UK Bad Drivers & Driving Fails Compilation | UK Car Crashes Dashcam Caught (w/ Commentary)
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It’s incredible how the ones who’re convinced they’re the best drivers on the road when it comes to speeding everywhere like they’re Lewis Hamilton running late, are so often also the ones incapable of simply reversing backwards two or three metres.
I find the worst drivers are middle aged they are overconfident from driving for so long and get complacent, along with not keeping up with Highway Code changes
Clip 3....that's a ridiculous fail even for a cammer. No excuses for that horrendous driving
He said that he didn't expect a car coming from the sideroad or something, but you could already see the headlights just as he went to the other lane.
I like how the 3rd guy is making all the excuses under the sun. Fact is you were driving on wrong side of road, the van appears less than a second into the clip maybe go a bit slower when approaching a hazard so you can give yourself more opportunities. You were out in the middle of the road from the beginning as if to say you were going through no matter what is coming, ie emergency vehicle at speed.
If you read the text the cammer admits they made a mistake.
Then the comment about the takeaway place as though it was really close and the van pulled out last minute.
Fact is the cammer pulled out far too early while going to fast towards a hazard at which he should have given way.
@@Paradoxolog And then proceeds to try and justify it by blaming the driver who was on the right side of the road well in advance of the cammer moving over...
@@Paradoxolog The cammer may have made a minor mistake; the much greater mistake was made by the van driver, who is obliged to make certain the road is clear _in both directions_ before pulling out, not just look one way.
The van saw cammer coming and still wanted to block them just for the sake of it 🙄
With TWO unmarked cop cars on his tail, matey wasn't just skipping the queue; he was already being pursued for something else as well. What we saw was the escape attempt coming to a conclusion.
#13 genuinely baffles me. Why do people look right when it's not their turn to pull out yet? A general rule I go by on a roundabout is wait until the car in front of me has crossed the line, then I'll look right. That's how you don't crash into people.
Planning and anticipation.. though helps to look forward too before moving off.
It is easily done, but it is contrary to the most basic rule of driving there is: *Look Where You're Going.*
I’m not sure what you mean, of course you look right to see if there’s a big gap coming or not (otherwise you might miss your chance & have to wait longer) but obviously you should check there’s nobody in front of you as well!
Your lucky not to have crashed then doing that crossing the line means nothing 😂
#2. Even the dashcam shook with the force of that blowout.
#10 you know the man’s address,he would be getting a solicitor’s letter along with the bill for the damage,otherwise it would be the small claims court along with your dash cam evidence 😀
I’d have called the police, if you think about it, the bloke left no details and left the scene, he’d damaged the cammer’s car and left, that’s hit and run.
Add reversing out into main road, and undue care and attention.@@GamersUKCentral
#12 is rather cheeky, but there's absolutely nothing in the Highway Code about queueing or fairness. The rule is to use all available road space and to help traffic flow, regardless of "who got there first".
#7 - that exit onto the M3 is one of the most infuriating bits of road. Every time there’s a bunch of entitled drivers cutting in right at the top, which causes that lane to slow down in the first place 🤦🏼♂️
4:53 No I believe that cab drivers rules apply here, If you drive a cab or a tipper lorry then you are the only driver who has any priority on public roads, pulling out in front of other vehicles is mandatory and giving way to other vehicles is a breach of their rules. They actually have an annual award ceremony with categories such as Most accidents caused on Roundabouts, Most hours clocked up driving while using a mobile phone and my personal favourite The award for the outstanding achievement of the most amount of lanes used at simultaneously.
I missed last year’s ceremony, do they still have the “Fastest acceleration through a red light” award?
@@smilerbob No that's been taken out, there were too many to count, they have however brought in a new category of the fastest overtake on a zebra crossing, bonus points are added for human contact.
1:11 You made that move way too early and even crossed hatched markings to do it.
You’re not driving a sports car, you can’t accelerate or stop as quick as everyone else.
Learn from this, please.
