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Loved that you saw the girl getting out of the car to rescue the little doggo and you cut across the right lane and made her safe.

It always amazes me how people who are normally perfectly law-abiding in their day to day lives, think nothing about breaking the law once they get in a car. There is something about driving a car (and travelling in general) that makes people lose their patience, empathy, and respect for others.

16:00 Ashley, imagine speeding up from 20 to 30 when the speed limit goes from… 20 to 30 😂 Shame on you, you must’ve completely caught that Micra off guard! 🤣

14:23 No blowing the horn, just a quick and efficient save, what a driver!

That clip about guessing when the car will overtake (and then it tries to as soon as it gets to the 30 limit) is a great learning opportunity and should be made into its own video.

At around 10:22, I just love it when you give a big grin and laugh at a situation and simply shrug it off. So many drivers would be getting hot under the collar but you've taught many of us to just keep calm and shrug it off.

Well done to you and that other driver for helping that lost dog. The possibilities there don't bear thinking about.

Really good discussion on the horn at 5:12. Unfortunately, given how people use the horn, I'm pretty much conditioned to hear it as a reprimand now, when ultimately it should be just about helping the other driver out.

11:00 Love the commentary there, kind of reminds me of my favorite phrase, "if you're gonna do something stupid, make sure I don't know you".

You can tell the quality of a person by the way they treat animals.

Love to see the ogmios reference at 2:40 , great channel to watch to be a more patient driver, would definitely reccomend

Really well done by Luke at 13:25. Stopping nice and efficiently as soon as the problem became apparent. No panic, no drama, just quick problem solving

Not entirely sure that having a propane cylinder fire across a motorway and into your car bonnet counts as “lucky” 😊, but as I always say, no matter how bad it gets, it can always get worse.

5:44 Using the horn is only taken as a reprimand now because so many people abuse using the horn. It's NOT for scolding other drivers.

If I didn't know better, I'd accuse Ashley of staging that scenario with the Micra for the trainee's benefit. The timing was just too perfect. 😂

8:15 Can I just say the blue car did very well there. Saw all the danger of the truck, indicated and attempted move over to the other lane. Spotted the danger of the van (who didn't indicate) and backed off, making this whole thing a non-event. Like, we need more drivers like them imo.

I know someone who told taxi driver to stop. Got out and refused to pay as they felt scared to be in the taxi the way it was being driven.

Good on you for stopping for the girl and her dog and holding up the cars behind you! 🙂

6:50 my driving instructor (a very long time ago now), always referred to BSM as the British School of Muppets

You're ACTUALLY making this world a better place! I'm just realising you train the instructors too. Just another level to your work I'm seeing. Much respect my friend. And the shout-out to Ogmios for 'the grateful run' is brilliant! 😅👍🏻

8:46 with Sarah was intense bless her, shows also the skill and patience of an instructor in full flow, i really enjoyed that segment. What struck me was that as a learner Sarah was learning to use mirrors and the quick glances she was definitely looking AT the mirror rather than IN the mirror in order to take anything meaningful from what can be seen using the mirror. I have no doubt she is early in her training and she becomes more competent she will have more time in those mirror checks to actually check. Would be really interesting to see more clips like this and how people improve over time though I appreciate that might be another whole level of filming and organisation in terms of editing etc!

An Ashley and Ogmios cross over/colab episode would wipe out all the bad things that happened in 2023.

Congratulations Luke, well done 👏👏🎉🎉 Enjoy many years of safe happy driving 👍👍

14:30 Nearly squashed a quashqai!

8:14 it'd be cool to see a video on this at some point. You've shown more than once how it's good to give other people around you space to switch lanes when you know they're likely to, but at the same time you gotta move back into the middle or left lane at some point. The one thing I personally struggle with the most on highways is when I am at that point where I have to merge back, but there's traffic in the lane next to the one I'm moving back to. I never know for sure whether or not they can see me but at the same time I don't want to tunnel vision focussing on just them either. I try to always merge so I'm staggered behind or in front of them, but when it's a line of cars with no gaps you can't really do that.

8:56 I did this once not long ago to let a pedestrian cross and a guy turning right (like the VW in this clip) just darted in like i'd done something wrong. Luckily the pedestrian just finished crossing. I was creeping to show i was about to set off, he nearly hit my bonnet to be honest.

