Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to bad Australian driving dash cams! This was fun. I'm sure some of you can drive. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Looks to me mostly like good Aussie drivers avoiding accidents with people who drive like they are used to driving on the other side of the road. And some tradies.
Yep. Chuck in some people in a bit of a hurry, and you’ve pretty much nailed the mix. Also, some things to know about driving in Australia: 1. Two solid lines down the middle of the road means traffic on either side of the lines is going in opposite directions. You are not allowed to cross those lines under any circumstances. 2. The entire process of getting a full driver’s license in Australia varies a little bit from state to state, but will take a few years from start to finish and will consist of a learner phase, and at least one provisional phase before you get your full license.
Also even if you are heavy on the melanin mostly the cops here are just going to ask to see your license. In the states they'll often want to check your blood type.
@@shadowkyber2510 It was a morbid joke about how Australian cops will pull you over if you look to dark but US cops will shoot you for the same reason. Checking your blood type was a dark reference to being shot. I hope this now stands as an explanation of a joke about people being killed. And The killing of a joke by over expiation.
There's stereotypes of drivers in Australia for good reason. The stereotypes are: 1. Steering wheel attendants. People driving large trucks that don't really know how to drive large trucks, usually due to a combination of lack of experience, arrogance, and a Dunning Kruger effect. Rarely cause accidents but when they do it's always very messy, and they almost never cause more than one because one is usually enough to loose their licence. 2. Tourists. People that get distracted looking at things rather than pay attention to what they're doing "oh look, it's a kanga...crash". Usually only cause minor accidents, but they're quite common. 3. School Mums. The stereotype comes from stressed out tired Mums driving kids to and from school, the kids start misbehaving in the back seat so the mother turns around to look at their kids to scold them instead of looking where they're going. Any driver can't hold a conversation without making direct eye contact with, or is very easily distracted by, their passengers is a School Mum. Usually only cause minor accidents, but it's horribly common. 4. Old Men In Hats. Anyone that is concentrating so much on where they're going they forget they're not the only person on the road and neglect to look for traffic and fail to give way, but they're usually travelling slowly. Causes a lot of near misses and an occasional minor accident, but scares the hell out of everyone else on the road regularly. 5. Caravaners. City drivers on holiday that don't have a lot of experience with towing anything least of long distance driving. Mostly only a danger to themselves as the locals know better than to get anywhere near them, they can cause some very messy accidents. No one wants to do a dance of death with a Caravaner on a remote outback road at 110kms/hr. 6. Bad Tradies. Always driving a ute, large 4WD, or van, this is the tradesman impatiently trying to get to their next job yesterday, they'll run red lights, drive over traffic islands, on the wrong side of the road, off-road, and overtake dangerously out of pure impatience because they're in too much of a hurry to give a damn about road rules and anyone's safety. Causes a lot of near misses, but when a collision does happen it tends to be a bad one. 7. Hoons. Most commonly young men on Provisional licences, hoons are almost always behind the wheel of a V6 or V8 car, they'll drive fast and do burnouts at intersections because they think it makes them awesome in their own lunch hour. They cause two types of accidents. The first and most common is when they lose control and stuff up their own car without hurting anyone. The second type is rare but always a disaster, when they crash at high speed, causing death and/or serious injury to themselves or someone else. 8. Phone addicts. People that are so addicted to socialising that they can't put their phone down whilst driving, because reading a text message or social media post is more important to them than getting anywhere safely. Most commonly cause rear-end accidents of various severities depending on the speed limit of the road they happen to be on at the time. 9. Cyclists. The stereotype of cyclists causing accidents is a nation-wide joke, if you look at comments on D.C.O.A videos you'll see a lot of jokes about cyclists causing the accident even when there wasn't a cyclist present. Sadly the stereotype does have some validity, but it's usually not professional cyclists that cause the problems, more commonly it's people riding a bike because they never got or lost their driver's licence.
Professional bike riders are normally the problem they like to ride side by side sometimes 4 bikes wide on the road in traffic ! Now if that doesn't cause accidents i don't know what would , And kangaroo crash fatalities are more common then you think last month alone in my area they were responsible for multiple serious crashes and 2 deaths ! Also young women seem to spend more time looking at their phone and friends than the actual road while driving
I just automatically assume everyone in sports car or modified car, with obnoxiously loud exhaust pipe and/or very loud club music are an asshole that desperately needs to have their car keyed
oh yeah, kangaroo crashes. I’ve seen plenty of kangaroo remains on the side of country roads. other animals are also in danger near country roads, like tassie devils. I heard of that at a zoo once. you gotta stay cautious of animals.
You forgot the slow vehicle mentality, I am a school bus driver and the amount of people that must get in front of the bus at any cost is unbelievable. The safety of 28 children is my responsibility twice a day and the space I leave between my bus and the car in front is my stopping distance not a space for a car to squeeze in.
Hey Ryan, glad you found Dashcam Owners Australia. They livestream on Twitch every Sunday night, and every Sunday night I sit there screaming at the bad drivers. We are not all bad drivers. You should pay attention to the verbal responses of the drivers, you will discover us Ausssies can’t help but drop the F bomb when shit happens. You also get a good look at our countryside, Urbana and suburban streetscapes.
That is one of the things I love about watching Dashcams Australia, is for the colourful language we Aussies use. And it makes me feel good, knowing that I'm not the only one who uses such language also. 🤣 I don't go right off as much as some drivers do. I mean some really scream their heads off and I find myself telling them to calm down, even though they can't hear me. 😄 But when I'm out driving and come across a bad driver, I do like to casually say things like, you f-in idiot, dipsh*t, moron, dumb c..., and sometimes say they need to hand their licence in if they're REALLY bad. I can always tell when I'm watching the dashcam of an Aussie, because their responses usually start with WTF are you doing... and then it's either, you idiot, you f-wit, or the most common one I hear on Dashcams Australia is, you d-head. 🤣🤣🤣
To be honest this does happen occasionally but most of the time trips are incident free. That bit where you said the driver timed the green light perfectly, there was a red arrow light pointing right which means you cannot turn right because the traffic on the other side of the road have a green light.
Well, I do not know the rules in Australia, but here a green light (just a dot) means green for everyone. But drivers who want to turn left (hence, in Australia right since it is the opposite) have to yield. The green arrow on a traffic light means that one has the right of way to the indicated direction. If straight and right were to be strictly separated, there needed to be a straight arrow and a right-turn arrow on two different traffic lights. However, even in this case, the driver were still not allowed to drive since he had to give way to oncoming traffic...
