Comments by "Neil of Longbeck" (@neiloflongbeck5705) on "Dashcam Lessons" channel.

  1. By the time the cops got to the site of the ladder in No. 2, there would have been a massive pile-up. Retrieving the ladder was a reasonable action.
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  2. I just stamped their ID10T form. He'll get his badge an sign in 10 working days.
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  3. He had plenty of time to use the slow down feature of his vehicle instead he used the look at me button.
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  4. Number 3 if you know a big bump is coming up you can slow down a bit more to reduce the impact. Sometimes action is more important than talking.
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  5. ​ @imanoldurango8213 automatic reaction.
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  6. Never put down to malice what can more easily be put down to incompetence.
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  7. Hou can say that about a lot of the clips on channels like this.
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  8. I don't know who is dumber Number 1 or Number 3.
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  9. Lots of wheels are tightened by hand. Nothing wrong with that, provided the correct torque is applied.
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  10. And stop riding the lines. That's just asking for trouble.
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  11. Number 1 you had plenty of time to turn your interaction into a non-event - their turn signal was on fir ling enough - but you had to go charging in just so you can feel superior. In reality you're as bad as the other driver.
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  12. When is wrong to use all of the road space and merge in turn? Err, never. All those empty headed drivers causing more congestion by filling up one lane and leaving the other empty.
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  13. Plenty of time to turn it into a non-event.
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  14. Number 14 - you can't park there, pal.
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  15.  @gabrielbecerra2290  so, in spite of seeing the tow truck's size and that they were turning you still proceeded to the stop line where you would have had to have waited for the tow truck to complete his turn as he would have right of way over you as he was at the stop line first? In doing so you created a worse situation so that you could appear to be the victim. And, just because it's a residential street this tow truck, unless signed otherwise had equal right as you to be there.
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  16. Number 11 a sensible driver gets out of the HGV's (truck to our Americans friends) blind spots as quickly as possible even if that means changing lanes.
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  17. Number 5 - In the UK, it is against the Highway Code (the Rules of the Road) for a vehicle being overtaken to accelerate, so, assuming a similar rule in the USA, the idiot is the one being overtaken.
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  18. Or perhaps people should just learn to drive.
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  19. No. 3 gets a 5.9 from the American judge.
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  20. Number 18 - the silver car didn't help the situation by staying where it was. Get in a staggered formation, either ahead of or behind the truck, and the the traffic will just flowmore smoothly.
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  21. Number 3 - 2 drivers that Im glad I don't sharethe road with.
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  22. Cyclist did nothing wrong in Clip 3.
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  23. Stupidity. On behalf of the cammer.
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  24. Number 14 - it's never a good idea to sound your horn as it causes the person you are reminding of your presence to brake unthinkingly.
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  25. Number 1 - what's wrong wihh merge in turn?
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  26. More Pink Floyd please.
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  27. I've seen uglier things on the road, but never in a state of mind that would be legal for driving.
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  28. There's a British driving instructor on YT called Ashley Neal who puts up driving fail and good driving videos (primarily British ones) with his professional analysis. Many of the driving fails are due to people driving too aggressively and not reading the roads correctly (including the reading the intentions of other road users).
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  29. Annually for at least the first 5 years.
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  30. Number 11 - grow up. Of course, the on coming traffic is going to go around the fallen branches.
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  31.  @crowmollymedia6480  depends on if the camner was in the Skoda's blind spot - looked in mirrors saw nothing behind and moved out. Would you look more carefully, especially when going round a bend?
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  32. 12.1 - love the attitude. So composed.
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  33. @demophys4883  in the UK, the speed limit for such vehicles is 60mph (vehicles with speed limiters are slightly slower) on similar roads, but they still overtake each other because onetruck is doing slightly more than the other.
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  34. What's the American for Specsavers? Because number 18 needs to go there. That truck never crossed intoher lane, and whilst it should have stopped at the Stop Line,it didn't cause any conflict with other traffic until Mrs Entiled tooted her self-righteous horn.
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  35. The driver in number 5 was called a moment later by his wife. "Honey, take care there's some fool driving down the wrong side of the road." "What do you mean, there's dozens of them."
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  36. Number 5 you had plenty of time to observe the turn signal but you chose to accelerate. Don't blame others for your inadequacies.
