A strange phenomenon of driving in the city with high beams on.... Corolla and Civic drivers seem to be the most frequent.
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The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread
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A strange phenomenon of driving in the city with high beams on.... Corolla and Civic drivers seem to be the most frequent.
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Xhumeka
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I would have done the exact same thing as the FJ driver - check out the car in front of him/her at 0:18-0:19; changes from left hand lane and is now clearly almost completely in the right-hand lane. The driver then thinks he/she cut-off the driver of the grey vehicle, so panics and jumps right back into the left hand lane (by 0:20 back into left lane - still with right turn signal on).
I would be so paranoid of riding/driving near this person that I would also accelerate around him/her. Getting away quickly from someone driving like that is common sense if you ask me...
Boots
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Good eye, I didn't even catch that. I was too busy focusing on the fact that a bus made a left turn quicker than a car, lol.
Classic "U-turn of death."
Wish I had a dashcam, would have had some great footage of an arsebag on a dirtbike acting like a total and complete tool all the way leading up to and through Bowmanville.
...sorry if it's just supposed to be only Non-bikes in this thread, but I had some definite WTF moments.
...sorry if it's just supposed to be only Non-bikes in this thread, but I had some definite WTF moments.
Boots
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I think bikers an and cyclists are equally permissible
Thankfully, he did quite well with rather minor injuries. Also deemed 0% at fault for insurance.
HOWEVER, let's all try to once again drill into our heads how important it is to look up the road; see potential problems; and translate that into proaction.
He did not slow down at all, and he turned his head away to look at something else just before the collision. Those two things suggest he likely did not fully process what he saw in front of him or did not see the car at all - as if he simply was not paying attention. Cynically - how the heck could you not see a **** box car like that angled so greatly on the roadway and not wonder, "WTF" and take action to slow down. Also, he's in the wrong lane position. Now I get why he's there because there is not much space between the TTC track and the next lane. Heck, he may have just moved over to give space for that taxi.. but for sake of preaching proper lane position - there may have been the chance (had in been in the proper block position) the car might have seen him behind the Cadillac.
All just food for thought....
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It seemed to me that he sped up when he saw the cab. Also the car was already turned out into the lane.
You can see it in the distance at about 10 seconds. I thought he at least closed the throttle just before the collision.
A car might have done better at stopping in this case.
I would say that he was still processing the issue of the taxi, that shouldn't have been blocking the lane. I've been in a situation very similar in which I was dealing with a vehicle that looked about to pull out in front of me from the right, then had a car turn across my path from the oncoming lanes maybe 10 metres after I had dealt with the first issue. Keep in mind that these sports cameras typically have a wide field of view, perhaps 130+ degrees, so everything looks further away than it really is. The car that turned out in front of him was only a few parking spaces down from the intersection.
Boots
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Seems like he did if not close it, let off on it before impact, albeit too late to matter but that's not necessarily his fault.
And let's not forget that we don't know when he actually "saw" the car because just cause his camera is picking it up doesn't mean his eyes have focused on what the camera picks up. We have the benefit to see it possibly earlier than he did because of the psychological bracing that the title gives us, the fact that these cameras use a wide lens, and because we have the luxury of stop, start, repeat, slow motion etc. that people don't have while they're driving.
Boots
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Hah. I don't think it works that way, dude.
PLau
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There was actually a minivan (along with a line of cars) coming off that ramp as he was going up. Minivan laid the horn down, the guy just squeezed to the left of everyone forcing them to move aside for him.
Dresden
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I gotta admit, I LOL'd at her reaction. All I could think of was "somewhere, some fan of anime p0rn is having a field day"
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