On the last one I assumed the car driver was getting out to apologise to the biker. Seems not and his car just left blocking the carriageway.

The most annoying and dangerous thing is when emerging from a slip road is the driver who makes an effort to close your gap up by speeding up !

Hello all, Ashley BIG Thamk you for showing my clip on your selected. I was your 'First' Clip' and appreciate your words and some of people's comments. Pleased that it highlighted how important it is to ensure you drive at the appropriate speed to give yourself time to react. Thanks again Ashley and all. 👍👍👍

They should have unmarked police cars with learner plates to stop people harassing learner drivers. That would be funny to see when some idiot gets caught.

I’ve been thinking about the updates to the Highway Code a lot…and I’ve (currently) come to the conclusion that stopping to let pedestrians cross while exiting a roundabout seems to cause more problems than it solves, unless there are zero other cars at the roundabout at that moment. I have not yet had a time where doing the right thing has felt entirely safe. Drivers behind me are just not anticipating this behaviour. I desperately want to do the right thing, and want to protect pedestrians as best I can, but I’m not yet sure this update to the code is the best way to do that.

Merging is about planning. looking early enough and picking the gap . The HGV is likely to be on a constant speed ( especially in a 50mph roadworks ) which makes it easier to assess. A touch more gas earlier up the slip road to get up to 50 and the car would have slipped in nicely.

I don't think I'll ever have reactions as quick as the person in the first clip.

in Oregon's highway code, it does say that a person already on a motorway must allow a person approaching on a slip road to merge. of course, the local police officer I asked about the requirement to indicate at the end of a merge (yes, it is required, here) said it even better. "you're not allowed to run them off the road."

I was taught as an American driver to do your best to fit into traffic and get up to speed when merging, but ALSO to try to make space for people who are merging if I'm already on the highway. If traffic is pretty solid in the near lane but there's space in the far lane, the polite thing to do is to get over so that the people merging have plenty of room. If you can't get over, then slowing slightly to make a gap in front of you for someone to slot into is the next best thing.

A lot of people don’t realise that if you need to go left in the right turn lane at a roundabout you can usually just do a full revolution and exit where you intended

The cheek of that last guy, looked like he didn't even acknowledge the riders existence one little bit! 🤬 Great video as always Ashley, take care mate

Absolutely agree about joining from a slip road. It should be like a team effort, with everyone doing what they can to keep traffic moving. I've had arguments with people from the 'those on the carriageway have right of way' brigade. Having said that, it seemed to me that in this case the cam car could have been further forward, and could have found the middle spot between the lorries, with just a little more speed.

For merging on the motorway I believe the car merging should do more of the hard work but the car on the motorway needs to provide that gap and help with the flow.

The merge onto the M5 should have gone a bit quicker and gone to the middle of the space. The HGV should not have to slow down for a car to merge although if there was space to do so he could have moved over, but it looked too busy to do so.

Regarding the merging onto a motorway clip. If the driver speed up to a speed that was greater than the lorries, there wouldn't have been a problem. So many people don't seem to want to get to a suitable speed for a motorway whilst they're still on the slip road. Same for leaving the motorway, so many people slow down before they're on the slip road.

Agree, the car joining the M5 just needed to accelerate a bit more and there would have been no issue....

For me on that sliproad clip, the dash camera deliberately didn't take that gap properly. There was plenty of room but they failed to match speed (which they clearly could do since they sped.up once they emerged!)

I might have said this on a previous upload. I worked with an ex fireman who was a truck driver. His theory was that most people are conditioned to just see cars and other vehicles don't register mentally.

Ah, the perennial A pillar blind spot at roundabouts. Happened to me at a RB recently. Expletives were enforced😅

"YOU ABSOLUTE MUPPET!!" 🤣

For the mini at @ 8:00 , that's almost certainly an A pillar blind spot. You HAVE to move your head around approaching junctions and crossings.

That first really was top notch! =) Not sure how many would have wacked it in reverse at all, let alone that quickly. May have been an automatic which would have made things way easier too.

The amount of times I've been honked for letting a pedestrian cross according to the new laws...just the other day I stopped to let someone cross at a junction and the guy behind me slammed his horn on. Credit to the pedestrian here, but she stopped before crossing, stormed over to the guy that honked me and gave him a right earful. It was glorious.

One if the best channels on youtube, thank you

Another excellent video. At 07:59 I think the cyclist is invisible behind the Mini's A-pillar. It shows the importance of the driver shifting his/her head to look around both sides of the A-Pillar when approaching a junction!

At around 2:20 with the unhelpful HGV for the cammers emerge onto the motorway. To me it looked like the cammer had more room in front of them to utilise and put more distance between themselves and the unhelpful HGV behind. We don't know what speed the cammer was doing and yes I saw the 50 mph speed limit signs on the slip road. But I might have been tempted to temporarily exceed that 50 mph limit and accelerate a bit more briskly to be further away from the rear HGV and then once merged, ease off slightly if above 50 mph. And bear in mind speedos often under read, plus speed limits often have that tolerance. And there was no sign warning of safety cameras. I'm not advocating speeding but in a situation like that I would say it might be safer to temporarily exceed the limit given the situation.

That last clip, were they getting out to move the cones?

In that first clip you can hear what I assume must be their quick reflexes operating the gear lever in record quick time, impressive work.

I like the 4 S's. Has a long time biker who's had a 'few' people pull out not seeing me. I have it drummed in to me 'do they see me. I have to be honest, I My driving and my attitude in general has calmed down a lot due these video's and Ashley's advice. Between Ashley and the Black Belt Barrister and Jorden Peterson. I have learned a lot about life. Thank you.

I think that the guy merging on the M5 should have gained a little more speed to gain more space in front of the HGV but the HGV should have helped by backing off a little bit and helping out.

6:27 I recognise that street. It’s in North Berwick. I love it when clips from Scotland where I live are featured on this channel

I thought the passenger was getting out of the car to move the cones @ 10:28, but perhaps they'd just had enough of the appalling driving and would rather walk.

Just checked the registration plate for the black Vauxhall, R28JLJ, following the learner driver and, according to DVLA, it should be a white Citroen. Checked 9th April at 14.47.

2:19 fair enough in this case of knocking off cruise control for a few sec as it is a 50. But when you're on a 70 keep in mind most trucks are cruising at 55 so you can easily use that extra speed to get past and stop them catching rather than dawdling.

You hit the nail on the head there, those who only care about priority, no more said.

Living in the Devon countryside where single track roads are everywhere, I can confirm, it's almost always the white vans who travel too fast for the visibility. The problem is they're on piece work and if they don't travel fast they won't be given the jobs.

And your point at the end of 'I haven't been seen is my 'Moto'. As a motorcyclist I ride as if I am 'invisible', and ride accordingly. I make my mistakes, I have my own faults, yet I am still here. I put that down to the overarching principle of I am invisible and I ride accordingly; and when I make mistakes, make every effort not to make that mistake twice.

10/10 Ashley! Always assume the worst-case scenario and drive accordingly. The only thing you should ever trust while on the road is physics.

At 9:00 Is a classic example of my dislike for the new changes regarding giving way to pedestrians. I feel it puts pressure on pedestrians to make the crossing quickly to not inconvenience traffic and in this case they're running quickly in response to the horn.

If you live somewhere with narrow lanes like in that first clip, you have to learn to react like that as there are so many drivers who will zoom round blind bends at breakneck speed. I’ve never had to reverse to avoid an accident before, that’s impressive

2:06 Cammer could have easily accelerated to get to more the middle of the gap. The white/green lorry was keeping a constant speed.

Great catch in the first clip with the quick reverse to stop a collision with the van. I am a new Tesla owner (1000 miles) and yesterday I was driving on single track roads in Scotland, where stop-and-reverse is a frequent requirement. As I learn the vehicle, I am finding that I will stop and reverse towards a passing place behind me considerably quicker than most people can react with a clutch and gearbox. With practice and muscle memory, this reaction should only get faster.

That very last clip: If you are going to make a turn (especially across oncoming traffic) make sure your exit road is actually clear before you commit! In this case, the exit road was coned off. But could also be pedestrians crossing (and remember the new HC rules for that) or a traffic tailback up to the junction. Assess early!

