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voyds9 said:
Breaking news Lancashire Scamera partnership come up with a new way to site scameras by crashing four of the local police cars.
Watch out for the new speed camera.
Liebchen - they will place even more talivans on the bridges on grounds that the motorway is ever so dangerous ..
WildCat said:Job for life
Breaking news Lancashire Scamera partnership come up with a new way to site scameras by crashing four of the local police cars.
Watch out for the new speed camera.
Liebchen - they will place even more talivans on the bridges on grounds that the motorway is ever so dangerous ..
gone said:
In my force the coming together of force metal requires an insurance form and lots of other internal ones to explain how it occurred. The excess on the policy is £2000!
The force Insurance bill is 1.5 Million per year!
Is that £1.5m the annual premium or the total value of claims? Either way it's a staggering sum.
It makes my £300 (approx.) annual premium seem quite modest, but even then it's more than it ought to be for me!
Anyhow I hope the one significant injury proves to be not too serious. I guess it could have been much worse.
Best wishes all,
Dave.
Streetcop said:
Evening Dave...triples,
Hope you're ok..I'm fine...busy day...dozen or so ticketed...a few dreadfully parked HGVs as well today..professional drivers, knights of the road....
Street
Hello Gary, how are your fiddlesticks? In disarray as usual I expect.
Actually I'm a great admirer of HGV drivers so long as they keep their distance from my tail, and I get on with them very well normally.
As a matter of fact I find a good measure of harmony with most of my fellow road users, but after reading about the things some PHers have to contend with I sometimes wonder what I'm doing that's different.
Best wishes all,
Dave - somewhat mystified.
Streetcop said:
Dave..it will be a mixture of things...
Your car, your appearance, your road position and how much prior notice you give other road users before you change either position, course or speed..
Street
Hmm, I suppose so. Presumably driving a clapped out car
slowly and carefully 
, never doing anything in a hurry etc. It should all help! Best wishes all,
Dave.
gone said:
gone said:
The excess on the policy is £2000!
The speed you and that Moss character tank around in at work I'm not suprised mate
Shhhhhhhhhhh
I still manage to come home with all the big bits attached(So far anyway
)
Does that mean all the little bits broke off? Or do you stop and collect them?
gone said:
In my force the coming together of force metal requires an insurance form and lots of other internal ones to explain how it occurred. The excess on the policy is £2000!
The force Insurance bill is 1.5 Million per year!
I'm sure the Sheffield paper carried a story some years ago that South Yorks police fleet has no insurance, so all repairs come out of their Council Tax funding.
Maybe a shrewd move...can't see their repair bill reaching £1.5m.
But what happens if a massive injury claim comes in? A little worrying........
From tonight's Lancashire Evening Post
An investigation is under way today after police were left red-faced when six of their vehicles were involved in a collision on the M61.
The squadron of police cars crashed while taking part in a 'controlled stopping exercise'.
Amazingly, no one was seriously injured in the mid-morning pile-up although five Lancashire Police officers were hospitalised.
Traffic ground to a halt when the training exercise went horribly wrong at around 10.45am yesterday. The accident happened on the northbound carriageway of the M61, between junction eight, at Chorley, and junction nine, known as Blacoe junction.
Police bosses say the five marked police cars were practising a controlled stop on an unmarked target police vehicle at low speed when the accident happened. Officers said today that four of the police vehicles were blocking in the 'target' vehicle while a sixth vehicle was following behind.
Five officers, who are all experienced road policing officers, were taken by ambulance to hospital suffering from whiplash. None was seriously hurt.
Senior officers in Lancashire have now said they will not use the driver training technique until an investigation has been completed.
Police were forced to close lanes two and three of the carriageway for around two and a half hours as they cleared the scene.
The closure caused tailbacks of around two and a half miles, though police today denied there had been any major problems. The northbound entry slip road at junction eight was also coned off.
Police stressed today that the operation was being carried out at low speed and that the motorway matrix signs had been set to warn other drivers.
Assistant Chief Constable Adrian McAllister said: "Thankfully, none of my officers has been badly injured and no members of the public were involved at all.
"I have now ordered an investigation to establish exactly what happened and a senior investigating officer has been appointed.
"In the circumstances I feel it only right that the Constabulary suspend this type of training with immediate effect, pending the outcome of the investigation and a full report to the Chief Constable."
He added that the training is approved by the Association of Chief Police Officers and as such is carried out in accordance with national policy, sanctioned by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The training method used consists of boxing the target vehicle with a group of squad cars.
It is carried out under the supervision of advanced driving instructors and overseen by a senior officer from the force motor driving school.
A "sterile" area is established to ensure that no members of the public are placed in danger with matrix signals warning other motorists of potential hazards ahead.
Mr McAllister said: "This training is ACPO approved and nationally accepted good practice, but I feel it right to review our position at this time."
The officers involved were all from the Lancashire Police road policing unit. No further personal details about them are being released.
A spokeswoman for AA Roadwatch: "It cleared about 1pm. The congestion stayed long after the accident cleared.
"There were long delays between junctions eight and nine. If it had happened earlier in the morning it could have caused more problems.
"Between junction nine and eight it is three and a half miles so it was about two and a half mile queues."
An investigation is under way today after police were left red-faced when six of their vehicles were involved in a collision on the M61.
The squadron of police cars crashed while taking part in a 'controlled stopping exercise'.
Amazingly, no one was seriously injured in the mid-morning pile-up although five Lancashire Police officers were hospitalised.
Traffic ground to a halt when the training exercise went horribly wrong at around 10.45am yesterday. The accident happened on the northbound carriageway of the M61, between junction eight, at Chorley, and junction nine, known as Blacoe junction.
Police bosses say the five marked police cars were practising a controlled stop on an unmarked target police vehicle at low speed when the accident happened. Officers said today that four of the police vehicles were blocking in the 'target' vehicle while a sixth vehicle was following behind.
Five officers, who are all experienced road policing officers, were taken by ambulance to hospital suffering from whiplash. None was seriously hurt.
Senior officers in Lancashire have now said they will not use the driver training technique until an investigation has been completed.
Police were forced to close lanes two and three of the carriageway for around two and a half hours as they cleared the scene.
The closure caused tailbacks of around two and a half miles, though police today denied there had been any major problems. The northbound entry slip road at junction eight was also coned off.
Police stressed today that the operation was being carried out at low speed and that the motorway matrix signs had been set to warn other drivers.
Assistant Chief Constable Adrian McAllister said: "Thankfully, none of my officers has been badly injured and no members of the public were involved at all.
"I have now ordered an investigation to establish exactly what happened and a senior investigating officer has been appointed.
"In the circumstances I feel it only right that the Constabulary suspend this type of training with immediate effect, pending the outcome of the investigation and a full report to the Chief Constable."
He added that the training is approved by the Association of Chief Police Officers and as such is carried out in accordance with national policy, sanctioned by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The training method used consists of boxing the target vehicle with a group of squad cars.
It is carried out under the supervision of advanced driving instructors and overseen by a senior officer from the force motor driving school.
A "sterile" area is established to ensure that no members of the public are placed in danger with matrix signals warning other motorists of potential hazards ahead.
Mr McAllister said: "This training is ACPO approved and nationally accepted good practice, but I feel it right to review our position at this time."
The officers involved were all from the Lancashire Police road policing unit. No further personal details about them are being released.
A spokeswoman for AA Roadwatch: "It cleared about 1pm. The congestion stayed long after the accident cleared.
"There were long delays between junctions eight and nine. If it had happened earlier in the morning it could have caused more problems.
"Between junction nine and eight it is three and a half miles so it was about two and a half mile queues."
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