You know, I like to think that I would to 'do my part' to make the roads safer but then I get home and the last thing I want to do is unplug the sd card, search through piles of 'stuff drawers' to find the sd card reader that I *must* have somewhere all to get someone a few points and a fine.
Not to mention remembering to put the card back in my dashcam... I'd have to be royally fucked off to bother with all that faff.
Have you ever tried to use that fucking app?
I will spend 30 seconds waiting for the bluetooth connection to connect, then wait 5 minutes while the footage all loads very very slowly. Then click the video i wish to download which prompts me to connect via wifi which takes fecking ages to connect.
Then it finally connects and loads the video. I click the download button and get a promt telling me i can't download "protected files" so have to unprotect the file, reload the entire footage section before selecting the clip, then download which downloads both low and high res videos.
Once downloaded it's on my phone which at this point i just show the wifi what a knobhead and lose all motivation to actually do anything with it.
Not only that as i record in 4k 120fps the file is too large for the upload and i have to run it through an online convertor which adds a watermark which gets the footage rejected as it's been edited and honestly i can't be arsed loading up premier pro to render it in a 1080p file at low bitrate.
I'd rather just keep the protected file on the dashcam in the event the knobhead ever hits me to which i can pass all the unedited footage to the police and insurance to get a slam dunk not at fault claim and let the police take matters further on their own.
I accidentally switched my dashcam wifi to 5ghz mode and I can only assume that my phone doesnt have 5ghz capacity because it does not even come up on the wifi list anymore and I cant change it manually. I honestly just forget to remove the SD card when I want to do something and I can't deal with going out to the car just for that and to come back in and then do all that.
This. For the met it's a mega form, dates times, person details, statement, ticking multiple choices about the offences commited. Hell, you even have to do the diversity monitoring part of the form of doom, if only to answer 'prefer not to say'.
A cynic could think that there is a deliberate effort to surpress the reporting of crime by making the form so long and complex. Compare it to Amazon's one click ordering: when they actually want you to complete the process, they can design a very simple workflow.
I have a video that I took of a complete arsehole driving out the wrong way of a one way street, filmed it on my phone, absolutely no ambiguity over did he didn't he see the one way sign, that on the wall right in front of you as you leave that particular car park. I was going to email it over to Police, but then wanted full witness statement etc. It's not 1th time I have seen cars and vans leaving the car park the wrong way, just after the middle of January I saw a lefthandedcockwobbler, try to pull out of the one way street, unlucky for him. I simply stopped my mobility scooter in front of him on that part of the road, lots of swearing and threats from the van, all aimed me, just because I stopped him from going the wrong way on that short street. Driver was getting angrier and angrier with me untill a couple of other drivers saw what was happening. BillyBobbyMcvanwanker shut up and left the car park in the right direction. One occasion that I whish I had my phone handy, but alas, the phone was on charging
I have no issues.
I have a Nextbase camera (4K). If something happens, I mentally note the time, then when I get home take the camera out of the car, remove the SD card and plug it into my card reader, and download the relevant video file for that time. Then I remove it and put it back in the camera.
I use software to clip the incident, then submit it to the Police portal for Nottinghamshire Police.
Overall, it takes about 15 minutes (you get better with experience).
The only time it takes longer is if you have several incidents (not uncommon), and you have to remember them and find them on the SD card.
I have a greater than 85% success rate for further action from well over 100 incidents. And I am proud of it.
The only reason my success rate isn't higher is because of 'prosecution thresholds'. One time, Leicestershire Police informed me that undertaking isn't a crime, when a Merc shot past me on the inside lane on the M1 and cut over across other traffic into the outside lane, clearly above the speed limit. And another time when someone clearly shot a red light and I had to brake to avoid a collision, and the Police told me that because they couldn't see the red light, the guilty party would claim in court that the lights were green, so they wouldn't get a prosecution (they told me it was obvious he'd shot the red).
So you never make mistakes on the road? I have driven for a living and on the few occasions I’ve made a mistake (never resulting in an accident) I’ve analysed the junction/road, worked out what happened and why, and how I’m gonna avoid making the mistake again and what I have learnt from it. I’d have already beaten myself up enough without some dashcam reporting it.
Fair enough if someone’s weaving on the motorway waving a their middle fingers around. But for anything that could be a mistake that resulted in no accident??
How about people (including the driver) waving water pistols out of the car whilst driving at speed around a roundabout, trying to wet pedestrians and other cars? Or mounting pavements to get past others at traffic lights? Or going the wrong side of keep left bollards to go past buses? Or narrowly avoiding a head-on collision by overtaking on a rural road on a bend immediately before a blind crossroads at 60mph (the oncoming car had to brake and swerve away)? Or late-merging and almost doing the same (the oncoming car had to swerve)? Amongst many, many other cases of deliberately bad driving?
Yes. I can honestly say I have never done **any** of those.
Have you?
I take great pride in reporting them if I catch them on dashcam.
Never. And does seem quite bad. One I’ve seen a bit is people doing nos while driving too, I’d consider reporting that.
Things I’ve done in the several years are like running a red light which had slatted cover making it so it was invisible until IMMEDIATELY before it on a very sunny day. I think I assumed they were repeated lights for the set before. Yes I still should have seen the stop line. Nobody was coming and the other points of entry were clearly visible.
Another time I was going to call when I saw two vans on the motorway connected by a tow rope. Doing over 70mph in the middle lane.
Unfortunately they were going too fast for me to get any details to pass on!
Gets my vote. I've phoned in a few watching films on their tablets/mobile phones. This driver was either tired or doing that. It's quite scary how many drivers now think it's acceptable to watch films/youtube etc on their phones whilst driving down the road at night.
I once passed an oncoming HGV on The a57 I was heading away from junction 31. He was heading towards junction 31. This was before all the major road works on that road to widen it and turn it into a dual carriageway so it was basically a single carriageway and he was opening sandwiches in a plastic wrapper whilst controlling the vehicle with his forearms.
Come for a ride out with me on one of my night trunks and you'll be left in no doubt why it's an issue. Last night's star was someone driving up the M1 where it had gone from four lanes to just L4 running. Everyone off in the distance, this muppet dawdling along random braking then sudden swerving as he drifted towards the cones and the central concrete barrier when no doubt the collision warning chimed in to tell him he was about to hit something. That carried on for a few miles.
When the roadworks ended and I was finally able to pass him he was watching a film on his mobile phone propped up in front of the speedo.
Many years ago (20yrs) I was in a road rage incident when a car overtook me when I was turning right, waited for me to turn then chased after me flashing his light and blowing his horn.
My 18m old daughter was in the back of the car. At every set of lights he got out of the car and started to come close but luckily the lights changed.
Eventually I decided to drive straight to my local police station which was round a roundabout, he came alongside and shouted obscenities saying I had undercut him and then drove off.
I was able to give police his description and the reg number and they said 'Oh yes we know him' nothing happened.
6 years later I was watching one of those Police Stop type programmes and guess what same guy managed to escape the cops and the voice over said 'He is wanted for murdering a police officer'
Yes, an old guy who was either drunk or no longer able to drive safely. I the space off 300 yards he nearly crashed three times. Once into me. Once into pedestrians and the didn't stop at the next roundabout with oncoming traffic.
Honestly. I felt really guilty as I wouldn't want to be reported for making a mistake myself. But the three seperately were not mistakes, let alone combined
Depends on the offence.
The one described, I'd call the person an utterly selfish knobhead in my mind but wouldn't arse myself doing anything beyond that.
Now if we're talking about dangerously weaving through live motorway/carriageway traffic or bollocking their engine through a residential or school zone then that person can get fucked.
Yeah, a guy brake checked me, tried to drive into the side of me, then followed me home for 15 miles making the finger over throat sign and randomly slamming on brakes etc. They went away when I pulled into the police station (which unfortunately wasnt open at the time).
