What Coppie did - A thread listing Police road accidents and bad driving

**Pixie** · 22nd April 2010, 08:33

Their appears to be some that are in denial as to how bad Police driving attitudes and skills are.
In the "The police are killing us again" thread it seems there are many instances of unsafe U- turns by police,more than I ever expected.Then there are the actual accidents they have resulted in.

So post your accounts here so we can see what risks or "Road Safety Enforcers" pose the NZ road user.

Edit: I said post your accounts of bad driving,not discuss whether you like cops uniforms.Sheesh,it's like herding cats)

**trustme** · 22nd April 2010, 08:39

Why don't you start a thread

' What the Biker did, a list of accidents & near misses you have had with fellow motorcyclists.'

I wonder which would be bigger.

**Pixie** · 22nd April 2010, 08:39

I'll start.

The Buller gorge U-turn . Two riders badly injured.One near fatally.
I have witnessed an insane U-turn in heavy rush hour traffic,across three lanes of traffic.this was just north of the Marsden Pt turn off on SH 1.And it was a Policewoman,so it can't just be put down to a testicular problem.
Add to that,having to avoid a head-on with a lazy copy cutting corners on a winding section of SH16.

**Pixie** · 22nd April 2010, 08:40

Originally Posted by trustme

Why don't you start a thread

' What the Biker did, a list of accidents & near misses you have had with fellow motorcyclists.'

I wonder which would be bigger.

Good idea.
You do it

**Love my Bonnie** · 22nd April 2010, 14:42

How about riding along the open road at 110, minding your own business, enjoying th eday, when a truck cop jumps out from behind a truck into the middle of the road waving his arms. FUCKEN IDIOT!!!!!!
Locked the brakes & just about run the fucker over. Not sure who got the biggest fright, me or him.
All he wanted was to see who I was, coz hes seen me riding my bike & he didnt know who I was. Nosey cunt!

**Jonno.** · 22nd April 2010, 15:23

Originally Posted by trustme

Why don't you start a thread

' What the Biker did, a list of accidents & near misses you have had with fellow motorcyclists.'

I wonder which would be bigger.

.
Get a clue.

**Ixion** · 22nd April 2010, 15:56

OK. Both these happened within about a year of the Buller gorge incident. Which is why I remember them - normally I forget that sort of shit quickly, happens too often to dwell on. There would have been many others over the years but these two I remember , because at the time I thought "The stupid bastards have learned absolutely nothing". And I should say that in both cases, I suffered nothing worse than a WTF moment. The spidey had spooky sensed what was happening in plenty of time

Puttering along the road, go round a blindish bend - slow a bit, as I do, just in case, maybe a bit more than usual cos the spidey was muttering at me. Round the bend is a cop car. No lights or siren. In my lane, facing the same way as me, doing about maybe 60kph.

Which in itself, would be neither here nor there. Except, that the cop was in reverse. Heading backward toward me, at a good rate of knots. The "able to stop" formula doesn't handle that. He had his head stuck out the drivers window, peering backward.

Took me a moment to grasp what he was doing, y' don't expect that sort of idiocy, certainly not from a cop. I pulled into the edge of the road (fortunately a wideish one with good shoulders). He shot past me, backwards, and backed round that blind corner. Lucky no one was behind me, eh. I'm sure he never saw me at all. Oh, did I mention that this was in the rain, on wet roads, with crap visibility. No he didn't have any lights on at all (except the reversing ones)

Second one. Trundling down the motorway. I'm in lane two of three. In my mirror I see a cop car coming up from behind in lane three (far right one) . He's going fastish, maybe a bit over the limit, nothing major. No lights, no sirens. The road ahead of him was clear, and as he didn't have lights or sirens on, I continued on my way in lane two, heading toward a motorway off ramp a bit ahead (y' can see where this is going).

Spidey didn't like that cop one little bit, so I slowed a bit and went to orange alert. Next thing I know cop has flung himself across the motorway,cleared me by maybe a foot in front of me AFTER I hit the brakes hard. The guy in the cage in lane one got a worse fright and only just managed a stop (yep, he had to fully stop to avoid hitting the cop). Smoking tyres, the works. Cop shot off up the off ramp, turned his lights on once he was on the ramp.

Now, both of these had the potential to kill or seriously injure me. Both of them I was well within the speed limit. Both of them, the only reason I didn't get hurt was cos I've got a really good spidey. But not every rider has a spidey , and it takes a lot of years to train them.

**shrub** · 22nd April 2010, 16:53

Easter my son was home from the army and we were riding along Marshlands rd, him on his 675 me on the T Bird, following PC Plod in his Commode. I'm well back from PC Plod because I just don't like being around him and his mates (old habits etc), and he suddenly pulled over to the left, giving me a baaaaad feeling, so i hit the brakes and son followed suit. Suddenly our noble defender of widows and children puts on his lights and does a U turn in front of us and chases after someone going the other way.

I bet he gave the miscreant heading the other way a stern lecture about safety!!!

**slofox** · 22nd April 2010, 16:56

Originally Posted by Love my Bonnie

How about riding along the open road at 110, minding your own business, enjoying th eday, when a truck cop jumps out from behind a truck into the middle of the road waving his arms. FUCKEN IDIOT!!!!!!
Locked the brakes & just about run the fucker over. Not sure who got the biggest fright, me or him.
All he wanted was to see who I was, coz hes seen me riding my bike & he didnt know who I was. Nosey cunt!

Nah - he just thought you were HOT!!!

**Skinon** · 22nd April 2010, 17:14

Ya' know the problem with the pigs? It's pretty easy really... They are just Humans.

Unfortunately most humans are retarded sheep.
Some of these retarded sheep join the biggest gang in NZ
Then they think because they wear the gayest gang uniform in the world and have had 'special' training, they suddenly think this magical uniform there wearing somehow makes them better than the rest of us, and able to talk completely down to people who have no RIGHT to argue back.
How many times have you been called a fuckwit or huge range of words from these 'professional' gangmembers, and when you say anything back its court time baby!

aaaaaaaaaaaanyway thats my little rant, and yes im going thru court at the moment on a unrelated charge.... so i have recently been thru it all.
Some of our laws are soooo stupid what ever happened to the law of common sense? GONE!

meh sorry for the off topic post, just been reading heaps about the filth lately on here, just fucks me off what they get away with and some of the attitudes they have should be considered conflicts of interest to protecting the public and they should be fired and humiliated like they were at school, before they decided to be a PIG

**SMOKEU** · 22nd April 2010, 17:18

Once a me and a mate of mine were driving down Moorehouse Ave at about 55kmh. We had a green light and just as we were about to go through the intersection, a cop car came flying through the intersection, running a red light at a speed of at least 60kmh. No siren, just red and blues. My mate slammed on the brakes and we narrowly avoided a collision.

**rustic101** · 22nd April 2010, 18:39

Rather than bitching on KB where you may get a lot of attention but no action you do the following:

Complain to the IPCA - about police practices, policies, and procedures.

What is ‘practice, policy and procedure’

The Police are required to follow General Instructions and a range of other policies and directives from the Commissioner and their District Commanders.

When the Authority considers complaints, it considers whether there have been any breaches of these instructions and directives.

Breaches of practice, policy and procedure can range from trivial to serious. Sometimes, even if the Authority does not find misconduct or neglect of duty, it does find breaches of Police policies.

The link is - http://www.ipca.govt.nz/tools/email....ECT=complaints

or

Complete a Roadwatch form - reporting the bad driving/ behaviour..

The link is - https://forms.police.govt.nz/forms/o...watch-report/9

Guys we can bitch and moan on here all we like, none of which is going to keep us safer. If we are serious about our safety and are that concerned start reporting the bad/ dangerous behaviour so that appropriate action can be taken.

I would strongly suggest that if enough information is obtained the sheer arrogance and denial of Road Policing will change.

Some on here will say; 'I'm not narking', or 'yeah right, like they will take it seriously'....

Believe me each of these methods are taken very seriously. We do not want more cases going through the Coronial Service and in the sad event this happens at least there will be solid data to back up a shift in procedures..

The recent death of Paul is a very political matter in some ivory towers at the moment. Lets keep the pressure on them and hold them to account or at the very least get an active education and awareness programme like the Victorian Police have around motorcycle safety - I want value for money if they increased my ACC levies .

**CookMySock** · 22nd April 2010, 18:49

U turned right in front of me and another car. No lights, no warning, no brain! Car in front of me crash braked to miss him and came to a complete halt in his lane, me narrowly avoiding him.

Steve