Every work day I cover 25 miles to work and then 25 back home. Often encountering drivers that make me wish for yearly or bi-annual behind the wheel testing. After a few close calls (and friends telling me I must be making some of this up) I decided to purchase an inexpensive dash camera that turns on and off with the ignition. These posts are pieces of the near daily antics encountered driving in the Antelope Valley and beyond.
This person just could not drive a straight line. During his right hand turn and left hand turn he ends up in wrong lane a bit. He would go from side to side of the lane the whole time I was behind him.
Hope he got some needed sleep or caffeine soon after this.
Very short clip, bit hard to see but a car exiting the freeway (directly after the box truck on left side) swung all the way into westbound traffic while heading east.
The AV has many surface streets posted with 60 MPH limits. This lady came out of nowhere behind me (as in the next nearest vehicle was about a half mile back) slamming on brakes just before the pick up went by. As you can see she decided to pass me during double yellows while I was doing a little over 60.
This is not uncommon behavior along this stretch of road.
In the following video the driver chose to ignore the red light and just roll on through. I was only doing 45 MPH (posted for the area) and had to apply brakes, which I admit I purposely delayed a second. The passenger looked over his shoulder at me and shot a look that I was in the wrong for honking at them (rare for me BTW). The driver eventually sped up and was exceeding the posted speed limit which is so normal I will not bother posting video of speeders unless it is grossly over the limit. Any bets how long it will be until I have that chance?
I forgot to mention that the driver upon freaking out swerved into the opposing lane!
I purchased a dash camera recently after too many close calls due to lousy drivers. The camera is inexpensive and turns on when I start the vehicle, and shuts off when the vehicle turns off. I need a larger chip to record HD, which will be obtained soon.
In this first posting since I started using the camera I was driving along when I saw two cars driven by younger drivers swerving through traffic behind me. This section is posted as 55 MPH. Approaching the light I saw it turn yellow and was slowing as the first car went through it turned red. The guy in the cross traffic left turn wisely stayed in place as the next young driver shot through the red light.
