I'm a 70 year old woman and I love you because you say it iike it is. I'm a good driver and stick to highway code and the sense I was born with . I moan about everything you do I agree with you totally the only I thing I don't do as you do is swear but I don't have to because you do it for me so thankyou ❤
@@stephenhargreaves9011 like I said I stick to the rules of the road . I do the speedlimits and never go to slow but people cut me up and speed past me like I'm standing still x
School runs anywhere are a nightmare.. I am down on the South Coast in Worthing, and cover between Hove and Littlehampton. There is no more mercenary drivers out there than a school run mum, even worse when she's late. I'm going to assume that this is the same, no matter where you are in the country. Keep up the good work, Tony, look after yourself bud, cheers from Richard in Worthing 👍
Same in Gloucestershire, add in incessant unnecessary roadworks. I used to commute the long way from Bognor to Chichester by road bike... taking the long way was still faster by bicycle than car or bus... at school run time.
Thanks Tony, there are always learning points and tips. At 17:50 "the emergency roofer" is thinking "can I get away with it.... well, I'll try!" Early weekend greetings from Stockholm.
Good stuff mate, keep em coming. 7:55, I know someone who drove his car out of the garage after a service and one of the front wheels fell off, it does happen. Safest lane for a BJ is the middle lane and yes I/we actually witnessed it on the M56.
14:27 Where you say that you're waiting to move over until the slip lane finishes there's even a hint from the traffic engineers that that's what you should do. If you look at the lane divider marks they're long dashes and they only revert to standard short dashes once the slip road is over. Those varying lengths of dashes can be _very_ useful hints as to how to drive if you don't know a section of road and what happens next - sadly a lot of people don't even notice them.
I was only telling my son, aged 16 and heading for driving lessons, about the dashes on the road today because he noticed they're different on a long straight than they are on a bendy road.
The first clip - Yes, even under the old rules, traffic turning off a main road into a side road were to give precedence to pedestrians crossing the side road. And under those rules, I was driven at dangerously twice over the decades by impatient drivers coming off the main road, they approached quickly without signalling. The one who yelled something abusive out of the window as she passed had children in the car.
Tony, I feel your pain and I am so glad I don't have to drive any distance anymore although that might change soon. If it does I have no doubt I'll have clips to send in because even in a 5 mile round trip you can find some idiots.
So great watching this. I’m looking recommence driving again after some years. This video has made me laugh 😆 as well as fall out of my seat with the way some people drive
When I was once running late to catch a flight from Heathrow I tried - and succeeded - in doing all the little dodges that you highlight - but not the hard shoulder - in an effort to make the plane. It worked and I happily flew away to my destination. Sometimes needs must. No other drivers or vehicles were harmed during this strategic driving.
Hi Tony, only discovered your channel recently and have now watched about 150 of you episodes so far, I'm addicted....It's interesting to see how you've developed your style over the years. Love the 'only an Audi' & 'Burke in a Merc' trademark comments 😂. Love the cockney voice commentary which you've developed and is really polished now. I always thought your voice sounded like Dave Basset the Wimbledon/Sheff Utd manager. Just listened to an old clip of his and I think it does. Also the recent younger you photo also bears a slight resemblance to him too 😂. Keep up the good work 👍 I will slowly catch up with all the old episodes and then just look forward to the new ones... Cheers 😁
I say it all the time… Short leads on dogs when walking near roads! A slightly different scenario and that could’ve been a lot worse And don’t get me started on phone zombies
Agree about the space the car had coming towards you on the bend , Alas its the space between their ears where the brain should be thats the real problem. Thanks for the entertainment Tony.
Agreed. Not only that, I think Tony covered this matter in a previous clip in his own inimitable way - along the the lines of “back in ‘our day’ when we drove shit cars we had the decency to make it to the side of the road” and “these days, do ‘modern’ cars just break down in the middle of the fuckin’ road”? I felt his pain. Many years ago, my own Dolomite Sprint blew up on Canning Town flyover. It had the ‘will’ & decency to roll down the hill & crawl to a safe place at the side of the road.
As I've said before in these comments, there is no need to block a road if you break down. As long as you have battery power you can use your starter motor to get off the road and into a safe place.
Great video Tony, surprised you didn't mention anything about testing your brakes after going through the floods. I'm not talking brake checking the vehicle behind you rather riding the brakes slightly as you accelerate away from the flood to check the resistance so you know they are working and will stop you. Not all modern vehicles have disc brakes all round some still have drums on the rear axle and they can pick up water if it's deep enough. 🤔.
To be honest I haven't seen anyone test their brakes anymore after going through flood water, I have drums on the rear of my old focus and always test my brakes but only after going through large areas of water.
The 7ft barrier in Abbott's Road (1:50) has been there since the 80s, but there have been times when the actual bollards weren't there and a van that size could have got through (though not legally, as it's a legal restriction, not just a physical one).
@13:15 - there's a roundabout close to home for me -Coldra roundabout in Newport, S Wales, which I hate. There are two places I can join it and be confident which lane to be in, but if I ever approach from a different direction, it's hit and miss. Last week I took a 10 miles detour because I was in the wrong lane. (No, I won't start cutting other drivers up because I cocked up - I'll suck it up and find a different way).
I live up the road from there in Abergavenny and have validated the Coldra roundabout a number of times. Yes it's big and I've approached it from a number of directions but never had any real problems or got confused etc.
