far slower than your typical speed for a roundabout of that size. Before GPS, it was usually tourists who drove like this, as they used to get into situations where they were going slower than normal but also "paranoid" that they might have to turn right in the immediate future, causing situations like these all the time.
Multi lane roundabouts seem to be a challenge for many drivers, who automatically decide which lane they need to be in based on some half remembered rule from their driving instructor rather than what is written on the road.
Absolutely true. I had a woman who claimed to be doing her daily commute hit me on a roundabout because "it's at 12 o'clock so I can use both lanes" despite there being 5 sets of signs and markings on the approach showing otherwise. Some people just don't look at signage.
First one is a classic looking for a space fixation. These carparks are a nightmare with people milling about, crossings, my right of way syndrome and above all idiots who drive way to fast. Slow and courteous wins the day in them.
The learner driver in the Caerphilly car park started to drive diagonally across the bays towards the Beemer, he thought “where’s there a blame, there’s a claim”
7:34 parking sensors can be a huge help if used in conjunction with proper observation. Fairly recently I was driving my dad's ford s-max and ended up having to get out of a super tight space, to the point that it was a case of the sensor sound having to go to continuous beep and even then still taking a number of adjustments to get out of the space! I honestly have my doubts as to whether i could have safely got out of the space without the sensors, or it would have certainly taken a lot longer at the very least!
I had a classic last week in a transit cage van. busy industrial estate, lots of parked cars i had right of way but due to parked cars my side further up i stopped to let a HGV through in order to enable flow better for everyone, plus he was already moving forwards past the parked vehicles on his side, Secondly had i went further i would be stuck at parked cars due to size of the hgv. As Ashley says its best to keep flow, i get 2 idiots in cars who cant see around my vehicle overtake and charge stright at the lorry forcing him to stop and them onto pavement to avoid a collision. then they cant get through as the HGV is blocking them in. I just shook my head in disbelief as did the driver of said HGV at their stupidity.
9:16 seems a bit unfortunate as that bit of hedge has come down into the road right on the bend. Although what is worse: a head on collision or scratching the side of your car?
The one at 10.23... I go to Glebe Farm once a week, and in the hour im there i hear probably 10-15 'events' amd thats out of peak on a Thursday. If you are leaving the East bound A14 lanes 1&2 are for A43. If you are coming round from Kettering or W/B A14 it is marked that lanes 1&2 are for A14 East.
Tried to do a merge in turn a couple of weeks ago. I think about 8 or 9 did the "oh no you don't jump the queue I'm going to close the space down and push through" thing before anyone had any sense. How does one educate these people when, rightly, it's best not to try and do so through the window?
At around 6:35, one of my pet peeves. Drivers using the wrong side of the road to cut a corner when they've got plenty of space in their own half. Particularly annoying and dangerous when visibility is restricted, as was the case with this clip.
As HGV driver I would say to car drivers: dont hang around on our sides, left or right, as hazards in front ( which you may not see or be aware of) may force that truck to move and change lane in an emergency. Trucks are heavy and less flexible in their movement , but I gain the impression that the driving public is becoming even less flexible with their " auto obesity" ( unnecessary big vehicles, and reduced vision from big A B,C pillars) , also increasing weight and reduced manoeuvrability of private cars. That lorry is really poorly and dangerously driven,- more like a sat nav Private hire! 😅
4:20 in, I'm always letting the Lorry in, and tbh, I'm a little surprised at your view of the incident. Lorries need to get where they're going, getting in their way helps no one. I love your videos 👍
The Fiesta coming out of the space was bizarre. She had so much space going backwards and could have done it in two. But when it came to leave she was extremely close to the viewer's car.
For some reason a lot of (I'm afraid women) drivers seem unable to grasp that you can turn the front wheels when reversing. Too often they reverse straight, or almost so, out of a space, then wonder why they don't have enough room to swing clear. I've never understood it.
As a cyclist there's been a few times where it's clear a car has emerged because the driver is looking down the road or around the roundabout for other cars, and not seen the cyclist right in front of them. I've also had drivers wind down their windows and shout stuff, and absolutely honestly I've no idea what they were saying. Traffic noise pretty much drowns out the words.
Clip 1: Ford driver assumes right of way because he’s looking for parking spot. He’s obviously picked that lane intentionally to swing wide into a bay, lack of indication is no excuse though. Clip2: I have noticed that some people hug the inside of the roundabout until last minute of their junction. It’s like they’re scared of getting ‘in the way’. Clip 3: Young people enjoying Tomfoolery in the car park. Clip 4: The driver obviously has lacked attention. Clip 5: White car hasn’t even given the motorcyclist a second thought, shocking. Clip 6: White vehicle has to be an overseas driver. Clip 7: Lorry driver needs banning from the roads, unfortunately some people have a natural bullying mentality. Clip 8: 100% agree with you, they’ve got zero driving skills or medical episode. Clip 9: The war against cycles unfortunately carries on. Clip 10: Not paying attention to what lies ahead is a dangerous game for narrow country roads! Clip 11: Ahhhh the nervous driver who passed her test and never got as far as Tesco and back. I think she’s stopping when she hears the beeps too, I don’t think anyone has explained to her how the sensors work. Clip 12: This clip gave me a smug laugh at the driver who jumped the light. He had to wait anyway hahaha. Clip13: Driver of the van doesn’t use his mirrors then. Clip 14: Two things crossed the drivers mind; beat the lights and beat the cyclist so he doesn’t have to get held up by either. Clip 15: I see this all the time on quiet roads, painted mini roundabouts are worse, drivers just plough through them. Clip 16: The white car is obviously enjoying his drive too much. Clip 17: Some people’s courtesy often gets in the way of road sense! It’s not crossed their mind that they’re creating a massive blind spot. The van driver shouldn’t have gone ahead, he’s created his own issue. If you can’t see what’s coming up, don’t go ahead! Clip 18: Drivers only look for other drivers at the best of times. Clip 19: The latter, some people assume that Road Traffic laws don’t apply in car parks. Rather than take it as a safety measure, they think “I’m not going to get done for it” and do whatever. Clip 20: Outside lane drivers join the slip road to get onto the middle/outside lane. Mini should have held back if they were in the wrong lane. Clip 21: Ahhh Merge In Turn! Merge in turn messes with the British love of queues which is why alot of people struggle with it. They see a line of traffic as a queue which is why they don’t want anyone else coming in in-front of them. Clip 22: Both cars were not paying attention to the crossing, in fact the second one saw the guy and thought I’m not stopping. Disgusting behaviour and sheer ignorance. Clip 23: Either the vehicle slide in the rain towards the road markers indicating poor tyre condition, or they just weren’t looking until the last minute. Either way, it’s a worrying clip that people like this are on the roads.
I don’t know what it is about car parks and supermarkets, but it feels like whenever people enter them, or get a trolley, they proceed to go completely blind and ignore the fact that other people exist.