@1:30 approx - Good question, Ash. If the Van driver was on the 📱 then it demonstrates *yet again* the level of distraction caused. Yesterday's NY vid was a Primary example of this. I very much appreciated yours and @Jon C feedback there - duly noted 👍. First clip - yes; excellent save! Stay safe out there.

People go around roundabouts to fast and then blame the people emerging. If you circle a roundabout at a reasonable speed you reduce the risk of colliding with anyone. It’s not rocket science yet too many flaw the vehicle entering

leaves his car blocking the road & gets walks past the cones CRAZY

That first clip the van, what an awesome save by the viewer. I don't think I could of done that. For one I'm in an auto and two I have 290BHP so would of prob panicked put in a hedge in reverse, lol. Supposed to drive and be able to stop on your side of the road in the distance you can see. On a single track road you need to half that distance. I drive a similar road on my commute and faced the same but the oncoming car did stop in time but the BMW behind the oncoming car skidded and almost went into the car coming the other way, the BMW driver defo left more than one skid mark at least, lol.

I always either move over or adjust my speed to allow vehicles to join the motorway…it’s not difficult if you keep your eyes on whats going on around.

On the merging in the M5 clip; I do think it's mostly up to the people merging in to find a spot to merge in, equal or slightly greater speed than traffic already driving there and then merge in. Honestly to me it didn't look like the lorry did anything wrong. The passenger car had power to spare, but it wasn't used. In my opinion thats a far greater mistake than the lorry not slowing down. Gotta remember that asking already moving traffic to slow down for your merge has an echoeing effect on everything behind it. At least when its busy it does. This is how we get holdups and jams on highway junctions

Clip at 9.00 regarding giving way to the pedestrians... in my view giving way here just increases risk for all involved. The camera car is at risk of being shunted from behind from a vehicle who is either not expecting or, cannot see from their position the pedestrians, so in this scenario the camera car would be pushed forward into where the pedestrians are crossing! Also if you notice how the pedestrians feel the need to move quickly across, again increasing their risk of slipping/tripping.

I was riding along Aintree Lane crossing Valley Road on to Copplehouse Lane. A woman in an Escort decided to go as the lights started to change, was turning right from Copplehouse Lane. She hit me in the middle of the Kirkby bound lanes and I came to a full stop next to a police car at the traffic lights on Copplehouse Lane. They looked at my unmoving "corpse" lit up their lights and went after the Escort which was motoring down towards Kirkby. They pulled her at the M57 roundabout. She denied all knowledge of seeing or hitting me, she was not drunk, she couldn't exit the driver's door because the car was so badly damaged. Her offside front light cluster was smashed, bonnet, o/f/wing bent out and the driver's door twisted. When she saw the damage she complained that someone had done it to her car, this got a really good laugh in court. I got two months in hospital and three months of rehab, along with a wrecked knee that still causes issues over 40 years later. Some drivers only take in what they want to, every driver should have to ride a motorcycle for at least a year and sit an extended retest every 5 years. Passing the L test means that you are safe but not that you are a good driver. Advanced courses are the way to get better.

4:25 The one time during my driving lessons that we were (aggressively) tailgated, my instructor was angrier at the guy than I was put of by it. Also it was on the "Autobahn" and behind us was a BMW SUV, because of curse it was.

That cammer must be living life in slow motion 😅

Very insightful and a tad worrisome too as we have to drive with these folk! Nice video compilation.

About “you haven’t been seen”; I live in a place with lots of corners and roundabouts. With cars these days and their safe thick A-pillars bicyclists, pedestrians and even cars and trucks can be hidden when their taking the roundabout movement aligns perfectly with your forward movement. I have started to move my head like an impatient parrot, from left to right, because I had two occasions where a car or cyclist scared the hell out of me that way. Conversely, I take any roundabouts with more caution. Did they see me? I don’t plunge myself on the roundabout and search for eye contact or at least look for the driver’s head and which direction it is pointing. When I was younger I have been an absolute pr*ck by driving fast on a roundabout, never braking if my side was clear, and being mad when people would get in front of me not giving way. Luckily I sold that car which made me do that and learned how stupid it is to ASSume and TAKING way in stead of giving.

first clip: they were both going a wee bit fast, but your viewer definitely had better reaction time. second clip: I wonder how the vans could see, because the viewer didn't have as much sight distance as I would want to decide to overtake.

