Re: Police Drivers.

Dave Baker explained :
"Mike" <spamdump@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47f0facb$0$719$5a6aecb4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I very narrowly avoided a collision about 10:00 o'clock last night on the A10 Northbound at the roundabout turning for March. As I approached the roundabout to take the second exit (A10) some idiot in a police 4x4 came roaring up the outside and, without even hesitating, entered the roundabout and swung straight across in front of me to leave by the first exit. Luckily, as I was already slowing for the roundabout, I was able to bring my car to an abrupt halt as this moron passed just inches in front.

I watched a nearly identical incident 30 years ago in Rickmansworth. A young plod in a little Mk2 Escort came flying out of the police station in front of me, up the dual carriageway to the roundabout in the outside lane and then tried to cut across to the first exit on the assumption that the car in the inside lane just pulling onto the roundabout was also turning left. In fact he was going straight across, as was his right in that lane, and the plod had to slam the brakes on at the last second as he started to turn in front of this other car, did a 180 degree pirouette and ended up stalled on the roundabout facing back against the flow of traffic with his little blue light flashing forlornly on the car roof. By sheer luck he didn't hit anyone else but that's all it was - luck. While he and his female plod passenger sat embarrassed in the car the rest of us then drove carefully round him giving him dirty looks and in my case a hand gesture that indicated his sex life was probably a solo experience.


Are police drivers specially trained to endanger other road users or is it a natural talent?

A combination of arrogance, the belief that their supposedly "advanced" training makes them god's gift to driving and incapable of crashing plus a fair helping of actual incompetence and lack of experience.

I saw a copper lose control of a motorcycle on a roundabout when escorting Prince Charles. Funny watching the way he rolled. lol

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Count Baldoni


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