Watch this channel (I only just discovered as I'm giving my son extra practise in addition to his weekly lessons) and learning a lot, even though I passed nearly 30 years ago with no fault accidents on my record. However, UK DashCams is a useful place to go to "revise" what has been learned here!
I've witnessed two 'driverless cars' while conducting lessons over the last few years. The first, a guy was turning right into a side road, saw a car rolling towards him, and sat there sounding his horn until it hit him. (Tip: Empty cars are deaf.) With nothing behind him, he had plenty of time to reverse out of the way. Second incident, the rear of a Golf appeared gently from behind a hedge. Immediately I recognised the slow gentle movement as an empty car. (Spent too much time out and about, need to stay in more) No time to explain so gently stopped the car using the duals. Golf rolled gently across the road and rested against the opposite kerb. I knocked the house door. The woman answered the door, and surprised that her car had moved, asked, "How dit it get there?" "Gravity" was my only reply.
Many years ago… an insurance claim. “Where were you at the time of the collision?” “At my desk in the office over the road”. “Where was the driver of the other vehicle?” “Sat next to me at his desk”. Handbrake cable had expanded after a very cold morning, and released the brake. The office building had nine floors, seven of which were ground floor…
@@JohnR31415 more likely the car had a handbrake acting on disc brakes , which contract as they cool and loosen off . That is why it is vital to select an appropriate parking gear and not simply rely on a handbrake . If on a steep incline also turn the wheels so they will choc against the kerb .
I had one of those situations years ago in Glasgow ; I parked in a meter bay on a moderately steep hill . Returning to my car an hour or so later , I got in , but before I could start my car , the car in front just slowly started rolling back and came to rest on my front bumper . I waited a while , and commented to two parking wardens who came round that my time was expired but I couldn’t move because of this car . They were not interested and told me to call the police . The cops duly arrived , got the owner’s details but couldn’t reach him , but just as they were about to call the removal truck this guy appeared . When I told him what happened he just commented his handbrake was fully on ; I asked why he hadn’t parked in gear knowing his handbrake was faulty , or didn’t turn his wheels to lock against the kerb ( it’s amazing how few people know to do this ) ; however the cops did issue him a ticket , presumably for the handbrake .
Education...... that is what makes Ashley's channel stand out from the majority of others which tend to sensationalise poor road use. Keep up the good work, Ash. Stay safe everyone 👍
8:56 On his phone I’ll bet. Thanks for another great compilation Ashley. You’ve really helped my driving to improve and I’m sure that’s true of others too!
There's NO WAY simply being on your phone makes a competent person that bad at driving. So the only explanation is they must only just barely be able to drive even with full attention. There should be a second driving test that does "real world" distracted conditions where you are asked to fiddle with the radio, eat some drive through chips from the passenger seat, reprogram a sat nav, answer a hands free call and hold a conversation, etc... while doing a 40mph hazard course. really separate out who can focus properly pay sufficient attention to the road to pass the hazard course, while having significant additional headspace to deal with other stuff. The lack of this additional capacity means you may be able to pass a test on the day, but when it gets busy, or more likely complacent, you'll lag on your observations and miss stuff you shouldn't miss, then we get into the 'if you take your eyes off the road for an instant you'll have a crash' territory, which then ends up with people who never check their mirrors or plan, because they are using their entire focus just to look in front and react.
Thank goodness the car veered back onto the road. If the wheels had snatched to the left and steered it onto the pavement, that lady would have been swapping her mobility scooter for a hearse.
I’ve only just noticed how close the fiesta comes to running over that old lady on the mobility scooter! That could have been so much worse than it was!
8:44 this kind of attitude towards cyclists (for no other reason than them being vulnerable road users) is ridiculous. There should be harsh punishments, what if it wasn't just cold water in the balloon?
If it wasn't "just cold water" I'd assume it's dealt with in the same way as every other incident on the road, whether it be against a bus, car, motorcyclist or pedestrian.
They have just brought in new laws for more severe punishments against more vulnerable road users. If you haven't already, good idea to brush up with the new changes to the highway code.
@@RichO1701e As far as I know the changes haven't come into effect yet, but when they do I will do some more research. Tbh the major changes to the priority system should be a matter for TV PSAs and a huge campaign, otherwise they will be irrelevant.
Even if it was just water, it's still endangering the safety of the cyclist, easy to imagine being surprised enough by being hit by a water balloon to lose your balance and fall onto the road.
3:01 Totally thoughtless. I don’t know about everyone else but I find dual carriageways to be much more troublesome (and sometimes scary) places to drive than motorways. Cars go nigh on as fast as they do on motorways but still treat the road like it’s a little local road with “guidelines instead of rules” and do some very casual things they’d never do on a proper motorway. Example roads I can think of include the A30 in Cornwall and the A303 in Wiltshire.
yep, A30 is up there, used it recently and the stupidity is on another level. saw someone parked up right infront of an escape lane at the bottom of a steep hill.
...and then some drivers complain when dual carriageways are turned into single carriageways + parking/cycle/bus lane with a natural speed reduction from 40 to 30 or even 20 in some cases. Brum being a good example.
Clip 14 - this is actually from Quebec, note the "ARRET" sign instead of "STOP", one of the rare examples of this. France uses English on their road signs, Quebec uses French.
Had to laugh at the driver of the Audi convertible who was in & out of his car at the roundabout in the road rage incident. What was he going to do to the other driver I wonder….??? Classic 😆
Nothing I suspect. These twats are bully boys. If the other driver had stopped and got out, shit for brains would run away. I hope he ended up under a Tesco lorry further down the road. (and yes, I do mean it, so please don't tell I'm mean!)
That was my clip. My camera isn't that good in the car but it's worth noting the white car had no plates on either.. they were hooning about all over the place!
One thing I definitely will do in future is the merge in turn. Previously I have been guilty on occasion of being one of those merge police you refer to, out of a sense of fair play since everyone else was queuing. However you have made some interesting points, you've changed my mind and changed my attitude for the better. We _all_ have things to learn from these videos. Keep up the good work :-).
Problem is, the signage hardly ever says 'merge in turn' and we brits are conditioned to queueing. Maybe Highways England & Co should introduce such signage at roadworks and add it to the Streetworks NVQ for those who are 'qualified' for setting out roadworks signing & guarding.
@@wibbley1 Yes, I think it might be useful if all roadworks like this had "Use both lanes" and "Merge in turn" signs, at least until it becomes commonplace.
@@wibbley1 We've got numerous large, permanent signs just near where I live and the vigilantes still play their stupid games. If you can't stop a nation from using a mobile phone while driving, you'll never get them to give up their constitutional right to live in perpetual indignation.
Did you notice two of the three lorries/big vans between 3:00 and 3:30 were from the same firm. Always a bit of a danger sign as they were worrying more about each other than everyone else.
Clip 22 is my favourite by far. The red car's behaviour was ridiculous, but the guy's laugh absolutely made it. I've honestly reacted like this once or twice at truly ridiculous scenarios. It certainly feels better than getting angry. 😆
Just found your channel and I am really enjoying how informative it is. Also your voice is so calming which is a bit of a juxtaposition with the hectic content. Thank you.
