"British Drivers Are INSANE!"

[@andyblogger1]

IMPORTANT TIP: When driving over here in the UK, remember to acknowledge another driver with a quick wave if they give way to you under any circumstances. Refusing or forgetting to do so will probably lead to someone giving you grief.

[@ReddwarfIV]

"giving you grief" consists of thinking you are an ungrateful dick. Further action is unlikely.

[@johngreen6375]

The guy said “ What the f##k are you playing at? Jesus f###ing Christ “ Reference the silver car on the Motorway 😂

[@bluecheese1066]

The exact wording is, "F##k you f##king playing at? Jesus f##king Christ", but the sentiment is exactly as you post. Apologies if this is being pedantic, I just wanted to give the exact phrasing in case Ethan and Angela wanted to compare it with what they hear.

[@johngreen6375]

@@bluecheese1066 No problem! 😀

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Nothing beats a silver Astra for mind-bendingly bad driving.

[@alpzepta]

The way he said it 🤣🤣🤣

[@steakandkidney3142]

@@lumpyfishgravy German cars, white vans, minicabs, school run parents. Silver Astras are tame by comparison.

[@pegaz6529]

I passed my driving test back in 2006, and I will never forget what my driving instructor told me on the first day. "Treat everyone else on the road as f-ing idiots." I do just that and its served me well so far.

[@miff227]

I learnt this while cycling. But mostly people are unaware. Mostly those driving fast are aware of stuff, it's the slow ones who have no clue what's happening around them that cause 80% of accidents

[@robinford4037]

@@miff227 the ones driving slowly AND they are lost , because they will enrage the people behind who will try an overtake just as the slow driver decides to U turn.

[@Ffinity]

@@miff227 Idiot cyclists are the biggest problem. You wear headphones and don't look around. Get rid of the dickheads without engines and you get rid of 90% of the problems!

[@andrewparfrement8583]

Good advice from your driving instructor. A RAC spokesperson said pretty much the same to me, watch the idiot in front of you and the ( unrepeatable) person behind you.

[@dave_h_8742]

@@robinford4037 Why U turn just pull into a side rd and look up the name of the rd in multimap find where you are and go from there. No need for cutting across lanes just turn into a rd further on and come back to the junction you fucked up and do properly, same as missing motorway junctions (Should pay attention).

[@casinoclown5502]

That old man is a legend 😂

[@gentlegiant171]

As an Englishman, I think I'm most proud of the varied and colourful language employed by my countrymen to describe their fellow road users, never a dull moment. Jokes aside tho, the highway code is a useful handbook with all the rules of the road but it's not exactly a page-turner, the British police are mostly forgiving if you aren't being dangerous and you won't get fines for every little mistake you make. the most important thing is to take your time, the worst that will happen is someone will get impatient and honk at you, at whish point you can tell them to piss off and everyone can get on with their lives.

[@Global_News_UK]

O yah

[@jamespickersgill8416]

The more I watch these things, the more I’m convinced that the people with dash cams are themselves terrible drivers and drive around with their hands hovering over the horn while looking for a situation to get into.

[@doomwatch1289]

Your spot on mate.

[@Dan-mu5oy]

not all of us, i catch loads of bad driving but the dash cam is in my van and installed by my employer

[@Lily-Bravo]

I've been thinking about getting a dashcam. but I have only really seen two occasions that would have found themselves on a video. I've been driving over 50 years, here and abroad.

[@johnnorth4667]

i thought the same, lots of the situations could be avoided.

[@michaelu1303]

I agree. Some of these situations could have been avoided if the drivers with a dash cam were being a bit more cautious.

[@martincase5900]

Haha at 3:30 the guy says “..[what] the fuck [are] ‘you fucking playing at? Jesus fucking Christ!” That’s a common one here haha

[@Cybertruck1000]

What you playing at is what he said. Mini roundabouts generally on minor roads. You'll find drivers will often wave or flash lights to let you out or give way even if they have right of way. A visible US flag is good idea just to let people know you are visitors. London traffic....you are brave...good luck with that one. Also...all this you see here is extreme. Generally you will be ok.

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

Do not identify your car as 'a visitor' It's a guaranteed way of getting it broken into.

[@miff227]

London traffic is so bad, that everyone has to do dodgy stuff and as such everyone kinda accepts it. In a lot of these where people are pulling out in rush hour, or massive trucks pulling out, you gotta accept that they have to use half-gaps or the queues on those side roads get stupid. Pulling out without looking when it's not busy is completely different to knowlingly pulling out to make use of a half-gap, you gotta let the latter happen.

[@JUK3B0X]

Imma be real identifying themselves as a foreigner is a terrible idea 😂 have you not seen how people treat learner drivers 😭

[@damionyates4946]

In London the right of way goes to the person who values their car the least. You'll need to be brave :)

[@miff227]

@@damionyates4946 I wonder if it's changed recently, people always used to tell me London driving was actually way more forgiving and letting each other out etc, because everyone knew how bad it was to get stuck/blocked etc.