@@johncranna9427 Honestly, the signage form and to an approach is not great, and it IS easy to be in the wrong lane on approach. Maybe because every approach is surrounded by trees that block the signs. If I'm coming to it expecting to exit to the M4 it's not so bad. Trying to get to any other exit is, for me, hit and miss. Maybe I need to drive it more. EDIT: For example, coming from the B4327 or the A48 from Newport to exit on the A48 to Langstone gets me every time. Edit - the example I gave was me going down the A449 for miles because I was in the wrong lane LOL
I’m binge watching, and in 212 you’ve finally hit the nail on the head! These so called ‘professional drivers’ are not always so. The car is licensed, but the driver is questionable. Safe driving, Dave. p.s. what’s your first name please? Just so I know who to cheer on when I’m watching you coming out with expletives I myself would use.😂
At 9.03 I get that all the time on the road I drive mainly, I think they get off the A9 at Ballingluig and put the brain in a cold bucket of water, some pick it up on the way home, but most dont during tourist season
I reckon the Kia at 03:14 should either have waited where you were Victor but at least should have been further into the kerb, there was planets of room! Love your channel, your content has got me looking to buy an Audi though as I live in your area so I can look out for you in my area. That Church Hill Road, best avoided during School hours as is the entire area! That she/he/them/they/it with the broken down Audi, now if that had been me, I’d have made every effort to move forward closer to the lights where the hatch lines are, try a bay=t of pushing, I reckon there might have been at least one or two who would have jumped out to help. That way, there would have been a minimal obstruction instead of one blocked lane. At 07’40”, those three parked opposite a junction are parked illegally, where’s Old Bill when you need him - don’t answer that we know the answer! Best place for a Dozy Prick Dopehead (DPD) driver, send them all to Coventry I say!
And finally, 28:00 - if I had been you, I would have been out of my car and to the driver behind me demanding to know why the F he was bibbing me for following the rules. I'd have had my crooklock in my hands, 'cos, y'know, he could be anyone. Crooklocks are pretty substantial, and perfectly legal to carry in a car.
Threatening behaviour to cause physical harm however is very illegal. Any confrontation with another driver is simply not a good idea. People have died from doing that.
@@johncranna9427 Actually, I agree, though happening to have my crooklock in my hands is not, of itself, threatening (I didn't say that I would do anything with it). More, he would have deserved it and maybe been frightened enough not to be an arsehole again. If someone is honking their horn at me because I followed the rules, I would feel quite threatened.
@stephenhargreaves9011 @stephenhargreaves9011 "Mr Hargreaves, you stopped your car in the middle of the road preventing the movement of any cars behind you? " "Yes" "You emerged from the car with a heavy steel object in your hands?" "Yes" "You approached my client with the heavy metal object still in your hands?" "Yes" "And in your stament you say that you had no intention of using the heavy metal object.? Perhaps you could inform the court exactly how my client was going to know that you had no intention of using your heavy metal object, Mr Hargreaves?". A possible court scenario that you might end up in with that attitude!
@@johncranna9427 Not a single word of that applies. I said, "If I had been you", so you should replace it all with "Tony". ;) I'm 59YO with arthritis - I'm not going to do it. I DO have a crooklock, to deter crooks. Oh, maybe I'm starting to incriminate myself again LOL
As a skroat in a Skoda, I invariably find, after going through water like that, that Mr EMU takes the opportunity to generate a cascade of phoney error codes, with the chain starting with an ABS speed sensor. If left unaddressed the error codes build on each other until one morning you go out and the blessed motor won't start. But there's nothing wrong. just wipe the codes and you're back in business again and the errors don't return. The joys of a 21 year old Fabia.
Actually says you can undertake on the inside lane if the traffic in the middle lane is moving slower than you but well done though for not beeping horns and gesticulating as you passed.😂 That yellow box in Slough is horrendous, needs tweaking to ensure better traffic flow especially with the bus lane
Just because their heads are not turned one way or the other does not mean they are not using their peripheral vision to check the traffic around them.
The Audi that had broken down (shame),did he have his park anytime/anywhere hazards on? Maybe they had a complete electrical failure (shame again) or they did not know how to operate them, like their indicator thingies...
First thing to do is put out the warning triangle. Most people are just too lazy and 'entitled' to do that. But we do not know if the dyed-hair selfish one had run out of petrol, cars can stop for all kinds of reasons. Also they can be pushed out of the way.
You have become a member of the 'Always an Audi under any circumstances' club. For example, Audi stops at a red traffic light = AAA. Audi is in the correct lane on a roundabout= AAA. Enjoy.
So you'd ventured up to my neck of the woods, Tony. Hope you got your passport stamped. The M40 can't be a swine. We use it to visit family still down South. I agree with you about manners, it gets my goat too. The number of times I utter expletives. There are so many members of the "ME" generation and attitude now.
I remember the late 80s/early 90s when nobody seemed to have discovered that the M40 ran north of Oxford or south of Warwick. It was the only place I used to drive where my speed was theoretically limited by the top speed of my car rather than by traffic.
@ianmason. I can remember driving the M25 when it first opened. No one liked it as it had no services on it. It was amazing, driving an empty motorway.
@@angeladormer6659 Back in my dispatch riding days I remember driving on it when only sections were open from somewhere around Watford to get to IBM's offices in Chiswick and using this new, empty road as a way to cut around traffic. I was the only person on that stretch, it was quite surreal. It was a very foggy day and I got lost in the backwaters near IBM's office. They were in a panic when I got there as apparently I was carrying a time critical cheque for several million quid.
The Coventry inner ring road is a real challenge, they have several suicide crossing points where 2 sets of elevated dual carriageways meet, and you have to force your way across from one to the other, while people IN the other set of lanes are trying to force their way into your two lanes - in a very short distance and in (well, when I used to have to do it), a 60 mph zone.
Leeds ring road is the place to go if you want to encounter that sort of crossing flow, bloody horrible.The ring road in Leicester is similar, but not as bad as Leeds.
@@AndrewWhite-fu7bn Good luck enforcing that rule just about anywhere in the country. People by me park where they want as badly as they want because we have no police presence at all, well, maybe once a year we get a drive by from our country copper in his 4x4.