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  37. Number 12 the other car was playing snooker. After interacting badly with you they gad yo interact with a coloured car (yellow, green, brown, blue pink or black) to run up the highest break (or should that be brake?).
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  38. Number 15 - only idiots sit in someone's blind spot.
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  39. ​ @Shortghost26 kind of strange. Possibly uninsured.
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  40. Number 11 you had a hand in that crash. Sounding your horn hassled the van driver into moving when it wasn't safe. Well done for, your impatience caused others to have a crash.
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  41. If she had only said she thought he waxabout to cross the line into her lane then the honk could be justified, but for no other reason.
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  42. The other bit of top advice is: drive like you own the car not the road.
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  43. The entitlement is strong in this one.
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  44. Try watching that clip with audio. The driver admits messing things up before asking where the other driver came from. Big ups to her for admitting her fault.
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  45. Number 9 try using your brakes.
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  46. Watching some of these clips I wonder why do the road authorities bother putting up signs for intersections and junctions.
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  47. Number 4 - the original lane change by the cammer looked a bit close, but certainly didn't merit what then happened.
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  48. That's a powerful cough you have there Number 3. Makes car drivers lose control.
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  49. Number 6 shows the dangers of being in someone's blind spot. Perhaps you should learn a lesson yourself about positioning along with the other driver about checking blind spots before making a move.
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  50. Number 13 - why not use your brakes and make it a non-event?
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  51.  @jacobbocks4798 in the UK's Highway Code it states that when queuing use all the available road space and merge close to the point where the lanes merge. Number 2 is exactly what drivers in the UK are supposed to do. However, we also have the same empty heads who will congregate in the lane that will remain open instead of using all available road space causing unnecessary congestion. I'm surprised that the states don't have a similar rule.
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  52. 16.5 nice helping out of an idiot. Well driven.
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  53. Number 2 - when passing a lay-by (UK term for such a parking area) you should always assume, unless you can see otherwise, that someone might be wanting to pull out and take your foot off the throttle. Whilst your insurance will find you not at fault in such a crash you avoided, you can avoid being without your own car for a period of weeks.
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  54.  @benguest4834  so 2 wrongs make a right? Yes, the van was stopped in the wrong place but that doesn't make the cammer's actions any better. Have you never been lost in a strange city or part of the city you don't know well?
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  55. @61rampy65  you must have a lovely head of air, with all the hair splitting you do. Using any manual tool is hand tightened. Using your fingers is also hand tightened. I'm not an authority, but do have experience. You just seem to have a mouth and no experience.
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  56. @61rampy65  thanks for confirming everything I said.
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  57. Number 14 only a idiot rides in someone's blind spot.
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  58. Number 1 - what does "STOP" mean? Whilst the guy in your footage was in the wrong, it doesn't mean that you are any better.
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  59. The Sheriff missed him because he was white.
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  60. Number 8 in such situations you should drive a bit slower and give yourself a bit more time to react.
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  61.  @searay7723  too damn right.
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  62. Number 15 - poor lane discipline. Get over to the 1st lane before you reach your junction, otherwise we'll watching you in a video entitled: "Bad drivers never miss there exit".
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  63. @johnt.848  is that the US rule? Because Rule 168 of the Highway Code says the opposite.168 Being overtaken. If a driver is trying to overtake you, maintain a steady course and speed, slowing down if necessary to let the vehicle pass. Never obstruct drivers who wish to pass. Speeding up or driving unpredictably while someone is overtaking you is dangerous. Drop back to maintain a two-second gap if someone overtakes and pulls into the gap in front of you.
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  64. Number 21 - you could have used your brakes and turned it into a non-event.
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  65. Number 18 was your speed as safe speed? You've just gad one car cross in front of you, you should have expected there might be more of them and lifted off the loud pedal.
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  66. Number 14 turn signals don't mean it is safe to move, they just indicate that you wish to move in the direction indicated. The fault for that accident lies with you.
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  67. At least the windows survived...
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  68. Number 13 - were you driving just in front of the truck in the middle lane of had it caught up to you? If the former then you need to stop driving in the blind spits of other vehicles fir your own safety. If the latter then the trucker needs to pay more attention
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  69. 16.3 we're changing your tag to Cupid Stunt for that incident. You held up other road users with that, Stunt.
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  70. In response to the first clip - only one cop car with 4 lanes to deal with and we have no idea when the incident occurred. Drivers should be driving at speeds that they can stop within the distance they can see.
