The 10 most shocking dash cam crashes and dangerous driving incidents caught on

From dozy drivers ploughing into the back of stationary vehicles to motorists on the wrong side of the road causing head-on collisions, these dash cam clips showcase some of the most dangerous motorists in Britain.

A montage of 10 videos showing incredibly careless and reckless driving – all captured in the last 12 months – have been exclusively shared with the Daily Mail.

They’ve also been sent directly to the police in the hope of securing prosecutions. 

The footage displays thoughtless overtaking on country roads, hasty antics on motorways, and terrible judgement at busy junctions.

It shows how some individuals are risking the lives of others to save seconds on their journey, by driving well beyond their vehicle’s limits, or simply switching off behind the wheel.

All but one result in crashes, with the exception being a near miss that leaves one driver screaming in fear.

The videos have been released by dash cam brand Nextbase to mark the seventh anniversary of its police dash cam portal, which allows road users to upload incriminating footage caught on recording devices directly to forces to be used as evidence.

A montage of 10 videos showing incredibly careless and reckless driving – all captured in the last 12 months – have been exclusively shared with the Daily Mail

The ten videos show some of the ‘most shocking crashes and scary near misses’ recorded on dash cams over the last year. 

The first – which took place in April this year – shows a preoccupied young driver in a bright yellow Fiat 500 who fails to stop when approaching a stopped car in front, with the rear-facing camera capturing the sickening point of collision.

Despite being at relatively low speed, the impact thrusts the female driver forwards into her deployed airbag, while the windscreen on the passenger side of the car smashes on the force of the airbag going off.

The second clip plays out a head on collision involving a foreign registered supercar captured in Peth in Scotland.

It shows the driver of a £260,000 Aston Martin DBS – either from Netherlands of Luxembourg, given the yellow front number plate) – on the wrong side of the road crashing head-on into an unsuspecting driver entering a blind bend in the wet.

Video three involves a Highway Maintenance tipper truck pulling out of what looks to be a dual carriageway slip road or emergency refuge area, with the luckless driver unable to take evasive action and flipping their vehicle into its side after striking the side of the lorry.

Another clip from March this year shows a queue of traffic formed behind a slow-moving tanker.

When a fast-approaching driver is unable is unable to slow down in time, the footage shows them running into the back of another motorist, their car flipping onto its side and deflecting into the path of the dash cam user, who is unable to take evasive action.

One of the dramatic clips shows the moment an oncoming car fails to slow down for slow-moving traffic, collides with another vehicle and flips onto its roof before hitting the driver’s car with the dash cam rolling

This video shows the only non-collision out of the 10 clips, but the footage is still shocking

The next video shows the moment an unsuspecting driver in Wales turns a corner on a country road to find an out-of-control Mercedes-Benz swerving towards them.

Clearly travelling too fast for the wet conditions, the luxury German motor skids off the road into a grass verge before shooting back onto the road into the path of the shocked motorist.

The dash cam user manages to steer out of the way of disaster, though only just.

Other clips show a transporter carrying a car ploughs into the back of a van entering a roundabout on a dual carriageway triggering a domino effect of crashes, an Audi driver reversing into another road user at a set of traffic lights, and an HGV changing lanes on a motorway and side-swiping an unfortunate motorist.

Another clip is a recording of a transporter carrying a car that ploughs into the back of a van entering a roundabout on a dual carriageway, triggering a domino effect of crashes

An Audi driver, seemingly entering the wrong lane at a set of traffic lights, attempts to reverse without noticing the car directly behind them

One of the videos shows an HGV changing lanes on a motorway and side-swiping an unfortunate motorist

The last of the videos, recorded just last month, is arguably the scariest of all.

It shows a motorist attempting to undertake slow-moving traffic on a stretch of smart motorway with no hard shoulder.

However, when they move into lane one, they are quickly faced with a van and car already involved in a collision and the drivers out of the vehicle.

Unable to avoid the crashed vehicles, the reckless motorist smashes into the back of the van…