Your trip back from Coventry was clearly not a lot of fun. I would've been tempted to hit the A404(?) - heading South - to join the M4 heading East but, to be fair, traffic could've been just as bad that way. One day; just for giggles; I'm going to write down 6 swear words or catchphrases that you often use to see if I get a full house. It is similar to Neg's Swear Bingo if you plan to look it up 🤣🤣🤣. All the hest, Tony.
Road infrastructure in the UK is broken and deliberately neglected. Decisions are made in London and as long as londoners can catch buses or tubes or cycle, nowhere else matters. I sat in the inside lane of the M5 yesterday... 90% of the traffic was overtaking me at speed.. no police seen all day. No deterrent for poor driving.
Wheel coming off outside a Tyre/exhaust garage. A friend of ours used to work at a local Kwik fit & told us of an incident were that actually happened. The Mechanic didn't tighten up the wheel nuts on a vehicle & the wheel came off. Luckily nobody was injured, but vehicle sustained serious damage.
I just had 4 new tyres fitted, and the place I had them fitted were not happy that I checked all the wheel nuts before I would leave, I also checked tyre psi, 2 under inflated by about five psi, 1 was right, and one was 45 psi, hard luck I will not leave until I have checked, I will not go back again, and they did not care when I told them so.
@@johndilloway9762 Quite right of you to check. Whenever we have an engine oil change I check the level on the dipstick, and the colour to see if is clean, new oil, and not the slightly brown oil it went in with. Air guns for wheel nuts gradually round the corners - always best to tighten up/loosen off wheel nuts by hand.
Tony - check out the new rules Japan have introduced for cyclists (on BBC news website Friday). Using a phone when cycling - up to 6 months jail, causing an accident - 1 year in jail, drunk cycling - 3 years in jail...
School run time is a nightmare. A totally different set of rules for those drivers. All wear blinkers and just have a point and shoot attitude to driving. The car at 13.35 (your Coventry drive) that knows where he is going on the roundabout, and the cars i the right turn only lane in Slough (@ approx 26:45) and also the car pushing in on the A40/A404 slip road at 21:35 are that bunch who have a different Highway Code to everyone else - German cars. So predictable. if i see a Merc, BMW or Audi in the right hand lane i know it wants to turn left.
I think it's going to be a generation until this change of priority to pedestrians becomes the norm. i do quite a lot of walking, both in the small market town in Suffolk where i live and also out in the surrounding countryside, and the number of motorists who give way is very small. If i lived in a major city i would never dare just step out as some pedestrians do. The only motorists who do stop are probably the ones who would stop out of courtesy anyway.
I’ve been told that cameras that take photos of people using their mobile phones which leads to them being fined are being introduced to roads and motorways ❤
These cameras can also see if the driver or passenger is wearing a seat belt. I've also heard it's not far off for the AI to be able to compare the driver's face with driving licence photos to check the driver is insured to drive the vehicle they are actually driving. Some may complain that this technology is an invasion of privacy, but there's nothing to fear if the driver is all legal.
At 13:50 I'd say you have to give the red car some credit for probably knowing how the flow of that roundabout works. He jumped a whole load of vehicles. You are allowed to change lanes on a roundabout if safe to do so, and that's what they did. DPD = Dangerous Prat Driving ?
Roundabouts are in the top one in the hazardous motoring league. It is not recommended to switch lanes at will. They are dodgy enough when folk use them properly, so the 'red car' was not a calculating wizard but merely an MGIF / pusher in / I'm all right Jack type of driver.
When I know someone is queue jumping and they are familiar with the area, I do my very best to deny them access. I can't stand those kinds of entitled people. If they are from out of state, I'll give them grace and let them in. Had that happen to me when I was on a cross-country trip and following my GPS...I was in a left lane on a busy surface street and my lane suddenly turned into a left-only lane. I put my indicator on to get over to the right and a very nice gentleman let me in. I made sure to thank him at the next light by having a bit of a chat through the window. Not sure why my GPS took me off the freeway there and I didn't even know what state I was in...there were three in the running!
Motoring is very different across the pond, obviously. 'Deny them access? Isn't it much simpler to let them in and carry on with your day? (But at least you give out of state drivers priority.)
this is everything that is wrong with a me- me-me attitude so that we do sometimes get with LDC but on this video he was in a very accommodating mood. You have no idea if people are queue jumping, got confused with the road layout or are simply using all the available road space.
Heya Fella, 12:45 Welcome up our end of the country where driving isn't any better. That island is notorious for dipsh1t BMW drivers and posh w4nkers speeding around it. I can only apologize for these eeejits.
Nope, it means "give way", no requirement to stop unless it is necessary to stop in order to give way. A solid white stop line and a "STOP" sign on the other hand _do_ require you to stop, even if you can see that everything is clear.
As others have replied not the case - however, if you want to stop there is no issue IMHO. Much more of a problem is where stop lines are treated as give way by poor drivers - especially common with cyclists & red lights where they wait for traffic to clear & then go forward anyway ie. giving way not stopping
@@markdyson4332 I'm going to disagree with you - a bit. A lot of people drive up to give ways, stop, and only _then_ look after they have already stopped to see if they need to give way. A lot of give way junctions have good enough sight lines that if you slow down and give yourself adequate time to look on the approach you can slide through the give way without stopping and thus improve traffic flow. (The same thing applies to roundabouts BTW.) The Traffic Signs Manual (which guides traffic engineers) suggests that stop signs only be used where junctions have such poor visibility that they are strictly necessary [to make people stop and take stock]. In fact it uses the wording that "the provision of new STOP signs should be exceptional".
@@ianmason. Yes! Def in aiding traffic flow. Ashely Neal has done a very good video about approaching junctions slowly and especially roundabouts so that you can assess the traffic and chose the right point or time to join so that you don't have to stop, unless it is choc a block with traffic.