I expected the clip at 14:15 to be the BMW aggressively overtaking you after the junction, a positive surprise actually.

It always amazes me to see people dangerously overtaking learners. I don’t get it.

Love the nod to Ogmios with the 'grateful run' 😂

Hi Ashley , ive been driving 40 yrs ..i consider myself an above average driver and lets be honest that doesn't mean much .. ive had my class 1 for 30 yrs , ive got my bus test on Friday and i really admire your skills . Great instructor, high five to you mate . 👍

I've got to say, this is the best dashcam content I've come across. your channel in general, not just this video. There are so many people on youtube under the flag of educating other drivers while mostly just spreading toxic attitude and aggressive behavior behind the wheel.

15:55 Wow, that timing was perfect! Mirror check before speeding up is the one people overlook the most after turning left, in my opinion!

11:30 whenever I see that many pedestrians crossing near, but not at, the pedestrian crossing it makes me wonder if the crossing is in the right place.

If that lollipop man is a driver he's given a good indication of how bad he'd be!

So, the new pedestrian priority at junctions encouraged the pedestrian to cross, but the car coming the other way turned in front of you causing the the pedestrian to have to start running to clear the road.

Hazard lights are so versatile. Use them to park anywhere, or emerge in front of oncoming traffic. /s

That last one was utter madness...

When i was a kid i used to ride my home made "steering cart" down the hill and over the bridge on higher lane by the allotments, of course in those days Higher lane was open all the way from Long lane/Landford avenue past Hoggs dairy and the cemetary and on to Longmoor lane. (Aintree hospital didnt exist then) It was great fun. You wouldnt have had to worry about "Gandalf" corner then either..

Hi Ashley, have you done a video on motorway slip road problems? I'd love to hear your thoughts on merging two lanes of slip road before enering motorway.

10:18 the hazards was hilarious, I always find it funny when people do this

I like your "tough love approach" in teaching. Always the best way to go.

14:43 ah that was looking to the right, forgetting that there actually is traffic from the left! Happens all the time where I am!

_Why should you check your mirrors before you accelerate?_ Meticulously timed! ;)

We have a similar lollipop person where I live who just steps out and even on occasions has said thank you to the drivers and walking back to the pavement while people are coming up to cross…on a pedestrian crossing. All the locals have learned not to look at what he does but to look at the crossing as if he wasn’t there. On the otherside of the coin, the others we have where there is no pedestrian crossing, they are 100% perfect and understand traffic flow and vehicle behaviour. As you say, hopefully it was picked up and remediated before it sets in as the norm for them

I wish every instructor was like you- or mines, he was awesoe! I was coming up a hill on my bike the other day and an instructor done possibly the worst turn on the road I have EVER seen! He basically turned into a side street off of a busy main road and proceeded to awkwardly turn himself around while reversing into a main road, he held up two busy roads, could have went around but given how unfathomable his decision was NOBODY wanted to mess with it. We were all just looking at him and shaking our heads at one another, he stopped 6 directions of traffic for a good 2 minutes- even if there was a student in the car (whch there wasn't) I'd have expected a good instructor to tell them to proceed down that road and find a place to turn (there are many crescents and other great options) I don't know what his thought process was there! I hope that he doesn't teach like he drives when he's alone!

Had my own personal "oops" moment today, was driving over to a parking area that runs behind a set of shops on the Wirral, hasn't realised that it was one way and entered the exit road by mistake (in my defence the no entry sign isn't visible from the direction I was coming due to foliage). By the time I'd seen it, there was another car approaching me leaving the parking area, and traffic constantly flowing on the main road, so I couldn't reverse back out, so moved over to let the other driver out and carried on. Only to get shouted at hm by someone parked in their vehicle about it being one way and asking why I'd come in that way. I just apologised and explained the sign wasn't clear. Didn't seem to mollify them much though, guess some people never make mistakes so don't understand them in others 🤷

What you did there, stoping before turning left because there's a pedestrian just about to cross the road, now that the law was recently changed giving the pedestrian priority to cross the road, I trained to this standard bank in 1997 in Portugal. This was already the code then. Today, when I do that I often have drivers on their horns at me. They either don't know this is now the law or it's just lack of patience.

Ogmios has made me more aware of when I wave or double wave to drivers who let me cross a road.

