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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
World
Jess Flaherty

Dash cam footage captures dangerous driving and near misses on our roads

There's no shortage of reckless driving on the streets of our city and plenty of us will have seen bad drivers' antics on the daily commute.

One driver has taken to sharing the worst offenders on a YouTube channel dedicated entirely to those motorists.

The clips capture everything from speeding, swerving and carelessly cutting across lanes to driving on the wrong side of the road.

The YouTube account, 'Idiot Drivers on our Roads', has plenty of videos showcasing some of the worst driving captured by dash cams and the compilation video above includes some of Merseyside's own "idiot drivers".

Two cars can be seen racing up an empty lane to avoid traffic queues. (Idiot drivers on our roads)

In one part of the footage, a large white van can be seen pulling out from a side road into oncoming traffic, forcing a car to swerve to avoid a collision.

Another clip shows cars having to slow down abruptly in the dark after a car pulls out and appears to be going the wrong way towards the driver with the dashcam.

Later in the footage, cars can be seeing trying to avoid traffic by racing up an empty lane to turn right, only to continue going straight and cut out waiting in the queue with other cars.

On a busy motorway, a white car can be seen indicating to cut into a different lane, meaning drivers had to stop to allow the car across.

The shocking footage provides insight into some of the reckless driving that occurs on Merseyside's roads each day.

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