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

[Pixie]

T.G.W.

Can you add your experience ,that you mentioned in your rep comment,to the thread,if you haven't already?
I'm going to compile them all and send them to various recipients.
Tried to PM you:your inbox is full

[Drew]

I've had to jam on the brakes in a car to avoid a cop screwing a "U" turn on the other side of a crest just south of Otaki, he turned his lights on once he had completed the turn and had the jandal up it.

[waspnz]

On my way to Rainbow Ski Field in the St Arnaud area last year.....on the other side of a rise, unbeknown to me, a cop had stopped in the middle of the road to talk to a lady in a van. I was driving a voyager full of peeps and had to hit the brakes to avoid hitting the back of him. Road was icy and we slid to the side of the road, coming to a stop at the side of his car. The lady in the van just made a laughing gesture, the cop did nothing. I couldn't believe it. I drove on shocked. He didn't even move his car.

[scumdog]

On my way to Rainbow Ski Field in the St Arnaud area last year.....on the other side of a rise, unbeknown to me, a cop had stopped in the middle of the road to talk to a lady in a van. I was driving a voyager full of peeps and had to hit the brakes to avoid hitting the back of him. Road was icy and we slid to the side of the road, coming to a stop at the side of his car. The lady in the van just made a laughing gesture, the cop did nothing. I couldn't believe it. I drove on shocked. He didn't even move his car.

Probably thought you were just showing off....

[waspnz]

Probably thought you were just showing off....

ummmmm....ay?

[waspnz]

Had 5 kids in the car, 2 of which weren't mine. 100 kph zone. Road covered in Ice, so much so that when I touched the brakes (lightly) I lost complete traction. All I could do was turn the wheel and hope that we gained traction again soon enough not to hit the back of his car. Thankfully we did gain the traction eventually. Also Thankfully we weren't travelling fast. You think perhaps he should have pulled off to the side of the road to talk to this lady? No question right?

[scumdog]

ummmmm....ay?

All the skidding, the drifting past at an angle - shoot, many aboy would love to be able to do that!

[candor]

Nae nae shopping centre, just after school as many college kids floating about. Hear speed as I'm getting out of my just parked car but no siren. Souped up car containing teens comes flying around into the main road that has the pool in it, with cop car right on tail (close proximity) and both well over limit. To get here the vehicles have both just sped through a roundy and over a pedestrian crossing just round the corner, at a speed in which braking time had it been needed at the crossing was out of the question. Pursued persons pull into driveway and get cornered by Cops. All seems very silent movies keystone cops type of a picture.
If someone had been onthe cossing or crossing the road at the top of the Olympic pool street or even further down (which is a likelihood for kids at that time) when they came round the corner it would have been another headline.
So what do we teach them now, look left, look right and listen for Police cars or sirens?

[red mermaid]

No, you teach them to stop when signalled by Police.

[HenryDorsetCase]

You should be allowed the right to follow the piggy and beat him to death with a 14'inch dildo

I tend to not be carrying mine with me, but you know, if you've got one in your toolkit, I guess you could

[Toaster]

Maybe all police vehicles should have the little sticker "Do you like my driving? Ring 0800 BAD PORK."

Especially those naughty AOS boys.... hanging onto the outside of their black trucks without seatbelts on.... tisk tisk, what would the children think!

[Toaster]

can you *555 a cop car??

Better to ring 111, then the dispatcher can call for the patrol car to pull themselves over and give themselves a stern talking to, start abusing themselves, then lock themselves up for disorderly behaviour.

[Littleman]

To what purpose? And to whom ? His word against mine, all that would do would be to make me a marked man for the future. Reporting cops is a dangerous business, do it and every cop in the district will have your rego number clipped to his sun visor. Expect to be stopped, lots. And TBH I couldn't be arsed, it didn't frazzle me.

Apathy,

Meet paranoia.

[Patrick]

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.

But that Buller Gorge thing was a white washing coverup by the PC and all and sundry. The outcries then, the certainy of it all..... Oh.... hang on.... no it wasn't.... As you were......

The 2nd one... why was she out of the kitchen...?

And the 3rd one.... lucky motorcyclists don't ride just like that then...

[Patrick]

Seen a couple U-turns that are silly but not directly affected me but the 2 instances that cheesed me off was...
1 - Bike cop no lights or sirens on motorway came flying passed me in the same lane, close enough for narrowly avoid my mirror and his.

Hang on.... isn't this "lane splitting? Which is legal...??? (Unless committed by motorbike cops...???).

2- about 2 months ago coming home at night with the missus on the back through some pretty serious roadwaorks, was only doing about 25 (hate roadworks and it was night) see mr plod with lights (no siren) coming up behind me so pull over left as far as possible and slow to 20km/h for him to pass. Comes flying passed me at about 80 close enough to nick my jacket with his wing mirror and continues on subsiquently spraying me with dirst and gravel... Now I didn't see his rego or anything and not sure what the procedure is but he almost took us out. Now I was pretty pissed off, not only because he almost cleaned us out but because he gave my GF a pretty big scare as she didn't even see him coming. Could have ended badly if he had been like 20-30mm closer..

Would have been a job in the system, able to track what unit went with the red and blues going...... Do nothing, get nothing......

Oh, I forgot ........ still 18 inches or so behind. Stay at constant 48 kph. Another lights, stop (even gave a stop hand signal). Turn and glare at him, he stares straight ahead....

So you had him stopped and did nothing....? Put the bike on the stand and talk. He wasn't going anywhere then.... Do nothing, get nothing....