[@ffotograffydd]

The bit with the narrow road, both drivers were going too fast and so both were at fault. Where I live (West Wales) we have a lot of single track roads, but there are regular passing points, people generally take their time and if you meet in between one vehicle has to reverse. Everyone is pretty laid back about it. If you find yourself on a narrow road just take it slowly.

[@Belfastchild1974]

Here in Ireland we have many such roads where the speed limit is 60 (or 100km/h in the RoI), I don't think either driver was above that

[@ffotograffydd]

@@Belfastchild1974 It’s technically 60 mph here too, but on a single track road anyone travelling at that speed is a lunatic. A head on collision at half that speed could be, and often is, fatal.

[@Cephlin]

You are meant to drive to the conditions of the road, so both doing 60mph would be considered reckless driving

[@Lily-Bravo]

@@Belfastchild1974 If two cars each going 60mph meet on a lane they combine at a speed of 120mph! You would have to be seriously idiotic to think that you are driving according to the conditions of the road if you go above 30mph on a country lane.

[@ReddwarfIV]

@@Belfastchild1974 That's the National Speed Limit. The main reason single-track country lanes would have a speed limit of 60 mph is because otherwise they'd have to put repeater signs up telling you the speed limit every so often. These are a legal requirement, only 30 zones under street-lamps and NSL zones are exempt. Obviously country lanes don't have street lamps.

[@Bob10009]

We don’t have cussing in the Uk, but we do consider swearing ,an art form 😂

[@helenagreenwood2305]

And we are very good at it 👀😆

[@andrewlaw]

Don't let this dissuade you Ethan, it's not all like this. Golden rule at roundabouts is "give way to the right", if there's something coming you stop, they have right of way. If nothings coming, commence onto the roundabout. Zigzag lines on the road mean no stopping, they are normally either side of a pedestrian crossing, traffic lights or a school zone.

[@caerphoto]

The zigzag lines are to indicate the approach to a pedestrian crossing, and you're not allowed to park or overtake on them.

[@Dave-bu6bc]

almost correct. You can't overtake the vehicle nearest the crossing. You can overtake after the crossing if there is space to do so, even though you're still on the zig zag lines, so don't be surprised when a motorcyclist passes you as soon as you're past the crossing itself.

[@betterhalf6868]

Ahh very interesting. Thanks for clearing that up

[@neuralwarp]

There's about 25 types of marking and sign that say "you can't park here". Zigzags come in somewhere between double red lines and railway level crossings.

[@CyberCurtainTwitcher]

We have plenty "B" roads here that are just about the width of your car and when the hedgerows are in full growth you will be brushing both mirrors when driving down them. They usually have passing places every few hundred yards so that if you meet another vehicle one of you will have to reverse back to a passing place.

[@lumpyfishgravy]

I used to give a friend's kid a lift home to the village where the bus couldn't be bothered and would have to pull over 15-20 times in about 10 miles.

[@angelina-louisa]

I usually try to avoid B roads in my car, literally brushing wing mirrors with oncoming vehicles. Motorcycle however...a different story! 🤣

[@welshgit]

A number of points here: Lots of idiots in these clips, and I don't just mean the "obvious". Many of the cars recording these errors were in the wrong themselves. Seeing someone pull out stupidly, many had plenty of time to react, but just drove at full speed then hit the brakes / horn either because they wanted to make a point, or they weren't concentrating. The "painted" roundabout is called a mini-roundabout - it's treated exactly like a normal roundabout, but big vehicles that can't make the turn can drive over them (in other words, they are used in roads which are too small for a normal roundabout.) As such, that guy who tooted his horn when he was crossing the rounfabout was actuall HIMSELF in the wrong, not the other guy.. He just crossed over the roundabout without slowing down, instead of going around it. The guy he honked at was not doing anything wrong. For those that say "but he didn't give way to the right", you're wrong. He did. Think about it: the 2 cars enter the junction opposite each other.. The guy who honked his horn was no more "the car on the right" than the other one was. They both entered the roundabout at the same time, opposite each other... He only thinks he was in the right because he thought it was ok to cut across the roundabout island like that. Now, what if, for example, the other guy had been turning to his right and also crossed over the roundabout? Then they'd have collided and both been at fault. The worrying thing about these videos is not so much the mistakes, but the people who don't even realise that THEY are often just as much at fault, sometimes more so -- that shows arrogance and ignorance as opposed to a silly mistake. The bit you didn't understand, you thought sounds like "pioneer" or "pirater" - he actually said "what the f*** you f**ing playing at, Jaysus!" The car that was hit and spun out? That wasn't in the UK - the cars were driving on the right hand side of the road for one!

[@nari5025]

I suspect that's why a lot of these clowns even have dashcams in the first place. They may be 'technically' in the right by letter of the law and they can prove it. But they are being twats by enforcing it and thereby endangering others.

[@simonsimon2470]

"WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING AT"

[@petermicklethwaite6281]

It isn't grass they are Hedges . We have a lot of narrow lanes like that out in the countryside. Remember these roads are hundreds of years old.

[@RedcoatT]

The video is giving you the wrong impression about the use of the horn. Drivers only tend to use it to protest at a scary near miss, in normal driving its rare to hear a horn being used.

[@marktennant7223]

I often think the people posting the videos add on a fake 'horn track' for extra 'atmosphere'.

[@robertsibley6330]

The words you couldn't understand were "whats he f'ing playing at" cutting across like he did to the slip road.

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Sadly true. But I wish "correct use of the horn" was taught better. With idiot pedestrians wimbling everywhere looking at their phones, it can be useful.

[@Maxmillion77]

The main thing to remember when you're here is just give way to the right at pretty much every junction or roundabout. A lot of the incidents here are people not paying attention to their right hand side and pulling out in front of people. I will say though that often with these cam videos the people recording are also driving badly. People often seem to think that because they have right of way they don't have to pay attention or drive defensively.

[@Kari_B61ex]

It may be a good idea to book an hour's driver training when you first get here.

[@margaretnicol3423]

... and book it well in advance because most decent driving schools get booked up.

[@generichuman2044]

That's actually a really good idea. Maybe do some online practice theory tests as well. Will help with understanding road markings and signs

[@mharris7380]

The white circle near the beginning is a mini roundabout and you are meant to treat it like a normal roundabout - that is, you go around it. The driver whose dashcam we were viewing through was driving incorrectly as they went over the circle. If they had have gone around there would have been no problem.

[@wolfie5]

There are lots of single lane roads all through the UK - they will generally have an area somewhere where there is a little bit of a layby for cars to pass

[@bluecheese1066]

I feel like those single lane roads will be the biggest source of anxiety for American visitors. As you say, they generally have small passing points every few hundred metres or so. Usually, if everyone is playing nice, the driver nearest a passing point will reverse to it and allow you to edge by. If somebody flashes their lights at you in this situation, they are saying, "I'll pull in to a safe spot, you continue by". It's a nice courtesy to do so. Most people will thank you as they pass so you may wish to wind your window down to thank each other, or at least raise your hand in acknowledgement. If they do not thank you, that is when it's perfectly acceptable to mutter, "grumpy git", under your breath. :) The important thing is not to get flustered and to take your time if you need to. I honestly think, aside from what this video shows, most British drivers are actually very courteous. If you're waiting to pull out of a junction, or to turn off a road, you'll often be flashed by oncoming traffic to signal that they're letting you out. This isn't required by law but the British (and Japanese) do seem to do it a lot and it's rather nice. Just be careful to check both directions of traffic when you pull out in this situation. Just because someone is kind enough to flash you to let you out, it does not mean it's necessarily safe to do so.

[@MarabuToo]

@Blue Cheese This courteous flashing you mention is a bit of a double-edged sword; while it's rare, there ARE insurance scammers giving you the right of way, then crashing into you and having some "impartial witnesses" on hand that tell how your ruthless driving style made an accident unavoidable.

[@glynnwright1699]

There is likely an eight foot stone wall behind that grass. The really narrow roads in Cornwall and Wales were often for pack horses, not carts. Over the centuries the level of fields has risen leaving the track below the surrounding fields. That was not a particularly narrow road, the narrow ones have grass in the middle.

[@ethelmini]

Still fun watching that van trying to ride it like the wall of death though. If he'd stayed on the tarmac he could've braked more & done less damage .

[@glynnwright1699]

@@ethelmini I remember travelling down one of those roads in Wales when I was a (teenage) passenger in a mini cooper S. The driver had delusions of being a rally driver and did the 'wall of death' manoeuvre on a car in a similar situation. He got past relatively unscathed but it caused me to throw up.

[@Thenerdywalrus]

Definitly worth going out with someone who has driven here before hiring a car. The roads in the countryside are that narrow, roundabouts are that small and people drive faster here than in the states. Thank fully though road rage is not that common and 99% of drivers are polite and considerate

[@simonupton-millard]

yes definitely the roads by me are very narrow, locals do about 30mph others try to do 60mph + bad idea lots of crashes

[@mar754]

Faster than the US? Some stretches of UK roads have about the same speed limits as the US.

[@kwlkid85]

@@mar754 As someone who often drives both american roads definitely have lower speed limits, you'll be on a massive dual carriageway in the countryside and the limit will be like 45mph it's insane.

[@Thenerdywalrus]

@@mar754 given the same stretch of small is road us Brits will drive faster along it because we are used to driving narrow streets

[@damionyates4946]

Any road with two lanes or more in your direction (so typically 4 in total), the speed limit is 70 unless otherwise marked. If there were no speed cameras people will go much faster. Some idiots do 60 on dual carriageways because they don't know it's the same speed as motorways. All other roads are 60 (even if just one lane in total), unless otherwise indicated. This is insane :) it's literally easier at night as you can see headlights coming. In all urban settings the speed limit is 30 unless otherwise marked

[@moononastick8628]

😂 You’ve never been to Italy if you think UK drivers are insane.

[@seancurran8108]

+ Maltese

[@davidcopplestone6266]

If I remember correctly, the first thing an Italian driver does is tear the internal mirror off because he doesn't care about what's behind.

[@moononastick8628]

@@davidcopplestone6266 the horn use is overwhelming. They beep for anything and everything: red lights, green lights, children crossing the road, cars turning, buses. Everything. It’s deafening. Crossing the road is like a near death experience 😆

[@misterflibble9799]

As said to me by a Sicilian: You only have to stop at a red light if there's a policeman on the corner

[@IanDarley]

FWIW, when you've learned the UK signs, you will be good to go anywhere in Europe because the signs do not rely on language, they are all symbols and pretty much harmonised.

[@thegametesterman]

Don't worry, if you are worried on small lanes just move slow and move over if people seem to be getting impatient

[@kiki64allen56]

Watch for people flashing their lights at you, it means that you can go, also if someone allows you to drive up a single way road (cars either side) just raise your hand as a thank you, it's polite on British roads and if someone is coming up a small road you pull over and let him come up and raise your hand to acknowledge him.

[@hazemetz7896]

watching Americans find out things aren't the same everywhere is like watching a 5 year old Learn their birthday comes every year they just don't quite get what's happening but they like the shapes and colours 🤣

[@michaelmelbourne6688]

Dashcam use is growing rapidly in the UK so we see more and more of these compilations many people use them for use them to assist in insurance claims. I passed my test in 1968 and was advised to drive defensively to take account of other drivers errors even back then.

[@patriciaburke6639]

Just treat every other driver as a potential idiot, it helps!

[@lumpyfishgravy]

No potential about it

[@Westcountrynordic]

@06:55 With the hedges in many places they can't be cut during nesting season so you have to take that into account when driving down country lanes.

[@angelavara4097]

The tiny road is a country lane,there are spaces every so often where you can pull in to let others pass you.

[@PedroConejo1939]

The ones on our lane are used by tourists to park in while they wander off to see the sights. They're a bloody nuisance.

[@ada205mi]

If you keep watching these videos your UK driving anxiety is gonna go through the roof!🤣 Notice how most drivers first reaction, even those braking hard, is to hit the horn instead of keeping both hands on the wheel in a hard breaking and potential swerving to avoid situation!? Here in UK, IQ has lowered considerably in the last 20 years!

[@louisemiller3784]

I watched a video of a guy teaching how to drive on roundabouts and he made them sound so complicated and of everything he covered he never mentioned you always give way to the right, he made roundabouts sound complicated and hazardous which they aren’t, so if you happen to watch it don’t be put off.

[@saraSara-ns3te]

Yeah. Give way to your right and be in the right (edit. Correct) lane and stay in the right (edit correct) lane .. really busy roundabouts have traffic lights so they are simple. If you find you are in the wrong lane for your exit and can’t get to it just go around again. And if some one bibs their horn at you, you are now well equipped to retort in the local parlance. 😂😂😊

[@miff227]

@@saraSara-ns3te I hope you mean "be in the correct lane"

[@saraSara-ns3te]

@@miff227 😂😂😂

[@louisemiller3784]

Yeah I’ve gone round roundabouts several times until I decided which exit I had to take, quite fun really

[@sunseeker9581]

@@louisemiller3784 several times? Sounds like you need a sat nav.

[@bechmam4750]

Loved Angela's reaction when the flat cap went on! Lol

[@deadpoetstodd]

Bless you for thinking the lady said ‘novice’ 😂😂😂 she said Knobhead

[@emerjenn]

I’m from Ireland (where we drive on the left) but I live in, and learned to drive in, Poland (where we drive on the right). The hard part of driving in Ireland or the UK for me is not knowing which way to go at a roundabout - the road will generally lead you the right way at the bigger ones. It’s knowing which way to look. My habit is to look to the left, but when I’m in Ireland I need to make a conscious effort to look right.

[@chrispoole2438]

We pride ourselves on our swearing! 😊

[@Rokurokubi83]

4:20 squiggly lines mean no stopping, they are used on the approach to dangerous cross sections or pedestrian crossings so nobody should stop and block the view of the road. Like no,parking areas but you’re not even supposed to stop in them, you stop before them/

[@Charlieb82]

A lot of these dashcam videos actually show the dashcam driver speed up or make no attempt to prevent the near miss. The one at 2:40 with the blue lorry (truck) - a lorry is slow at pulling away and it was already fully onto the roundabout before the car met it. There's no way the car would have been visible to the lorry when it started to pull on, yet when the car reached the roundabout it should have seen the lorry and slowed down.

[@geosmith3436]

He says “what are you playing at”

[@MillsyLM]

I've been driving for over 30 years (I'm really tired) and I've never used the car horn as much as it's heard in this video in all that time! Also I've never even heard of an alternative spelling of Ethan.

[@captvimes]

a lot of times they prefer to just lean on the horn as a solution rather than just slow down and avoid the danger

[@angelina-louisa]

Pirater?? Yep, he's just been cut up by Captain Sparrow! 🤣 He said...'Playing at' You need to react to the 'Ronnie Pickering' road rage video. Hilarious!

[@adammullarkey4996]

In the UK, honking the horn is technically only supposed to be used to "warn other road users of your presence." Most people just use it in situations like the ones in the video. Also, don't assume that the situations in this video are the norm. This kind of thing is very rare. I've only ever been in one crash, and that was because we were rushing to get to the airport.

[@Dave-bu6bc]

The Karen at 8:42 in your video actually was in the wrong, KEEP CLEAR is written on the road, that means you don't come to a halt on that part of the road, if you can't drive right across it you stop before you reach it. She should have stopped where the camera car was stopped. It's supposed to make a gap so the junction doesn't become blocked, so that vehicles from the opposite direction can make the turn. It's not an excuse for running into her but it's still bad driving on her part.

[@pugsterjosh7925]

It’d be interesting to know how many people do actually keep them, and box junctions, clear.

[@darrellpowell6042]

4:18 The approach to, and exit from, a pedestrian crossing is marked with zigzag lines. It also means that you must not park on them or overtake the leading vehicle when approaching the crossing. Parking here would block the view for pedestrians and the approaching traffic.

[@Zooumberg]

It also gets anyone parking on them three points.

[@SNMG7664]

your interpretations of what the people are saying are always so much cleaner than what the people are saying lol you heard "knob head" as "novice" "what the fuck are you playing at" as something involving the word "pioneer"

[@spoop2111]

My favourite will always be "Who are you laughing at? Who are you laughing at? Don't fucking laugh at me!"

[@handsolo1209]

About the tiny van, the driving licence is not an "any vehicle" deal. You need a different certification category on your licence to drive bigger vehicles (it is done by weight) and a lot of vans fall outside of the regular licence. The smaller vans count as a Station Wagon and can be driven with a normal licence, so there is a market for that size of vehicle.

[@syphon_9892]

The small van at 11:35 looks a lot like a Renault Kangoo

[@margaretnicol3423]

The horn is supposed to be a warning - not a punishment! :-)

[@stevelknievel4183]

What you thought was grass on either side of the country lane with the oncoming van were actually hedges. Many of them pre-date cars by centuries so the people that planted them can't be expected to have anticipated our modern needs. They do have passing places every so often though (I think the photo that showed the damage was taken in one) so if two vehicles meet one of them just has to reverse up to one of those to let the other one pass.

[@ange1098]

He saying “what are playing at you ####ing w####r” 😂🤣 I mean Jesus Christ 🤣🤪

[@ffotograffydd]

Don’t let this put you off, I’ve driven in several countries and drivers in the UK aren’t as bad as this video implies. That said, if you are visiting cities use public transport, it’s generally faster and less stressful.

[@idlebrit]

My tip, follow the car in front to ensure that you are on the correct side of the road :)

[@MarabuToo]

...unless, of course, it's another rented car with a foreign driver. 😉

[@TigressUnicorn]

The silver car coming off the motorway; translation "Fu*c you fu*king playing at? Jesus fu*king Christ!"

[@RoughWeightloss]

6:50 the amount of these roads in pembrokeshire is crazy! Great for learning to anticipate though

[@RedcoatT]

While we have our fair share of bad drivers, it's far safer in the UK than the USA. You are 4 times more likely in die in a traffic accident in the USA than in the UK

[@dang1086]

Probably because some Americans refuse to wear seat belt cuz think it infringes their rights.

[@Bill_Dingsite]

UK driving standards has definitely gone down over the years. I wouldn't sound your horn over here or react in any way just better to ignore people. Don't be rushed just take your time.

[@miff227]

Agreed. Beeping after something has happened is actually not allowed anyway. Your horn is to warn someone else your vehicle is there so they change their manoeuvre.

[@michaelu1303]

I agree standards have gone down, everyone seems more angry and in a rush.

