Nearly Collected Plod.
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Leaving the A23 this morning, round the corner on the slip road and Oh Lordy! Plod parked up just round the corner, busily relieving a happy punter of the hard-earned contents of his wallet no doubt.
Twats! I just avoided them. And before you all tell me I must have been going too fast, I was. It's what I do. And it's what most other motorists do at 8:40am when leaving a dual carriageway.
I just can't believe the stupidity of them parking round a blind bend with cars likely to be doing in the region of 70mph towards them.
Thank you. I feel better now.
Twats! I just avoided them. And before you all tell me I must have been going too fast, I was. It's what I do. And it's what most other motorists do at 8:40am when leaving a dual carriageway.
I just can't believe the stupidity of them parking round a blind bend with cars likely to be doing in the region of 70mph towards them.
Thank you. I feel better now.
same nearly happened to me....joining the M11 at Harlow for Cambridge, start accelerating down the slip road and just like you nearly hit plod doing the same....one of the morons actually made a keep your eyes open gesture!!....it was all I could do to carry on without committing a punishable offence, din't stop shaking with rage till I got home
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What if it was a broken down car around the corner? If you can't stop before you see it you're driving too fast.
Surely there's a difference though? The driver of a broken down car often has no choice as to its final resting place. My car could break-down (in such a way that it can't be pushed out of the way) just the other side of a hump-back bridge. This obviously isn't ideal, and I'd make every effort to warn approaching traffic. But I'd never choose to park there.
Any anyway, both Imelda and Apache managed to avoid the car and so were not (necessarily!) going to fast anyway.
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Where's my devil's advocate hat?What if it was a broken down car around the corner?
Those were my thoughts. Maybe it wasn't plods choice to park there. Most aren't daft enough to stop cars in dangerous places unless there is absolutely no choice; sometimes you have no choice, i.e. broken down vehicles.
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Where's my devil's advocate hat?
Those were my thoughts. Maybe it wasn't plods choice to park there. Most aren't daft enough to stop cars in dangerous places unless there is absolutely no choice; sometimes you have no choice, i.e. broken down vehicles.
AAAAHHHHH!!! but dimbo plod has a legal obligation (as has the driver who has broken-down) to ensure that a breakdown/accident/road hazard etc is clearly marked so that NO DANGER to other road users occurs. Obviously they didn't do this and I'd have been tempted at least to make them jump for the ditch if not "almost" smash their noddy car!
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Where's my devil's advocate hat?
Plod were busy taking notes from a BMW driver (and they never break down
), probably for the heinous crime of exceeding the speed limit. Surely their vehicle should have been parked up before the bend with lights flashing, rather than after it. If it had been a broken down car, it would have been an accident due to unfortunate circumstances, rather than an accident due to the stupid, inconsiderate and dangerous actions of someone who should know better.
And anyway, may I take this opportunity to remind you all that it is my God-given right as a motorist to blame every other bugger rather than myself. The fact that in this instance it is plod that I'm blaming is simply a bonus.
And yes, I think a briefly locked nearside front did give them a bit of a start.
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AAAAHHHHH!!! but dimbo plod has a legal obligation (as has the driver who has broken-down) to ensure that a breakdown/accident/road hazard etc is clearly marked so that NO DANGER to other road users occurs.
Blah - John, you're getting sucked into the whole nanny state thing of regulating that other people do our thinking for us
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AAAAHHHHH!!! but dimbo plod has a legal obligation (as has the driver who has broken-down) to ensure that a breakdown/accident/road hazard etc is clearly marked so that NO DANGER to other road users occurs.
Blah - John, you're getting sucked into the whole nanny state thing of regulating that other people do our thinking for us
Sorry Ted, I believe its applicable eu law... but TBH don't you carry a triangle as the law insists???? Don't you clear an accident asap to reduce danger to 3rd parties etc etc ????
Sorry Ted, I believe its applicable eu law... but TBH don't you carry a triangle as the law insists???? Don't you clear an accident asap to reduce danger to 3rd parties etc etc ????
JMG, look at the thread in General Gassing re clearing up accidents!!!!
>> Edited by kevinday on Friday 26th April 10:14
You may have a point there, as closing the road does reduce the accident potential, even if they're taking too d*** long about it. Understand the need to be PC and treat every accident as murder (thanks to Phoney Tony and his berks) but they do manage to get things cleared up everywhere on the continent, in the majority of cases, relatively fast. And you still have to "secure" any accident/hindrance etc as do the police.... it's not nanny state, it's common sense.....IMHO
If the police cause a hindrance due to their oversight, they are as liable as you and me, and stopping a speeding beemer is not a reason to block the road in a dangerous place. The next lay-by does just as well..... or are they afraid that the beemer will try to run away.....
If the police cause a hindrance due to their oversight, they are as liable as you and me, and stopping a speeding beemer is not a reason to block the road in a dangerous place. The next lay-by does just as well..... or are they afraid that the beemer will try to run away.....
Take a look at www.punchbaby.com, there's a little video there of an American cop who's parked his car in what seems to have been a safe place....
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