So driving home from work tonight, I had the most bizarre encounter with an undercover police car. An unmarked Lexus to be exact. This is long and boring but I am really interested as to what was going on and why I seemed to have been singled out for a bizarre sort of pursuit.
I was on was on a single carriageway 50 stretch with some madman in a Mercedes up my bum until I came to a roundabout where the road I take is a NSL dual carriageway. So I come off the roundabout, accelerate fairly swiftly to 70mph but not exactly gunning it. The chap in the Merc obviously flies past me at silly speeds. I roll my eyes and carry on doing 70. As the Merc passes me I notice a flash from the headlights of a car some way off in the distance behind me (just coming off the roundabout). I think nothing of it.
I come to the next roundabout, again accelerate off it up to 70mph but suddenly this car (I can see it is a Lexus saloon now) that flashed it's headlights is now right on my tail (must have sped hugely to catch me at this point seen as how far back it was). The road then goes down to 40mph and a single lane where there is roadworks. As I slow down for this the car goes to overtake me (again rolleyes, everyone goes silly speeds through the 40mph roadworks like idiots so I just assume they are going to blaze past me and continue at 70 through the 40 section). However, as soon as the car is along side me and sees I am slowing down properly to 40mph this car puts the brakes on and darts back behind me, right up my bum again.
So I proceed to go 40 through this roadworks section by which time a third car has joined behind the Lexus tailing me. As the 40 part comes to an end I accelerate up to 70mph again and the Lexus just stays behind me. The third car (an Astra Van) proceeds to go way above 80 and overtakes me. Then comes another roundabout and once we come off that, the Astra Van just goes up to what must be at least 90mph and disappears. All the while though, this Lexus is stuck behind me.
Then the Lexus pulls out into the right hand lane and cruises slowly alongside me for a bit. I don't look at the driver but have a quick glance and I can see an overall or bit of clothing with 'POLICE' emblazoned on it, hanging from the back of the passengers seat. Eventually the car passes me then pulls in front of me in the left hand lane. I then get a flash of their brake lights and they proceed to go about 60mph the rest of the way up the 70mph dual carriageway. After seeing the police logo I just stick behind them not really sure what is going on. I thought I was going to get pulled over but nope they just carried on.
Another car then overtakes the undercover police car over the speed limit and it doesn't seem bothered. Eventually we come to my turn off from the dual carriageway and at this turn off the police car c9omes off then does a u turn and goes back onto the dual carriageway but in the other direction.
I seriously do not know what just happened. Part of me is worried I am going to get something in the post but then I didn't do anything wrong or go over the speed limit. Also presumably if I was going to get a telling off for some reason they would have pulled me over.
I am also annoyed at the fact these Police seemed to ignore the mad dangerous driving of the Merc and then ignore two other people who sped past them at quite a bit over the speed limit.
I really can't fathom why I was singled out, other than the fact I drive a new Fiesta ST, but this is hardly that fast or special in the grand scheme of things and hardly synonymous with boy racers just yet seen as they are still new and cost a decent bit of money. I also don't know why they ignored other people who were actually breaking the law, especially the Merc driver and Astra Van as they were clearly driving far too fast.
Anyone have a clue what they were doing/thinking? To be honest it made my drive home quite stressful and it was quite confusing and intimidating, especially as I didn't know it was a police car for a while (in terms of what they were doing, flashing, pulling alongside then darting back behind, overtaking then proceeding really slowly for the speed of the road and flashing their rear lights at me etc). To be honest I thought the whole thing was quite unprofessional and I didn't see the purpose of it.
I was on was on a single carriageway 50 stretch with some madman in a Mercedes up my bum until I came to a roundabout where the road I take is a NSL dual carriageway. So I come off the roundabout, accelerate fairly swiftly to 70mph but not exactly gunning it. The chap in the Merc obviously flies past me at silly speeds. I roll my eyes and carry on doing 70. As the Merc passes me I notice a flash from the headlights of a car some way off in the distance behind me (just coming off the roundabout). I think nothing of it.
I come to the next roundabout, again accelerate off it up to 70mph but suddenly this car (I can see it is a Lexus saloon now) that flashed it's headlights is now right on my tail (must have sped hugely to catch me at this point seen as how far back it was). The road then goes down to 40mph and a single lane where there is roadworks. As I slow down for this the car goes to overtake me (again rolleyes, everyone goes silly speeds through the 40mph roadworks like idiots so I just assume they are going to blaze past me and continue at 70 through the 40 section). However, as soon as the car is along side me and sees I am slowing down properly to 40mph this car puts the brakes on and darts back behind me, right up my bum again.
So I proceed to go 40 through this roadworks section by which time a third car has joined behind the Lexus tailing me. As the 40 part comes to an end I accelerate up to 70mph again and the Lexus just stays behind me. The third car (an Astra Van) proceeds to go way above 80 and overtakes me. Then comes another roundabout and once we come off that, the Astra Van just goes up to what must be at least 90mph and disappears. All the while though, this Lexus is stuck behind me.
Then the Lexus pulls out into the right hand lane and cruises slowly alongside me for a bit. I don't look at the driver but have a quick glance and I can see an overall or bit of clothing with 'POLICE' emblazoned on it, hanging from the back of the passengers seat. Eventually the car passes me then pulls in front of me in the left hand lane. I then get a flash of their brake lights and they proceed to go about 60mph the rest of the way up the 70mph dual carriageway. After seeing the police logo I just stick behind them not really sure what is going on. I thought I was going to get pulled over but nope they just carried on.
Another car then overtakes the undercover police car over the speed limit and it doesn't seem bothered. Eventually we come to my turn off from the dual carriageway and at this turn off the police car c9omes off then does a u turn and goes back onto the dual carriageway but in the other direction.
I seriously do not know what just happened. Part of me is worried I am going to get something in the post but then I didn't do anything wrong or go over the speed limit. Also presumably if I was going to get a telling off for some reason they would have pulled me over.
I am also annoyed at the fact these Police seemed to ignore the mad dangerous driving of the Merc and then ignore two other people who sped past them at quite a bit over the speed limit.
I really can't fathom why I was singled out, other than the fact I drive a new Fiesta ST, but this is hardly that fast or special in the grand scheme of things and hardly synonymous with boy racers just yet seen as they are still new and cost a decent bit of money. I also don't know why they ignored other people who were actually breaking the law, especially the Merc driver and Astra Van as they were clearly driving far too fast.
Anyone have a clue what they were doing/thinking? To be honest it made my drive home quite stressful and it was quite confusing and intimidating, especially as I didn't know it was a police car for a while (in terms of what they were doing, flashing, pulling alongside then darting back behind, overtaking then proceeding really slowly for the speed of the road and flashing their rear lights at me etc). To be honest I thought the whole thing was quite unprofessional and I didn't see the purpose of it.
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