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

Drivers over here tend not to struggle with the larger roundabouts, which we have had for decades. Its the more recent `mini roundabouts` that a surprising number of drivers appear to have problems understanding, but exactly the same principle applies to all roundabouts. One must yield to any traffic coming from the right and on the roundabout. Confusion seems to arise when all entrances to the mini roundabout have traffic wishing to enter, ergo all must give way to trafffic from the right. I drive professionally, and when confronted with such a scenario think to myself, "well, we either all sit here all day looking at each other or someone makes a move. It is generally I who makes the move and get`s the traffic flowing again. Getting used to driving on `our` side of the road should be a piece of cake. I`ve been to a few cities around the world. One thing you might notice in being in an English city is the remarkable lack of the use of the car horn. Drivers generally follow the rules of the road, with the exception of obeying the command to stop at a red light. Cars are forever `jumping` red lights here. Out of the cities and towns you`ll find many minor roads that started as tracks for `os and cart. They are barely wide enough to manage one vehicle, let alone two. But many such roads are regularly used as short - cuts and by `in the know` delivery drivers. Only a fool would drive on such roads at speed and on a bend. Alas, we are not short of fools. The state of affairs prevailing over here are probably similar to those which prevail over there. In the city drivers tend to have less patience than when in the countryside. You are going to be under a lot of pressure if you chose to drive in one of our cities - especially since our cities are not based on a `grid system.` Even I get stressed driving in our cities.

[@neilfennell1691]

What a lot of people in the UK forget about roundabouts, is the wording in the Highway Code about roundabouts. It is a given that you give way to traffic approaching from your right, but at a roundabout you give way to traffic on the roundabout. This is to take into account that there may be a slower vehicle joining the roundabout and you are just quicker than them. The dotted line going across the entrance to the roundabout, is in fact a traffic sign. It means give way (yield). Just because you are faster or coming from the right does not, necessarily, give you the right of way.

[@pitanpainter2140]

If you want to know how to deal with, or, better, avoid some of these issues, take a look at Ashley Neal's channel. Yes, he shows videos of bad driving too, but he is a UK driving instructor, and give a critique of the situation.

[@deandavies9576]

I have been a subscriber for less than 4 months but omg I already love you guys, Ethan is adorable and you guys really seem so friendly🙂 I know your all visiting the uk soon and I would be more than willing to meet up with my American cousins for a while, to be honest you probably wouldn’t ever have to even pay for nothing brits have a lot of respect for Americans for obvious reasons mate, anyway all that aside my offer is open I’m in the middle of the country so if you pass by I’m there and if that speaks to you guys of course🙂 god bless America and the uk 🖐🏻💪🏻👍

[@midwestamericans3806]

Thank you for such kind words. The best place to meet up would be York as we are taking a train up to Scotland and another to York. Message me on Discord or Instagram if you'd be intrested in that. I am glad you enjoy the channel.

[@richt71]

The narrow lane with tall grass are roads you see occasionally in the countryside. They are only built for one vehicle but have passing places every few 100 yards. You are meant to drive slowly on these then one person reverses into the passing place.

[@andybaker2456]

Also important to know that they're not just grass, often there are hedgerows hidden by the grass, or even stone walls, so you can't just drive into them thinking that the soft grass will do you no harm...it hides something potentially more deadly! I would say you see them more often than just occasionally though, especially down in the West Country. Even where I live, only 20 miles south of Central London, you will find them, although not as much as in more rural or remote areas.

[@chrisaskin6144]

The white circle painted on the road is a mini roundabout. Strictly speaking, to comply with the law you're supposed to follow the marked carriageway around it - and not drive straight across the painted spot to circumvent the roundabout, as the driver in the video did and then vented his spleen at the car entering the roundabout in self righteous indignation. Had he followed the marked carriageway, he might not have encountered the other vehicle entering. It was probably more of a case of 'six of one and half a dozen of the other.'

[@andyt8216]

Remember this video is a compilation of bad drivers, some vids going back to 2018, not a snapshot of everyday life on UK roads. 10:22 I am guessing that was a helmet camera on a motorbike.... and "window mouth" makes no sense whatsoever. He must have said window down but didn't sound like it.

[@cemerson]

Britain actually has the safest roads in the world, but as with anywhere you're going to get terrible and angry drivers regardless!

[@jockeyladjockeylad8492]

Take it steady & you'll be fine. Drive defensively - assume everybody around you is going to do something stupid. Avoid driving at night if you can. Indicate your intentions well ahead of time. I have driven in the US on numerous occasions & find that after the first ten minutes of intense concentration first thing in the morning my head 'switches' into driving on the right & then I can relax into it. Hopefully you will learn to relax in the same fashion - your on Holiday after all. The videos might be scary but these incidents are few & far between. I've been riding Motorcycles for 38 years & I'm still here. Been driving cars for 36 years & only been in one smash - totally wrote-off my beautiful completely original Series 5 manual BMW & still walked away. Hope you have a great time - & relax & enjoy it.