I was once distracted by an aux cable that had 'spilled' into the footwell and drove into a double kerb at 30mph, not dissimilar to the last clip. Thankfully no peds were around. I don't put any music on while driving anymore.
8:25 sometimes you just have to laugh at the idiots around you instead of stooping to their level! Rather than retaliating or initiating road rage, just belly laugh at their idiocy instead 😂
Driverless cars :) I was fitting a reverse camera to an 8 seat mercedes mpv I had bought, one of the ones with the awful parking brake that is applied by foot and released by hand. I had it in neutral as I couldn't get the radio out with it in park. My son was in the car playing a game crawling under the seats whilst I was head under the dash, legs out the passenger door running the cables. Next thing I knew my car was rolling down my drive dragging me with it. Luckily it isn't a steep slope so I was able to stand up without getting run over and make a futile attempt to slow it down. The drivers door hit a lamp post exactly on the handle so no dent but it slammed it shut, luckily my son was fully inside the car so didn't get anything trapped by it. It rolled across the empty road, bumped into the kerb opposite and stopped. I hadn't noticed by my son had crawled to the drivers seat and, of all the knobs and levers decided to pull the parking brake release 🙈 I've always hated having kids around me when working, you have to have eyes in the back of your head and double think everything you do. Another example. My mum had parked in the local village to do some shopping. She walked around the corner and there was a car parked on double yellows right on a junction, she thought to herself what a thoughtless person to park there and carried on up the road to get in her car. When she got there she realised her car had gone. Suddenly it added up and she realised it was her car at the bottom of the hill. She was just about to get in when a policeman appeared to give her a parking ticket. She said well I didn't park it there, it must have rolled down. The policeman went to the back of the car and tried to push it, wouldn't budge, same at the front, wouldn't budge. At that moment a local shop keeper came out and explained that the car had been rolling down the hill and he had jumped in and put the hand brake on. My mum never used to lock her car so it would've been easy to do. She had had an operation on her wrist so couldn't pull the hand brake on as hard as she needed to. The policeman gave her a ticking off then let her go. Except she had to shout him back over, the hand brake had been pulled on that hard she couldn't get it off 🤣
Clip 20 with the Audi convertible. I can just imagine that scene being played out to the theme tune of Benny Hill. Do folks realise just how ridiculous they look when they engage in this kind of behaviour? And it just would have to be an Audi! Ok ok, New Years resolution: No stereotyping of vehicles for 2022. I'll try my best! What would have been even funnier is if both cars kept going round and round the roundabout.
@@kal9001 I've seen videos where folks use that same technique when pulled over by the police and just as the officer(s) get to the villans car, the villan takes off, thus maximizing the distance the officers have to run back to their patrol car to start giving chase.
2:38 what do you mean the bmw was not overtaking, it's literally overtaking a lorry in the left lane?! yea it should move left, but only at about (2:57) this point, else it still has a lorry right behind...
Clip 5; They also passed the second exit with their left indicator still on. I don't know if they did that the whole way around but that's lethal when combined with staying in the outermost lane for a full lap.
If it wasn't for the copyright rules, the Benny Hill theme would've fitted nicely dubbed over the clip at 7:24 ! When you do your 2022 compilations, can you make "pointless overtake" a category? The clips at 5:50, 6:31 and 8:24 are all very early contenders for the title!
The same as walking on two feet down the high street on a Friday night ..there will always be louts who want a fight....they carry on their same mentality when inside a car! These videos help to teach us its simply best to be aware of these type of people, the vehicles they drive and keep out of their way the best you can!
Hi Ashley... I have only just discovered your Channel... love your calm analytical approach to driving... I wish everyone gave it this much thought, the roads would be far safer and accidents and collisions reduced greatly.... thanks :)
You got me with the cycling down the wrong side of the road downhill at night 🤣🤣 this video is bordering on a comedy show. Thanks for putting this out there to help make our roads safer.
Open to opinions. In clip 8 at 2:43 Ashley implys the BMW driver should complete their overtake and move back to the left hand land. In my opinion the BMW driver was no where near far enought infront of the lorry to move back in. I very much doubt they could see the lorry in the rear view mirror (I was taught that once you can see both headlight in the mirror you could be sure you where safe to move back over). Further, I always think you should be most of the way to creating a two second gap before pulling back in. That's 62m or 4 lorrys (3 lorrys at 50mph). Obviously maybe a little earlier to account for the different speeds
8:45 and 6:35 I know those people, they are soo lovely! It amazes me that someone would be throwing balloon filled with water at them, or purposefully blocking them. But the situation at 6th minute isn't surprising at all. Happens often enough. As you have said Ashley, poor planning with a mixture of "me first" attitude.
@@spinner4148 Perhaps, difficult to be certain with a wide angle lens, but when I’m turning right on my bike my primary concern is my own safety, I don’t enjoy sitting in the middle of the road between two opposing lanes of moving traffic who may well not even be looking where they’re going.
@@tricia_and_chrisholman965 I'm a motorcyclist too and I definitely would've been a couple feet over. Not right in the middle mind, but not dead centre either.
@@spinner4148 True - and the real issue here is that the car driver didn’t slow down at all and had probably assumed the bike would be further to the right leaving no margin for error on their part.
Yesterday night on the motorway (A55 around 9pm), I saw 5 cars zoom pass me, going above 90mph. 2 minutes later, in the distance as I was approaching the roundabout I saw a car with hazard lights on. As I got closer, they were all stopped after an accident, absolute idiots.
It’s a nice drive around there when it’s quiet. The main drawback is some people think that the A55 is a racetrack and do some ridiculous speeds. Not surprised by your experience.
Clip 19 - honestly, this boils my piss more than most bad driving examples. The Renault is in the wrong on so many levels and you know they're proud of themselves that they're preventing others from getting by. And last clip 24, guaranteed he was on his phone, in hand texting or scrolling thru social media. That poor woman with the buggy. Imagine if she'd been trying to cross the road and stood at the curb.
Re. Driverless cars ... they will only work as long as *every* car is driverless, all "talking" to each other, knowing where everyone else is going etc. The moment you introduce a human driver the system goes tits up. Btw - that clip was just up the road from where I live!
As a matter of fact, as long as there's a single point in the system where something may be moving along the road that isn't connected to the network of cars (think pedestrians, cyclists, motorcycles and the like), the entire idea breaks. So any computer-controlled vehicle absolutely *must* be able to work correctly on its sensors alone. Communications can only ever be used to control things like traffic flow, unless we're willing to literally fence off every single road and street with motion detectors to stop traffic in case the safety perimeter gets breached.
Clip 19. Ah yes, our old regular favourite of merge in turn "resentment" is back! Although I've never experienced a self appointed blocker like that, it must be supremely annoying to the driver who is doing the correct thing and maximizing the road space. To me this is worse than middle lane hogging, where at least you are still able to continue your journey at more or less motorway speeds, as opposed to being deliberately brought to almost a standstill for no good reason other than misplaced resentment. In this particular video, it's also rather ironic that the blocker wanted to prevent the cam car from using Lane 2...but in the process, created an opportunity for another car in Lane 1 to undertake it and head out into Lane 2 anyway. Well, I guess you can't block both lanes at the same time!
