no and they don't which is why if a pursuit gets too dangerous they pull back and let the chopper or plane follow.
What a *******!
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no and they don't which is why if a pursuit gets too dangerous they pull back and let the chopper or plane follow.
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That assessment is constantly made by the driver and normally an Police inspector that is managing the incident.
What qualifies you to say that the Mitsubishi would bounce over the central reservation !?!?!?!?!
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The fact that it did.
That is not what you said, you suggested that you knew it would happen, not that it would happen.
thats not what i asked
after watching a few police camera action programs last week i noticed that although the person being persued is often driving quite dangerously the following officers often made risky manouvres themselves putting the publics lives at risk, which from time to time ends in tradgedy
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I made that suggestion if it was the Mitsubishi 4x4 thing which with enough force and because it has a high centre of mavity will bounce over the CR.
thats not what i asked
after watching a few police camera action programs last week i noticed that although the person being persued is often driving quite dangerously the following officers often made risky manouvres themselves putting the publics lives at risk, which from time to time ends in tradgedy
It has to be taken in the context, Police advanced drivers are highly trained.
Should the emphasis be to catch the driver at all costs, no and nobody is suggesting that I know of several incidents where the pursuit has been called of for the very reason you mention.
If in this case the standard of driving was so bad by the driver of the stolen vehicle than forcing him to stop may have been the safest course of action.
You did not suggest it, you said:
Which suggests to everyone you knew it would happen.
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Ok then it was an assumption. Are you an expert in crash investigations and going to prove me wrong?
No but I am not the one claiming that certain cars react in certain way when being forcibly stopped by the police!
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Ok then. What if a Transit or even a bus had ploughed into the central reservation at 80mph? (whilst in a fishtail)
It's the laws of physics.
the barriers are designed to stop thing like transits (buses I'm less sure about) but all the posts break and the barrier bends under such a huge impact and slowly stops the larger vheicals.
What if some idiot never stole the car, we can whit if forever!
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Yeah that's what it's designed for but if a vehicle is fishtailling then a lot of energy is a the top of the vehicle also. If it hits the barrier as the vehicle is on 2 wheels caused by all the energy at the top of the vehicle then it's going to go over.
Yeah that's what it's designed for but if a vehicle is fishtailling then a lot of energy is a the top of the vehicle also. If it hits the barrier as the vehicle is on 2 wheels caused by all the energy at the top of the vehicle then it's going to go over.
well they test the barrier by draging cars/vans/trucks (via over head cables) into them at over 100pmg at 20 degrees etc, so this was probbibly just an unusuall acident.
Also where are you getting the info that they fishtailed it?
Thats not the normal practice in the uk.
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Somewhere in this thread. Can't see how the vehicle could have gone over the barrier if there wasn't any other forces involved.
Bizarre scenario anyway.