Ever overtaken a Police Car and been pulled for it?

[davy9449]

I'll try to keep this as short as possible, but I feel a rant may evolve from this!!

Tonight, when coming to work I was unfortunate enough to be driving behind a tw@, err I mean officer in a panda car. All was normal, he was driving at the 30 limit, so was I at a safe distance behind. We approached a roundybout, he entered it somewhere in the middle and I presumed he was going straight on, but half way on he indicated right. I too was going right onto a single lane (fairly wide) carriageway (50 limit - I'm trying to paint you a picture here see!! ).
I followed, using correct road positioning and indication which is more than I could say for this knob, and he proceeded to accelerate up to a steady 35mph! then he stopped accelerating. So I thought Fook this, I am going to work, he has obviously got nothing better to do than hold me up, I checked well ahead, nothing oncoming, no pedestrians, nothing from the side road on the left or right where the garage was closed anyway, and overtook him at under 50mph. I gave him plenty of room blah blah blah.

I rambling now. Anyway, he pulled me.
Firstly he asked,
"Did you know you were overtaking a police car?" Err, no sorry I failed to notice the large red and yellow stripes adourning the rear of your vehicle from 14 mtrs! My spectacles must have misted up!!! (Ok I never said this biut that's what I was thinking)
He said And I quote
"you CANNOT OVERTAKE ON A SINGLE LANE CARRIAGE WAY WITH ONCOMING TRAFFIC".
When I quizzed him about what unbroken lines in the middle of the road were for then (which weren't on this road BTW) he said you can
"only overtake on a 3 LANE CARRIAGE WAY"! And said he could have booked me for, "driving without DUE CARE AND ATTENTION"!
I mean what is this guy on?? What a complete C*ck! It's no wonder people can't stand the police.
Then he told me to be on my way and drive safely!

If you are in HARTLEPOOL and you are pulled my a copper about 5'6" with a bald head and shaved on the sides driving a Focus '06 reg, tell him he's a c*ck please. Thanks!

I should have taken his number and reported him for wasting my time!!

Any coppers not sure of the laws of overtaking please use this link

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Hig...

Edited by davy9449 on Tuesday 11th December 02:23

[JonTreVoR]

Gutted!

Well i did once overtake an undercover cop car while he was giving chase!!!
He pulled me

We were following a BMW round some country lanes, as he overtook a 4x4. So
as we went to follow the 4x4 sped up.

Thinkging "fook that" we over took and BAM as we were level we looked over to see this guy in
a state of shock, bit further forward we saw the lights and that was it!!

He was not happy one little bit, but couldnt do anything as he was a man on his own.. Phew!!!

[tribbles]

Mate of mine also got caught overtaking an unmarked car while it was chasing another one. Mind you, they were doing 90+ (he got booked doing 98)...

[malross]

Yep. Driving on a dual carriageway, I was approaching a police car at 65mph. Police car was in the outside lane for no reason at all (he wasn't overtaking anyone). I slowed to his 50mph and sat patiently in the inside lane giving him space to pull in in front of me. He then saw my lights (it was just gone midnight) and pulled in. I pulled out and accelerated up to 70 mph to pass him, at which point he accelerated too. Before I could get safely past and pulled in, we'd reached a roundabout for which I needed to be in the left-hand lane (even though I was turning right - it's a weird roundabout).

Still, he wasn't indicating right, so I figured it wouldn't be a problem as we weren't taking the same exit. Wrong! He turned right too, despite not indicating right. In the end, I had to brake and pull in behind him at the last minute before exiting the roundabout. Clearly, I pulled in too close behind him because he pulled me over and gave me a 15-minute lecture on how "that was the stupidest driving I've ever seen". Seriously. He even accused me of trying to run him off the road, FFS!

He also used the line about "didn't you see the markings on my car?". As if that should make a difference to how I drive?!?! Is he really saying that it's ok to drive badly, provided it's not a police car you're overtaking? Really got me riled at the time, but there's no right answer. Needless to say, I give jam sandwiches a seriously wide berth these days and just let them get on with whatever they want to do, stupid or otherwise.

Mal.

[mackie1]

I knew it was considered socially unacceptable these days but you'd expect a police officer to have at least a basic knowledge of the highway code. Did you argue the point or just let it go? I'd be flabberghasted!

[tyre_tread]

Yes - I just typed a lengthy explanation & lost it

[davy9449]

mackie1 said:

I knew it was considered socially unacceptable these days but you'd expect a police officer to have at least a basic knowledge of the highway code. Did you argue the point or just let it go? I'd be flabberghasted!