I've had it a once or twice. On one occasion, it was a full, stationary queue in lane 1 of a DC, nothing in lane from the 1st countdown sign, 800yrds. I went along the empty lane looking for a reasonable gap, nothing. Went to the end of the lane, tried merging and it was a HGV that refused to allow me to merge. So I ended forcing my car in behind, got some agro from the guy in a Corsa, with the old, "you're pushing your way in, get to the back of the queue and wait in line for 20mins like I have" attitude.
@@RichO1701e I totally sympathize with your experience. Here's the thing: If everybody used both lanes, then both queues would be roughly the same length and there likely wouldn't be this mistaken feeling that folks are queue jumping and barging in. But when it's only one or two of us coming up the otherwise empty lane that eventually ends, passing a long queue in the other lane - that's what triggers people into feeling we are queue jumping.
4:48 this is late now but this was in Quebec, Canada. The cammer had drifted into their lane and that's why they were hit. They were probably 10 feet past the stop sign. Although if you pause at 4:55 you can see the truck didn't have their headlights on, only ticked once so just the taillights were on.
Driving standards have gone completely downhill! If these morons watched your channel then maybe it would help them drive a little better. Some of these are completely unbelievable. I am currently teaching my daughter to drive and I really do fear for her safety once she’s passed.
I'm not sure they have, given statistics. But they are certainly very dangerous for pedestrians (etc.). On reflection I think that these videos show that allowing people to drive cars is pretty much like allowing people to have guns. We're just not up to the responsibility. Close roads in towns, automated driving only on motorways or A roads and a much higher cost to driving is the future. This will come, but in the mean time Ashley helps.
That Fiesta is me .. in a driving game, online - when I feel like not being fit to be behind the wheel in the real world. Oh wait .. was it just a notification from a social media app? I can relate to the cyclists; not one of us wants our heads under a wheel if we fall..
driverless car jokes are a blast from the past. when I was young, we'd have enough instances to be noteworthy of cars that had gone off the road and nobody in them was driving. last night's example of bad judgement was somebody walking with their back to traffic, and either right on the fog line or in the lane, wearing hide-in-the-dark colors.
I had an incident with a driverless car, mine. I parked it at the side of the road and walked twenty yards down the road to the cashpoint. When I turned round after getting my cash, my Metro was gently rolling past me. I walked round got in and drove off. The Policemen in the Panda car coming the other way were boggle eyed. I left it in gear with the wheels turned towards the kerb after that.
Happy New Year Ashley & everyone watching; thanks for sharing the clips as always. Can we have clip #20 again please but this time with the music from 'The Benny Hill Show'?
I encountered a not-so-futuristic driverless vehicle myself recently. In a queue of traffic when a work truck parked on the right suddenly starts edging in front of me. From the angle I was at I couldn't see there was no one in it, but there was nothing anyone could do anyway and it rolled into the rear corner of the car in front. I got out and put the truck in park (it was in neutral) while someone found the owner nearby.
Hi I have not seen all your videos, but can/have you done a short one one merge in turn and what merge inturn means... and who has right of way ... Everyone i ask thinks it mean you have to merge in turn and that the one in front has right of way to move over to the lane moving forward. Thanks Ashley...
02:25 - i am not 100% sure why there are 'no overtaking' signs but no solid lines which are more affective? there must be a difference in how these are applied?
One thing I’m not looking forward to when I start to drive on my own for the first time is coming up to a roundabout to use an exit after 12 o’clock and a car has been to the right of me all the time and continues straight on when I want to exit. Never had it happen on my lessons but I’m guessing I will have to be patient,let them carry on and then makes sure it’s safe to exit. To me it’s a driver who hates roundabouts and sticks to the safest lane unaware of the confusion they’re causing to other road users
Clip 14; Possibly was expecting the dashcammer to keep going and therefore started to steer towards the back of their car, ie, the gap that would then have opened up had they continued. Although, with the width of their roads, they can have some quite aggressive camber, so simply locking up (much more common in the US/Canada as ABS wasn't made compulsory until much later than the UK) could see you end up in the kerb, ditch or stationary vehicle at the side of the road very quickly, especially if you're driving on the wrong tyres. I think this was the case as after they hit the dashcammer you can see they're on full left lock.
Clips 17 & 18 - I get that regularly, often they pull in front only to have to stop, blocking my path where I could have kept going. Complete lack of understanding or consideration. Re- driver les car, I think electric handbrake and delay brake release have a big part to lay in these instances.
5:13 thats why the hard shoulder should stay as other than breakdowns and emergencies, it serves other important purposes. But dont stop there if you want to rest.
I am not so sure the BMW driver is doing anything wrong at 2:47. I always thought it good practice to give vehicles being overtaken plenty of room, ie not to pull back in the left lane close in front but to leave plenty of space. For me, based on what is shown, it is clearly the tailgating lorry behind the car that is at fault.
@@ashley_neal I am not sure what you mean by ‘much progress’. As far as I can tell from the video (and I know that can be misleading), it looks like the car is passing at a reasonable pace and certainly more quickly than many lorries overtake each other. In my mind, by far the most significant points here are that it is very dangerous to: 1 tailgate (especially for a lorry) and 2. cut in front of the vehicle being overtaken. Personally, I find tailgating, whether done deliberately to intimidate (which perhaps maybe the case here) or simply through ignorance of the dangers, to be one of the worst aspects of modern driving. It is certainly a cause of accidents. I may be wrong, but I think not so long ago the Department for Transport introduced a fixed-penalty offense specifically for tailgating.
That one with the removal vans prompts a suggestion for a future video: examples of how to best recover from a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time: they get into the wrong lane, they miss road markings, the traffic light or sign is hidden by a high-sided vehicle, etc. I've done it, you've done it, everyone's done it. So how about a 'best recovery' video?
I'd say the Blue Fiesta also probably wanted the first turn off, as they realised they just went all the way around the outside. bit of an odd one as the highway code does actually say to drive around if you miss, not sure what it says to do in the case of a multi-lane roundabout. I suppose the best thing would be to just exit, turn around up the road and have another spin, but given it seemed quite quiet on the road that day... they could have at least indicated right to show they are going around though.
R.E. Clip 8, whilst I agree that the BMW should move over eventually, I wouldn't do so at that point as I prefer to leave a good distance before pulling back in front of a HGV so as to maintain their braking distance without them needing to slow down on my account.
Looks like that fiesta paid the price of the driver no paying attention, looked like the suspension collapsed on the left side after it got violently jolted like it were on a rally course.
The Mercedes manoeuvre (clip#16), I've seen exactly the same where I live. However, in my incident, the driver performed several other "disrespectful" manoeuvres towards other road users beforehand.
Yes, the emerge in Clip 12 was poor, but I'm surprised you didn't call the cammer out for maintaining speed simply to make a point. If they'd braked sooner, they could have probably rolled through at 30 mph, instead of almost coming to a stop. They'd have maintained better visibility too. "If you're not part of the solution,... " right?
@@stephenclark9917 Indeed. That minibus was old enough to certainly be a manual and probably had to be double-de-clutched, and with passengers onboard without any restraints the driver can't just floor it anyway, especially on a turn. In older buses the seats are slippery vinyl. I guarantee the driver was moving as fast as that vehicle would allow. Sometimes Ashley appears critical for the sake of it. Or maybe he's not very knowledgable when it's not a car.
