parking near a junction

blued

Strider590 wrote: »

^^ it's a Mini DV camera from ebay, £15 (delivered from china) + 8G memory card which was £10 from Amazon... Records for 1 hour and has a rechargable lithium cell built in which charges from the USB port on your PC.

Usefull for a witness incase of an accident, but I intend to keep naming and shaming bad drivers with it....

Especially commercial vehicles and van's etc.... When people search for a companies name and Google brings up a video in the search results, it won't look good on them or the driver
Pro-active and somewhat controversial, but the sooner the lunatics realise that there are people out there with video camera's, the safer our roads will become!

I thought I had too much time on my hands! I didn't think that video footage like this was admissable as evidence? Haven't looked into it though.

ali-t

Lum wrote: »

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, regarding the OPs situation, if this is a residential road that doesn't really go anywhere and/or doesn't see through traffic then the simple rule of don't take the P applies. Does your parking make life awkward for others using the junction? Is your parking strictly illegal? If the answer to both of those questions is no then park away.

My parking doesn't block the road, cause obstruction or hinder anyones vision as the road is painted like the junction is in the wrong place. It is hard to describe but definitely doesn't cause obstruction. The driveways at the houses aren't big enough for 2 cars so I sometimes use the option of parking my outside my house i.e. right at the junction. I have always figured that since my lodger is paying for a room and a parking space it should be my car left on the street.

In recent months we have been able to park one of the cars in my neighbours drive as he doesn't have a car but this is a goodwill gesture on his part.

Weird road markings but it seems it is not illegal so the next time the neighbour pokes his nose in telling me it is illegal I can point out to him that it isn't

Harry_Flashman

Strider590 wrote: »

^^ it's a Mini DV camera from ebay, £15 (delivered from china) + 8G memory card which was £10 from Amazon... Records for 1 hour and has a rechargable lithium cell built in which charges from the USB port on your PC.

Usefull for a witness incase of an accident, but I intend to keep naming and shaming bad drivers with it....

Especially commercial vehicles and van's etc.... When people search for a companies name and Google brings up a video in the search results, it won't look good on them or the driver
Pro-active and somewhat controversial, but the sooner the lunatics realise that there are people out there with video camera's, the safer our roads will become!

Really, have you nothing better to do with your time and money?

Lum

kwaks wrote: »

Might be an idea to invest in a better method (ie a non communication device) before someone catches you touching it whilst driving.

If I ever get around to writing the software for it that I intend to write then it wont really need much in the way of interaction while driving. It will also log accelerometer and GPS data as well as just video.

Besides, It's in a handsfree kit.

I already use the phone as an MP3 player, so remembering to put it in and take it out again isn't an issue.

Strider590

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

Really, have you nothing better to do with your time and money?

For £25... It's already proven invaluable with an ongoing insurance claim. It takes seconds of my life to use, the only downside is when I forget to take the camera out of the car to empty the memory card.

And yeah if Joe Bloggs of <insert courier service> wants to drive like a total moron, then I'll have no hesitation in putting the video on Youtube for the whole world to see.

We'd have less trouble and dangerous driving if the Police got out there and made themselves visible, but instead they're forced to hide behind wheely bins with speed camera's, because they've got targets to meet.

Im taking a non-aggressive approach to a very real problem.

mark5

There's a guy in the next street to me who keeps parking his Golf on the junction at the exit of the street where I live on to the street where he lives.
Every time I leave my street I have to do it on the wrong side of the road with poor visability. Sooner or later there will be a bump down to him being to lazy to use his garage for a car he hardly ever drives.

forgotmyname

Sorry strider590, But i think you were in the wrong in that video, "Only enter if necessary"

You could have stopped in bed that day and not be there to overtake.
So was it really necessary?
:beer::beer::beer: lol.

Any item name or link to that cam? Seen a few on ebay and some reviews are less than favourable, What is it like at night time?

Thanks.

Happy legal overtaking.

:D:D

Lum

There's no law against what he did, the highway code is just a guideline.

"Necessary" is such a vague word it's virtually meaningless in this sort of context anyway.

Strider590

forgotmyname wrote: »

Sorry strider590, But i think you were in the wrong in that video, "Only enter if necessary"

You could have stopped in bed that day and not be there to overtake.
So was it really necessary?

Yes it was.... There are maybe 2 overtaking spots on that road, you have to take advantage of every legal opportunity!

Broken line chevrons can be considered as two way contraflow's.

He was the one in the wrong, he had no right to try to stop me and his actions were actually dangerous!

I've actually hit a car that swerved out to stop me doing that before, unable to avoid him I took the front wing of his car clean off, I bet he was thinking "that'll serve him right!!" and he actually thought it was funny!!

But he had to pay out on his insurance. I included the paragraph from section 130 in my accident statement. I mean... what's going to be his excuse? "I thought it was wrong so I swerved to stop him"?

Some fool did that to an unmarked Police car....
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/161719-driver-fined-for-trying-to-stop-police-overtaking-him/

People need to read and understand the god damn highway code!

Harry_Flashman

Hahaha - I love it when busybodies get their comuppance