[@Lily-Bravo]

Re the not getting out of your car comment. I was once waiting to turn right out of a junction on to a busy road and it was taking a little while. The car behind kept tooting their horn with impatience. I got out of my car and went back and asked politely and with a smile if they (two young men) thought it was being helpful to toot, because in reality each time they did it I looked in my mirror which was in fact prolonging the wait. They looked very chastened and apologised, and when they were able to follow me out of the junction and then split away, gave another toot and a cheery wave, which I happily returned!

[@michaelu1303]

Driving on British roads is generally safe, people are human and everyone makes mistakes. Looking at these clips some of the people with dash cams also aren’t driving to the road conditions E.g. too fast or not slowing or being cautious of hazards. Having a dash cam doesn’t make a good driver.

[@captvimes]

yes this, a lot of them seem to like to play with a semi who is in the wrong but just back off you wont win that war if it all goes wrong

[@michael-pn9po]

I have never had to use the horn in 50 years of driving. You are extremely unlikely to experience bad driving like in the video during your trip. British drivers are in the main pretty good and polite. Some minor roads are narrow with high hedges - the issues with the video example were (a) the lane was too narrow for the commercial vehicle & it was travelling way too fast ( there are normally passing places on such lanes.). Peak caps are rarely seen - occasionally in the country - sometimes townies who try to be trendy - you will stick out like a sore thumb.

[@PamDuthie]

The zig zag lines on the ground are areas around a crossing where you shouldnt park or overtake

[@grahvis]

A lesson to be learned at 10:56. The rule at roundabouts is you should give way to the vehicle approaching from the right which the oncoming car failed to do. That is, in the Highway Code, a 'should' rule which means the failure to do so is not necessary an offence. It could though, be taken as an indication of carelessness in the event of a collision. However the dashcam driver, by failing to go round the white spot, did commit an offence, the Highway Code states "All vehicles pass round the central markings except large vehicles which are physically incapable of doing so." All too often driving over the spot turns a minor inconvenience into a near miss or actual collision.

[@peterbrown1012]

The problem with mini roundabouts is when cars are waiting at each junction and all giving way to the right.

[@Chris_GY1]

You are leaving a third world country and are coming to a first world country. You need to get a copy of the Highway Code to learn how to drive in England it tells you what the signs are, road markings etc. The zigzag lines means no parking on them or overtake the leading vehicle when approaching a Pelican (you have to press the button and wait for the green man) and Zebra (they have flashing lights) crossings, they also outside schools. It’s a hedge not grass it’s common on country roads there (Dorset and Devon have lots of these roads, there are other counties with similar roads but I can’t remember which ones) are passing places. Don’t drive over mini roundabouts as you will damage the underside of the car. I was a lollipop man for 14 months and I stopped most types of transport from bicycles to lorries.

[@AlmightyCRJ]

They have one BTW - it appeared in an earlier video.

[@_starfiend]

@@AlmightyCRJ Both parts? Need the green book as well as the blue.

[@AlmightyCRJ]

@@_starfiend Only the Blue one I think but they also said they had downloaded from the .gov.uk website.

[@happychap8457]

a lot of these the camers are massively over reacting to mistakes by other road users and or making things worse by not slowing down or hanging back when you can see an issue developing.

[@heavyecho1]

Mini Roundabout (The circle painted on the road) are a pain even for Brits. It's worth reading up on them

[@DanFre40]

The small van hit by the FexEx van was probably a Ford Transit Connect. You used to be able to get a lot of smaller vans (in fact my first car was a Ford Escort Van in the early 1990s) but you don't see them too much nowadays. Most of the issues on the video were people pulling out without looking, so as long as you keep your distance from the car in front you'll give yourself a bit more time to react. The roads here are a lot narrower and more congested than in the US, you might find it feels very claustrophobic to begin with. If you don't see any signs to the contrary assume the speed limit is 30mph, although you'll probably be using a SatNav/GPS and that'll tell you the speed limit for the road you're on.

[@goldenlabradorskye]

You don't have as much road rage.....your having a laugh!!!! Driven in the US loads of times your highways are a nightmare!!!!! undertaking.....no lane discipline whatsoever. Got to be the worst country I have ever driven in.

[@bluecheese1066]

I'd forgotten about undertaking. Please, Americans, do not undertake in the UK. As well as being dangerous, you will not be thanked for it!

[@captvimes]

Not driven in italy or belgium then?

[@goldenlabradorskye]

@@captvimes Italy. Wacky races. Through Milan

[@captvimes]

@@goldenlabradorskye Only driven on the west coast but it was a breeze compared to italy i take the no lane discipline since it is allowed

[@Richard-Bullock]

Many years ago when I was learning to drive, my driving instructor gave me a great piece of advice that has done me well. Assume that everyone else on the road is an absolute complete and total arsehole, and they're about to do something really very stupid at any moment. That can't stop people that are utterly determined to crash into you, but it does help you avoid most of them.

[@andyxox4168]

… and it turns out you were! … 😂😂😂

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Doesn't matter whose fault it is the house (insurance) always wins.