The van overtaking the bike at about 6:00 - very much a case of 'must get in front of the cyclist', which as a cyclist myself I notice A LOT. It's even more prevalent than 'must get in front of the learner car". On the other hand, if I were that cyclist, I would have taken primary position while passing the parked cars and on the approach to the queue of traffic, and possibly stopped behind the last car in the queue. Safer for all.
For anyone wondering "What's that strangely familiar tune in clip 3...?" It's "Under the Milky Way" by The Church. You probably heard it from Donnie Darko.
The white Audi (Clip 19 I think) passing the cyclist too close then turning right. An illegal manoeuvre on 2 points, first way too close, second overtaking on a crossing zig-zag lines. Oh yes when I saw the headline I did wonder OMG what has Ashley gone and done in his new Tesla!!?? 🤔😉
First thing I noticed about #14 is that it's *not* in the US. Notice the stop sign reads ARRÉT - a feature unique to Quebec province, Canada. Even the actual French aren't *that* anal-retentive about their language heritage; there the signs read STOP, like anywhere else in Europe.
06:40 I think this is a classic case of the driver performing the right turn as they normally would, muscle memory if you like but with no regard for the cyclist as they wouldn't normally be there. I wouldn't ride as close to the kerb hopefully putting me more in the eye line of the driver and also giving me more room to escape.
Regarding Clip 5 (starting at about 1:24) - clearly what the blue car did here was incorrect. However, given that there appear to be concentric lanes marked around the roundabout, would it have made a difference if there had not been direction arrows in the lanes approaching the roundabout, ie could the blue car pass the first two and say take the third exit? Personally, I find unmarked concentric lanes like this on the roundabout (as opposed to lanes that spiral, or lanes that specify a destination) confusing, as it gives the impression that one could drive all the way around, without changing lane, by staying in the left lane.
I think your snow bound USA truck had probably lost grip, jammed his foot on the brake and become a skateboard. I say this as someone who has done much the same and only narrowly avoided a collision. Nobody really teaches you how to drive in the snow and taking your foot off the brake and trying to drive out of the slide is very hard to do once you are sliding and the terror mounts.
Having watched a number of videos of cars in snow, it surprises me how many motorists don't realise brakes and steering don't work if the wheels aren't turning.
I think the vehicle coming from the left was sliding. At the end of the clip you can see another set of tyre tracks, on a similar trajectory, where someone seems to have slid into the kerb.
At 4:54: Nope*, sorry. Cammer, clearly ran (looks like a big slide actually) a stop sign. Straight into the path of the Dodge truck coming from the left. You can clearly see the tyre marks formed in the snow on the main route, which the cammer slid into. *Probably the only driving thing I'd ever disagree with you on! Please keep up the great work as the standard of driving in the UK is continuously deteriorating!
I was shocked when my step daughter was taught to park in neutral. I've done my best to convince to park in first or reverse and chock the wheels against the kerb. I have never trusted a handbrake alone. Admittedly, my first cars in the 80s did have appalling brakes!
Incredible that she was taught that, although as a driver of shared vehicles in my job they are almost always left in neutral when parked. I got told off once for leaving one in gear because the next driver started it without checking whether it was in gear or not. Another fail in itself.
Unfortunately not strictly illegal You cant overtake a moving >MOTOR-vehicle< in the zig zags or pass the lead >VEHICLE< stopped in zig zag area A bicycle legally being a vehicle is legal to overtake if it is still moving. Depending on the circumstances could still be careless driving similar to how undertaking is enforced
First time I've ever had two clips featured on here (first and last one). the green fiesta in the last clip was left there for two days after that, with nearside wheel pointing to the back of the car, that could of been nasty if he'd of gone off road earlier with the bollards there and the person in the mobility scooter.
As much as I enjoy fails on channels like UK Dash Cams, I enjoy them more on Ashley Neal since you also learn something from watching them.
Uk dashcam are better just becasue of the comments
Agree there. Noticed as well blood pressure isn't as high watching Ashley than them
Watch this channel (I only just discovered as I'm giving my son extra practise in addition to his weekly lessons) and learning a lot, even though I passed nearly 30 years ago with no fault accidents on my record. However, UK DashCams is a useful place to go to "revise" what has been learned here!
I've witnessed two 'driverless cars' while conducting lessons over the last few years. The first, a guy was turning right into a side road, saw a car rolling towards him, and sat there sounding his horn until it hit him. (Tip: Empty cars are deaf.) With nothing behind him, he had plenty of time to reverse out of the way.
Second incident, the rear of a Golf appeared gently from behind a hedge. Immediately I recognised the slow gentle movement as an empty car. (Spent too much time out and about, need to stay in more) No time to explain so gently stopped the car using the duals. Golf rolled gently across the road and rested against the opposite kerb. I knocked the house door. The woman answered the door, and surprised that her car had moved, asked, "How dit it get there?" "Gravity" was my only reply.
Many years ago… an insurance claim. “Where were you at the time of the collision?” “At my desk in the office over the road”. “Where was the driver of the other vehicle?” “Sat next to me at his desk”.
Handbrake cable had expanded after a very cold morning, and released the brake. The office building had nine floors, seven of which were ground floor…
That first one is particularly funny!
@@JohnR31415 more likely the car had a handbrake acting on disc brakes , which contract as they cool and loosen off . That is why it is vital to select an appropriate parking gear and not simply rely on a handbrake . If on a steep incline also turn the wheels so they will choc against the kerb .
I had one of those situations years ago in Glasgow ; I parked in a meter bay on a moderately steep hill . Returning to my car an hour or so later , I got in , but before I could start my car , the car in front just slowly started rolling back and came to rest on my front bumper . I waited a while , and commented to two parking wardens who came round that my time was expired but I couldn’t move because of this car . They were not interested and told me to call the police . The cops duly arrived , got the owner’s details but couldn’t reach him , but just as they were about to call the removal truck this guy appeared . When I told him what happened he just commented his handbrake was fully on ; I asked why he hadn’t parked in gear knowing his handbrake was faulty , or didn’t turn his wheels to lock against the kerb ( it’s amazing how few people know to do this ) ; however the cops did issue him a ticket , presumably for the handbrake .
Education...... that is what makes Ashley's channel stand out from the majority of others which tend to sensationalise poor road use.
Keep up the good work, Ash.
Stay safe everyone 👍
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On his phone I’ll bet. Thanks for another great compilation Ashley. You’ve really helped my driving to improve and I’m sure that’s true of others too!
There's NO WAY simply being on your phone makes a competent person that bad at driving. So the only explanation is they must only just barely be able to drive even with full attention.
There should be a second driving test that does "real world" distracted conditions where you are asked to fiddle with the radio, eat some drive through chips from the passenger seat, reprogram a sat nav, answer a hands free call and hold a conversation, etc... while doing a 40mph hazard course. really separate out who can focus properly pay sufficient attention to the road to pass the hazard course, while having significant additional headspace to deal with other stuff.
The lack of this additional capacity means you may be able to pass a test on the day, but when it gets busy, or more likely complacent, you'll lag on your observations and miss stuff you shouldn't miss, then we get into the 'if you take your eyes off the road for an instant you'll have a crash' territory, which then ends up with people who never check their mirrors or plan, because they are using their entire focus just to look in front and react.
