unmarked police car
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Morning,
On my way up the m62 this morning I was tootling along in the outside land when a non descript silver saloon pulled in behind me i continued to move along at a steady enough speed, and then he put his blue lights on!!!!
Just ones behing the grill. Bugger i thought and moved past the next car and pulled into the inside lane.
the unmarked police car drove straight past me and HE EVEN WAVED TO SAY THANKS!!!
anyway a little later as we approached junction 40 the traffic started to build up and as we sat in a queue i cought him up.... it was a suburu Legacy in silver and was completly normal looking. No extra aerials, no "police" light thing in the back, just the lights behind the grill.
and the guy driving it wasn't in uniform or anything just looked like a standard guy.
when the traffic got really bad, he stuck his lights back on moved to the inside lane and then took off up the hard shoulder.
1: I think he was just using his lights to get through the traffic.
2: a suburu legacy? - i'm used to looking out for silver volvos but a legacy?
3: His reg if anyone is interested was RF06HSC
On my way up the m62 this morning I was tootling along in the outside land when a non descript silver saloon pulled in behind me i continued to move along at a steady enough speed, and then he put his blue lights on!!!!
Just ones behing the grill. Bugger i thought and moved past the next car and pulled into the inside lane.
the unmarked police car drove straight past me and HE EVEN WAVED TO SAY THANKS!!!
anyway a little later as we approached junction 40 the traffic started to build up and as we sat in a queue i cought him up.... it was a suburu Legacy in silver and was completly normal looking. No extra aerials, no "police" light thing in the back, just the lights behind the grill.
and the guy driving it wasn't in uniform or anything just looked like a standard guy.
when the traffic got really bad, he stuck his lights back on moved to the inside lane and then took off up the hard shoulder.
1: I think he was just using his lights to get through the traffic.
2: a suburu legacy? - i'm used to looking out for silver volvos but a legacy?
3: His reg if anyone is interested was RF06HSC
I got pulled by a new generation BMW 3 series recently - far nicer than the usual BMW 
Should also point out the guy was very sensible and gave me a slap on the wrist, but no actual penalty - despite license threatening speeds - largely I'm sure due to the fact it was on an almost desserted, 4 lane stretch of the A1 and I think it's fair to say I was driving to err, the spirit if not the letter of the law.
Should also point out the guy was very sensible and gave me a slap on the wrist, but no actual penalty - despite license threatening speeds - largely I'm sure due to the fact it was on an almost desserted, 4 lane stretch of the A1 and I think it's fair to say I was driving to err, the spirit if not the letter of the law.
saw one on the M40 last week
vectra v6 in dark grey colour
no obvious signs, no aeriels just very subtle,
so keep your eyes out for a V6 (twin silencers)
saw him lurking in lane one, then speeded up and cleared off only to see him later having pulled someone over..
not much of a deterant when you cant even see the f***'ers!
vectra v6 in dark grey colour
no obvious signs, no aeriels just very subtle,
so keep your eyes out for a V6 (twin silencers)
saw him lurking in lane one, then speeded up and cleared off only to see him later having pulled someone over..
not much of a deterant when you cant even see the f***'ers!
Supervising fire officers and senior Police Officers (ACPO rank) have blue lights fitted to their own vehicles in order to allow them to attend incidents straight from home if they're on-call, and as such they have all the legal exemptions that any other emergency vehicle would have.
Peter Ward said:
I've just put that registration number into a couple of registration-checking websites and it's unknown. Perhaps a typo?
But if it's covert cop car the number won't be registered on the system, like a normal number. A friend of mine used to go out with a copper, bomb squad guy. His number plate, if ever looked up at DVLA, would have been listed as something like "Security" or "Access not allowed" etc..., end of enquiry.And I find it very hard to beleive that the DVLA would release these numbers to the private look up companies to do vehicle validations against.
So the fact it didn't turn up on a website is no surprise.
Now, then, what would be interesting would be to get that number plate copied and stuck on your own car. what would the chances of ever getting stopped be?
Both marked and unmarked cars have a series of options when it comes to lights. You can put the full 360 on, all the bells and whistles (and two tones), just front blues, just front reds, just back blues etc etc
So, this Legacy could have the full complement of emergency lights, but you just didn't see them
So, this Legacy could have the full complement of emergency lights, but you just didn't see them
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