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  71. 5,1 failed to observe the merging vehicle and take any action to avoid the incident because they had right of way effectively making things worse. You kniw can yield the right of way? So, why not use your brakes instead on your horn and make the world a better place?
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  72. We have the same type of cycling cock-wombles in the UK, out there looking for trouble for their channels by putting themselves in danger.
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  73. Number 10 might have been caused by an old lady but you and everyone else who flew past in the lefthand lane didn't help, sordid your rebuke on the horn. Why not be a grown-up and help such drivers out of their stupidity?
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  74. Poster of number 12 - you've never read the secret version of the rules of the road given to certain cycling experts?
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  75.  @Dan-yk6sy  too prosaic, man.
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  76. Number 5 - so someone slows down before turning off the road is a brake check? Get a life.
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  77. Number 1 - he wasn't thinking, you have to do his thinking for him (and you did).
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  78. Number 6 heads to open their eyes a bit more. The other car moved over because of the dar approaching at speed from the tight and not looking like it was going to yield.
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  79. Number 9: hornscause people to react in many ways, including coming to a sudden stop. It's better in many cases to not sound your horn but brakes early as possible and sadly shake your head at the other person poor driving. You won't make many a better safer driver by sounding your horn.
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  80. Number 13 - your son was at fault for following the rules of the road. Everyone knows that...
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  81. Number 1 - a self-entitled driver with a camera.
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  82. Whilst you had the right of way Number 7, you had plenty of time to prevent an accident. Much better to have the footage of this bone headed trucker being in the wrong place and your vehicle undamaged than to keep your right of way and have your car off the road for repairs.
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  83. 9, 10 and 12 now missing.
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  84. ​ @wshk9718 cammer 100% at fault.
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  85.  @rogerlay8183  just as long as it's horn to brake and not the other way round.
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  86. Number 8, why not let the idiot in and save yourself a lot of hassle? It's just a strip of tarmac not a birthright.
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  87. Number 13 - have you been to Britain as you certainly have a British sense of humour?
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  88. Number 1 - you do realise you started this interaction by sounding your horn? No one was in danger.
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  89. Number 3 - what an arse. You closed the gap do much the other motorist was left with no option but to creep over. Less mouth and less gas AND more gap.
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  90. @punchodex2  cammer talks about storm damage, but drives like everything is fine. Where's the commonsense there?
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  91. @Dani-zm6ey  you admit that your speed was excessive considering the storm damage. You're on a road lined with trees and can't anticipate that branches might be down? Where's your commonsense?
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  92. @Dani-zm6ey  looks like it from the caption and your reaction. As I said too fast for the conditions and lack of anticipation at a point more likely to have branches down.
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  93. @Dani-zm6ey  because of your arrogance over commonsense and the lack of it in others. From the footage, I'm certain that the other driver crossed over earlier to avoid debris, but you didn't take that into consideration - displaying the lack of commonsense you are lambasting the other driver for not having.
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  94. Must be a fan of Bone Head Truckers. You know - swing wide it's a trailer.
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  95. They say Americans don't like liberals but they're m9st liberal people,e Know when it comes to the use of their car horns. Very few 9f them are conservativein this respect. For gods' sake it's a road not a birth right.
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  96. Cycling Mikey has an American cousin.
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  97. Number 2 - gave uluru never changed your mind at a junction? So what, if they're slow there may gave green a good reason you couldn't see.
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  98. Number 13. I hope the police officer dealing with your crash has been reported for dereliction of duty.
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  99.  @realulli  so would, or footage from another perspective. Unfortunately we might never know the full story.
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  100.  @freedomwillneverdie6600  by sounding their horn the cammer forced them to take action. Have you never been lost in a strange city? A little patience goes along way.
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  101. @hyrumzaugg5749  and the driver didn't notice? They shouldn't be on the road if they couldn't tell they had a loose wheel.
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  102. @61rampy65  I do know what I'm talking about. It happened to a car I was driving on private land as a demonstration of why you have to take care when attaching a wheel to a car. It didn't last a minute at less than 20 mph before working loose enough to let the wheel wobble. It was spanner tight but hadn't had a tongue wrench used on it.
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  103.  @robv5834  must have been atypical for me then. S0a ner tight but not torque down. Got wobble in lessthan a minute.
