Was Stopped by the police...

[DAIR]

Anyway, back on topic.

The last time I was pulled over I was driving the corsa vxr. I turned onto a dual carriage a little too enthusiastically. A few moments later I spotted blue flashing light in my rear view mirror. I came to a set of light and then the blue lights stopped. A police van had pulled up a couple cars down from me.

The lights go green and then the blue lights start flashing again lol. So I pull over. We exchange a few words and lets me off.

 

[Rybo89]

If you had explained they may have let you off and possibly just escorted you to the garage. You had the tyres on the back seat after all, and I'm sure it wouldn't take them too long to find out when you bought the car.

Though people shouldn't be selling cars with illegal tyres...

Nope, no excuse to be driving a car with illegal tyres. Police would have bent me over and gone in dry if they had seen them.

I did a stupid risk and could have got caught if they had checked, hence me pooping my self. Was just me being lazy and impatient wanting to get to work and sort after. Only little silly excuse i have is that the garage was 2 min from my work.

 

[mccarf]

Never been pulled in the UK, but I have been pulled 2 times in finland. Once was for speeding which was fair enough, they gave me a €120 fine which was the minimum they could give and let me on my way. The other time I pulled onto a dual carriageway at night in front of a policeman and the speed limit kept changing ie 80,70,80,60,100 etc and I was quite paranoid about police given that they'd pulled me before. I kept to every single speed limit, then blue lights lit up behind me. "I noticed you were changing speed a lot" I thought this was ridiculous but didn't point it out to him. He breathalysed me and let me on my way, I just blamed my huge snowboots making it hard to drive .

They gave me a parking ticket too. Finnish law enforcement doesn't like me

 

[4T5]

I've even been stopped by old Bill when on a Mountain bike.

Lights were red so I bunny hopped the kerb & went across the traffic, Only trouble was the car I went across the front of was Old Bill.

As I sped off on my bike the Rozzer stuck his motor in reverse & chased after me.

Once stopped...

Rozzer - What the **** do you think you are doing ???

4T5 - Nothing as dangerous as reversing around that blind bend like you just did !!!

4T5 rides off.


S'pose I best stop now or you lot will be thinking I'm a Criminal or summit.

 

[Rybo89]

Thinking?

 

[Akagi]

You are a criminal, don't lie.

You rode off because your backpack was full of cocaine.

 

[4T5]

That's Slander, Expect a letter from my Barrister that I keep on retention. Oh Wait !!!

 

[Phantom Shadow]

Think I've been lucky on a couple of occasions and had a police car suddenly change lanes as I've gone past and followed me to the next junction obviously checking the car.

Once I was in the middle of a few cars doing 35-40 in a 30 out of town towards a dual carriageway junction, police were in a bus stop with radar gun and stopped the car in front of and behind me.

Another time late at night had a car behind me whose lights were aimed just that bit too high which was irritating so I booted it, think I did around 80 in a 60 and then went into a 40 then a 30, still speeding but had slowed down to about 45. Turned off and as the car went straight on I could see the police livery along the side of it. At night you just can't tell what the car following you is behind its' headlights. Maybe it was the end of his shift and he just wanted to get back, but I wouldn't say I was driving dangerously as the road/conditions allowed the speed so maybe he just wasn't bothered.

 

[Jumper118]

i've been told to turn my music down by the police before in a car park, but i have a black box, so i'm not going to get done for speeding any time soon.

 

[bainbridge]

Generally if you're a decent person and are willing to accept that you are in the wrong, don't answer back, are humble and apologetic and genuine, they will often (not always) use their discretion.

What he said.

 

[Jonny ///M]

OP

Probably the reason you did not get booked as they did not have a calibrated speedo, as doing 50 in a 30 always means a poker up your rear!!1

Still a kicking is better than 3-6 points

I got off with 'in excess of 95' in a 50 as it, although a marked car, didn't have a calibrated speedo. Was pretty glad as I am sure it was 110 indicated.

Got off with worse but it caught up with me when I took it up to 50 in a 30 with a traffic A6 behind me....took the hit on TS20 I think it was for crossing solid white lines.

 

[sports_brah]

No chance.

2 illegals and a borderline - processed for sure. Having NEW ONES on the back seat, knowing FULL WELL they are needed and STILL driving is worse than sheer ignorance to the fact as far as I am concerned.

So how is he meant to change the damn things if he can't take them to a garage?!

If he was driving slowly and was on his way, then what's the harm?

 

[sports_brah]

I got off with 'in excess of 95' in a 50 as it, although a marked car, didn't have a calibrated speedo. Was pretty glad as I am sure it was 110 indicated.

Got off with worse but it caught up with me when I took it up to 50 in a 30 with a traffic A6 behind me....took the hit on TS20 I think it was for crossing solid white lines.

A "Friend" nearly got caught by a damn camera van (mobile in ireland) whilst doing 200km/hr in his car. Thankfully someone flashed him that there was a pig dug in on the side.

I wonder what temperature brakes get to coming down from 200km------sub 80km in a few seconds?

Don't really blame him, it's a pretty darn open road (the garda like to dig in the side of the road where you can't see them til its too late), and the speed limit is a frankly ridiculous 80km, when it should be the standard 100km.

Not clever, but we are all young. That would have been a bad one to have been caught for. He was a lucky sod.

Personally I keep it pretty slow nowadays, as its not worth some pen pushing dogs body of the traffic corp to have the privilege of being able to interfere with my future.

 

[Sin_Chase]

So how is he meant to change the damn things if he can't take them to a garage?!

