Motorway Cops - BBC1 now
Discussion
Legacywr said:
DoubleSix said:
And I agree with defblade.
The speed element was the only thing that allowed that lady to avoid a conviction.
Agreed! We all know she will live with that for the rest of her life!The speed element was the only thing that allowed that lady to avoid a conviction.
Punishment enough, but, to prosecute her was the right thing to do!
Some poor guy has lost his life because some impatient bint has decided to pull a U turn on a fast (NSL) main road.
The 'witnesses' accounts of biker going fast also leave me uncomfortable as we all know people flash lights abd wring fists at even sensible overtakes - do it on something fruity and you are instantly a "bloody mad man".
I'd imagine the average (ie not very good) driver would look at a bike going past at 65mph and judge it wreckless!!
Charlie1986 said:
So a biker doing over 60mph passing stationary cars on a road that is blocked further up the road is ok?
Both at fault
Both at fault
- no one said it was ok!!Both were at fault; one paid with his life, the other not even endorsed afaik.
Seem fair??
If she'd hit with a lengthy ban and charged with DWDC then I think justice would have been done.
DoubleSix said:
- no one said it was ok!!Both were at fault; one paid with his life, the other not even endorsed afaik.
Seem fair??
If she'd hit with a lengthy ban and charged with DWDC then I think justice would have been done.
Laurel Green said:
Round 3 of a 5 round bout. 
It'll be interesting to see how that goes. They have a habit of dropping the series half-way through only for it to return without warning several months later. But now it's on BBC3, which has a short lifetime, next week (11th Feb) is in the EPG, but the next one would be on the 18th, and the channel goes online only on the 16th. So I don't know if all the schedule will continue online from the 17th, or if something else will happen. Seems to me to be too high-profile of a show to be made online-only.sidaorb said:
DoubleSix said:
- no one said it was ok!!Both were at fault; one paid with his life, the other not even endorsed afaik.
Seem fair??
If she'd hit with a lengthy ban and charged with DWDC then I think justice would have been done.
Had she been charged with death by careless driving, I'd like to think she would have been found guilty.
WilliamWoollard said:
I was only half watching but I thought the charge was death by careless.
I thought so too.If the biker hadn't been going over the limit, and/or over a speed it's sensible to filter past stationary traffic. Would he have died? I'd suspect not.
The bikers decision on his speed in those circumstances killed him. Going at a sensible speed past stationary cars (say 30ish) he might have had the crash but survived, or not had the crash at all. In my mind she might be guilty of a lesser charge. But not "death by".
droopsnoot said:
It'll be interesting to see how that goes. They have a habit of dropping the series half-way through only for it to return without warning several months later. But now it's on BBC3, which has a short lifetime, next week (11th Feb) is in the EPG, but the next one would be on the 18th, and the channel goes online only on the 16th. So I don't know if all the schedule will continue online from the 17th, or if something else will happen. Seems to me to be too high-profile of a show to be made online-only.
Yep, it's a bloody nightmare the way the BBC schedules MC. It's certainly not a clever way to attract viewers to such shows - fingers crossed for no repeat of such shambles with this series. 
Very similar circumstances to the biker incident but a different legal interpretation here. Some may remember the harrowing footage (issued with the family's consent) from the biker's helmet cam of the incident. Another case of ' I didn't look properly' and a biker using excessive speed, but in this case the driver gets a ban and community service.
Edited by darren f on Friday 5th February 18:26
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