JOHANNESBURG, Gauteng - Dash cams - video cameras that attach to the interior surface of a vehicle's windscreen - are growing hugely in popularity.
The terrifying video of a TransAsia plane clipping a bridge in Taiwan in 2014 and crashing into a river was captured on a dash cam by at least two cars. In 2013 a dash cam recorded a meteorite strike in Russia that injured more than 1000 people.
The head of Dialdirect, Warwick Scott-Rodger, said: "Dash cam sales have started to soar in Europe. Early 2014 sales in France were estimated to be about 370 000 - mainly people equipping themselves against a possible hit-and-run collision.