One bike plus one police car plus the M25 =
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One smashed up police car. Wonder if the biker is on here.
The police car was trying to get by (very close to the bike I might add) and when the bike finally heard/saw them, it moved over and so did the police car but I think the cars tyre slipped off the tarmac and put them into the central reservation, thats when the car started spinning. With either luck or good driving the police car missed everyone else on the motorway and ended up on the hard shoulder where the biker went to see if the police were ok.
Two things:
Should the police have been so close to the biker.
I've had it happen to me as well, check your mirrors more often there might be a police car behind you with its lights going.
The police car was trying to get by (very close to the bike I might add) and when the bike finally heard/saw them, it moved over and so did the police car but I think the cars tyre slipped off the tarmac and put them into the central reservation, thats when the car started spinning. With either luck or good driving the police car missed everyone else on the motorway and ended up on the hard shoulder where the biker went to see if the police were ok.
Two things:
Should the police have been so close to the biker.
I've had it happen to me as well, check your mirrors more often there might be a police car behind you with its lights going.
What actually happened is a perfect example as to why, when in a hurry, (or at any other time) it is much more important to drive well than it is to drive fast. If you work at it and do lots of training (which a lot of police drivers do) then you can do both driving fast and driving well. While I understand the frustration that the police driver may have felt with the bike not getting out of the way, it would appear from the description that this police driver didn’t manage to do both and the emergency he was going to attend had to do without him!
black-k1 said:
What actually happened is a perfect example as to why, when in a hurry, (or at any other time) it is much more important to drive well than it is to drive fast. If you work at it and do lots of training (which a lot of police drivers do) then you can do both driving fast and driving well. While I understand the frustration that the police driver may have felt with the bike not getting out of the way, it would appear from the description that this police driver didn’t manage to do both and the emergency he was going to attend had to do without him!
Roadcraft makes this very point.
when we drive our truck we don't get to close to other vehicles because you cannot always predict what they will do, and it can be very intimidating having a fire truck in your rear view mirror.
the drivers job is to get to the incident safely and in one piece not fastest and calling more appliances to attend the initial emergency and more to the one you've just caused!
the drivers job is to get to the incident safely and in one piece not fastest and calling more appliances to attend the initial emergency and more to the one you've just caused!
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