We ALL make mistakes (yes, that includes whoever reads this), I have probably made more than most, but that can be a positive thing when we admit to ourselves that we were in the wrong, and learn something useful from it.

As long as you didnt hold them up too much is the important part. My dad was an advanced driving instructor a long time ago, i was in his builders van with him and a fire engine was behind us and gaining. We were going down Camelon highstreet (which is a main road through as its part of Falkirk district) and all the other vehicles ahead parked in the parking spaces. The only option we had was to keep going and at the end was a roundabout, so my dad indicated right, went round the roundabout and stopped just before where we entered from and checked his mirrors and waved the fire engines through. It was all he could do to get out the way with a long wheelbase van. Its hard enough if people notice an emergency vehicle and get themselves out the way, but its better if you can miss a space for someone behind to use and use the next one. If you still drive with loud music on, train yourself to be more disciplined with visual checks. Its what i do if got loud music on, make sure i notice whats going on around as not got hearing to help.

I've done EXACTLY the same in virtually stand still traffic .... Ive made many mistakes. I'm grateful for finding this channel. I know I can be a pillock and go too fast. But feel and hope watching this channel will help make me a calmer safer driver

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I agree with you. I've reconsidered my approach to driving after watching a lot of Ashleys videos, and I think I've become a more considerate driver as a result. How much do I owe you, Ashley?😆😆

Every learner should be introduced to Mr neal'S site....bloody brilliant advice and information

It's actually a really good channel for drivers outside the UK as well if you think about the attitude towards driving Ashley has. Top-notch! I definitely have this channel to thank for making me a much more calm and considerate driver.

Clip 4 - if you don’t want the lorry out in front of you, Either overtake and get clear. That’s the right way to do it, or at the very least get alongside the cab and put the block on. The latter being ignorant and dangerous. However don’t hang around and dither like he did and then complain

Did you also spot that the space behind them was free? They could have reversed right into that then had much more space to drive out rather than reverse. It always amazes me to see people struggle to park forwards into spaces (apart from where they will fill up their boot with shopping) then struggle to reverse out. The position of mirrors make it much easy to reverse in and the position of the steered wheels make it much easier to reverse in & drive out.

@@TheRip72 I didn't notice the free space. and you're right. the steering geometry makes it easier to get square in the space and get out if you reverse in. a lot of the time, the behavior of the other people in the car park makes it inconvenient to reverse at any time.

They have no depth perception and need their licence taken away

I liked how when her front bumper fit like a glove in that damaged pillar.

@@JohnDoesSports I am sure that was what prompted the comment about it being their usual parking spot.

Seriously agree, the BMW driver needs at least a few points for that, both for using their car as a potential weapon threatening the cammer, then jumping the red. Reckless and dangerous driving. And the bus driver is meant to be a professional driver...

Why not the first clip? Dangerous, no?

A personal favourite of mine is when we all pull in (like heroes) and then when the ambulance has passed, the Audi driver 12 back puts the foot down in pursuit to skip everyone, often jumping a light too. If you didn’t laugh….

And hopefully today, we'll get both.

@TheWoodIsPoo You are not being harsh at all and I totally understand what you are saying. After now rewatching Clip 11, something comes to mind regarding the cam car's lane decision: The cam car might not have been able to get into Lane 1 even if it wanted to, due to the very fact of the white Mercedes catching it up, thereby cutting off that option. Even after the cam car was cut up by the white Mercedes at around 4:57, the black Audi SUV came by in Lane 1 at considerably higher speed at around 5:02, again also cutting off the option of the cam car moving to Lane 1 after the first incident. Of course, none the above answers whether or not the cam car would have used Lane 1 of the slip road anyway, in the absence of other vehicles in Lane 1. But I get what you are saying as a general case and I too, often see "slower" vehicles using Lane 2 of a sliproad to join a motorway when Lane 1 slip road is empty. Another variation of this is when a driver DOES use Lane 1 sliproad but for whatever reason (and despite huge signs) doesn't realise Lane 1 sliproad is a lane addition to the main carriageway and ends up changing straight into Lane 2 when Lane 1 is clear. I often find it advantageous to use Lane 1 of a sliproad rather than Lane 2, as it is often a lane "addition" to the main carriageway and avoids direct conflict with the traffic on the main carriageway, whereas Lane 2 slip road involves an actual merge with main carriageway traffic. (Though taking care to refrain from inappopriate undertaking thereafter - for example HGV's on main carriageway now wanting to move into the new Lane 1). Also, when the main carriageway is choka-block with traffic, often Lane 1 sliproad will offer a smoother transition into the traffic. Of course, every situation is different and one really has to read the road and the signs in advance to make the best slip road lane decision and not base it exclusively on what "often" works best. Naturally, such lane decisions need to be made before the two slip road lanes are seperated with chevrons bounded by double solid white lines. I have seen drivers illegally crossing over such markings when they discover they haven't selected the lane that offers the best progress. I never do that and will just accept if I have not chosen the "lane of least resistance" and carry on until I merge onto the main carriageway, One thing I find really useful at motorway slip roads are those large blue signs showing the lane configurations coming up. They are so large, I am sure they can be read from outer space! Those signs are useful both when on the sliproad as well as when on the main carriageway. Even on stretches of motorway one is familiar with, they can be a good reminder of lane configurations, of which there are many different setups. Long post I know and I hope after all that I have answered your question!