A great piece of self control by the lady who called the other driver an absolute muppet.

First clip: Yes that was a good save and to be honest I might not even have thought to quickly put it in reverse to avoid an accident. I might have been driving a tad slower than the cammer though but I realise cameras can distort.

7:55 the home of rugby football, gotta love the delayed bad use of the horn

My thoughts on the clip of the car merging onto the slip road is that I would have made it clear I was having that space between the two trucks, and then created my safe space to the forward one if I was unable to move out into lane 2. But also if it had been the truck merging, they would have forced their way in whether room was given or not.

Giving way to pedestrians exiting a roundabout is so complex, not only do you need to know what's behind. But you also have a knock on effect on the people joining all around you. One of the worst rule changes ever made imo. Giving way entering a roundabout different story makes total sense, same with junctions

"ride like your invisible" always springs to mind when I ride my motorbike.

That first scooter clip was at the bottom of Morell Avenue in Oxford. A road I use almost daily on a motorbike!

Where I live in Wales that’s an everyday occurrence. Get delivery drivers with all wheels locked up slithering straight for you, you get a sixth sense to keep your hand near the gear lever and hope your car has a syncro mesh on reverse gear. !

Similar happened to me once, but the sprinter went up the bank and fell on to its side. Funny thing, the brakes don’t work so well that way, so I had to drive backwards faster till the van slithered to a halt.

The last clip, the guy gets out the car and walked off, either still hasn't realised the motorbike or doesn't care that he almost crippled him?! Unbelievable. 😔

when riding a motorcycle I ALWAYS assume I have not been seen or there is a very good chance of death or injury, 45 yearson the road have taught me that and more. Still alive, just the cancer to do the rest now.

8:03 when you're cycling around a roundabout, you have to be aware that motor vehicles are looking further around the roundabout because they're looking for other fast moving vehicles, the to best things that I've found to do, is be prepared for them to pull out, and stare at the driver as you approach them - when you make eye contact, you are far more noticeable.

2:00 That's the issue with average speed check. Clearly the safe thing here is a short burst of acceleration to get to the available gap, but I bet the cammer felt restricted from doing so because of the speed.

I automatically assumed everyone is capable of being an idiot. Keeps me safe.

6:38 that clip alone shows you guys really love your Fiestas 😅

A moment’s appreciation for the MK1 Fiesta to the right of shot at 9:00!

Good reactions from the driver in the first clip 👍 However, I wonder if the speed from both drivers is now a little slower going down poor visibility single track roads?

Nice little Fiesta there at 8:57 😊

Very easy to report of you have the correct time and date stamp

Car merging should have either sped up to get ahead of the lorry with a decent gap, or slowed down and given way like you're supposed to do if you can not merge.

As a rider of motorcycles you learn pretty damn fast the "have they seen me" trait. The more vehicle you drive/ride/operate the more complete driver you are imho.

That first one was legendary

I bet the oncoming white van driver was thinking "You were going a bit fast there".

Gordon Banks against Pele was the best save ever

That last clip. The car driver could have at least apologised to the rider when he got out of his car. Didn’t even acknowledge him. Some people can be really self-centred.

Thanks

With the motorway merge in front of the green/blue truck, note the proximity of the red truck and the truck behind following the green/blue truck. if the truck had slowed that would have created a concertina effect that would have eventually resulted in a panic stop by a vehicle way down the queue. I understand the blue/green trucks reticence to slow and in this situation the cammer had two choices, speed up to give more distance and time for the merge to all concerned or simply stop and wait for a gap. Have you noticed how many road markings are worn out? Unless you are a local or travel the route frequently you will probably need to rely on road markings. if they are worn it means that it takes longer to assimilate what they are trying to convey, sometimes its a guessing game and that extra time taken is an unnecessary distraction that could result in an accident.

I had an accident once which luckily only ended up with cracked bumpers. I misjudged a slight downhill descent towards a car at a junction in icy conditions and must have slowly skidded about 50m in a very slow 8-9 secs. I just went into panic mode trying to stop instead of doing the now obvious and trying to reverse instead. It was a Christmas Eve too which now makes me extra cautious and I prefer not to drive on that day now if I can avoid it.