Oh Ashley that was a winner at around 8:17, made even more so by your comment "I've never understood the stereotype personally". Can't imagine what you meant by that. Have to say that's a bit of an awkward setup and I wonder if it would have been better to put the stop line short of the side street, even though that side street is not part of the traffic light control. Or a Keep Clear / Yellow cross hatching.
The lorry driver was trying to move into lane two to avoid a slow moving vehicle in lane one ... I think a showmans. The other vehicles blocked him. I suspect they'd have been over the 50mph reduction passed Elkesley
2.27 is on Portsdown Hill, overlooking Portsmouth. That roundabout often seems to cause problems there as people coming from where your cammer was coming look to the right and wrongly assume that they are taking the road where the cammer came from? It is also very close to Portsmouth Test Centre, and many tests use that roundabout.
7:46 The cabbie is also at fault as well as the Beamer - if you can't clear the intersection, don't enter it - if the traffic on other side of lights (like in the video) isn't moving, then you don't go through anyway.
4:23 Agreed, that lorry driver is an absolute disgrace and what they did at the end was shocking. I don’t agree with the cammer “…not doing a bad job” as the following distance was too close for the conditions and in another video this would be an example of two egos fighting for road space they don’t own - looks like a deliberate space close on the second attempt by the lorry driver Would it have been as bad as it was with a simple throttle back and making it a non event?
It was the positiveness of the move out of the blind spot that should be enough to deter but it was already obvious the lorry driver was an idiot. Dropping back would have been my choice.
5:09 I was driving this stretch of road today and so many people drive way too close in the 50 section. So often you see people’s hazards on due to sudden heavy breaking in flowing traffic
In the second clip at 0:53, the lane markings on the road say the far right lane is for the right turn. Then after the next traffic lights at 1:02, it says the middle lane and right lane can be used for the exit. Maybe they were a bit slow, but if they were unfamiliar with the area, they might have been following the lane markings as they saw them appear and decided it was safer to say in the lane they were in than try change lanes mid roundabout. The initial road markings appears to have told them to use the right lane, so I don't think we can criticise them for being in the right lane too much. If they saw the Mercedes in the middle lane once the road markings said the middle lane can be used for their exit, it was probably wise to not change lanes mid roundabout when you can see someone catching up to you in the adjacent lane. Maybe not perfect from the cammer, but I think the confusing and changing road markings may have been a contributing factor. If the Mercedes was familiar with the area and fustrated, they should have known the cammer''s lane can be used to exit the roundabout and should have known the cammer may be exiting and should have waited the few seconds it would have taken the cammer to clear the roundabout and for the right lane to split up.
1:16, if cammer is in correct lane, not sure why Ashley is pointing any blame at them. 5:10, cammer starts to tailgate the car in front perhaps due to a bit of road rage and not wanting the lorry in front of them, safety as not their main concern
9:46 I have the same cycling camera and it is deceptive in how it depicts the speed at which you're cycling. It's a 20mph road, judging from the pace differential between him and the black Passat ahead, I would guess he hit that roundabout at 12-15mph. From the shadow of his back wheel at 10:05, his bike has rim brakes, not disc brakes - stopping distance is greatly increased. Assuming standard pads, nothing fancy like SwissStops, it's not an unreasonable distance to stop in.
11:49 Bottom of Butt Lane, West Leeds. That roundabout is just a stream of divs, there's something about the way it's set up too visibility wise, can't really put my finger on it. It's also an interface between a residential area and the ring-road with very little in the way of buffer, and a real clash of driving styles I think depending on whether you're stopping there or passing through. None of that explains the driving though, it's like they thought the thick markings were the road somehow.
The one where you said the sun wasn't in their eyes may have been incorrect. Look at the long shadows cast by the car when it get in line with the sun and also the sun visor was right down in the oncoming car. It looks like they are in shadow but maybe a bit of sun was peeking through.
As I stepped out of my local supermarket, onto the pedestrian crossing this weekend, a vehicle passed in front of me going the wrong way through a one-way stretch. I must try to remember that signs and road markings are only suggestive and don't apply in car parks.
1:12, there is a big difference between someone just driving slow and dithering causing an obstruction. But yes I think the car behind got frustrated and just drove around them.
To be fair to the woman outside M&S, that particular retail park is a normal sized retail park but the M&S was once a Currys, once there was spaces in the week and now there isn’t
Not sure what that has to do with anything, she's parked in a mother and child space which is actually wider than a normal space, the simple fact is that her spatial awareness is bad and she needs to go and practice reversing, there are a lot of people driving cars who are just bad at it and a lot who have never even passed a test or been given proper driving instruction, some 2 million drivers on the roads illegally.
"To be fair to the woman outside M&S, that particular retail park is a normal sized retail park but the M&S was once a Currys, once there was spaces in the week and now there isn’t" Er, what's that got to do with the price of fish?
Everyone makes mistakes, it is part of being human, and sometimes people just do crazy shit because they have a momentary lapse in brain function. It can be easy to predict that someone is going to do something wrong on the roads just by their position, your prediction from past experience or because they have already begun to do something wrong and you can see that. The worst type of driver (even worse than someone making a mistake) are the ones who see people making mistakes and just drive into them or very close to them just to prove a point. Learn to back off if you see someone doing something wrong or someone being aggressive on the roads. It makes you a better driver than them.
Ashley I suggest you turn your audio up on some of these clips. The cyclists brakes on the roundabout clip at 9:40 are clearly heard being pressed into the rim of the wheel the moment that the car starts slowing down and it becomes apparent they are not going to clear the gap. Also judging by the sound and performance of the brakes I would imagine they are the old style calibers on the rim instead of any kind of discs. It takes longer to stop two wheels than four
@@zbf5h89ftb Most likely they had their right arm out indicating which meant no front brake, and they anticipated being able to go behind the silver car.
I can't believe the amount of people who think it's OK to exit a roundabout from the inner most lane, I was taught if you can't move over either go round again or leave at the next exit and find somewhere safe to turn round. A lot of these clips are the drivers failing to anticipate what other road users might do, then they blame everybody else!
9:30 my general rule is to never wait or wave some out at junction or turning, unless I have full control over stopping the flow of traffic behind me. That why this is a really bad idea when you have more than one lane like this clip.
04:16 I won’t mention his name but there’s a driving instructor on TH-cam who makes TH-cam videos (not you Ashley mate, don’t worry!), he made a video about what the different white lines in the centre of the road mean, he pointed to a picture of hatch markings that were surrounded by solid white lines, he said you can’t wait in the box to turn right but you can turn right through the box when you have a gap in the oncoming traffic, I pointed out Highway Code rule 130 to him, I said to him you can’t enter that area at all unless it’s an emergency, he then types a long essay with so and so law apparently saying that you can do it, he’s teaching his learners to do something illegal, I’m not sure why he’s getting so confused about it, it just goes to show you, you can’t trust everything that people say.