Very true. I've also heard the expression "What you can't see can hurt you".

Which is the correct way; giving yourself 'a view' of the corner.....Some cyclists need to watch motorcycle advanced videos, in regards to positioning; too many think they're on a closed road....But remember, safety over positioning.

@@WerdnaLiten Problem is that you get honked at and close passed on bends by motons so many feel intimdated into not moving out to give themselves a better view.

I've been with some drivers who I'd have taken them up on their offer to get out, unfortunately those are the ones who never do....

@@UnbeltedSundew +1, I've been in a few ubers that I would have gotten out of during the middle of the day, speeding, tailgating, etc. But getting out and walking 2 miles at 2am wasn't a feasible option.

If i don't like someone's driving the first time, I will NEVER get in a car with them again, and tell them why if they bother to ask.

Absolutely. This is a terrible habit of American drivers in particular, as well as passing them on the inside - yikes.

I agree but only up to the truck pulling out, he should've just eased off and not let it get to where he has no room left and has to force the pull out, if he hit that car he would be to blame even though the car driver was a dick.

spend as little time alongside ANY vehicle as you reasonably can. if people are properly spaced, there is more empty space than vehicle in any given lane, so there's no excuse for cruising alongside another vehicle.

@@PedroConejo1939 to us, that's the outside. we consider the median (central reservation) the middle, so anything towards the middle is inside and anything away from the middle is outside.

@@kenbrown2808 I know, but I was writing from a UK perspective. It kind of works if you remember that the inside is the left in both countries. Strangely, I think the terms swap on roundabouts here, but I'm not sure if that's officially or not. Usually when I'm writing for an American audience, I use left and right.

Are you a mind reader?

@@ashley_neal I sometimes think being able to read the minds of other road users would be a useful skill. On the other hand the minds of some of the drivers in this video would provide a very short read.

I think Cyprus has the worst driving in Europe. Red traffic lights mean stop in the middle the junction if at all. Its scary diving there. however its ten times more scary in a taxi.

Have a Cypriot friend who's driven me round near enough the whole island and... Phew, let's just say they have a different culture over there

Walking through Larnaca one day I actually saw a guy driving with a mobile phone jammed under his ear a cigarette in his mouth and looking down a long lens camera resting on the dash board.

It's in Crookes Sheffield and very well sighted so she could have seen the situation unfolding, what's more I thought the amendments to the code give pedestrians more priority. Terrible and impatient driving.

To be fair she does brake in time (just) and the horn/swearing is probably a fear response. I’m not sure the new Highway Code specifically covers kids running into traffic. I think she sees the first one go and the reaction from the rest of the group and then didn’t expect the 2nd one. I might’ve slowed earlier, but then again I wasn’t there and the psychology of a fear response is different for everyone (fight, flight, friend and freeze are the basic 4 but there are variations even in these). Although fear is a superpower (10 points if you get the reference) in some, it can actually dull reaction times in others. Just look before you run in front of the fast moving metal bricks that’ll kill you…..

That's definitely a corner I'd use the horn on.

on a country road those cyclists could have run into a tractor with a front mounted flail or front end loader with a one ton bail on the front . it could even be stationary

@@stephenhill8790 Quite. Almost all my driving is rural these days and it's amazing how many people have no idea what can lurk around a blind corner.

@@PedroConejo1939 Wales in the back roads is the worse of all I find. You can go all day without encountering anyone. Then suddenly a farmer in a 4x4 comes round the bend at speed. Can usually hear the tractors and they move slower. Generally, I feel pretty safe there as long as watch speed according to how far I can see ahead. . Especially on the many descents there! Only takes a second lifting off the brake and can be going into a blind corner a little too fast! You need some experience and hyper-alertness on those roads for sure.