I see so many clips for Stevenage these days (white range rover in this video). The standards of driving and short tempers that so many residents have is staggering.

The first one my car would pick that moment for a synchro to get stuck or something😂

A brilliant save from that person, brilliant and the way he puts it into reserve is awesome. Way way to fast from the van driver way to fast

10:34 decides to just block oncoming lane? I thought he was getting out to maybe apologise.

that first clip wow what a great reaction and save, I hate those kinds of roads people go far too fast on them, I think people on the motorway should if possible try and help those getting onto it, move lanes if you can or slow slightly to create a gap, its not going to cost you much to do that and makes things easier for all, would be worse if traffic entering the motorway couldn't get a gap and had to slow right down or stop

@2:23 there was a conversation about this by a lorry driver elsewhere on KZfaq; it was cut between he was in a lorry and it was the van's tough luck, basiclly he should have fitted in; and the fact the lorry had a clear lane to his right. I pointed out they were both crap. The van for not adjusting his speed better and the lorry for being downright ignorant.

20 years ago, when driving in France, we learnt about the giveaway to side roads rule that they have. This also applied to their motorways where people joining the motorway had right of way. At the time, lumping all situations together, I thought this was a crazy rule, but now I think it's a great idea when it comes to motorways and dual carriageways. Vehicles have to be going at the speed of the traffic on the motorway to safely merge into the traffic flow. If they aren't allowed to join that traffic flow then what are they supposed to do? They can either travel down the hard shoulder at speed until they can move across or they have to stop, that's assuming there is a hard shoulder in first place. Assuming traffic is moving on the motorway then vehicles wishing to join motorway should have priority.

on your using the phone question, I'm inclined to guess reaching for something, rather than using the phone. that's based on the sharpness of the initial drift out of the lane.

7:48 you literally can't report this where I live. Unless it gets posted on social media and gains significant traction there, they won't do anything even with video evidence clearly showing a readable license plate. There's been a few instances of people driving very fast and posting it on social media or people being recorded pushing other people off the road, but that's attempted murder level stuff. Anything less than that just gets ignored, not even a citation sent through the mail.

2:16 that’s what I do. On motorways, duel carriageways always do that, see a car coming down a slip road give it room. Also if/when on a motorway when/if see a lorry driver. (If it’s safe to move to the middle lane) I do giving the lorry more room

Interesting on the joining dual carriage way. The car ON the carriageway has right of way and the car joining has to give way. However if its a large/slow vehicle joining then giving them room doesnt hurt. If its busy help those joining. If its empty dont just assume when your joining that you will be given way to! I regularly have difficulty joining in my old Landrover but when its the other way round I am regularly forced to give way when it isnt necessary to force me to give way or even safe! The issue is many drivers dont think or pay proper attention!

I live in lincolnshire and often find that slip roads to some of the major A-roads are dangerously too short to attain speed to join..

The first video is why I always drive with a slower speed on roads like that, because you can't see what is coming toward you, and I want to be able to stop in time. Some years ago I was driving on a road similar to this one, and out of nowhere a bus was coming toward me with to much speed. I managed to stop in time and got out as far as I could to make room for the bus. Two weeks ago, I had the same situration just with a truck. Because of a hill on the opposite side of the truck driver's side, and the fact the ground was very soft. I stopped, and with slow speed I got my car out on the soft field on my side, it made room for the truck, and I didn't get stuck because I made sure I had solid road on the other side of the car. My wheels didn't even spin, but yeah this shows how important it is to adjust your speed to your surroundings. :) If you merge in to a highway here in Denmark, and you are in front of the truck, it has to slow down to let you in. That behaiver here in Denmark would give a 1 strick on the driverlicense for driving to close. The red light runner. If I had send that to my local police station, they wouldn't do anything about it, because you can't see a clear face. I have before send videos with clear a clear face of the driver, and still they won't do anything about it. Funny because they really want us citizens to report and send videos, but after many send videos and no help from the police, I have stopped sending video clips to them, because they don't do anything.

I always help any traffic joining the motorway as best I can. Adjust my speed to help them out, or moving to lane 2 if possible. I'm sure others do it for me. I like to think we're all in it together!

6:53 It's the 5 Ss: you don't want the to s*** themselves.

8:56 Ford Fiesta from 1982