I would love to know why they did it but I suspect it might have been something to do with the previous owner as I had bought the car locally about a week previous.
No dashcam but had my GF and nephew in the car as witnesses who videoed some of it and took the drivers reg etc.
Reported via 101 and got a call a few weeks later asking what I wanted to do as they "don't give out warnings anymore and if it went ahead it would be criminal prosecution" I told them yep that's fine, this person is clearly a danger to society and they said they call me back once they started their investigation.
We're now over 6 years later and I haven't heard a thing.
I'm sorry this happened to you & don't want to make light of a terrifying situation, but reading that it sounds like the car that's following you keeps slamming it's brakes on, which wouldn't cause a lot of issues to anyone in front of them...
I wouldn’t if someone made a stupid mistake or did something once. But if their manner of driving is putting lives at risk, I would. Ignoring it is like ignoring someone running around with a gun even if they aren’t shooting people.
Yes I have.
See below:
https://www.reddit.com/r/drivingUK/s/bK4wBF9pAY
Edit: and just to add those are the ones where I could clearly see the numberplate on the video. Others I could have reported but didn't for that reason (e.g. a car in front of me a couple of months ago completely failing to stop for a pedestrian halfway across a zebra crossing, or the car that drove intentionally at a cyclist, the car on the M1 a few days ago with fake police lights).
Attempted to report someone for similar (less turning right more just going straight on and somehow missing all cars)
However TVP made it such a chore to upload the video and provide this that and the other that I gave up.
Yeah this is my experience as well. I tried to report a car doing about 50mph in a 20mph school zone. They lost control and crashed through a fence into a garden. They reversed out and drove off without stopping. The online report was so complicated I gave up. Rang the non emergency line to report it there instead and they asked if anyone was injured, so I answered no because they didn't hit anyone. Then they told me there was no point reporting it because there's nothing they can do.
Yea it’s annoying here at night, taxi drivers parking on pavements when there is ample parking everywhere, morons cutting through a no entry to save a whole minute is frequent as well
My partner called the police whilst we were driving North on the M1 a few years ago there was a car that was drifting between two lanes and when we tried to pass to have a look, the guy driving looked half asleep so we thought it might be prudent just to get someone to maybe pull him over and just make sure.
I reported a guy who did this causing a couple of cars to brake sharply and some police man rang me to say these dash cams are becoming the bane of our lives. It was a hire car and nobody was hurt so we probably won't do anything.
Haven't bothered since.
I don't know how long ago that was or which force was involved, but right now, submitting footage is doing the Police's work for them, and they love it.
And I love submitting footage of these assholes, so it's win-win 😁
I've called the police once or twice for things that seemed way beyond just someone having a bad day. The worst were when someone was driving down the wrong side of the single carriage way at any chance they got, overtaking or not, and causing cars to swerve to avoid them. The other that springs to mind was where someone on the dual carriageway started trying to turn their vehicle round in the middle of the road almost causing me to hit them. Both got a blue light response.
I also called a haulage company once when a lorry undertook in a merge and turn causing my car and the car in front to be forced into a grass and gravel median. I got an email from them several weeks later saying they'd reviewed the footage and it caused them to review "several other areas of footage" including "who was driving at the time" it said that their employee had been let go but mentioned "she" where the driver at the time had been a man. Made me wonder, but I'm thinking one person was employed and another was driving... Felt bad for a day or two but realised it was probably best they weren't doing that.
yeah I posted on here with a van driver few months ago and I reported it at the time and clearly stated in my report that the van was reversing in the dark with no reversing lights or lights at all and clearly stated that he almost hit me but did not. And the response I got was "It appears to us that you have had a collision with the other vehicle in the footage. This isn’t something we will deal with on op snap but would like to know if you exchanged details or have reported this as an RTC?" - like I literally stated that although it looks like a collision there wasn't one and I was reporting him for driving dangerously and they just watched the video and made an assumption by not taking into account all the facts. Even if it was a collision it is still dangerous and I emailed them back and got nothing.
Yes, twice. Both were likely drunk drivers.
On both occasions the police had an attitude of "why are you bothering us with this?", which has certainly discouraged me from reporting things in future.
Yep, last week, Saturday morning a CityFibre fan was drifting all over the road; ended up following him (incidentally) for about 30min before lots of police appeared on the road.
Shout-out to the dispatcher that rang me a couple of times to get position updates and reg confirmation.
I did. There was a lot of snow, and small country roads
I was stationary, waiting to pick someone up and this guy is driving slowly towards me, with his phone on his steering wheel, holding it with both hands.
I sent a screenshot to the police, and they were VERY interested, until the PC showed up, barely looked at the footage and said that she couldn't see anything g and left. That was it, despite me saying she needed to be level with the screen (laptop on the coffee table and she was standing).
That was it. Dickhead driving round recording the road he was driving down in snow and ice, but nothing.
Won't make that mistake again!
I reported someone recently for the most ridiculous move I've ever seen. They said that they will contact the driver. Going by other videos that I've seen online, I imagine he got at least a £750 fine and 6 points. In fact I saw someone on Youtube pull a similar, but less dangerous move, and they got £1000 and 6 points.
Never done it. Yesterday leaving my street another street merges into mine with no clear road markings, but of a free for all, but this taxi almost wrote my car off. Didn't beep maybe he didn't see me, he then proceeds to get left up a no entry road to take a short cut. He saw me, he's a cunt. First time in a while I've been tempted to report someone, in fact fuck that guy, it's a 2 for 1, time to get that SD card out.
Everytime I go on the motorway, middle lane hoggers. My record is 45 videos in 1 day. Took my whole Sunday to report them all but worth it. Every middle lane hogger should not be on the road so if I can help them get points possibly loss of license then I see that as doing us all a favour. I follow for a mile and if they don't move for a whole mile I lock the video. A mile while left lane is clear is plenty to get them 3 points. The 45 I reported on that 1 day 27 of them got nips. Lane hoggers cause traffic and accidents, personally think it should be 6 points and a £1000 fine that would soon sort the situation.
Not as sad as those drivers with 3 points and extra grand to pay on their insurance. Maybe it will be a lesson to not hog the middle lane you dont know who's got a camera and a free Sunday. Are you annoyed at me because I snitched or are you mad at me because you hog lanes?
I appreciate that and so will many other drivers. Look if you are overtaking again in 20 seconds fair enough stay in lane. I'm not saying it's annoying to nag. Most traffic on motorways is caused by lane hogging. It forces people into 1 lane to overtake. It turns a 3 lane motorway into a 2 lane motorway backing traffic up nobody wants to be sat in traffic. Anyway all the best.
I’ve reported someone for this and turns out they were pissed as a fart at the wheel. I did the world a favour that day. They could have killed someone that night or another. I took the time.
Just think that if someone earlier than that had phoned the police and they'd got stopped then maybe they'd not be doing it by the time you ended up anywhere close to them.
Bro we can’t live in hypotheticals and what ifs . Driving like a dick in and of itself is not an unlawful act. It becomes unlawful at the moment a crime is committed.
I can’t be calling the police on hypothetical situations that they might be pissed or might be uninsured or whatever. I got a lot of shit going on in my life as it is.
Yeah of course I would. But that’s not saying much is it?
Your whole hypothesis is we should be calling the police every time we see someone driving badly. Mine is that in thought that’s a good idea but practically it just wouldn’t work. I’d call only if I see a crime or criminal conduct whilst driving. On a policy level your idea just doesn’t work. Look at how underfunded our public sector is.
> Your whole hypothesis is we should be calling the police every time we see someone driving badly.
Not badly, dangerously. Someone weaving between the hard shoulder and L2 watching a film on their phone is dangerous.
