Driving Fail August | Not a good decision!

2:40 interested in the reason for the flash.

7:10 can't believe the kid's parents/sister/whoever those adults are didn't seem to react in any way to their child almost committing suicide

I went on holiday from Hastings, East Sussex to Darlington, its a 5 hour journey which is the longest I have ever driven in a single journey. I made a couple of mistakes on the way home, I was meant to be in the left lane for the A1M but ended up on the M11, there were 2 lorries (one over taking the other) so I couldn't move across safely, instead I just carried on and jumped off at the next junction on the M11, the satnav guided me back, simple, no hassle, no fuss, no dangerous driving, yes it added 15 minutes to the journey but who cares we made it home safe. The other mistake I made was on the M25 when merging at junction 23, I was in the wrong lane, luckily at 11pm the roads were fairly quiet and I was able to correct without causing concern to other vehicles. I always say its better to be late home than drive dangerously and not get home. Drive safe everyone and thanks for the video as always!

7:02 - Wow. Your learner did well not to swerve. That could've caused a terrible accident. Usually mums make their kids walk on the inside of them, but this mum doesn't bat an eyelid when the kid steps off the pavement!

I think the " I must overtake the learner " mentality is because the reality is the learner is often the only one sticking to the speed limit and others want to drive faster . That red car made me laugh , I won't write what I thought of him .

The best "late exit" from a motorway I've ever seen ended with the car sat on top of the ARMCO where the two lanes divided. Very satisfying!

I'm sticking up for the lorry driver in that clip . We will never know exactly how it went down but in most instances the lorry pulls out to overtake a slow moving or badly merging car, the car speeds up to match the lorry speed and the lorry hits its limiter or an incline. He doesn't want to block the overtaking lane but doesn't really want to drop in behind the ignorant doylem in the car again and mistakes are made.

9:09 how does this jaguar follow so closely litterally behind a van with a roll of carpet like about to fall out right out... some people cant think straight loading a van like this, others cant folling a van loaded like this in that way. Ash you should have mentioned this lol, for me it was surprising this wasnt the clip when I first saw this. Doesnt matter anyway, maybe you left it in as a bonus for us to discover ourselves haha! keep up the great work improving road safety!

I love how supportive and patient you are with your learner driver. My instructor was 90% of the time absent and on his phone. I wish all the drivers are like you. Much love from Serbia

Thanks putting all these together! Been driving 20 years and I watch these to keep myself fresh and also give myself a bit of a chuckle at the same time.

7:01 My absolute worst fear. Parents; keep an eye on your kids near roads!

I'm guessing your lorry driver overtook the white car, and then the white car realized they had been overtaken and crowded on throttle to get back in front.

I was taught to never overtake on an intersection. As for highways, don't attempt an overtake in the last half a mile before your supposed exit. If already overtaking, finish or abandon it to prepare for merging out onto the exit ramp. It's the bad planning that causes people to miss their exit and some erratically try to fix it with dangerous manoeuvres, there is no shame in admitting your own mistakes and fix them safely, even if that means taking the next exit.

Clip 14 I think the white car sped up because they can't be overtaken by a lorry.

I go into hyper surveillance mode when I get by a motorway exit lane as the antics of those desperate to get off or back on are somewhere between madness and suicidal

Why did you flash the mercedes? Just trying to tell them off for inconveniencing you? They were concerned that if you came infront they wouldn't have space to safely get left. I can't really see what they did wrong. And flashing them seems to go against what you usually teach.

I don't even live in Europe continent but given the common stereotypes that I hear from you guys I would guess BMW and Audi in that accident

Been driving the best part of a decade, but still looking to learn and openly admit I still make mistakes. Planning, space and time are a huge part of safe, low stress motoring. Not just for yourself but everyone else.

As a retired HGV driver that clip on the overtake it looked like the white car sped up to stop the truck getting past quite a regular thing cars dawdle along slower than the speed limit, most trucks will sit on that speed limit for hours its a thing they have to do or nothing would get delivered.

At 7:11 the mother was totally oblivious.