9:51 I think that car took ash' hand gesture as a go

02:25 I don’t like these new rules whereby you have to stop suddenly at a junction for a pedestrian. I mean in this situation with no other cars around, it would of made a lot more sense for the women to cross after Ashley had gone round the corner.

The roads and road markings in this country of ours are SHOCKING

We could do with more driving instructors like you. You remind me of my driving instructor back in 2000. So many instructors just don't seem to care or teach correctly anymore, it's no wonder standards are slipping when it comes to driving.

2:44 Love the Ogmios Grateful jog reference.

A good and absolutely valid toot of the horn there. She was going to drift into you! Yesterday I used my horn to signal to a Taxi I needed to reverse. It was a busy car park at an Airport, I found a spot and wanted to reverse in. Indicated to the left and stopped just past the spot. But this taxi was right up my ass. But a wee toot and he sussed what was going on, gave me a thumbs up and reversed back. It's great when we can cooperate! A pedestrian sadly thought it was a reprimand. But seems to calm down when they saw what was happening.

Love the ogmios reference, enjoyed your collab and love his chill commentary!

09:00 safer for everyone if you just take the left turn. don't pressure pedestrians to cross in potentially unsafe situations :)

This video includes three interesting examples of pedestrians crossing the road, and together they illustrate why there's no simple "one size fits all" rule that applies in every case. 2:25 Zen master Ogmios may call it the "grateful jog" but in this case it was more like the "irritation sprint". Stopping to allow the pedestrian with the dog to cross was done in a spirit of kindness and co-operation, but it could be seen as being patronising and it didn't actually help anyone. Is that why it's part of a 'Driving Fails' video? The pedestrian had slowed and was timing her arrival at the kerb so she could safely and easily cross behind the turning car in her own time, with no delay or inconvenience. By stopping, pressure was put on her to change her plan and to cross immediately. By breaking into a run, the pedestrian is showing that she feels hurried, and in those circumstances danger increases. She could stumble. The dog could get out of control. She might not notice other vehicles. The expression on her face looks more annoyed than grateful. 8:35 : A more complex situation but one that is made worse by hesitation on the part of the inexperienced pupil. But telling her to stop and wait for a pedestrian who is not even at the kerb merely adds to the confusion and actually increases the danger to the pedestrian who, again, breaks into the "irritation sprint" - right across the path of the oncoming vehicle which incorrectly enters the junction. Silly stuff all round. 11:32 A small child stranded in the middle of a multi-lane road? Potentially deadly and absolutely the responsibility of drivers to resolve the situation safely. Top marks! Different situations demand different responses. If pedestrians are in a dangerous situation or clearly struggling to cross safely because of the weight of traffic, then drivers can and should help but if they are safely stood on the side of the road, happily waiting for their turn, why interrupt the natural flow of traffic and effectively force the walker to move prematurely? Why be so deferential to the pedestrian that other road users are inconvenienced or even put into danger by your actions? Every case is different and drivers have to quickly judge each based on all kinds of data - which makes it very difficult to write down in the Highway Code. We are all still getting to grips with the recent, often vague changes in the Code, but consistency and predictability of traffic movement is an important road safety issue.

8:15 as close you can get to organised chaos without an incident happening.

over 130K subs! Crazy. Enjoying the video m8

0:00 ashleys gandalf corner 0:48 advertiser callout 0:53 intro 1:01 gathering dog 1:37 stop if you have to 2:25 letting someone cross 2:50 advertisement proper 4:32 drifting and straight on from left turn 6:23 driving instructor taking the L 7:12 phone 7:23 red light 7:35 safe some space for others 8:11 multimerger 8:32 stop creep 9:18 wiuu wiuu wiuu 9:59 bad emerge 10:37 thats poor 11:23 pedestrian on road 11:47 incident on M60 (the propane) 12:40 no good looks 13:23 crossing roads 14:06 bad emerge 2 14:52 overtake the learner (maybe) 16:20 close lanechange (police was present) 16:48 overtake the learner (frfr) 17:32 overtake the learner (one more time)

Great compilation. The first one with the dog running loose shows the owners have not trained it, or had a lapse letting it escape or not on the leash. Lucky this time! 16:00 Ashley accelerating after the speed limit change probably saved the impatient Micra driver from a poor overtake.

09:49 I'm not surprised you clutched your head, waiting for the crash. That could have been very nasty.

the clip after the propane explosion also reinforces, if fire fighters tell you to get back because it's not safe; get back.

