Police and bad driving
Discussion
Now Im not a police knocker - but on this occasion ill make an exception - Sherifhall roundabout - came round roundabout and took the exit for A7 south. It can be a reasonably quick roundabout if you get the lights in your favour....
I left the roundabout and was met by a police car on the wrong side of the road heading towards the roundabout.....
extremely dangerous action indeed. 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.
I left the roundabout and was met by a police car on the wrong side of the road heading towards the roundabout.....
extremely dangerous action indeed. 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.
ben5732 said:
Would of been a grade 1 call I.e. threat to life. Every second can count...
Not to the point of causing another life threatening situation.I commute on a road used by the plod for "driver training" and have on several occasions seen them overtaking approaching or on blind bends. The 17 year old boy racers have nothing on plod in Hertfordshire.
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.
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.
He was convicted of careless driving.Tribal Chestnut said:
I went past a Police van earlier doing an indicated 70 or so whilst plonked squarely in the middle lane. Lane 1 was empty. Naughty boy.
Not all police are perfect drivers. You can't teach every officer to be perfect behind the wheel. And before you mention hypocrisy, many police officers will go years, if not their whole career without stopping a car, and certainly for MLM. 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.
Not sure what the legal definition is, but to a layman, that looks awfully like someone was:Driving dangerously, and;
Causing death.
simoid said:
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.
Not sure what the legal definition is, but to a layman, that looks awfully like someone was:Driving dangerously, and;
Causing death.
simoid said:
Not sure what the legal definition is, but to a layman, that looks awfully like someone was:
Driving dangerously, and;
Causing death.
Yes, many who live in this area were disgusted by the decision not to find him guilty of 'causing Death by D.D.' and the instructor for 'aiding & abetting'.Driving dangerously, and;
Causing death.
They got less than someone who names the 'wrong' person on an S.172.
Funny old World!
Cooperman said:
simoid said:
Not sure what the legal definition is, but to a layman, that looks awfully like someone was:
Driving dangerously, and;
Causing death.
Yes, many who live in this area were disgusted by the decision not to find him guilty of 'causing Death by D.D.' and the instructor for 'aiding & abetting'.Driving dangerously, and;
Causing death.
They got less than someone who names the 'wrong' person on an S.172.
Funny old World!
vonhosen said:
simoid said:
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.
Not sure what the legal definition is, but to a layman, that looks awfully like someone was:Driving dangerously, and;
Causing death.
vonhosen said:
He was charged with death by dangerous driving. A jury (having all the evidence before them) acquitted him of that, but found him guilty of the alternate charge of careless driving.
I was able to read between the lines and see that, yes. Still drove into the back of a queue at "license losing speed", causing a death, which was my point. Seems quite unbelievable.Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff