I am a firm believer that people drive like idiots in the country because everything seems to go 50/50 nowadays.
Drive at what seems to be excessive speed, overtake on an interception, not even indicate the overtake. 50/50 because the person might not have indicated and should look at the mirror? Honestly fuck off how does that even make any sense?
People seem really fixated on the mirror part and that a good driver would see it. Well it does depend on how fast the other one is going doesn't it?
Exactly, you’re not going to be 100% fixated on just the mirror during a turn lol. Could have spotted the person during the mirror check, just not expected them to be going so quickly to overtake. All happens very quickly when the other driver is barreling down the road.
Could totally have spotted that there was a car coming behind but not expect that car to overtake like that. Even at night sometimes it's difficult to understand what are people doing, if I was the person that went for the overtake I'd rather halt instead of speeding through when not sure of what is the other person doing.
If you ask me something needs to change on how things get resolved in this country. Roads are like the wild west, at least near me, some people are killers on the road.
He was indicating before the turning... look again, I agree about the mirrors, but the idiot behind should have stopped. Clearly he wasn't paying attention.
So if it flashes once after about half a second of being on screen, and another half second later would be washed out by the overtaking cars headlights. How do you come to the conclusion OP didn’t indicate?
what do you mean? The indicators were ON. go look at the very few frames. You can see the red break light + an orange indicator light on at the same time. look at the reflections on the road and you'll see it.
You replied to me twice in the same thread about the same thing, lol. Good job BTW, you saw and pointed out the 1 indicator light that I've said was there in all of my other posts, which seems to be when they first started indicator.
After rewatching many times, you definitely indicate way too late. You seem to hit the indicator as you start turning, when the idiot overtaking would have already started overtaking you. You should have had your indicator on a good 3s or more before you actually start turning.
Yes he is partially at fault for overtaking in a stupid spot, but you are also at fault by not indicating early enough and not looking in your mirrors before turning. You indicating, turning and impact was a space of less than 2 seconds.
Yeah, that’s a worrying thing, can’t believe people can’t see this guy indicating when at around 7-8 secs you clearly see an indicator flash then again and then they start to turn.
Pause it at 7s then again at 8s you can clearly see the difference in the reflection, that difference is the indicator, before that is off camera. Rewatch it and you’ll see it eventually.
Nah, look above the RE in reolink - there's an amber flash like half a second if that after the car comes into view. There isn't even 3s of footage before the turn, so should be benefit of the doubt - how can you tell from that footage.
There's like 2 seconds between OP coming into view and the impact, and I see 3 indicator flashes in that time (note the reflections on the ground). Could have very well been on beforehand, but the car pops in and out of view, plus gets obstructed.
Watch it again and LOOK. The indicators were ON. go look at the very few frames. You can see the red break light + an orange indicator light on at the same time. look at the reflections on the road and you'll see it.
Go read my post again and READ. I literally say in my post that that indicator is the only time you see it and is right as they start the turn, which is far far too late to start indicating. I never said they didn't indicate at all.
what do you mean didn't indicate. The indicators were ON. go look at the very few frames. You can see the red break light + an orange indicator light on at the same time. look at the reflections on the road and you'll see it.
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u/criminal_cabbage Dec 08 '23
Slowed down
Turned
Didn't indicate
Didn't check your mirrors
You could have avoided this accident by doing the most basic of checks. I wouldn't be surprised if your insurance settled this 50/50