[7:11] "But the professional driver behind - I don't even think that he knew I was there". He clearly waved a Thank You. Either that or you think he was just shielding his eyes from the Sun despite having his visor down. Am I missing something? You certainly seemed to. You have to stop obsessing over finding fault with "Khan's Assasins". But, keep playing that hilarious Indian James Bond theme. If you're going to be wrong at least play that piss-taking tune while you're at it.
What pishes me off these days while driving,why the frig are indicators so frigging small,and brake lights,you can’t see them in daylight,just about see them at night
The new Vauxhall mokka has really tiny rear indicators,that if the brake lights are on, you cannot always see the indicator, looks only about 2 inches if that.
I still bellieve that mandatory driving tests every decade would enhance road safety, ensuring drivers maintain essential skills and remain medically and mentally fit to drive.
@@AndrewWhite-fu7bn I understand that, you never really stop learning, you have to adapt every day, what I mean is they do not actually teach people to drive now, they teach how to pass test, that is entirely different to teaching how to drive, so many things I was taught are now not even taught, one for example was reversing from a main road into a side road, you had to keep the nearside wheels within approx 12 inches of the curb, not something you need everyday but taught control, parallel parking was done into an actual gap between cars, nowdays there is often not even not a car behind them so they do not learn the required control level, that is why so many cannot do it properly.
You should try Basingstoke where my other half lives, her road is packed full of cars, half of them are opposite junctions, or on top of them, couple of the side roads actually have cars parked in the entrance to junctions.
Mr London Dash Cam, You indeed are a good driver obviously. However, you will note (if am correct) you is a Black Cab driver, this means you still make money when your passengers are sat in traffic not going anywhere, with the same logic YOU can just relax take it easy not rush be extra observant double check situations and profusely give way because your meter keeps running. Its a different scenario for Ubers / Minicabs / Non-metered . Something for you to think about sir!!
DPD stands for " Delivering parcels dangerously"
Great video as always 👍
Was going to say the same! 👍
I always thought it was delivering parcels dented.
I heard it was "Don't! Please Don't!"
Well, I’d say that’s not too accurate seeing as they don’t seem to manage to deliver very much, always gets ‘lost’
Dumb prick driving or damaged parcel delivery 😎
I'm a 70 year old woman and I love you because you say it iike it is. I'm a good driver and stick to highway code and the sense I was born with . I moan about everything you do I agree with you totally the only I thing I don't do as you do is swear but I don't have to because you do it for me so thankyou ❤
70? Barely out of your teens.
C’mon Christine! Just one little cuss word. It’d make a ‘young’ 60yr old chuckle.😉✌️
As long as you aren't one driving at 20Mph in a 50Mph limit road, or in the outside lane for no reason at all, you have all my love :)
@@razzle1964 my children have tried to make me swear but the words just won't come out of my mouth. X
@@stephenhargreaves9011 like I said I stick to the rules of the road . I do the speedlimits and never go to slow but people cut me up and speed past me like I'm standing still x
School runs anywhere are a nightmare.. I am down on the South Coast in Worthing, and cover between Hove and Littlehampton. There is no more mercenary drivers out there than a school run mum, even worse when she's late. I'm going to assume that this is the same, no matter where you are in the country. Keep up the good work, Tony, look after yourself bud, cheers from Richard in Worthing 👍
Same in Gloucestershire, add in incessant unnecessary roadworks.
I used to commute the long way from Bognor to Chichester by road bike... taking the long way was still faster by bicycle than car or bus... at school run time.
Thanks Tony, there are always learning points and tips.
At 17:50 "the emergency roofer" is thinking "can I get away with it.... well, I'll try!"
Early weekend greetings from Stockholm.
Nice one Tony. A lot of CONSTABLES, on the roads, that day!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Utter bunch of constables.
@@jamielee-hill449 But no chief.
I’ve been cracking up at the name calling 😂😂😂😂
17:26 Hard Shoulders are for driver's that have broken down NOT Cutting lanes
Good stuff mate, keep em coming.
7:55, I know someone who drove his car out of the garage after a service and one of the front wheels fell off, it does happen.
Safest lane for a BJ is the middle lane and yes I/we actually witnessed it on the M56.
Clearly a good idea to steer clear of the middle lane of the M69 then.
17:45 Citroen on the left: Where the F did the mercedes come from? :D :D
14:27 Where you say that you're waiting to move over until the slip lane finishes there's even a hint from the traffic engineers that that's what you should do. If you look at the lane divider marks they're long dashes and they only revert to standard short dashes once the slip road is over. Those varying lengths of dashes can be _very_ useful hints as to how to drive if you don't know a section of road and what happens next - sadly a lot of people don't even notice them.
I was only telling my son, aged 16 and heading for driving lessons, about the dashes on the road today because he noticed they're different on a long straight than they are on a bendy road.
Emergency lane travellers...have been known to run into people parked there and killing them. They are impatients idiots.
"Come gentle bombs and rain on Slough" - John Betjeman
The first clip - Yes, even under the old rules, traffic turning off a main road into a side road were to give precedence to pedestrians crossing the side road. And under those rules, I was driven at dangerously twice over the decades by impatient drivers coming off the main road, they approached quickly without signalling. The one who yelled something abusive out of the window as she passed had children in the car.
one days driving, that was mad, my wife loves your voice and I love the observations/narration
Tony, I feel your pain and I am so glad I don't have to drive any distance anymore although that might change soon. If it does I have no doubt I'll have clips to send in because even in a 5 mile round trip you can find some idiots.
14:37 she might have been doing more then putting her fingers through his hair 😂
Do you mean running her fingers through the empty void where most people have brains? :)
So great watching this. I’m looking recommence driving again after some years. This video has made me laugh 😆 as well as fall out of my seat with the way some people drive
When I was once running late to catch a flight from Heathrow I tried - and succeeded - in doing all the little dodges that you highlight - but not the hard shoulder - in an effort to make the plane. It worked and I happily flew away to my destination. Sometimes needs must. No other drivers or vehicles were harmed during this strategic driving.
