Police Having Fun Making Traffic Jams?

[warmwaterdiver]

Originally Posted by steve6690

It could have been any number of reasons but giving a police car a good thrashing is not one of them. Perhaps a pursuit might have gone onto that road, or there was debris in the carriageway ahead. Anyone who doesn't trust the motives behind it can always phone the police who cover that area and ask the question.

Perhaps he was just aquainting himself with the vehicle at high speeds (= giving it a good thrashing) just as that PC who got away with it in Shropshire did

[aqua0]

Originally Posted by Woz

Maybe his mate was pulling out of the chippie a few miles ahead and wanted a clear run with his blues on so he could get home without his chips getting cold?

Doesn't Dunkin Donuts close at around 2200hrs

[steve6690]

Originally Posted by warmwaterdiver

Perhaps he was just aquainting himself with the vehicle at high speeds (= giving it a good thrashing) just as that PC who got away with it in Shropshire did

Ahh... Mark Milton, one of my colleagues as it happens. Absolutely no comment on that one, as it's still dragging on through the courts.

[Dick Barwell]

It sounds more the sterile area thing ........better 10 mph than getting hit by some b*stard doing 80 mph the wrong way because he took the wrong turn out of the pub ........
Frustrating not knowing though isn't it
db

[dry suit diver]

hey they might even have been training , you know practicing what the might have to do for real one day. you would want to do your training in as realistic environment as possible wouldn't you??

[SoggyFox]

Originally Posted by Dick Barwell

Frustrating not knowing though isn't it
db

they could use the sign board in the back, as well as 'no overtaking'

it could flash up ' sorry guys theres some drunk prick driving the wrong way down the road'

or ' the chips will get cold'

[Bantam]

Debris usually means there's a team further ahead. I purposely floored mine to 70mph to see what was further on, and there was nothing. That was my first thought. Also, if it was Debris, the police car wouldn't have given it the beans like he did. And he did in no uncertain terms. ( As an aside I have his reg plate - can I report him for speeding whilst not under blue light conditions (he turned his lights off when he put his foot down)? I know at least three of the other people in cars around me because there were a group of us on our way back so I have more than 4 witnesses!)

The location the police car appeared from would have had to be planned for him to appear the way he did (he effectively pulled out of a layby).

Black Range Rover Sport looked very unmarked to me and it also disappeared (towards York) at a very very high speed.

Nothing in any laybys for the next 2 miles or so.

So every reason I've been given so far doesn't add up.

I've seen similar on the M40 when they were moving royalty, but I've checked and none of the Royal family were up this way then...

[milldog]

Originally Posted by Bantam

Debris usually means there's a team further ahead. I purposely floored mine to 70mph to see what was further on, and there was nothing. That was my first thought. Also, if it was Debris, the police car wouldn't have given it the beans like he did. And he did in no uncertain terms. ( As an aside I have his reg plate - can I report him for speeding whilst not under blue light conditions (he turned his lights off when he put his foot down)? I know at least three of the other people in cars around me because there were a group of us on our way back so I have more than 4 witnesses!)

The location the police car appeared from would have had to be planned for him to appear the way he did (he effectively pulled out of a layby).

Black Range Rover Sport looked very unmarked to me and it also disappeared (towards York) at a very very high speed.

Nothing in any laybys for the next 2 miles or so.

So every reason I've been given so far doesn't add up.

I've seen similar on the M40 when they were moving royalty, but I've checked and none of the Royal family were up this way then...

You got held up for a little while does it really matter that much

Graham

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by Bantam

Debris usually means there's a team further ahead. I purposely floored mine to 70mph to see what was further on, and there was nothing. That was my first thought. Also, if it was Debris, the police car wouldn't have given it the beans like he did. And he did in no uncertain terms. ( As an aside I have his reg plate - can I report him for speeding whilst not under blue light conditions (he turned his lights off when he put his foot down)? I know at least three of the other people in cars around me because there were a group of us on our way back so I have more than 4 witnesses!)

The location the police car appeared from would have had to be planned for him to appear the way he did (he effectively pulled out of a lay-by).

Black Range Rover Sport looked very unmarked to me and it also disappeared (toward York) at a very very high speed.

Nothing in any laybys for the next 2 miles or so.

So every reason I've been given so far doesn't add up.

I've seen similar on the M40 when they were moving royalty, but I've checked and none of the Royal family were up this way then...

He doesn't have to have the blues on to speed they exist to warn other motorists, he's created a sterile area there is no-one who needs to be warned. It could be whatever he was protecting you from left at that exit and he was making ground to do something similar on another road.

Emergency vehicles do seemingly bizarre things every day if you watch them long enough.

for example
Blue lights on, sudden U turn, takes off at high speed 1/2 mile later, slows down, lights off turns around and continues in the original direction at patrol speed.

From the outside you'd think the officer was drunk

But could equal, deployed to suspected burglary in progress when alarm sounded and person seen climbing through an open window.
Then cancelled when, displaced occupant phones in with code word to clear the alarm they've activated when they forgot their keys.

who knows

Dave

[CotoChris]

A couple of weeks ago I saw a program of 'Cops' on the beeb. It showed a secene where there was a 'mad' driver and the other police had to box the car in and get it to stop. All of this on the motorway with other traffic. Once they stopped the car it was shown that teh 'excape' driver was a policewoman who was helping train the officers. It did suprise me that it was done on a public highway but looking back it seeme to have been made safely from the public (a rolling blockade). It would have been an inconcenience though thay do have to pratice in the real world.
I'm sure they would have done the rolling blocakde for a reason. I have to admit I admire the police drivers considering some of the maniacs you see in the road.

I was in the UK yesterday and just can't get over the traffic. I went up the A3 to M40 and the M25 is unreal, the traffic altough moving was just none stop. Like driving in the United Nations counting all the foreign trucks!