Looks like the trucker was fed up of cars not progressing with overtaking. Car drivers are the first to complain when trucks don't progress quick enough when overtaking !!
It's the 'I don't care' mentality that makes people drive through no entry signs or down any street the wrong way, just to get to a particular place quicker than having to do it the right way and possibly being behind others or losing that last perfect parking space.
The clip with the woman reversing is exactly why it's best to still just trust your own eyes to look out the back window, that's if you're correct in assuming she's probably going by the beeping. I barely look at my reversing camera in these situations heading to other cars (I literally just use it at a glance to check lines when I've reversed and straightened into a bay) and just look back, the systems are only to assist, guidelines but not the complete picture.
It was actually a very good way of shoeing how silly it is to park front end in. I was always taught, mainly by my dad, to reverse into a parking space then it is so simple to emerge. Either way you're going to have to reverse so much safer NOT to reverse into live traffic and pedestrians.
@@johncranna9427 I usually reverse park, it comes from it being company policy where I used to work. But sometimes, in a supermarket car park, you do need to be able to access the boot to put your shopping in. I usually also try and park well away from other cars, even if it means walking a bit further, but it's not always possible if it's busy.
If im on a bicycle and the traffic ahead of me is slowing down to the point where i can go passed a few cars. Ill only do it if it means im not gona either force them to overtake me in 10 seconds or get them stuck behind me for an extended period of time. Its just being courteous.
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That lorry driver deserves a permanent driving ban!
Agreed 👍
The sorta psychotic behaviour you should never try and outsmart or prove a point with just stay as far away as possible
Maybe. But both cars could have made it a non event, the second car appeared to speed up to block him moving to lane two.
Once again, professional drivers showing that they are often the worst offenders.
You all know what to do to put pressure on the company. I already did my bit. Ashley won't encourage it publicly of course.
"I've got the footage. Do you want it?" "Nah! Send it to Ashley Neal." That made me laugh out loud! 🤣
Was that the real audio (disguised) or something put in later?
Added by me 😂
@@ashley_neal Oooh, sneaky..! Funny, though 🤣
That bicycle and motorcycle roundabout clip is made even better by the roundabout having a "THINK BIKE" sign on it
Asked my mum about a road sign she passed. Her answer was that she is too busy driving to look at road signs.
@@DemiGod..🤣🤣🤣 - bet everything that happens is a total surprise to you dear mum.
Driving like this happens all the time in Cheshire, the only thing people care about is getting past the cyclist. Completely unaware of changes in the road situation and other vulnerable road users around.
@@dave1994jones those signs are all along that road and it's still one of the worst routes to cycle on for close passes.
I've had the same thing happen to me on that roundabout several times on my motorbike.
9:25
1. Pressure someone into making a decision when they may not have full awareness of the risks.
2. Sit and watch as it produces an expensive and embarrassing car crash.
3. Disappear and leave others to deal with the consequences.
I call this "doing a David Cameron" for reasons I probably can't elaborate upon without falling foul of the comment policy.
Tough one that...got something to do with a big red bus I think... 😅
This honestly frustrates me more than random clips of poor driving. Like although maybe not "legally", is still is literally causing a collision. A shame they cant be held responsible at all. So pointless to let the van out ugh, words cant describe the fustration hahaha
Honestly think people who do this should have their license taken away.
hahaha this gave me a good chuckle
They should be held responsible, by stopping in the carriageway it means you have control of the road and you are responsible for stopping all the traffic behind. The van should stay in place until the cammer has moved on, the cammer wasn't on a giveaway. Driving without due care.
What a fantastic advert for Bath International Transport. I bet they're chuffed to bits!
I have a feeling that they won't be.
They have a Facebook page too! 🤣
@@FFVoyager They might transport goods but they won't arrive in 1 piece or slightly charred
Clip 1 is the PERFECT example of why you should always be able to slow down, not swerve, to avoid any incident. Even with the slow speeds involved, if the driver swerved to the right instinctively to avoid the car, they could have injured the pedestrians quite badly.
If you are a driver who swerves to avoid incidents when braking is a better possibility, have a look at your driving and change the way you drive immediately
Yes and no but mostly yes! 🤷♂️
@@leedorney ?
@@robinthebobin6537 Robin, I'm basically agreeing with you but sometimes you've got to move imo!
@@leedorney Ah makes sense - Yeah definitely agree. It is sometimes necessary, even if you're doing everything correctly. I'm mainly making reference to those appalling dashcam videos that we've all seen where someone takes about 10 seconds to react to something in front of them, then swerves at the last second without even attempting to break😂
@robinthebobin6537 sometimes like an animal darting out from the side of the road does not give you much time to react.
At around 8:29, I've had that happen several times from the perspective of me being the cam car and an emergency vehicle coming up behind. I move over and yes the vehicle directly behind overtakes me, sometimes even honking their horn. But they soon realize why I pulled over! Just goes to show how bad some drivers are at using their mirrors, as this is a common occurrence.
Yes, me too. Shows how little drivers watch their rear view mirrors.
Also, I had a lane hog in lane 2 of a two lane dual carriageway, driving under the speed limit, refusing obstinately to get out of the way. I saw a police car coming up behind with blue lights going so I moved into lane 1 and slowed slightly. Lane hog still sat in lane 2 with the police car behind, its lights and siren going full blast. Took ages before she woke up and moved back into lane 1. Wow.
@@R04drunner1you should have just stayed in lane 1
11:00 had a chap do that to me, directly behind a police officer, one time. on my return trip, the officer STILL had him by the side of the road giving him a rethink.
Well played, that Police officer.
4:42 - I drive for a living and it's quite common to see HGV drivers in 50mph limits, sitting on their limiter at 56mph, tailgating and trying to bully other vehicles out of the way.
I had a similar incident - I sent the footage to the company and they did respond and apologise for their driver's behaviour. I also sent the footage to the police, who responded "not interested"!
@@SittaCarolinensis I'd skip police and go straight to traffic commissioner
As a hgv driver I tend to look for the positives in other colleagues driving .
But on this occasion I have nothing
They indicated? That's all i can think of
That pedestrian crossing one. That happened way too frequently at a crossing near my local train station. I pushed the council to install speed bumps eitherside of it to slow people down. Sad that it comes to that but i think it's made that crossing safer
10:22 "It's obviously the mini in the wrong."
There's two sets of lane markings! I would say whoever painted/designed that junction is at fault for this. The same problem as with multi-lane roundabouts that aren't turbo roundabouts or gyratories: what you're allowed to do depends on where you entered the roundabout. Which leads to the situation where you end up with someone to your left who is allowed to continue around.
The sheer amount of times I shook my head...
Plenty to make you feel better about your own driving in this one! 🤣
@10:28 actually it depends where the mini and your viewer came from. It's junction 7 of the A14 near Kettering. If they were both coming from the A14 (westbound - W) then your viewer is in the wrong as the left two lanes are marked for taking the second major exit (ignoring the private farm access before the A14 W exit) to the A43. But if both come from any other direction both of those two lanes are marked for the A14 W. If both came from different directions then I'd still suggest it's your viewer. The white lines don't show that you should move over one lane, though they obviously don't always! Context is important!
