Dash cam

[peds]

What's the best dashcam about at the moment chaps? I need two. 

[PeteB]

They can be a good thing to defend yourself in an incident or prosecute yourself or others in a misdemeanor!  Out of a class of 24 miscreants such as myself for driving up the pavement, 19 had been dobbed in to the 50 by dash cam footage or GoPro headcams!

[AHPP]

A friend has just been apportioned 50% of the blame for a collision that happened while she was stationary. Pulled over on a country lane and a tool hire truck scraped down the side of her. Other driver said it was her. She said it was him. A dashcam would have saved the five years of being bent up by the insurers that she'll now endure.

Edited November 10 by AHPP

[peds]

Oh I know, they are a no-brainer these days, every vehicle should have one.

 

I say that, but I've been saying it for a few years now and my two private vehicles still don't have one, and I'm asking this evening specifically for our mountain rescue vans, but I guess I could just get 4 at the same time and fix my terminal no-brainering.

 

What do people have? Would Nextbase do?

[peds]

22 minutes ago, PeteB said:

They can be a good thing to defend yourself in an incident or prosecute yourself or others in a misdemeanor!  Out of a class of 24 miscreants such as myself for driving up the pavement, 19 had been dobbed in to the 50 by dash cam footage or GoPro headcams!

 

They are an absolute godsend, except when used to incriminate normally law-abiding citizens such as yourself who just suffer from a temporary lapse in judgement. Sometimes, it just isn't fair!

[openspaceman]

25 minutes ago, AHPP said:

A friend has just been apportioned 50% of the blame for a collision that happened while she was stationary. Pulled over on a country lane and a tool hire truck scraped down the side of her. Other driver said it was her. She said it was him. A dashcam would have saved the five years of being bent up by the insurers that she'll now endure.

Similar recently happened to my wife, I have fitted a basic nexrbase after the horse has bolted.

 

She was driving along a residential road, a transit van was reversing, she indicated and started passing when it swung right into her. A plumber looking for a house had overshot the driveway, reversed and turned in without checking rear view or indication.

 

50:50 decision by insurance companies meant a £1300 write off payout for her followed by  90% increase in premium for both our cars despite protected no claims bonus. Kicker is transit drive claiming several thousand quid damages to his power steering via a no win no fee lawyer despite only a marked bumper.

Edited November 10 by openspaceman

[openspaceman]

30 minutes ago, PeteB said:

such as myself for driving up the pavement

What was the actual charge and why were you on the pavement, many people on my street park on the pavement/foot way/sidewalk so drive on it to get there.

[AHPP]

7 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Similar recently happened to my wife, I have fitted a basic nexrbase after the horse has bolted.

 

She was driving along a residential road, a transit van was reversing, she indicated and started passing when it swung right into her. A plumber looking for a house had overshot the driveway, reversed and turned in without checking rear view or indication.

 

50:50 decision by insurance companies meant a £1300 write off payout for her followed by  90% increase in premium for both our cars despite protected no claims bonus. Kicker is transit drive claiming several thousand quid damages to his power steering via a no win no fee lawyer despite only a marked bumper.

 

Wankers. State sponsored wankers no less. 

[Doug Tait]

8 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

50:50 decision by insurance companies

 

Don't get this at all, I'd be aggrieved.

Mirror, signal, manoeuvre.

To my mind if you pull across a lane into a moving vehicle because you've signal, manoeuvred and have no idea what's around your vehicle then you're at fault.

[PeteB]

32 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

What was the actual charge and why were you on the pavement, many people on my street park on the pavement/foot way/sidewalk so drive on it to get there.

Bin day on a bit of road with cars parked at the pavement on the offside, couple of gaps but a chicane at either end. The bin lorry heading my way, but wouldn't pull in. I noticed that he couldn't pass me and cars stuck in the chicane behind - nowhere for anyone to go so went up the pavement on my passenger side, took 6 seconds to pass bin lorry, but a pedestrian appeared out of a drive. BOOOM! Oncoming car had dashcam. Guilty of dangerously and carelessly propelling an engine driven device along a pavement.