[Closed] Well that was scary!

Erm....why does he have a go pro on his head while driving?

Edit: Source

I believe the story goes he had just bought it and was just having a little test run before using it in anger.

'apparently' he is a film type who was testing his latest gear

I still reckon he was barrelling along like a knob, not paying attention hence the total overreaction & nerfing a dry stone wall

I believe the story goes he had just bought it and was just having a little test run before using it in anger.

In anger? It's a '99 1.0l Yaris. 😀

Edit: Oh TJ's here on a driving thread. Who lit the signal?

filming himself driving fast? Unfortunately faster than his skills can cope with

he was clearly looking for trouble wearing a camera

The car overtaking coming up to a blind crest may have been the one in the wrong though. Just a thought.

Jamie

Edit: Oh TJ's here on a driving thread. Who lit the signal?

Meh. No chance it'll even see six pages. Unless Edukator.......

filming himself driving fast? Unfortunately faster than his skills can cope with

Watch the video I linked. Or don't if you want to get the thread up to 6 pages.

Looks like he was just "making progress" but lost it on the brakes. Can't see enough on my phone screen to [s]dish out pious judgement [/s] comment further

thepurist - Member

Looks like he was just "making progress" but lost it on the brakes. Can't see enough on my phone screen to dish out pious judgement comment further

Yeah you're right. If he'd been in a faster car with more powerful brakes and larger tyres he wouldn't have crashed.

The car overtaking coming up to a blind crest may have been the one in the wrong though.

Could have been a horse's face just over that crest he barrelled over. Or a fat mamil peleton! 🙂

Doing my bit for the six pager, right there.

Edit: Oh TJ's here on a driving thread. Who lit the signal?

Its all right - I have learnt to make one post then walk away

Oh - hang on a mo..................

The other car was not even close to panic brake. 😯

I'm uninjured I'm uninjured ,caught twice on tape

Yep there goes your claim for whiplash sonny Jim

After watching the second vid turns out it was a ****er in a BMW on the wrong side of the road well could have been an Audi S line at least

The other car was not even close to panic brake.

BMW, innit.

The other car was not even close to panic brake.

Plenty of room for the overtake,

Inexperience and overreacting to blame for that outcome. Seen plenty of overreacting to on the roads, it's as if to make a point and is bloody stupid. Should have taken a split second to assess the situation and then realise he could have got past with plenty to spare. Although nothing to suggest he was speeding (although his reaction suggests he may know he's not squeaky clean), he is at the upper limit of his capabilities if that's how he reacts to a common occurrence on the roads.

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The BMW had the power to carry out the manover, and did.

<Whistles nonchalantly>

I thought the guy filming severely overreacted. Slowing down would have prevented his crash. It also looked as if he wasn't able to control his car in an emergency situation. Having said that, it also looked like the overtaking car was doing so coming up to the crest of a hill, which was dangerous driving. I'd venture it was six of one and half a dozen of the other.

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Accidents happen, Yaris driver seemed to be very quickly, but I'd guess a 60 limit on that road. Other driver made the move and the Yaris driver would have been completely fine if he'd just carried on doing what he was going but it's hard to judge if you're presented with a car coming towards you with a quarter of a secon notice.

Glad no one was hurt.

What Rorschach said - was it a 330d?

[quote=bearnecessities ][s]Inexperience[/s] Impatience and [s]overreacting[/s] overtaking to blame for that outcome.

Fixed

^^What aracer said. The BMW driver must haves been one of those "I know what speed it's safe to drive at" people that appear on every speed thread on here. You can be as awesome as all hell, but other people. Toyota man obviously freaked out and panicked.

7 pages, one epic flounce and at least three overhead maps of the road with lines drawn on them.

7 pages, one epic flounce and at least three overhead maps of the road with lines drawn on them.

[url= https://tinyurl.com/y9gnm33j ]Here you go![/url]

Erm....wtf, Russia?

57 seconds in.

^^ WTF 😀 Pokemon Go is dangerous kids!

The guy in the Yaris doesn't look like he was paying attention when he comes over that wee crest. There is a gap of about 2.5 secs before the BMW can be seen and him seeing/reacting to it. The BMW driver was an arse for overtaking there but the Yaris driver only had to scrub some speed to avoid a collision.

Overtaking before a blind crest, closing speed of probably 120mph+ and it's the Yaris drivers fault?

The fact he had to even brake at all makes it the BMW's fault.

Jamie - Member

Erm....wtf, Russia?

but the Yaris driver only had to scrub some speed to avoid a collision.

If he'd played his Aerodactyl instead of that Cloyster, he would have prevailed unharmed.

Dp, soz.

Yaris driver looked to be speeding. He also sounds young, so is probably a dick & an inexperienced driver.

There is a gap of about 2.5 secs before the BMW can be seen and him seeing/reacting to it

But less than half a second before the BMW pulls in. Long white lines too and uphill.

Shit overtake.

Yaris going a bit too fast.

75/25 blame for the BMW v Yaris.

More like 65/35.

I was thinking 71/29.

Clearly the bloke in the third car decided to resist the awesome power of the Beemer overtake by putting his foot down and trying to race him. That's why he's apologising in the video.

So I'm thinking 45/25/30

rone

75/25 blame for the BMW v Yaris.

jimjam

More like 65/35.

Cougar

I was thinking 71/29.

martinhutch

So I'm thinking 45/25/30

Educated guesses, but still guesses. Alas there is no one on this forum who has sufficient levels of driving skill combined with decades of experience to really tell us the exact percentage of blame to apportion to each party.

Alas there is no one on this forum who has sufficient levels of driving skill combined with decades of experience to really tell us the exact percentage of blame to apportion to each party.

I phone up Smurfmat, and apparently he was 100% in the clear and it was 100% the Yaris' fault for getting in the way of him giving Lewis Hamilton a lesson in making progress.

Would the Yaris driver have had a crash if the BMW wasn't overtaking towards a blind crest?

jam bo - Member

Would the Yaris driver have had a crash if the BMW wasn't overtaking towards a blind crest?

Not if he'd been driving a 911 [i]Turbo[/i].

[quote=jam bo ]Would the Yaris driver have had a crash if the BMW wasn't overtaking towards a blind crest?

He wouldn't have had a crash if he'd stayed at home in bed
0/100

100% Yaris drivers fault for getting out of bed then.

Total lack of observation, failure to judge speed, and the panic, over-reaction on the brakes, leading to a loss of control.

Unfortunately that's a classic in-experienced / young driver kinda thing, and why stability control was invented.......

Good job he didn't hit the dry stone wall it's 60 quid a meter to fix

No double white lines......

*calls time out*

Don't forget the type of action camera he is using has a mild fish eye effect, thus making perspectives all a bit off. The BMW seems further away than it probably was.

Right, carry on.

Didn't the Yaris avoid a baby robin..
1/10, not drinking a Costa whilst making progress, not enough ginsters and Gregg's wrappers in the car, and he didn't lose an Orange 5 from the rack on the back.
I reckon the BMW driver was Ronnie Pickering....

Who?

I think we have all overlooked what is truly to blame here, the hill. If it wasn't there or the lazy road builders had flattened it none of this would have happened.

I reckon the BMW driver was Ronnie [s]Pickering[/s] Acona ...

I blame Thatcher....

Two nobheads, both driving irresponsibly, one too fast, one overtaking. Accident ensues.

Meanwhile in Oregon a bear is spotted shitting in the woods and in Rome, the pope confirms he is indeed catholic.

So long as no one innocent is hurt, I really couldn't give a toss.

However, idiots like these two often involve totally innocent people in their dangerous driving. Surely the cops can chuck the book at the pair of them given the footage?

Well, one of them got done for dangerous driving...

Yaris driver puts 2 nearside wheels on the grass verge . Co-efficient of drag is greatly reduced , hits the brakes hard and the car swerves into dry stone wall and rolls.
I doubt he had done alot of high speed retardation practise to know what happens when you really need to stop in a hurry. 1ltr Yaris also probably not got great tyre footprint either , and no airbag deployed unless I am blind

Two nobheads, both driving irresponsibly, one too fast, one overtaking. Accident ensues.

Meanwhile in Oregon a bear is spotted shitting in the woods and in Rome, the pope confirms he is indeed catholic.

So long as no one innocent is hurt, I really couldn't give a toss.

However, idiots like these two often involve totally innocent people in their dangerous driving. Surely the cops can chuck the book at the pair of them given the footage?

You didn't read the thread/watch both vids now did you?

Or use a k!

wrightyson - Member
Or use a k!

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I thought 'nob' was the proper spelling. It certainly was on the desks at school.

singletrackmind - Member

Yaris driver puts 2 nearside wheels on the grass verge . Co-efficient of drag is greatly reduced ,

By what percentage is the drag coefficient reduced would you say?

Just Brexit init? Johnny Foreigner (obviously...they were driving on the right) trying to get out before the curtain comes down.

There are a lot of people practicing retardation tonight.

60 quid a meter to fix

By who? I need a patio fixing at those rates

dannyh - Member

I thought 'nob' was the proper spelling. It certainly was on the desks at school.

Nob is pejorative slang for a posh person ( nobility) knob is the handle on your cupboard

Or a slang term for a gentleman's sausage, if you delve further than the suggested Google definition.

Thank God there wasn't a cyclist or a club or a bunch of D of E students trudging up the road, it is used by lots of cyclists and the D of E crowd.

Gentlemans sausage? [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William,_Duke_of_Cumberland ]Butcher Cumberland?[/url]

Thank God there wasn't a cyclist or a club or a bunch of D of E students trudging up the road, it is used by lots of cyclists and the D of E crowd.

Did you really just say that?

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The Yaris driver was going way too fast for a blind crest, especially for someone with such poor car control. Sure the BMW driver is also at fault and deserves to be punished for over-taking going into a blind crest but what would have happened if it had just been a few slow moving cyclists the other side of the crest (on the Yaris driver's side), or a stationary car that had broken down? I still think he'd have ended up in an accident.