pulled over...

[Overlag]

Last night i was pulled over by the police, probably because they thought i was a boy racer bombing it around the streets or something not sure why. Once they had pulled me over for what i had done, they wanted to know what the purpose of my drive was etc.. and when i just said we (me and girlfriend) was out just for a drive due to her family coming home, he thought it was silly if i didn't have a "reason" to be out. Do we have to have a destination these days to even go out? Isn't it up to me what i do and where i go?

Anyway Now time to explain what happened, my side of story.

1: Driving on my merry way, doing 30, 100% sure of this as i had checked it because there's a camera just around the corner. Red "blob" was a green (i believe, it was dark) saloon car, most likely a taxi. This car basically went straight on instead of taking the corner, and now was driving along the kerb on MY side of road.

1a: Taxi still coming right towards me crawling along the kerb, I'm obviously slowing down at this point as well as flashing him once. Hes messing around with his GPS/or cab charge machine NOT LOOKING at road. At the point of 1a, i now have a clear line quiet away up the road (yellow line) With nothing oncoming i drop to 2nd and overtake.

2: Pass Taxi who has now stopped and the car on opposite side comes into view, well up the road.

3: Back up to 30 (making sure as of camera remember) and pass the oncoming car... a police car..... checking mirrors i see the police car do a fast U turn and bomb it up the road behind me...

Police then stop me for coming around the corner at "high speed" on opposite side of road. I told him about the cab, and he didn't see it. Which is clever really because he had just done almost the same thing the cab had done to me, cut across the road, so he should have been looking in that direction looking for oncoming vechiles no?


Anyway the Police driver said i should have stopped and "waited".... Waited for what i don't know, but i wasn't going to wait when the road was clear while the cab driver dropped off his customer. I just said what am i suppose to do not overtake parked cars, and he totally ignored this comment and said don't drive on opposite side of road, what if i had a head-on with someone? Well if someone was coming i would have stopped.... duh!

anyway i posting here because i know you guys speak the truth. Who agrees or disagrees with what happened... Just wanna hear views on what you think i did right or wrong.

 

[adeyman]

Basically sounds like you overtook a parked car on a what could be a bit of a blind corner, but it was night and you say you could see round the corner and there weren't any oncoming vehicles (easier spotted at night as they have lights). It's what I would have done.

I assume nothing came of it re the police? Not even a producer?

Adrian

 

[squiffy]

Once they had pulled me over for what i had done, they wanted to know what the purpose of my drive was etc.. and when i just said we (me and girlfriend) was out just for a drive due to her family coming home, he thought it was silly if i didn't have a "reason" to be out. Do we have to have a destination these days to even go out? Isn't it up to me what i do and where i go?

Tell him none of your business.

 

[Fr0dders]

have they given you a NIP (little slip of paper with Notice of Intended Prosecution) ?

if not they've just been the wrong side out and wanted to give somebody some grief

 

[mattpc]

He's just making up the numbers for his statistics tbh! Clearly he hadn't stopped enough people that day. Was he even traffic police or just panda car?

 

[Third Opinion]

This is unfortunately what has been happening over the past few years. The presumption of innocence is gradually erroding away and being replaced with a need for you to explain yourself.

What a sorry country this is becoming when you can't simply pop out for a drive without having a destination and purpose to leave your dwellings.

This I fear will worsen with the introduction of ID cards and road price tracking.

 

[ZG002]

This is unfortunately what has been happening over the past few years. The presumption of innocence is gradually erroding away and being replaced with a need for you to explain yourself.

What a sorry country this is becoming when you can't simply pop out for a drive without having a destination and purpose to leave your dwellings.

This I fear will worsen with the introduction of ID cards and road price tracking.

Quoted simply... for the truth!!

 

[-Mike-]

Were you taxed, mot'd and insured? If so I can't see it being any of his business where you were going to be honest. Last time I heard, you could drive where you pleased subject to abiding by the law.

 

[Lopéz]

I don't mind being stopped by the police, I used to drive a lot at night so I got used to it. What got on my nerves was the almost compulsory attitude problem of the officer concerned when they stopped me.

I'm always polite and co-operative but it seems the majority of traffic cops have a huge chip on their shoulders

 

[Overlag]

Basically sounds like you overtook a parked car on a what could be a bit of a blind corner, but it was night and you say you could see round the corner and there weren't any oncoming vehicles (easier spotted at night as they have lights). It's what I would have done.
Adrian

he said it was a blind corner however from 1a on the map i had a clear line at least 10 or so car lengths at up the road. Which is well enough time to go around a parked car and probably enough time for at least 5 other cars to go around him before the panda car got close enough. (there was no one behind me though.)

I assume nothing came of it re the police? Not even a producer?

Adrian

have they given you a NIP (little slip of paper with Notice of Intended Prosecution) ?

if not they've just been the wrong side out and wanted to give somebody some grief

He's just making up the numbers for his statistics tbh! Clearly he hadn't stopped enough people that day. Was he even traffic police or just panda car?