Ahhhhh i love this light entertainment channel
Yes, it's lights years in progression of entertainment from the BBC.
Hi Tony, only discovered your channel recently and have now watched about 150 of you episodes so far, I'm addicted....It's interesting to see how you've developed your style over the years. Love the 'only an Audi' & 'Burke in a Merc' trademark comments 😂. Love the cockney voice commentary which you've developed and is really polished now. I always thought your voice sounded like Dave Basset the Wimbledon/Sheff Utd manager. Just listened to an old clip of his and I think it does. Also the recent younger you photo also bears a slight resemblance to him too 😂. Keep up the good work 👍 I will slowly catch up with all the old episodes and then just look forward to the new ones... Cheers 😁
I say it all the time…
Short leads on dogs when walking near roads! A slightly different scenario and that could’ve been a lot worse
And don’t get me started on phone zombies
Agree about the space the car had coming towards you on the bend , Alas its the space between their ears where the brain should be thats the real problem. Thanks for the entertainment Tony.
5:59 could at least put her hazard lights on to give more signs that something's up.
Agreed. Not only that, I think Tony covered this matter in a previous clip in his own inimitable way - along the the lines of “back in ‘our day’ when we drove shit cars we had the decency to make it to the side of the road” and “these days, do ‘modern’ cars just break down in the middle of the fuckin’ road”?
I felt his pain. Many years ago, my own Dolomite Sprint blew up on Canning Town flyover. It had the ‘will’ & decency to roll down the hill & crawl to a safe place at the side of the road.
I've been undertaking recently, I've had enough of people hogging lanes
Yes. The prime cause of undertaking is lane hogging. ( But the hoggers are totally unaware of this.)
As I've said before in these comments, there is no need to block a road if you break down. As long as you have battery power you can use your starter motor to get off the road and into a safe place.
Great video Tony, surprised you didn't mention anything about testing your brakes after going through the floods. I'm not talking brake checking the vehicle behind you rather riding the brakes slightly as you accelerate away from the flood to check the resistance so you know they are working and will stop you. Not all modern vehicles have disc brakes all round some still have drums on the rear axle and they can pick up water if it's deep enough. 🤔.
To be honest I haven't seen anyone test their brakes anymore after going through flood water, I have drums on the rear of my old focus and always test my brakes but only after going through large areas of water.
Shaking the coke can! Another great vid Tony 👍
Good luck and thank you
The 7ft barrier in Abbott's Road (1:50) has been there since the 80s, but there have been times when the actual bollards weren't there and a van that size could have got through (though not legally, as it's a legal restriction, not just a physical one).
@13:15 - there's a roundabout close to home for me -Coldra roundabout in Newport, S Wales, which I hate. There are two places I can join it and be confident which lane to be in, but if I ever approach from a different direction, it's hit and miss. Last week I took a 10 miles detour because I was in the wrong lane. (No, I won't start cutting other drivers up because I cocked up - I'll suck it up and find a different way).
I live up the road from there in Abergavenny and have validated the Coldra roundabout a number of times. Yes it's big and I've approached it from a number of directions but never had any real problems or got confused etc.
@@johncranna9427 Honestly, the signage form and to an approach is not great, and it IS easy to be in the wrong lane on approach. Maybe because every approach is surrounded by trees that block the signs. If I'm coming to it expecting to exit to the M4 it's not so bad. Trying to get to any other exit is, for me, hit and miss. Maybe I need to drive it more. EDIT: For example, coming from the B4327 or the A48 from Newport to exit on the A48 to Langstone gets me every time. Edit - the example I gave was me going down the A449 for miles because I was in the wrong lane LOL
I hate that roundabout and share your pain.
@@bazwdm9354 It really is horrible. It should be easy, and yet it isn't.
@stephenhargreaves9011 I know as I come down from the A449 and it's ages to get to the next exit being Usk!!
I’m binge watching, and in 212 you’ve finally hit the nail on the head! These so called ‘professional drivers’ are not always so. The car is licensed, but the driver is questionable. Safe driving, Dave. p.s. what’s your first name please? Just so I know who to cheer on when I’m watching you coming out with expletives I myself would use.😂
0:54, 13:10 Floors are indoors, ground is outside 🙂
Oddly enough it looks like the "professional driver" did put his hand up at 7:06. Will wonders never cease.
Great videos ❤
At 9.03 I get that all the time on the road I drive mainly, I think they get off the A9 at Ballingluig and put the brain in a cold bucket of water, some pick it up on the way home, but most dont during tourist season
Great video, take care it's a f.... mad world out there ..❤
Thanks for sharing The London Dash Cam 🚕👍
First one is absolutely deadly, kid could so easily have been hit.
Actually Tony please look closer at that professional driver at 7:08 he put his hand up palm facing you, albeit very quickly.
Happy driving 😊
15:45 the Audi does show the message to be fair.
I reckon the Kia at 03:14 should either have waited where you were Victor but at least should have been further into the kerb, there was planets of room! Love your channel, your content has got me looking to buy an Audi though as I live in your area so I can look out for you in my area.
That Church Hill Road, best avoided during School hours as is the entire area!
That she/he/them/they/it with the broken down Audi, now if that had been me, I’d have made every effort to move forward closer to the lights where the hatch lines are, try a bay=t of pushing, I reckon there might have been at least one or two who would have jumped out to help. That way, there would have been a minimal obstruction instead of one blocked lane.
At 07’40”, those three parked opposite a junction are parked illegally, where’s Old Bill when you need him - don’t answer that we know the answer!
Best place for a Dozy Prick Dopehead (DPD) driver, send them all to Coventry I say!