@@lexmole If there's a red right turn light, that means no right turn, regardless of whether theres a dot. The red takes precedent and cancels anything. That should be obvious right? There doesn't need to be a straight arrow.... Turning is separated using an arrow, red or green. There is no "right of way" concept in Australia. We have a give way concept only. Meaning you're requireed to give way to traffic, but no traffic ever has a "right of way". Right red turn means no turn, surely that makes sense.
At 2:00 the white dash line means you are allowed to overtake. That is a country road, not a dual carriageway. The Truckee kind of blew it trying to pass the caravan. Double white lines means overtaking is not allowed.
"I just don't understand how someone like that can even be driving around. How did he make it through life that far. How is he not dead". You killed me!
Yes, but their population is over 350 million. Ours is around 25 million. So statistically, doesn't that mean we have more numb nuts per driving population? Usually driving tradie trucks...
@@Kayenne54 bus ticket ? I think we probably spend more on infrastructure, per capita, giving us better road surfaces which in turn makes driving more predictable. But theres probably a heap of little reasons which add to it .
As for the lines on the road at 1:50, Double white lines, no over taking allowed in either direction. One solid line and one dashed line, cars can overtake only from the dashed side. And single dashed lines, vehicles can overtake from either side, as long as safe to do so.
Funny thing is that mercedes van tried to push in on the hoddle/punt road section and was forced onto the tollway - good luck getting off before richmond jerk! Also, that has to be one of the the worst roads in Melbourne during peak hour.
LOL so I drive from my place on the South Coast of NSW to Sydney very often. About 4 months into having my driver's licence, I actually hit a truck on the motorway. It was only a light collision, and when me and the truck driver pulled over to assess the situation, he actually let me walk away with no report to insurance of anything. I was very grateful for that.
Hi Ryan. I guess every country has bad drivers but statistically Australia is a very safe place to drive. This is partly due to our anti speeding laws and anti drink driving laws. For example , in the USA you can drive with a BAC of 0.08% but here in Australia it is 0.05%. If you were caught with 0.08% here you would would be in serious trouble. You can be randomly alcohol - and drug - tested any time of the day or night, certainly here in Victoria. The law is very strictly enforced - and good I say. The broken white line in the middle of the road can be confusing to non Australians. In Australia, unless you are driving on a dual carriageway with multiple lanes in each direction, and normally separated with a median strip or concrete barrier, then the broken white line in the middle of the road means that traffic will be travelling in both directions. You must keep left unless you want to overtake when safe to do so. Driving on the other side of the road is not as bad as you think it will be be. I drove from Portland Maine to Boston and ended up in one piece. You just have to be careful turning left or right to make sure that you don't end up on the wrong side of the road! For a change of pace, watch Norman Gunston interviews Sally Struthers. You will be introduced to quirky Australian comedy/humour. Nothing like American or British humour.
I wouldn't say that our laws on drink driving, speeding, etc are that strict. Most drivers just keep copping fines, perhaps even lose their licence. And then many don't even bother to pay their fines. Or they pay their fines but also carry on like babies, ranting about "revenue raising". Plus, you would be surprised how many people are out there driving when they shouldn't be. They either don't have a licence in the first place or they have been suspended from driving or had it taken away entirely, but they STILL keep on driving regardless. It takes multiple incidents of breaking the same law repeatedly, before the judges even bother to finally give them a mere few months in gaol. Then there are those who flout the laws proudly, who speed all the time, are often drunk &/or high when they're driving, then they sadly kill someone or several people. And then those people get a mere suspended sentence. All because we're supposed to feel sorry for them having had a bad childhood, have drug and alcohol addictions and so on. Some people complain and say that our laws are too tough. I say that our laws are not tough enough. And until you have lost someone or several family members to a selfish, stupid driver on our roads, you will not understand where people like me are coming from, in wanting much tougher punishments for speeding, drunk and drugged drivers.
Once you become accustomed to the fact that bad drivers can not be avoided, you just go about & stay on high alert for the retards that manage to hold on to their licences. I've lived in all three places, the city the suburbs & the country areas & I've personally found they do exist everywhere but like I said you just get into your car & stay on high alert until you exit that car, or truck. I've held my licence for 43 years & only been in 3 accidents none of which I was at fault. #1 truck wiped out the side of my car while I was parked correctly in a lane way in a suburban town. #2 truck ran into the back of same car while I was stopped in peak hour traffic at the top of a rise with a mile of red tail lights in front. #3 a kangaroo jumped out from bushland on the outskirts of an outer Sydney western suburb & smashed the front left quarter of same car. Each time has been repaired & only had to pay an excess for the roo. He had no insurance. I also followed up on the roo & his led was broken but was fully rehabilated by a 'wires' volunteer. I felt really bad for him. So long story short my poor car has been in 3 insidences & is only 6 years old & never had any accidents in any of the 6 other cars I've owned in 43 years. Drive with all your senses turned on & youll be ok. Usually. Lol #1 fan in Oz 🫂🇭🇲😘💜
From Aussie land here. I don't have dashcam footage of it, but last year in November, some idiot rear-ended the car that my mum, little brother and I were in, blamed it on us and then took off like nothing happened. I managed to record a video of them driving off. The police haven't gotten back yet though which is quite upsetting.
A dashed lane is just a divider that means you CAN pass over it to overtake etc. so it can divide oncoming traffic but if clear you can use the oncoming lane to overtake a slower vehicle. If you haven't see some drivers THIS bad in America, you haven't watched American dash cam drivers lol.
Probem in the big cities and that is where a lot of that happens, we have too many foreign drivers and they are useless. having said that you might want to watch some american dash cam stuff, thats deadly.
I'm an Aussie living in Victoria. I can't handle the city so I moved further away to the Mornington Peninsula which is about 80 to 90 kilometres from the city. I live in a bayside suburb. It was quiet at first but now I notice some people think they don't have to use their indicators. 3 times I've nearly been run over by old ladies at zebra crossings. I started to walk across and they didn't see me and I've had to jump back to save myself. Phew lots of near misses and I'm far away from the city.😢
Hey Ryan, here is the information you have been waiting for......Aussie internet speed in Brissy (Brisbane) in the house is (7.05pm) 92.7/38.3, but if you really want speed try using your mobile phone (Telstra) which is 520/25.....all the reason, along with the promise of Tim Tams and Vegemite, for you and your family to visit Aus. And not all drivers are that bad. P.S how can I get some Vegemite to you?? Seeya
In Australia you must stop and give way to all emergency vehicles They all have flashing lights and very loud sirens that change to a woop woop siren as they are coming to an intersection/traffic lights. You can hear them coming for miles so technically you can either stop or get outta the way before they get near you. Fines are enforced here for no compliance.
