Mr Scoob

The recent death of a woman near Gatwick following collision with a police car got me thinking of some incidents that I have witnessed.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...es/4198255.stm

1. Police car driving down Ludgate Hill in London on the wrong side of the road at high speed. Colides with a man crossing the road throwing him a good 10 feet in the air. Seemed to have suffering serious injury.

2. Police car overtakes at very high speed in the wet. Tries to go round a roundabout but loses it completely spines several times across the pavement and ends up on a grass bank. Luckily nobody else was on the roundabout or the pavement.

3. Policy car overtakes on the motorway in the wet, must have been doing 130-140mph. Thought they must be on their way to a major incident. Stopped at the next petrol station to find the occupants of the same police car buying some chrisps in the shop.

This is in no way knocking the police, they do a job that I certainly would not want to do. Just wondering if people agree with me that there should be some limits on how they drive. I know that it is important to get to incidents quickly and maybe it is worth the risk. Interested to know what other people think.

Freak

this one made me laugh
Would have been at least 155 had it been a donut shop

Vegescoob

This is the reason I left membership of the IAM 10 years ago. I had seen lots of examples of poor driving by traffic cars. I wrote to the then Chief Examiner of the IAM who, in his reply agreed, that many of my complaints were justified and didn't disagree with me but blamed the then lack of training compared to his time. Channel 4 did a programme about this some 4/5 years ago.
But, what do I know, just a plebe me, treated like a mushroom!