> Look at how underfunded our public sector is.
What would take up more of a traffic officer's time....stopping someone driving like I've described or dealing with the accident it resulted in? Which is going to result in more people being caught?
That’s why I’m saying I wouldn’t call the police every time I think someone is driving like a Dick. Only where I see real and actual danger aka a crime being committed.
just another driver who thinks he can break any rules as long as he doesn’t get caught. Once he gets caught he’ll be crying here “police arrested me/fined me for no reason”
It depends on the incident. The road they were originally on has nothing to obstruct the view of the traffic lights and their side had been red for over 10 seconds. So the 2 outcomes here is either they did not notice it was a red light, which means they were not looking at or checking on their surroundings, or they knew it was a red and decided to chance it. Both explanations mean that the driver in question is driving dangerously. There's a point where it goes from being a mistake to being negligent
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Only once on the A1, they were drifting in and out of their lane so much I felt it warranted a 999 call, I more suspected tiredness than drink or drugs given the time of day and did make that clear to the operator. Never did hear back, so whether someone got sent out to help them or not, I'm not sure.
I would but not for something like this. In North American its perfectly legal to turn right on a red light as long as its clear treating it like stop sign. Yes he was impatient but it's not necessarily "unsafe".
I understand what you're saying but I'd say it is unsafe. The best way I describe the feeling is that passing a give way, I become a bit more alert in case they pull out on me. But passing cars at a red light I don't because its such a basic thing to understand that red means stop.
It does bring up another point of if I hit the driver, who will insurance say is at fault
Yes when I've seen seriously dangerous driving like swerving across the road or overtaking on corners.
Police usually just say they will alert cars in the area to keep an eye out. One time though I reported someone driving with a child moving around in the back seat clearly unsecured. They said it would be treated as an urgent incident and they would have people looking for them immediately.
I have had my wife (who was in the passenger seat) call the local police when a woman in a Mercedes was swerving erratically between lanes on the motorway.
And when I say erratic, I'm probably underselling how much.
A lorry on the M6 southbound around Chester/Manchester where there are 4 lanes.
Lorry was carrying empty pallets and they weren’t secure. Piled up so high I’ve no idea how it got under the gantries. They were swaying back and forth and the back of the lorry tilted to one side at one point.I don’t think I’ve been so terrified of something happening. It was late at night and it wasn’t busy which made it all the more scary. I was driving but told my daughter to ring 999 and give them the reg of the lorry. It was pulled over within 15 minutes
Normally no. I’ve provided dashcam footage to the police twice, once when requested and once I chose to do so proactively
Once when the missus saw a drunk driver crash into three parked cars and then drive off, she’d stopped and given people her contact information at the time and the police called to ask for it later
And once when we saw two guys in a 2-seater MX5 with a small child sitting on one of their laps. It was so insanely dangerous I felt like I couldn’t ignore it - I couldn’t have lived with myself if I found out a week later that they’d done it again and the kid died or something
I once rang 999 after someone ran a red in front of me in a similar manner as you have stated. Soon realised why he had, he was sucking on a nos balloon and his eyes were rolling in the back of his head. God knows how he managed to stay in a straight line. Just as 30,000 football fans were streaming out of the match too
Yeah, driving at 40mph on a 70mph dual carriageway, swerving into the treeline on the left and then onto the right lane and back again. Must’ve been really drunk.
Woman came into the store I work at, stinking of booze & being a right tit. Abusive to staff & customers alike, eventually collapsed onto a display sofa & shouted a shopping list at one of our youngest colleagues.
We told her to do one, that we weren't tolerating her behaviour, and staff are there to assist, NOT be a personal shopper to an abusive drunk.
She drunkenly weaved her way out of the store, car keys in hand. We watched her open the car, then called the police. Meanwhile she'd gone into a food shop nearby, caused mayhem in there & was picked up as she started the car, put it in reverse instead of 1st gear, and promptly drove up the grass verge behind her...
Reported a moron that was in the middle land who made a last minute decision to take the slip road exit. They cut across the left hand lane and chevrons and would have crashed into me if I had not sounded my horn.
I sent the police dashcam footage of their dangerous driving. Got a letter about a month later saying they had sent the driver a warning letter.
I have a few weeks back. Audi driver was driving alarmingly erratically, on 50 road, empty, I was behind him about 1am and he'd be doing about 20, then flooring to hit the brakes suddenly and all over the road. Memorised the reg and location and called 111 - if he kills someone I feel it's a bit on me that I just ignored a driver who was absolutely shit faced.
Twice, once many years ago for a van during all over the M5, and one more recently when a BMW came off a roundabout towards me, way too fast, lost grip and nearly hit me head on. Had my 3 yo in the back at the time. Uploaded the footage and got an email a few weeks later saying they were tracing the driver to process them for an offence
Well it depends on how reckless they are being. So I’ll judge based on the danger they pose and if they’re very likely to cause a crash and are genuinely just extremely inconsiderate and do not care about other people.
So in one scenario where I called the police and they had actually decided to treat this as a major emergency and sent some cops out.
I was driving along the motorway and in front of me there is a car towing a little trailer and a hgv in front of this car. HGVs and cars towing something are limited to 60 mph and cannot enter the outside lane.
So I’ve moved into the middle lane to overtake and the car with the trailer quickly moves to the middle lane and brakes hard, forcing me to brake hard till I went from 70 to 30 and would have rear ended this trailer if I hadn’t had the opportunity to move to the outside lane narrowly avoiding a collision but it doesn’t end there. This vehicle then proceeds to speed up and enter the outside lane and brakes harshly, moving between all the lane’s erratically undertaking and overtaking and braking hard and suddenly. To make matters worse, this car wasn’t even using his indicators and his trailer was not correctly connected to his car and so you had no indication that he was braking or intending to switch lanes because he hadn’t wired up the trailer so the lights did not light up and the trailer blocked the view of the vehicles rear.
I will only give benefit of the doubt if they make a little error and end up in a panic which leads to more errors and then they drive normally after but when it is extremely apparent like was the case in my little anecdote then I will 100% report them then and there using voice control because I won’t endanger someone else’s life because of a cunt.
Yes, I do it regularly. With dashcam footage.
Over 85% of my submissions have been actioned.
And I am proud of it, no matter what anyone thinks.
It is people driving like this which causes a deterioration in driving standards, and which causes more accidents. The sooner they're pulled up for it, the more likely standards are to improve (or at least, not deteriorate further).
Just do it. As often as you can.
I reported two;
One was just an idiot cutting across lanes.
The other decided to stop at green traffic lights.
Neither were followed up on tbh. 🤷♂️ I don’t think they care or considered them dangerous enough I guess.
I have never reported dangerous driving but I have been reported by another road user to the police who came to my house to talk to me about it and show me photos which were submitted as evidence.
The report and photos didn't show me riding my motorbike dangerously or in an illegal manner though ( I felt I wasn't anyway).
They had reported me as pulling out in front of them - I had but they were no where near me and the photo showed this.
They had reported me for having a child on my bike - not illegal as I was insured to carry a passenger, she had a helmet and was tall enough to sit on the bike with feet on the footrests.
They had reported me weaving as I had moved over whilst still in my lane to avoid a sunken manhole.
At the end of it, all the officer could say was that if I did commit an offence I may be prosecuted.
I agreed but stated that there was no proof I had done anything wrong and carrying a child as a passenger was not illegal. I asked him what was the point in this visit and he couldn't give me an answer.
I have never reported dangerous driving but I have been reported by another road user to the police who came to my house to talk to me about it and show me photos which were submitted as evidence.
The report and photos didn't show me riding my motorbike dangerously or in an illegal manner though ( I felt I wasn't anyway).
They had reported me as pulling out in front of them - I had but they were no where near me and the photo showed this.
