Traffic Cops BBC1

[speedking31]

You misunderstood. LG meant bring the recovery vehicles on at the next junction and lead them back the wrong way to the scene of the incident.

VXR. Because farmer. Pay £150 for recovery when I have a perfectly good forklift. One damaged tyre would have made the recovery seem like good value

Edited by speedking31 on Friday 29th May 13:16

[maurauth]

Yeah, who knows what he did to the VXR doing his 3.14key recovery. Ruined a tyre, bent the door sills, chainsawed part something underneath, caused further damage pulling the bumper when it was attached to the tree, maybe damaged radiator, intercooler etc by pulling the car rather than lifting it off... scuffed bodywork and wheels trying to fit it on that tiny trailer.

All it needed was lifting out if they were happy to drive it down the road to the farm... no need to pay for it to be trailered or storage fees.

[anonymous-user]

maurauth said:

I felt sorry for that poor VXR, was stting 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.

Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred,
Strong in't arm
An' thick in't head.

[anonymous-user]

What would you say the closing speed is then?

[Zad]

Crossflow Kid said:

What would you say the closing speed is then?

Relative closing speed is misleading. Two bodies colliding at 60mph each is not the same as 1 body at 120mph crashing into a static object.

The kinetic energy in a body is 0.5 * Mass * (Velocity squared).
So:

The kinetic energy in 2 vehicles at the same speed is 2 times that of 1 vehicle (the mass doubled).

The kinetic energy in 1 vehicle at double the speed is (2*velocity)^2 (The velocity doubled). In other words, 4 times the kinetic energy.

If you imagine the 2 objects colliding as being identical, then at the point of contact nothing moves. Each body decelerates from (say) 60mph to zero.

[DuraAce]

Little bit worrying that plod hasn't grasped such basics. I hope he isn't on the collision investigators team!

I thought it was a slightly poor episode to be honest. Not a great deal going on.

[Beknown]

What was with that jump at the very beginning?

Poor VXR owner.

[V8Matthew]

I'm always astounded by how pitiful the sentences are. Police chasing some skagged-up charver doing 90 through a playground, and then at the end of the episode 'the driver of the stolen Cavalier was ordered to make a pasta & glue card saying sorry to the old lady he mowed down, and was banned from driving for 14 minutes'.

[anonymous-user]

Zad said:

Crossflow Kid said:

What would you say the closing speed is then?

Relative closing speed is misleading. Two bodies colliding at 60mph each is not the same as 1 body at 120mph crashing into a static object.

The kinetic energy in a body is 0.5 * Mass * (Velocity squared).
So:

The kinetic energy in 2 vehicles at the same speed is 2 times that of 1 vehicle (the mass doubled).

The kinetic energy in 1 vehicle at double the speed is (2*velocity)^2 (The velocity doubled). In other words, 4 times the kinetic energy.

If you imagine the 2 objects colliding as being identical, then at the point of contact nothing moves. Each body decelerates from (say) 60mph to zero.

Did Plod say it was like crashing at 120mph or did he say it was a closing speed of 120mph? Can't actually remember, and can't be arsed watching again.
If it's the former then fair play, and well done with the maths. Not seen any of that since college!

[maurauth]

V8Matthew said:

I'm always astounded by how pitiful the sentences are. Police chasing some skagged-up charver doing 90 through a playground, and then at the end of the episode 'the driver of the stolen Cavalier was ordered to make a pasta & glue card saying sorry to the old lady he mowed down, and was banned from driving for 14 minutes'.

Chav on benefits so income based fine is only 2p otherwise it just comes out of taxpayer's money. The little stbag pleads he needs his licence to get around applying for jobs etc

System ain't fair.

[Cfnteabag]

Beknown said:

What was with that jump at the very beginning?

Poor VXR owner.

I went back and watched that again! Looked quite impressive!

[Beknown]

Cfnteabag said:

Beknown said:

What was with that jump at the very beginning?

Poor VXR owner.

I went back and watched that again! Looked quite impressive!

If you or I did that no doubt we'd be done for dangerous driving, as its the police who did it "its ok".

[northwest monkey]

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?

What I didn't get about that was the bald tyres. Down to 0.2mm on a couple of his tyres but then lets him drive off down a wet & dark motorway all the way back to Barnsley which is "2 counties away". I've seen these sorts of programmes before where they'll seize the car for that.

Odd.

[Beati Dogu]

They were about 40 miles from home when they were stopped, but they had no tax disk on display either. I was expecting it to be seized too, especially as they were clearly scumbags up to no good, it was 4am and the car was flagged up on ANPR for involvement in burglaries. So much for denying criminals the use of the motorway network.

[WilliamWoollard]

I wonder what was really in the boot...

[LittleEnus]

Yes exactly- why did they not check the boot?

[CoolHands]

Because they had the dogs in there and they would jump out and run over the motorway which would be madness.

[northwest monkey]

Seemed a bit like the police bloke couldn't be arsed if you ask me. 2 bald tyres & they get a "be on your way then lads". I must remember the old "dog in the boot" trick next time I rob a Hatton Garden jewellery place.

It just seemed very odd.

[iva cosworth]

He could have opened the boot a fraction to check for "dogs" or look at what really was in there.

[Laurel Green]

...or ask them to follow to a place of safety.