I had a RoadHawk fitted to my old cars since buying one in 2010. This was primarily caused by having someone reverse into me, damaging my VXR bumper on the Signum and denying all knowledge It took a while but they eventually just admitted liability to the insurance that paid up.

A lot of people have the dash cams now in one form or another, and you can get them quite cheaply on eBay with varying quality. Being the anal person that I am, I have a habit of only wanting the best I can find - the RoadHawk has a lot of extra in-built features including GPS recording, g-force monitoring and event recording so that if it detects a sudden acceleration in any direction beyond a variable limit you can set it automatically locks a clip of before and after into an unrecord-over-able file. My inner grammar nazi is having a fit right now...

When wired into an ignition live, you don't even have to think about it and it just sorts itself out. This also appeals to my laziness...

I had planned on putting it in my Insignia when I got it, but read they were releasing an HD version last year. After a long wait it was eventually released last month and I was straight onto it.

Now, many people will be put off by the price tag and be happy going without all the extra functions, and I completely sympathise with them as these things are ******* expensive. Still, it keeps me happy...

First, a few videos that my old one captured, and then one from the new HD version I caught not long after I installed it. The streaks are caused my my windscreen being filthy on the inside, and the old ones are screen captures due to the old software being buggy and not exporting correctly. They fixed it on the new one by recording it as an MP4 and embedding the GPS data into it. It all displays when you view it through the software...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbyP2lx2rpY