6:46 You could fit a bike between the Merc and the kerb the way it was stopped, plenty of room to not make a d-bag of yourself
Its hard to tell how big the bus was tho. I used to go a food place right outside a bus depot/ stop and some of the drivers were just absolute dickheads about space. We would park on this big hatched section in the middle. We checked with a few of the drivers we saw all the time if we were okay to leave it there for 5 mins while we got food. None of them cared at all as we kept well out the way. Every now and than you would get some twat who would be screaming and shouting swearing at everyone because we were blocking them in. The best was while one was screaming at us about how we were blocking him in etc another bus drove between his bus and my mates car proving just how much space he had and he still tried to argue.
I once got held up by an entitled audi driver on the same road, I was already in the single-lane part when he decided to drive into it and try to bully me into reversing. I stopped the engine, waved at him, and shrugged at the traffic building up behind me. Lasted about five minutes before he realised that even if I were to wimp out, I had nowhere to go. I was going to Great Harwood Tesco to get some butter for a cake I was making, I was in no rush at all 😁 He was so furious I was sure his mirrored shades misted up.
Its a bmw
At the beginning of the video we see how much space bus needs to turn on that road. I bet it's "standard" 2,5 meter wide, and maybe 10 (to 13) meters long.
Maybe there was just enough space to pass all those vehicles, but I, as a bus driver, wouldn't risk it.
I love how all the German car brand drivers continue to steadfastly reinforce their own stereotype 😂
Now that’s what you call privilege!
Most of them are bearded camel humpers too...the last clip proved my point...i just knew it would be a blackie with a beard and i wasn't disappointed.
Really? What about all the Vauxhalls?
I have a golf and I don’t drive like a knob
@@beasty7063 Good to know. I hope you also keep your indicator fluid topped up 😂
Is #14 angry because he's inability to drive has been revealed, or because his dodgy registration plate is now on video?
6:43 Oh come on mate you could fit a bus through there
He could, but we all like to see BMW drivers put in their place.
Do you? (Sorry, could't resist! lol) I'd have squeezed through with millimetres to spare and taken 20 mins doing it!
From 1:06 how can you even begin to blame the van driver or wonder what he may, or may not have in his hand? YOU were on the wrong side of the road. You clearly saw the lorry and just as clearly saw the van approaching on the correct side of the road. YOU should have given way and waited.
#3 filmed himself being a knob
van driver was using a phone while driving.
@@georgebarnes8163 The van driver using a phone has nothing to do with the fact that the cammer had plenty time to pull back in but instead chose to overtake the lorry.
@@georgebarnes8163That doesn't excuse the cammer's selfish driving.
@@Marvhead nothing selfish about his driving, the only person who was selfish was the speeding van driver on his phone
@@georgebarnes8163 What makes you think the van driver was speeding. He was playing with his phone but the camera was still completely in the wrong
I watch these and can't beleive the standard of driving from the cammers in a lot of them, and I am not talking #3 who I think (or at least hope) realises he could have done better
The obstruction was on YOUR SIDE OF THE ROAD, he had right of way
Last one, Gt Harwood Park Rd, Always a good place for a jam. Main bus route in both directions, the German mafia coming out of Tesco and claiming "I own the road" rights"
#5 the blind overtake, love the police tape in the hedge.. looks like it’s been done before and resulted in an accident
Plus the solid white lines mean no overtaking by either side of the road.
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I've boought myself a big BMW so I'm entitled to my privileges!
Nah, you need an Audi now.
you should take it through water to help clearout the air filter😂
Now that’s what you call black privilege!
The main privilege: Being disliked by the vast majority of drivers regardless of how you drive the thing.
I doubt it's even his... it's probably daddy's motor and he's feeling like billy big bollocks...
3:23 You call him an idiot yet you are travelling at the same speed.
That first clip is priceless!😆
The lengths the third cammer goes to, to try and excuse his own terrible driving and even trying to blame it on the van driver who was on the right side of the road and visible for approximately 3.3 light years before he started to pass the lorry.... is unbelievable.
What gets me is that people don't even know to drop down a gear whenever overtaking, especially a lorry, because of the time it otherwise takes to crawl passed it in top gear.
And other situations when they just use braking and not braking and gears.
@@terryable-hh4ck Let's face it, the vast majority of motorists have their heads firmly wedged up their arses when it comes to concentrating on operating vehicles nowadays, let alone remotely aware of what's going on around them. And definitely unaware, their vehicles are killing machines, in the hands of retired/neanderthal/frustrated/distracted/complacent/aggressive/blonde motorists. Did I miss any? 🤔😂
Coffee. lunch or afternoon tea?@@zbf5h89ftb
#9 should the tipper have let him in?
The tipper did let him in 😂
And rightly so, anything else would have increased rather than decreased hazard.
I thought that to
The tipper did the right thing, why would you ask that question ?
@@SpudUNoLike the question was posed in the video, I repeated it and answered it.
#14 - 6:31 The gobby guy blocking in the bus has a BMW with a plate that that the DVLA reckons is invalid. Anybody surprised?
It's not strictly true here... I used to drive a car and then sold it on.... The number now no longer shows on DVLA.
This car may now have private plates on, and this number seen in the video could not be on any registered vehicle.
@@ChuckieFinzter Okay, that might be true - but then the MOT history would still show, and MOT doesn't know about it either. I just checked a car I owned ten years ago, and even though its MOT expired four years back, I can still see its history.
I've just checked my old motor that was scrapped on dvla and it shows no record. However, if I go to another site I can still see all the mot details.
There's no date stamp, so this could have happened years ago; the red Clio's MOT expired on 28 February 2020, but the blue Golf is still going strong.
MOT information is linked to the VIN, which is then linked to the current reg. If the reg has been changed since the vid you'd have to know that reg to see the MOT history.
It's possible that it was a private plate for 'Yas' and he put it on retention when he sold the car when he realised he shouldn't be driving after kerbing the wheels...😉
The bus driver could have looked past his nose and waited. Just another self entitled 'professional driver' who thinks he owns the roads.
3:13 another one who cannot drive in snow. all that braking !!! STEER out of trouble
#4. Drivers like that care not about the distance gained -if any - it's just the thrill of the speed/overtake.
Was in the car with my dad when lorry had a blowout right next to us. Shook the whole car and lots of damage up the side including a perfect circle on passenger rear door
Just when you think the black Audi is pushing in as well as 0:25 but good right place at the right time
#5 Not sure what was more shocking, the terrible driving or the terrible performance from that car.
#5. The A15 north of Lincoln. Nobody in their right mind overtakes anywhere on that stretch until you get to Brigg/Scunthorpe. So many fatalities over the years. Almost another one in the clip.
Number 9 Tipper driver. What an idiot. How would he expect others to treat him if he was the one merging (especially in a large vehicle where changing speed takes time)? Clearly having a bad day.
1st clip is gold😂😂😂
4:45 of course he should have backed off to let him in
#9 What do the various rules, regulations a guides say?
#12. Cheeky? yes, but he didn't block the box so no harm done to any moving traffic, and a wasted honk.
#14 - Blackburn. Say no more. What is it with places that start with B?
#5 - The curse of Lucasz strikes again!
For once he didn’t make a mistake tho 😂
7:16 OK11YAS BMW knob, is car cannot be found on the government tax and MOT website so probably a clone plate.
It's not strictly true here... I used to drive a car and then sold it on.... The number now no longer shows on DVLA.
This car may now have private plates on, and this number seen in the video could not be on any registered vehicle.
6:09 it's the type of thing I'd do LMAO
There's a space and he's not blocking the junction..If he's changed his mind about what lane to be in, he's done it relatively well. Hasn't inconvenenced the lorry drive much at all
@@rossmatheson4303 Perhaps. But he's committed the offence of blocking a Yellow Box Junction. One can only hope he received a fine.
@CargyRedux What you say is technically true. However, if a traffic cop didn't see the push in and only witnessed the golf stationary, nothing to report as not blocking the minor road to the left.
