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Nigel

Have a look here to see what sort of factors are taken into consideration before sentencing.

I dont get the big issue to be honest. The guy made a mistake and lost controll. Maybe he was out "training" or doing something else, we dont know.

It took him 10 seconds to loose controll and we get to pick every aspect of his driving apart on the forum. I personally have no issue with traffic officers traviling faster the the limit even when not on a call, call it a perk of the job, he wont be the first or the last.

Case in point, stand on lysander road by Yeovil police station 10-15 mins before shift change and you will be amazed how many cars return on bues & twos to get through the lights.

JR

p.s sorry for the rant.

nuster100 wrote:I dont get the big issue to be honest. The guy made a mistake and lost controll. Maybe he was out "training" or doing something else, we dont know.

Yes, he did. But by the sound of the conditiond he should have shown a little more responsibility.

nuster100 wrote:It took him 10 seconds to loose controll and we get to pick every aspect of his driving apart on the forum. I personally have no issue with traffic officers traviling faster the the limit even when not on a call, call it a perk of the job, he wont be the first or the last.

No, I don't have a problem with the traffic Police travelling faster than the limit even if not on a call. However, with the excemptions they may be allowed comes a lot of responsibility.

nuster100 wrote:Case in point, stand on lysander road by Yeovil police station 10-15 mins before shift change and you will be amazed how many cars return on bues & twos to get through the lights.

That is simply an abuse of position!

Nigel

I haven't noticed with neighbouring taunton station that myself and until a year or so ago a was 1 minutes walk from it.

Having said that I was following a private motocycle the other week which turned into the staff parking at the station and his speed was interesting he enteedr the town in 30mph at 60-70 mph and I lost contact for safety reasons but he was delayed and a set of lights where I was once again behind him and in a 30mph he kept 40-50 and did a slightly dodgy overtake round a car as the lights changed. I can't with certainty say it was a officier as they have some civilian staff but he was riding smoothly and with a certain amount of skill even if he i didnt agree with his speed.

Personally, I think a lot of police drivers (and this is a case in point) are hypocrites - ok, they've had specialist training etc, and can control their vehichles at higher speeds as a result - but they're s'posed to be setting an example.
If a police driver can't even be bothered to take weather conditions into account, then why should anyone?! He's not above the law, and should get a sentence to reflect that IMHO.

Talk about "do as I say, not as I do!"

As I said, he's let a lot of people down.