Overtaking slow moving police cars on country roads...?

Overtaking slow moving police cars on country roads...?

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Ricardo88

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162 months

Friday 31st December 2010
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Would you? Have you? .. or do you fear being pulled over by one. Most people I see tend to hold back and not bother...

Ricardo88

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20 posts

162 months

Friday 31st December 2010
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I wouldn't bother either but most marked cars you see purposly drive slowly on country roads so they can pick out the impatient drivers likely to cause accidents.

Ricardo88

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162 months

Friday 31st December 2010
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CDP said:
Ricardo88 said:
I wouldn't bother either but most marked cars you see purposly drive slowly on country roads so they can pick out the impatient drivers likely to cause accidents.
As opposed to the arrogant, selfish people who crawl around without consideration of other road users and hold up queues of people which eventually leads to impatience and accidents.
Oh yeah good point! I'm forever getting stuck behind slow drivers causing tailbacks and people behind me breaking sharply.

Edited by Ricardo88 on Friday 31st December 15:48

Ricardo88

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Friday 31st December 2010
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busta said:
Ricardo88 said:
I wouldn't bother either but most marked cars you see purposly drive slowly on country roads so they can pick out the impatient drivers likely to cause accidents.
People don't just overtake because they are impatient though. The speed at which someone drives is not a measure of their patience and nor does it have much proven correlation with their ability to cause an accident.

In fact, if I where a policeman, I'd be questioning the judgment of someone who, given a safe opportunity to do so, would not overtake a vehicle travelling slower than they wished to. What do they have to hide?
True! But sometimes people overtake rather arrogantly tailgating and then swerving violently which indicates to me they are impatient...