5HFX969

Here we see a Nissan that gets in front of me and proceeds to drive fairly slow for a mile or more. I generally get in the lane I'm going to need to be in and stay there, unless there's plenty of room and opportunity to do so. Thus, I was behind him for far longer than I would have liked! That mile or so later, they FINALLY start acting like they are going to get out of my way, signalling right. Of course, I'm pleased and also thinking that they probably had meant to take the exit to the right and may cut all the way over. Oh, no. After a few seconds of signalling and not going, they suddenly decide that LEFT was the way they needed to go (could have just stayed there, out of my way) then proceed to slam on their brakes before cutting across the double solid white lines and gore point! You can see me swerve, but can't hear me laying on my horn!

4ATM738

This is one of those incidences where I wish I had a rear facing cam, too! The first part of this clip is at a 5-way intersection. Going in my direction there are three lanes, one for hard left, one for fork left, and the right lane either forks right or you can turn hard right. As I'm waiting for the light, I see this Saturn pull up behind me in the right lane... then back up, and get behind the two vehicles in the middle lane! Heh. The the light for the fork left changes... and they fork to the right! You'll see them right after the ambulance. Very dangerous, because the crosswalk on the far side of the right fork is walk lighted at this juncture.

I made a mental note to myself to try and get their plate number if I was able. Two cars got between us, but a mile or so up the road, where the video resumes, they both get in the right turn lane, giving me a clear shot. The bonus came right after I'd gotten the number, they turn right across the very wide double white line gore point! Whenever I see this type of thing, I think that they have no idea where they're going!

7DHP262

I was amused by this. The driver of this mini van, plate number 7DHP262, apparently thinks the proper procedure for exiting to the right is to briefly signal to the left!

7COS919

Whenever any vehicle has stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass the stopped vehicle. Cut and pasted from the CVC, section 21951. Yet that is exactly what the driver of this Honda, license number 7COS919, does, and in a VERY unsafe manner, I may add!

6GTY634 and POETES

Here's a clip I caught & saved all the way back in May. Probably didn't share it because it's a fairly common offense, going South through the East L.A. interchange, and I've posted several of those.

Something a little unique about this one, though, I caught two of the violators right at the start of the lane that goes to the 60 freeway. The Pontiac, plate number 6GTY634 does the rather common cut across two lanes then take the Soto exit. The Benz, license plate POETES, you'll see going all the way to where it's past the solid line and into the gore point.

I might have never posted it (Lord knows that if you drive around L.A. with a dash cam going you'll never be wanting for video of bad drivers!), but then today I caught POETES doing the EXACT same move! This turn, they're the one that goes two lanes over... and then they go really slow...

Re-enforces the feeling I get when I see people doing this kind of thing, that they probably come this way five days a week, and almost certainly pull this kind of move every time!

1316806

Seems like using an embedded video from YouTube ends up stepping on the sidebar writing over there --->

Oh well. I'm sure there's a way to fix that if I cared that much. Here's a little something from a while back. Looking at my covered up text over there, I realized it's been a while since I've had any of the lawless lawmen. Main reason is you really don't see that much of it. This is a little nit-picky, but here we have L.A.'s finest in a car with CA exempt plates 1316806. Ever notice how cops almost never signal? Here's a double example, both for a lane change and for a turn!

7DID716

I'm trying something different. I notice that the video quality is greatly degraded (it wasn't that great to begin with) once it has been uploaded via Blogger, so I'm trying uploading a clip to YouTube and embedding it here. More than I really wanted to get into, but...

Here we've got a Camaro, license number 7DID716, who pulls out in front of me and doesn't accelerate. Predictably, as soon as I get out from behind him, he suddenly finds his accelerator. Pulling up to the red light, it looks like he can't decide what lane he wants to be in! My favorite part is when the light changes, and he drives up the sidewalk ramp! There is a Metro PCS store in that lot, perhaps that explains a lot of the way this guy was driving...

5UMA433

Here's a spot of road that actually got fixed recently. It is a stretch of road that is routinely backed up in the morning. It used to have two lanes, then narrow down to one, and of course you'd always get people who would pass in the right lane and continue past where it ends, until the road narrowed to where they have to bull their way in. In the last few months, as you can see, they have eliminated the right lane. But, if you're a big enough tool, I guess that makes no difference! Here we have a Mercedes, plate 5UMA433, and if you were curious, the infraction would either be CVC 21754 or 21755. I kept the video long enough that you can see they get to where they're not moving, as well as getting a clear shot of the plate and their broken left tail light! I could have left it longer, so you could see they were not getting anywhere fast anymore until I turned off three minutes later!