Who saw in the paper (Daily Mail) the story of when a guy in an EVO got stopped and failed (just) a breath test, whilst he was being taken back to the police station, two coppers drove the EVO and absolutely wrecked it!
Did he have the right to insist that it be taken on a trailer? Lets be honest, it was a forgone conclusion that the jumped up Tw**s were going to rag it!
What's the rule on insisting who retreives the car? I certainly would not give permission for such people to drive mine!

JohnD

 

You would have no choice!

 

Don't drink and drive Simples!





I know what you mean but it's the way of the world.

 

This happened a while ago.

 

I think ultimately if the Police officers driving this car are found to be at fault they should face the full weight of the law upon them. After all if this was one of us as a performance car lover we'd have the book thrown at us from the Police, and made scapegoats of by the press.

 

i think i read somewhere they got sacked

 

Was reported 3rd Sept 2010.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ports-car.html

 

the police driver was convicted recently, we often have to drive cars that have been seized. i stick to driving them as if my mother was sat beside me...

 

£115.00 fine and a minimal number of points on the license of the copper that drove the car. It seems incredibly light given what happened and the speed he must have been doing to cause that outcome.

Why am i left feeling that if it was me or you the penalty would have been a little different ??

http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk...n_Hale_garden/

 

1. Don't drink and drive.
2. Don't buy an EVO!

 

one less evo to worry about lol

 

who's worried? im not

 

you wonder how this could even happend if theyve had all that driver training and it seems a built up area the crash occured

 

One rule for them. Another rule for the rest of us.

 

i would love to read the accident report, but then i have seen some big accidents from fairly innocuous taps

car rolled in a side street with parked cars either side at low speed - caused when the moving car clipped the turned out wheel of a parked car acting like a ramp

 

how so? he caused an accident, went to court and found guilty - the penalty is certainly in line with plenty of other similar ones i have seen

 

Because any investigation into the crash would hve come to the conclusion that he was speeding which is isn't careless driving but driving without due care and attention leading to an avoidable accident. They were not covered by any insurance to drive the car which is a separate charge regardless off what a senior officer said. The fact a senior officer told them to drive the car reinforces that fact that they think they are above the law.

 

how can you possibly come to the conclusion he was speeding?

careless driving IS driving without due care

police ARE covered to drive prisoners vehicles/ seized vehicles

 

That still doesn't give them the right to destroy your property!I think it was in todays paper due to the drink drive case being heard.

JohnD

 

What he said!

 

Reminds me when jermey clarkson destored a drug dealers Mitsubishi Evo

 

 

i have been well informed that the police have to pay for the damage in this case another evo

 

nah they will have that one declared a cat c restore it then seize if off the bloke so he still looses lol

 

which really means we as tax payers will be paying for it!!!

 

Fvcking fascist bully boys! Makes my blood boil, stories like these.

 

As long as he was punished and the guy got the payout for the full value of the car then there is nothing to complain about.

 

yes there is the bloke should not have been put in this position that his car was taken and abused more than likely by a boy in blue they arethere to protect and serve not abuse .......even if they get punished it is still something that should have been avaoided.....

 

yep i know a traffic officer in the gmp

 

Of course it should never have happened but as long as the punishment fits the crime it's pointless going on about it.