Very lucky, or ticket in the mail?
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Hi All
I was a passenger (yes, really) in a car today when a Rice-rocket went past us giving it a load of gas...needless to say we stupidly gave chase.
The Rice-rocket kept his foot down and we decided that it was rather silly to keep going so backed off and pulled in.
I don't know how quick we were going but I am sure it was above and beyond 70mph.
Seconds later what we thought was an unmarked police car went past us in the outside lane. Sure enough, it was. On came the blue lights and the police pulled the Rice-rocket over.
Now my friendly driver is worried that he'll get a ticket in the post. Can he? Don't the police have to pull you over, give you a ticket etc? Or can the police possibly use in-car video footage as a reason for a ticket?
Cheers all.
dtc.
I was a passenger (yes, really) in a car today when a Rice-rocket went past us giving it a load of gas...needless to say we stupidly gave chase.
The Rice-rocket kept his foot down and we decided that it was rather silly to keep going so backed off and pulled in.
I don't know how quick we were going but I am sure it was above and beyond 70mph.
Seconds later what we thought was an unmarked police car went past us in the outside lane. Sure enough, it was. On came the blue lights and the police pulled the Rice-rocket over.
Now my friendly driver is worried that he'll get a ticket in the post. Can he? Don't the police have to pull you over, give you a ticket etc? Or can the police possibly use in-car video footage as a reason for a ticket?
Cheers all.
dtc.
If you were 'racing' the rice rocket (RR) then Stealth may have sufficient evidence of a check on the pair of you in excess. He can only stop one car at a time - the RR. To follow up on you paperwork in the post.
Sweat for 15 days if you are the Reg Keeper.
Learn to ditch the red mist please. Let them go to their own doom in future.
dvd
Sweat for 15 days if you are the Reg Keeper.
Learn to ditch the red mist please. Let them go to their own doom in future.
dvd
Dwight VanDriver said:
If you were 'racing' the rice rocket (RR) then Stealth may have sufficient evidence of a check on the pair of you in excess. He can only stop one car at a time - the RR. To follow up on you paperwork in the post.
Sweat for 15 days if you are the Reg Keeper.
Learn to ditch the red mist please. Let them go to their own doom in future.
dvd
Surely he can stop more than one car if he's able? I was stopped on a bike a few years back because of an illegal plate (well it took a tape measure to prove the gap between the letters and the plate border was 1/8" too small Sweat for 15 days if you are the Reg Keeper.
Learn to ditch the red mist please. Let them go to their own doom in future.
dvd
). He overtook me, then pulled me and he transit in front of me at the same time.Dwight VanDriver said:
If you were 'racing' the rice rocket (RR) then Stealth may have sufficient evidence of a check on the pair of you in excess. He can only stop one car at a time - the RR. To follow up on you paperwork in the post.
Sweat for 15 days if you are the Reg Keeper.
Learn to ditch the red mist please. Let them go to their own doom in future.
dvd
Thanks, dvd, I shall pass on your comments. As we were behind the RR I would have thought BiB would have pulled us over as we would have been in his sights first, but I suspect because the RR was still going (and going VVV quick too) I suspect that's the reason. Thankfully I'm not the reg keeper :-) I suspect it may be a long 15 days for my mate tho, LOL.Sweat for 15 days if you are the Reg Keeper.
Learn to ditch the red mist please. Let them go to their own doom in future.
dvd
fatboy b said:
Dwight VanDriver said:
If you were 'racing' the rice rocket (RR) then Stealth may have sufficient evidence of a check on the pair of you in excess. He can only stop one car at a time - the RR. To follow up on you paperwork in the post.
Sweat for 15 days if you are the Reg Keeper.
Learn to ditch the red mist please. Let them go to their own doom in future.
dvd
Surely he can stop more than one car if he's able? Sweat for 15 days if you are the Reg Keeper.
Learn to ditch the red mist please. Let them go to their own doom in future.
dvd
It is sometimes possible to stop two vehicles together if they are close when the requirements are made and both drivers understand what you want them to do.
Often it is not possible to get close enough to both vehicles and it is not altogether safe by doing so.
In short it depends on lots of variables and a risk assessment at the time regarding those variables that make a police driver consider the value of stopping both vehicles when one of them can be dealt with via further enquiries in the post.
Mg6b said:
fatboy b said:
Dwight VanDriver said:
If you were 'racing' the rice rocket (RR) then Stealth may have sufficient evidence of a check on the pair of you in excess. He can only stop one car at a time - the RR. To follow up on you paperwork in the post.
Sweat for 15 days if you are the Reg Keeper.
Learn to ditch the red mist please. Let them go to their own doom in future.
dvd
Surely he can stop more than one car if he's able? Sweat for 15 days if you are the Reg Keeper.
Learn to ditch the red mist please. Let them go to their own doom in future.
dvd
It is sometimes possible to stop two vehicles together if they are close when the requirements are made and both drivers understand what you want them to do.
Often it is not possible to get close enough to both vehicles and it is not altogether safe by doing so.
In short it depends on lots of variables and a risk assessment at the time regarding those variables that make a police driver consider the value of stopping both vehicles when one of them can be dealt with via further enquiries in the post.
Sorry but the OP's driver was being a prize prat. There's never an excuse for racing, even when both drivers are willing participants, but even more so when only one driver is (and the other one is just driving fairly quickly). Apart from anything else the innocent driver could get into a lot of trouble if the police wrongly think that they're racing as well.
It annoys me when I'm coming up behind someone who's been driving at a consistently and clearly slower pace than me (either on a motorway/DC or SC), but then insists on speeding up to exactly my speed because they can't bear for me to pass them. They then match my speed whether I slow down, speed up or stay the same. It's irritating, distracting and unnecessary. Why can't people just concentrate on their own driving? What is the problem with being overtaken? I'm just making progress, the same as I would do if there was no other traffic; I'm not trying to comment on people's cars or dick sizes (or my own) by passing them (although I wonder whether they're commenting on their own underendowment by their reaction). I'm just minding my own business and I wish others would do the same. Pathetic insecure adolescent nonsense. (I know I'm almost exclusively preaching to the converted here, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of a good rant!
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It annoys me when I'm coming up behind someone who's been driving at a consistently and clearly slower pace than me (either on a motorway/DC or SC), but then insists on speeding up to exactly my speed because they can't bear for me to pass them. They then match my speed whether I slow down, speed up or stay the same. It's irritating, distracting and unnecessary. Why can't people just concentrate on their own driving? What is the problem with being overtaken? I'm just making progress, the same as I would do if there was no other traffic; I'm not trying to comment on people's cars or dick sizes (or my own) by passing them (although I wonder whether they're commenting on their own underendowment by their reaction). I'm just minding my own business and I wish others would do the same. Pathetic insecure adolescent nonsense. (I know I'm almost exclusively preaching to the converted here, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of a good rant!
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