Nice to see ypu visit coventry! What were you there for then? Come back soon ❤🎉
I was there earlier today visiting my home city. PUSB
@bazwdm9354 it's my home! Born and bred coventrian me 👏🏻
And finally, 28:00 - if I had been you, I would have been out of my car and to the driver behind me demanding to know why the F he was bibbing me for following the rules. I'd have had my crooklock in my hands, 'cos, y'know, he could be anyone. Crooklocks are pretty substantial, and perfectly legal to carry in a car.
Threatening behaviour to cause physical harm however is very illegal. Any confrontation with another driver is simply not a good idea. People have died from doing that.
@@johncranna9427 Actually, I agree, though happening to have my crooklock in my hands is not, of itself, threatening (I didn't say that I would do anything with it). More, he would have deserved it and maybe been frightened enough not to be an arsehole again. If someone is honking their horn at me because I followed the rules, I would feel quite threatened.
@stephenhargreaves9011 @stephenhargreaves9011 "Mr Hargreaves, you stopped your car in the middle of the road preventing the movement of any cars behind you? "
"Yes"
"You emerged from the car with a heavy steel object in your hands?"
"Yes"
"You approached my client with the heavy metal object still in your hands?"
"Yes"
"And in your stament you say that you had no intention of using the heavy metal object.? Perhaps you could inform the court exactly how my client was going to know that you had no intention of using your heavy metal object, Mr Hargreaves?".
A possible court scenario that you might end up in with that attitude!
@@johncranna9427 Not a single word of that applies. I said, "If I had been you", so you should replace it all with "Tony". ;) I'm 59YO with arthritis - I'm not going to do it. I DO have a crooklock, to deter crooks. Oh, maybe I'm starting to incriminate myself again LOL
@@stephenhargreaves9011 Then he would be Crook locked up.
As a skroat in a Skoda, I invariably find, after going through water like that, that Mr EMU takes the opportunity to generate a cascade of phoney error codes, with the chain starting with an ABS speed sensor. If left unaddressed the error codes build on each other until one morning you go out and the blessed motor won't start. But there's nothing wrong. just wipe the codes and you're back in business again and the errors don't return. The joys of a 21 year old Fabia.
Actually says you can undertake on the inside lane if the traffic in the middle lane is moving slower than you but well done though for not beeping horns and gesticulating as you passed.😂
That yellow box in Slough is horrendous, needs tweaking to ensure better traffic flow especially with the bus lane
03:58 not one of those kids looked both ways when crossing.
Just because their heads are not turned one way or the other does not mean they are not using their peripheral vision to check the traffic around them.
@@johncranna9427wouldn’t detect a motorbike at 20 mph would it.
@Ongbakstrainer I don't know whether they would or wouldn't. How can you be so sure they wouldn't?!!
You’re defending children crossing the road without looking properly. Not wasting my time with this one.
@Ongbakstrainer No. You are being so definite saying they are not looking properly. I am just saying they could well be using their peripheral vision
The Audi that had broken down (shame),did he have his park anytime/anywhere hazards on?
Maybe they had a complete electrical failure (shame again) or they did not know how to operate them, like their indicator thingies...
First thing to do is put out the warning triangle. Most people are just too lazy and 'entitled' to do that. But we do not know if the dyed-hair selfish one had run out of petrol, cars can stop for all kinds of reasons. Also they can be pushed out of the way.
Every time I go out driving now I manage to say 'Always an Audi'.
Any ideas what has happened to me?
Heavens, I say that whilst watching other videos!! I've notices lots of other channels now saying the same thing - Tony started something!!
You have become a member of the 'Always an Audi under any circumstances' club. For example, Audi stops at a red traffic light = AAA. Audi is in the correct lane on a roundabout= AAA. Enjoy.
So you'd ventured up to my neck of the woods, Tony. Hope you got your passport stamped. The M40 can't be a swine. We use it to visit family still down South. I agree with you about manners, it gets my goat too. The number of times I utter expletives. There are so many members of the "ME" generation and attitude now.
I remember the late 80s/early 90s when nobody seemed to have discovered that the M40 ran north of Oxford or south of Warwick. It was the only place I used to drive where my speed was theoretically limited by the top speed of my car rather than by traffic.
@ianmason. I can remember driving the M25 when it first opened. No one liked it as it had no services on it. It was amazing, driving an empty motorway.
@@angeladormer6659 Back in my dispatch riding days I remember driving on it when only sections were open from somewhere around Watford to get to IBM's offices in Chiswick and using this new, empty road as a way to cut around traffic. I was the only person on that stretch, it was quite surreal. It was a very foggy day and I got lost in the backwaters near IBM's office. They were in a panic when I got there as apparently I was carrying a time critical cheque for several million quid.
@ianmason. Wow, thank goodness you got there.
The Coventry inner ring road is a real challenge, they have several suicide crossing points where 2 sets of elevated dual carriageways meet, and you have to force your way across from one to the other, while people IN the other set of lanes are trying to force their way into your two lanes - in a very short distance and in (well, when I used to have to do it), a 60 mph zone.
Leeds ring road is the place to go if you want to encounter that sort of crossing flow, bloody horrible.The ring road in Leicester is similar, but not as bad as Leeds.
Road planners are still giggling about it to this day.
@@AngusMontrose I suspect a huge bribe was paid by the local car repair shops, early on in the planning process.
Tony. Can I just check. The middle lane hogger with the woman running her fingers through his hair. we are talking about his head I hope?
Tomorrow i drive through Belgium and the Netherlands and my Dashcam comes with me.
The cars parked near to the junction are wrong in my book...you shouldn't park within so many yards of a junction
Ten meters / 33feet is the minimum
@@AndrewWhite-fu7bnnot even 33 cm where we live….😂
@@AndrewWhite-fu7bn Good luck enforcing that rule just about anywhere in the country. People by me park where they want as badly as they want because we have no police presence at all, well, maybe once a year we get a drive by from our country copper in his 4x4.
