Driving Fail #64 | I've Got It On Camera | Send it to Ashley!

Another episode where we look at incidents and near misses so we can work out how to avoid them in the future.

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[tubularcandy]

That lorry driver deserves a permanent driving ban!

[MrTypo-kcib]

"I've got the footage. Do you want it?" "Nah! Send it to Ashley Neal." That made me laugh out loud! 🤣

[davejones]

That bicycle and motorcycle roundabout clip is made even better by the roundabout having a "THINK BIKE" sign on it

[oakleythehamster]

What a fantastic advert for Bath International Transport. I bet they're chuffed to bits!

[DashCamHull]

The sheer amount of times I shook my head...
Plenty to make you feel better about your own driving in this one! 🤣

[robinthebobin]

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

[williamfence]

As a hgv driver I tend to look for the positives in other colleagues driving .
But on this occasion I have nothing

[kenbrown]

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.

[oakleythehamster]

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.

[MrFluteboy]

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

[ibs]

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.

[iamjoestafford]

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.

[KevReillyUK]

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.

[philipsmith]

That lorry driver takes the biscuit, probably witnessed a multitude of accidents and no doubt he’s failed to stop at the scene

[Timble]

@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!

[kevinh]

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.

[simong]

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.

[neilp]

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.

[Pystro]

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.

[bjh]

"the idiot in the BMW" -surely not!