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  104. @hyrumzaugg5749  been there, and didn't get more than a minute before wobble started.
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  105.  @robv5834  and in English?
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  106. Yes we all get frustrated being held up by a truck overtaking another at their speed limit, but brake checking one is just a suicidal. Just be patient, get past and leave them in your wake.
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  107. Number 1 - the footage makes you look like an ass for cutting up the car when changing lanes. I hope this wasn't the case.
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  108. Let's rename the states - Delaware will become Delunaware. 49 to go.
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  109. Number 13 - never outdownto malice anything that can be simp,y attributed to stupidity.
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  110. @Ottedikkie  just because you have priority doesn't mean you have to take it. In that traffic, if you wait until there is a suitable gap, then you're going to wait a long time.
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  111. Number 11. You need to pay better attention. The turn signal is clearly on from the start of your clip. And SLOW down in the rain as your stopping distance will be at least double what it is in the dry. New wiper blades wouldn't go amiss either.
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  112. 15.2 - was that the notorious CC of Westchester County you caught on film?
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  113.  @Bad_Drivers_Caught_On_Dashcam  you clearly don't understand the adage. The adage puts the onus on you to maintain safe gaps where the onus is on you to keep them, ie when behind simone, and to be aware of your position on the road and what is going on all around you, so that you can take action to prevent becoming involved in an accident. You certainly do not have to entitlement to any part of the road as the law also requires you to maintain a safe gap from other road users. Priority is not taken but given.
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  114.  @Bad_Drivers_Caught_On_Dashcam  what total bullshit. You are a danger to everyone with that attitude.
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  115. Well done number 4 in your 3rd clip for turning it in to a non-event. Well driven.
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  116. ​ @AndyDrake-FOOKYT I was referring to their 3rd clip.
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  117. 8,1 nice music. Your choice or just the radio?
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  118. Number 3 has probably watched too many clips of red-light jumpers and wants to be safe.
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  119.  @johnt.848  and which rule in the Highway Code is that?
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  120. @johnt.848  and yet it says nothing about speeding up which you maintain is OK. Hmmh, can't see how that helps you. Rather it seems to contradict you.
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  121.  @johnt.848  stop shifting the goal posts. I never said speeding, but accelerating, which is not the same. I can see why you're not a driving instructor any more
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  122. @johnt.848  no comments deleted. So stop lying.
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  123. Number 4 - the biker put himself into danger the car was already indication the turn before the biker joined that carriageway.
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  124.  @ITBOILSMYBLOOD  the car driver was stuck between turning from the middle lane or running the biker off the road.
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  125.  @beerdedwanderer  they are synonyms.
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  126. ​ @ITBOILSMYBLOOD  yes, that was an option. But it was also an option for the biker to use their brains and to back off. Noa1one comes out of this interaction as the good guy. The biker is doubly foolish as before they joined the road the carcwas indicating a turn and they still put themself in to a position of greater danger.
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  127.  @ITBOILSMYBLOOD  and my response you remains that the biker was also an idiot for putting themself into a dangerous position for failing to notice or react appropriately to a car indicating a turn. They are more foolish when you remember just how much larger the blind spot is on that side of the car.
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  128.  @ITBOILSMYBLOOD  or did they get flustered by the first that they weren't in a fit state to drive on? Please not the cammer had space to go around them and didn't have to stop directly behind them.
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  129.  @ITBOILSMYBLOOD  not deflecting at all, but pointing out that the situation is more complex than your smooth brain accepts. The car driver made mistakes but soi did the biker. The biker was allowed to accelarate but by doing so put them into danger and into the driver's blunddpot with a car intending to turn. The car driver was forced by the presence of tge biker to remain in the middle lane from where they shouldn't of turned, but they did end the biker had plenty of time to have noticed the turn signal but ignored it. As for the second incident that was related to getting stressed out after the first incident. A situation many people find themselves in, in less dangerous situations every day.
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  130. Number 20 you don't need any oil or diesel just lots of rubber tyAres followed by rain.
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  131. @kaylingibson8887  and then tried to justify it by saying the truck crossed into her lane. Which it may have done by a fraction of an inch, but unless you are riding the line will never be an issue.
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  132. @kaylingibson8887  we seem to take the same attitude to poor driving. Keeping in the back of my mind the times I've driven a poorly.