When you said oh my god , I say that's understatement, raised in the city. I'm 63 good driver , couldn't pay me to drive in Sydney, ridiculous, dangerous
A brief lesson on our roads: line differences. Dotted line down the middle of a single carriage way (most streets/roads) mean one lane is going one way, the other lane the other and the dotted means that it's safe to overtake a vehicle in front of you provided nothing is coming in the oncoming traffic. Double lines means it's not safe and is illegal - they will usually be before corners or stretches of road where a lot of accidents have occurred. In duel carriage ways (2 or more lanes for a single direction) the dotted lines highlight the lane and when its safe to overtake. It will become a solid line when there is an exit which means cars from other lanes shouldn't cross. Thank you for your time. Next lesson we will cover diver incompetence.
Yes something happened with the truck carrying the cars on it. The van in front cut him off, the truck went into the barrier protecting the concrete overpass where the truck stopped. Nearly took the whole front of the truck off. The other one, where the 2 cut across in front of stopped at traffic lights, she in the tan car most probably had an incident with the 1st car and decided to chase him for it. Common actually for that one.
P.S. the only legal time you can cross over a solid line is when turning into a driveway (private residence or commercial) Crossing over double solid to over take is highly illegal & possibly suicidal.
@@stanleywiggins5047 what? I'm literally just responding to your /"the only legal time you can cross over a solid line is when turning into a driveway (private residence or commercial) Crossing over double solid to over take is highly illegal"/ statement. That you can pass a bicycle over single, and double solid lines in many states legally. You never mentioned a specific clip, I don't know who you are, so I've no idea why you are talking about a hook turn, when you never mentioned it.
@@PBMS123 Confusion, I got to stop looking at comments on my comments. Then I won't get confused. Or just stop posting comments in an attempt to share some of my 64 years of life in OZ. With someone from overseas.
We have a very high population of Asian drivers in Australia and they make for interesting driving here. The rest of the bad drivers are just either hoons or shitheads. And of course then you have the impatient “you should be going the posted speed limit” folks. It really is a mixed bag🙂
There's certain countries we allow licence transfers from and those licences aren't always acquired legitimately. There's times even we don't understand how or why in these videos 🤣
2:52 I live where this happened and people do this all the time, idk how old the video was but they put a whole bunch of new No trying signs everywhere since there’s a police station like a one minute walk at max away so they probably are hoping to catch more people doing illegal stuff like that
haha I love the most common response from Aussie drivers involves the word fuck in some permutation or other :):) yeah bunch of idiots on the road, you can pick em a mile off, the swervers, dodgers and inappropriate lane changes.... oh, and the fwits that just stop in the middle of the road.........
I don’t know why Australians continue to defend ourselves on saying we aren’t that bad of drivers look most of them maybe not. But this doesn’t just happen in cities I’ve only lived in rural towns and bigger beach towns and I’ve seen this so regularly and our worst problem is SPEEDING. For a country that is so “laid back” we all need to stop the speeding!
I’m 42 and I’ve never seen driving like this in Australia. It’s certainly not representative of our driving. You’d have bad drivers like this anywhere in the world
Ryan, To put things in perspective: 1. The majority of Australian drivers are pretty good, and WAY better at indicating and looking first before pulling into traffic, plus when changing lanes. From personal experience, the reverse can be said about the majority of American drivers, who pull out into traffic without looking (and often without care for their actions), and hardly ever indicate before doing so (if at all). 2. Drivers of BOTH countries are (unfortunately increasingly) ignoring the road markings, and/or unaware of their meaning. 3. In most of the world, stop signs mean STOP, whereas in America it means pause (maybe)/slow down (sometimes)/nothing. 4. The purpose of these videos are to show the bad drivers, and not the good ones. 5. More Australians put out "bad drivers" videos, compared with Americans, considering the HUGE population difference. Cheers.
You mention Australians need to read road signs, the Camry that's mounted the median, and reverses to have the front bumper flex..... it had run over the previously squashed sign.... which either said Keep Left or No U-turn.... As for the others.... there's too many eee-gits on the road.... but you'll notice the aerials on the front bumper or bull-bar? And at least one was a true tradie, with the bottomless stubbieholder placed over it, instead of the gearshift....
that last ones tyre exploded thought that was a pretty good save bloodyscary when that happens at speed you can actally flip a car if you break to hard those little cars spin easily someone has had practice doing donuts ;D
I really don't understand how some people got their licence...I was failed because it took me too long to pick a driveway to turn around. My whole manoeuvre was perfect but because I didn't pick the very first legal driveway, I was failed.
Never forget that international tourists are also driving. An American bloke i know of clocked up over $2000 in just 2 weeks in Melbourne vic and didn’t have to pay 💰 1 penny because federal law doesn’t allow passports to be held until infringements are paid. Running red lights, blowing stop 🛑 signs,excessive speed in Melbourne cbd precinct, driving wrong way etc etc list is long. And mostly caught red handed by police. Great system Aus has Lol 😂
2:18 A white broken lane means you can overtake. But b efore and after, keep to the left lane. 8:20 Double yellow unbroken, NO overtaking 14:47 actually he failed. The turn right was red. Go straight was green.
The guy crossing the median strip in front of the bus.. I thought I recognised the area and it is actually in my city. I got hit by a car at that very intersection. Don't know why but this makes me feel special..
Gahhhhh ppl are SO bad for not giving way to emergency vehicles. It didn't used to be like this, it's like they don't teach it anymore, no one knows what to do!!!
Having watched quite a few American's diving badly Vid's. I have four things to say. Americans tail gate, don't use their brakes immediately after being involved in a crash or try to evade a collision when they are about to run into another vehicle and do not show manners to other drivers. But, every time there is a crash, people stop and help the person(s). Respect for the community spirit shown in difficult times.
By law we have to give way to ambos, cops and fires 🔥 with their light on or lights/sirens. We also as of last year have to slow down to 25km /hr when passing them if on the same side of the road you are driving on.
for kilometres I was an Uber driver for 4yrs and have seen some of the craziest things and have been pursued and break checked on a freeway…. I’d have to say that majority of these drivers are international that obviously don’t know the rules yet or are in the process. A lot are elderly as well. I would say most people are good drivers, and this is just the worst of the worst, caught on camera, probably very similar to the US.