@@andrewnorris5415 I've lived in Pembs, so I know about Wales and those enticing hedges that are actually stone walls with sod laid on top. There's also the issue of mud running down the road, I've seen a number of drivers ditched because of it.

Just to play a little devils advocate here, some of us cannot reverse into spaces as we need wheelchair access from the boot, many of these store carparks thoughtfully place a bollard in the centre of the boot, even in disabled bays.. They think, "Logic? What is logic?"

@@gareth14111984 or need to load your purchases into the boot. when I was young, about three quarters of the car parks in my area had the parking bays at a 45 degree angle, which made it easy for our land yachts to pull in and back out of the bays. then some bean counter figured out they could squeeze in one more bay per dozen if they set all the bays at 90 degrees. amusingly, it is the smaller cars that seem to have the most trouble getting lined up with the bay.

Not always great to reverse into a space. My EV has its charging port on the nose. If I'm charging I have to drive in as rapid chargers tend to have short cables, or if I'm destination charging it avaoids a cable running the length of the car. Not ideal, but it is what it is.

It was a scary moment mate, contacted the bus company and they didn’t even sack him, just a discipline

@@mcilgrew There is a graphic video of a bus overtaking a cyclist like that where the cyclist looses balance and gets folded in half under the rear wheel of the bus to put it mildly

@@mcilgrew that would be he point in time I bypass the company and go to the police. Why get him a slap on the wrist when he deserves to be in cuffs for such a stunt? Plus, if he ends up in cuffs, they have almost no choice but to fire him at that point.

That Beemer is now untaxed, though this looks to have been in the winter.

Not to mention, the car is sat in the truck's blind spot, not overtaking. Such a dangerous thing to do.

The car could have eased off to let the truck out without hindering the traffic flow but if the wagon was forced to stop, everyone has a slightly awkward time of it. No way would I spend that long alongside an HGV. Very poor driving from the car but the truck shouldn't really have just pulled over even if the car driver was being a knob.

The SUV should have either cleared ages before or held back. Sitting there was just asking for trouble.

@@pelicanofpunishment6 the car is not in the trucks blind spot..the mirror blind spot is on the nearside. Car is on the same side as the driver. I think the car driver is simply oblivious and not paying attention. He cannot see there is an obstruction in the left lane so does not ease back to allow the truck to change lanes with more room to spare. On saying that had there been a collision the truck would have been at fault for an unsafe lane change.

Is a clear rule about lane changing. There is not a "merge in" situation. LGV changing lane, not merging. If accident happens - will be fault of a lorry driver. Only fault for car driver - he/she encourage lorry to change lane - giving a more space (slowing down) so lorry driver may be think: this car see me and make space for me. And mirrors cannot tell full story what is behind.

as long as your not watching them while driving, he he. :)

@@crex8751 is that not how it works? 😂

Nah they were pulling into the stop to see if anyone was going to signal that they wanted to hop on. It’s quite a common thing for them to do. Which worryingly just suggests they hadn’t actually seen the bike or completely forgot the size of the bus.

pretty standard bus driving in Brum

@@jcskyknight2222 If so, it's still piss poor driving as they shouldn't have even attempted to overtake.

@@zxbzxbzxb1 100%

@@jcskyknight2222 It wasn't even in service so he can't even use that excuse, absolutely terrible and probably needs to go on a re-training course

An interesting choice from the driver to react first with the horn and only start to slow down once that didn't work.

the hazard perception of the driver was bloody awful! The CHILDREN were right next to the road and you could see they were going to step off at 4:14, the driver then ignored this and continued right up to the vulnerable road users before braking and sounding her displeasure. Should get you a fail on a driving test for that terrible driving!

@@ynotnilknarf39 spot on. Their first action was to sound their horn instead of hitting the brakes. Terrible driving.

Thank you very much!

I think Ashley could have posted that clip more than once. Test our memory as well as the drivers.

More than likely she was apologising for what happened. She is obviously a more sensible part of the group.

Er, the hazard perception of the driver was bloody awful! The CHILDREN were right next to the road and you could see they were going to step off at 4:14, the driver then ignored this and continued right up to the vulnerable road users before braking and sounding her displeasure. Should get you a fail on a driving test for that terrible driving!

Obviously not good for the kids to run into the road, but considering there were more standing there, the driver should have slowed instead of sounding the horn first

This is a daily occurrance. There are so many people in the middle lanes of motorways doing under the speed limits, and nobody seems to want to overtake the slower moving vehicles. There are times where I find myself undertaking them, especially if I am going to be coming off at a junction a bit further up.

