Police interceptors tonight 02/03/12
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Is anyone else watch this crap? Have you seen the cop driving the subaru WRX GB270 doing a self confessed on camera 145mph at 1630 in the day to catch a bloody fuel thief! Are you people driving these cars complete fools????? What road traffic exemption do you have to drive at 145mph at that time of day to catch a guy doing 20mph for stealing fuel. Christ if I was to drive at 100mph in an ambulance RRU to an life saving situation and have an accident I would loose my job as well as a prison sentence. Who do the so called "Interceptors" think they are?
Sorry rant over.
Sorry rant over.
Dangerous Dan said:
To be fair to the plod, they are often highly trained and experienced in high speed driving. Considerably more so than the average motorist.
It's simply arrogance to assume a motorist would be "just as safe" as a police driver.
I'm all for plod being able to respond to a violent (eg) crime in good haste but to say its dangerous for joe public to drive at x mph in a given location but it's perfectly safe for a plod to go much faster in the same place just to catch them is to my mind bIt's simply arrogance to assume a motorist would be "just as safe" as a police driver.
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They're all highly trained Class 1 drivers with the ability to handle fast pursuit vehicles in most conditions.
They can easily drive these cars at high speeds on the public highway without losing control - and even at the same time communicate to their colleagues in the car or on the radio.
They can happily do 70, 80, 90 mph through built-up areas, because of their training and the blues 'n' twos going.
Until an object appears right in front of them, like another vehicle or a pedestrian, not expecting to have to deal with a vehicle approaching them at 90 in a 30.
Then they are just as fked as the rest of us would be.
They can easily drive these cars at high speeds on the public highway without losing control - and even at the same time communicate to their colleagues in the car or on the radio.
They can happily do 70, 80, 90 mph through built-up areas, because of their training and the blues 'n' twos going.
Until an object appears right in front of them, like another vehicle or a pedestrian, not expecting to have to deal with a vehicle approaching them at 90 in a 30.
Then they are just as f
ked as the rest of us would be.Sorry got the date wrong whoops.
The story was the cop was doing an indicated 145mph to catch a guy stealing petrol. Regardless of how well you are trained. Doing 145mph @ 1630 on a busy week day is the worst excuse of policing i've ever seen. I just hope when he crashes he kills just himself and no other poor sod when he's blasting down the highway to catch someone whos tax is out of date. tt of the highest order the lot of them.
The story was the cop was doing an indicated 145mph to catch a guy stealing petrol. Regardless of how well you are trained. Doing 145mph @ 1630 on a busy week day is the worst excuse of policing i've ever seen. I just hope when he crashes he kills just himself and no other poor sod when he's blasting down the highway to catch someone whos tax is out of date. t
t of the highest order the lot of them.st33ly said:
Sorry can i just add that my driver training followed the police road craft syllabus and lasted three weeks. I may be wrong but their driving course is six weeks with three on law/ regulations and three on driving. Thats still not going to protect them in a a crash at that speed.
Or help much when Elderly Doris or Little Mindy step unexpectedly off the kerb in front of them.I remember a few years ago on my way to work seeing a police car totaled and load of plods gathered round doing measuring things (I drive to work mainly on rural B roads). As I had to slow right down to ease past, I stopped to ask what happened and the nice lady plod told me that it had hit a deer. I commented that it must have been moving some to do that much damage (the car not the deer) and she said "yeah they were chasing someone". A half mile previously that deer could have been a person near the village
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