[@pauldurkee4764]

The incident at 6.30 with the silver van, that is a rural country lane. The high banks with hedges, they are not cut back because they are part of the landscape and go back to the time before the combustion engine. simply a case of driving way too fast in a lane that does have restricted viability.

[@benbearrobinson]

"WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING PLAYING AT" nothing to do with pioneers or pirates 🤣🤣

[@bugpybear]

That flat cap suits you well. A lot of people wear them round my way, but might just be countryside lifestyle over towns/cities!

[@misschieflolz1301]

10:20 - You'd be surprised how easily you can end up like that given just the right contact. several years ago we had a crash on our main road. Only it wasn't a crash. Someone literally managed to flip their car coming out of a junction too quick. No other cars or anything involved.

[@naycnay]

The little painted roundabouts are usually a 3-way junction. They work like a roundabout, give way to the right. However, you use them like a junction and you can't U-turn on them.

[@elunedlaine8661]

The painted discs on road junctions are known as mini roundabouts. If there's traffic you treat them the same as the larger ones. Always give way to traffic coming from your right. My late husband who was a professional driver told me that you watched the car in front of you and kept an eye on the vehicle in front of them. The speed limit through built-up areas is 30, otherwise 40 and 70 on motorways. Some side roads have speed bumps and speed indicated is 20/

[@MarabuToo]

Actually, the National Speed Limit for single carriageways is 60mph, I think.

[@luke_bongoman89]

Crossed off sections of road are where you can't drive or if yellow can't stop. Zigzags are usually coming up to pedestrian crossings or other similar things to say to watch out for them and not to overtake etc

[@tylerelfling8430]

Yeah that white circle painted on the floor is a mini round about, usually they're actually build up but if the round about it put it somewhere late or a small place then its typically just painted into place

[@lioncake8382]

3:50 He Said "The fck you fckin playin at?" lol

[@SNMG7664]

those slim hedged in two way roads are everywhere in the uk, if you venture out of a city in a car they'll become a familiar sight

[@Twittler1]

The narrow road - you often get these in very rural areas. They have lay-bys every quarter/third of a mile so that one vehicle has space to let another through. It operates on a sort of first come, first served basis, assuming that people will behave decently. The van was going far too fast for the conditions - the problem is that unless otherwise marked, the speed limit on this road would be 60mph. Couple that with far too many people interpreting that as it being ok in all conditions to hit the limit, and treating the limit as a target, and you get this.

[@dontaskme7004]

The painted roundabouts are mini-roundabouts. Often put at junctions where there's a lot of traffic from one direction that prevents traffic from turning right, which as a result causes a jam behind the one waiting to turn right... So then inserting a roundabout makes sure the turning traffic gets a chance to turn which helps clear the road of traffic.

[@cheekymonkey666]

you will find the roads are narrower and you will also notice we drive on the left of the road, the main points to remember is speed, left side and round-a-bouts, we have invisible ones with round markings, we have small raised white discs and the larger ones, we stop at round-a-bouts and give way to the right, before actually driving your self take a few cab rides... or get in touch with a youtuber in the UK and get some lessons, but remember drivers and traffic in the cities is far different form the drivers in the country sides and open roads...

[@AliceSylph]

I live on a remote island in Scotland, most roads are single track. We don't have any lighted junction, only simple or roundabouts. This video made my stomach hurt! This is why I don't drive on the mainland

[@hgrazza3579]

He said "what the f**k are you f**k playing at, jesus christ"

[@17Blower]

The road at 6:22 is in Devon which is famous for its narrow country lanes, A lot of the roads i drive on here are like this. They do cut the hedgerows back once they know small animals and birds have stopped using them for nesting but you get used to them being overgrown like the one in the video. And at 7:22 she says Knobhead not novice.

[@slonky821]

"i Always assumed you needed to be going 50 mph to cause damage" oh god you shouldn't be driving lmao

[@JUK3B0X]

The guy was saying ‘what are you playing at’ also they were saying ‘knobhead’ not novice. Also the white circle with the arrows going round is a mini roundabout and you’re supposed to give way to the right at all times. Also the country lanes are usually 1 lane and quite narrow it’s quite common to have a build up of bushes either side as well

[@SpudicusMaximus1]

As far as the tiny country lanes, some are so old they actually 3 or 4 feet below the surounding land, the one with the truck was well below land level and then a hedge at the top, quite normal where i live 😂

[@WardancerHB]

Damn Ethan, that cap suits you really well! Looks awesome on you.

[@thebobsful]

This is all fun and games, but do remember, we are actually the safest drivers in the world. The reason these people are SO shocked when we encounter bad driving is because it is SO unusual! Normally, we drive very well and very safely. Don't fret!

[@nickmellor50]

I come across drivers like this literally every day, you should hear what I shout at them lol