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  133. There are uglier things, but I wasn't sober when I saw them...
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  134. Number 11 - you did hit her car, but only after she carelessly changed lanes.
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  135.  @ar_2015  sense of humour failure.
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  136. No. 15 - Think about your own positioning in the lane as only people turning the other way drive so close to the centre line. By being so close to the centre line, whilst not illegal, sends out the message that you're about to turn left. By tge time you put your turn signal on, it was too late to avoid the crash.
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  137. Number 14 - what an areshole you are. The other driver was just using all available road space and merging in turn.
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  138. Number 6 - he was trying to get away from some jerk who was tailgating him from the start of his journey.
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  139. So, mustgetinfrontitis is infecting America. Nowhere is safe.
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  140.  @backfill9183  nope. You sh6always use the whole of the available carriage way otherwise the tailback gets longer. Only the empty heads don't get this.
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  141.  @Knards  no, he chose not to extended th tail back but chose to attempt to merge in turn closur to the merge point. By failing to use all of the avail.able road space all you get is a long tailback, one that would start to affect the roads leading into the junction the cammer came from. What he failed to was indicate his wish to merge and caused a road rage incident.
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  142.  @cornfed123567  which is what he was trying to do. He was merging close to the merge point. And what's wrong with trying to make the world a little better?
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  143.  @nobody7817  the merge part was done poorly but the all those queuing drivers were showing equally poor driving skills.
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  144.  @nobody7817  so the vehicle that came past the cammer never accelerated from a stand?
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  145.  @nobody7817  I must have been watching a different clip because as he comes across a vehicle comes from behind..
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  146.  @PB-jo9vq  so there were 2 moving vehicles. Thank you for confirming that. I've never said the cammer did a good merge, just that was what he was intending.
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  147.  @PB-jo9vq  never said anything about blocking. Although he did end up blocking him. I said that the cammer was making better use of the road space by not joining the queue of vehicles. I've also not said that he made a good merge. My position is that the drivers of the queuing traffic showed poor decision making by forming a single line which caused the traffic to fill up that lane to the junction instead of using all road space. The cammer, on the other hand made good use of that road space until forcing his way in instead of joining the queuing traffic in an appropriate way. Yes, it looks like queue jumping but it isn't. The queuing drivers created the space for this short of driver to exploit and by not using the road space fully they weren't using their brains ie they were empty heads. Not that the cammer wasn't equally empty headed at the end.
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  148.  @PB-jo9vq  it must have been stationary as we see the queue start to move.
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  149.  @PB-jo9vq  I don't agree I think the vehicles at the rear are stationary. My initial point was that the people in that queue are dumb for not using all of the available road space and thus allowing the cammer the space to pull this stunt.
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  150. Number 6 has either re-written the laws of physics or can't type accurately.
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  151. Different country, but the same kinds of idiots.
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  152. Whatever happen to drive like you own the car and butbthe road? Different country, same idiots behind the wheel.
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  153.  @jeffreybryan5591  these are the circumstances that put the blame squarely were it should be, so grow up.
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  154.  @HeresPeanut  nope, never driven an American car.
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  155.  @PapiJonk  so 2 wrongs make a right for do they? If you're not a cop just let it slide. It's a lane not a birth right. By rebuking the bad driver Cupid made the situation worse for all in those 2 lanes. Sometimes, sorry most times it better to shake your head and let them go on their merry way and remain the better driver.
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  156.  @PapiJonk  by sounding his horn Cupid made things worse. If he hadn't sounded his horn do you thing the other car driver would have stopped and blocked 2 lanes? More likely they would have driven off and e everyone else wouldn't have been delayed. The horn should be there to announce your presence not as a rebuke. And Cupid used his horn as rebuke and got the expected result, another confrontation. Better to have turn this encounter with a terrible driver into a non-event and then publish the footage for ridiculing the other driver's poor standards.
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  157. Number 8 - your dipped headlights dazzled the other driver.
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  158. Can anyone tell me what was wrong in 24.1,other than obeying the signs and merging without causing an accident?
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  159. Number 5: Why not use your brakes instead of your horn?
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  160. ​ @beerdedwanderer there was no obvious braking before hitting the horn.
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  161. Number 6 - if you are carrying a fragile gift, why not just back the F off and let the idiots go ahead? Remember the old saying of drive like you own the car, not the road.
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