A few of them i dont think intended to go up curbs but it looks like the roads were wet prob after summer first rains after a dry perikd, oils on the road, they are going too fast around cirners abd round abouts and lost control of the cars. One guy who had dash cam where a car came out of at him looks like that driver filming might have been in wrong, if u look how fast he was going conpared to the other cars he was prob going way too fast above speed limit.
Theres always 3 seconds between a red light and green light, but even then its always best to wait an extra 3 seconds for those extra shitheads (both cars and pedestrians).
Compared to US dashcam videos, there are few major smashes locally, just stupid driving by a few nitwits that should not be licensed to drive but at least few major smashes seem to happen compared to US.
Tbh tradies are the worst drivers. A lot of them don’t care if they get finned because the company will pay for it. So you see them constantly breaking basic road rules, or being a dick head & going up right behind your car to pressure you to move or go faster over the speed limit.
Those long straight roads with trees either side are mesmerizing. How anyone stays awake on those long trips I will never know. I lived in Melbourne 1986 and I worked for a motor insurance company
I think GPS units cause some of these accidents as I think some people can't drive and listen to instructions from the units. I had a near miss today when some douche bag couldn't read arrows on the ground.
Most drivers in Aus are ok. But just like anywhere you go in any Country there will be someone who can’t drive well and should not have a licence. Most bad drivers here are either foreigners, young hoons, or impatient people.
Mostly people here are good drivers - you do get some idiots but generally your ok. People distracted using phones while driving is a big problem though. Been driving here for nearly 35 years and only had one accident where someone ran up the back of me and that was because we all had to suddenly stop just around a blind corner. In general your ok on the roads - and we have a lot of police, speed and red light cameras.
Having been to countries where it is *not safe to follow the road rules* because nobody is, and doing so will throw them off/make you react against the norm, I am really curious if these ‘bad drivers’ are ‘raised to Australian norms’ or are imports from a different driving norm. The fact that I’ll never know kinda sucks ^_^
Mostly Asian/middle eastern imports. The worst one I've had was; I'm at an intersection, waiting for the light to go right. Some (Pakistani I think) bloke in a van is across from me going straight. As soon as the lights change (both sides can turn right) the idiot takes off and almost goes under the front of my truck. I stopped so he can get past and the moron accelerates to get out of the way, and as he goes by this absolute mungbean puts BOTH HANDS out of the window to wave an apology at me! Like fuck my dog mate, at least one eye on the road and hand on the wheel!
Typically it's people who aren't from here or who are first or second generation and haven't bothered to learn about this country because they're too busy claiming to be from where they're family emigrated from.
I the state of Victoria they have strange road rules, in regards to Melbourne they have trams, And to make a right turn at a traffic light "you have to pull over to the left in front of the car's waiting at the red light before you can turn right.. they call it a J turn or a hook turn.. Almost everyone else from other states when in Melbourne, we turn left, left, & left to get where we want to go. Rather than stuff about with their crazy road rules.
I was dead set scared of hook turns being a country girl on the city but one or two down - easy peasy! So much better than waiting nervously in traffic in the centre trying to be ready to take advantage of a clear spot
@@macdac9861 Melbourne residents believe the hook turn is universal across Australia.. N.S.W. south coast, T intersection.. turning left or right.. with a dedicated right turn only lane, one dumb Victorian pulled over to the far left against the gutter, & pulled a hook turn, knocking me off my 10 speed push bike as I was legally turning left. And I was abused by the Victorian driver. Luckily the cop shop was & is 75m to the left. And the idiot was charged with " illegal turn, causing injury" In Victoria it might be legal every other state NO.
Looks to me mostly like good Aussie drivers avoiding accidents with people who drive like they are used to driving on the other side of the road. And some tradies.
Yeah us tradies are bad I can admit my bad my bad
Yep. Chuck in some people in a bit of a hurry, and you’ve pretty much nailed the mix.
Also, some things to know about driving in Australia:
1. Two solid lines down the middle of the road means traffic on either side of the lines is going in opposite directions. You are not allowed to cross those lines under any circumstances.
2. The entire process of getting a full driver’s license in Australia varies a little bit from state to state, but will take a few years from start to finish and will consist of a learner phase, and at least one provisional phase before you get your full license.
Also even if you are heavy on the melanin mostly the cops here are just going to ask to see your license. In the states they'll often want to check your blood type.
Mostly the bad drivers are people that have come from another country surprisingly. We have lots of them so makes sense
@@shadowkyber2510 It was a morbid joke about how Australian cops will pull you over if you look to dark but US cops will shoot you for the same reason. Checking your blood type was a dark reference to being shot.
I hope this now stands as an explanation of a joke about people being killed.
And
The killing of a joke by over expiation.
There's stereotypes of drivers in Australia for good reason. The stereotypes are:
1. Steering wheel attendants. People driving large trucks that don't really know how to drive large trucks, usually due to a combination of lack of experience, arrogance, and a Dunning Kruger effect. Rarely cause accidents but when they do it's always very messy, and they almost never cause more than one because one is usually enough to loose their licence.
2. Tourists. People that get distracted looking at things rather than pay attention to what they're doing "oh look, it's a kanga...crash". Usually only cause minor accidents, but they're quite common.
3. School Mums. The stereotype comes from stressed out tired Mums driving kids to and from school, the kids start misbehaving in the back seat so the mother turns around to look at their kids to scold them instead of looking where they're going. Any driver can't hold a conversation without making direct eye contact with, or is very easily distracted by, their passengers is a School Mum. Usually only cause minor accidents, but it's horribly common.
4. Old Men In Hats. Anyone that is concentrating so much on where they're going they forget they're not the only person on the road and neglect to look for traffic and fail to give way, but they're usually travelling slowly. Causes a lot of near misses and an occasional minor accident, but scares the hell out of everyone else on the road regularly.
5. Caravaners. City drivers on holiday that don't have a lot of experience with towing anything least of long distance driving. Mostly only a danger to themselves as the locals know better than to get anywhere near them, they can cause some very messy accidents. No one wants to do a dance of death with a Caravaner on a remote outback road at 110kms/hr.
6. Bad Tradies. Always driving a ute, large 4WD, or van, this is the tradesman impatiently trying to get to their next job yesterday, they'll run red lights, drive over traffic islands, on the wrong side of the road, off-road, and overtake dangerously out of pure impatience because they're in too much of a hurry to give a damn about road rules and anyone's safety. Causes a lot of near misses, but when a collision does happen it tends to be a bad one.
