Policeman pulls cyclist over with flashing blue lights and tells him give a bit more space

[Accy cyclist]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4402718/Policeman-pulls-cyclist-flashing-blue-lights.html

I don't know it it's been posted before. Obviously plod hadn't heard of cyclists riding in a primary position to stop idiots like himself from attempting a dangerous overtake.

 

[Drago]

Of course, the rider whipped out his smartphone and showed the plod the DoTs guidance to cyclists and road positioning?

 

[Accy cyclist]

AND the copper parks on one of those raised bumps to confront the cyclist! I thought you weren't supposed to park on those?

 

[Accy cyclist]

20 minutes and only one reply! Maybe it HAS been posted before?

 

[Jody]

Hate articles like this as it just hypes the morons into believing they are right.

There is a poll regarding who is right out of the cyclist and the police. The results are 70% (6250 people) believe the police are right even though the article states "The Highway Code stipulates cyclists can ride in the middle of the road and encourages them to stick to the centre on narrow lanes."

 

[KneesUp]

It's a Mail link - maybe that puts people off

I was shown this yesterday (not on here) It's so depressing one doesn't know where to start - and that's before you read the comments on the Mail.

 

[mjr]

Don't link the daily mail. Here's the original. It's been on Twitter but no reply from the met yet.

View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2Gkk9J0ItZ0

 

[Accy cyclist]

No wonder the idiots think it's ok to threaten and abuse cyclists,when they see or hear of the police acting like this!

 

[mjr]

Of course, the rider whipped out his smartphone and showed the plod the DoTs guidance to cyclists and road positioning?

Yeah, as police officers love a smartphone wielding smarty pants, don't they?

I would have been onto the local police inspector or the commissioner's office representative that chairs the casualty reduction vulnerable road users group about that harassment, but I can understand why people would feel it's a waste of time, that the police are untouchable.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Evening Standard was stirring the pot about it y'day.

 

[MontyVeda]

"You need to get on board with how the highway code works sir. You're a police officer."

Well said that man!

 

[rugby bloke]

Blue lights to pull over a cyclist - really ? Must have been a quite day out on the mean streets.

 

[MontyVeda]

Blue lights to pull over a cyclist - really ? Must have been a quiet day out on the mean streets.

My thoughts too... but the cyclist said he was doing 20 which is ample on a street like that. Why did the police officer with nothing better to do display the usual Must Get In Front mentality?

 

[Falco Frank]

I think I need to take my recumbent tricycle down those roads for a few hours riding!

Perhaps the problem with PC Plod, starts right at the beginning of the video, with the cyclist making progress at the right turn and filtering past the police car?

Hard to imagine any reasonable police response to the video.

(Speed limit for the area was shown on the road as 20 mph)

 

[RoubaixCube]

Officer must of got out on the wrong side of bed that morning

Ludicrous. Though the MET being silent about it is like an admission of guilt that they were in the wrong. Maybe they think if they ignore it, it'll go away