I'mma be honest, I find it a little hard to believe the cammer here couldn't have stopped in time. Could just be an artifact of the wide-angle dashcam, but it looks like they barely tried to brake at all, and might even be accelerating down the shoulder. Not as big an idiot as the fuckwit cutting in front of a moving vehicle...especially give the lane ends soon, but still doesn't look like good defensive driving.
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I could have stopped in time, though I was initially assuming he was just changing lanes. I slowed down in anticipation of him changing lanes and just continuing to drive - as you normally expect people to do on a road - not cosplay as a "road closed" sign for no apparent reason. When it was clear he was actually dead stopped I was like yeah, nah, hooroo and went around as that lane actually goes around the corner and down the hill a ways (you can see a van in the distance who's still on it).
We were already mostly past him when he decided to accelerate in to the side of us. I'm guessing he had a brain snap and was like HOW DARE THEY. His second complaint was that we were going too slow that's why he went around, which I assume translated in his mind as "losing" the race home if we went past him again.
There's one benefit to having multiple vehicles and that is that the joy of sharing a dashcam video outweighs the inconvenience caused by having to send one of the spare cars off to the panel beaters for a week. I live to give to you guys.
I love that Middle Rd merging part. /s
Hope old mate wasn't too much of a wanker for you to deal with. Should be an easy insurance win either way.
Did the guy ever tell you why he randomly stopped after merging into a new lane? Pretty clear from the video that you weren't "overtaking on the shoulder", but rather avoiding a collision caused by someone behaving erratically.
Not really, I assume he was just playing citizen cop and thought that if he'd put the effort in to punch it up the right hand lane we weren't allowed to continue past when traffic didn't play out in his favour.
Waiting until we were almost past and then deliberately giving us a little nudge was certainly an interesting thought process. Maybe he thought we needed a new rear quarter panel and wanted to buy us one?