The clip at about 6:25 of the driving school car at the lights with a flat tyre and over the line. I worked with someone who left to start a driving school, after doing the course to learn how to teach people. The car in the clip was a BSM car, which he used to call Bull S**t Method. He said it seems like the instructors apply for a job, show their driving license to prove they have one and are given a list of clients I regularly see BSM instructors pulling out in front of other cars and forcing their way through when it is not their right of way. The 2 worst ones that I remember seeing were: Coming up to traffic lights as they are changing to red. I slowed down and stopped, the BSM car was slowing down, them I saw the instructor waving his hand and telling the learner to accelerate and go straight through the red light. BSM instructor driving round a roundabout with phone clamped to his right ear with his shoulder, right hand on the wheel to steer, and an A to Z in his left hand obviously trying to find where he should be going.

12:37 on the M3 this afternoon They had a line closed to allow emergency vehicles to get to an incident up ahead, but everyone ignored the lane closure sign and didn't even move out the way when the emergency vehicles were behind them. They just sat there in blocking the lane with emergency vehicles behind them. And it wasn't just one vehicle there must have been about 50. One of them was a coach. My mind boggles how people can be so selfish.

16:08 another paid actor! 😂😂

I will have to try the left knee speed bump trick next time I'm out.

That first clip, where people regularly skip a queue for the lights for a 'quick right' by driving against the traffic, I've got one locally. The problem with it is that the back entrance to the local police station is down the road on the right and a good 50% of the people driving against the traffic are in *_liveried police cars_* ! Whatever happened to setting a good example?

I remember going along a 30mph zone which opened up in to a national speed limit (my limit was 60mph) and just as I accelerated, a pick up overtook me as I was accelerating and almost hit a traffic island. I should have checked my mirrors.

5:21 drivers abroad (maybe not everywhere) use the horn so much better than us. Here it IS seen as an attack; when you see drivers in Turkey, Italy, etc use a horn, it is to say ‘I know this is a 2 lane carriageway, but please know that I’m here making it a 3 lane carriageway *beep*. 😂

13:36. The lollipop man (School Crossing Patrol) was really bad. When I retired as a Driving Instructor, I took a job as a School Crossing Petrol, on the busiest crossing point (both vehicle and pedestrian), I became well known and respected by both drivers and pedestrians a like. We were told to show you wished to cross, wait for the traffic to stop, then proceed into the road. Wait till pedestrians are all off the road before leaving yourself and thank the drivers for waiting. Obviously he didn’t do any of that, it also looked like he was being supervised as well. It was really bad. Before anyone says anything, School Crossing Petrols are allowed to assist any pedestrian across the road not just students/children, otherwise it would be discrimination.

At 12:50 I apologise on behalf of Jag drivers everywhere. Blind entitlement. Top marks to your driver for spotting that coming and adjusting his speed accordingly. At 16:00 absolutely LOVED how you assertively accelerated as you had been planning, and didn't hang back. Yet you were prepared to brake if the situation had escalated and the Micra had continued to push past. A little bit of tough love there, helps the other driver get a sense of what is happening and you allowed them space to wise up! 🙂 Ashley Neal, administering tough love to the road hogs and hot heads while helping to keep roads calm and safe. 😇👍

9:30 nice to see you teaching people to go over the bump straight and level. I see so many people hitting them with only one side of the car. At best that is going to unevenly wear the suspension and in the worst case it will fatigue break the welds in the chassis constantly twisting it along it's length each and every speed bump. I almost feel it's a question you should ask when buying a used car privately, "How do you take speed bumps in it mate?"

Loved how you went across the lane so they could safely get the dog 14:26 Oh wow that was so close 😱

What would you do if you was in the fast lane on the motorway you are over taking because the car was lane hogging and was not going fast enough but then they matched your pace at 70 MPH and another car then was up your arse wanting to get past ? I can't move over the car is still lane hogging and the car behind is to close for comfort would you speed up to get out of this situation or keep at 70MPH ?

How often, when driving up to the stop sign for road works, do you find the sign, essentially, too close to the lights and the exit from the works?

14:23 I think the emerging right-turner even frightened the the BMW driver following you, they almost adopted a reasonable road position,😂.

What bike rack do you use Ashley? Please.

