Road Wars PC killed on duty in RTC

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Road Wars police officer James 'Dixie' Dixon killed in crash while on duty

I remember this series fondly, the bizarre nature of the scummy public, the tenacity of the coppers & the narration of Lee "Muppet" Boardman.

RIP to the deceased.

[Laurel Green]

Shocking news. Thoughts are with family, friends and work colleagues.

[rxe]

Literally 400 yards from my mum's place.

Not sure what happened, normally that road is a mass of zombies plodding along fairly slowly. At a guess, someone pulled across the road in front of the poor bloke, there's any number of stupid garden centres that have sprawled along that road that could exit onto back roads, but don't.

[Digga]

rxe said:

Not sure what happened, ... there's any number of stupid garden centres that have sprawled along that road

Article says "91 year old passenger" of car injured. If the driver was of similar vintage and they were out at a garden centre then I think it is sadly, very easy to guess.

[wiliferus]

I don’t want to appear like the Forum police, but please gents bear in mind Dixie and a lot of his mates were bikers and petrol heads. It’s likely some of them will frequent PHs.
RIP Dixie.

[ShampooEfficient]

Gutted to read this. RIP.

[Short Grain]

Very Sad News. RIP.

[dudleybloke]

Rest in peace.

[Digga]

Yes, I ought to have added; RIP.

[HappyMidget]

Digga said:

rticle says "91 year old passenger" of car injured. If the driver was of similar vintage and they were out at a garden centre then I think it is sadly, very easy to guess.

Passenger died :'(

Sad news. RIP

[Smiler.]

Got married last year, wife expecting first nipper next year.

At least two families have had their Christmas trashed.

Very sad

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What does one say?
To the family I am deeply sorry for your loss.

[saaby93]

Digga said:

rticle says "91 year old passenger" of car injured. If the driver was of similar vintage and they were out at a garden centre then I think it is sadly, very easy to guess.

Some able people hand in their licence around that age not because their driving is below par but because of the finger pointing that may follow any type of incident.
RIP all round

[Shakermaker]

saaby93 said:

Digga said:

rticle says "91 year old passenger" of car injured. If the driver was of similar vintage and they were out at a garden centre then I think it is sadly, very easy to guess.

Some able people hand in their licence around that age not because their driving is below par but because of the finger pointing that may follow any type of incident.
RIP all round

Car driver was in their 30s though so the above is something of a moot point.

[Digga]

saaby93 said:

Digga said:

rticle says "91 year old passenger" of car injured. If the driver was of similar vintage and they were out at a garden centre then I think it is sadly, very easy to guess.

Some able people hand in their licence around that age not because their driving is below par but because of the finger pointing that may follow any type of incident.
RIP all round

True. Plenty more that don't when they ought to though; insurance stats are pretty straightforward to read.

[Truffles]

The trial of the car driver for causing death by careless driving is now on.

https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshir...

[eybic]

Truffles said:

The trial of the car driver for causing death by careless driving is now on.

https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshir...

I read that apparently he was on an 'undercover' bike (no mention of blue lights being on) doing in excess of 70mph, her legal team are using that as reasoning for her not being "guilty". Not nice for anyone involved

Edited by eybic on Thursday 16th January 12:25

[Dakkon]

Nice bit of newspaper sensationalism 'May have been travelling at twice the speed limit', just speculation on the speed of the bike, but that's enough for newspaper to lead with that statement.

[untakenname]

Surprised the surveillance bike didn't have any onboard camera's, the road is a 50mph so 70mph isn't grossly excessive imo.

[No ideas for a name]

Dakkon said:

Nice bit of newspaper sensationalism 'May have been travelling at twice the speed limit', just speculation on the speed of the bike, but that's enough for newspaper to lead with that statement.

Very sad end result.

However, the news paper report does shed a light on this that hadn't been apparent before.

Figures quoted are between 73 - 110mph in a 50.
Enough to apparently turn an Aygo over three times when hit by a bike.
Might be quite easy to miss seeing a bike at that speed in that area.