Why was I ignored?
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Driving back from the BBWF lat Sunday in the "support" car with my 6 year old.
Heading towards roadworks and breaks fail, hazards on pull onto the hard shoulder through the cones.Emergancy phones are out of use so it's sit and wait for tow truck.
So I'm sat on the bank with my daughter and police just drive past, I thought they would have stopped just to check I was ok, or is this just not done?
Heading towards roadworks and breaks fail, hazards on pull onto the hard shoulder through the cones.Emergancy phones are out of use so it's sit and wait for tow truck.
So I'm sat on the bank with my daughter and police just drive past, I thought they would have stopped just to check I was ok, or is this just not done?
It's best practise for the police to stop and see if you're ok.
I generally do, if i'm not going to a 'shout'.
A lone female takes priority too....
There might be circumstances that you and I don't know about that prevented the car from stopping. I remember seeing something like that once and when I drew alongside the police car (I was off duty on my motorbike), I saw the driver was a police civilian mechanic.
Street
ps: I hope you ordeal wasn't too bad for you and the little one..
I generally do, if i'm not going to a 'shout'.
A lone female takes priority too....
There might be circumstances that you and I don't know about that prevented the car from stopping. I remember seeing something like that once and when I drew alongside the police car (I was off duty on my motorbike), I saw the driver was a police civilian mechanic.
Street
ps: I hope you ordeal wasn't too bad for you and the little one..
While I would endeavor to stop for a lone female (I would want a bobby to assist my wife/daughter/mother etc in the circumstances), my force has a policy to send patrols to stranded female motorists on the motorway asap.
We even have a radio code for it (pre-airwaves), so that people listening on scanners wouldn't know that a lone female was on the motorway stranded.
Street
Streetcop said:
While I would endeavor to stop for a lone female (I would want a bobby to assist my wife/daughter/mother etc in the circumstances), my force has a policy to send patrols to stranded female motorists on the motorway asap.
We even have a radio code for it (pre-airwaves), so that people listening on scanners wouldn't know that a lone female was on the motorway stranded.
Street
Although I agree with this in principle, surely this is one of the most blantant examples of sex discrimination that I have heard of.
voyds9 said:
Although I agree with this in principle, surely this is one of the most blantant examples of sex discrimination that I have heard of.
That's life I'm afraid....
As for sex discrimination and all the other political correctness that's filtering into UK life, it's all bollox...IMHO
Willmcc is correct. High profile assaults, rapes and murders following stranded females on motorways has brought about this policy. It's a case of responding to demands. For example is the highest proportion of victims on motorway hardshoulders were 7' tall Irishmen, then they would be given priority...
Street
w4dge said:
Has prompted me to take out breakdown cover and place mobile phone charger in handbag.
If I'd been in the wedge I'd have got home safe and sound.
The only way I can get my wife to take her RAC card is to put it in the Glove box, but having a charged up phone ? She keeps it turned off, uncharged with no credits, in the house. Maybe I should put a car charger and old Mobile (I have an old one somewhere) in the glove box too for her.
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