Hgv , hazardous load: i do that and i alwasy amazed how clise cats dome to my trailer which is clearly markws as hazardous load ( drivers obviously don't understand the exact details of hazard , but there are enough labels to say :" it IS A HAZARD ", orange plate and more. Even when i have " toxic " on board ( white diamond crossbones label) they still come close to my rear bumper. Did you remeber the stories in news last petrol crisis when car drivers followed a POWDER TANKER , thinking it will lead them to a petrol station with enough petrol to fill up? Public seemed had no clue what a PETROL TANKER looks like!

2:24 In this situation I would have been on the other side of the road. You have two kids on scooters going past a narrowing in the pavement. They could trip and fall in front of you, or they could jump off the pavement into the road. I'm not going to take chances with that if I don't have to, especially on what looks like a very quiet road. I would have given them as much space as I possibly could.

Notice that the learners' faces are not getting blurred out lately. They must be ok with being associated with you, Ashley. 🙂

At around 6:45, yes very valid points regarding to the two faults. Namely the underinflated rear right tyre and stopped over the line. This prompts me to ask: Do driving schools have any guidelines as to how often they carry out a basic routine vehicle check for items such as tyre pressures, lights, fluid levels etc? Actually, in the case of tyre pressures, my understanding is that fir many years now, by law cars hsve to have a Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) which will alert of issues on the dashboard.

I've got to say hats off to the safety quality of euro/british cars because for that ford to take a flying propane cylinder the way it did is impressive. Hope they did their lottery numbers that night!

Great video, apart from the annoying over-selling of the VPN. Unfortunately most VPN brands do the same thing (purposefully ignore the fact that just about any decent website employs SSL encryption). Of course, VPNs do have perfectly valid uses.

The mentality of people who see a learner car and immediately think, Must Get In Front is absurd. We've all been a learner, and I always leave so much space and give learners time as it can put them off driving. Great video Ashley.

Great result on Luke’s pass but that traffic. How awkward is that level of traffic when taking a student home if they don’t pass 🤣🤣

Well, I think learner drivers need all the help they can get, with the madness on our roads at the moment! Glad you're a fan of Ogmios school of zen motoring too!

At around 6:10, although not the subject of that clip, less than ideal planning by the black Mercedes behind you, trying to change to the right hand lane when everyone is almost stationary and queuing.

The little warning pip on the horn is often mistaken as aggression. I once did a similar pip at a man who was drifting into my lane. He raced in front of me after and attempted to stop me twice before we got to some red lights. I just drove around him as he stopped in front of me as I didn't want to get into an argument. At the lights he jumped out and hit my drivers side window about three times before telling me I should calm down, couldn't have been calmer under the circumstances 🙂 some people are looking for any excuse to get angry. All I was doing was saying "look out I'm here".

I got in a mini cab once and had two to tell him to turn the football off that he was watching on his phone as he was driving along.

Foreign HGV in UK: i had to explain English lady today that the reason : alwasy foreign trucks involved in accidnets inUK" is that Uk local drivers don't understand the continental drivers seating position and consequently blind spots on the off side as well as unfamiliarity with local motorway networks ( many with poor layout and poor road marking). Same happens to an English driver abroad.

love the Ogmios reference, you are truly on the path to zen Ash.

10.15 Lovely space, just like I leave to give myself road space, only to find someone sees it as an opportunity to nip across. I have on the M42 left my two second gap only to have four cars nip into it.

At around 5:40 good point about using the horn simply to say "Excuse me". Unfortunately (and as discussed on this channel in the past) due to so much hirn misuse, too many drivers will see it as a reprimand and take offence, even when the hirn was used correctly for the situation at hand. Indeed, I've sometimes refrained from using my horn legitimately as a safety warning just to avoid being misunderstood and generating a bad reaction.

The clip at 7:12, just a gentle reminder for anyone teaching others to drive to leave their phone in the glovebox as well 👍 (not that is applies here as the driver already holds a full license…or I assume they do 😉)

I'm really enjoying this channel. I had an impression of English drivers as being really good, maybe a bit officious and self-righteous comparatively, but generally more cooperative and thoughtful than drivers in the countries that I'm used to. It's almost reassuring to see the same silly stuff that you see everywhere else.

I've always wondered why your driving instructor drives from the test centre after you have passed your test?

16:40 saw this the other day too

14:30 That was close, thought they were going to touch/crash glad they didn’t