I've never really driven in the snow like #6 - what caused them to spin like that? Were they driving too fast? Assume they could have recovered the spin but they over corrected?
Being RWD, they broke traction on the back by lifting off the gas when the tail started wobbling.
@@smorris12that was my guess as well. When I first started driving a RWD on a circuit the instructor reminded me to make sure all your actions were done before a corner, and when in that corner, never lift your right foot.
@@smorris12 I'm pretty sure the 1-series is FWD?
@@TheUkdan02 Only the latest F40 model, the one in the video is older.
3:39 they “saw” alright
#14 (6:36)- the BMW is already in sight, and the bus driver could have waited before the road narrows?
Last clip Bmw, not registered with the dvla 🤔
1:10. #3. You can clearly see oncoming at 1:10. Plenty of time to pull back in. And at 1:46 to accuse the WVM of using the phone. Shocking.
#5 Lukasz! What a man! Your driving skills seem to be improving and you’re learning from mistakes! I’m impressed. Yet another episode where you’ve submitted a clip where you haven’t made a mistake, 4 months ago you’d have been right up that car’s arse 😂
Some people don't like being forced to drive at the legal speed limits
#9 The tipper driver didn't have to let them in but would have avoided some of the conflict if they just took their foot off the gas pedal for a few seconds to increase the gap. Just common sense to yield to someone who is being pushy at a merge.
Agree. Occasionally common sense trumps the rules.
4:40 - 4:59 #9 Yes of course! The simplest, safest, and most efficient option is the one sensibly adopted by the tipper driver - ease off ever so slightly so the merging vehicle can smoothly enter the traffic flow. No doubt there will be the usual small brain (and other organ) nitwits who see traffic as a zero-sum combat zone in which they have to "win" by making other drivers "lose", instead of the collaborative human endeavour it actually is, where flexible give-and-take means _everyone_ wins. these are the people who make driving so much more exasperating, slow, inefficient, and dangerous than it ever needs to be.
3:12 note to self, turn off lane keep assist in the snow!
That move by the Fiat. Jesus wept.
What's the song on #4? Sounds groovy 🕺
#7 cammer is in the wrong lane and not travelling at the speed of the road. It’s no surprise they were undertaken by at least 2 cars
That X5 has parking sensors and a rear facing camera too. You can see it above the number plate. Where the fuck was the driver looking/listening?
Buss driver needs more practice 😂😂😂
1:47 It’s your fault, so how are you looking to put the blame on him 😂
van driver was on the phone, six points and a £200 fine.
@@georgebarnes8163Irrelevant.
@@Marvhead speeding and driving while on the phone is not irrelevant, van drivers insurance will double for the next 5 years, he would hardly think that irrelevant.
Hard to prove from that footage. At least he saw the idiot coming and stopped - not that the cammer had any thoughts of stopping!!@@georgebarnes8163
He's not blaming the other driver. He has actually acknowledged his own mistake but - separately - obeserving that the other driver is looking at what mght be a 'phone whilst at the wheel.
#12: VW driver training for his Audi cert.
6:16 he might be on the line so hopefully gets a ticket lol
What you say is technically true. However, if a traffic cop didn't see the push in and only witnessed the golf stationary, nothing to report as not blocking the minor road to the left.
@@ChuckieFinzter its intentional use of the wrong lane to gain an advantage, which is an offence.
@michaelh7741 I don't think that's a crime to do that. Please quote the paragraph in the Road Traffic Act.... Anyway, I expect I won't be seeing you go right around a roundabout to jump the queue, turning left very soon then. 😆
@ChuckieFinzter its still a traffic violation similar to running a red light. Queue jumpers should get points and fine for being pure nonces
@1:11 You're a muppet! you could see the van coming, had time to pull back in, but you just kept going. And then upload it as if you're a great driver
6:16 Dont see the issue with the Golf, they didnt impede on the box. Just your pride that was impeded.