TBH, I was shell shocked. At first I thought, 'Have I been driving wrongly for the past 11 1/2 yrs, even with a clean licence and no accidents'? Then I thought fook it, I am late as it is now, and I don't want him to check my suspiciously 'legal' n/s rear tyre (I had a puncture the other day and had to put a spare on otherwise it was the spacer saver) so I just played the fool and drove away. Although I asked him what the unbroken white lines were for and he gave me the WRONG answer.

I still knew that I had annoyed him by overtaking hiom though, which gave me a wry smile, the wan*er!

I'd love to see him do a written theory test!! I got 48 out of 50 on one of them 'free' test papers on line. The 2 I got wrong were about bloody towing a caravan (Like OK) and another about the distance to have a warning triangle from your vehicle!

Apologies for the amount of obscenities - but the scum have this kind of effect!!

Edited by davy9449 on Monday 10th December 22:14

[tfm]

I was filtering on the M40 and got pulled over by an unmarked Silver poor man's Audi (Skoda)
The traffic was moving at around 20 mph and I was filtering between lanes 2 and 3 at about 30mph.
He pulled me over about 2 miles further on when the traffic had cleared.
He started to lecture me but I was having non of it. I'm a very careful rider and was filtering well within the law and very safely...he seemed to think I was going too fast, which I know I wasn't.
I had done a Bikesafe course 2 weeks earlier and had made a point of asking about filtering so I knew what I was talking about.
We argued for about 5 minutes on the side of the road and eventually he gave up and said I could go...I continued to argue with him for a further 3 or 4 minutes and left.
If you know you're in the right don't let these Nazi's bully you!!

[mat205125]

davy9449 said:

mackie1 said:

I knew it was considered socially unacceptable these days but you'd expect a police officer to have at least a basic knowledge of the highway code. Did you argue the point or just let it go? I'd be flabberghasted!

TBH, I was shell shocked. At first I thought, 'Have I been driving wrongly for the past 11 1/2 yrs, even with a clean licence and no accidents'? Then I thought fook it, I am late as it is now, and I don't want him to check my suspiciously 'legal' n/s rear tyre (I had a puncture the other day and had to put a spare on otherwise it was the spacer saver :yuk so I just played the fool and drove away. Although I asked him what the unbroken white lines were for and he gave me the WRONG answer.

I still knew that I had annoyed him by overtaking hiom though, which gave me a wry smile, the wan*er!

I'd love to see him do a written theory test!! I got 48 out of 50 on one of them 'free' test papers on line. The 2 I got wrong were about bloody towing a caravan (Like OK) and another about the distance to have a warning triangle from your vehicle!

Apologies for the amount of obscenities - but the scum have this kind of effect!!

Unbroken white lines? A line without breaks? A solid white line in the centre of the road? These do mean that you should not cross them to overtake.

[Furberger]

Overtook a panda car coming out of a 40 into a NSL. Got upto 60 and completed the maneuver. Single female officer now started following and it had clearly riled her. I came up behind some slow moving traffic and I was gone. She didn't go for the overtake and I was dust as soon as I had rounded the next bend!
Not what the OP asked exactly, but it made me feel a bit like a naughty school boy!
hehehe

[davy9449]

mat205125 said:

davy9449 said:

mackie1 said:

I knew it was considered socially unacceptable these days but you'd expect a police officer to have at least a basic knowledge of the highway code. Did you argue the point or just let it go? I'd be flabberghasted!

TBH, I was shell shocked. At first I thought, 'Have I been driving wrongly for the past 11 1/2 yrs, even with a clean licence and no accidents'? Then I thought fook it, I am late as it is now, and I don't want him to check my suspiciously 'legal' n/s rear tyre (I had a puncture the other day and had to put a spare on otherwise it was the spacer saver :yuk so I just played the fool and drove away. Although I asked him what the unbroken white lines were for and he gave me the WRONG answer.

I still knew that I had annoyed him by overtaking hiom though, which gave me a wry smile, the wan*er!

I'd love to see him do a written theory test!! I got 48 out of 50 on one of them 'free' test papers on line. The 2 I got wrong were about bloody towing a caravan (Like OK) and another about the distance to have a warning triangle from your vehicle!

Apologies for the amount of obscenities - but the scum have this kind of effect!!

Unbroken white lines? A line without breaks? A solid white line in the centre of the road? These do mean that you should not cross them to overtake.

No, what I mean by that was in my earlier post. I.e. I was asking him what the point in a solid white line was for if you cannot overtake on a carriageway with broken or dashed white lines? The orad I was on was standard dashed centre markings. I didn't make that very clear in that last post, sorry!!!

[Swoxy]

I've never overtaken a Police car before, however I have undertaken one!
It was doing 35mph in the outside lane of a 50mph dual carriageway and refused to move over so I undertook it. I'm normally pretty good at spotting undercover cars and felt like a plonker when I looked over to see four of them glaring at me as I passed. They looked pretty busy as they were putting on vests and talking into radios so luckily they did not pull me over.
And for the record, I don't undertake any more!

[les3002]

I personally think the standard of driving from most cops is terrible, in the past week ive seen one go right at a roundabout from the left lane with no indication whatsoever, leave a motorway from the third lane cutting between traffic, again no indication.

Then last friday night i got followed for a good few miles after having the audacity to overtake a traffic car at 70 on a duel-carridgeway rather than que up behind it at 65 like the rest of the sheep.

I suppose though they did at least keep their distance usually they fly upto your back bumper just hoping you drop the hammer on them.

[pistonring]

Yep I overtook one once and got pulled. Unbucked my seatbelt to get out the car by which time the copper was at my window. He looked in, asked if I was in a hurry then noticed my belt was undone and proceeded to issue me with a fine. Upon arguing that I had just undone it he threatened to "Take me down the station" if I didnt calm down. I had other people in the car who clearly saw I had the belt on. I told the policeman this and he said if I appeal I would probably get away with it but could I afford a day off work to go to court. He may as well have just pulled down my pants and taken me from behind. Very peed off but my mates were quite impressed at the verbal abuse I gave the policeman before he threatened to arrest me if I didnt calm down.

[John57]

I get fed up with people not being prepared to overake me when I am doing under the limit in marked cars on dual carraigeways ..... the queue behind can get so stupid I end up turning off.

Thing is if I do the speed limit it is guaranteed to mean someone will overtake at about 20 over the limit - then I do stop them !

[Lordbenny]

pistonring said:

Yep I overtook one once and got pulled. Unbucked my seatbelt to get out the car by which time the copper was at my window. He looked in, asked if I was in a hurry then noticed my belt was undone and proceeded to issue me with a fine. Upon arguing that I had just undone it he threatened to "Take me down the station" if I didnt calm down. I had other people in the car who clearly saw I had the belt on. I told the policeman this and he said if I appeal I would probably get away with it but could I afford a day off work to go to court. He may as well have just pulled down my pants and taken me from behind. Very peed off but my mates were quite impressed at the verbal abuse I gave the policeman before he threatened to arrest me if I didnt calm down.

Welcome to Pistonheads!!! Nice first post sir

[no-worries88]

once sat behind a copper doing 70mph through cornwall in a 40, he dint have blue lights on,couldnt pull me for something he was doing himself,made a shite journey better

[MrKipling43]

tyre_tread said:

Yes - I just typed a lengthy explanation & lost it

Ctrl A, Ctrl C, Ctrl V. I've learned the hard way.

I overtook a Police car that was doing about 30 down a derestricted B-road and didn't get tugged. I've never been more nervous, but I'm very impatient.

[davy9449]

Lordbenny said:

pistonring said:

Yep I overtook one once and got pulled. Unbucked my seatbelt to get out the car by which time the copper was at my window. He looked in, asked if I was in a hurry then noticed my belt was undone and proceeded to issue me with a fine. Upon arguing that I had just undone it he threatened to "Take me down the station" if I didnt calm down. I had other people in the car who clearly saw I had the belt on. I told the policeman this and he said if I appeal I would probably get away with it but could I afford a day off work to go to court. He may as well have just pulled down my pants and taken me from behind. Very peed off but my mates were quite impressed at the verbal abuse I gave the policeman before he threatened to arrest me if I didnt calm down.

Welcome to Pistonheads!!! Nice first post sir

Yes bravo, I am glad I am not alone. Although you're braver than me!!

John57 said:

I get fed up with people not being prepared to overake me when I am doing under the limit in marked cars on dual carraigeways ..... the queue behind can get so stupid I end up turning off.

Thing is if I do the speed limit it is guaranteed to mean someone will overtake at about 20 over the limit - then I do stop them !

John, you seem like on of the good guys, well you would be you're on here!! Please show your less superior 'panda' friends how it's done would you

[nonegreen]

Yep I overtook awr at 60mph in a 60 and he insisted GLF signs meant 50. Prick even reported me. Phone call to senior officer resulted in bollocking for prick. Mind you these days A* is about eleven plus level really. Sad really we used to respect the police parasites, no longer they are just part uf the gummint imposed burden.