So, which set of markings apply for you really depends on where you came from? Is there a written rule that supports that? Genuinly interested as non-UK resident.
That lorry driver in the viewers clip 4:22 seems too common for me. How they bullied their way into that VW Passat is always happening to me. Whenever I see a slower speed limit approach, a lorry driver always goes over the speed limit and tries to bully in front when there's a queue! But when the national speed limit returns, guess what, you just go past them! They should be fully banned from driving and given a jail sentence for these type of behaviours!
The viewer also eventually gave them space to get into the lane, yet, carried on to bully their way in front of the car ahead. Lunacy.
Maybe you should give them a bit of space. I always leave a two seconds gap in hat situation it's less energy just to put your cruise control down a bit and let them in and get some free mileage in
@@matthewv4170 Matthew. First of all: sorry for writing this book.
Second
I am a lorry driver.
And let met say this:
THANK YOU. You seem to be aware of the problem which causes many many traffic jams.
Which is: Not enough space between people.
BUT, and there is a major but here, one that needs special pants.
BUT now i have to get to the point:
I am a lorry driver, and i drive in my lorry like i drive in my car, like you drive in your car.
You say you always leave a 2 second gap. Grow it a bit larger, make it 3 or 4 seconds. Who cares? Continu this habit and you have no stress on the road.
BUT!!!!
THIS LORRY DRIVER is a complete disgrace for the professional Lorry drivers like myself.
This lorry driver will cause something which i have seen a few too many times.
Which is: A car stuck between 2 lorries, and an entire family wiped off the face of this earth by a driver who did not appreciate the load they are driving with.
In this case the viewer did the correct thing even though mr Neal said he would probably have created a gap to have the lorry switch lanes.
ME, my opinion: The viewer did the right thing by keeping that gap closed.
Because it is obvious what this lorry driver is doing.
You do not want him to be behind any other vehicle.
Especially not a car without trailer.
And so the viewer kept him in lane 1, which i would have done myself as well.
To keep him cool.
I can not agree with what you say about giving him a bit of space.
I never have to act like this lorry driver, and people create space for me.
It is called anticipating stuff.
Know when you need to switch lanes to make it effortless. Do not wait until the very last moment to switch lanes.
Many drivers turn on their signal and expect others to immediately fit them in. It does not work like that.
Turn on the blinker a quarter to half a minute earlier and it solves a lot of problems.
@@matthewv4170 PS: Why do i disagree? Why do i not give him space?
Because i wanna control him.
I know i am the safe driver of the 2.
So i am gonna control him.
So, he stays in his lane, because i wont give him room.
Then if he has space to switch lanes behind me, he will most likely be riding my bumper.
BUT I do not care.
I keep a gap open in front of me to make sure i can safely come to a stop, but he can also safely come to a stop.
And that is how i will drive in front of him.
In rare instances it works and they grow a brain by themselves.
But sometimes it needs encouraging. What works is a sign that lights up in your back window that asks the question: Would you tailgate a police officer?
I made one myself, and i turn it on when i need to.
And guess what?
People all of a sudden seem capable of growing a brain.
@@bertjesklotepino id rather him being behind someone else than me. You can survive a lorry going into the back of someone else. You can't when a lorry goes into the back of your car
Also he didn't really leave the merge to last minute and you didn't see the video of what happened before hand. There was a lot of bad drivers in the clip tbh
At around 1:20, this is one reason why I often detest these multi lane roundabouts. They are fine in theory but in practice,so much can go wrong. YT is full of dash cam incidents at multi lane roundabouts.
Most the roundabouts are easy to follow. The only problem is the driver.
Both lanes shown were heading to the same exit if you read the road numbering and the dashed line guides drivers towards the chosen exit, but the car that crossed the path joined the roundabout at the previous exit, so they didn't in effect give way to the vehicle already on the roundabout, even if they did join after it passed. The cam car could've chosen the next lane but maybe it wasn't familiar with the junction or the driver had perceived some other danger that made it choose the lane it had chosen.
It's not knowing what you're doing and where you're going that's the issue.
There's a great combo of stupid in this clip though... going around in the left lane and cutting across all the lanes for your exit last minute.
@@m1mbz the cam car was in the correct lane. Everyone who is familiar with that junction would have taken exactly the same path.
@@m1mbz These roundabout designs are really stupid, there shouldn't be a situation where 2 roundabout lanes both exit onto a slip road, where the driver in the left lane still has the right to keep going round the roundabout. It's asking for accidents. Personally I'd get rid of all the "double lane exits" and just say you always have to merge into the outside lane before exiting.
9:30.. perfect example of someone trying to be nice that actually causes the accident,
By stoping to let the van out he is actually is creating a blind stop so the van then makes a dangerous unsighted emerge.
I have had drivers have a go at me before as I refused to move from a side road when the road was clear in front of them. Similar situation with it being dual lane and traffic coming the other direction as well. They were flashing and waving but I looked them square in the eye and said “No” just as a lorry came passed them.
They then realised why and continued but was still shaking their head me in amazement that I didn’t go 🤷🏻♂️
Don't be nice, be predictable.
2:13 the nice cold winter morning one - I think the car might have been parked by the hedge and started to move off just before the drivers could see each other's cars, and then they moved gradually to the correct side of the road as the camera car approached.
What's nice about cold and/or winter..?
While the driver at 7:03 may be poor at reversing, like said in the video at least they didn't hit anything or anyone. Normally videos of poor reversing usually including hitting something or someone, so at least they go out without any harm done. And fair play to everyone else around who was patient and no one honking their horns.
6:25 The cyclist was clearly indicating that they were turning right and the driver just totally ignored them to overtake - this has happened to me on the bike before, and it's a horrible experience. So many drivers treat people on bikes with no care whatsover...it's so different to the attitude across the Channel and the North Sea.
Such terrible arrogant "me, me me" cycling...rather than thinking they have to fit in with the flow of traffic they are having their own private race on the roads....overtaking on the left, then deliberately blocking the traffic they've just overtaken. Idiot. It's cyclists like this that give us good ones a bad name.
I hope that Bath International Transport driver was reported both to the company themselves and to the police. He needs a permanent lorry driving ban as he is a complete disgrace and shouldn't be in charge of something that big.
He shouldn't be in charge of anything on wheels. He's a complete disgrace, and doesn't deserve the privilege of possessing a driving licence.
Not once when the horn was sounded in these clips did the 'offending' vehicle disappear.
If you have time to sound your horn, you have time to take evasive action.
That lorry driver takes the biscuit, probably witnessed a multitude of accidents and no doubt he’s failed to stop at the scene
Re: merge in turn, I drove up the A1 a couple of weeks ago, encountering the single lane contraflow at Barnsdale Bar. Despite signs instructing drivers to "Use Both Lanes When Queueing" and "Merge in Turn", it was largely a single lane of traffic by 800yds before the restriction.