Hm, I’ve been done by a camera for not clearing a box by that much (car in front stopped about 10 feet short of where he could have gone to!). So hopefully the Golf got a letter.
There are reasons why the Germans say "BMW" is short for "Bayeresche Mist* Wagon".
*There are at least 2 possible translation's for "mist"; one is a vulgarism for faeces.
6.15 minutes . The golf driver made good use of all the space of the road . Shut up #KAREN
No he didn’t, he failed to clear the box junction! Not by much, but get caught on camera and they’ll take £65 off you.
Re the tipper driver and coming onto the motorway. When on the slip road to get onto the motorway, if your entrance is blocked by another vehicle (the tipper), prepare to give way. The tipper could not move over as the van was just about to pass by him on the outside lane, and at the speeds on motorways, if he decided to do so, he could have cause a crash
You're technically correct, but you can also see the tipper very much accelerating to close the gap and box in the flatbed trying to join. You can even see the bump as he shifts down a gear when he decides to close up a perfectly safe gap to merge.
The tipper seems like he was accelerating. Lifting off ever so slightly would have caused him no harm and a safer entry for the person coming off the sliproad. That car would have had to make almost a full stop to let the tipper driver in front, as it seemed a short slipway.
At the end of the day, when merging onto a motorway, prepare to give way, it has after all, got the road markings making it a give-way junction
Tipper should have let them in or used the other lane as its a merge not a giveway!
reverse camera and sensors and still reversed into someone.
Overtaking the parked lorry, and the van coming out of the restaurant. Wouldn't worry, he himself has probably done the same multiple times
Absolute madness and the UK roads are getting worse 😢 loved the first clip mind 🤣🤣🤣😂
0:48 the usual not checking the air before offset. elephant racing too. these lorries need banning in the outside lane
so many words .. so little sense .. but so much shite ..
Seeing as you can't string a sentence together properly, your opinion is worthless.
been there flower, that's why most are thick and selfish, no one with intelligence would do the job @@kittyhawk9707
If all lorries were stuck in the inside lane of a two-lane dual carriageway, how would anyone ever join/leave at sliproads? The inside lane would just be nose to tail lorries with no room for anyone else
no it wouldn't , roll on more trains for goods . just stop in the 1st lane@@bensmythson7472
Number 7 shouldn’t have been out there
Correct, not travelling to the speed of the road and clearly should be on the inside lane
@@cwgmusicvideos exactly he needs to move to the inside
Or lane one as it is occasionally known on dash cam comments.@@SBM851
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Was it a German car?
1:51 The van driver's a dumdum who automatically thinks 'Lane Hogger!' without thinking about the context. Like, it's obviously a suburban area- not a long straight dual carriageway.
Just too many clowns in this world
always a audi🤣
Tiresome.
#5 - guy needs to be taken off the road.
#10, brand new BMW, so it got to have reverse camera. for crying out loud! people!!!
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#12 - Queue jumpers who push in at box jumpers are the absolute worst. There's a junction like that near me where everyone wants to take the fast lane then push in to the left. But doing it at a box junction where you start to cross knowing there's space only to have a *(&£($^ German car driver swerve in and block it leaving you stranded on the yellow box markings...!
Which lane is the 'Fast Lane?
@@terryable-hh4ck The one that is going faster? Is this a difficult concept?
It must be. A multi- laned highway is always lane 1/2/3/ etc. Much easier to picture in your mind.@@ohallifax
It must be. There is no lane called ' Fast ' it should be lane1/2/3/4/ etc.@@ohallifax
It seems so. All multi-laned highways are configured lane 1/2/3/4/etc. Much easier to picture when reading comments about 'fast lanes'.@@ohallifax
#14. The BMW driver was 100% correct - the bus driver IS a knob. He could see the BMW driver go through a pinch point well before he went through his. He should have stopped and waited for a few seconds.
Oh dear, oh dear. You’re right. BMW had priority. Sorry, bus lad.
If there wasn't any space for the two vehicles to pass, you'd be right.