Thank goodness the car veered back onto the road. If the wheels had snatched to the left and steered it onto the pavement, that lady would have been swapping her mobility scooter for a hearse.
I’ve only just noticed how close the fiesta comes to running over that old lady on the mobility scooter! That could have been so much worse than it was!
Guy gets out of the car and first thing he does it check it for damage, nevermind the old woman he almost drove into
My thoughts exactly. I hope he’s done some serious damage to his car that’ll cost him money. Only way some people will learn.
8:44 this kind of attitude towards cyclists (for no other reason than them being vulnerable road users) is ridiculous. There should be harsh punishments, what if it wasn't just cold water in the balloon?
If it wasn't "just cold water" I'd assume it's dealt with in the same way as every other incident on the road, whether it be against a bus, car, motorcyclist or pedestrian.
@@adamspencer95 doubt it. And throwing a water balloon at a cyclist/pedestrian is very different than throwing one at a motor vehicle.
They have just brought in new laws for more severe punishments against more vulnerable road users.
If you haven't already, good idea to brush up with the new changes to the highway code.
@@RichO1701e As far as I know the changes haven't come into effect yet, but when they do I will do some more research. Tbh the major changes to the priority system should be a matter for TV PSAs and a huge campaign, otherwise they will be irrelevant.
Even if it was just water, it's still endangering the safety of the cyclist, easy to imagine being surprised enough by being hit by a water balloon to lose your balance and fall onto the road.
3:01 Totally thoughtless.
I don’t know about everyone else but I find dual carriageways to be much more troublesome (and sometimes scary) places to drive than motorways. Cars go nigh on as fast as they do on motorways but still treat the road like it’s a little local road with “guidelines instead of rules” and do some very casual things they’d never do on a proper motorway.
Example roads I can think of include the A30 in Cornwall and the A303 in Wiltshire.
yep, A30 is up there, used it recently and the stupidity is on another level. saw someone parked up right infront of an escape lane at the bottom of a steep hill.
A30 becomes a whole different animal during the high tourist season. Impatience and aggression is the order of the day.
I can glad other people can relate when it comes to the A30!
exactly I was thinking A30 before I got that far. 👍
...and then some drivers complain when dual carriageways are turned into single carriageways + parking/cycle/bus lane with a natural speed reduction from 40 to 30 or even 20 in some cases. Brum being a good example.
7:20 was brilliant, got to love how the grey Audi A3 mugged off the upset car by just driving away and mostly ignoring the other car.
Clip 14 - this is actually from Quebec, note the "ARRET" sign instead of "STOP", one of the rare examples of this. France uses English on their road signs, Quebec uses French.
Indeed, the United States of Canada ;)
France uses English on their road signs? I highly doubt that.
@@MrManningata on their stop signs
One thing I’ve learned while driving is that any vehicle with DPD on it is going to do something dangerous or stupid!
Still not as bad as seeing 'Highway Maintenance' on it.
Or "DELTA"
tbf, DPD are pretty good around here. It’s hermes you gotta watch out for!
Also, nice defender in ur pfp! is it yours?
@@PedroConejo1939 X "County council" is another one to watch out for!
Had to laugh at the driver of the Audi convertible who was in & out of his car at the roundabout in the road rage incident. What was he going to do to the other driver I wonder….??? Classic 😆
Nothing I suspect. These twats are bully boys. If the other driver had stopped and got out, shit for brains would run away.
I hope he ended up under a Tesco lorry further down the road. (and yes, I do mean it, so please don't tell I'm mean!)
That was my clip. My camera isn't that good in the car but it's worth noting the white car had no plates on either.. they were hooning about all over the place!
I was hoping the other car to run over the driver’s foot as it passed
One thing I definitely will do in future is the merge in turn. Previously I have been guilty on occasion of being one of those merge police you refer to, out of a sense of fair play since everyone else was queuing. However you have made some interesting points, you've changed my mind and changed my attitude for the better. We _all_ have things to learn from these videos. Keep up the good work :-).
Good man. Now you'll have to deal with the vigilantes instead of being one. You'll need to learn some deep breathing relaxation techniques.
Problem is, the signage hardly ever says 'merge in turn' and we brits are conditioned to queueing. Maybe Highways England & Co should introduce such signage at roadworks and add it to the Streetworks NVQ for those who are 'qualified' for setting out roadworks signing & guarding.
@@wibbley1 Perhaps people who are too stupid to work it out for themselves shouldn't be in charge of a piece of machinery capable of 120 mph!
@@wibbley1 Yes, I think it might be useful if all roadworks like this had "Use both lanes" and "Merge in turn" signs, at least until it becomes commonplace.
@@wibbley1 We've got numerous large, permanent signs just near where I live and the vigilantes still play their stupid games. If you can't stop a nation from using a mobile phone while driving, you'll never get them to give up their constitutional right to live in perpetual indignation.
Did you notice two of the three lorries/big vans between 3:00 and 3:30 were from the same firm. Always a bit of a danger sign as they were worrying more about each other than everyone else.
That’s a good spot! Doubtless the one in the right hand lane saw the others pulling in and was seized with the thought of “I must pull in too”.
As a retired HGV driver I am disheartened by so many incidents of poor driving by pro drivers
7:22 That’s Bicester! Love it when I see my town on here lol
Clip 22 is my favourite by far. The red car's behaviour was ridiculous, but the guy's laugh absolutely made it. I've honestly reacted like this once or twice at truly ridiculous scenarios. It certainly feels better than getting angry. 😆
He's just turned left, right in front o't bus
Just found your channel and I am really enjoying how informative it is. Also your voice is so calming which is a bit of a juxtaposition with the hectic content. Thank you.
I was once distracted by an aux cable that had 'spilled' into the footwell and drove into a double kerb at 30mph, not dissimilar to the last clip. Thankfully no peds were around. I don't put any music on while driving anymore.
The laugh at 8:24 had me in stitches
8:25 sometimes you just have to laugh at the idiots around you instead of stooping to their level! Rather than retaliating or initiating road rage, just belly laugh at their idiocy instead 😂
That man's laugh made my day 😂
Bravo!👍
Natural selection will have it's way with them at some point hopefully.
Driverless cars :) I was fitting a reverse camera to an 8 seat mercedes mpv I had bought, one of the ones with the awful parking brake that is applied by foot and released by hand. I had it in neutral as I couldn't get the radio out with it in park. My son was in the car playing a game crawling under the seats whilst I was head under the dash, legs out the passenger door running the cables. Next thing I knew my car was rolling down my drive dragging me with it. Luckily it isn't a steep slope so I was able to stand up without getting run over and make a futile attempt to slow it down. The drivers door hit a lamp post exactly on the handle so no dent but it slammed it shut, luckily my son was fully inside the car so didn't get anything trapped by it. It rolled across the empty road, bumped into the kerb opposite and stopped. I hadn't noticed by my son had crawled to the drivers seat and, of all the knobs and levers decided to pull the parking brake release 🙈 I've always hated having kids around me when working, you have to have eyes in the back of your head and double think everything you do. Another example. My mum had parked in the local village to do some shopping. She walked around the corner and there was a car parked on double yellows right on a junction, she thought to herself what a thoughtless person to park there and carried on up the road to get in her car. When she got there she realised her car had gone. Suddenly it added up and she realised it was her car at the bottom of the hill. She was just about to get in when a policeman appeared to give her a parking ticket. She said well I didn't park it there, it must have rolled down. The policeman went to the back of the car and tried to push it, wouldn't budge, same at the front, wouldn't budge. At that moment a local shop keeper came out and explained that the car had been rolling down the hill and he had jumped in and put the hand brake on. My mum never used to lock her car so it would've been easy to do. She had had an operation on her wrist so couldn't pull the hand brake on as hard as she needed to. The policeman gave her a ticking off then let her go. Except she had to shout him back over, the hand brake had been pulled on that hard she couldn't get it off 🤣
Clip 20 with the Audi convertible. I can just imagine that scene being played out to the theme tune of Benny Hill. Do folks realise just how ridiculous they look when they engage in this kind of behaviour? And it just would have to be an Audi! Ok ok, New Years resolution: No stereotyping of vehicles for 2022. I'll try my best!
