Video Vigilantes Chasing Down Dangerous Drivers

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Dangerous drivers should be keeping their eyes peeled not just for police after it emerged that tens of thousands of motorists and cyclists are recording every journey they make.

That footage is then being used to help settle insurance claims but also to help stretched police forces pursue cases of bad driving.

Cyclist Dave Sherry has recorded 400 incidents in the past two years that have resulted in dozens of convictions and cautions.

"A couple of years ago I had an incident involving a bad driver. I called the police and they said it's your word against his and I decided on video evidence," he said.

"It's indisputable and it basically fits on the bike to show the bad drivers for who they are."

The consequences can be extremely serious.

One bus driver lost his job last year after being videoed by Mr Sherry looking down at a handset while driving along the road with passengers on board.

It means his actions are not popular with everyone.

A van driver in Leyton, east London, described such behaviour as "nosy".

"I don't like it. I don't even like the CCTV cameras about if I'm honest," he said. "It's people spying on each other."

Some police forces are more than happy to use footage from the public but others say they simply do not have the resources to deal with it except in the most serious cases.

Now the Home office is leading a project to come up with "common standards" on how such video should be used by the police and criminal justice service.

The Association of Chief Police Officers encourages the public to provide evidence to police.

Chief Constable Giles York, of the National Policing Lead for Digital Evidence, said: "With motoring offences, videos filmed from dashboard mounted cameras are admissible as evidence, and assuming that the quality is good and the evidence can be corroborated the police will record, report and consider the circumstances of each case on its merits."

One company, Policewitness.com, is making it easier for the drivers and cyclists to get their footage to the right force.

http://news.sky.com/story/1343501/video-vigilantes-chasing-down-dangerous-drivers

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great fir reporting taxi drivers , that's fine, they all need tachgographs and GPS logging.

BMW drivers, yup gave them, Fuat drivers don't notice things like kerbs and bollards

[jaws2]

Brown envelope soon sorts it out for a lot of things these days....

[super jumbe]

We have this cyclist vigilantes unemployed working in the day for nothing we the tax payers paying via DHSS for him to grass the taxi and bus drivers, who is the criminal? ffs go and do paid work and find out how life is all about!!!

[GastonJ]

Perhaps they should have joined this group?

Stasi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One of its main tasks was spying on the population, mainly through a vast network of citizens turned informants

[johnboy1974]

I wonder if this vigilante will be so keen to record and report his fellow cyclists who think its ok to go straight through a red light. ?100 fine and 3 points if your a motorists but cyclists think the law at road traffic lights doesn't apply to them.


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[Meat-Head]

but cyclists think the law at road traffic lights doesn't apply to them.


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no mate we don't

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zHtCNhABlLw

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[super jumbe]

I wonder if this vigilante will be so keen to record and report his fellow cyclists who think its ok to go straight through a red light. ?100 fine and 3 points if your a motorists but cyclists think the law at road traffic lights doesn't apply to them.


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No they want, they are only after the motorist, the job the law haven’t got time to do, they laugh at the motorist when they take picture (GOT YOU NICKED)

[GastonJ]

Well without motorists to pay for the roads there would be none for cyclists to use. Maybe they should try ride on rail tracks and see what life would be like if there were no motorist to pay out the ?40 billion or so each year that a small percentage gets used to build and maintain the roads each year. When will they be making it illegal for cyclists to use mobile phones while cycling? If it's dangerous for motorists on 4 wheels then surely it must be dangerous for cyclists on 2 wheels who should be holding the handlebars with both hands?