But, since there's no signs indicating anyone has priority through the narrowed length of road, it's just a normal bit of road that happens to be marked with parking on both sides.
There was ample space for the two vehicles to pass within the parking zone, and the BMW driver simply made a mess of using it.
Probably because, like you, he incorrectly assumed he had some sort of priority.
@@CargyRedux If he was the first one through the pinch point then the bus should have waited for him. That situation happened because the bus driver was a selfish twat.
@@CargyRedux Yes I suppose you’re right. Although I would consider this more of a ‘common sense priority’ in that it’s best not to rely on parking spaces which may or may not be clear, and just not enter that signposted stretch of road if there’s another vehicle coming.
I don’t know if the bus driver could see those clear spaces all the way down there but they could just as easily have not been clear. Better to just let the progressing car through IMO.
The settlement of the issue was then obviously poor. Not sure why drivers have to get so irate over mild inconveniences like this.
@@waltersobchak1719 Nope. It's a parking zone between two small pinch points. Nothing more
There was space for the two vehicles to pass within in that parking zone, and no priority signs for the traffic from either side.
I suggest you look-up Park Road, Great Harwood, and use Google street view to familiarise yourself with the signs and road markings.
Typical BMW drivers on show, do not have a clue about road sense or a decent I.Q. level overall.
VIOFO is crap dont get one
In my personal experience, I find the drivers of German manufactured cars are the worst drivers in the UK.
I blame the UK leaving the EEC.
6:10 Where is the rule that forbids him to do that? Nowhere? Oh... wait I forgot: You want special rights and be above everyone else, but if you fail simple road rules, it's the other's fault. Dude your fantasy and reality are two different things. This is traffic. Not your streets! If someone else finds a legal way to go there - why not? If you have a problem with it, then you have a problem with the director of the street, not with the other car. Just because you wish that the offside rule in football would disappear doesen't mean, it's legal to be offside now. Because the rule is still there!!! Just your wish in your fantasy doesen't do a shit!
Highway Code rule 174, and Traffic Signs and General Directions, regulations 10(1) & 29(2). So no "legal way to go there".
@@CargyReduxWhat you say is technically true. However, if a traffic cop didn't see the push in and only witnessed the golf stationary, nothing to report as not blocking the minor road to the left.
@@ChuckieFinzter Tell me you don't know the law without saying you don't know the law.
Being stationary in the box IS the offence. Good try, though!
I hope there were enforcement cameras.
@@CargyRedux Why do you say its a good try?
I was stating the obvious.
Also the minor road to the left has a no entry on it so it's only used for traffic exiting the junction as far as can be seen. If someone wanted to exit and turn left...where would they go? Then they would be blocking the box junction. The Honda did exactly the same thing in lane two.
@@ChuckieFinzter Yep, and the Honda should get a ticket too.
#14 last clip- for once I have some sympathy for a bmw driver - the school bus driver was way too fast in a narrow street and given the bmw was already in the centre of the single file narrow bit the cam driver should have stopped in the wider bit before the road narrowed
#14 typical entitled bus driver.
#9 No! Tipper was not obligated to allow the low loader to "push in". The chevrons between the solid white lines and then the broken line at the end of the slip road indicate that you are supposed to give way, be prepared to stop if necessary and only enter the carriageway you are joining if it is safe to do so. He did not, it was not, and he was lucky not to have caused an accident. If he had he would have been liable for any damage and/or injuries caused. Sadly he is probably like 90% of other road users who are unaware of this rule No.259 of the Highway Code.
You twit, the low loader did not "push in", it isn't a queue at the post office. He did all the things you say he must do. The question is not about the low loader, it is about the tipper. It was safe for the low loader to join the carriageway _because the tipper made it safe_ - which is exactly what a competent driver should do. You are one of the tiny minority who think rule 259 means you must force merging vehicles to submit so you can "win" at traffic, instead of realising that rules are there to codify turn-taking and to enhance safety. The tipper saw a potential hazard and negated it, you would have him dangerously escalate.