[AT] OT - Dash cams

[Mike M]

Carl, that is some good advice.

Mike M


On 12/2/2019 4:00 PM, szabelski at wildblue.net wrote:
> Any type of memory card can only store so much. It sounds like your camera doesn’t auto delete after a prescribed time and then keep recording (ie: it records for two days and on the third day it overwrites the first day, so you always have the last two days recorded).
>
> You can still go to court and fight any ticket you may have gotten, this would help if you have to pay a deductible on your insurance because you were not totally in the clear based on the police report. If she ran a stop sign, having your turn signal on wouldn't have kept her from doing so, and wouldn’t have made her stop in time. Make a good sketch of the accident scene to explain to the judge what happened.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Carl
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com>
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> Sent: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:46:41 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: [AT] OT - Dash cams
>
> Anyone of you guys use a dash cam?  I bought one for my with after using
> one in my truck for a while. It worked great, or at least I thought it
> did, until some one decided to run a stop sign, and plowed into my read
> passenger side last night. I was in the right lane of a 4 lane road with
> a turn lane. As I said, I was in the right lane, and this girl rolls
> through a stop sign and plows into my rear quarter. It had to be towed
> home. Cop can came and said we were both 50% at fault, because I failed
> to signal.  That's not true. Then I told the cop that I had a dash came,
> and we tried to make it work, but it didn't. When I got home, plugged
> the card in and the last recording it shows is from June of 2018 :/. It
> would have totally exonerated me, it's failure screwed me.
>
> Does anyone have a brand they like and has proven itself? Mine was a
> Viofo 119, and I certainly wouldn't trust that one again. The other
> question would be do any come that will take a regular SD card and not a
> mini? TIA
>
> Mike M
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