Post Your Dash Cam Footage

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ivrytwr3 said:
"You should always drive in the left-hand lane when the road ahead is clear. If you are overtaking a number of slower-moving vehicles, you should return to the left-hand lane as soon as you are safely past. Slow-moving or speed-restricted vehicles should always remain in the left-hand lane of the carriageway unless overtaking. You MUST NOT drive on the hard shoulder except in an emergency or if directed to do so by the police, traffic officers in uniform or by signs."

From the Highway Code, this is quite useful as it covers both vehicles were in the wrong.

Not having a go, or trying to prove a point. I'm just saying, i BELIEVE, both drivers were at fault to some degree.
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There is a difference between SHOULD and MUST and you used both examples in your quote. :)
 
mjt said:
No. Get out of my way. You shouldn’t have still been in lane 2.
The only justification for staying in the middle or outside lane is if the inside lane is rutted to buggery and/or the road is completely empty and you’re not in anyone’s way. Until, of course they “suddenly come out of nowhere” :rolleyes: :mad:
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You sound like a right clown when it comes to driving. I bet you have some kind of novelty sticker on your car don't you?
 
dLockers said:
You sound like a right clown when it comes to driving. I bet you have some kind of novelty sticker on your car don't you?
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I don’t know what you mean by novelty sticker, but sure. Call me a clown.
Rather a clown than a middle-lane hogging dash cam loser who uploads videos of people getting annoyed with his driving to the internet.

I drive fast and expect others to respect the Highway Code and keep left. I certainly do and am constantly checking my mirrors to make sure even faster lunatics can pass by.

Yes, my driving may be antisocial but I’m more than happy to accept that I’m an ********. People like you and @LeeUK who think they have a god-given right to stay in the middle and outside lanes doing 71mph can **** right off.
 
mjt said:
I don’t know what you mean by novelty sticker, but sure. Call me a clown.
Rather a clown than a middle-lane hogging dash cam loser who uploads videos of people getting annoyed with his driving to the internet.

I drive fast and expect others to respect the Highway Code and keep left. I certainly do and am constantly checking my mirrors to make sure even faster lunatics can pass by.

Yes, my driving may be antisocial but I’m more than happy to accept that I’m an ********. People like you and @LeeUK who think they have a god-given right to stay in the middle and outside lanes doing 71mph can **** right off.
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Never met someone so angry at middle lane driving when not even driving :D. Do me a favour and show where I was hogging a middle lane and for how long?

You aren't the loser who was driving the knackered focus are you? :cry:

Road warriors like you need to understand driving is a privilege and life is too short to be bursting blood vessels over middle lane drivers on the internet :cry:
 
dLockers said:
Never met someone so angry at middle lane driving when not even driving :D. Do me a favour and show where I was hogging a middle lane and for how long?
:cry:
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He was obviously referring to Lee, not you.

dLockers said:
Road warriors like you need to understand driving is a privilege and life is too short to be bursting blood vessels over middle lane drivers on the internet :cry:
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This is an odd criticism, given that you have started a thread inviting people to upload their footage of bad drivers, presumably for discussion and criticism - now suddenly @mjt is the one with a problem for engaging with it?
In what world did you expect a thread in which people show off footage of idiots on the road, in a motoring forum, to not cause some anger? :p

Also, lets not forget one of your opening lines was...

  • Promote/incentivise the call out of 'righteous dash cam owners' who are actually the ones in the wrong
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...which is exactly what mjt was doing. Lee was by no means the most dangerous road user in the first clip he provided, but after showing the second clip (in which, as geekman pointed out, nothing really happened), it becomes evident that lee is exactly the sort of driver who might unwittingly contribute to idiots like the guy in the Astra popping up, simply by his own rather selfish attitude to ignoring the "keep left" rule. When this is pointed out, he gets defensive and refuses to acknowledge his own shortcomings. You cant really blame people for doing exactly what you asked them to do in your OP.
 
Conscript said:
He was obviously referring to Lee, not you.



This is an odd criticism, given that you have started a thread inviting people to upload their footage of bad drivers, presumably for discussion and criticism - now suddenly @mjt is the one with a problem for engaging with it?
In what world did you expect a thread in which people show off footage of idiots on the road, in a motoring forum, to not cause some anger? :p

Also, lets not forget one of your opening lines was...



