How is this legal?

[cjs racing.]

Just been watching Traffic Cops, and when one of them did a traffic stop, it showed this lot in his windscreen.

How is it legal, and safe, to drive with that much stuff in the windscreen?

[scorcher]

Do as we say not as we do! Doubt it would pass an MOT with that lot obscuring the view.

[FurtiveFreddy]

Mostly GoPros put in by the TV crew. If you want to watch this sort of stuff on telly, they have to film it.

[Nickyboy]

If you see it from other angles the GoPros are normally in the corner of the screen out of sight line.

[spookly]

cjs racing. said:

Just been watching Traffic Cops, and when one of them did a traffic stop, it showed this lot in his windscreen.

How is it legal, and safe, to drive with that much stuff in the windscreen?

You'd fail an MOT for a stone chip in your field of vision..... but you can clog your view up with lots of stuck on junk?

[HantsRat]

The angle looks worse than it is.

You've got the go pro bottom right corner. The thing on top of the steering wheel housing is a body worn camera, this was put there manually to probably record interview with suspects in the rear. This is not there whilst driving as it fixes to uniform.

Another go pro on the left and sat nav by rear view mirror. Bar the Go Pro's which are only there for TV. it's like most other cars on the road.

[anonymous-user]

Tut! You have forgotten the Rule of SPL: the police are ALWAYS in the wrong. They are always hypocrites, doughnut munchers*, revenue grubbers, and so forth. Cop car with no camera: "The lying bizzie made it all up and had no camera to prove it". Cop car with camera: "unsafe!".





* That one is actually true.

[anonymous-user]

Difficult to tell from such a poor angle - the car looks left-hand drive...

There are various boring rules around the 'swept area' / 40mm / 10mm obstructions etc for the purposes of an MOT. It's perfectly possible to mount things and not fall foul during an MOT.

[14-7]

spookly said:

You'd fail an MOT for a stone chip in your field of vision..... but you can clog your view up with lots of stuck on junk?

Another cracking bout of knowledge displayed on SP&L. Stick to spouting st in the pub to your mates.

[Tango13]

La Liga said:

Difficult to tell from such a poor angle - the car looks left-hand drive...

There are various boring rules around the 'swept area' / 40mm / 10mm obstructions etc for the purposes of an MOT. It's perfectly possible to mount things and not fall foul during an MOT.

It's the weird angle of the picture that makes it look LHD.

I was rear ended (Oooer Missus!!) a few years back and the GPS camera detector tucked in tight to the A pillar landed on the back seat and my glasses ended up behind the brake pedal.

All well and good having airbags and seatbelts but a crash with that much stuff stuck to a windscreen could see some nasty injuries to anyone inside the car. Some of it could even be blown about by an inflating airbag depending on how/where the airbag is located and deployed.