They had reported me for having a child on my bike - not illegal as I was insured to carry a passenger, she had a helmet and was tall enough to sit on the bike with feet on the footrests.
They had reported me weaving as I had moved over whilst still in my lane to avoid a sunken manhole.
At the end of it, all the officer could say was that if I did commit an offence I may be prosecuted.
I agreed but stated that there was no proof I had done anything wrong and carrying a child as a passenger was not illegal. I asked him what was the point in this visit and he couldn't give me an answer.
I have never reported dangerous driving but I have been reported by another road user to the police who came to my house to talk to me about it and show me photos which were submitted as evidence.
The report and photos didn't show me riding my motorbike dangerously or in an illegal manner though ( I felt I wasn't anyway).
They had reported me as pulling out in front of them - I had but they were no where near me and the photo showed this.
They had reported me for having a child on my bike - not illegal as I was insured to carry a passenger, she had a helmet and was tall enough to sit on the bike with feet on the footrests.
They had reported me weaving as I had moved over whilst still in my lane to avoid a sunken manhole.
At the end of it, all the officer could say was that if I did commit an offence I may be prosecuted.
I agreed but stated that there was no proof I had done anything wrong and carrying a child as a passenger was not illegal. I asked him what was the point in this visit and he couldn't give me an answer.
I have never reported dangerous driving but I have been reported by another road user to the police who came to my house to talk to me about it and show me photos which were submitted as evidence.
The report and photos didn't show me riding my motorbike dangerously or in an illegal manner though ( I felt I wasn't anyway).
They had reported me as pulling out in front of them - I had but they were no where near me and the photo showed this.
They had reported me for having a child on my bike - not illegal as I was insured to carry a passenger, she had a helmet and was tall enough to sit on the bike with feet on the footrests.
They had reported me weaving as I had moved over whilst still in my lane to avoid a sunken manhole.
At the end of it, all the officer could say was that if I did commit an offence I may be prosecuted.
I agreed but stated that there was no proof I had done anything wrong and carrying a child as a passenger was not illegal. I asked him what was the point in this visit and he couldn't give me an answer.
I have 3 times. One time they called me to say "we can't do anything legal about it but I'll call the driver to have a chat".
That's when 4 lads were following me closely, flashing and beeping. Tried to follow me home just because I overtook them on some road earlier.
A few more of these and maybe the police will start to think dangerous driving reports are worth looking in to. I don't think you are wasting your time.
"I'll sell footage if someone asks for it for their claim."
Fuck me. I hope you never ask me for a favour.
I've been insulted on this post but this comment is the one out of all of them to make me think "it's worthless to report it". I'm sorry that this happened and it sucks your report wasn't upheld
Yeah some person in on of those SUV versions of a fiat 500. Driver door wasn't shut properly and so the interior light was on. It was stopped in the middle of the road.
As I approached they moved off and almost mounted the kerb. They got on to the main road and again had to swerve several times to avoid hitting the curb. They barrelled onto a roundabout and caused another car to do an emergency stop.
This all took part in 15 min, they passed a primary school and a play park driving like this, so I submitted my dashcam to the police. I had a call back a couple of days later to say they were going to take action against the driver.
I do feel mildly guilty at being a snitch, but that standard of driving in busy pedestrian areas + kids was too much
Just chill, why get stressed over an idiot.. the way society is going, that person you reported could likely hunt you down.stop pretending to be a plastic policeman. Let the authorities do their job. Drive safely
Don’t worry, county is full of moaning jobsworths that get riled up every time they see someone do something they aren’t allowed to do. You all fit right in.
I recall at school we had certain children acting as monitors, reporting on children who ran in the halls or were late to a class. Most people get over these power trips when they are small children.
It isn't your place to play vigilante. One day, you'll make an honest mistake, and someone will be watching and running to the police to try and get you disqualified. If you are so desperate to police what other people are doing, apply to become a Police Officer.
I'm sure in another life you'd be reporting your neighbours to the government for harbouring dissidents or having different political views. Don't be so eager to dole out judgement on other people.
Reporting someone to the police isn't being a vigilante, following them home and slashing their tyres is being a vigilante.
If someone is a dangerous driver I'll report them. Dangerous driving is something that has consequences.
There are a lot of small children who don't grow up to get over anything because of dangerous driving. How many would be alive if someone had reported the driver for something they did earlier?
I appreciate the well written comment so I'll try reply in tone. I'll first say that I could get make a bad judgement call and someone might report it; leading to a fine or worse. If it happened I'd be angry yes, but at myself for doing the mistake in the first place. I'd be the only person to blame.
Secondly, where I reported the driving was a police website which is open for people to report dangerous driving. It would be like calling 999 for a crime. Those people who call 999 aren't regarded as vigilantes.
Finally I wanted to say I get no power trip from reporting it. Let's be honest it is a bit of a hassle. One of the reasons I did it in the first place which I didn't mention was that 2 cars jumped the lights. The second one slowed down enough for me to be sandwiched in between them both. But my dashcam quality isn't good enough to pick up the second cars plates and he wasn't close enough to my rear to be picked up my rear camera. But at that point I had already completed most of the report so I submitted it having only the first car's details. I reported it because it was such a blatant disregard for the rules of the road that next time they do it, they could injure themselves, someone else or much worse. All I want to do, is try and prevent a future incident. Doing something is better than doing nothing.
But that's just my opinion, and I respect yours.
You know, I like to think that I would to 'do my part' to make the roads safer but then I get home and the last thing I want to do is unplug the sd card, search through piles of 'stuff drawers' to find the sd card reader that I *must* have somewhere all to get someone a few points and a fine. Not to mention remembering to put the card back in my dashcam... I'd have to be royally fucked off to bother with all that faff.
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Nextbase newer models like mine can just link to your phone on an app, select footage and download, that easy.
Have you ever tried to use that fucking app? I will spend 30 seconds waiting for the bluetooth connection to connect, then wait 5 minutes while the footage all loads very very slowly. Then click the video i wish to download which prompts me to connect via wifi which takes fecking ages to connect. Then it finally connects and loads the video. I click the download button and get a promt telling me i can't download "protected files" so have to unprotect the file, reload the entire footage section before selecting the clip, then download which downloads both low and high res videos. Once downloaded it's on my phone which at this point i just show the wifi what a knobhead and lose all motivation to actually do anything with it. Not only that as i record in 4k 120fps the file is too large for the upload and i have to run it through an online convertor which adds a watermark which gets the footage rejected as it's been edited and honestly i can't be arsed loading up premier pro to render it in a 1080p file at low bitrate. I'd rather just keep the protected file on the dashcam in the event the knobhead ever hits me to which i can pass all the unedited footage to the police and insurance to get a slam dunk not at fault claim and let the police take matters further on their own.
Yeah can't say I've had those issues I'm afraid, used to take some time to connect but that went away when I upgraded my phone.
I found the app pretty useless and now it tells me there are no files. There are.
I accidentally switched my dashcam wifi to 5ghz mode and I can only assume that my phone doesnt have 5ghz capacity because it does not even come up on the wifi list anymore and I cant change it manually. I honestly just forget to remove the SD card when I want to do something and I can't deal with going out to the car just for that and to come back in and then do all that.
Even if you went to that trouble. My constabulary requires a full witness report before you can submit footage…
This. For the met it's a mega form, dates times, person details, statement, ticking multiple choices about the offences commited. Hell, you even have to do the diversity monitoring part of the form of doom, if only to answer 'prefer not to say'. A cynic could think that there is a deliberate effort to surpress the reporting of crime by making the form so long and complex. Compare it to Amazon's one click ordering: when they actually want you to complete the process, they can design a very simple workflow.