7. Hoons. Most commonly young men on Provisional licences, hoons are almost always behind the wheel of a V6 or V8 car, they'll drive fast and do burnouts at intersections because they think it makes them awesome in their own lunch hour. They cause two types of accidents. The first and most common is when they lose control and stuff up their own car without hurting anyone. The second type is rare but always a disaster, when they crash at high speed, causing death and/or serious injury to themselves or someone else.
8. Phone addicts. People that are so addicted to socialising that they can't put their phone down whilst driving, because reading a text message or social media post is more important to them than getting anywhere safely. Most commonly cause rear-end accidents of various severities depending on the speed limit of the road they happen to be on at the time.
9. Cyclists. The stereotype of cyclists causing accidents is a nation-wide joke, if you look at comments on D.C.O.A videos you'll see a lot of jokes about cyclists causing the accident even when there wasn't a cyclist present. Sadly the stereotype does have some validity, but it's usually not professional cyclists that cause the problems, more commonly it's people riding a bike because they never got or lost their driver's licence.
exactly
Professional bike riders are normally the problem they like to ride side by side sometimes 4 bikes wide on the road in traffic ! Now if that doesn't cause accidents i don't know what would , And kangaroo crash fatalities are more common then you think last month alone in my area they were responsible for multiple serious crashes and 2 deaths !
Also young women seem to spend more time looking at their phone and friends than the actual road while driving
I just automatically assume everyone in sports car or modified car, with obnoxiously loud exhaust pipe and/or very loud club music are an asshole that desperately needs to have their car keyed
oh yeah, kangaroo crashes. I’ve seen plenty of kangaroo remains on the side of country roads. other animals are also in danger near country roads, like tassie devils. I heard of that at a zoo once. you gotta stay cautious of animals.
You forgot the slow vehicle mentality, I am a school bus driver and the amount of people that must get in front of the bus at any cost is unbelievable. The safety of 28 children is my responsibility twice a day and the space I leave between my bus and the car in front is my stopping distance not a space for a car to squeeze in.
Hey Ryan, glad you found Dashcam Owners Australia. They livestream on Twitch every Sunday night, and every Sunday night I sit there screaming at the bad drivers. We are not all bad drivers. You should pay attention to the verbal responses of the drivers, you will discover us Ausssies can’t help but drop the F bomb when shit happens. You also get a good look at our countryside, Urbana and suburban streetscapes.
Don't forget the C Or FN' C.
@@marktaylor3802 or a string that would make sailors blush
I totally agree with you mate us Aussies love that word. We use that language all the time.
That is one of the things I love about watching Dashcams Australia, is for the colourful language we Aussies use.
And it makes me feel good, knowing that I'm not the only one who uses such language also. 🤣
I don't go right off as much as some drivers do. I mean some really scream their heads off and I find myself telling them to calm down, even though they can't hear me. 😄
But when I'm out driving and come across a bad driver, I do like to casually say things like, you f-in idiot, dipsh*t, moron, dumb c..., and sometimes say they need to hand their licence in if they're REALLY bad.
I can always tell when I'm watching the dashcam of an Aussie, because their responses usually start with WTF are you doing... and then it's either, you idiot, you f-wit, or the most common one I hear on Dashcams Australia is, you d-head. 🤣🤣🤣
To be honest this does happen occasionally but most of the time trips are incident free. That bit where you said the driver timed the green light perfectly, there was a red arrow light pointing right which means you cannot turn right because the traffic on the other side of the road have a green light.
That last one wasn’t on purpose, he pulled over because he shit himself , he was so close to rolling his little toy car lol😂
14:50 there's still a red right turn arrow, so he didn't predict shit, he just ran a red, while turning from the wrong lane
I think Ryan realised that at the last second, before it went onto the next clip from Dashcams Aust.
Well, I do not know the rules in Australia, but here a green light (just a dot) means green for everyone. But drivers who want to turn left (hence, in Australia right since it is the opposite) have to yield. The green arrow on a traffic light means that one has the right of way to the indicated direction. If straight and right were to be strictly separated, there needed to be a straight arrow and a right-turn arrow on two different traffic lights.
However, even in this case, the driver were still not allowed to drive since he had to give way to oncoming traffic...
@@lexmole If there's a red right turn light, that means no right turn, regardless of whether theres a dot. The red takes precedent and cancels anything. That should be obvious right? There doesn't need to be a straight arrow....
Turning is separated using an arrow, red or green. There is no "right of way" concept in Australia. We have a give way concept only. Meaning you're requireed to give way to traffic, but no traffic ever has a "right of way". Right red turn means no turn, surely that makes sense.
At 2:00 the white dash line means you are allowed to overtake. That is a country road, not a dual carriageway. The Truckee kind of blew it trying to pass the caravan.
Double white lines means overtaking is not allowed.
That last one.. reminds me of the time my passenger decided to see what would have if they pulled the handbrake on.. I wasnt impressed..
"I just don't understand how someone like that can even be driving around. How did he make it through life that far. How is he not dead". You killed me!
I'll point out that the fatality rate for car accidents is twice as high in the US as Australia's.
Nearly 5x more like
Yes, but their population is over 350 million. Ours is around 25 million. So statistically, doesn't that mean we have more numb nuts per driving population? Usually driving tradie trucks...
@@Kayenne54 that is a per capita statistic .
@@macman1469 Interesting. What would be the solution to this issue, do you think?
@@Kayenne54 bus ticket ? I think we probably spend more on infrastructure, per capita, giving us better road surfaces which in turn makes driving more predictable. But theres probably a heap of little reasons which add to it .
As for the lines on the road at 1:50, Double white lines, no over taking allowed in either direction. One solid line and one dashed line, cars can overtake only from the dashed side. And single dashed lines, vehicles can overtake from either side, as long as safe to do so.
“I don’t think that a lane?” 😂😂😂 no it isn’t, it’s an emergency lane hahaha
Funny thing is that mercedes van tried to push in on the hoddle/punt road section and was forced onto the tollway - good luck getting off before richmond jerk! Also, that has to be one of the the worst roads in Melbourne during peak hour.
LOL so I drive from my place on the South Coast of NSW to Sydney very often.
About 4 months into having my driver's licence, I actually hit a truck on the motorway.
It was only a light collision, and when me and the truck driver pulled over to assess the situation, he actually let me walk away with no report to insurance of anything.
I was very grateful for that.
