Nanook
New Member
Hi, new guy here. So cool to have found this site, and in its infancy, too. Been lurking for a week or so and my first dash cam, a DVR-027, should arrive any day. Very excited; you never know what interesting things will happen on the streets of LA.
Which leads me to my question: in most of the videos of accidents (mostly Russian) I have been obsessively watching, when there was no obvious injury to people, the driver with the cam usually just drives away. I understand if you really are in a hurry for something vital, but I think I'd want to stop and exchange information as a witness and offer the footage, which I'm sure the party in the right would be most appreciative for. Maybe in Russia they just assume everyone has a dash cam and their footage would be better posted on youtube, rather than given to an involved party? But in the US, I'd say hardly anyone has a dash cam (yet).
What would you do or what have you done? Am I being a buttinsky or a good Samaritan?
Which leads me to my question: in most of the videos of accidents (mostly Russian) I have been obsessively watching, when there was no obvious injury to people, the driver with the cam usually just drives away. I understand if you really are in a hurry for something vital, but I think I'd want to stop and exchange information as a witness and offer the footage, which I'm sure the party in the right would be most appreciative for. Maybe in Russia they just assume everyone has a dash cam and their footage would be better posted on youtube, rather than given to an involved party? But in the US, I'd say hardly anyone has a dash cam (yet).
What would you do or what have you done? Am I being a buttinsky or a good Samaritan?