Motorists use dashboard cameras to film driving menaces Near collision with truck on a one-way ramp on Harcourt Road, Darra in Brisbane FRUSTRATED motorists are turning dashboard detectives, mounting miniature cameras to film drongos, dunces and dangerous drivers on Queensland's mean streets. Everyday Queenslanders fed up with their fellow motorists breaking the road rules are uploading footage of bad driving, red light runners, crashes and near misses to virtual "halls of shame," providing police with video of the worst offenders. PICS: The world's dumbest drivers Andrew Ison, who goes by the name "theredkrawler" on YouTube, has uploaded around two dozen videos of dangerous driving around southeast Queensland, including a hair-raising near-collision with a semi-trailer going the wrong way down an Ipswich Motorway on-ramp. "The idea originally came from a desire to share some of the frustrating things you see on the road with other people," he said. A Ford Falcon overtakes on the wrong side of traffic island I thought that perhaps by capturing some of it I can show people what NOT to do on the road ... They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so it stands to reason that a video shot at 30 frames per second is a veritable encyclopedia. Mr Ison has kitted out his car with an iTronics high-definition dashcam, available for around $280 online, which records his every moment on the road and saves to an in-built memory card. Similar dashboard cameras can be bought for as little as $39 dollars from online retailers. Mr Ison said while the police generally focus on speeding, most of the dangerous driving he captured was a result of "impatience and selfishness," including tailgating, changing lanes in heavy traffic and disregarding road signs. His videos have been viewed thousands of times online, with most users sympathising with his frustrations. "Most people have seen and experienced the same sort of events that I capture, they just haven't had the opportunity to record it and make it public," he said. Chilling vision show just how quickly a kid can run out in front of you from between parked cars YouTube user "roadmonitoroz" has also recorded hundreds of clips of crashes, hooning, reckless driving and road rage incidents on local streets, and has more than 1000 users subscribing to his videos. He said he has passed on footage of serious incidents to the police, and while most people related to his videos, he has also faced abuse and threats. It's usually only hoons or bad drivers who take offence to my videos. I think this is because their activities are captured by me," he said. He said he used a variety of dashcams in his truck, car and motorbike, and initially began filming because he was tired of people's bad driving habits and he wanted to protect himself in case of an accident. "If dashcams were more common then people would think twice before taking certain aggressive actions," he said. The cameras alone make people think a bit because people know they are recorded. More vision from Brisbane shows a driver seemingly completely unaware of being on the wrong side of the road Senior Sergeant Kevin Phillips from the Road Policing Task Force said it was becoming more common for drivers to use dashboard cameras to film the roads around them and use for evidence in case of a road incident. "They are becoming more prevalent," he said. It's another tool that you can use to look after yourself ... people have got to remember too though that you've got to use common sense. He warned it was illegal for motorists to mount such cameras within their field of vision on the windscreen, and anyone who captures anything serious should notify the Queensland Police. " (They should) bring it into their local police station straight away and let the police take a statement and use it as evidence," he said. Andrew Ison who uses an in-car camera to record other drivers. A dangerous merge caught on a dash a dash camera.