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Mon 19 Aug 2013 02:16
All - Crash for cash - Brennon
I recently read that the crash for cash fraudsters have come up,with new scam, flash and crash. Unsuspecting drivers are targeted by by crooked drivers flashing them at junctions, car park or petrol station exits, to proceed only to then speed up and crash into them. Without an independent witness, that actually saw the crook flash their lights, it becomes the standard he said, she said scenario.

Given that so many cars are now having front and rear parking cameras fitted as either standard or an option, isn't it about time these became duel purpose? Why can't these expensive bits of technology also become driving cameras, running on a continuous loop and protecting drivers from these crooks, as well as being a very valuable tool to those investigating 'genuine' accidents and incidents?
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Mon 19 Aug 2013 08:07
All - Crash for cash - alastairq

In the circumstances you quote above, i don't see how camera 'evidence' is going ot help anyway?

The so-called fraudsters are simply [it appears] taking advantage of the majority of drivers' ignorance of the Highway Code.

[I refer to the 'meaning' of a flash of the headlights, as per the Highway Code?]

Of course, if everybody would prefer to govern conduct on the Public Highway according to Urban Myth [so-called 'reality'.....which is, in effect , a purely 'personal' state, reflecting one's own perceptions, and an assumption everyone else shares them?]...essentially, making up the rules as they go along.....then camera evidence is useful [as has been discovered in Russia?]

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Mon 19 Aug 2013 12:42
All - Crash for cash - Cris_on_the_gas

Amazing how many driverstry to blame other road users for their own shortcomings.

If we all kept a safe distance behind other vehicles then we would be able to stop safely if the vehicle braked suddenly, Advice that is given in the Highway Code.

Same for headlamp flash , this only has one meaning according to HC.

Also Indicator means only one thing. The bulb is working !

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Mon 19 Aug 2013 19:23
All - Crash for cash - Andrew-T

Also Indicator means only one thing. The bulb is working !

I take your point. But your progress must be very slow if you use this interpretation all the time?

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Mon 19 Aug 2013 21:10
All - Crash for cash - alastairq

I take your point. But your progress must be very slow if you use this interpretation all the time?

On the contrary.

Plus, my progress is less risky

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Mon 19 Aug 2013 21:16
All - Crash for cash - thunderbird

How many times have you seen a car flash and if you had pulled out been T boned simply because the driver was not fashing for you to pull out but was flashing to their mate.

How many times have you nearly been T boned by a driver who had not switched their indicator off.

Basically the only way to ensure that you don't get hit in the above situations is to assume all other road users are idiots and its true that most probably are.

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Tue 20 Aug 2013 00:07
All - Crash for cash - focussed

The remedy for all this is to stop using the "Myway Code" and to use the "Highway Code" instead.

A headlamp flash in the UK means "Hallo I'm here" - in other words it's a visual toot on the horn.

Nothing more.

It doesn't mean I give way to you and never has.

Drive on the continent and start headlamp flashing to give way and you will certainly get into bother - over here it means "I'm coming through - get out of the way"

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Tue 20 Aug 2013 00:39
All - Crash for cash - Andrew-T

... the only way to ensure that you don't get hit in the above situations is to assume all other road users are idiots and its true that most probably are.

Don't be daft, T'bird. There is some poor driving, but it's arrogant to suggest that you may be the only non-idiot out there.

Every morning I walk past a crossroads near here on the A56, with normal stop-lines, and watch drivers making up the rules to suit themselves, flashing people to pull out without priority. So far nothing serious has happened, but it can't be long.

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