WhoseGeneration wrote:If you're going to dashcam, keep it private, for use when it might be beneficial to you in terms of an insurance claim or proving something in a court.
I'm sure others here remember a member who fell foul of his dashcam footage, with commentary, criticising other drivers.
I agree. He's hardly a paragon of good driving himself but I get the impression that he could benefit from a few observed drives with someone who sees the spark and who could redirect his desires to see improved driving on our roads, back onto him. I think he's just doing what he thinks everyone does when they buy a dashcam. Might be nice to see this discussed in the next edition of Roadcraft
We are somewhat straying from the point of this thread, which was to discuss the various issues to do with slip roads but I think this is a discussion worth having on another thread.
I find that many of the poor outcomes on slip roads, are caused as a result of the behaviour of the traffic already on the motorway prior to the slip road. The Gatwick slip onto the M23 Northbound springs to mind here.
In the video, I think there could have been an element of 'i'm alright jack' from the drivers in Lane 2, who may have forced the towed caravan driver to have to stay in Lane 1 due to being limited to 60mph, which i'm going to assume he was doing. This then directly affected the Horsebox on the slip, who it looks like saw the caravan coming and decided to not cause him to have to brake and this then travelled back up the slip affecting other drivers. Yes all the slip road traffic could have observed a slow mover ahead and slowed accordingly, and yes the towed caravan could have either slowed down to allow the horsebox on or moved into Lane 1 earlier thus leaving it clear but that would no doubt have vexed the other traffic in Lane 1, who probably sat in that lane in a long line of traffic for miles and who were probably oblivious to all of this, while hoping it would all get out of the way. Just my thoughts and guesses. If he had not have posted this video, I couldn't have used it as an example.
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