If he was driving slowly and was on his way, then what's the harm?

Take car on a full lift pickup
Take alloys to garage on their own in another vehicle
Use a mobile tyre fitter

Take your pick. Don't be ignorant, no it's not "okay" if he "drives slowly".

Even the driver admits it was stupid, yet here is you preaching how okay it is.

Engage your brain, just because the legal options available are not convenient does not mean they are not options.

YOU are exactly the sort of person on the road who deserves every single thing coming to you when deserved. Everyone was young and stupid once, most people seem to grow up. Yet you seem to think you are entitled to do whatever you want on the road. The only thing stopping you is a "pen pushing pig" who will "interfere with your future" l. Your arrogance is astonishing.

For everyone else's sake, please only kill yourself when you screw up or lose your licence trying.

 

[Phantom Shadow]

So how is he meant to change the damn things if he can't take them to a garage?!

If he was driving slowly and was on his way, then what's the harm?

Probably doesn't take much speed on bald tyres to aquaplane and hit something/someone. Go really slowly and you're a danger to everyone else on the road. If a car isn't roadworthy it doesn't get driven on the road.

Not only will the police take a dim view of a car in a dangerous position, if the faults are in any way to blame for an accident your insurance company will be coming after you for any money they pay out to third parties.

 

[mrk]

None have ever stopped me for speeding but one did stop me for supposedly putting on my seatbelt when I was exiting a junction and he let me out. I was actually pointing to the coat hook on my rear hanger to a passenger asking them to take it off as it was banging against the window.

Even though I explained this he started to go on about safety and wearing seatbelts. I simply maintained he was wrong and pointed to the hanger and passenger holding it in the back seat.

Some of them are morons and think they have fighter pilot vision.

 

[Phantom Shadow]

^ Just reminded me of something I saw cycling London to Brighton. At one of the roundabouts we crossed police were controlling it, letting some cyclists go, then some cars. Rather large guy at the front of the queue didn't have his seatbelt on, so of course one of the 10 or so policemen shouted at him to put it on. His comment was "oh but I'm just going across the roundabout".

Why would someone argue about why they weren't wearing a seatbelt? And if you're only going 20m across a roundabout that'll take at least 5 minutes by car due to the roundabout being closed by police, are you really too fat to walk? I saw larger people actually cycling the london to brighton. Also need to be pretty stupid to deliberately not wear a seatbelt while stationary in front of 10 police.

Wonder how many people get pulled for scratching their ear by a policeman assuming they were on the phone.

 

[sports_brah]

Take car on a full lift pickup
Take alloys to garage on their own in another vehicle
Use a mobile tyre fitter

Take your pick. Don't be ignorant, no it's not "okay" if he "drives slowly".

Even the driver admits it was stupid, yet here is you preaching how okay it is.

Engage your brain, just because the legal options available are not convenient does not mean they are not options.

YOU are exactly the sort of person on the road who deserves every single thing coming to you when deserved. Everyone was young and stupid once, most people seem to grow up. Yet you seem to think you are entitled to do whatever you want on the road. The only thing stopping you is a "pen pushing pig" who will "interfere with your future" l. Your arrogance is astonishing.

For everyone else's sake, please only kill yourself when you screw up or lose your licence trying.

First off you ignored the fact that I state that I drive slowly and considerately now, having matured up myself. If you look at another post you'll see I'm in the process of buying 4 new tyres for my car well ahead of time so I don't have to go through that palava. I'm not for a second saying everyone should do it.

However, I refuse to concede there is not a time and a place for illegal tyres to be driven in such a narrow circumstance. If you're talking about traveling a short distance at a low speed, I think the risk is pretty darn low. There are occasions where it is not practical or possible to get them changed at such a short notice by loading the car on a full lift pickup or calling someone out. (Good luck with that where I live). Some people don't have another vehicle they can use.

Obviously if its raining, or you have to go on motorways, if you speed etc etc, then I'd fully condemn it, but simply going from A----B with the tyres in the back isn't the end of the world, and your eager suggestion of "processing" them is unduly harsh and would cause huge issues in someones personal life. Not that you'd give a **** obviously. The risk of an accident is low, the time spent on the road is low, and the availability of discretion SHOULD be there.

Nice job with the well wishes as well by the way.

 

[sports_brah]

Probably doesn't take much speed on bald tyres to aquaplane and hit something/someone. Go really slowly and you're a danger to everyone else on the road. If a car isn't roadworthy it doesn't get driven on the road.

Not only will the police take a dim view of a car in a dangerous position, if the faults are in any way to blame for an accident your insurance company will be coming after you for any money they pay out to third parties.

I understand this, but if you are talking about a few miles, at a low speed, in dry conditions, is getting your car lifted onto a lorry the only option?

Or, lets say that you purchased the car in good faith, knowing the tyres were low, bringing tyres with you to replace them straight away, however finding that they were rubbed raw on the inside.

Let me reiterate, I'm not saying that it's a good situation, or that its a situation people should constantly find themselves in, more that if it DID happen to mr smith on the street, that there should be an element of discretion, without cops like sin chase saying that he'd take them for everything, everything.

 

[Sin_Chase]

2 illegals and a borderline is not acceptable at any speed. End of. The points, fine and inevitable cost of recovering the vehicle off the road is entirely justified.

Don't want to mess up your licence? Don't drive illegally hiding behind a weak excuse of "it'll be fine"

Discretion is for a borderline tyre that's close to the mark. Or not wearing a seat belt. Not seriously compromised vehicle safety at the risk of OTHER road users.

Don't blame law enforcement for that, blame the driver.