Sad isn't it :(
I hope you used the free lane to the point of the merge?
If I had to use a merge in turn area like that very often, I think I'd stick a matrix board in my back window saying "USE BOTH LANES" as I cruised down the empty lane to merge correctly :')
What Barnsdale Bar have you been driving on? Sure, lane 2 moves faster from a fair few people opting to merge back earlier, but, excepting when lorries move out to play block, people tend to be pretty good at using both lanes and merging in turn. Maybe you hit it on a bad day - but as someone who lives off that junction, I mostly can't fault the driving!
My main complaint is that it should be open again by now. If the bridge was/is that bad, surely it's a danger to drive over at all!
If google maps is showing red and indicating a delay on a dual carriageway I breathe a sigh of relief upon seeing these signs. I then know that the estimated delay is based largely upon drivers queuing in the lane which remains open and my delay, taking the lane which closes, will be much much shorter.
Couple of weeks back, I was cruising in lane 2 towards a lane closure, about 10 seconds behind the car in front (it had been standing traffic a couple of times) so I didn't have to keep braking and gear changing. Man behind flapping his arms around because I wasn't stuck on the car in front's bumper. Seeing a gap in lane 1, he undertakes me at speed and then starts gesticulating at one of these signs as I go past, he has now joined the queue of stationary traffic, over half a mile from the closure. I continue on at 20mph to find 3 cars in lane 2 at the point of closure.
Thinking about it, I imagine his arm flapping when behind me was because he thought I should have moved closer to the car in front to find a gap in the traffic in lane 1 so we could have both moved over.
At around 1:38 although I very occasionally cut across car parking rows in an empty car park, I am very wary of doing this. I also generally avoid taking short cuts at an angle. If you ever see an airport taxiing area for aircraft, they have specifically marked roadways that all airport service vehicles have to abide by. Otherwise there would be all kinds of random driving manoeuvres, all taking random lines and shortcuts and thus increasing risk. Similar principle to consider with regular car parks.
Depends on how empty it is and how unexpected the manoeuvre would be, but overarching principle is - who cannot see me?
10:28 "even though it's the mini in the wrong" there are always commenters in American dashcam channels who will berate anyone who suggests avoiding a crash when someone else is in the wrong.
And usually they are smacked down hard in the comments.
Both lanes go right on to the a43…so the mini was in the right not the cammer
@@lilacspooge Absolutely not. You can see markings right of the camera vehicle guiding lane 2 into the exit. There's no way in the world lane 1 would be permitted to continue around.
@@user-mv5zt8qd9l look at the planning board coming from the A14, both lanes go right. Which is where I assumed the traffic was coming from… on review I’ve probably got the starting location of the traffic wrong (as it’s more likely coming from the a43 but as the video has been cut short you cant tell that for a fact.
I’m likely wrong on this occasion, but if coming from the A14 both lanes go right.
The bike one (10:00) could be part readiness and part bike - Drop bar bike presumably rigid fork, looks like he has a bit of lean on coming round the roundabout hard braking in that situation will wipe you. To quote sheldon brown "The steeper you lean, the less you can brake". Need to right yourself and straighten up before you can brake hard.
The driver was an absolute disgrace. If they had floored it when they realised their mistake, they would have been clear. But instead, they stopped right in the path of the cyclist when they had a clear road ahead.
I've been driving for nearly 40 years now probably averaging 20k per year. I've had 2 parking scrapes , 3 curbed wheels, an incident with a lorry which took my door mirror off through roadworks on the M25 which I really had no control over. READ THE ROAD. Read what could happen, make scenarios in your head and do that everytime the scene changes. That's thousands of times per mile. It's FUN. That's why we enjoy driving. KEEP SAFE.
Many of these clips show that all we can control is our own cars and many were driving with the ability to avoid the dodgy careless drivers. Examples on at least two occasions where on coming cars were partly on the wrong side of the road. And the hazard perception drivers were going at a speed where they avoided anything serious happening.
The second clip at 0:51 I think was more positioning rather than speed that caused that one. I am all for reducing speeds on roundabouts, especially the larger spiral ones, as having a 40mph limit is asking for trouble (I refer everyone to your 20mph riding video from yesterday)
It is clear (well, from watching on the sofa) the markings show the cammer should be getting into the middle lane for the exits coming up.
The other driver is a twonk womble for undertaking in the wrong lane on a roundabout regardless of any speed / positioning from the cammer
Not at all. That roundabout is local to me, the viewer was in the correct lane all along.
The cammer was in the correct lane. This is the Raigmore Interchange in Inverness. I live there and use it everyday. If you look at the road markings, it states twice that the lane heads for ‘Perth A9 South’ which is where they exited 👍🏻
@georgebeaton4544 The lane to their left also went that direction, hence my comment about positioning rather than speed led to that. If it was busier then fine, use lane 2 but in quieter time it can potentially lead to confusion.
Not taking anything away from the other driver who was completely wrong, just some friendly (sofa bound) observations but completely take onboard what you say about them being in the correct lane 👍
@@smilerbob I agree with you that the left lane is the better choice. Drivers tend to drive way to fast on this interchange which may have led to the cammer driving a bit too slow 🙂
@@georgebeaton4544 If you are following the road markings for directions to the letter then there is nowhere for you to join the a9 southbound via the left lane unless you are coming from the a96 or have mistakenly exited from the a9 and want to get back on it.
This is because the road markings only direct traffic heading to the A9N into the right lane when exiting from the B951.
Like I said in my main comment, bear scotland messed it up when re designing the layout. Both middle and right lanes should be marked for the A9N just prior to the first overpass because that is the point where traffic from the B951 diverges.
Well done, Ashley. Those people ignoring signs or ignoring safety should send to take extended driving test or get banned from driving.
Extended driving tests would not improve drivers who know exactly how it should be done but choose not to.
7:00 I assumed that they just couldn't judge the length of their vehicle and thought it was much tighter than it was but I think you've got it spot on with them stopping as soon as their reverse sensor starts beeping (and not knowing what that means)
I think the driver was holding a phone to her ear while reversing!
10:00 When I got my first road bike with drop handlebars and rode it in traffic for the first few times I did something a bit similar to that when I slowed down quite slowly, I found it took me a while to get used to the brake levers on drop handlebars and the totally different force, motion and location they need compared to normal bars. I'm used to it now but was something to consider
This makes it even worse if this was the case
@@ashley_neal When you are riding on the hoods of the drops which most people do most of the time you have to use the top of the brake levers which you don't get as much leverage as you would if you were on flat bar brakes, especially if they are not adjusted well. That being said once you are used to them you can stop quickly and easily lock the wheels up. Your viewer didn't seem to make much of an attempt to actually slow down, you can hear the brakes start to drag but not much speed change happens
That’s exactly why I mentioned it on the clip
@@ashley_neal Makes sense and I completely agree with you, just reminded me of one of my mistakes while cycling!
With the lorry at 5:00 we can't see what's behind the cammer, it's entirely possible that with traffic that heavy slowing down to back off wasn't the most viable option. Don't want to accidentally brake check someone
@@MrGBH exactly, and just at the last frame we see a flashing orange light in the left lane, so there was possibly a slower moving vehicle there. Another factor is that modern lorries have gps based speedometers which is why they always seem to go faster than passenger car numpties doing 5 mph less than the limit.
Well letting off the accelerator would be enough. I wouldn't have though.
@@hippopotamus86 you're talking about the cammer, right?
@@Kenjh71 Yes.
Easing off the throttle is very different from brake checking.
"the idiot in the BMW" -surely not!
Correct, he was, as stated in the video, a bellend.
10:29 awfully designed junction as it depends which way you are coming from. traffic coming from the A14 can continue all the way round, therefore both drivers are correct (assuming mini came from A14)
At 09:20, the hedge or bush is overhanging the road, so the white car, although speeding round that bend, moves over to avoid the foliage.
That third clip with instructor and learner going into a car park is my home town, Abergavenny. It used to be all open at the top there but young boy, maybe girl, racers used to make a racket at night so they put up a barrier with a gate at one end to lock. The exit is at bottom on traffic lights and only an entrance. And you can see that when quiet, you still get the show offs. Interesting decision by instructor to halt the car. I suppose he didn't know if that BMW was going out (where you shouldn't do) or carrying around the car park.
I think his decision was based on the BMW practicing drifting without any discernable skill, so he stopped in case the other driver lost control.
@@theaikidoka yes, I agree!
that instructor seemed absolutely joyless
@@vertigoEdits Bit of a limited sample size though. I wouldn't expect him to scream and wave his hands for such a minor issue. Or call out encouragement to the BMW driver for acting like a fool.
@@theaikidoka yeah i just meant he could've at least chuckled. it's not something you see every day and the student took it lightheartedly too. but at the end of the day i don't really care hahaha
I can relate to the car park reversing footage, having only passed back in June, going from the car I learned in to something much smaller has made me ability to judge distance behind go out the window (if you'll pardon the pun).
11:54 this was brilliant driving from the cammer
2:27 Portsdown Hill! Shout out to Micks Burgers!
At 1:16, I have no idea what Ash is trying to say by saying "I do think my viewer's speed and their positioning had a lot to do with that incident". It looks like a) our viewer did an excellent job making that a non-event b) our viewer might have needed a right turn immediately after exiting this roundabout, so it's not reasonable to say our viewer should have been in the left lane just because a near miss occurred this one time. To give Ash the benefit of the doubt, maybe our cammer should have checked the left wing mirror and started reducing speed sooner? Anyways, I feel 10:28 was a more appropriate example of sub-optimal speed and position from our cammer, as they could have reduced their speed as soon as the Mini came into view.
They were going around the junction a bit slowly for how wide and large it was. That's what encourages impatient people to pass you unsafely.
@@user-mv5zt8qd9l Too slow overall speed is a good point. This may have to do with dash cameras creating the illusion of speed, so, in real life, he's driving far slower than your typical speed for a roundabout of that size. Before GPS, it was usually tourists who drove like this, as they used to get into situations where they were going slower than normal but also "paranoid" that they might have to turn right in the immediate future, causing situations like these all the time.
9:40; if you have dash footage.. ALWAYS pull over and offer it. Regardless of how "obvious" it looks to you about one person being the fault.
Multi lane roundabouts seem to be a challenge for many drivers, who automatically decide which lane they need to be in based on some half remembered rule from their driving instructor rather than what is written on the road.
Absolutely true. I had a woman who claimed to be doing her daily commute hit me on a roundabout because "it's at 12 o'clock so I can use both lanes" despite there being 5 sets of signs and markings on the approach showing otherwise. Some people just don't look at signage.
First one is a classic looking for a space fixation. These carparks are a nightmare with people milling about, crossings, my right of way syndrome and above all idiots who drive way to fast. Slow and courteous wins the day in them.
that was the biggest instant driving thru red light karma ive ever seen.
The learner driver in the Caerphilly car park started to drive diagonally across the bays towards the Beemer, he thought “where’s there a blame, there’s a claim”
7:34 parking sensors can be a huge help if used in conjunction with proper observation. Fairly recently I was driving my dad's ford s-max and ended up having to get out of a super tight space, to the point that it was a case of the sensor sound having to go to continuous beep and even then still taking a number of adjustments to get out of the space! I honestly have my doubts as to whether i could have safely got out of the space without the sensors, or it would have certainly taken a lot longer at the very least!
My 11yr-old car didn't have reversing sensors, I had to pay through the nose to get them fitted, but then I've always been crap at reversing..!
I had a classic last week in a transit cage van. busy industrial estate, lots of parked cars i had right of way but due to parked cars my side further up i stopped to let a HGV through in order to enable flow better for everyone, plus he was already moving forwards past the parked vehicles on his side, Secondly had i went further i would be stuck at parked cars due to size of the hgv. As Ashley says its best to keep flow, i get 2 idiots in cars who cant see around my vehicle overtake and charge stright at the lorry forcing him to stop and them onto pavement to avoid a collision. then they cant get through as the HGV is blocking them in. I just shook my head in disbelief as did the driver of said HGV at their stupidity.
9:16 seems a bit unfortunate as that bit of hedge has come down into the road right on the bend. Although what is worse: a head on collision or scratching the side of your car?
The one at 10.23... I go to Glebe Farm once a week, and in the hour im there i hear probably 10-15 'events' amd thats out of peak on a Thursday. If you are leaving the East bound A14 lanes 1&2 are for A43. If you are coming round from Kettering or W/B A14 it is marked that lanes 1&2 are for A14 East.
Tried to do a merge in turn a couple of weeks ago. I think about 8 or 9 did the "oh no you don't jump the queue I'm going to close the space down and push through" thing before anyone had any sense. How does one educate these people when, rightly, it's best not to try and do so through the window?
I'd be reporting that trucj driver to the CPC holder and teh transport commissioner for a meeting with no biscuits
7:43 That'll be the new self-driving functionality. 😊
At around 6:35, one of my pet peeves. Drivers using the wrong side of the road to cut a corner when they've got plenty of space in their own half. Particularly annoying and dangerous when visibility is restricted, as was the case with this clip.
As HGV driver I would say to car drivers: dont hang around on our sides, left or right, as hazards in front ( which you may not see or be aware of) may force that truck to move and change lane in an emergency.
Trucks are heavy and less flexible in their movement , but I gain the impression that the driving public is becoming even less flexible with their " auto obesity" ( unnecessary big vehicles, and reduced vision from big A B,C pillars) , also increasing weight and reduced manoeuvrability of private cars.
