Break checked and crashed

How close to the junction was this

It wasn't a great move by the audi, but at least he was indicating.
He should probably have done that as two lane switches rather than combining into one.

Still struggling to see why you hammered it past the outside rather than just moving across.

The audi should also have been across earlier by the looks of things. One of the pains with the speed cameras he woudl have probably needed to speed a fair bit to get round the van in a camera zone, something you would normally take the risk of doing elsewhere for the 10-15 seconds it would take.

I think the old addage comes to mind here, fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

What happened between that bit and the exit?
 
Le Clandestin Brun said:
It gets better every time :cry:

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First time I've seen the footage....absolutely hilarious :D

Audi wasn't brake-checking OP at all, just rightly slowing for the roadworks on the exit.

OP should be losing their license, absolutely disgraceful driving on their part, lucky it was only their car that was wrecked, and no-one else was hurt.
 
The OP could have simply braked to match the Audi's braking and then braked some more to create a larger safe gap.
The OP also pulled back onto the motorway so he could have just stayed in that lane and sped up more so if the Golf was a worry but the Golf clearly was not an issue otherwise it would have rear ended the OP the moment he pulled back onto the motorway.

The OP had two easy opportunities to avoid an accident but still decided to crash, makes no sense at all, very bad judgement call, learn and move on, the Audi did not really do anything wrong, I've seen much worse on motorways but no accidents have happened.

In future the OP just needs to keep greater distances to cars in front and when they brake just match their actions.
 
Alexm1982 said:
Still my fault yes. No I did not cut the van or the golf. The golf in fact sped up too to try and catch the audi
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And you were all past the one mile marker for the exit so you had to accelerate a lot to overtake both the van and golf, esp if the golf was accelerating to catch up the audi, to then be in lane 3 in your original clip where you are still in lane 3, there was half a mile until the exit.

Any sensible driver would have just pulled in behind the (accelerating) golf ready for their exit coming up in less than a mile.
 
I didn't mean the calm 26 seconds. I meant the sequence of bad driving that wound you up enough to make such a bad decision. If this is 'it' then this is literally an every 5 minutes on a motorway event.

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If you were intending to take this exit - on a speed controlled section of road, it's a pretty ambitious decision to think that you should be in front of the Golf, the van or the Audi. Not sure what further action you're intending to take. Your accident with the barrier was your fault 100%.

Either way, you've admitted you're at fault, nobody got injured. Hopefully it's a lesson learned. Part of becoming a better driver is reflecting on past mistakes and learning to avoid unnecessary risks.
 
Just seeing the image/video above, Charged with careless drving all day long (dangerous would be hard to prove).

There was opportunity for OP to fall back in behind the Golf, the fact that the Audi did what he did regarding the Golf should have been enough for the OP to stay back a little.

OP: Please use this address to surrender your licence back to it's issuer: Orange Tower, Media City UK, Salford, Manchester M50 2HF
 
Resident said:
There was opportunity for OP to fall back in behind the Golf, the fact that the Audi did what he did regarding the Golf should have been enough for the OP to stay back a little.
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Exactly, I'd have probably even slowed down and pulled in behind the truck rather than get involved.
 
Thekwango said:
taking what matter further?
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Stewards enquiry.

adam cool dude said:
3 way motorway street race is what this sounds like. All more than likely 2.0 diesels.
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The Audi did have the racing line but the OP got his his nose ahead with a bold late braking maneuver, so the Audi should have yielded the corner. If the OP uses these exact terms when explaining what happened to his insurance company and the police everything will turn out fine.
 
Mr Badger said:
The Audi did have the racing line but the OP got his his nose ahead with a bold late braking maneuver, so the Audi should have yielded the corner. If the OP uses these exact terms when explaining what happened to his insurance company and the police everything will turn out fine.
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Everyone knows you don't throw it up the inside of Copse the M1.
 
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