NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Staten Island drivers say behind the wheel their borough is a treacherous obstacle course.

“Some of the worst drivers you can imagine. I think they buy their licenses or something,” resident Eddie Rodriguez told CBS2’s Tony Aiello.

“Terrible. It’s terrible driving on Staten Island today,” another resident named Paul said.

“You know how New Yorkers drive,” Michele Brown said.

It’s so bad, one man used his dashcam to document the dangers over the course of many weeks.

“I didn’t make the video to call anybody out,” Corey Bruggemann said. “It was just to bring attention to the fact that there’s a problem, there’s a traffic problem on Staten Island everywhere.”

He documented a series of bad moves and close calls. Tailgating, sudden lane changes, a driver pulling a suicide squeeze, a white van wandering slowly into fast-moving traffic, and a silver car making an illegal U-turn and then doing it again a mile down the road.

“I find it hard to believe he didn’t see either one of the ‘No U-turn’ signs,” Bruggemann said.

“It’s, you know, ‘what I have to do is more important than what you have to do, and everybody’s got to get out of my way,'” he added.

Bruggemann is a mechanic and auto repair consultant who bought his dashcam for protection, serving as evidence in case of an accident or fraud.

“You have people who run out into the street and will bounce off your car and say, ‘you hit me,’ just to make the insurance claim,” he said. “It’s ugly, but it happens.”

He said having the dashcam has made him a better driver.

“When you review the video from the dashcam, you realize how it looks from the other end,” he said.

AAA said dashcams are growing in popularity in the United States but are still in only a small percentage of vehicles.