What would have been even funnier is if both cars kept going round and round the roundabout.
Stopping every few seconds for the audi driver to get out, run half way there and back in to drive off again, over and over lol.
@@kal9001 I've seen videos where folks use that same technique when pulled over by the police and just as the officer(s) get to the villans car, the villan takes off, thus maximizing the distance the officers have to run back to their patrol car to start giving chase.
2:38 what do you mean the bmw was not overtaking, it's literally overtaking a lorry in the left lane?!
yea it should move left, but only at about (2:57) this point, else it still has a lorry right behind...
That laugh at 8:24, sounded like Jim Royal, from the Royal Family 😁
Clip 5; They also passed the second exit with their left indicator still on. I don't know if they did that the whole way around but that's lethal when combined with staying in the outermost lane for a full lap.
If it wasn't for the copyright rules, the Benny Hill theme would've fitted nicely dubbed over the clip at 7:24 !
When you do your 2022 compilations, can you make "pointless overtake" a category? The clips at 5:50, 6:31 and 8:24 are all very early contenders for the title!
Is there enough storage space on the internet for pointless overtake compilations? I suspect they could be long... 🧐
The last driver had read his driving licence "tear along the dotted line"
Ayy another local place around where I live. 3:56 is Winwick road in Warrington, notorious road for impatient parents driving their kids to school.
The same as walking on two feet down the high street on a Friday night ..there will always be louts who want a fight....they carry on their same mentality when inside a car!
These videos help to teach us its simply best to be aware of these type of people, the vehicles they drive and keep out of their way the best you can!
Hi Ashley... I have only just discovered your Channel... love your calm analytical approach to driving... I wish everyone gave it this much thought, the roads would be far safer and accidents and collisions reduced greatly.... thanks :)
Happy New Year to you, you've helped me so much with my driving, for me the best reaction in all thoughs clips was the driver that laughed
You got me with the cycling down the wrong side of the road downhill at night 🤣🤣 this video is bordering on a comedy show. Thanks for putting this out there to help make our roads safer.
Open to opinions. In clip 8 at 2:43 Ashley implys the BMW driver should complete their overtake and move back to the left hand land. In my opinion the BMW driver was no where near far enought infront of the lorry to move back in. I very much doubt they could see the lorry in the rear view mirror (I was taught that once you can see both headlight in the mirror you could be sure you where safe to move back over). Further, I always think you should be most of the way to creating a two second gap before pulling back in. That's 62m or 4 lorrys (3 lorrys at 50mph). Obviously maybe a little earlier to account for the different speeds
8:45 and 6:35 I know those people, they are soo lovely! It amazes me that someone would be throwing balloon filled with water at them, or purposefully blocking them. But the situation at 6th minute isn't surprising at all. Happens often enough. As you have said Ashley, poor planning with a mixture of "me first" attitude.
2:14 brilliant - no shouting, no chasing, just a fairly universal gesture we all understood :)
There are many worse ways to react, but nonetheless it is unnecessary and likely to cause aggrevation.
Could've been a bit further to the right though to be fair.
@@spinner4148 Perhaps, difficult to be certain with a wide angle lens, but when I’m turning right on my bike my primary concern is my own safety, I don’t enjoy sitting in the middle of the road between two opposing lanes of moving traffic who may well not even be looking where they’re going.
@@tricia_and_chrisholman965 I'm a motorcyclist too and I definitely would've been a couple feet over. Not right in the middle mind, but not dead centre either.
@@spinner4148 True - and the real issue here is that the car driver didn’t slow down at all and had probably assumed the bike would be further to the right leaving no margin for error on their part.
Yesterday night on the motorway (A55 around 9pm), I saw 5 cars zoom pass me, going above 90mph.
2 minutes later, in the distance as I was approaching the roundabout I saw a car with hazard lights on.
As I got closer, they were all stopped after an accident, absolute idiots.
It’s a nice drive around there when it’s quiet. The main drawback is some people think that the A55 is a racetrack and do some ridiculous speeds. Not surprised by your experience.
@@David-sw2fn Yes spot on, was enjoying the drive whilst it was quiet lol!
Clip 19 - honestly, this boils my piss more than most bad driving examples.
The Renault is in the wrong on so many levels and you know they're proud of themselves that they're preventing others from getting by.
And last clip 24, guaranteed he was on his phone, in hand texting or scrolling thru social media. That poor woman with the buggy. Imagine if she'd been trying to cross the road and stood at the curb.
I'd've just gone under them before the cones and forced them behind me by sitting on the rear nearside quater 🤣😂🤣😂
Re. Driverless cars ... they will only work as long as *every* car is driverless, all "talking" to each other, knowing where everyone else is going etc. The moment you introduce a human driver the system goes tits up.
Btw - that clip was just up the road from where I live!
What a dreadful place the world would be if that came about . All autonomous vehicles have to be intelligent enough to cope with all road situations
As a matter of fact, as long as there's a single point in the system where something may be moving along the road that isn't connected to the network of cars (think pedestrians, cyclists, motorcycles and the like), the entire idea breaks. So any computer-controlled vehicle absolutely *must* be able to work correctly on its sensors alone. Communications can only ever be used to control things like traffic flow, unless we're willing to literally fence off every single road and street with motion detectors to stop traffic in case the safety perimeter gets breached.
Clip 19. Ah yes, our old regular favourite of merge in turn "resentment" is back! Although I've never experienced a self appointed blocker like that, it must be supremely annoying to the driver who is doing the correct thing and maximizing the road space. To me this is worse than middle lane hogging, where at least you are still able to continue your journey at more or less motorway speeds, as opposed to being deliberately brought to almost a standstill for no good reason other than misplaced resentment. In this particular video, it's also rather ironic that the blocker wanted to prevent the cam car from using Lane 2...but in the process, created an opportunity for another car in Lane 1 to undertake it and head out into Lane 2 anyway. Well, I guess you can't block both lanes at the same time!
I've had it a once or twice. On one occasion, it was a full, stationary queue in lane 1 of a DC, nothing in lane from the 1st countdown sign, 800yrds.
I went along the empty lane looking for a reasonable gap, nothing. Went to the end of the lane, tried merging and it was a HGV that refused to allow me to merge. So I ended forcing my car in behind, got some agro from the guy in a Corsa, with the old, "you're pushing your way in, get to the back of the queue and wait in line for 20mins like I have" attitude.
