Post your dashcam video!

[slam525i]

If you tell them White Lexus is250 or w/e then they can narrow it down. I doubt there are THAT many of them.

I'm sure they'd expect proof that it's an IS250 beyond "My friends and car enthusiasts on an internet forum think it is". And even if they believed it, they're not going to go knocking on doors of everyone with one in the GTA. Not unless someone got killed and it made the news. The police have better things to do (arguably...)

It's shitty and it's not fair, but he got away with it.

[ShibbyDibbyDoo]

I was chatting but I wasn't distracted.

I saw him as soon as his headlights appeared on the left. As I said in the "analysis", he was visible for exactly 1.0 seconds before he entered the intersection. In that 1.0 seconds, I didn't figure out whether he was going to stop or turn right, and it wasn't obvious to me at the time that he was going too fast to do either. Part of the problem is that in the 1.0 second I had, I didn't pick up a change in his speed. In other words, 1.0 seconds was too short for my little brain to decide if he was slowing down or not. The brain can quickly figure out how fast someone is going, but to determine whether that speed is changing takes a little more time. In the next 0.5 second, when the other car's path is obvious, I reacted and got the car turning.

As @m_bisson said, I assumed he wasn't going to do anything out of the ordinary. If I knew the white car was going to go straight through, I would have had an extra 1.0 second to react. Instead, I wasted that second trying to figure out what he was doing.

I'm not trying to "defend" myself here, but consider how little time 2.0 second is. That was the time from when the car was first visible, to when it disappeared out of view to the left (60 frames @ 30 fps). Say I was truly distracted and I was fiddling with the radio/GPS and I had been going just a tad slower. I could have missed seeing him in those 2 seconds, been hit right at the driver's side door, and be dead without knowing what happened at all.

I think your reaction was the best possible in that situation. The light was green for you, your mind is not expecting a car to just run straight through a stale red. You drove defensively to avoid a major collision and stayed calm. If the majority of drivers reacted the same way there would be a lot less accidents on the road. Glad to see the only damage was to your car and not you.

[CloudPump]

I'm sure they'd expect proof that it's an IS250 beyond "My friends and car enthusiasts on an internet forum think it is". And even if they believed it, they're not going to go knocking on doors of everyone with one in the GTA. Not unless someone got killed and it made the news. The police have better things to do (arguably...)

It's shitty and it's not fair, but he got away with it.

Because you've made no effort to catch him.

-Geoff

[asyed]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should...

[Cush29]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should...

Ah yes 400 North through the Holland Marsh where traffic backs up for no good reason at all and people suddenly decide they are racing at Daytona......I drive it every day twice and am still puzzled as to why it's such a gong show there.

[staax]

First post: Skip to 0:30

I must say the dash cam really makes things seem a lot calmer than they actually were lol

[Thrizzl3]

For those who know yonge and dundas....cops always abusing their powers

[loki]

I think your reaction was the best possible in that situation. The light was green for you, your mind is not expecting a car to just run straight through a stale red. You drove defensively to avoid a major collision and stayed calm. If the majority of drivers reacted the same way there would be a lot less accidents on the road. Glad to see the only damage was to your car and not you.

There was still an accident though

And I disagree. At every intersection you should expect that a car could drive through, even if your light is green. Nothing to physically stop any vehicle from running a red, other than the notion that they should stop

[loki]

It's like looking only left or right when crossing a 1 way street because I car shouldn't be driving down the opposite way

[Captain Mazda]

Not to mention no one in this country seems to know how one-way streets work. You have to drive with the expectation that everyone around you is a complete moron and they're about to do something stupid at any moment.

[loki]

Not to mention no one in this country seems to know how one-way streets work. You have to drive with the expectation that everyone around you is a complete moron and they're about to do something stupid at any moment.

I hate when people reverse down a 1 way street thinking that's ok...

Just last week I watched a guy make an illegal left turn onto a side street off Bathurst just south of eglinton...

What did he do?

Buddy turned into the street as if doing a U turn, then reversed into the street, then did a 3 point turn to face the direction he wanted to go...

[ShibbyDibbyDoo]

There was still an accident though

And I disagree. At every intersection you should expect that a car could drive through, even if your light is green. Nothing to physically stop any vehicle from running a red, other than the notion that they should stop

I understand your point of view and in a perfect world that's the way it should be. Unfortunately one second of inattention and this is the result. I'm guilty of letting my guard down more than I should.

[Captain Mazda]

I hate when people reverse down a 1 way street thinking that's ok...

Just last week I watched a guy make an illegal left turn onto a side street off Bathurst just south of eglinton...

What did he do?

Buddy turned into the street as if doing a U turn, then reversed into the street, then did a 3 point turn to face the direction he wanted to go...

I saw a woman drive the wrong way on Wellington. In the bike lane. I was the only one thinking "WTF".

Then there's the one-way parking lanes at the GO station...

[ken6214]

Saw this on my way home last night, truck fire on the 409. NSFW laungage.
https://youtu.be/WIU07qUe5Lw

[asyed]

a few weeks back... random ass cab pulls out and tries to go the wrong way for some odd reason. I really hope he wasn't intoxicated...

[MistaChin]

[Thrizzl3]

Report his ass justin

[Hyperion]

That's report worthy. At least to his company.

[asyed]

That's report worthy. At least to his company.

plot twist: driver is company owner...

[Aitch]

Been saving these up.

[Timotee]

Been saving these up.

1:15 and 1:48 is very cringe worthy.

[Aitch]

The crazy thing is I think those are all in a 3km radius of our home.

[staax]

He gave me a dirty look and said something too. What a knob.

[asyed]

He gave me a dirty look and said something too. What a knob.

I hate pedestrians that think they ALWAYS have right of way regardless of the situation.

Newsflash for them: if I hit them by accident while they are on the street when they are not supposed to be, they are the one getting the ticket and they are paying for damages if there is any to my car ( I know because I know a pedestrian who got a ticket from something similar)

[jaynsue13]

I hate pedestrians that think they ALWAYS have right of way regardless of the situation.

Newsflash for them: if I hit them by accident while they are on the street when they are not supposed to be, they are the one getting the ticket and they are paying for damages if there is any to my car ( I know because I know a pedestrian who got a ticket from something similar)

I love educated people like you. That is the truth