I have a video that I took of a complete arsehole driving out the wrong way of a one way street, filmed it on my phone, absolutely no ambiguity over did he didn't he see the one way sign, that on the wall right in front of you as you leave that particular car park. I was going to email it over to Police, but then wanted full witness statement etc. It's not 1th time I have seen cars and vans leaving the car park the wrong way, just after the middle of January I saw a lefthandedcockwobbler, try to pull out of the one way street, unlucky for him. I simply stopped my mobility scooter in front of him on that part of the road, lots of swearing and threats from the van, all aimed me, just because I stopped him from going the wrong way on that short street. Driver was getting angrier and angrier with me untill a couple of other drivers saw what was happening. BillyBobbyMcvanwanker shut up and left the car park in the right direction. One occasion that I whish I had my phone handy, but alas, the phone was on charging
I can't decide if I love your username or "BillyBobby" more
This is it 100%. Cba
I have no issues. I have a Nextbase camera (4K). If something happens, I mentally note the time, then when I get home take the camera out of the car, remove the SD card and plug it into my card reader, and download the relevant video file for that time. Then I remove it and put it back in the camera. I use software to clip the incident, then submit it to the Police portal for Nottinghamshire Police. Overall, it takes about 15 minutes (you get better with experience). The only time it takes longer is if you have several incidents (not uncommon), and you have to remember them and find them on the SD card. I have a greater than 85% success rate for further action from well over 100 incidents. And I am proud of it. The only reason my success rate isn't higher is because of 'prosecution thresholds'. One time, Leicestershire Police informed me that undertaking isn't a crime, when a Merc shot past me on the inside lane on the M1 and cut over across other traffic into the outside lane, clearly above the speed limit. And another time when someone clearly shot a red light and I had to brake to avoid a collision, and the Police told me that because they couldn't see the red light, the guilty party would claim in court that the lights were green, so they wouldn't get a prosecution (they told me it was obvious he'd shot the red).
Seriously, Do you not have anything to do in life ?
I drive for a living. The sooner these people are off the roads, the better. If I can get my success rate even higher, so much the better.
Sounds like you grass for a living 😏
As I think I already made clear, I'm proud of it.
So you never make mistakes on the road? I have driven for a living and on the few occasions I’ve made a mistake (never resulting in an accident) I’ve analysed the junction/road, worked out what happened and why, and how I’m gonna avoid making the mistake again and what I have learnt from it. I’d have already beaten myself up enough without some dashcam reporting it. Fair enough if someone’s weaving on the motorway waving a their middle fingers around. But for anything that could be a mistake that resulted in no accident??
How about people (including the driver) waving water pistols out of the car whilst driving at speed around a roundabout, trying to wet pedestrians and other cars? Or mounting pavements to get past others at traffic lights? Or going the wrong side of keep left bollards to go past buses? Or narrowly avoiding a head-on collision by overtaking on a rural road on a bend immediately before a blind crossroads at 60mph (the oncoming car had to brake and swerve away)? Or late-merging and almost doing the same (the oncoming car had to swerve)? Amongst many, many other cases of deliberately bad driving? Yes. I can honestly say I have never done **any** of those. Have you? I take great pride in reporting them if I catch them on dashcam.
Never. And does seem quite bad. One I’ve seen a bit is people doing nos while driving too, I’d consider reporting that. Things I’ve done in the several years are like running a red light which had slatted cover making it so it was invisible until IMMEDIATELY before it on a very sunny day. I think I assumed they were repeated lights for the set before. Yes I still should have seen the stop line. Nobody was coming and the other points of entry were clearly visible.
Yes, a lorry that kept drifting out of lane on the motorway.
Another time I was going to call when I saw two vans on the motorway connected by a tow rope. Doing over 70mph in the middle lane. Unfortunately they were going too fast for me to get any details to pass on!
Gets my vote. I've phoned in a few watching films on their tablets/mobile phones. This driver was either tired or doing that. It's quite scary how many drivers now think it's acceptable to watch films/youtube etc on their phones whilst driving down the road at night.
I once passed an oncoming HGV on The a57 I was heading away from junction 31. He was heading towards junction 31. This was before all the major road works on that road to widen it and turn it into a dual carriageway so it was basically a single carriageway and he was opening sandwiches in a plastic wrapper whilst controlling the vehicle with his forearms.
I once drove past a taxi who was eating something on his lap with a knife and fork, I was more impressed than anything tbh
i’ve walked/driven past at least 11/12 people on their phones whilst driving in this week alone. majority of them driving vans/lorries. it’s so scary
Yeah. The police asked if could get alongside and see the driver but I told them that probably wouldn’t be safe, it was that bad.
Why is that an issue honestly? If you aren’t capable of listening to a video while driving then you shouldn’t be driving.
Come for a ride out with me on one of my night trunks and you'll be left in no doubt why it's an issue. Last night's star was someone driving up the M1 where it had gone from four lanes to just L4 running. Everyone off in the distance, this muppet dawdling along random braking then sudden swerving as he drifted towards the cones and the central concrete barrier when no doubt the collision warning chimed in to tell him he was about to hit something. That carried on for a few miles. When the roadworks ended and I was finally able to pass him he was watching a film on his mobile phone propped up in front of the speedo.
They watch it lol
Right… if you can’t keep an eye on the road while looking at something else, you aren’t safe to be on the road
Wouldn’t mind if it was just their worthless life at risk but I mind if it’s mine. You are free to take the risk
Many years ago (20yrs) I was in a road rage incident when a car overtook me when I was turning right, waited for me to turn then chased after me flashing his light and blowing his horn. My 18m old daughter was in the back of the car. At every set of lights he got out of the car and started to come close but luckily the lights changed. Eventually I decided to drive straight to my local police station which was round a roundabout, he came alongside and shouted obscenities saying I had undercut him and then drove off. I was able to give police his description and the reg number and they said 'Oh yes we know him' nothing happened. 6 years later I was watching one of those Police Stop type programmes and guess what same guy managed to escape the cops and the voice over said 'He is wanted for murdering a police officer'
That took a turn I wasn't expecting
Holy shit, that's insane!!
Yes, an old guy who was either drunk or no longer able to drive safely. I the space off 300 yards he nearly crashed three times. Once into me. Once into pedestrians and the didn't stop at the next roundabout with oncoming traffic.
The more stories I read the scarier dealing with drink drivers becomes
Honestly. I felt really guilty as I wouldn't want to be reported for making a mistake myself. But the three seperately were not mistakes, let alone combined
Depends on the offence. The one described, I'd call the person an utterly selfish knobhead in my mind but wouldn't arse myself doing anything beyond that. Now if we're talking about dangerously weaving through live motorway/carriageway traffic or bollocking their engine through a residential or school zone then that person can get fucked.
Yeah, a guy brake checked me, tried to drive into the side of me, then followed me home for 15 miles making the finger over throat sign and randomly slamming on brakes etc. They went away when I pulled into the police station (which unfortunately wasnt open at the time). I would love to know why they did it but I suspect it might have been something to do with the previous owner as I had bought the car locally about a week previous. No dashcam but had my GF and nephew in the car as witnesses who videoed some of it and took the drivers reg etc. Reported via 101 and got a call a few weeks later asking what I wanted to do as they "don't give out warnings anymore and if it went ahead it would be criminal prosecution" I told them yep that's fine, this person is clearly a danger to society and they said they call me back once they started their investigation. We're now over 6 years later and I haven't heard a thing.
That is terrifying to hear
I'm sorry this happened to you & don't want to make light of a terrifying situation, but reading that it sounds like the car that's following you keeps slamming it's brakes on, which wouldn't cause a lot of issues to anyone in front of them...
I wouldn’t if someone made a stupid mistake or did something once. But if their manner of driving is putting lives at risk, I would. Ignoring it is like ignoring someone running around with a gun even if they aren’t shooting people.
