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!

7CIE244

Here's another one I see a lot of. At the poorly designed East L.A. interchange, where you always get people cutting in from the lane that exits to the 60 freeway (and isn't like it was a lane that was there the whole time, this lane picks up around a mile before), a fair percentage of the people making that violation end up getting off at the Soto Street exit. I usually don't bother documenting this activity because I can't get the plate. Well, today we had the driver of this Lexus, plate #7CIE244, who blocked both lanes sufficiently that I was able to get the plate on my low-rez camera!

6GFS859

Here's a 2 for 1, 2 drivers who decide well after the solid white line has gone out to a triangle that they need to be on the opposite side! I was only able to get the plate of the Honda, 6GFS859, (I think). The other car was a Nissan. I left a bit of length on the end of the clip, and if you watch you can see the Honda is all over the lane, and even into the right lane a bit. I suspect they were texting or drunk.

I see this kind of thing happen nearly every day. Over the weekend someone likely did the same maneuver coming North on the 5 at the 710 transition, ended up eating the piling and beams where they're doing construction. I believe it killed the driver and seriously injured the passenger.

6FDC146

Here we have a stupid, inconsiderate, dangerous driver. They're driving a Honda Fit, license 6FDC146. You can't much blame people for not wanting to be behind a semi truck, but check out the nasty cut off they do when they first change lanes! Next, they've got a ton of room to get back in front of the truck... and they don't! What you get instead it not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES they block up the lane, laying pretty hard on the brakes before they actually get back in the lane they wanted to be in! For a nice coda, look at all the empty freeway ahead of them when they finally stop blocking the lane!

1162578

I see a lot of this. his is one of the local "Dash" buses, ID #03001, but this behavior isn't unique to them. Pretty much any bus line you'll see doing this kind of thing. After pick ups or drop offs, they'll just pull right out into traffic with no regard to who they're cutting in front of, or the fact that they're not going anywhere near the speed of traffic. I guess because they're subsidized by my tax dollars they think the law or common courtesy doesn't apply to them.

8T57662

Here's the main reason I wanted to get a dash cam, people who don't seem to be paying attention while driving! I put the portion from about a minute before, when he, for no apparent reason, gets in the left lane. The only reason he didn't take me out was I was laying on my horn from the time he starts drifting into my lane!

Movie Shoot

Here's one I happened on a while ago. Driving up a street near home, I saw a movie shoot going on up a side street. On the way back, I pulled the camera off and pointed it in that direction. Looked like quite a bit of law, and an older Caddy.

6LGY285 & 7BOK172

Another 2 for 1. Here we've got one of those metered on ramps (which I think are pretty useless) with the left lane exempted for car pools. So what happens? First a BMW, then an Infinity (Nissan) that blatantly violate the car pool requirement. Of course, they've gotten around about five cars for breaking the law! Totally worth it. It runs a bit long at the end to show the Nissan trying to cut around the truck.

5TSD600

Here's one that I see quite a bit. This is the exit by General Hospital, and very often when I take it, I'll see cars that make the right turn into the left hand lane... then drift back into the right lane and take the next right! I think that the employee parking structure is over there. I believe it is a Ford Explorer, license 5TSD600.

6PLU854 & 1UZ6--- Unified Grocers

What happens when you get a Lexus who won't yield a little room and a semi truck that won't use his mirrors? Here you go! I didn't get the full plate from the trailer, but it was from a company called Unified Grocers, who have their local branch in Commerce. Did take this screen capture of the cab, which has much numbers on it, but I didn't write any of that out.

I think if I were in the Lexus (6PLU854) I would be giving Unified Grocers a call!

Bicycle

Cyclists. I don't have a problem with them, except for the fact that it seems like a great many of them seem to think the law doesn't apply to them. I see a lot of them driving two and three wide, completely blocking whole lanes, not yielding the right of way, driving the wrong direction, crossing all the way across the road at random intervals, and almost never do you see them stopping at stop signs! When I see such flagrant and dangerous (and by dangerous, I primarily mean to the cyclist themselves, so one could make an argument for Darwinian evolution) behavior, I often make the comment, "Because the law doesn't apply to bicycles!"

Here we see a prime example. To start off with, it is fairly dark already, and you can see this girl has no light, front or back. Secondly, she's in between two lanes for no apparent reason. Next move, she rolls right over the limit line, then blows the red light in front of everyone who's turning left. A bit further up the road, she's pretty far out into traffic lanes (CVC 21202 - Bicycles traveling slower than the normal speed of traffic must ride as close to the right side of the road as practicable - a violation I see CONSTANTLY!). Finally, another blast right through a red light.

6YLV514

When I see someone who, pretty far on, gets over two or more lanes, I often have the thought that they're not paying attention to where they are going. This is another video that is a little bit lengthy primarily to showcase such a move. Right at the beginning, you'll see a Ford Fusion changing lanes to the left. Not long after that, they get over the second time to the interchange lane. I'm the type of driver where I plan ahead and am in the lane I need to be in to get where I'm going. 

The payoff for the lengthy video is at the end, where it truly seems like they aren't paying attention!

I Have to Turn My Head Until My Darkness Goes

Lest anyone think the title or the song it alludes to (The Stones' "Paint it Black") is used as a racist slur, I was using it more for the line that preceeds it, as this girl walks by dressed in her Summer "clothes". I know it's been hot hot hot for days here, but PLEASE! No one needs to see that! So as a special treat, you now get to see it!

As a side note, if you're going to go about in your underwear, at least find a pair that don't have a huge hole at the bottom!