Police and bad driving
Discussion
Actually I wasnt going too fast for the conditions - there was no collision. Where the A7 meets with city bypass it was busy cars were queued side by side for a few hundred yards on approach. I came off of the roundabout taking the A7 south - not going fast. but not going slow there was no visual indication no siren and no visible flashing lights seen. As the road straightened out the line of vision straightened and there plod was approaching at a fair lick.
Litrally slammed on the brakes and pulled into the far left..... my original post was that it was dangerous driving on the coppers part by approaching what was a busy junction on the wrong side of the road.
Litrally slammed on the brakes and pulled into the far left..... my original post was that it was dangerous driving on the coppers part by approaching what was a busy junction on the wrong side of the road.
Cooperman said:
Some may remember the Met.trainee driver, when doing 'pursuit training' up the A10 towards Cambridge from Royston and when they were doing 110 mph+, crashed into the back of the rear car in a queue at Harston. A young nurse was killed, but the trainee driver did not go to prison. In fact I believe there was no further action - accidental death being the verdict of the Coroner.
Accidental death? If it had been my daughter I would have strangled the driver myself if I had the change.
Mk3Spitfire said:
Might not have been that bad. People often go off on one seeing a police car on the wrong side of the road. In response training you are taught to use the other side of the road to give a better view of the road ahead.
Yeah but they don't always get it right though... under direct instruction (for basic driving) and guess what charges were brought? Yup you got it - none!! Worst thing was they went up the road 20 minutes previously and the instructor didn't remember the bend!
robinessex said:
So what actually would they expect to find when they arrive, and what skills do they posses to do this?
As has been suggested police Grade 1 / ambulance Red series calls are situations where immediate threat to life is apparent from the triage algorithm used by the call taker or where the despatcher (or clinical advisor /FIM) or responding personnel have risk assessed something which is under triaged as needing an immediate response.robinessex said:
So what actually would they expect to find when they arrive, and what skills do they posses to do this?
Oh I don't know...Someone having their head chopped off.
Someone being held at gun point having their shop raided.
One of their colleagues having 7 bells of sh*t kicked out of them and hit the panic button.
The list really could go on and on...
The truth is, a lot of the time they really don't know what they are going to, information is often very poor.
Mk3Spitfire said:
Idiot. Half term must be here already.
So very unecessary. Another display of a lack of the maturity and temperment required to be a good police officer.It is more idiotic to suggest OP is a child on half term holiday because he thinks he witnessed poor driving by the police.
Another policeman on here has driven the roundabout in question and reckons it can be quite tricky but somehow you believe all police drivers are driving gods and anyone who questions their driving must be an idiot.
Sorry OP confused if there was audible and visuals in use on the police vehicle because
) but even the average one will know more about roadcraft than probably 99% of the population and use that judgement.
ruggedscotty said:
Yes blues and siren were on but still id have questioned that activity. if they had been a bit further up then there would have been an accident.
ruggedscotty said:
there was no visual indication no siren and no visible flashing lights seen.
Every traffic car driver is not perfect (well excepting Red4 ) but even the average one will know more about roadcraft than probably 99% of the population and use that judgement. ruggedscotty said:
Yes blues and siren were on but still id have questioned that activity. if they had been a bit further up then there would have been an accident.
It may be the case then that if they had been a bit further up they may have realised that could cause an accident & would have decided not to be there. They were only there because they weren't that further bit up where it would result in an accident.Eclassy said:
So very unecessary. Another display of a lack of the maturity and temperment required to be a good police officer.
It is more idiotic to suggest OP is a child on half term holiday because he thinks he witnessed poor driving by the police.
Another policeman on here has driven the roundabout in question and reckons it can be quite tricky but somehow you believe all police drivers are driving gods and anyone who questions their driving must be an idiot.
It is more idiotic to suggest OP is a child on half term holiday because he thinks he witnessed poor driving by the police.
Another policeman on here has driven the roundabout in question and reckons it can be quite tricky but somehow you believe all police drivers are driving gods and anyone who questions their driving must be an idiot.
You will have to forgive my lack of interest in your opinions.
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