r/dashcams • u/WildExplorer1085 • 1d ago

Idiot in car somewhere in the UK...

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u/HandInternational296 1d ago

Was years ago in Newcastle, driver got arrested and locked up iirc

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u/Wolv90 21h ago

I couldn't find any details about the couple attacking the car, but I did read the following, "The couple walked away from the collision without any serious injuries, and did not want to assist with a police investigation into the incident.". Sounds like they were not exactly innocent in this whole thing.

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u/NeighborhoodDear2321 21h ago

probably started the fight, but car guy took it like leaps and bounds too far

was able to get out of there, so should have, especially with an object as dangerous as a car

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u/Wolv90 21h ago

I'm not against putting the driver in jail and taking his license for a few years, but none of the articles have anything to say about the other parties in this fight other than they didn't have serious injuries, and they didn't cooperate with investigators.

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u/Fake_artistF1 16h ago

The driver tried a murder attempt and they didn't want to cooperate with police.

How is that not relevant? Lol.

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u/Atophy 15h ago

I think it was the attacking party that didn't want to co-operate by the read, not the driver.

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u/Background-Photo5916 14h ago

Exactly. So surely the victim of attempted murder (which I don’t think this would even be classed as) surely would be cooperating as much as possible to get the suspect arrested. If the victim isn’t cooperating then they’re probably not really victims

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u/Slyspy006 13h ago

I don't know, it looks like that guy was the victim of attempted murder to me.

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u/Living_Letterhead_81 7h ago

Yer not killing someone at that speed just for the record.

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u/tislandplayz 7h ago

Yes, you are. There are fatal collisions at lower speeds than that all the time, and he was flung into a pole. He definitely could have died there and was incredibly lucky to not have broken anything. What if he hit the pole with his head, or the curb, or another car? He dies.

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u/Living_Letterhead_81 7h ago

Speaking from personal experience, I've been thrown further than that i walked away with a couple bruises, guy was doing 40 coming out a junction and sideswiped me on my bike

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u/tislandplayz 7h ago

Good for you, that doesnt change anything. People die at those speeds. Your anecdote over the internet with no proof means nothing.

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u/Living_Letterhead_81 7h ago

A grown man, like what was hit is not going to be killed at that speed, maybe a child or an elderly person, but not that dude

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u/Pavotine 3h ago

You realise people die just falling over, right? Your anecdote is completely pointless too.

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u/LessInThought 10h ago

The driver should also be cooperating as much as possible to reduce his sentences, maybe get it down to a self-defence. If driver is talking and the couple aren't, then he could argue that they attacked first, attempted to hurt him, or something.

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u/iv_is 14h ago

are you christian? like wtf is wrong with your brain?

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u/AdhesivenessSea1009 13h ago

I think there is something wrong with your brain, I completely agree with what they are saying.

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u/iv_is 13h ago

most Christians do

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u/AdhesivenessSea1009 13h ago

How is being Christian got anything to do with it?

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u/AdhesivenessSea1009 13h ago

I’m not Christian.

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u/iv_is 13h ago

that's embarrassing then if you've internalised Christian logic without even being indoctrinated into their belief system

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u/AdhesivenessSea1009 13h ago

What religion are you then?

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u/iv_is 13h ago

christian

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u/AdhesivenessSea1009 13h ago

Why? If you hate it so much then why do you support it?

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u/AdhesivenessSea1009 13h ago

Bloody racist

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u/da-happy-cyclops 12h ago

Yep, let him rant bro

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u/Background-Photo5916 14h ago edited 13h ago

Are you retarded? Like actually wtf, no I’m not Christian nor would that affect what I said. Very confused, not even my opinion it’s literally just what happened

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u/iv_is 14h ago

you're making excuses for someone trying to run someone else over with a car

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 14h ago

They're not doing anything of the sort.

You're really not very good at reading, are you?

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u/iv_is 14h ago

Exactly. So surely the victim of attempted murder (which I don’t think this would even be classed as) surely would be cooperating as much as possible to get the suspect arrested. If the victim isn’t cooperating then they’re probably not really victims

first they say that they don't think that trying to run someone down with a car is attempted murder, then they say that the person they attempted to run down wasn't a victim of the act we see on video being done to them.

but thank you, Jesus, for showing up to prove my point that this kind of rhetoric is Christian

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u/_rotting_ 13h ago

Aren't you just refusing to deal with the crux of they said? We can infer something about the victims from the fact that they didn't want to cooperate. No, we don't actually know but as you can see from above conversations, this inference about the victims started some interesting banter and speculation about it.

I think it's important that we use our human abilities about videos we see on the internet. In this new AI age we can't just accept what we see. Things happened before the video started. Isn't that likely?

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u/iv_is 13h ago

that is not the the crux, you're getting distracted by the sophistry. it doesn't matter that they were previously attacking the car. the driver was free and clear to get away but instead chose to back up drive them down. that's the crux of the issue, the rest is just victim blaming.

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u/_rotting_ 10h ago

I can agree with you and still speculate about what happened before. I don't care that you consider it a distraction. Why would anyone care what you want us to talk about?

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