Hi Ryan. I guess every country has bad drivers but statistically Australia is a very safe place to drive. This
is partly due to our anti speeding laws and anti drink driving laws. For example , in the USA you can drive with a BAC of 0.08% but here in Australia it is 0.05%. If you were caught with 0.08% here you would would be in serious trouble. You can be randomly alcohol - and drug - tested any time of the day or night,
certainly here in Victoria. The law is very strictly enforced - and good I say.
The broken white line in the middle of the road can be confusing to non Australians. In Australia, unless you are driving on a dual carriageway with multiple lanes in each direction, and normally
separated with a median strip or concrete barrier, then the broken white line in the middle of the road means that traffic will be travelling in both directions. You must keep left unless you want to overtake when safe to do so.
Driving on the other side of the road is not as bad as you think it will be be. I drove from Portland Maine to Boston and ended up in one piece. You just have to be careful turning left or right to make sure that you don't end up on the wrong side of the road!
For a change of pace, watch Norman Gunston interviews Sally Struthers. You will be introduced to quirky Australian comedy/humour. Nothing like American or British humour.
I wouldn't say that our laws on drink driving, speeding, etc are that strict.
Most drivers just keep copping fines, perhaps even lose their licence.
And then many don't even bother to pay their fines. Or they pay their fines but also carry on like babies, ranting about "revenue raising".
Plus, you would be surprised how many people are out there driving when they shouldn't be.
They either don't have a licence in the first place or they have been suspended from driving or had it taken away entirely, but they STILL keep on driving regardless.
It takes multiple incidents of breaking the same law repeatedly, before the judges even bother to finally give them a mere few months in gaol.
Then there are those who flout the laws proudly, who speed all the time, are often drunk &/or high when they're driving, then they sadly kill someone or several people.
And then those people get a mere suspended sentence. All because we're supposed to feel sorry for them having had a bad childhood, have drug and alcohol addictions and so on.
Some people complain and say that our laws are too tough.
I say that our laws are not tough enough.
And until you have lost someone or several family members to a selfish, stupid driver on our roads, you will not understand where people like me are coming from, in wanting much tougher punishments for speeding, drunk and drugged drivers.
This is mainly in the big east coast cities of Sydney and Melbourne. Oh, and crazy Queensland ❤️🐨
I’m lying in bed watching and still pumping the brakes lol
Lmao spent most of the time looking at the road signs to determine where they came from 😂🤣…. I LOL’d when I saw one for Brisbane
hahaha I always recognise the sunnybank roads
Since covid people have forgotten how to drive even the authorities say so.😳
I don't think they knew how to drive before covid...
Both of these comments, abso-frigging-lutely
Once you become accustomed to the fact that bad drivers can not be avoided, you just go about & stay on high alert for the retards that manage to hold on to their licences. I've lived in all three places, the city the suburbs & the country areas & I've personally found they do exist everywhere but like I said you just get into your car & stay on high alert until you exit that car, or truck. I've held my licence for 43 years & only been in 3 accidents none of which I was at fault. #1 truck wiped out the side of my car while I was parked correctly in a lane way in a suburban town. #2 truck ran into the back of same car while I was stopped in peak hour traffic at the top of a rise with a mile of red tail lights in front. #3 a kangaroo jumped out from bushland on the outskirts of an outer Sydney western suburb & smashed the front left quarter of same car. Each time has been repaired & only had to pay an excess for the roo. He had no insurance. I also followed up on the roo & his led was broken but was fully rehabilated by a 'wires' volunteer. I felt really bad for him. So long story short my poor car has been in 3 insidences & is only 6 years old & never had any accidents in any of the 6 other cars I've owned in 43 years. Drive with all your senses turned on & youll be ok. Usually. Lol #1 fan in Oz 🫂🇭🇲😘💜
From Aussie land here. I don't have dashcam footage of it, but last year in November, some idiot rear-ended the car that my mum, little brother and I were in, blamed it on us and then took off like nothing happened. I managed to record a video of them driving off. The police haven't gotten back yet though which is quite upsetting.
This was good. Crazy thing about this is that none of the footage showed WA roads, it’s all Eastern States drivers based on plates/roads/landmarks.
A dashed lane is just a divider that means you CAN pass over it to overtake etc. so it can divide oncoming traffic but if clear you can use the oncoming lane to overtake a slower vehicle. If you haven't see some drivers THIS bad in America, you haven't watched American dash cam drivers lol.
Probem in the big cities and that is where a lot of that happens, we have too many foreign drivers and they are useless. having said that you might want to watch some american dash cam stuff, thats deadly.
I'm an Aussie living in Victoria. I can't handle the city so I moved further away to the Mornington Peninsula which is about 80 to 90 kilometres from the city. I live in a bayside suburb. It was quiet at first but now I notice some people think they don't have to use their indicators. 3 times I've nearly been run over by old ladies at zebra crossings. I started to walk across and they didn't see me and I've had to jump back to save myself. Phew lots of near misses and I'm far away from the city.😢
Hey Ryan, here is the information you have been waiting for......Aussie internet speed in Brissy (Brisbane) in the house is (7.05pm) 92.7/38.3, but if you really want speed try using your mobile phone (Telstra) which is 520/25.....all the reason, along with the promise of Tim Tams and Vegemite, for you and your family to visit Aus. And not all drivers are that bad. P.S how can I get some Vegemite to you?? Seeya
In Australia you must stop and give way to all emergency vehicles They all have flashing lights and very loud sirens that change to a woop woop siren as they are coming to an intersection/traffic lights. You can hear them coming for miles so technically you can either stop or get outta the way before they get near you. Fines are enforced here for no compliance.
Re dominos. Started in Brisbane,Qld,Australia....as Sylvio's.... Ad was "bring Sylvio's to your door"
You've gotta love the Australian accent, without a doubt possibly the best English accent other than a Yorkshire English accent
When you said oh my god , I say that's understatement, raised in the city. I'm 63 good driver , couldn't pay me to drive in Sydney, ridiculous, dangerous
Surely those two ppl in a row are travelling together? I fkn hope so 🤣🤣🤣
A brief lesson on our roads: line differences.
Dotted line down the middle of a single carriage way (most streets/roads) mean one lane is going one way, the other lane the other and the dotted means that it's safe to overtake a vehicle in front of you provided nothing is coming in the oncoming traffic. Double lines means it's not safe and is illegal - they will usually be before corners or stretches of road where a lot of accidents have occurred.
In duel carriage ways (2 or more lanes for a single direction) the dotted lines highlight the lane and when its safe to overtake. It will become a solid line when there is an exit which means cars from other lanes shouldn't cross.