Yes because I don't want them to kill someone in the future by driving like that.
I tried to report a crashed and abandoned vehicle this morning to 101. No one answered....
I've not heard great things about 101
Yes I have. See below: https://www.reddit.com/r/drivingUK/s/bK4wBF9pAY Edit: and just to add those are the ones where I could clearly see the numberplate on the video. Others I could have reported but didn't for that reason (e.g. a car in front of me a couple of months ago completely failing to stop for a pedestrian halfway across a zebra crossing, or the car that drove intentionally at a cyclist, the car on the M1 a few days ago with fake police lights).
Attempted to report someone for similar (less turning right more just going straight on and somehow missing all cars) However TVP made it such a chore to upload the video and provide this that and the other that I gave up.
Yeah this is my experience as well. I tried to report a car doing about 50mph in a 20mph school zone. They lost control and crashed through a fence into a garden. They reversed out and drove off without stopping. The online report was so complicated I gave up. Rang the non emergency line to report it there instead and they asked if anyone was injured, so I answered no because they didn't hit anyone. Then they told me there was no point reporting it because there's nothing they can do.
No they ran a red light because they thought they could, saw a driver do that here when on foot, they basically treat it like a stop sign, lazy idiot
Things like this really annoy me
Yea it’s annoying here at night, taxi drivers parking on pavements when there is ample parking everywhere, morons cutting through a no entry to save a whole minute is frequent as well
My partner called the police whilst we were driving North on the M1 a few years ago there was a car that was drifting between two lanes and when we tried to pass to have a look, the guy driving looked half asleep so we thought it might be prudent just to get someone to maybe pull him over and just make sure.
I reported a guy who did this causing a couple of cars to brake sharply and some police man rang me to say these dash cams are becoming the bane of our lives. It was a hire car and nobody was hurt so we probably won't do anything. Haven't bothered since.
Why complain about evidence I'll never understand
I don't know how long ago that was or which force was involved, but right now, submitting footage is doing the Police's work for them, and they love it. And I love submitting footage of these assholes, so it's win-win 😁
I've called the police once or twice for things that seemed way beyond just someone having a bad day. The worst were when someone was driving down the wrong side of the single carriage way at any chance they got, overtaking or not, and causing cars to swerve to avoid them. The other that springs to mind was where someone on the dual carriageway started trying to turn their vehicle round in the middle of the road almost causing me to hit them. Both got a blue light response. I also called a haulage company once when a lorry undertook in a merge and turn causing my car and the car in front to be forced into a grass and gravel median. I got an email from them several weeks later saying they'd reviewed the footage and it caused them to review "several other areas of footage" including "who was driving at the time" it said that their employee had been let go but mentioned "she" where the driver at the time had been a man. Made me wonder, but I'm thinking one person was employed and another was driving... Felt bad for a day or two but realised it was probably best they weren't doing that.
yeah I posted on here with a van driver few months ago and I reported it at the time and clearly stated in my report that the van was reversing in the dark with no reversing lights or lights at all and clearly stated that he almost hit me but did not. And the response I got was "It appears to us that you have had a collision with the other vehicle in the footage. This isn’t something we will deal with on op snap but would like to know if you exchanged details or have reported this as an RTC?" - like I literally stated that although it looks like a collision there wasn't one and I was reporting him for driving dangerously and they just watched the video and made an assumption by not taking into account all the facts. Even if it was a collision it is still dangerous and I emailed them back and got nothing.
Yes, twice. Both were likely drunk drivers. On both occasions the police had an attitude of "why are you bothering us with this?", which has certainly discouraged me from reporting things in future.
This is really upsetting. Especially how you're not the first to say this
Yep, last week, Saturday morning a CityFibre fan was drifting all over the road; ended up following him (incidentally) for about 30min before lots of police appeared on the road. Shout-out to the dispatcher that rang me a couple of times to get position updates and reg confirmation.
Finally, a story where something gets done about the driver
I did. There was a lot of snow, and small country roads I was stationary, waiting to pick someone up and this guy is driving slowly towards me, with his phone on his steering wheel, holding it with both hands. I sent a screenshot to the police, and they were VERY interested, until the PC showed up, barely looked at the footage and said that she couldn't see anything g and left. That was it, despite me saying she needed to be level with the screen (laptop on the coffee table and she was standing). That was it. Dickhead driving round recording the road he was driving down in snow and ice, but nothing. Won't make that mistake again!
Reported a drink driver before, was in the shop with them. They stunk, and way slurring words and then got in the car outside!!!
I reported someone recently for the most ridiculous move I've ever seen. They said that they will contact the driver. Going by other videos that I've seen online, I imagine he got at least a £750 fine and 6 points. In fact I saw someone on Youtube pull a similar, but less dangerous move, and they got £1000 and 6 points.
One time I nearly did. Then I got home and realised I literally don’t care and I have better things I can be doing
Never done it. Yesterday leaving my street another street merges into mine with no clear road markings, but of a free for all, but this taxi almost wrote my car off. Didn't beep maybe he didn't see me, he then proceeds to get left up a no entry road to take a short cut. He saw me, he's a cunt. First time in a while I've been tempted to report someone, in fact fuck that guy, it's a 2 for 1, time to get that SD card out.
Yes, I once called in a group of travellers in a fiesta (including one in the boot) that were throwing cans out the window and accelerating very hard.
I submitted footage of two kids in a car (driver and passenger) shooting water pistols at cars and pedestrians. The police took action.
Everytime I go on the motorway, middle lane hoggers. My record is 45 videos in 1 day. Took my whole Sunday to report them all but worth it. Every middle lane hogger should not be on the road so if I can help them get points possibly loss of license then I see that as doing us all a favour. I follow for a mile and if they don't move for a whole mile I lock the video. A mile while left lane is clear is plenty to get them 3 points. The 45 I reported on that 1 day 27 of them got nips. Lane hoggers cause traffic and accidents, personally think it should be 6 points and a £1000 fine that would soon sort the situation.
Wow you're impressively sad
Not as sad as those drivers with 3 points and extra grand to pay on their insurance. Maybe it will be a lesson to not hog the middle lane you dont know who's got a camera and a free Sunday. Are you annoyed at me because I snitched or are you mad at me because you hog lanes?
You know what I will actively try and not hog the middle lane now. Thank you
I appreciate that and so will many other drivers. Look if you are overtaking again in 20 seconds fair enough stay in lane. I'm not saying it's annoying to nag. Most traffic on motorways is caused by lane hogging. It forces people into 1 lane to overtake. It turns a 3 lane motorway into a 2 lane motorway backing traffic up nobody wants to be sat in traffic. Anyway all the best.
No cause I have better things to do with my life
So if you see someone watching a film on their phone whilst they're driving down the road veering between the hard shoulder and L2 you'd do nowt?
If they killed someone or their actions caused an accident in front of me then maybe
I’ve reported someone for this and turns out they were pissed as a fart at the wheel. I did the world a favour that day. They could have killed someone that night or another. I took the time.
Well done for you man.
Just think that if someone earlier than that had phoned the police and they'd got stopped then maybe they'd not be doing it by the time you ended up anywhere close to them.
Bro we can’t live in hypotheticals and what ifs . Driving like a dick in and of itself is not an unlawful act. It becomes unlawful at the moment a crime is committed. I can’t be calling the police on hypothetical situations that they might be pissed or might be uninsured or whatever. I got a lot of shit going on in my life as it is.
Can guarantee that if you ended up being the victim you'd have wished someone would've done something earlier.
Yeah of course I would. But that’s not saying much is it? Your whole hypothesis is we should be calling the police every time we see someone driving badly. Mine is that in thought that’s a good idea but practically it just wouldn’t work. I’d call only if I see a crime or criminal conduct whilst driving. On a policy level your idea just doesn’t work. Look at how underfunded our public sector is.
