Naughty naughty

[goo_mason]

I was almost taken out on the way home tonight.... by a police traffic car. He's in the straight-ahead lane at a junction and I'm just behind him, off-centre and more towards the passenger side so I can avoid the potholes I know are just about to appear in the middle of the lane.

Suddenly, he decides he wants to turn left, so cuts right across me and only hits the indicator once he's half-way round.

To give him his due, he and his passenger did look a bit shocked after he noticed me (they had their windows down so heard me yell "shoot !" as I hit the brakes).

So much for Advanced Drivers !

 

[mr_cellophane]

Lucky they didn't nick you for using offensive language.

 

[Maz]

I was almost taken out on the way home tonight.... by a police traffic car. He's in the straight-ahead lane at a junction and I'm just behind him, off-centre and more towards the passenger side so I can avoid the potholes I know are just about to appear in the middle of the lane.

Suddenly, he decides he wants to turn left, so cuts right across me and only hits the indicator once he's half-way round...

How did he manage to cut across you, if you were behind him?

 

[Keith Oates]

How did he manage to cut across you, if you were behind him?

Do you want to re-phrase that, Maz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[hackbike 6]

Police cars seem to be no different as normal road users and I have encountered "Bodie and Doyle" driving a few times.I even went into one one morning when two police cars were racing down the MER.

I caught them at the traffic lights.

 

[Twenty Inch]

Police driver training has been cut to the bone in recent years. Many coppers are worried that the new generation of police drivers don't have the skills, but are being encouraged to think that they've passed the course so they can do anything on the road.

 

[Perry]

Only a few days ago I was also nearly taken out by a cop car. It was at night and I was riding around a bend when a cop car travelling the opposite direction on blues & two's over took another car comming into my lane. There was nothing I could do.

Yesterday I was riding and a knew a car was behind me but was hanging back. I heard his engine speed up to overtake when it was wide enough. I put my hand up to say thanks for being considerate. When it passed me I saw it was a cop car.

 

[hackbike 6]

If he's on his blues and two's then I tend to make allowances and get out of the way if I can.I wouldn't keep cycling if he was coming from the opposite direction depending on circumstances.

 

[Joe24]

I think Magnatom would be able to handle this. In my mind, i think it would be extreamly funny, and to find the outcome would be even better.

 

[slowfen]

The majority of police drivers do not have advanced training, they have just had a bit extra over and above the normal civilian training. Hence the often decidly average/poor driving seen by a number of police drivers.

 

[Pip]

If he's on his blues and two's then I tend to make allowances and get out of the way if I can.I wouldn't keep cycling if he was coming from the opposite direction depending on circumstances.

Absolutely. If the blues are on then as far as I'm concerned it's my job to get out of the way, not their job to give me the usual wide berth and be nice to me - same obviously applying to ambulances and fire appliances as much as coppers. In fact if it looks like it'll help, I usually dismount and get myself and the bike off the road completely - just one less thing fot the 999 driver and other drivers to have to miss!

Having said that, the standard of driving I frequently see from 999 vehicles when not on blues can be pretty appalling at times - some of them seem to forget that as soon as the sirens are off the highway code applies to them too ;-)

 

[Mr Pig]

some of them seem to forget that as soon as the sirens are off the highway code applies to them too ;-)

I used to live on a one-way street and I saw police vans and cars going up it the wrong way three times! One time I nearly hit the van as I was turning into the end of the street, that would've been interesting...

 

[domtyler]

Absolutely. If the blues are on then as far as I'm concerned it's my job to get out of the way, not their job to give me the usual wide berth and be nice to me - same obviously applying to ambulances and fire appliances as much as coppers. In fact if it looks like it'll help, I usually dismount and get myself and the bike off the road completely - just one less thing fot the 999 driver and other drivers to have to miss!

Having said that, the standard of driving I frequently see from 999 vehicles when not on blues can be pretty appalling at times - some of them seem to forget that as soon as the sirens are off the highway code applies to them too ;-)

Bollocks!!


Why should you have your life put at risk so they can go and arrest some scrote for shoplifting? about forty people die on the roads each year after being knocked flying by speeding police cars, countless others suffer life changing injuries.

By all means get out of the way if and when it is safe to do so, but being on an emergency call does not give them the right to forget about everyone else on the road, especially pedestrians and cyclists who are most likely to be killed by these gung-ho idiots!

 

[Perry]

There was nothing I could do. I was on the opposite side of the road.

If I were to have been going fast, slow or even stopped it wouldn't have made much difference.

In that situation the only safe place would have been stopped on the pavement.

 

[Riding in Circles]

I knew someone who was run over and killed by a police car while they were crossing the road, the police car was speeding with no blue light or siren, so I always have a hard time respecting anyone who says they are professional and therefore safer drivers.