Absolutely Livid!!

Took the new MG5 out today for it's first leg stretch and guess what?
Some T**t in an Audi A3 decided I wasn't going quick enough for him at 55mph on a national speed limit and blasted past me. In doing so he threw up a pile of debris and stones from the middle of the road.
One of these stones smacked my windscreen and now I have a large chip in the glass.
He was gunning it big time and I never got his reg plate.
I'm fuming to say the least.

Put a dash camera on your shopping list as it's very useful on these occasions.
Is the chip of a size that can be repaired or do you think it's a windscreen replacement job?

Alb said:

Put a dash camera on your shopping list as it's very useful on these occasions.
Is the chip of a size that can be repaired or do you think it's a windscreen replacement job?

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It's less than 10mm so I think it's repairable. Auto windscreens are coming out to repair it.

Dashcam it is!!

Had an audi etron blast past me in a 30 today! Was glad I had on the weekend brought a cheapo dashcam for exactly these occasions
,luckily i susstained no damage But I understand your pain!

I got a dashcam from RobertDyas on Saturday, cost me a whole £17 (on sale!) And the peace of mind is fantastic

Alb said:

Put a dash camera on your shopping list as it's very useful on these occasions.
Is the chip of a size that can be repaired or do you think it's a windscreen replacement job?

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How would a dash cam help?

You wouldn't be able to claim against a driver for throwing up a stone and unless it was truly dangerous driving, the police won't be interested.

If there was any element of unlawful driving involved it would be your only independent evidence. I've not come across anyone even attempting to use this for a claim but I do know of a similar case where the errant driver was spoken to by police on the basis of camera evidence.

I will never fit a dash cam to one of my cars. There's enough surveillance out there already, we don't need people reporting each other for minor indiscretions.
Mind you, it's a car funded by the CCP, so perhaps it's only fitting to become a state informant when you buy one...

Steve H said:

I will never fit a dash cam to one of my cars. There's enough surveillance out there already, we don't need people reporting each other for minor indiscretions.
Mind you, it's a car funded by the CCP, so perhaps it's only fitting to become a state informant when you buy one...

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You do you - but it's not really for dobbing people in (though I absolutely would if they were doing something dangerous like running red lights or road rage and ESPECIALLY drunk drivers).

It's an independent witness if you get into an accident and stops it being their word against yours.

I used to drive 50k miles a year. I thin since 2006, when I got my first company car, I'll have done over half a million miles in various cars and jobs.

Not once have I ever felt a dash cam would have been useful.

Almost every dash cam incident I see uploaded to the 'net could have been avoided by driving defensively, rather than asserting your 'rights' and plugging on because it's all on camera.

I think because I first learned to ride motorbikes, I quickly came to the conclusion it was better to be alive than to be right.

And yet my brother had a crash a few years back where the other driver claimed he was part over the centre line. The dash cam proved she was the one at fault after drifting over at the last second and saved him being on the hook.
Just because you've never needed it doesn't mean you won't one day. Every plane has a black box that they hope they never need to open.

As I say, you do you, but my points stand

admiralross2400 said:

Just because you've never needed it doesn't mean you won't one day. Every plane has a black box that they hope they never need to open.

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This, precisely.

I have one purely because my car was delivered in Dec and someone asked would I like one for Christmas. Caught a few drivers being knobs on it, and if I'd had one a few years back I'd have had some YouTube footage of an artic doing 180 degree turn right in front of me on the M6. Other than that, I hope I never need it... just like the insurances I pay for each year.

Not an example of how dashcam footage helped to establish who was at fault for an insurance claim but rather how it helped the police to take action against one rather silly taxi driver! This occurred to my wife in her car, less than 500 yards from our home.

At the time, there were quite extended and extensive roadworks taking place throughout our village and the particular road had one carriageway completely closed so all traffic was on the one side of quite a narrow, village road with access controlled by traffic lights My wife was driving in this section (the light for her was green) when a taxi, exiting a school entrance which was within the stretch covered by the lights, drove straight towards my wife's car, so was approaching her literally bonnet to bonnet. My wife stopped, as did the taxi driver, who proceed to "suggest" she should reverse because he had "right of way" since she was on his side of the road! When she did not do so, he then mounted the footpath and drove along it until he was past her car and then returned to the road. (Thankfully, although it was fairly early in the morning and very close to two schools there were no pedestrians on that stretch of footpath.)

I don't know exactly what action the police took against the taxi driver when I uploaded the footage to them but they did advise that he would be, at the very least, "warned".

Both our cars have dashcams fitted and I would never consider not having one installed in any car I or my wife owned.

My wife has had two insurance claims backed up by dashcam. In the first instance she was driving along the road when the car in front stopped with no warning and reversed into her (he was attempting to reverse into a parking space but didn't indicate or check behind before reversing). The other driver tried to claim it was my wife's fault and even took it to court, luckily the dashcam footage proved he was at fault so my wife got the car fixed with no effect on her NCB and he had to pay all the court costs.

In the 2nd incident my wife was stopped in roadworks when a car coming the other direction scraped all along the side of her car. The other driver tried to claim knock for knock saying she was too far over but his insurance didn't even contest it when they received the dashcam footage.

We've both now got dashcams.

Whatever your feelings or opinions, dashcams are cheap and can be effective, you don't buy insurance because you think you will need it, you buy it in case you need it.

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It's an independent witness if you get into an accident and stops it being their word against yours.

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I had to share responsibility for someone bashing into me coming off of a roundabout.

• Firstly it would prove where I was on the road.
• Prove I stopped and they didn't
• It would have picked up them driving the car like it was stolen and nearly crashing into someone at the next junction.
• It might have shown the person claiming to be driving wasn't the person. It looked like a teenage boy to me and it was claimed the driver was a Sergeant in the US Air Force who happened to be a lady

People nowadays will lie about who was at fault in any claim. I had a guy run into my o/s /r quarter panel on my MG ZS in his big Merc and he was very apologetic, he offered to pay to fix it etc but I went with my insurance. Next thing he claims I changed lane on the roundabout! My dash cam saved me. So I would recommend everyone if they can afford it to get one.
I would have posted the clip but cant seem to find away to do it.