...which is exactly what mjt was doing. Lee was by no means the most dangerous road user in the first clip he provided, but after showing the second clip (in which, as geekman pointed out, nothing really happened), it becomes evident that lee is exactly the sort of driver who might unwittingly contribute to idiots like the guy in the Astra popping up, simply by his own rather selfish attitude to ignoring the "keep left" rule. When this is pointed out, he gets defensive and refuses to acknowledge his own shortcomings. You cant really blame people for doing exactly what you asked them to do in your OP.
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Thanks for the triple post breakdown, you must have been trained by the world class debaters from GD :p Unfortunately you have missed this post, much earlier in the thread:

mjt said:
Why were you in the middle lane? There was plenty of space for you to move over all the way. Maybe focus more on driving correctly than caring about others and posting videos of them on the internet?
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dLockers said:
Thanks for the triple post breakdown, you must have been trained by the world class debaters from GD :p Unfortunately you have missed this post, much earlier in the thread:
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I didn't, but I did respond to someone else who posted that same criticism of you earlier. Both Semple and mjt criticised your lane discipline, wrongly IMO, so I pointed that out, but only quoted Semple.

But you called mjt a clown in response to him criticising Lee as well, not just you, which is why I thought we were talking about Lee's videos/driving, not yours. And hence why it looked like he was referring to Lee as loser. But fair enough.

I stand by my post somewhat though. You've asked people to upload footage and to call out the driving of the people posting as much as the people they're filming. IMO, mjt's criticism of you for lane hogging was unfounded, but in Lee's case, it was pretty justified.

dLockers said:
you must have been trained by the world class debaters from GD
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Never seen evidence for such a thing ever existing :)
 
Too much chat, not enough videos of bad driving!

(I don't have a dashcam, should probably get one)
 
LeeUK said:
That's right I'm in the wrong. I'm the one doing the dangerous undertake at speed and carrying on with the "must get in front" mentality when he sees me move over.
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To be fair, you are in the wrong, yes.

The Astra shouldn't be driving dangerously like that, but I can see why some get frustrated with those who just sit in Lane 2 (like you do in your video).
 
SonicSW20 said:
If someone has enough time to safely pass you on the left on a multilane DC / motorway, then you were in the wrong lane.
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Impossible! They have to sit behind the dashcammer for eternity because no one can pass! 69.99998MPH only!

Seriously, why is this such a hard concept to grasp? If I can overtake you on the inside, then you're in the wrong lane. And I really shouldn't have to overtake you on the inside to get passed. Use your mirrors and move over. I really don't like it because it's not safe, but FFS!
 
mjt said:
Impossible! They have to sit behind the dashcammer for eternity because no one can pass! 69.99998MPH only!

Seriously, why is this such a hard concept to grasp? If I can overtake you on the inside, then you're in the wrong lane. And I really shouldn't have to overtake you on the inside to get passed. Use your mirrors and move over. I really don't like it because it's not safe, but FFS!
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This is the problem with a lot of dashcammers. Just watch the YouTube videos, 90% of the time it's the cammers at fault - hogging lanes, speeding up for roundabout etc. It's like a team of vigilante motorists.
 
Basher said:
This is the problem with a lot of dashcammers. Just watch the YouTube videos, 90% of the time it's the cammers at fault - hogging lanes, speeding up for roundabout etc. It's like a team of vigilante motorists.
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Its my third rule, no one is arguing otherwise!
 
I'll only pass on the left if they are doing less than 70 on the right, although just booting it would be the safer option as they do tend to be like rabbits in headlights until you go past.
 
Basher said:
Indeed, which is exactly what we're doing here. We're calling @LeeUK out for the one being in the wrong.
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It has expanded somewhat with mjt eluding to how he believes he is the road god and everyone needs to get out of his way. He also picked on my video for some reason I still can't fathom.

You know the type - that rage at other peoples driving prematurely. Had one the other day where a guy almost went into the back of me because I slowed to a near-stop on a left hand turner off a main road; he did the usual hand signs but then recoiled his neck when he saw I had paused for a car to finish reversing out of the side road.
 
dLockers said:
It has expanded somewhat with mjt eluding to how he believes he is the road god and everyone needs to get out of his way. He also picked on my video for some reason I still can't fathom.

You know the type - that rage at other peoples driving prematurely. Had one the other day where a guy almost went into the back of me because I slowed to a near-stop on a left hand turner off a main road; he did the usual hand signs but then recoiled his neck when he saw I had paused for a car to finish reversing out of the side road.
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As I said in post #16
To be fair, there were other opportunities to move over if there was someone behind him earlier in the video. For example in front of the white C Class and behind silver C Class Coupe.
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Well this quickly descended into the ditch of incessant nonsense and bickering that it was bound to become... :p

Everyone thinks they are a great driver, even the ones who, as demonstrated, clearly are not.

Why though, are people who are presenting their point of view in a reasonable and well explained way, being childishly verbally attacked?

Grow up lol.
 
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