Surely a prime candidate for the Christian Horner on the phone meme.
"I was just on the M1 and...."
Surely a prime candidate for the Christian Horner on the phone meme.
"I was just on the M1 and...."
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this is priority.
I just noticed you've got a car on your outside. So you must have gunned it at the point you (conveniently) stopped the video.
Exactly my point! From one mile to the exit he has managed to wait for the car on the outside to pass himv (or drop back), gunned it past the golf and the van and presumably the car which over took him and then started his move from the fast lane to lane 1 across all these cars he has gunned past to the point where the original video starts at the half mile indicator to the exit. To clear all of them within half a mile he must have gone past 100mph. red mist.
If he send his videos to anybody in authority he should end up getting charged with careless driving.
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I'd have chucked it in behind the Golf. Pretty ambitious to want to try and do the Golf (and the Audi?) and still make the pitlane exit.
Indeed. After seeing the AUdi driver deciding at one mile that he wasnt going to stay in lane 3 and gun past all the traffic to cut across late for the exit and in doing so, he cut up the golf (slightly), seems mad that the OP would then make the opposite decision with even more traffic to past. Ambitious.
Soldato
The original clip if you watch it again has pretty much no sign of a vehicle that could be the one that was alongside in the original clip, unless it was a very badly distorted lambo or ferrari or similat who absolutely gunned it to break neck speed to get away from the OP (highly unlikely)
Based on this I would hazard the OP sped up enough to get back into the outside lane, overtook the van, cut back to lane 2 and then 1 squeezing in between the audi and the golf.
He probably suceeded in making the golf brake again for another person pulling in front of him!
Possibly the van as well. Also wonder what the guy who was alongside the OP when the start of clip 2 happened thought of it all.
Im starting to think the golf/audi incident was an excuse, when you watch it back a few times it has zero impact on the OP, it wasnt even close to an issue for him.
If he saw red mist from that then hes got real anger issues he needs to deal with.
I am sure the golf like most of us in that situation would have been a bit miffed, but its the sort of thing someone being an adult just either calls the other driver something under his breath or tuts openly.
If on the odd occasion you are forced to do a maneuver a little more aggressive like the audi did then I find the best thing is just to hold you hand up visibly between the front seats as the driver behind will likely see it and take it as an apology, far less likely to hit rage mode then.
Going back to the audi driver, he did fail I believe twice to select a better course of action. Probably best would have been to move to lane 2, stop indicating, leave it long enough to increase his gap to the van a bit and see if the golf was leaving enough room to move to lane 1, if not, drop back a bit and pull in behind the golf.
I think the OP and the audi showed typical lack of patience, they both could have reduced that incident. However the audi was a minor mess up, where as the OP managed a royal **** up.
The wide angle excuse is complete ********. The angle has nothing to do with it, you can see from the road markings how close you were. Wait for the Audi to cross a point, then count how long it takes you to reach the same point. You should have been two seconds behind, I counted about half a second.
It's absolutely mind-boggling that they managed to end up stuffing it into the barriers. I struggle to understand the thought processes, I can only assume they are an angry driver and there was red mist clouding their decision making.
This is why I always drive as if all the drivers around are lobotomised idiots and don't ever assume they are going to behave in a sensible or safe manner.
This is why I always drive as if all the drivers around are lobotomised idiots and don't ever assume they are going to behave in a sensible or safe manner.
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First time I've seen the footage....absolutely hilarious
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.
Holy crap how fast was he going, looks at least 80 to me. Of course if you swing out and then in at that speed you're probably going to lose it the transfer of weight's pendulum effect is too much for the tyres
I don't know about you but here they are all lobotomized idiots especially those in bmw's and audi's it doesn't help that they've closed the main A road for overnight resurfacing and every idiot known to man are driving like morons along the coast road, I get that you're frustrated but acting like a drunken hooligan isn't going to help anyone
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my old driving instructor always said you may be able to control your car ,but its the other idiots and there cars you cant
.... so drive accordingly.
Commissario
As would anyone in possession of more than half a brain cell and an ounce of common sense.
...I'd have gunned it in front of them all and been half way down the A43 before this guy pooped bricks into the barrier
Your comment still stands
Soldato
Audi driver being a knob, pretty standard.
Which is why being at least 2 seconds behind it would have been a very good idea.
Unless in an Audi (or VW too now it seems), then the following distance is 0.2 seconds.
Audi driver being a knob, pretty standard.
But not as knobby as the OP. There's no way OP should have gone into the outside lane to overtake the van, Audi and Golf, and then cut back to the inside lane to make the exit. There simply wasn't enough time or distance to do it, and he would have cut up the van, the Golf, and been going so fast that he was too close to the Audi when it went off the slip road.
There's loads of bad decisions taken one after another, but the first one was not moving to the inside lane behind the golf, and simply being patient for the extra ten seconds it would have taken to ensure you were in the right place to exit the motorway without the drama of overtakes, cutting up other cars, crashing, etc.
This. Nail on head
In no way disagreeing, it was a tongue in cheek comment. I'd have slowed down in that instance and gone behind the arctic.
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I'd love to have seen the view from the Hermes lorry. I bet it's been posted somewhere. Probably to one of these Idiot Drivers UK TV shows.
Having seen the second video I’m confused by the Audi.
Why didn’t he accelerate wildly and swerve into the van?
I can semi-emathise with the OP, nail it past the van and cut in ahead of driver that are annoying me.
However I’d have the insight not to post vidoe of me driving like a bell into a crash barrier
Why didn’t he accelerate wildly and swerve into the van?
I can semi-emathise with the OP, nail it past the van and cut in ahead of driver that are annoying me.
However I’d have the insight not to post vidoe of me driving like a bell into a crash barrier
To be fair wide-angle and dash level mounting on a dashcam does change the perception of how close you are to stuff - especially so with my truck as dash level is higher up - I've had a few instances playing stuff back thinking "was I really that close!?" then realising/remembering I wasn't.