That lorry is really poorly and dangerously driven,- more like a sat nav Private hire! 😅
4:20 in, I'm always letting the Lorry in, and tbh, I'm a little surprised at your view of the incident. Lorries need to get where they're going, getting in their way helps no one. I love your videos 👍
The Fiesta coming out of the space was bizarre. She had so much space going backwards and could have done it in two. But when it came to leave she was extremely close to the viewer's car.
For some reason a lot of (I'm afraid women) drivers seem unable to grasp that you can turn the front wheels when reversing. Too often they reverse straight, or almost so, out of a space, then wonder why they don't have enough room to swing clear. I've never understood it.
@@davidjones332
Lack of spacial awareness.
She also appeared to be unable to use the brake, so the car rolled forward again every time she stopped.
As a cyclist there's been a few times where it's clear a car has emerged because the driver is looking down the road or around the roundabout for other cars, and not seen the cyclist right in front of them. I've also had drivers wind down their windows and shout stuff, and absolutely honestly I've no idea what they were saying. Traffic noise pretty much drowns out the words.
Clip 1: Ford driver assumes right of way because he’s looking for parking spot. He’s obviously picked that lane intentionally to swing wide into a bay, lack of indication is no excuse though.
Clip2: I have noticed that some people hug the inside of the roundabout until last minute of their junction. It’s like they’re scared of getting ‘in the way’.
Clip 3: Young people enjoying Tomfoolery in the car park.
Clip 4: The driver obviously has lacked attention.
Clip 5: White car hasn’t even given the motorcyclist a second thought, shocking.
Clip 6: White vehicle has to be an overseas driver.
Clip 7: Lorry driver needs banning from the roads, unfortunately some people have a natural bullying mentality.
Clip 8: 100% agree with you, they’ve got zero driving skills or medical episode.
Clip 9: The war against cycles unfortunately carries on.
Clip 10: Not paying attention to what lies ahead is a dangerous game for narrow country roads!
Clip 11: Ahhhh the nervous driver who passed her test and never got as far as Tesco and back. I think she’s stopping when she hears the beeps too, I don’t think anyone has explained to her how the sensors work.
Clip 12: This clip gave me a smug laugh at the driver who jumped the light. He had to wait anyway hahaha.
Clip13: Driver of the van doesn’t use his mirrors then.
Clip 14: Two things crossed the drivers mind; beat the lights and beat the cyclist so he doesn’t have to get held up by either.
Clip 15: I see this all the time on quiet roads, painted mini roundabouts are worse, drivers just plough through them.
Clip 16: The white car is obviously enjoying his drive too much.
Clip 17: Some people’s courtesy often gets in the way of road sense! It’s not crossed their mind that they’re creating a massive blind spot. The van driver shouldn’t have gone ahead, he’s created his own issue. If you can’t see what’s coming up, don’t go ahead!
Clip 18: Drivers only look for other drivers at the best of times.
Clip 19: The latter, some people assume that Road Traffic laws don’t apply in car parks. Rather than take it as a safety measure, they think “I’m not going to get done for it” and do whatever.
Clip 20: Outside lane drivers join the slip road to get onto the middle/outside lane. Mini should have held back if they were in the wrong lane.
Clip 21: Ahhh Merge In Turn! Merge in turn messes with the British love of queues which is why alot of people struggle with it. They see a line of traffic as a queue which is why they don’t want anyone else coming in in-front of them.
Clip 22: Both cars were not paying attention to the crossing, in fact the second one saw the guy and thought I’m not stopping. Disgusting behaviour and sheer ignorance.
Clip 23: Either the vehicle slide in the rain towards the road markers indicating poor tyre condition, or they just weren’t looking until the last minute. Either way, it’s a worrying clip that people like this are on the roads.
I don’t know what it is about car parks and supermarkets, but it feels like whenever people enter them, or get a trolley, they proceed to go completely blind and ignore the fact that other people exist.
50% of people are less intelligent than the average person
Oh Ashley that was a winner at around 8:17, made even more so by your comment "I've never understood the stereotype personally". Can't imagine what you meant by that.
Have to say that's a bit of an awkward setup and I wonder if it would have been better to put the stop line short of the side street, even though that side street is not part of the traffic light control. Or a Keep Clear / Yellow cross hatching.
The lorry driver was trying to move into lane two to avoid a slow moving vehicle in lane one ... I think a showmans. The other vehicles blocked him. I suspect they'd have been over the 50mph reduction passed Elkesley
2.27 is on Portsdown Hill, overlooking Portsmouth. That roundabout often seems to cause problems there as people coming from where your cammer was coming look to the right and wrongly assume that they are taking the road where the cammer came from? It is also very close to Portsmouth Test Centre, and many tests use that roundabout.
I had a very similar situation to 8:21 a few weeks ago. The lack of situational awareness some people have is really worrying
7:46 The cabbie is also at fault as well as the Beamer - if you can't clear the intersection, don't enter it - if the traffic on other side of lights (like in the video) isn't moving, then you don't go through anyway.
And why did the driver at 9:58 suddenly just STOP dead in the roundabout too Ashely???
Regarding the car driving through the no entry signs, our local Asda has one on their car park, the number of people that ignore it is ridiculous
4:23 Agreed, that lorry driver is an absolute disgrace and what they did at the end was shocking.
I don’t agree with the cammer “…not doing a bad job” as the following distance was too close for the conditions and in another video this would be an example of two egos fighting for road space they don’t own - looks like a deliberate space close on the second attempt by the lorry driver
Would it have been as bad as it was with a simple throttle back and making it a non event?
It was the positiveness of the move out of the blind spot that should be enough to deter but it was already obvious the lorry driver was an idiot. Dropping back would have been my choice.
@@ashley_neal Thought that was the case after I posted but as I had already blurted it out I thought it might as well stay 😁
Some absolutely ⚡️shocking manoeuvres there.
5:09 I was driving this stretch of road today and so many people drive way too close in the 50 section. So often you see people’s hazards on due to sudden heavy breaking in flowing traffic
In the second clip at 0:53, the lane markings on the road say the far right lane is for the right turn. Then after the next traffic lights at 1:02, it says the middle lane and right lane can be used for the exit. Maybe they were a bit slow, but if they were unfamiliar with the area, they might have been following the lane markings as they saw them appear and decided it was safer to say in the lane they were in than try change lanes mid roundabout.
The initial road markings appears to have told them to use the right lane, so I don't think we can criticise them for being in the right lane too much. If they saw the Mercedes in the middle lane once the road markings said the middle lane can be used for their exit, it was probably wise to not change lanes mid roundabout when you can see someone catching up to you in the adjacent lane.
Maybe not perfect from the cammer, but I think the confusing and changing road markings may have been a contributing factor.
If the Mercedes was familiar with the area and fustrated, they should have known the cammer''s lane can be used to exit the roundabout and should have known the cammer may be exiting and should have waited the few seconds it would have taken the cammer to clear the roundabout and for the right lane to split up.
