Need Help in getting license plate number from yesterdays accident

[lapatskiy]

Hello everyone, this is my first post, but i would like to know if its possible to get the license plate of the this video, gray toyota camary that passed by me, right in the beginning of the video. I just don't have any video software to work with this, any help would be appreciated. Thanks

here is the link
http://sendvid.com/f2gbhemz#

[JVRaines]

Road rage, huh? Scary to think we share the highways with such dangerous children.

Maybe an image processing wiz will help you out, but as far as I can tell, the plate detail is beyond the resolution of your video.

[lingyi]

Unfortunately as evidenced by the numerous other posts about recovering a license plate number from a video, the chances of getting anything usable is virtually zero.

Best advice is to give the video in it's raw state to law enforcement and let them determine whether it's strong enough evidence to investigate further.

[phoenixsing]

Something like 5PC J661 ...

screenshot from enhanced video using vreveal. I have no account for video upload.

[NiGHT-WiNG]

Here you go looks like a serious crash to me hope insurance covers the damages.

[lingyi]

I'm glad to be proven wrong.

Good work and good luck to the OP!

[jagabo]

You are looking at the wrong car. He needs the plate from the car in front of that one (in the posted picture).

[LigH.de]

The closest distance are the first few frames. Unfortunately, the video compression is way too bad, the quantization preserved almost no useful details (except for what I believe to be the second letter, to be a "T" or "7"). And after the first frames, the car is too far away to recognize anything.

Unfortunately, I have no "CSI Magic™"; the best I could offer is a loop of a cropped and slightly contrast enhanced area from the first 8 frames, and the average of it.



This is the part of interest (first frame):

[misterbill]

Same here, stacked first 3 seconds.

[aedipuss]

hate to say it but you're after the wrong guy. that accident is completely the fault of the car that hit you, not the camry. the camry didn't come anywhere close to touching the bald guy's car, he just overreacted. i wouldn't give you the camry plate even if it was recoverable.

[hech54]

I can't even get the video to play.

[KarMa]

I can download the video in Chrome, using the below link.
https://sendvid.com/f2gbhemz.mp4

[Vidd]

That Toyota Camry guy was an idiot. Looks like a classic case of road rage.

It was a construction zone so the cars need to slow and use caution. The Toyota Camry driver keeps tailgating so close that he constantly needs to keep pressing on his brakes (as evidenced by the brake lights). The slower car then changes lanes to let him pass, but then the Toyota Camry guy gets in front and then switches lanes to cut off the car he was tailgating and brake checks him causing the accident. There was no need for the Toyota Camry to change lanes again, the slower car moved over to allow him to pass, he only did it in road rage to brake check the other car.

Hope the police find him and arrest him for reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. People like that should lose their license and be forced to take public transportation the rest of their lives.

[hech54]

That Toyota Camry guy was an idiot. Looks like a classic case of road rage.

It was a construction zone so the cars need to slow and use caution. The Toyota Camry driver keeps tailgating so close that he constantly needs to keep pressing on his brakes (as evidenced by the brake lights). The slower car then changes lanes to let him pass, but then the Toyota Camry guy gets in front and then switches lanes to cut off the car he was tailgating and brake checks him causing the accident. There was no need for the Toyota Camry to change lanes again, the slower car moved over to allow him to pass, he only did it in road rage to brake check the other car.

Hope the police find him and arrest him for reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. People like that should lose their license and be forced to take public transportation the rest of their lives.

I had the same type of thing happen to me....but I was the Camry driver(But I had my old diesel VW Rabbit). Some old fart in a Cadillac HAD to pass the little Volkswagen, which he successfully did, then he brake-checked me. I let it slide because I knew the traffic pattern up ahead....I took my right lane immediately after the construction zone leaving him out there hanging in the wrong lane. He didn't get past me because of all of the traffic so he angrily swerved back into my lane behind me....overdid it....and ended up hopping the curb and in the ditch like a beached whale.
He started it. I finished it. Our cars never touched. "Leaving the scene" my a$$.

[KarMa]

After downloading the video from sendvid, I noticed the video seems to have frames missing. Seems like there is fluid motion every 4 frames, and then on the 5th frame it jerks suggesting that the original frame rate is 29.97 or 30fps instead of the 24fps in the provided video. If this video has in fact been RE-encoded, then quite a bit of quality could have been lost. In Mediainfo I see Baseline@L3 and CRF 23 which is really not great considering every pixel counts in this situation. You are really going to want to upload the actual source video from the camera. If you need to cut up the video, you should download Mediainfo and then post the analysis it outputs. So we may help with cutting the video properly.

For example this is what Mediainfo output on the sendvid I download: http://pastebin.com/RFBuDAb9

Seems like that idiot Camry owner leaves their foot on both the brake and the pedal so that they can tail people and brake in an instant, but also giving the people behind the impression that the Camry is braking but really just resting on the brake. Causing what happened after jumping in front of the very man the Camry was tailing for 20 seconds. It would be one thing if the bald guy was tailing the Camry and the Camry braked, but the Camry decided to cut off the bald guy with their foot on the brake. Some people don't deserve the privilege of a license.

On further thought, I tend to believe the Camry was trying to pull some Swoop and Stop fraud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-zRyvKxJmc

[hech54]

On further thought, I tend to believe the Camry was trying to pull some Swoop and Stop fraud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-zRyvKxJmc

Exactly. They may have even been working together.

[KarMa]

On further thought, I tend to believe the Camry was trying to pull some Swoop and Stop fraud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-zRyvKxJmc

Exactly. They may have even been working together.

Who are they?

[hech54]

The Camry and the Caprice/Impala.

[jagabo]

In Mediainfo I see Baseline@L3 and CRF 23

And a dash cam wouldn't use x264 but rather a hardware encoder. The OP should upload the original video.

[LigH.de]

Well possible that the video hoster recoded the video, using some ffmpeg based auto converter. It may be useful to upload a zipped small piece of the original dashcam video, from the beginning when the Camry passes for the first time, just few seconds.

[lapatskiy]

Hey guys, that is so cool that all of you are helping me. I am doing the same for another person. I am trying to get this Camry info, I feel bad for this other guy, seems like he doesn't have full coverage, nor med pay, so i feel like if i wont help him, he might be in trouble. So i have a zeroedge dash cam, http://www.amazon.com/ZeroEdge-G-Sensor-Dashboard-Camera-Bundle/dp/B010GYYSU2 i had it set on 720 instead of 1080p, i dont know what happened, but it used to be on 1080p, wide angle, and it could of been better. Pls let me konw, if anyone had trouble getting the raw VID. I just uploaded raw video to the forum file system. Thank you guys so much, for helping me.

[JVRaines]

Sorry, but your video simply doesn't have enough resolution to make out the plate.

IMO, the Impala is almost 100 percent at fault. He didn't need to change lanes to avoid hitting the Camry. He pulled into your lane without checking the blind spot (you) and that's what caused the accident. It even seems possible that he wanted to pull ahead of the Camry for revenge.

[LigH.de]

@ JVRaines:

Would you take into account that the Impala could possibly not brake hard because the one he just passed was still close behind him? And the Camry "braking for no reason", only in anger, does not count as "provoking a collision"? American and German law may be different here, but I see no 100% guilt for only one of both. Even though the Impala driver passed slower than convenient for the following traffic, the following traffic still shall keep a safety distance; pushing was the first fault of the Camry driver.

@ lapatskiy:

Even the original material is badly compressed already. This is only probability, and misinterpretable. Won't get much better...