Thank you for your time. Next lesson we will cover diver incompetence.
Yes something happened with the truck carrying the cars on it. The van in front cut him off, the truck went into the barrier protecting the concrete overpass where the truck stopped. Nearly took the whole front of the truck off. The other one, where the 2 cut across in front of stopped at traffic lights, she in the tan car most probably had an incident with the 1st car and decided to chase him for it. Common actually for that one.
14:46 the guy over took another car in the turning lane only to run a red turning light
P.S. the only legal time you can cross over a solid line is when turning into a driveway (private residence or commercial)
Crossing over double solid to over take is highly illegal & possibly suicidal.
You can to pasa a bicycle in most states.
@@PBMS123
Who was passing,? The idiot was doing an illegal hook turn at a T intersection in NSW. And knocked me off the bike. Plain and simple
@@stanleywiggins5047 what? I'm literally just responding to your
/"the only legal time you can cross over a solid line is when turning into a driveway (private residence or commercial) Crossing over double solid to over take is highly illegal"/ statement.
That you can pass a bicycle over single, and double solid lines in many states legally.
You never mentioned a specific clip, I don't know who you are, so I've no idea why you are talking about a hook turn, when you never mentioned it.
@@PBMS123
Confusion, I got to stop looking at comments on my comments.
Then I won't get confused.
Or just stop posting comments in an attempt to share some of my 64 years of life in OZ. With someone from overseas.
@@stanleywiggins5047 I'm Australian.
But do you get what Im saying at least.
Half the time it’s people from other countries not knowing how to drive in Australia 😂
Should of named the video, try not to get anxious challenge 😂😂
We have a very high population of Asian drivers in Australia and they make for interesting driving here. The rest of the bad drivers are just either hoons or shitheads. And of course then you have the impatient “you should be going the posted speed limit” folks. It really is a mixed bag🙂
6:03 The SIREN would be a giveaway! Obviously there was a siren as the guy with the dashcam slowed waaaaaay before the intersection.
There's certain countries we allow licence transfers from and those licences aren't always acquired legitimately. There's times even we don't understand how or why in these videos 🤣
2:52 I live where this happened and people do this all the time, idk how old the video was but they put a whole bunch of new No trying signs everywhere since there’s a police station like a one minute walk at max away so they probably are hoping to catch more people doing illegal stuff like that
haha I love the most common response from Aussie drivers involves the word fuck in some permutation or other :):)
yeah bunch of idiots on the road, you can pick em a mile off, the swervers, dodgers and inappropriate lane changes.... oh, and the fwits that just stop in the middle of the road.........
That "jerk" you mentioned was an ambulance
I don’t know why Australians continue to defend ourselves on saying we aren’t that bad of drivers look most of them maybe not. But this doesn’t just happen in cities I’ve only lived in rural towns and bigger beach towns and I’ve seen this so regularly and our worst problem is SPEEDING. For a country that is so “laid back” we all need to stop the speeding!
I’m 42 and I’ve never seen driving like this in Australia. It’s certainly not representative of our driving. You’d have bad drivers like this anywhere in the world
Car: *big boom*
Wheel: *flies off*
Dude: what the fuck
Ryan,
To put things in perspective:
1. The majority of Australian drivers are pretty good, and WAY better at indicating and looking first before pulling into traffic, plus when changing lanes.
From personal experience, the reverse can be said about the majority of American drivers, who pull out into traffic without looking (and often without care for their actions), and hardly ever indicate before doing so (if at all).
2. Drivers of BOTH countries are (unfortunately increasingly) ignoring the road markings, and/or unaware of their meaning.
3. In most of the world, stop signs mean STOP, whereas in America it means pause (maybe)/slow down (sometimes)/nothing.
4. The purpose of these videos are to show the bad drivers, and not the good ones.
5. More Australians put out "bad drivers" videos, compared with Americans, considering the HUGE population difference.
Cheers.
You mention Australians need to read road signs, the Camry that's mounted the median, and reverses to have the front bumper flex..... it had run over the previously squashed sign.... which either said Keep Left or No U-turn....
As for the others.... there's too many eee-gits on the road.... but you'll notice the aerials on the front bumper or bull-bar? And at least one was a true tradie, with the bottomless stubbieholder placed over it, instead of the gearshift....
that last ones tyre exploded thought that was a pretty good save bloodyscary when that happens at speed you can actally flip a car if you break to hard those little cars spin easily someone has had practice doing donuts ;D
I really don't understand how some people got their licence...I was failed because it took me too long to pick a driveway to turn around. My whole manoeuvre was perfect but because I didn't pick the very first legal driveway, I was failed.
Lol. I live in Virginia now, OMG no one uses their blinker here. Drives me insane.
Crystal Meth or Ice contribute to some angry agressive driving, and the cars going through red lights are on their cell phones !
Never forget that international tourists are also driving.
An American bloke i know of clocked up over $2000 in just 2 weeks in Melbourne vic and didn’t have to pay 💰 1 penny because federal law doesn’t allow passports to be held until infringements are paid.
Running red lights, blowing stop 🛑 signs,excessive speed in Melbourne cbd precinct, driving wrong way etc etc list is long.
And mostly caught red handed by police.
Great system Aus has Lol 😂
I didn't know that! I did know that diplomats can just about get away with murder though!
That’s good driving in Australia
As an Australian we don’t know how to merge.
2:18 A white broken lane means you can overtake. But b efore and after, keep to the left lane.
8:20 Double yellow unbroken, NO overtaking
14:47 actually he failed. The turn right was red. Go straight was green.
The guy crossing the median strip in front of the bus.. I thought I recognised the area and it is actually in my city. I got hit by a car at that very intersection. Don't know why but this makes me feel special..
Gahhhhh ppl are SO bad for not giving way to emergency vehicles. It didn't used to be like this, it's like they don't teach it anymore, no one knows what to do!!!
@15:30 The guy saying "Fuck me, I'm sorry". Isn't that an American accent? Ha, ha.
That's why I use the train and bus, we have it, I use it. Transperth for the win mate
You'll notice most of the drivers pulling stunts are either in FWDs or utes. They're the classic young Aussie bloke car, which explains everything.
the mojority of us are great drivers thank you very much
Having watched quite a few American's diving badly Vid's. I have four things to say. Americans tail gate, don't use their brakes immediately after being involved in a crash or try to evade a collision when they are about to run into another vehicle and do not show manners to other drivers. But, every time there is a crash, people stop and help the person(s). Respect for the community spirit shown in difficult times.
