Was it any of you?

[pbsaxman]

I had the privilege of being pulled by one of Yorkshires finest yesterday on the A64. Joined form the Brid junction A166 driving my red Scooby Turbo and found a plug of traffic so accelerated onto the road moved ahead of the traffic and slowed back to normal travelling speed. Unfortunately the plug of traffic was caused by a police car Should have realised really and entered the road more slowly.

However, the reason for the post is that, despite never having been stopped before, I was very impressed by the approach and attitude of the officers concerned. They were pleasant, polite and explained why they felt my actions inappropriate. Final decision, warning and no further action. This is why we need more officers and less yellow boxes!!!
Not because I was let off with a caution but because they applied common sense to the situation and were human in both their approach and decision making. I would still have felt this if I had been given points and a fine. It is the process that is important and a random box cannot apply sense to the situation.

If it was any of you out there, my apologies and thanks.

Peter

[rralston]

Always good to see common sense prevail in these situations

[gemini]

I shall pass your very complimentary comments on

Thanks

[The_Doc]

So anyhow, my brother told me he was patrolling in his T5 on the A64 last week; doing his usual 65mph and checking vehicle regs for Road Fund Licence dodgers; when he gets to the Bridlington slip road.

Apparantly this fella comes onto the dual-carriageway at about Mach 3.0 and makes for the 2nd lane.

His red Subaru is so lowered on it's coilovers that the neons at the back are scraping on the road and the sparks are getting 6ft off the tarmac. Well it would be 6ft, but the drainpipe exhaust is putting out enough smoke to cover a Bond style getaway. That and the Happy Hardcore draining valuable amps from the turn signals and brake lights.

So it's Blues-and-Twos and bruv tells me that when they eventually caught up it was a matter of "having trouble taking off, Sir?"

Turns out Mister driver is here on a Brazillian Student exchange program and using his barely legal Columbian provisional driving licence. Couldn't touch him for an offence, so it's back to 65mph and break open the Twinkies.

as told to me in the pub.

[pbsaxman]

The_Doc said:

So anyhow, my brother told me he was patrolling in his T5 on the A64 last week; doing his usual 65mph and checking vehicle regs for Road Fund Licence dodgers; when he gets to the Bridlington slip road.

Apparantly this fella comes onto the dual-carriageway at about Mach 3.0 and makes for the 2nd lane.

His red Subaru is so lowered on it's coilovers that the neons at the back are scraping on the road and the sparks are getting 6ft off the tarmac. Well it would be 6ft, but the drainpipe exhaust is putting out enough smoke to cover a Bond style getaway. That and the Happy Hardcore draining valuable amps from the turn signals and brake lights.

So it's Blues-and-Twos and bruv tells me that when they eventually caught up it was a matter of "having trouble taking off, Sir?"

Turns out Mister driver is here on a Brazillian Student exchange program and using his barely legal Columbian provisional driving licence. Couldn't touch him for an offence, so it's back to 65mph and break open the Twinkies.

as told to me in the pub.

Well I'm blowed they were busy that night and fancy that, pulling two red scoobies at the same junction in one night!!!!

There was me in my mainly bulk standard red scooby ( not driving the Noble that night ) joining the road at nothing like Mach 3 making, in my opinion, a manouver safely and one taught to me by a police driving instructor I might add, causing no crashes or swerving or lane changes etc etc etc moving ahead of the traffic and slowing to normal road speed getting stopped by a really sensible and pleasant member of the police force and his colleague, having a reasonable conversation before going on my way a wiser man of 50 years, with 26 years of blue light driving experience behind him (including all the associated training), with a clean licence, never had any points for anything, something not many can say in this country!!

AND

there was this Brazilian import in his chav mobile stopped at the same junction, obviously not by the same police as the story wouldn't I'm sure be so vastly different from the truth!!

I'm assuming when you posted you couldn't find the sarcky message icon

Having said all the above, if it was your brother please pass on my compliments to him on a very professional approach. He is a credit to his force.

Peter

[The_Doc]

Sadly my brother is only a credit to Herbert Smith for whom he works, most recently in Tokyo.

Sarcastic icon delayed from above.

Edited by The_Doc on Friday 2nd March 13:53

[pbsaxman]

The_Doc said:

Sadly my brother is only a credit to Herbert Smith for whom he works, most recently in Tokyo.

Sarcastic icon delayed from above.

Edited by The_Doc on Friday 2nd March 13:53

Hey Will, thats just as important, merely in a different way. Good to clear the air, no sarcasm there, maybe we'll get to meet at one of the gatherings.

Peter

[chrisw_05]

pbsaxman said:

I had the privilege of being pulled by one of Yorkshires finest yesterday on the A64. Joined form the Brid junction

So your the guy with the Noble I've seen in Bridlignton in the past?

Living in Bridlington, working in Scarborough and driving over to York quite regulaly on the same roads, it is very rear to be pulled over or even see the fuzz.

I've only ever been pulled once around my area and that was 14 years ago in my cosworth doing silly speeds at 2am....totally stupid and my own fault....

Chris W

[pbsaxman]

chrisw_05 said:

pbsaxman said:

I had the privilege of being pulled by one of Yorkshires finest yesterday on the A64. Joined form the Brid junction

So your the guy with the Noble I've seen in Bridlignton in the past?

Living in Bridlington, working in Scarborough and driving over to York quite regulaly on the same roads, it is very rear to be pulled over or even see the fuzz.

I've only ever been pulled once around my area and that was 14 years ago in my cosworth doing silly speeds at 2am....totally stupid and my own fault....

Chris W

Possibly although there are three in this happy metropolis
I only got mine November last year, thought to be the last new UK M400 as Noble have now stopped production in the UK of the M12/M400. Still really waiting for the sunshine and dry roads to get a decent run.

As I say the being pulled thing was also my fault, such is life, but as I said at the beginning this wasn't meant to be about me being stopped but more about the attitude and approach of the Police Officers concerned.

Any way if you've seen me why haven't you reported the fact on the Noble spotted bit of the Noble site

Cheers
Peter