If I'd caught that clip it would have been straight off to OpSnap. 🤣🤣

Only because there wasn’t an Audi in shot… 😂

The driver of the Renault SUV is an idiot. He should have simply eased off and let the the lorry out. I'm old, passed my test back in 1964 so would probably have done what is now considered unacceptable and given the driver a flash to verify I was letting him out. Whatever, if a lorry and a car have a coming together it's usually the car that comes off worse.

If there was a collision, the lorry would have been at fault. Yes the blue car driver was a bad driver, but the lorry still should have stopped and dropped in behind.

@@williamnot4956 As much as you are correct, I'm guessing the lorry driver couldn't see the Renault.

@@cjmillsnun yeah, let me rephrase. The Renault driver was driving very badly. Doing everything wrong. But as per the Highway Code the lorry driver sadly was wrong. I still would side with the lorry driver in an ideal world though

Actually against the law in Scotland now (enforced about as well as any other non speed camera-able traffic laws….) though given everyone seems to drive a tank these days, proper parking on both sides would rarely leave enough space for even a cyclist.

@@mjudec Isn’t that problem regulated by parking allowed on only one side? That is the case for the street outside my home. Also taking away free parking some years ago got rid of many or most of the street parked cars here. I think many parked here to then take the bus or subway downtown.

@@th5841 You couldn't possibly make people pay to park in their own street in suburbs, there would be protests worse than the poll tax. Parking on one side maybe could work, but I'm not sure it's practical or within the budgets of local councils. It's really weird, because it would be councils who ticketed any pavement parkers and got the fine money.... Which usually would mean they go at it with gauleiter like glee.

@@mjudec Here it was possible. Now there are hardly any street parking in my neighbourhood. The residents have their own driveways or garages. When it was free, most cars were not locals. They parked here to take the bus or subway to their destination downtown, where there were no free parking. Parking is free from 8 to 8 in the nights and on Sundays and «red» days. The locals can buy a yearly parking ticket for around 500 Euro. I must add that public transit is very good here, so most people don’t need to drive in most cases.

Please highlight an example in this video - I certainly don't remember an angry or aggressive cammer.

Great comment!

Whilst I agree with the gist of the rules you quote I can’t find any mention of blind corners on country lanes and cycling on the off-side at speed. I hope we can all agree that the cyclist was being stupid. Fortunately one of Ashley’s viewers was driving and no harm came of it.

anyone riding or driving on a single track road must always be expecting someone to be coming the other direction at speed, and position themselves accordingly. this applies to both the camera car, which did well, and the cyclists, who did somewhat less well.

@@peterdixon6807 it was me driving, I’m a driving instructor and was taking my pupil on a first lesson to a practice area. We were just discussing how she uses this road on her bike and doesn’t like it as it’s narrow and the cars drive to fast. Her response was wow that was close why would you cycle on the wrong side of the road round a corner like that. The video doesn’t show just how fast they were going too, absolutely crazy behaviour and unfortunately people like this give cyclists a bad reputation

@@kenbrown2808 What does 'at speed' mean? Nothing.

I've got so many clips already I could produce these driving fail episodes for the next 10 months! Thanks for sending in.

@@ashley_neal what if you were russian, set for life 🤣

I've seen this (new?) type vans with 2 cameras: Speed one at back, and second at front (through front window) propably for vehicles without numberplate at front. But i'm not 100% sure for what reason 2nd camera is...

@@stanley3647 To catch motorbikes? 😁

Nice spot! I left it out to see whether someone would get on to it 👊

I saw the spin start to! Came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed if. Would love to of seen the aftermath of that! 😂

The horse is amazing in traffic but I agree with what you say, its what I try to tell people

I would guess not as dual controls are a big safety aid :)

Camera vans have forward facing cameras as well. It is enough for them to catch the front of a speeding bike and identify it as the same one that is (no longer speeding) departing visible in the front camera. There was only one exit from the road (other than driveways) between the biker seeing the van and the van though, so they didn't have many ways out of that situation where the plate wouldn't be seen.

Sometimes it's to alert the person to the fact 'you're' there, lots of people will do something and afterwards STILL have no idea there's another vehicle.

@@owieprone I can understand that. But I have witnessed a lot of situations where people realize they are doing something wrong in the middle of doing and when someone aggressively honks at them they panick and get it even more wtong

The undertaking car is definitely in the wrong but why oh why was the cammer in the lane they chose to turn left? I know that it is probably ok to turn left from that lane but surely only if overtaking another vehicle which they weren't. That just strikes me as being as bad as a lane hogger on a multilane road.

Yes I sent my clip at 8:20 off to the bus company and the driver got a discipline 🙄