Reporting dangerous driving

shaun_from_Africa

I have already submitted the video.
23 June at 1:10PM

Car_54

fred246 said:

Dr_Crypto said:

Call me a snowflake libtard but I'm just not sure I agree with this reporting culture. There is something profoundly uncomfortable about people reporting each other to the cops for motoring incidents after which both drivers continued their journeys with no injuries to baskets of kittens or nuns standing at bus stops holding baskets of kittens. 
I see this very differently from people assisting the police after an incident in which people or property were "harmed". 

A visit from the Police with a little fine may help them to improve their driving and more importantly make them realise that people are watching their driving.

It won't be a "little fine". If the police take action, it will mean a visit to court.

452

fred246 said:

452 said:

fred246 said:

Dr_Crypto said:

Call me a snowflake libtard but I'm just not sure I agree with this reporting culture. There is something profoundly uncomfortable about people reporting each other to the cops for motoring incidents after which both drivers continued their journeys with no injuries to baskets of kittens or nuns standing at bus stops holding baskets of kittens. 
I see this very differently from people assisting the police after an incident in which people or property were "harmed". 

What a rubbish Dr. These 'near misses' are the incidents you need to be learning from. These are incidents where the dashcam footage has shown clear 'reckless driving'. A visit from the Police with a little fine may help them to improve their driving and more importantly make them realise that people are watching their driving. I love it when I hear that a company has installed dashcams in their vehicles to catch criminals who create 'crash for cash'. They are there so the employee has less accidents in the company vehicle. If the employee knows the boss will watch the dashcam footage suddenly their driving improves!

Thing is Fred reckless driving hasn't been an offence for the best part of 30 years, so no visits or fines will happen. 

The Daily Mail called it reckless driving so it must be right.

When did you read that, when you were last in a garage?

Scrapit

Why are all these kitten being held by nuns and/ or children always in baskets? A pet carrier would be much more suitable.

MinuteNoodles

shaun_from_Africa said:

This is the incident in question:

I know that there appears to be a reasonable distance between the van and the oncoming car but once the van was back in the correct lane, it was only a fraction of a second before it passed the car. (which had almost stopped) and I'm fairly certain that if I hadn't slowed, the van would have clipped my offside wing as they pulled in so sharply.

It would be interesting to actually view the recorded video of it as often it turns out in situations like this that dashcam boy has sped up to create a situation for camera that needn't have occurred.

Also if you read the Highway Code it'll mention about giving way to overtaking vehicles so the fact you had to slow a little isn't any indication.

The person most likely misjudged it, just as I'm sure you've made plenty of misjudgements in your time. Nobody died, nobody got hurt, all that happened was people had to use the pedal that's provided to slow their vehicles down.

fred246

Looks pretty stupid driving to me. A head on collision is pretty much the worse accident you can have in terms of death and serious disability. The van would just come up behind the next car ahead and gain very little in time. A visit from the police with a fine and a few points and a reminder that you are being watched would be helpful. Technology does seem to be the way to combat crime. If it saves life and reduces disability great I am all for it.

DoaM

I'm surprised nobody has picked up on the fact that the location of the overtake was unwise (never mind the implementation of it) ... the van was overtaking near a junction (entrance to a business by the looks of it). No excuses for not seeing it - the signage is clear.

shaun_from_Africa

MinuteNoodles said:

It would be interesting to actually view the recorded video of it as often it turns out in situations like this that dashcam boy has sped up to create a situation for camera that needn't have occurred.

Also if you read the Highway Code it'll mention about giving way to overtaking vehicles so the fact you had to slow a little isn't any indication.

The person most likely misjudged it, just as I'm sure you've made plenty of misjudgements in your time. Nobody died, nobody got hurt, all that happened was people had to use the pedal that's provided to slow their vehicles down.

I didn't speed up. I was initially doing 48 mph (it's a 50 mph limit) and slowed to about 40 mph when I noticed the van overtaking. The reason I've not posted the full video is because it's been passed to the police (do you think I would have done that if it showed me speeding up to try to cause an accident?).

No, it wasn't a simple misjudgement. The van driver was just about at the speed limit so to overtake required them to exceed the limit and there was an oncoming car with headlight on so clearly visible and there were two entrances to the road, one of which is shown in the pictures.
You also seem to have missed the point that the driver of the oncoming car didn't just have to "slow a little". They had to almost stop and pull hard left to avoid having a head on impact.

The fact that you seem to think that this was a simply a misjudgement could say a lot about your standard of driving.

AdrianC

shaun_from_Africa said:

MinuteNoodles said:

It would be interesting to actually view the recorded video of it as often it turns out in situations like this that dashcam boy has sped up to create a situation for camera that needn't have occurred. 

The fact that you seem to think that this was a simply a misjudgement could say a lot about your standard of driving.

Put your offence back in its box, and read what he actually said.

It doesn't take very long on YouTube watching dashcam vids to see things coming a mile off, and shake your head at the sheer stupidity of many of the camera drivers at manufacturing situations.

Nobody said this applied to your situation. We haven't seen the video, just four stills.

But to try and pretend no dashcam vid EVER shows that would just be denial of reality.

shaun_from_Africa

AdrianC said:

Put your offence back in its box, and read what he actually said.

It doesn't take very long on YouTube watching dashcam vids to see things coming a mile off, and shake your head at the sheer stupidity of many of the camera drivers at manufacturing situations.

Nobody said this applied to your situation. We haven't seen the video, just four stills.

But to try and pretend no dashcam vid EVER shows that would just be denial of reality.

I agree, I've seen enough of that type of video on youtube. As to your comment of:

"But to try and pretend no dashcam vid EVER shows that would just be denial of reality

Where did you get that from? because I never stated or even implied it.


If MinuteNoodles wan't implying that what they wrote didn't apply to my situation, why state:

 "It would be interesting to actually view the recorded video of it"?

The only possible thing that can be inferred from that is that they think there is a possibility that I sped up.

I'm more than happy to take criticism from others but certainly not from someone who thinks that overtaking at an unsuitable location, at a closing speed of probably 90-100 mph, with a clearly visible oncoming vehicle and causing that vehicle to almost stop and pull hard left to avoid a head on impact is a simple misjudgment.