Typical Yaris Driver
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The thing that the Yaris driver did point out and a lot of you seem to be missing is that when he got over the crest and saw 2 cars side by side his initial (but clearly incorrect) assumption was that the BMW was going in the same direction as him. It was only moments later when he realised that the beemer was actually coming towards him performing an overtake that he hit his brakes, not saying he is right by any stretch but that does explain his slow reaction time...
I have to agree slamming on like that and locking the wheels was a stupid move that lost him control of the car and caused the roll, if he had slowed his car in a more controlled manor he would either have avoided the accident completely or had the side of his car scraped by the BMW as it pulled back in. The former would have made this a scary moment but with no damage.. The latter would have gone down as the BMW drivers fault and backed up by video evidence and he would have been paid out for his Yaris on the BM drivers insurace
I have to agree slamming on like that and locking the wheels was a stupid move that lost him control of the car and caused the roll, if he had slowed his car in a more controlled manor he would either have avoided the accident completely or had the side of his car scraped by the BMW as it pulled back in. The former would have made this a scary moment but with no damage.. The latter would have gone down as the BMW drivers fault and backed up by video evidence and he would have been paid out for his Yaris on the BM drivers insurace
20 seconds in to video he's still behind car he's over takingTitanTim said:
21 seconds in to video he's still completely on the wrong side of the road
22 second in to video his rear quarter is still over the line and 20 feet away. I think he had to brake very hard to miss a head on collision.
Zeld4 said:20 seconds in to video he's still behind car he's over takingTitanTim said:
21 seconds in to video he's still completely on the wrong side of the road
22 second in to video his rear quarter is still over the line and 20 feet away. I think he had to brake very hard to miss a head on collision.
Hmmmmm maybe from the stills then he had to brake as hard as he did to avoid a head on, it just looked to me when looking at the video running at normal speed that although he braked hard the BMW would still have managed to pull in OK, so in fact the Yaris owner is a hero as he managed to avoid wiping out the BMW driver
Tim.
TitanTim said:Zeld4 said:
Hmmmmm maybe from the stills then he had to brake as hard as he did to avoid a head on, it just looked to me when looking at the video running at normal speed that although he braked hard the BMW would still have managed to pull in OK, so in fact the Yaris owner is a hero as he managed to avoid wiping out the BMW driver
Tim.
Was behind an old codger in a Yaris today doing 35 in a 50 zone. Jeez, I was wishing he'd drive into a wall & so were the 20 or so cars behind me I bet.
At 0:12 there's no sign of a car in the same lane before the crest. At just after the 18s index there's a car in the same lane at the same sort of distance as the crest at 0:12s. That car has to be on-comming or traveling slowly, why in gods name did he wait until 20s, about 20.5s, to brake?TitanTim said:Hmmmmm maybe from the stills then he had to brake as hard as he did to avoid a head on, it just looked to me when looking at the video running at normal speed that although he braked hard the BMW would still have managed to pull in OK, so in fact the Yaris owner is a hero as he managed to avoid wiping out the BMW driver
How do you know when he started to brake? Can you see his breaking foot? He may have had a gentle dab of the break at first as everybody here seems to suggest. Him screaming and skidding does not signal the start of his braking.techathy said:At 0:12 there's no sign of a car in the same lane before the crest. At just after the 18s index there's a car in the same lane at the same sort of distance as the crest at 0:12s. That car has to be on-comming or traveling slowly, why in gods name did he wait until 20s, about 20.5s, to brake?TitanTim said:Hmmmmm maybe from the stills then he had to brake as hard as he did to avoid a head on, it just looked to me when looking at the video running at normal speed that although he braked hard the BMW would still have managed to pull in OK, so in fact the Yaris owner is a hero as he managed to avoid wiping out the BMW driver