VIOFO- very clear camera system, my current car came fitted with dash am already but will switch when I change the car
6:55,
if you can always reverse park because if safer to reverse in … than it is to reverse out.
Car parks are the unsafest places at times for many reasons.
@@zbf5h89ftb 😊😊
1:16, if cammer is in correct lane, not sure why Ashley is pointing any blame at them. 5:10, cammer starts to tailgate the car in front perhaps due to a bit of road rage and not wanting the lorry in front of them, safety as not their main concern
9:46 I have the same cycling camera and it is deceptive in how it depicts the speed at which you're cycling. It's a 20mph road, judging from the pace differential between him and the black Passat ahead, I would guess he hit that roundabout at 12-15mph. From the shadow of his back wheel at 10:05, his bike has rim brakes, not disc brakes - stopping distance is greatly increased. Assuming standard pads, nothing fancy like SwissStops, it's not an unreasonable distance to stop in.
And the camera makes the distance seem much greater than it actually is.
11:49 Bottom of Butt Lane, West Leeds. That roundabout is just a stream of divs, there's something about the way it's set up too visibility wise, can't really put my finger on it. It's also an interface between a residential area and the ring-road with very little in the way of buffer, and a real clash of driving styles I think depending on whether you're stopping there or passing through.
None of that explains the driving though, it's like they thought the thick markings were the road somehow.
The one where you said the sun wasn't in their eyes may have been incorrect. Look at the long shadows cast by the car when it get in line with the sun and also the sun visor was right down in the oncoming car. It looks like they are in shadow but maybe a bit of sun was peeking through.
As I stepped out of my local supermarket, onto the pedestrian crossing this weekend, a vehicle passed in front of me going the wrong way through a one-way stretch. I must try to remember that signs and road markings are only suggestive and don't apply in car parks.
I didn't know BMW made artics. edit: I notice he paid the monthly subscription for indicators, though.
Thanks Ashley. I think me and the motorcyclist both pooped our pants actually.
02:51 nah mate, send it to Ashley Neal, very nice voice editing! 😂
1:12, there is a big difference between someone just driving slow and dithering causing an obstruction.
But yes I think the car behind got frustrated and just drove around them.
To be fair to the woman outside M&S, that particular retail park is a normal sized retail park but the M&S was once a Currys, once there was spaces in the week and now there isn’t
Not sure what that has to do with anything, she's parked in a mother and child space which is actually wider than a normal space, the simple fact is that her spatial awareness is bad and she needs to go and practice reversing, there are a lot of people driving cars who are just bad at it and a lot who have never even passed a test or been given proper driving instruction, some 2 million drivers on the roads illegally.
"To be fair to the woman outside M&S, that particular retail park is a normal sized retail park but the M&S was once a Currys, once there was spaces in the week and now there isn’t"
Er, what's that got to do with the price of fish?
09:25 I hope you scolded the person who sent that clip in. They have absolutely no wherewithal or vigilance.
Could you bring back the old reminder to like the video? I found the negative number quite funny
Everyone makes mistakes, it is part of being human, and sometimes people just do crazy shit because they have a momentary lapse in brain function. It can be easy to predict that someone is going to do something wrong on the roads just by their position, your prediction from past experience or because they have already begun to do something wrong and you can see that. The worst type of driver (even worse than someone making a mistake) are the ones who see people making mistakes and just drive into them or very close to them just to prove a point. Learn to back off if you see someone doing something wrong or someone being aggressive on the roads. It makes you a better driver than them.
Ashley I suggest you turn your audio up on some of these clips. The cyclists brakes on the roundabout clip at 9:40 are clearly heard being pressed into the rim of the wheel the moment that the car starts slowing down and it becomes apparent they are not going to clear the gap. Also judging by the sound and performance of the brakes I would imagine they are the old style calibers on the rim instead of any kind of discs. It takes longer to stop two wheels than four
*citation needed.
@@zbf5h89ftb Most likely they had their right arm out indicating which meant no front brake, and they anticipated being able to go behind the silver car.
I can't believe the amount of people who think it's OK to exit a roundabout from the inner most lane, I was taught if you can't move over either go round again or leave at the next exit and find somewhere safe to turn round. A lot of these clips are the drivers failing to anticipate what other road users might do, then they blame everybody else!
He gets overtaken and tooted at, love that accent haha
Strangely my wife was mortified when she heard her voice on the TV as we watched the clip😂
9:30 my general rule is to never wait or wave some out at junction or turning, unless I have full control over stopping the flow of traffic behind me. That why this is a really bad idea when you have more than one lane like this clip.
04:16 I won’t mention his name but there’s a driving instructor on TH-cam who makes TH-cam videos (not you Ashley mate, don’t worry!), he made a video about what the different white lines in the centre of the road mean, he pointed to a picture of hatch markings that were surrounded by solid white lines, he said you can’t wait in the box to turn right but you can turn right through the box when you have a gap in the oncoming traffic, I pointed out Highway Code rule 130 to him, I said to him you can’t enter that area at all unless it’s an emergency, he then types a long essay with so and so law apparently saying that you can do it, he’s teaching his learners to do something illegal, I’m not sure why he’s getting so confused about it, it just goes to show you, you can’t trust everything that people say.
Looks like the trucker was fed up of cars not progressing with overtaking. Car drivers are the first to complain when trucks don't progress quick enough when overtaking !!
The clip at 9:13 - slippery conditions omn bend. It looks like the oncoming car swerves to avoid a large branch that's fallen into the road.
It's the 'I don't care' mentality that makes people drive through no entry signs or down any street the wrong way, just to get to a particular place quicker than having to do it the right way and possibly being behind others or losing that last perfect parking space.
The clip with the woman reversing is exactly why it's best to still just trust your own eyes to look out the back window, that's if you're correct in assuming she's probably going by the beeping. I barely look at my reversing camera in these situations heading to other cars (I literally just use it at a glance to check lines when I've reversed and straightened into a bay) and just look back, the systems are only to assist, guidelines but not the complete picture.
It was actually a very good way of shoeing how silly it is to park front end in. I was always taught, mainly by my dad, to reverse into a parking space then it is so simple to emerge. Either way you're going to have to reverse so much safer NOT to reverse into live traffic and pedestrians.
@@johncranna9427 I usually reverse park, it comes from it being company policy where I used to work. But sometimes, in a supermarket car park, you do need to be able to access the boot to put your shopping in. I usually also try and park well away from other cars, even if it means walking a bit further, but it's not always possible if it's busy.
2:31 I know this junction all too well, this is not a rare occurrence.
If im on a bicycle and the traffic ahead of me is slowing down to the point where i can go passed a few cars. Ill only do it if it means im not gona either force them to overtake me in 10 seconds or get them stuck behind me for an extended period of time. Its just being courteous.
Absolutely. I don't understand the mindset of people racing through towns as if they're on the Tour de France.
04:05 I like your sunglasses mate, very cool. 😎 🕶️