This pisses me off so much.
5m in 🇳🇱
The Warwick roundabout is awful at certain times.
I had to use theM25 last week to deliver some gap seals to one of our fitters working in Banbury, nice 87 mile trip each way, not
Your trip back from Coventry was clearly not a lot of fun. I would've been tempted to hit the A404(?) - heading South - to join the M4 heading East but, to be fair, traffic could've been just as bad that way.
One day; just for giggles; I'm going to write down 6 swear words or catchphrases that you often use to see if I get a full house. It is similar to Neg's Swear Bingo if you plan to look it up 🤣🤣🤣.
All the hest, Tony.
8:23 - Why is Homer Simpson flashing at traffic?
Why is there a life size Homer Simpson by the shop at roughly 8:23?
He's waiting for Marge, who is in the queue for a hair do. Then she will Marge in turn.
They don't get any better!
Road infrastructure in the UK is broken and deliberately neglected. Decisions are made in London and as long as londoners can catch buses or tubes or cycle, nowhere else matters.
I sat in the inside lane of the M5 yesterday... 90% of the traffic was overtaking me at speed.. no police seen all day. No deterrent for poor driving.
9:20 the indicating car was also a BMW, maybe the 1 behind didn't understand what the 1st car was doing & what the flashing light was
18:01 kia to left is the same person as lane hover
Wheel coming off outside a Tyre/exhaust garage. A friend of ours used to work at a local Kwik fit & told us of an incident were that actually happened. The Mechanic didn't tighten up the wheel nuts on a vehicle & the wheel came off. Luckily nobody was injured, but vehicle sustained serious damage.
I just had 4 new tyres fitted, and the place I had them fitted were not happy that I checked all the wheel nuts before I would leave, I also checked tyre psi, 2 under inflated by about five psi, 1 was right, and one was 45 psi, hard luck I will not leave until I have checked, I will not go back again, and they did not care when I told them so.
@@johndilloway9762 Quite right of you to check. Whenever we have an engine oil change I check the level on the dipstick, and the colour to see if is clean, new oil, and not the slightly brown oil it went in with. Air guns for wheel nuts gradually round the corners - always best to tighten up/loosen off wheel nuts by hand.
At 11:40: that truck is from Ireland. My brother is currently over, there, in Galway. And guess what kind of car he rented!😀😀
A green one?
7:07 the professional driver did raise his hand. Not sure if it was a thank you or blocking out the sun.
This is the UK, so no sun involved.
18.09 the hair playing duo were at last in the inside lane
Re the HGV trying to pull in from the outside lane of the filter, sorry, if he didn't want that lane he shouldn't have bloody well been in it.
Hands up those of us who have inadvertently got into the wrong lane.
27:00 intrusive thought to beep and creep as if your setting off just to see what they'd do
Tony - check out the new rules Japan have introduced for cyclists (on BBC news website Friday). Using a phone when cycling - up to 6 months jail, causing an accident - 1 year in jail, drunk cycling - 3 years in jail...
Four and a half years, that'll teach 'em. Konichi wa.
School run time is a nightmare. A totally different set of rules for those drivers. All wear blinkers and just have a point and shoot attitude to driving. The car at 13.35 (your Coventry drive) that knows where he is going on the roundabout, and the cars i the right turn only lane in Slough (@ approx 26:45) and also the car pushing in on the A40/A404 slip road at 21:35 are that bunch who have a different Highway Code to everyone else - German cars. So predictable. if i see a Merc, BMW or Audi in the right hand lane i know it wants to turn left.
I think it's going to be a generation until this change of priority to pedestrians becomes the norm. i do quite a lot of walking, both in the small market town in Suffolk where i live and also out in the surrounding countryside, and the number of motorists who give way is very small. If i lived in a major city i would never dare just step out as some pedestrians do. The only motorists who do stop are probably the ones who would stop out of courtesy anyway.
I’ve been told that cameras that take photos of people using their mobile phones which leads to them being fined are being introduced to roads and motorways ❤
An Australian invention now operating on a road near you.
These cameras can also see if the driver or passenger is wearing a seat belt. I've also heard it's not far off for the AI to be able to compare the driver's face with driving licence photos to check the driver is insured to drive the vehicle they are actually driving.
Some may complain that this technology is an invasion of privacy, but there's nothing to fear if the driver is all legal.
@@johnnodge4327 I'd put a decent amount of cash on drivers still using phones, not wearing seat belts etc., despite the technology.
@@johnnodge4327 How about cameras pointed at hard shoulders, to catch the cheaters?
@@AngusMontrose A camera too far I feel
Today I was crossing a zebra crossing and a lady was in a bmw she was to busy looking at her phone then to notice I was waiting to cross
Locally, a driver has just been sentenced to eight years for fatally running a pedestrian over on a ped crossing while on the phone.
At 13:50 I'd say you have to give the red car some credit for probably knowing how the flow of that roundabout works. He jumped a whole load of vehicles. You are allowed to change lanes on a roundabout if safe to do so, and that's what they did.
DPD = Dangerous Prat Driving ?
Roundabouts are in the top one in the hazardous motoring league. It is not recommended to switch lanes at will. They are dodgy enough when folk use them properly, so the 'red car' was not a calculating wizard but merely an MGIF / pusher in / I'm all right Jack type of driver.
I don't believe it!
drivers should be sent back to school to learn how to read, then given an enhanced driving test.