Nothing came of it. Just making up the numbers indeed.

The female officer told my girlfriend that i gave them a reason for being stopped and they was bored so did so... or something along those lines.

Was just a Panda car.

This is unfortunately what has been happening over the past few years. The presumption of innocence is gradually erroding away and being replaced with a need for you to explain yourself.

What a sorry country this is becoming when you can't simply pop out for a drive without having a destination and purpose to leave your dwellings.

This I fear will worsen with the introduction of ID cards and road price tracking.

This is so true, and its a crying shame for this country.

I don't mind being stopped by the police, I used to drive a lot at night so I got used to it. What got on my nerves was the almost compulsory attitude problem of the officer concerned when they stopped me.

I'm always polite and co-operative but it seems the majority of traffic cops have a huge chip on their shoulders

the 3 other officers seemed fine, the driver who was the main one talking to me was a total ******.....


thanks guys..... was really wondering if id done something wrong lol....

 

[Daveyboy]

I got pulled over last Thursday for having too many magic trees (5) on my rear view mirror.

Asked me if i've been smoking marijuana??! Or had any "marijuana articles" in the vehicle. I presume he meant paraphernalia, not a copy of the "High Times" so I actually laughed when I asked him to repeat what he said.

Anyway i've got 5 trees because the car stinks of mould and old lady's perfume (it's a rubbish Citroen work horse) and i'm aiming for a 3D tree in a couple of purchases.

Old bill should mind his own business, it's not like I was driving erratically or fast, I was waiting at a junction. Gets on my **** tbh when they could be out pulling over speeding child killers

Nice to hear he didn't do you for anything though

 

[Downsy]

A while back, me, my dad and my brother were out in my mum's car, he was dropping some stuff off at a friend's house and me and my bro came out for the ride.
Police woman pulled us over because she had seen us driving around the area (drove straight to friends house and was driving straight back). After that excuse fell flat, she proceeded to try saying that the numberplate couldn't be read, yes, if you are standing parallel to it, but it was in the standard place for a F reg metro. Getting a bit annoyed by this and being standard dad, he unleashed the twin guns of sarcasm and being condescending.
She left shortly after what must have been in the top 10 ever talking downs

 

[silversurfer]

The police will pull over anyone who looks youngish in my experience. The rest of it is an excuse, the idea being they are 'investigating' rather then any idea of harressment based on prejudice.
Afaik they cant randomly pull people over without any basis, hence why you get these lame excuses.

 

[shrek2]

Tell him none of your business.

I told North Wales Police that and my car and myself got searched for good measure. Must be those tints and alloys. Us boy racers are murderers and drug pushers.

 

[Overlag]

I told North Wales Police that and my car and myself got searched for good measure. Must be those tints and alloys. Us boy racers are murderers and drug pushers.

yup my 1.25lx fiesta musta really scared them... lol... But the driver was basicaly implying that i had speed around the corner on wrong side of corner (apexing the corner) like a boy racer... its really annoyed me, because he just ignored my comment on the other car, then started doing all these checks on me, my girlfriend, and my car... they wasted 30minutes of my life. lol

 

[Iamzod]

Getting on for 2 years driving now, not been pulled over yet.

Even had a Volvo T5 ignore me when i failed to spot it as it was tailgating a bus in the opposite direction, was doing about 100 in a 60 at the time too (very wide road, could prolly fit 6 cars down it side by side).

That had me bricking it as i was expecting him to slam the anchors on, turn round & come after me, but he just carried on.

My dad has never been stopped in his car either, and thats in over 30 years of driving, gets stopped every other week in the truck though.

 

[Fr0dders]

yup my 1.25lx fiesta musta really scared them... lol... But the driver was basicaly implying that i had speed around the corner on wrong side of corner (apexing the corner) like a boy racer... its really annoyed me, because he just ignored my comment on the other car, then started doing all these checks on me, my girlfriend, and my car... they wasted 30minutes of my life. lol

if he seriously believed this he could have prosecuted you for driving without due care and attention at least.

the statement of 2 police officers is enough to bring a case against you for speeding. and there were 4 (?) of them.

more than enough to bring a sucessfull case against you for speeding at least, if not dangerous driving by speeding on the wrong side of the road.

he's just bluffing.

 

[Johno please?]

I don't mind being stopped by the police, I used to drive a lot at night so I got used to it. What got on my nerves was the almost compulsory attitude problem of the officer concerned when they stopped me.

I'm always polite and co-operative but it seems the majority of traffic cops have a huge chip on their shoulders

Exactly.

I've been stopped recently by traffic cop told me to wind down my window and asked where I was going (on the way to work, which I thought was weird) then I realised my tax disc wasn't displayed properly (got a silly aluminium one) he was very pleasant about it and asked me to put it in so I don't get stopped again.

But other times all you get is some condescending idiot.

As for the OP, I dont see anything wrong with what you did tbh.

 

[z0mbi3]

I'm suprised he didn't give your girfriend 5 punches in the arm for good measure!