'Shots fired' in motorway chase

[mrs fish]

bbc said:

'Shots fired' in motorway chase Shots were reportedly fired and two cars crashed following a high-speed motorway chase, police have said. Officers found a live handgun - without ammunition - and a quantity of cannabis after a Mercedes and a BMW crashed on a sliproad on the M4 near Maidenhead, Berkshire. Witnesses say they heard shots fired and saw four men flee the scene of the crash at around 1800 BST on Saturday. A man in his 20s, from the London area, has been arrested on suspicion of possessing a fire arm. Nobody was thought to have been injured in the incident. The cars are believed to have collided after leaving the motorway and travelling across a roundabout to rejoin the carriageway in the opposite direction. Junction 8/9 was partially closed while police searched the scene of the collision. Detective Inspector Nick Evans, of Bracknell CID, appealed for anyone travelling on the M4 between 1700 and 1800 BST on Saturday who may have seen anything to come forward.

[goodlife]

Blimey!!!

I saw this - helicopter above J8/9 and four or five police cars stopped on roundabout 'interviewing' some chap yesterday evening around 18.50-19.00

Scary when there's guns.

[mrs fish]

So has anyone else heard anything about this?

[lightningghost]

no

[agent006]

So was the high speed chase done by the police, or were they chasing each other?

[lightningghost]

mrs fish, do you have msn messenger?

[madcop]

I could tell you all about it. It is true, all of it!

[Bee_Jay]

A 'Live handgun without ammunition' - bit of a contradiction that one...

[lucozade]

But if they weren't speeding surely they have no case to answer for

[ledfoot]

lucozade said:

But if they weren't speeding surely they have no case to answer for

Probably the bullets fired from the gun triggered the Scamera van or maybe they were firing at a Scamera van ?

[streaky]

What's a 'live handgun'? Every one I've seen and used were inert (read 'dead') until someone pulled the trigger !

Of course, the removal of handguns from private (legal) ownership was intended to prevent this !

[Bee_Jay]

A handgun with no ammunition is 'dead' in my book...

[sgt^roc]

mungo said:

Bee_Jay said: A handgun with no ammunition is 'dead' in my book... If it has been emptied into a person there's a good chance that person may be dead too!

Your driving down the M4 when you here sounds then a crash as the rounds hit your car as you clock what is happening you..... of course this is the next step to what will happen while these out of control gun gangs rage around who do not give a toss... now make you pathetic remarks regarding loaded or unloaded guns or think about it, that iccident was only a mile from my house...

[Mr2Mike]

Bee_Jay said:

A 'Live handgun without ammunition' - bit of a contradiction that one...

I suspect by "live" gun, they are refering to the fact that it's capable of firing rounds, rather than being a replica or disabled in some way.

[spaximus]

Yes some of the remarks on the gun were tounge in cheek but it is serious. Some of the drugs gangs now see no threat to them for carrying a gun from the law. The legal guns were removed by the nanny state and made no differance to the scum who now pack them.The police have my sympathy here, would any of us want to chase gun toteing crims, armed with a can of cs gas and a metal stick? and let one of the armed cops shoot one of these scum then we will suspend him or her and look for every possible way of shifting the blame. Everytime a cop shoots one of these people they should get an award not an enquiry. Until the courts bang anyone with a gun away for life (until they die inside)this will grow and grow.

[john_p]

Isn't the mininum sentence for carrying a gun less than the sentence for posession with intent to supply?

So dealers get to keep the gun for protection and it can't make things much worse if they get caught