Bad drivers everywhere, big cities, small towns. Noticed most of the idiocy comes down to impatience. People behind the wheel need to learn to chill
If the ambo's coming up behind you, you let them pass then follow behind them.. Clear way to get out of traffic 👌
By law we have to give way to ambos, cops and fires 🔥 with their light on or lights/sirens. We also as of last year have to slow down to 25km /hr when passing them if on the same side of the road you are driving on.
Wash dash in Australia means you can overtake when safe to do so
The purpose of median strips is to test your suspension.Every Aussie knows that.
for kilometres I was an Uber driver for 4yrs and have seen some of the craziest things and have been pursued and break checked on a freeway…. I’d have to say that majority of these drivers are international that obviously don’t know the rules yet or are in the process. A lot are elderly as well.
I would say most people are good drivers, and this is just the worst of the worst, caught on camera, probably very similar to the US.
A few of them i dont think intended to go up curbs but it looks like the roads were wet prob after summer first rains after a dry perikd, oils on the road, they are going too fast around cirners abd round abouts and lost control of the cars.
One guy who had dash cam where a car came out of at him looks like that driver filming might have been in wrong, if u look how fast he was going conpared to the other cars he was prob going way too fast above speed limit.
No Ryan, actually 14:57 That guy ran the red arrow light. He had no right to turn...
In one of the videos I saw a street that was actually near my house.
Theres always 3 seconds between a red light and green light, but even then its always best to wait an extra 3 seconds for those extra shitheads (both cars and pedestrians).
I wish they'd have a segment of these on the news every night, with the rego number, name and picture of the perpetrators. Name and shame em.
Compared to US dashcam videos, there are few major smashes locally, just stupid driving by a few nitwits that should not be licensed to drive but at least few major smashes seem to happen compared to US.
Bro all people drive bad in every country
Tbh tradies are the worst drivers. A lot of them don’t care if they get finned because the company will pay for it. So you see them constantly breaking basic road rules, or being a dick head & going up right behind your car to pressure you to move or go faster over the speed limit.
Lol checkout the Bayswater bridge 🤣
A lot of bad drivers are here from overseas on international licences
Definitely some new undies required in some of those situations!
😂😂🇦🇺🇦🇺 you can see we are a religious mob, Jesus Christ was mentioned a few times 🍻🍻
Dash Cam Aus Drivers should be renamed to "F@#K me". We aren't all bad drivers but these clips show the f'nuckles that exist everywhere.
What's the bet most of these people were either drunk or high? The number of people driving under the influence is staggering
14:50 the arrow was also red.
Yeah, Driving in Australia is actuality a Sport, much like everything else. Rules and Laws are treated as Options.
, ;)
2:21 that truck was trying to overtake the car but saw another car come but it didn’t have enough room to switch lanes back so he went off the road
14:54 green light, red turn arrow….
I like your show. But no one ever says good arvo.
Arvo just refers to the afternoon. We say G'day any time of the day or night
Those long straight roads with trees either side are mesmerizing. How anyone stays awake on those long trips I will never know. I lived in Melbourne 1986 and I worked for a motor insurance company
I think GPS units cause some of these accidents as I think some people can't drive and listen to instructions from the units. I had a near miss today when some douche bag couldn't read arrows on the ground.
Most drivers in Aus are ok. But just like anywhere you go in any Country there will be someone who can’t drive well and should not have a licence. Most bad drivers here are either foreigners, young hoons, or impatient people.
That last one.. lol.. pulling over to change his pants.. dont think it was deliberate.. think he was a P Plater lol...
There's bad drivers all over the world, and yes America too.
Mostly people here are good drivers - you do get some idiots but generally your ok. People distracted using phones while driving is a big problem though. Been driving here for nearly 35 years and only had one accident where someone ran up the back of me and that was because we all had to suddenly stop just around a blind corner. In general your ok on the roads - and we have a lot of police, speed and red light cameras.
You should react to "and the band played waltzing Matilda"
The one By John Williamson.
It's a song about WW1. It's sad, it brings a tear to any Aussies eye that listens to it.
The majority of them are from overseas and have no idea how to drive on our roads.
I think we are usually pretty good when driving in Australia, but our bad drivers are BAD
I live in Port Macquarie and it's renowned for idiot drivers. Maybe because most people are over 100 years old lol
Having been to countries where it is *not safe to follow the road rules* because nobody is, and doing so will throw them off/make you react against the norm, I am really curious if these ‘bad drivers’ are ‘raised to Australian norms’ or are imports from a different driving norm.
The fact that I’ll never know kinda sucks ^_^
Mostly Asian/middle eastern imports. The worst one I've had was; I'm at an intersection, waiting for the light to go right. Some (Pakistani I think) bloke in a van is across from me going straight. As soon as the lights change (both sides can turn right) the idiot takes off and almost goes under the front of my truck. I stopped so he can get past and the moron accelerates to get out of the way, and as he goes by this absolute mungbean puts BOTH HANDS out of the window to wave an apology at me! Like fuck my dog mate, at least one eye on the road and hand on the wheel!
Typically it's people who aren't from here or who are first or second generation and haven't bothered to learn about this country because they're too busy claiming to be from where they're family emigrated from.
I the state of Victoria they have strange road rules, in regards to Melbourne they have trams, And to make a right turn at a traffic light "you have to pull over to the left in front of the car's waiting at the red light before you can turn right.. they call it a J turn or a hook turn..
Almost everyone else from other states when in Melbourne, we turn left, left, & left to get where we want to go. Rather than stuff about with their crazy road rules.
You called the hook turn crazy, but it allows for much better traffic flow than cars banking up in the middle of the road for a right hand turn.
If you still find a hook turn confusing after having seen one first hand then you probably shouldn’t be on the roads
@@macdac9861 👍
I was dead set scared of hook turns being a country girl on the city but one or two down - easy peasy! So much better than waiting nervously in traffic in the centre trying to be ready to take advantage of a clear spot
@@macdac9861
Melbourne residents believe the hook turn is universal across Australia.. N.S.W. south coast, T intersection.. turning left or right.. with a dedicated right turn only lane, one dumb Victorian pulled over to the far left against the gutter, & pulled a hook turn, knocking me off my 10 speed push bike as I was legally turning left. And I was abused by the Victorian driver. Luckily the cop shop was & is 75m to the left.
And the idiot was charged with " illegal turn, causing injury"
In Victoria it might be legal every other state NO.