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So do you have to keep swapping out the SD card/erasing data every time the memory is full? Or you can keep recording and keep last [X] amount of footage?
Dashcams automatically overwrite the oldest file.
No need to erase files for new recordings. Everything is done automatically.
First of all I am really happy that you and your lady friend are ok and that's pretty much what matters.
The video was interesting and seems the fault is on the other driver.
That being said, unfortunately it is also your fault to a lesser degree since you did a rolling stop and if you did stop completely , despite the other driver's fault, this could have been avoided.
You didn't stop completely either!!! You barely slowed down. He just happened to go faster.
Your actions did create a dangerous situation.
Your dash cam will make the accident both you at fault.
Barely slowed down? Are you watching the same video as the rest of us? Have you read any part of this post or just looked at the video and blurred out the first thing that came into your head? I wish he had done the same as me, even less of a stop than me, then there would have been an accident. What part of "he completely blew through the stop sign" didn't you understand? Had you read the posts, you would have known that the responding officers who saw the video had put the entire blame on the other driver. And I guarantee if I had stopped completely, the only thing that would have changed is where on my car the impact would have occurred, he would have hit my wheel/fender and front bumper.
And I guarantee if I had stopped completely, the only thing that would have changed is where on my car the impact would have occurred, he would have hit my wheel/fender and front bumper.
Hard to say without seeing the cross street firsthand. If you were to stop prior to the intersection, looked both ways, then noticed the car wasn't going to stop you then could have let it blow on by. If you have to crawl into the intersection to see around large obstacles then that's a possibility. Not trying to lessen the fault of the other guy, he was the one in the wrong, but looking at that video I think a full stop w/ defensive caution may have prevented that one, but ????
Echo the others, glad you were able to stay injury free.
Good thing is car isn't totaled and you are ok.
But the insurance may have some problems with this clip. I totally agree with TVPostSound, it doesn't look like you stopped. It looks like you slowed down and then went through stop sign.
And there is no reason to be rude to TVPostSound.
Last edited by Michael440; Dec 27, 2015 at 08:59 PM.
Him blowing through the stop sign is what caused the accident. We can speculate endlessly if there would be a different result with my actions being different. It is his fault I have to deal with this so understand that its a little frustrating being equally blamed for this, being rude wasn't my intention. Ugh, imagine a child riding on a bike or chasing a ball and running out from the side street in front of me or in front of him especially with his view from the right being partially obstructed with the car on his right (seen in pic)
If he didn't hit me, it was a matter of time. He was bound to cause an accident soon or later, I have never had an accident which I caused, including this one.
And as far as it being totalled, I will wait for state farm to make the decision, during the estimate I was told it's gonna be close, remember, two airbags went off, REALLY hope it's not
Btw, thank you all for the kind words as well, they definitely do not go unnoticed
Oh and here is some great news, picked this up for 600$!!
Both doors, curtain airbag and rear bumper (mine is beaten up from city living) all for 600$!
Best part it's the same color code! Even if the shade will be off, the inside of the doors doesn't have to be painted and at 200 each conplete, it's a steal, local junk yards wanted 500-650 per door, basically just a shell. Came off of an 08 g35 locally, found this half year old part out post on nico club, turns out it was 30 miles from me. Insane luck! Karma??
lots of morons on the roadways, part of the blame is the government giving drivers licenses' to illegal immigrants and other miscreants who can't speak or read a word of english and allow every bone head to take the driver's written test in every kind of language from around the globe. perhaps the moron couldn't read "stop" in english, he needed it to be written in his native third world language "alto"
LOL,
Funny thing is most of my Latino and European friends are way better drivers than my friends who were born in the US.
Congrats on the new parts bro that's your greatest achievement from all this. Cause think the amount of money his insurance is gonna have to spit out for the repair estimate plus the two paycheck a for stress/pain and suffering. You're gonna pocket yourself an easy $5k at the minimum.
I do recommend having a body shop doing the instal however because I'm 100% sure your door gap isn't gonna be on point and also if there's any damage hidden from the naked eye.
Someone once told me that even if the crash was not caused by you, you still share some level of responsibility for simply being there. I don't necessarily agree with this line of thinking, but can see its perspective.
I was not fault when I got rear ended on the motorcycle while stopped. However, my being there resulted in the crash.
It's reasonable to speculate the insurance may find you partially at fault based rolling through the stop based on the video. They could argue that had you come to a complete stop, you'd recognize the other driver failing to stop and would have yielded before proceeding. This still doesn't excuse the other driver from blowing the stop sign but shifts some of the blame to you. It's strange how insurance logic works, but unfortunately that's how it is.