@@RichO1701e I totally sympathize with your experience. Here's the thing: If everybody used both lanes, then both queues would be roughly the same length and there likely wouldn't be this mistaken feeling that folks are queue jumping and barging in. But when it's only one or two of us coming up the otherwise empty lane that eventually ends, passing a long queue in the other lane - that's what triggers people into feeling we are queue jumping.
@@ibs5080 But we love to queue in the U.K.
0:30 I have some sympathy for the 5 series trying to get away from its owner
Was that an m5?!
@@shanekelly1821 u bet it was
Love the channel Ashley, every episode contains another lesson.
What video editing software do you use?
Best regards
Mark
4:48 this is late now but this was in Quebec, Canada. The cammer had drifted into their lane and that's why they were hit. They were probably 10 feet past the stop sign. Although if you pause at 4:55 you can see the truck didn't have their headlights on, only ticked once so just the taillights were on.
Driving standards have gone completely downhill! If these morons watched your channel then maybe it would help them drive a little better. Some of these are completely unbelievable.
I am currently teaching my daughter to drive and I really do fear for her safety once she’s passed.
I'm not sure they have, given statistics. But they are certainly very dangerous for pedestrians (etc.). On reflection I think that these videos show that allowing people to drive cars is pretty much like allowing people to have guns. We're just not up to the responsibility. Close roads in towns, automated driving only on motorways or A roads and a much higher cost to driving is the future. This will come, but in the mean time Ashley helps.
That Fiesta is me .. in a driving game, online - when I feel like not being fit to be behind the wheel in the real world.
Oh wait .. was it just a notification from a social media app?
I can relate to the cyclists; not one of us wants our heads under a wheel if we fall..
driverless car jokes are a blast from the past. when I was young, we'd have enough instances to be noteworthy of cars that had gone off the road and nobody in them was driving.
last night's example of bad judgement was somebody walking with their back to traffic, and either right on the fog line or in the lane, wearing hide-in-the-dark colors.
I had an incident with a driverless car, mine. I parked it at the side of the road and walked twenty yards down the road to the cashpoint. When I turned round after getting my cash, my Metro was gently rolling past me. I walked round got in and drove off. The Policemen in the Panda car coming the other way were boggle eyed.
I left it in gear with the wheels turned towards the kerb after that.
Happy New Year Ashley & everyone watching; thanks for sharing the clips as always. Can we have clip #20 again please but this time with the music from 'The Benny Hill Show'?
HAPPY NEW YEAR ASHLEY.
That "road lane police" car was doing about 15mph in a 50mph limit. Shocking.
I encountered a not-so-futuristic driverless vehicle myself recently. In a queue of traffic when a work truck parked on the right suddenly starts edging in front of me. From the angle I was at I couldn't see there was no one in it, but there was nothing anyone could do anyway and it rolled into the rear corner of the car in front. I got out and put the truck in park (it was in neutral) while someone found the owner nearby.
Number two, an actual laugh out loud. It was like something from a Buster Keaton movie.
I am amazed by some clips. I must admit I sometimes also forget to go from lane 2 to 1. But nowadays I think more about it.
Hi I have not seen all your videos, but can/have you done a short one one merge in turn and what merge inturn means... and who has right of way ... Everyone i ask thinks it mean you have to merge in turn and that the one in front has right of way to move over to the lane moving forward. Thanks Ashley...
American cars can't go round corners on dry roads, forget about driving them in the snow.
02:25 - i am not 100% sure why there are 'no overtaking' signs but no solid lines which are more affective? there must be a difference in how these are applied?
One thing I’m not looking forward to when I start to drive on my own for the first time is coming up to a roundabout to use an exit after 12 o’clock and a car has been to the right of me all the time and continues straight on when I want to exit.
Never had it happen on my lessons but I’m guessing I will have to be patient,let them carry on and then makes sure it’s safe to exit.
To me it’s a driver who hates roundabouts and sticks to the safest lane unaware of the confusion they’re causing to other road users
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Don’t turn right from the left lane unless signs or markings allow 👍🏼
Clip 14; Possibly was expecting the dashcammer to keep going and therefore started to steer towards the back of their car, ie, the gap that would then have opened up had they continued. Although, with the width of their roads, they can have some quite aggressive camber, so simply locking up (much more common in the US/Canada as ABS wasn't made compulsory until much later than the UK) could see you end up in the kerb, ditch or stationary vehicle at the side of the road very quickly, especially if you're driving on the wrong tyres. I think this was the case as after they hit the dashcammer you can see they're on full left lock.
The USA one, mostly rear wheel drive, automatic gearbox cars - never a great mix in slippery conditions.
And improper tires/tyres as well.
Happy New Year Ashley.
Clips 17 & 18 - I get that regularly, often they pull in front only to have to stop, blocking my path where I could have kept going. Complete lack of understanding or consideration.
Re- driver les car, I think electric handbrake and delay brake release have a big part to lay in these instances.
8:38 if we all reacted this way the roads would be a lot calmer place 😂😂😂😂
8:32 OMG that's Blackpool where I live!
5:13 thats why the hard shoulder should stay as other than breakdowns and emergencies, it serves other important purposes.
But dont stop there if you want to rest.
I am not so sure the BMW driver is doing anything wrong at 2:47. I always thought it good practice to give vehicles being overtaken plenty of room, ie not to pull back in the left lane close in front but to leave plenty of space. For me, based on what is shown, it is clearly the tailgating lorry behind the car that is at fault.
Overtaking without making much progress on vehicles in lane 1 is okay then? Why bother in the first place?
@@ashley_neal I am not sure what you mean by ‘much progress’. As far as I can tell from the video (and I know that can be misleading), it looks like the car is passing at a reasonable pace and certainly more quickly than many lorries overtake each other. In my mind, by far the most significant points here are that it is very dangerous to: 1 tailgate (especially for a lorry) and 2. cut in front of the vehicle being overtaken. Personally, I find tailgating, whether done deliberately to intimidate (which perhaps maybe the case here) or simply through ignorance of the dangers, to be one of the worst aspects of modern driving. It is certainly a cause of accidents. I may be wrong, but I think not so long ago the Department for Transport introduced a fixed-penalty offense specifically for tailgating.
These help me be more aware
@4:30 based on the Arret sign, I would guess, Canada, in the province of Quebec and not the US
Why do i giggle every time i hear you say "Here's a clip from john" :) And i'm not even british xD
That one with the removal vans prompts a suggestion for a future video: examples of how to best recover from a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time: they get into the wrong lane, they miss road markings, the traffic light or sign is hidden by a high-sided vehicle, etc. I've done it, you've done it, everyone's done it. So how about a 'best recovery' video?
I'd say the Blue Fiesta also probably wanted the first turn off, as they realised they just went all the way around the outside. bit of an odd one as the highway code does actually say to drive around if you miss, not sure what it says to do in the case of a multi-lane roundabout. I suppose the best thing would be to just exit, turn around up the road and have another spin, but given it seemed quite quiet on the road that day... they could have at least indicated right to show they are going around though.
I was always told off my driving instructor
that if the lorry in front of you
If you can't see the wing mirrors then they won't be able to see you
it's more accurate to say if you can't see the driver in the wing mirrors, then he can't see you.
