As a trucker myself, I have NO Sympathy for any trucker getting hit with massive penalties for driving law breaking! I think our penalties should at least be double those of non-professionals! Years ago, there was a fatal on my normal route to one customer, resulting in a divert that meant myself & an opposing truck had to pull our mirrors in to pass, and a single track bridge that we had to cross with no lights controlling it. To this day, I suspect the offending trucker had been on their phone. I also think that penalties for causing death or serious injury should equate to manslaughter penalties, with sentencing guidelines starting at the max, and reductions for mitigations & early guilty pleas. There is far too much complacency in mobile & drug use, drink driving is rarer; you can smell drink on someone’s breath, not coke or cannabis. (Unless the weed was smoked recently!)
about to start truck driving, baffles me what people think is ok especially after all the extra faff you have to do to hold the licence now. If ya cant handle whatever is turning you to substance abuse, ya need to take a honest look at in the mirror and turn to a less lethal job. the flip side of that is the default today does seem to be blaim the truck driver, even when it would be almost impossible to be his/her fault. unless there is an undenyable mountain of evidence to point to the fault of the other party.... and that I do think is not fair. but for those with geniune lack of care, yeh need to be dealt with. but people who are just very clearly caught out by other peoples poor decisions is asinine, heck I dam near pankcaked 2 ahats on my assesment drive (was on an apprenticehsip to do this) none of which woulda been my fault, but would have cost me everything.
Re the seagull. I once had a baboon park itself on the front bull bar on my VW Caravelle, where it sat looking in the windscreen for over 2 hours whilst the family drove around Kruger National Park. Never got its paw prints off the windscreen, and they would magically re-appear in fog weather.
And what does an indicator change in a situation, where someone is endangering someone else? Is it somehow legal and okay now, once they indicated? In one point you were right, but the reason why that is, are people like you! You literally have the evidence in front of you and still can't tell, what went wrong. Dude, every 6yr old child can do this, why are you not capable?!
5:50 What is going on with the cammer's lane discipline? Enters the roundabout from the left lane, drives straight over to the right lane, exits the roundabout on the left lane of the second exit!
As a patient prescribed with a cannabis medicine in the U.K, you can possess and take your medicine, and continue to drive a motor vehicle so long as: you are not impaired
05:30 - I don’t think the road had officially quite become 2 lanes yet but the dash cam driver was 100% being extra & their lane discipline for the roundabout was trash anyway so they shouldn’t be calling anyone else an idiot or talking about falling standards. 06:30 - dash cam driver should’ve been paying better attention to surroundings. Swerving back into a lane you’ve indicated out of is confusing for other drivers. Definitely had enough space & time to get in lane behind the blue car and slow down
On the first one you could have taken all their drug money to pay for the damage, they would have left it in the car. Now Police will come along and put the 5k in a plastic evidence bag.
06:34 Not 100% sure but highway code recommends not moving left when lanes are merging, hold lane until clear of merging lane. I see it almost daily that people move left into space needed for joining traffic.
@@paul8161 Yes! There always have been, though - it's the ones who have genuinely have no knowledge or experience of dual carriageway driving, the ones that crawl along the entry slip at precisely the same velocity as your vehicle, forcing you to change lane but there's another one tucked up in your only tiny little blindspot, going at exactly the same speed. I drive an HGV for a living and even I get caught out. But moe than likely it's they hold the steering wheel with their knees while they can roll a fattie!
It’s crazy because when you speak to people who drive and smoke, they say “I’m a better driver when I’m stoned” and people want to legalise the drug as well.
@@Andrew.-.- absolutely yes u r right there only u can bet your bottom dollar that there's going to b n BMW driver. Just like Volvo's drivers were the worst years ago as the Volvo was the safest car on the road.
1:20 why was the cop car doing 50 +mph without a siren and blue lights in an obviously 30 mph limit?... "Double the drug dive limit" I thought that was zero. Note to self " need more drugs".
They did have their blue lights on as for the siren it cannot be heard because the sound quality was poor, you could see them flashing when the car hit the building. They were on an emergency call our as explained in the captions for that video. However would you turn across a fast approaching emergency vehicle with their blues flashing sound or not and they do not have to have their sirens on when required for a silent approach.
Siren doesn't have to be on if the police think they have a clear road. The car that turned across their path was facing them & the driver of that car should have seen them whether their siren was being used or not.
If he was prescribed the cannabis then he would be allowed to drive.... being stoned doesnt affect your driving or you would not be allowed to drive on it at all!
Quite right to crash into the "Spar" The only shop that sells via the "Pile 'em high, sell 'em at 10 times what everyone else sells 'em for" motto. Were they boxes of out of date "Prime" by any chance
