Just heard on grapevine....

[BigBazza]

Just heard from one of my drivers that there has been a 4 car pile up on the M61 this morning....nothing remarkable about that you may think!
ALL 4 cars were marked BiBs!!
Apparently on some sort of training exercis, boxing in etc and the lead car took the other 3 out...OOPS
Hope all concerned are fit and well but it must have been quite a sight!

[stackmonkey]

I hope no-one's hurt but...


I REALLY want to see the insurance claim form for this!

[towman]

pictures please!

[towman]

bbc web news link here

[Dibble]

Sounds like the pursuit training course - one of the scenarios is set round there.

I'll find out more when I'm back to work Friday.

[juk]

stackmonkey said:

I hope no-one's hurt but... I REALLY want to see the insurance claim form for this!

Do the BiB have insurance?

[towman]

mungo said:

Police cars don't have insurance

OK then......The standard "not my fault" incident report will do !

[Mr E]

Rolling roadblock pratice gone wrong?

[philthy]

Just goes to show we are all human, and therefore make mistakes. I hope everyones ok.

Phil

[MilnerR]

Local paper a couple of weeks ago (buxton advertiser)had an article about a local BiB who was doing a pursuit management training course and ended up going head on with another car while overtaking. Everyone involved was ok but i don't think the instructors feedback was up to much

[Don]

Ouch...hope they're all alright...

Someone's going to get a bollocking they won't forget in a long time....

[Dwight VanDriver]

mungo said:

stackmonkey said: I REALLY want to see the insurance claim form for this! Police cars don't have insurance

Whilst Mungo rightly points out that Police vehicles are exempt Insurance under RTA 88, many Forces do in fact take Insurance out. My old Force was with the Mutual Municipal Insurance, which was much favoured by Local Authorities.

DVD

[pzero64]

Ooooops. I hope no one was injured.

However, all I can picture is Officer Barbrady on South Park saying, “move along people, there’s nothing to see here”.

[nel]

No doubt the cars will be replaced at the taxpayer's expense... and will all have plenty of paid time off to get over their whiplash...

Still, guess they have to learn somehow.

[gone]

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!

[davel]

Ah but what could you get the insurance bill down to with a few years no claims?

[voyds9]

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.

[silverback mike]

Ours don't have insurance.
Apparently no-one wanted to insure us lot

[BigBazza]

nel said:

and will all have plenty of paid time off to get over their whiplash....

My Sis in Law works in HR at HQ and first thing she said was how long they would be off on fullpay....whilst moonlighting as strippagrams, security personnel, driving instructors etc

[silverback mike]

nel said:

and will all have plenty of paid time off to get over their whiplash... Still, guess they have to learn somehow.

And they may not.