He was on the wrong side of the road, where does it say that?
When is it ok to drive at 104mph on a country lane?
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He was on the wrong side of the road, where does it say that?
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[TW]Fox;12582165 said:
Accidents happen I guess..... although I don't think relatives would appreciate that "oh it was an accident, they were training"
[TW]Fox;12582197 said:
tbh, they should give up
them in their Volvo or armed robber in Impreza?My moneys on the robbers.
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It doesnt say it was on the correct side either.
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It also doesn't say he wasn't driving whilst wearing a space suit, to be honest I think this is what caused it, and he should be hung for it.
In my view it should depend on the circumstances, if its one of those cases where someone was doing 40 in 30 and went off on one and tried to outrun the police then maybe yes. If its armed robbers or someone who just murdered someone etc. then no.
Remember we are talking about country lanes so being able to outrun someone going NSL isn't exactly easy, also its not like most country lanes have a million different turn-offs like a housing estate.
Funnily enough they already do that - even so, this was a training excercise - they were being trained for the times when it WAS neccesary.
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[TW]Fox;12582261 said:
The space suit may well have saved his life !
[TW]Fox;12582279 said:
I'd have hoped they doing training exercises like that on either closed roads or private ones.
Its not as if when you have to do DR testing in IT you actually down the site in the name of testing, you do it in a test environment!
Maybe he just didn't like Tourans
You can't rationalise things where victims families involved - the situation they are put in means they will make irrational demands. Look at some of the crap thats come out of 'victims groups' of rail crashes for an example of what happens when you mix serious things with people who are emotionally involved.
Guess what, driving around in metal boxes is not 100% safe. It never will be. It is ALWAYS going to have an element in risk. Life is not safe. I fully expect the next reply will be 'WHAT IF IT WAS YOUR FAMILY'. If it was my family, I would spend the next 10 years campagining against all forms of police car chases, but my protestations would be irrational and ill informed becuase I'd be no longer capable of being objective about it becuase my emotional involvement would be too high.
Closed roads with traffic etc etc? Yea, great. If its being done in a simulated environment it's not the real thing and the training has less value.
Life is dangerous. Bad thing happen. We can try to minimise bad things, but we'll never get rid of them and people who expect we should are deluded.
The police won't be driving in a test environment though when they're on their way to calls or pursuing suspects, so unless they spend vast amounts of money creating an entire road network that mimics real roads, their options are limited.
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[TW]Fox;12582197 said:
No, chances are the robbers will not be able to safely drive through the lanes at speed - a crash is probably likely. Lots of the lanes I drive round near me cannot be taken safely a anything over 50 because you just cant see whats coming. Obviously on the straight bits speed can be gained, but the corners are often blind and unless you are superman you cant see round them.
Police drivers can be trained all they like, but they cant do everything. As previously posted, training should really be undertaken on closed roads as by its very nature, training involves untrained drivers learning new skills and putting them into practice. They will only have been told what to do if they come across a car in front of them, and never have had to put it into practice. Why should osme innocent memeber of the public be put at risk by an untrained copper doing silly speeds when its not even an emergency?
The police get away with far too many driving offences due passing them off aas "training"
It is a tricky one, but assuming they have to regularly train down these roads, which is very dangerous for them and the public, it would seem an almost unnecessary risk if they did this 100 times for every 1 time they chased said 'robbers'..
Then what aspect of a country road is so unique that it falls outside normal 'training' parameters?
I can see both sides, but would err on the side of caution and say reckless training down public country roads is too risky and they should find closed off roads to do it on..
Oh the hypocrisy!
Time after time people on here talk about how good a driver they are and how they drive over the speed limit because the limit in their opinion the limit is not correct and thus it is safe to drive faster.
Time after time people on here talk about how good a driver they are and how they drive over the speed limit because the limit in their opinion the limit is not correct and thus it is safe to drive faster.
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