Traffic Cops BBC1
Discussion
BlackLabel said:
I wonder what the chap in his boxers with a car full of rabbits and hundreds of miles from home was really up to?
the thing is it is 50/50. i have travelling a long way to night fish. Rabbits come out at night and probably used guns as well so dodgy, but country living is a different world.but their car was already linked to crime. Likely casing suitable farms and premises from the sounds of it. If they've got any sense they would case joints one night and having nothing incriminating in the car, and go a different day in a different car to do the job, or pass the info on to another group & vice versa.
It was indeed a good episode. Am i right in hearing that the burglars had stolen the car from the person who was attacked? If so who pays for the damage that the police caused? Is it a case of her own insurer would have to pay as it was classed as stolen?
Also that chemical fire! That a1 was closed for 7 hours! that would of been a hell of a tailback.
Also that chemical fire! That a1 was closed for 7 hours! that would of been a hell of a tailback.
The Spruce goose said:
CoolHands said:
but their car was already linked to crime..
i don't think the police ever aid that. We are not a police state so even if it seems unlikely they are given benefit of doubt.Nice of the driver to moon as he walked back to it at the end.....
And give it the vs.
Faust66 said:
That Hillux driver is a lucky boy...
Impressive bit of collision investigation by Plod too...."There's one obvious cause here and that's excessive speed".
Pretty good that, bearing in mind the casualty car was twenty feet below on its side in a six foot deep river. Granted, speed was a highly likely cause, but the only one? Whatever happened to remaining open-minded and not saying anything that may be later relied on in court?
Other than that, pretty good episode.
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 28th May 14:20
Crossflow Kid said:
Impressive bit of collision investigation by Plod too....
"There's one obvious cause here and that's excessive speed".
Pretty good that, bearing in mind the casualty car was twenty feet below on its side in a six foot deep river. Granted, speed was a highly likely cause, but the only one? Whatever happened to remaining open-minded and not saying anything that may be later relied on in court?
I've seen a few of those things and even on programmes that focus on collision investigation they appear to make up a scenario which fits the available evidence."There's one obvious cause here and that's excessive speed".
Pretty good that, bearing in mind the casualty car was twenty feet below on its side in a six foot deep river. Granted, speed was a highly likely cause, but the only one? Whatever happened to remaining open-minded and not saying anything that may be later relied on in court?
Which is fine is you're just musing, but they then present that scenario as fact.
Wilksy288 said:
Also that chemical fire! That a1 was closed for 7 hours! that would of been a hell of a tailback.
This is the reason I don't really travel about - it depresses me beyond words to see stuff like that going on and imagine being in the tailback. And it's only on the telly. They mentioned at one point the specialist recovery people were coming but they'd have to get through the 2 mile tailback, so I assume there was a junction at that point and they were leading people off. But there were a few things a bit strange on that, which might be down to me not paying proper attention. Didn't the fire happen just after a junction? If so, rather than having 2 miles of traffic stopped on the A1, wouldn't it have been better to lead them all off at that junction? And surely the specialist recovery people could have been brought to that junction and allowed on, rather than trying to get through the tailback? I assume some of that must have happened otherwise they'd never have got there:
Why is there a tailback?
Because there's a truck on fire with dangerous chemicals.
When will it be cleared?
When the special recovery team gets here.
Where are they now?
Two miles behind us in the tailback.
I must have drifted off for a bit - I tend to pay most attention when there's a decent car chase. I hope they never have to recover my stolen car for me - sounded like they'd decided to stick the windows in before they'd even stopped it. Still, I guess it's easy to second-guess stuff when we've only seen a minute of terrible footage - I assume the proper film crew weren't in the lead cars on that, it was worse than the footage in the original Police Camera Action videos.
droopsnoot said:
They mentioned at one point the specialist recovery people were coming but they'd have to get through the 2 mile tailback, so I assume there was a junction at that point and they were leading people off.
I often wonder why they cannot be escorted the wrong way along the carriageway from the following junction, in these situations? maurauth said:
I felt sorry for that poor VXR, was s
tting my pants when they started waggling the chainsaw around under it near the door sills and the tyres, and when they started trying to lift it by the tyres.
Haha, i thought exactly the same when they had the chainsaw there! If it was my car i think i would of accepted the recovery truck to lift it off properly, instead of trying to get it out myself with a chainsaw and fork truck haha.tting my pants when they started waggling the chainsaw around under it near the door sills and the tyres, and when they started trying to lift it by the tyres.Laurel Green said:
I often wonder why they cannot be escorted the wrong way along the carriageway from the following junction, in these situations?
If the police are organised enough they are. Happened to me near Wrexham after a fatal. I was 100m past the junction. After 45 mins of waiting they started reversing people up the carriageway one by oneLaurel Green said:
I often wonder why they cannot be escorted the wrong way along the carriageway from the following junction, in these situations?
Im guessing after a certain amount of time the tailback would be too large to try and organise something like that? Especially when everyone is bumper to bumper. SteBrown91 said:
Laurel Green said:
I often wonder why they cannot be escorted the wrong way along the carriageway from the following junction, in these situations?
If the police are organised enough they are. Happened to me near Wrexham after a fatal. I was 100m past the junction. After 45 mins of waiting they started reversing people up the carriageway one by oneGassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff