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Blue Oval84

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Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Anyone else watching? Was that perhaps the slowest and most dull witted 3 point turn you've ever seen?

For those that haven't seen it, Police BMW follows a van with no lights into a pub car park, van drives to the end of the car park and U-turns back out onto the main road. Police car stops and does a 3 point turn instead of either U-ing it, or, my personal favourite, turning DSC off and sliding it round, they get out onto the road and the van has made a clean getaway!

They normally seem to drive pretty briskly, but that was rubbish!

Blue Oval84

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Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Apologies - it was an XF the cops were driving, they've upgraded their fleet smile

Blue Oval84

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Thursday 2nd February 2012
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The "owner" looked pretty young for that car, he's obviously never done a What Car on PH...

Blue Oval84

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Thursday 2nd February 2012
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carmonk said:
The bloke whose Bentley it was didn't look too happy at being caught with his rent boy.
I was thinking much the same thing!

Blue Oval84

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Monday 25th March 2013
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I've just tuned in, if I watch in iPlayer will I get to see the crash?

Blue Oval84

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Thursday 3rd October 2013
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Zad said:
It is the same as one car travelling at 70.7mph hitting a stationary object. Kinetic energy due to inertia increases as the square of the speed, whereas having 2 cars obviously doubles it. Imagine driving at the legal motorway limit into a stationary car, and one of those cars being a Mini. >Shudder<
Is it? I thought that, for example, if two identical cars hit each other head on whilst both travelling at 50mph, it's the same as one of them hitting a solid object at 50mph.

This is what I based that thinking on-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8E5dUnLmh4