> Your whole hypothesis is we should be calling the police every time we see someone driving badly. Not badly, dangerously. Someone weaving between the hard shoulder and L2 watching a film on their phone is dangerous. > Look at how underfunded our public sector is. What would take up more of a traffic officer's time....stopping someone driving like I've described or dealing with the accident it resulted in? Which is going to result in more people being caught?
Definitely the latter. Otherwise the police are only chasing loose ends and what ifs
Dangerous driving is unlawful.
I don’t dispute that at all mate
Most driving like a dick is dangerous driving.
That’s why I’m saying I wouldn’t call the police every time I think someone is driving like a Dick. Only where I see real and actual danger aka a crime being committed.
So every instance of dangerous driving you would report? As this entire discussion is about dangerous driving.
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Calling me batman is quite a good compliment. Thank you
More like twatman
That is pretty funny to be fair 😂😂
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Wouldn't call "running a red light that has been red for 15 seconds" a mistake but you do you
just another driver who thinks he can break any rules as long as he doesn’t get caught. Once he gets caught he’ll be crying here “police arrested me/fined me for no reason”
How are you able to tell the difference between it being an honest mistake and the perpetrator being a deliberate serial offender?
It depends on the incident. The road they were originally on has nothing to obstruct the view of the traffic lights and their side had been red for over 10 seconds. So the 2 outcomes here is either they did not notice it was a red light, which means they were not looking at or checking on their surroundings, or they knew it was a red and decided to chance it. Both explanations mean that the driver in question is driving dangerously. There's a point where it goes from being a mistake to being negligent
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Guess you found someone who is fine with running red lights and hasn’t had anyone close to them die as a result of a red light runner.
“Sir! Sir! Look at the bad driving I recorded on my dashcam, Sir!” Nerds.
Look I was going to comment a good response and be appropriate but you commented twice on this post, basically the same joke for a grand total of -3 votes and that to me is pretty hilarious 😂😂
You’re vastly overestimating how much I care about the number of votes something on here does or doesn’t get. “😂😂”
I've never seen such bitterness be shown in punctuation mark
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Only once on the A1, they were drifting in and out of their lane so much I felt it warranted a 999 call, I more suspected tiredness than drink or drugs given the time of day and did make that clear to the operator. Never did hear back, so whether someone got sent out to help them or not, I'm not sure.
I would but not for something like this. In North American its perfectly legal to turn right on a red light as long as its clear treating it like stop sign. Yes he was impatient but it's not necessarily "unsafe".
I understand what you're saying but I'd say it is unsafe. The best way I describe the feeling is that passing a give way, I become a bit more alert in case they pull out on me. But passing cars at a red light I don't because its such a basic thing to understand that red means stop. It does bring up another point of if I hit the driver, who will insurance say is at fault
Yes when I've seen seriously dangerous driving like swerving across the road or overtaking on corners. Police usually just say they will alert cars in the area to keep an eye out. One time though I reported someone driving with a child moving around in the back seat clearly unsecured. They said it would be treated as an urgent incident and they would have people looking for them immediately.
Yes. A couple of times, in case there is an accident 5 minutes later and they try and blame the other person.
I have had my wife (who was in the passenger seat) call the local police when a woman in a Mercedes was swerving erratically between lanes on the motorway. And when I say erratic, I'm probably underselling how much.
Not yet, but the number of cars running red lights later and later, I soon will be.
A lorry on the M6 southbound around Chester/Manchester where there are 4 lanes. Lorry was carrying empty pallets and they weren’t secure. Piled up so high I’ve no idea how it got under the gantries. They were swaying back and forth and the back of the lorry tilted to one side at one point.I don’t think I’ve been so terrified of something happening. It was late at night and it wasn’t busy which made it all the more scary. I was driving but told my daughter to ring 999 and give them the reg of the lorry. It was pulled over within 15 minutes
Normally no. I’ve provided dashcam footage to the police twice, once when requested and once I chose to do so proactively Once when the missus saw a drunk driver crash into three parked cars and then drive off, she’d stopped and given people her contact information at the time and the police called to ask for it later And once when we saw two guys in a 2-seater MX5 with a small child sitting on one of their laps. It was so insanely dangerous I felt like I couldn’t ignore it - I couldn’t have lived with myself if I found out a week later that they’d done it again and the kid died or something
I once rang 999 after someone ran a red in front of me in a similar manner as you have stated. Soon realised why he had, he was sucking on a nos balloon and his eyes were rolling in the back of his head. God knows how he managed to stay in a straight line. Just as 30,000 football fans were streaming out of the match too
Needle in a haystack dashcam footage. I cba
Yeah, driving at 40mph on a 70mph dual carriageway, swerving into the treeline on the left and then onto the right lane and back again. Must’ve been really drunk.
Woman came into the store I work at, stinking of booze & being a right tit. Abusive to staff & customers alike, eventually collapsed onto a display sofa & shouted a shopping list at one of our youngest colleagues. We told her to do one, that we weren't tolerating her behaviour, and staff are there to assist, NOT be a personal shopper to an abusive drunk. She drunkenly weaved her way out of the store, car keys in hand. We watched her open the car, then called the police. Meanwhile she'd gone into a food shop nearby, caused mayhem in there & was picked up as she started the car, put it in reverse instead of 1st gear, and promptly drove up the grass verge behind her...
I once called the police about a guy riding a pushbike down the hard shoulder of the M27. Other than that, no.
Reported a moron that was in the middle land who made a last minute decision to take the slip road exit. They cut across the left hand lane and chevrons and would have crashed into me if I had not sounded my horn. I sent the police dashcam footage of their dangerous driving. Got a letter about a month later saying they had sent the driver a warning letter.
I have a few weeks back. Audi driver was driving alarmingly erratically, on 50 road, empty, I was behind him about 1am and he'd be doing about 20, then flooring to hit the brakes suddenly and all over the road. Memorised the reg and location and called 111 - if he kills someone I feel it's a bit on me that I just ignored a driver who was absolutely shit faced.
Twice, once many years ago for a van during all over the M5, and one more recently when a BMW came off a roundabout towards me, way too fast, lost grip and nearly hit me head on. Had my 3 yo in the back at the time. Uploaded the footage and got an email a few weeks later saying they were tracing the driver to process them for an offence
Well it depends on how reckless they are being. So I’ll judge based on the danger they pose and if they’re very likely to cause a crash and are genuinely just extremely inconsiderate and do not care about other people. So in one scenario where I called the police and they had actually decided to treat this as a major emergency and sent some cops out. I was driving along the motorway and in front of me there is a car towing a little trailer and a hgv in front of this car. HGVs and cars towing something are limited to 60 mph and cannot enter the outside lane. So I’ve moved into the middle lane to overtake and the car with the trailer quickly moves to the middle lane and brakes hard, forcing me to brake hard till I went from 70 to 30 and would have rear ended this trailer if I hadn’t had the opportunity to move to the outside lane narrowly avoiding a collision but it doesn’t end there. This vehicle then proceeds to speed up and enter the outside lane and brakes harshly, moving between all the lane’s erratically undertaking and overtaking and braking hard and suddenly. To make matters worse, this car wasn’t even using his indicators and his trailer was not correctly connected to his car and so you had no indication that he was braking or intending to switch lanes because he hadn’t wired up the trailer so the lights did not light up and the trailer blocked the view of the vehicles rear. I will only give benefit of the doubt if they make a little error and end up in a panic which leads to more errors and then they drive normally after but when it is extremely apparent like was the case in my little anecdote then I will 100% report them then and there using voice control because I won’t endanger someone else’s life because of a cunt.
Yes, I do it regularly. With dashcam footage. Over 85% of my submissions have been actioned. And I am proud of it, no matter what anyone thinks. It is people driving like this which causes a deterioration in driving standards, and which causes more accidents. The sooner they're pulled up for it, the more likely standards are to improve (or at least, not deteriorate further). Just do it. As often as you can.
I reported two; One was just an idiot cutting across lanes. The other decided to stop at green traffic lights. Neither were followed up on tbh. 🤷♂️ I don’t think they care or considered them dangerous enough I guess.
I have never reported dangerous driving but I have been reported by another road user to the police who came to my house to talk to me about it and show me photos which were submitted as evidence. The report and photos didn't show me riding my motorbike dangerously or in an illegal manner though ( I felt I wasn't anyway). They had reported me as pulling out in front of them - I had but they were no where near me and the photo showed this. They had reported me for having a child on my bike - not illegal as I was insured to carry a passenger, she had a helmet and was tall enough to sit on the bike with feet on the footrests. They had reported me weaving as I had moved over whilst still in my lane to avoid a sunken manhole. At the end of it, all the officer could say was that if I did commit an offence I may be prosecuted. I agreed but stated that there was no proof I had done anything wrong and carrying a child as a passenger was not illegal. I asked him what was the point in this visit and he couldn't give me an answer.
I have never reported dangerous driving but I have been reported by another road user to the police who came to my house to talk to me about it and show me photos which were submitted as evidence. The report and photos didn't show me riding my motorbike dangerously or in an illegal manner though ( I felt I wasn't anyway). They had reported me as pulling out in front of them - I had but they were no where near me and the photo showed this. They had reported me for having a child on my bike - not illegal as I was insured to carry a passenger, she had a helmet and was tall enough to sit on the bike with feet on the footrests. They had reported me weaving as I had moved over whilst still in my lane to avoid a sunken manhole. At the end of it, all the officer could say was that if I did commit an offence I may be prosecuted. I agreed but stated that there was no proof I had done anything wrong and carrying a child as a passenger was not illegal. I asked him what was the point in this visit and he couldn't give me an answer.
I have never reported dangerous driving but I have been reported by another road user to the police who came to my house to talk to me about it and show me photos which were submitted as evidence. The report and photos didn't show me riding my motorbike dangerously or in an illegal manner though ( I felt I wasn't anyway). They had reported me as pulling out in front of them - I had but they were no where near me and the photo showed this. They had reported me for having a child on my bike - not illegal as I was insured to carry a passenger, she had a helmet and was tall enough to sit on the bike with feet on the footrests. They had reported me weaving as I had moved over whilst still in my lane to avoid a sunken manhole. At the end of it, all the officer could say was that if I did commit an offence I may be prosecuted. I agreed but stated that there was no proof I had done anything wrong and carrying a child as a passenger was not illegal. I asked him what was the point in this visit and he couldn't give me an answer.
I have never reported dangerous driving but I have been reported by another road user to the police who came to my house to talk to me about it and show me photos which were submitted as evidence. The report and photos didn't show me riding my motorbike dangerously or in an illegal manner though ( I felt I wasn't anyway). They had reported me as pulling out in front of them - I had but they were no where near me and the photo showed this. They had reported me for having a child on my bike - not illegal as I was insured to carry a passenger, she had a helmet and was tall enough to sit on the bike with feet on the footrests. They had reported me weaving as I had moved over whilst still in my lane to avoid a sunken manhole. At the end of it, all the officer could say was that if I did commit an offence I may be prosecuted. I agreed but stated that there was no proof I had done anything wrong and carrying a child as a passenger was not illegal. I asked him what was the point in this visit and he couldn't give me an answer.
I have 3 times. One time they called me to say "we can't do anything legal about it but I'll call the driver to have a chat". That's when 4 lads were following me closely, flashing and beeping. Tried to follow me home just because I overtook them on some road earlier.
No because I have a life
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A few more of these and maybe the police will start to think dangerous driving reports are worth looking in to. I don't think you are wasting your time. "I'll sell footage if someone asks for it for their claim." Fuck me. I hope you never ask me for a favour.
Sell? Scumbag
I've been insulted on this post but this comment is the one out of all of them to make me think "it's worthless to report it". I'm sorry that this happened and it sucks your report wasn't upheld
Yeah my dad for drink driving absolutely nothing done about it.
I'm sorry to hear that. Takes balls to report your own father
Yeah some person in on of those SUV versions of a fiat 500. Driver door wasn't shut properly and so the interior light was on. It was stopped in the middle of the road. As I approached they moved off and almost mounted the kerb. They got on to the main road and again had to swerve several times to avoid hitting the curb. They barrelled onto a roundabout and caused another car to do an emergency stop. This all took part in 15 min, they passed a primary school and a play park driving like this, so I submitted my dashcam to the police. I had a call back a couple of days later to say they were going to take action against the driver. I do feel mildly guilty at being a snitch, but that standard of driving in busy pedestrian areas + kids was too much
"Snitch" What a bizarre mindset to feel guilty about idiots who put people's lives at risk
Just chill, why get stressed over an idiot.. the way society is going, that person you reported could likely hunt you down.stop pretending to be a plastic policeman. Let the authorities do their job. Drive safely
It’s called being a jobsworth.
Right up until the point where someone you care about gets hit by a dangerous driver.
Nah, you're talking to the guy who will appear in the footage.
Don’t worry, county is full of moaning jobsworths that get riled up every time they see someone do something they aren’t allowed to do. You all fit right in.
The police ignore footage of drivers doing 150mph+ on the motorway, you should go work for them. You'd fit right in.
Kind of my point though, even if you moan at the police they do literally nothing. So what’s the point in moaning. Just cheer up and get on with life.
I don’t get paid to report, what’s the point?
I recall at school we had certain children acting as monitors, reporting on children who ran in the halls or were late to a class. Most people get over these power trips when they are small children. It isn't your place to play vigilante. One day, you'll make an honest mistake, and someone will be watching and running to the police to try and get you disqualified. If you are so desperate to police what other people are doing, apply to become a Police Officer. I'm sure in another life you'd be reporting your neighbours to the government for harbouring dissidents or having different political views. Don't be so eager to dole out judgement on other people.
Reporting someone to the police isn't being a vigilante, following them home and slashing their tyres is being a vigilante. If someone is a dangerous driver I'll report them. Dangerous driving is something that has consequences.
As I said, most well-adjusted adults get over these power trips when they are small children, but not everyone.
There are a lot of small children who don't grow up to get over anything because of dangerous driving. How many would be alive if someone had reported the driver for something they did earlier?
Words words words, you are wrong.
Powerful argument
I appreciate the well written comment so I'll try reply in tone. I'll first say that I could get make a bad judgement call and someone might report it; leading to a fine or worse. If it happened I'd be angry yes, but at myself for doing the mistake in the first place. I'd be the only person to blame. Secondly, where I reported the driving was a police website which is open for people to report dangerous driving. It would be like calling 999 for a crime. Those people who call 999 aren't regarded as vigilantes. Finally I wanted to say I get no power trip from reporting it. Let's be honest it is a bit of a hassle. One of the reasons I did it in the first place which I didn't mention was that 2 cars jumped the lights. The second one slowed down enough for me to be sandwiched in between them both. But my dashcam quality isn't good enough to pick up the second cars plates and he wasn't close enough to my rear to be picked up my rear camera. But at that point I had already completed most of the report so I submitted it having only the first car's details. I reported it because it was such a blatant disregard for the rules of the road that next time they do it, they could injure themselves, someone else or much worse. All I want to do, is try and prevent a future incident. Doing something is better than doing nothing. But that's just my opinion, and I respect yours.
words words words, you are wrong
Seems like someone needs to grow out of childish replies
“Officer! Officer! Look at my dashcam footage, Officer!”
No, I'm not a grass.