When I know someone is queue jumping and they are familiar with the area, I do my very best to deny them access. I can't stand those kinds of entitled people. If they are from out of state, I'll give them grace and let them in. Had that happen to me when I was on a cross-country trip and following my GPS...I was in a left lane on a busy surface street and my lane suddenly turned into a left-only lane. I put my indicator on to get over to the right and a very nice gentleman let me in. I made sure to thank him at the next light by having a bit of a chat through the window. Not sure why my GPS took me off the freeway there and I didn't even know what state I was in...there were three in the running!
Motoring is very different across the pond, obviously. 'Deny them access? Isn't it much simpler to let them in and carry on with your day? (But at least you give out of state drivers priority.)
this is everything that is wrong with a me- me-me attitude so that we do sometimes get with LDC but on this video he was in a very accommodating mood. You have no idea if people are queue jumping, got confused with the road layout or are simply using all the available road space.
@@johncranna9427 And sometimes you do. When there are signs and the road design hasn't changed in decades, yeah, you know.
One day. I enjoyed the time in Slough.
I hate cars parked opposite junctions.
Some of these drivers should definitely be sent to...oh, what's that town in the UK? Corby? Carshalton? It's on the tip of my tongue.
Liphook?
Heya Fella, 12:45 Welcome up our end of the country where driving isn't any better. That island is notorious for dipsh1t BMW drivers and posh w4nkers speeding around it. I can only apologize for these eeejits.
7:18 I thought the give way line ment to stop (except for roundabouts)
Nope, it means "give way", no requirement to stop unless it is necessary to stop in order to give way. A solid white stop line and a "STOP" sign on the other hand _do_ require you to stop, even if you can see that everything is clear.
@ianmason. Thanks man. Appreciate you.
As others have replied not the case - however, if you want to stop there is no issue IMHO.
Much more of a problem is where stop lines are treated as give way by poor drivers - especially common with cyclists & red lights where they wait for traffic to clear & then go forward anyway ie. giving way not stopping
@@markdyson4332 I'm going to disagree with you - a bit. A lot of people drive up to give ways, stop, and only _then_ look after they have already stopped to see if they need to give way. A lot of give way junctions have good enough sight lines that if you slow down and give yourself adequate time to look on the approach you can slide through the give way without stopping and thus improve traffic flow. (The same thing applies to roundabouts BTW.)
The Traffic Signs Manual (which guides traffic engineers) suggests that stop signs only be used where junctions have such poor visibility that they are strictly necessary [to make people stop and take stock]. In fact it uses the wording that "the provision of new STOP signs should be exceptional".
@@ianmason. Yes! Def in aiding traffic flow. Ashely Neal has done a very good video about approaching junctions slowly and especially roundabouts so that you can assess the traffic and chose the right point or time to join so that you don't have to stop, unless it is choc a block with traffic.
You might have done better to turn off the M40 to pass Marlow then go on the M4.
@DavidNewmanDr Probably better off staying at home and depriving the exchequer of more hard earned taxes!
...turn right at the Rose and Crown, past Tescos, then third right...
[7:11] "But the professional driver behind - I don't even think that he knew I was there". He clearly waved a Thank You. Either that or you think he was just shielding his eyes from the Sun despite having his visor down. Am I missing something? You certainly seemed to. You have to stop obsessing over finding fault with "Khan's Assasins". But, keep playing that hilarious Indian James Bond theme. If you're going to be wrong at least play that piss-taking tune while you're at it.
i see so many (delta hotel's ) doing this
bmw bad manners anker
What pishes me off these days while driving,why the frig are indicators so frigging small,and brake lights,you can’t see them in daylight,just about see them at night
The new Vauxhall mokka has really tiny rear indicators,that if the brake lights are on, you cannot always see the indicator, looks only about 2 inches if that.
I still bellieve that mandatory driving tests every decade would enhance road safety, ensuring drivers maintain essential skills and remain medically and mentally fit to drive.
Good idea, contact the Labour Government and put your case.
Who's going to pay for it? We'll need another budget with more tax increases!!
From what I have seen a lot are not fit to drive straight after passing test.
@@johndilloway9762 They do say that you pass your test and then you start learning to drive.
@@AndrewWhite-fu7bn I understand that, you never really stop learning, you have to adapt every day, what I mean is they do not actually teach people to drive now, they teach how to pass test, that is entirely different to teaching how to drive, so many things I was taught are now not even taught, one for example was reversing from a main road into a side road, you had to keep the nearside wheels within approx 12 inches of the curb, not something you need everyday but taught control, parallel parking was done into an actual gap between cars, nowdays there is often not even not a car behind them so they do not learn the required control level, that is why so many cannot do it properly.
im sure some people leave there manners at home
Not nice to laugh 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Doesn’t anyone know it’s illegal to park on or within 10m of a junction, that’s why I always look both ways when turning left
They do, but they just don't care.
You should try Basingstoke where my other half lives, her road is packed full of cars, half of them are opposite junctions, or on top of them, couple of the side roads actually have cars parked in the entrance to junctions.
is that ksi at 26:24?
Mr London Dash Cam, You indeed are a good driver obviously. However, you will note (if am correct) you is a Black Cab driver, this means you still make money when your passengers are sat in traffic not going anywhere, with the same logic YOU can just relax take it easy not rush be extra observant double check situations and profusely give way because your meter keeps running. Its a different scenario for Ubers / Minicabs / Non-metered . Something for you to think about sir!!
No, I'm a Private Hire Driver, jobs are on a fixed price so if a job takes me 1 hour or 3 hours to do the same job I get paid the same.
So....@user7wk, stop being a kn@b😅
And you aren't paying attention to your own videos. Did you not spot the, "Oh shit, better stop" at 17:49???
Yeah Would that model of Citroen have autonomous braking? That's what it looked like.
Hello Tony, can you send me a private message link so I can book you for an airport run please? Cheers
Judging by your commentary, clearly there are a disproportionate number of drivers related to the Police Force
Tony is amoaning mini
A moaning Kia, surely?
@@craftsmanwoodturner Very good.