West Dorset Road Safety Community

07/10/2023

Another nutter just outside of Dorchester, tailgating the cam car at over 50 mph.

07/10/2023

This month's lunacy comes from an old favourite, the Sky Company van. Here in the Weymouth area jumping a red light and then racing up to another set of lights at 35mph in a 30 zone (pic3 is 10secs after pic2).

11/08/2023

Next up breaking road law in the DT1 area by tailgating is Abbas Gas Services ltd. of charminster.

11/08/2023

This summers lunatic tailgaters: First up is TVF Fire Protection of High Wycombe, tailgating a fb user who submitted their photos to us. Outskirts of dorchester.

08/04/2023

This Springs road lunacy comes from a driver in Weymouth. Approaching Manor roundabout, this impatient tailgater ducks into the inside (and hence right turn only) lane in photo2. But then as the last photo shows, cuts back across both lanes exiting onto the relief road cutting off the camera car, almost hitting it.

22/12/2022

This Autumns lunatic driver comes from a member of the public driving near Ferndown. As they near the exit of a filter lane, the second large truck on the inside lane forces the car to break sharply as its squeezed out of the way. Note how the truck is having to break due to speeding up to squeeze the member out of the lane. The offending truck is marked MSA Manufacturing of Poole.

20/08/2022

Our first video comes from reckless driver GJ66 VKD filmed on the A37 north of Dorchester. Lethal lane filtering at its best.

15/08/2022

Next up comes from a courier van (MW71 ZJO) from Menzies Distribution Chester (or other depot) travelling in Wyke, Dorset.
In this instance, the cam car travelled through Wyke at the maximum speed permitted (30mph). In the first photo shows the van 300m away. Photo 2 is just 40 seconds later. How does a vehicle make up 300m if both vehicles are travelling the same speed?

16/06/2022

This month's poor driving comes from a VW polo driving female, determined to tailgate and bully the car in front despite being in a long train of traffic. As always, for 60mph, the car is far too close.

21/04/2022

Wed 20th Apr. According to the sender, this driver, in a Highwood Agriculture van, was recorded dangerously close (as little as 1 metre) to the vehicle in front, and maintaining the same dangerous, unlawful and antisocial style of driving for over 6 miles on the A35.

28/03/2022

Fri 25th March: This driver left Dorchester Learning Centre, and reaching ridgeway, tailgated at up to 60mph the car in front. As usual, the camera belies the actual small distance between vehicles.

25/03/2022

08/03/2022

This was posted elsewhere on FB recently. This is a parent/carer on the school run to Manor Park CE First School, just heading into Manor Park, approximately just 3 metres behind the cam car. At this speed the car would need TWENTY metres to stop and avoid crashing into the cam car in front. The driver continued the same driving offence in and through Manor Park. It's understood that sadly the school choose to take no responsibility for this child safeguarding issue.

08/03/2022

! Community safety Heads Up !
A colleague has advised me about an individual operating as/or for a driving school in Manor Park, Dorchester area. On the occasion in question, the individual, Ray Moxham of Wright Driving, was involved in a RTC and fled the scene without swapping details at the roadside. Even when the individual was contacted with cam footage showing his collision, he failed to respond in any meaningful way, presumably hoping the matter would merely disappear. The police have now been involved and are investigating. Please be aware of this driver (below) and of this driving school.

28/02/2022