Great to hear Ricky Tomlinson reprise his Jim Royale role in clip 22😂
R.E. Clip 8, whilst I agree that the BMW should move over eventually, I wouldn't do so at that point as I prefer to leave a good distance before pulling back in front of a HGV so as to maintain their braking distance without them needing to slow down on my account.
Looks like that fiesta paid the price of the driver no paying attention, looked like the suspension collapsed on the left side after it got violently jolted like it were on a rally course.
Using a phone, most likely. Usually so easy to spot a driver using their phone.
I feel like I would really love a merging turn bumper sticker
I'll have a "use both lanes" sticker 😁
The Mercedes manoeuvre (clip#16), I've seen exactly the same where I live. However, in my incident, the driver performed several other "disrespectful" manoeuvres towards other road users beforehand.
You just don't get it, do you?
BMWs Mercedes, Audis and VW GTs all come with built in right of way as standard.😂😂😂
Yes, the emerge in Clip 12 was poor, but I'm surprised you didn't call the cammer out for maintaining speed simply to make a point.
If they'd braked sooner, they could have probably rolled through at 30 mph, instead of almost coming to a stop. They'd have maintained better visibility too.
"If you're not part of the solution,... " right?
Yep, cut the bus and HGV drivers a bit of slack!
@@stephenclark9917
F**k the bus drivers. What about the 60 to 120 passengers that could have been injured?
@@stephenclark9917 Indeed. That minibus was old enough to certainly be a manual and probably had to be double-de-clutched, and with passengers onboard without any restraints the driver can't just floor it anyway, especially on a turn. In older buses the seats are slippery vinyl. I guarantee the driver was moving as fast as that vehicle would allow. Sometimes Ashley appears critical for the sake of it. Or maybe he's not very knowledgable when it's not a car.
8:27 I love how most people get furious and start swearing at seeing awful driving. Not these two
5:12 perfect example of hard shoulder being essential
Some belters here. 🤣
It does make you wonder how they passed their tests.
The van overtaking the bike at about 6:00 - very much a case of 'must get in front of the cyclist', which as a cyclist myself I notice A LOT. It's even more prevalent than 'must get in front of the learner car". On the other hand, if I were that cyclist, I would have taken primary position while passing the parked cars and on the approach to the queue of traffic, and possibly stopped behind the last car in the queue. Safer for all.
For anyone wondering "What's that strangely familiar tune in clip 3...?" It's "Under the Milky Way" by The Church. You probably heard it from Donnie Darko.
The fiesta at the end was just testing the suspension that's why he got out :)
The white Audi (Clip 19 I think) passing the cyclist too close then turning right. An illegal manoeuvre on 2 points, first way too close, second overtaking on a crossing zig-zag lines. Oh yes when I saw the headline I did wonder OMG what has Ashley gone and done in his new Tesla!!?? 🤔😉
Not sure if it's been mentioned already, HGVs are allowed in 3 rd lane of dual carriageways just not on motorways.
First thing I noticed about #14 is that it's *not* in the US. Notice the stop sign reads ARRÉT - a feature unique to Quebec province, Canada. Even the actual French aren't *that* anal-retentive about their language heritage; there the signs read STOP, like anywhere else in Europe.
Most overtakes of cyclists are more accurately described as "punishment passes" for them daring to take up any space on the road.
I reckon it's less than 1% of drivers who will maliciously cause half of my serious problems. The other half is by inattention or ignorance.
@@cyclecam6328 .
Indeed,usually a simple case of not thinking ahead.
Low key deserve it though
4:45 is probably target fixation. Can't think of something else. You stare at the thing you don't want to hit instead of where you want to go...
06:40 I think this is a classic case of the driver performing the right turn as they normally would, muscle memory if you like but with no regard for the cyclist as they wouldn't normally be there. I wouldn't ride as close to the kerb hopefully putting me more in the eye line of the driver and also giving me more room to escape.
Was the Fiesta (in the last clip) aiming for the pedestrian?
In clip 15, I'm not surprised that the lorry is DPD. At work, we have several DPD deliveries every day, all the drivers ignore our instructions.
Regarding Clip 5 (starting at about 1:24) - clearly what the blue car did here was incorrect. However, given that there appear to be concentric lanes marked around the roundabout, would it have made a difference if there had not been direction arrows in the lanes approaching the roundabout, ie could the blue car pass the first two and say take the third exit? Personally, I find unmarked concentric lanes like this on the roundabout (as opposed to lanes that spiral, or lanes that specify a destination) confusing, as it gives the impression that one could drive all the way around, without changing lane, by staying in the left lane.
8:38 was gold.
7:03 People who act like this genuinely think they're doing the right thing.
My partner outright refuses to wear a helmet while cycling, his argument is that he can ride on the path...
my days of riding without a helmet came to an abrupt end when an oncoming driver waited until the last second to signal a turn across the bike path.
I think your snow bound USA truck had probably lost grip, jammed his foot on the brake and become a skateboard. I say this as someone who has done much the same and only narrowly avoided a collision. Nobody really teaches you how to drive in the snow and taking your foot off the brake and trying to drive out of the slide is very hard to do once you are sliding and the terror mounts.
Having watched a number of videos of cars in snow, it surprises me how many motorists don't realise brakes and steering don't work if the wheels aren't turning.
It's Quebec, note the "ARRET" on the stop sign.
I think the vehicle coming from the left was sliding. At the end of the clip you can see another set of tyre tracks, on a similar trajectory, where someone seems to have slid into the kerb.
Cammer goes to emerge from turn, the pickup panics thinking cammer is not going to stop and hits the brakes losing traction before the junction.
At 4:54: Nope*, sorry. Cammer, clearly ran (looks like a big slide actually) a stop sign. Straight into the path of the Dodge truck coming from the left. You can clearly see the tyre marks formed in the snow on the main route, which the cammer slid into.
*Probably the only driving thing I'd ever disagree with you on! Please keep up the great work as the standard of driving in the UK is continuously deteriorating!
I was shocked when my step daughter was taught to park in neutral. I've done my best to convince to park in first or reverse and chock the wheels against the kerb. I have never trusted a handbrake alone. Admittedly, my first cars in the 80s did have appalling brakes!
Incredible that she was taught that, although as a driver of shared vehicles in my job they are almost always left in neutral when parked. I got told off once for leaving one in gear because the next driver started it without checking whether it was in gear or not. Another fail in itself.
Love laughter at red Vaux Astra driver. Lol What a terrible affair
Best comedy video on RUclips.
Clip 2 - the 'Driverless Car' - I used to live in the house on the corner!
Clip 18 is 100% illegal to overtake anything in a pedestrian crossing, in the zig-zag lines are there to indicate it.
Unfortunately not strictly illegal
You cant overtake a moving >MOTOR-vehicle< in the zig zags or pass the lead >VEHICLE< stopped in zig zag area
A bicycle legally being a vehicle is legal to overtake if it is still moving.
Depending on the circumstances could still be careless driving similar to how undertaking is enforced
First time I've ever had two clips featured on here (first and last one). the green fiesta in the last clip was left there for two days after that, with nearside wheel pointing to the back of the car, that could of been nasty if he'd of gone off road earlier with the bollards there and the person in the mobility scooter.