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Not sure this should be in the ba driving thread!
Anyway tonight on the M6 from junc 10 to 10a the hard shoulder was a live lane.
But there was a guy (assume a guy) in a white BMW swerving and drifting all over the lanes, sometimes signalling, mostly not.
Now I just kept back when I realised that he was unpredictable and might cause an accident.
I felt I should tell someone but I could not stop - no hard shoulder, and my car doesnt have bluetooth hands free (yeah rubbish) I considered calling the police to alert them because I suspected this guy was either intoxicated or ill at the wheel, but I would have been commiting an offence myself to do this, and my memory is terrible, I'd forgotten the reg by the time I got to my destination.
Would anyone have seen this guy on the cameras on the m6?
Should I have called it in anyway?
Anyway tonight on the M6 from junc 10 to 10a the hard shoulder was a live lane.
But there was a guy (assume a guy) in a white BMW swerving and drifting all over the lanes, sometimes signalling, mostly not.
Now I just kept back when I realised that he was unpredictable and might cause an accident.
I felt I should tell someone but I could not stop - no hard shoulder, and my car doesnt have bluetooth hands free (yeah rubbish) I considered calling the police to alert them because I suspected this guy was either intoxicated or ill at the wheel, but I would have been commiting an offence myself to do this, and my memory is terrible, I'd forgotten the reg by the time I got to my destination.
Would anyone have seen this guy on the cameras on the m6?
Should I have called it in anyway?
Centurion07 said:
DervVW said:
Centurion07 said:
Seriously? His driving was so bad you wanted to call the police but didn't in case you were seen by the police? 
Seriously - Sorry to disappont you
kING. CALL.2. As mentioned above, if you're making an emergency call, it's ok. But even if it weren't, MAKE. THE. f
kING. CALL. I take it you were quite happy to have this muppet cause an accident because there was a small chance that you could've got into a teeny, insignificant amount of trouble by using your phone to report it (even though you couldn't)? By small I mean so small that there is no known scientific method of measuring it. In fact, I'm led to believe that numbers don't even go that low so as to be able to measure just how small that chance was.3. If the police were around to spot you using a phone, then they would've been able to spot the tool in the BMW as well.
Not sure I would. Its not that I am happy for this muppet to cause an accident, not happy at all. But I am also not getting points, fine, increased insurance costs on the off chance that they (the police) decide its easier just to procecute me rather than find a car that may well have gone by the time a police car gets to it.
As I understand it theres a quick form and an on the spot fine if caught on a mobile whilst driving. Same as speeding - here sign this or it goes to court.
To procescute someone for dangerous driving there will need to be evidence.
Its clear I was selfish as far as the greater good was concerned.
To procescute someone for dangerous driving there will need to be evidence.
Its clear I was selfish as far as the greater good was concerned.
DervVW said:
As I understand it theres a quick form and an on the spot fine if caught on a mobile whilst driving. Same as speeding - here sign this or it goes to court.
To procescute someone for dangerous driving there will need to be evidence.
Its clear I was selfish as far as the greater good was concerned.
So I should have called in, as the majority here agree that this would have been the right thing to do.To procescute someone for dangerous driving there will need to be evidence.
Its clear I was selfish as far as the greater good was concerned.
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