Cop charged with dangerous driving while responding to an urgent job

[scumdog]

No, Joe public does respond to urgent duty matters (at least they are urgent to the individual involved). The 'reason' given for that cop's excessive speed was that the road conditions were good with traffic being light.
I'm late for an early start at work, on the motorway at 3.30am, there is no other traffic, I am doing 145kph. The only cop out of bed is just up ahead. Do you think that I am not walking??
Note: - my excuse is just the same, BUT I was doing 45 over, not 65....

Aw, c'mon, stop with the trolling already.....

[scumdog]

Are you able to submit a post without using the word 'troll' or 'trolls'?

Those words seem to consume you...

Are you STILL trolling????

[Riff Raff]

Actually, for car accidents, or even bus accidents, both FIRE and AMBO are restricted in how fast they can go to get there. I think thoses services can only respond to calls at a max of 40 km/hr above the speed limit.

30km/h over speed limit for ambulances on all priority one jobs. I've been pinged by a speed camera doing 83kph (downhill) in a 50kph zone in the ambulance on a P1 job and had the ticket sent to me once it was established that I was the driver. The firm leaves it up to us to get off it.

On another note, at one stage they stopped sending further details on the pager when going to a cardiac arrest if it was a baby or child involved because of how it affected driving. It's a natural instinct to forget the rules when faced with the prospect of a child dying.

We don't know the circumstances of the cop in question - but people will take any opportunity to do cop bashing.

[SwanTiger]

Finally, the media has found their next bullshit story to frenzy over, the 6 o'clock news was starting to get a bit bland.

[MSTRS:Me]

Aw, c'mon, stop with the trolling already.....

Its a boring job, but somebody has to do it. We sometimes even get a strike! Landing 'em takes real skill tho'.....

[McJim]

This just goes to show that Invercargill will do ANYTHING to get on the news.

Why don't we see how many motorcyles we can get on their new velodrome track at once.

that would be fun.

[davereid]

I'm not sure its a media beat up.

Lots of times its important for the cops to get to a job quickly.

If the cop was going to provide specialist medical care, fair enough.

But I'm not sure just going to write up the ticket is a need for high speed response.

[Winston001]

I think this is one of these situations where the police traffic commander has decided to make an example of the officer. The police are sensitive to criticism from the public so they prosecute officers to prove there is no favouritism.

I drive down this particular road every morning taking my children to school. It is a very wide road (two lanes each side, plus a cycle lane) and even at 8:43am is lightly trafficed. The sergeant stopped at the pedestrian crossing, and then accelerated going away from the school (which is on the other side of the road anyway).

Frankly I think this prosecution is a crock. My children use this road and I don't believe he posed any danger to them or anyone else. Using the lights and siren he'd have been visible for at least a kilometer from both sides of this road.

The judge will decide today.

[Patrick]

30km/h over speed limit for ambulances on all priority one jobs. I've been pinged by a speed camera doing 83kph (downhill) in a 50kph zone in the ambulance on a P1 job and had the ticket sent to me once it was established that I was the driver. The firm leaves it up to us to get off it.

Bummer!!! Ambos usually struggle to get up over the limit I thought...

Firm asks us for a please explain or pay up...even if the red and blues are going in the photo...

As for AMbos and Fireys being sent tickets when the lights are going...that's just rude.

[imdying]

I don't see why Cops should be allowd to speed when gixer riders can't,why should they they get away with it when we can't? Everyone should abide by the same rules.....except if someone is stealing my ipod.

You have an iPod??

[Patrick]

I'm not sure its a media beat up.

Lots of times its important for the cops to get to a job quickly.

If the cop was going to provide specialist medical care, fair enough.

But I'm not sure just going to write up the ticket is a need for high speed response.

No, not a media beat up for once. As for the ticket call.. sheesh... trolling.... helping injured kiddies does it for me.

[ajturbo]

Amazing, start a thread about a 'Police screw-up' and the trolls that leap out of the woods is really scarey, does KB attract that type of person or have they just got sad lives anyway???

just sad lives...

[The Stranger:Me]

Do you have first or second-hand experience of a slow Police response to a violent crime in progress?

Because that sure doesn't fit with what I've seen.

Hmm, violent? - No.
One of the neighbours, pissed shooting at my parent's house with a rifle in the middle of the day - yes. Mother had to go out (through line of fire) and lay a complaint with the police before they would react. Then they sent 2 cops in one car. Mind you turned violent then, and there was a massive response at that point when the 2 cops got beat up. Burglary - yes

[scumdog]

Hmm, violent? - No.
One of the neighbours, pissed shooting at my parent's house with a rifle in the middle of the day - yes. Mother had to go out (through line of fire) and lay a complaint with the police before they would react. Then they sent 2 cops in one car. Mind you turned violent then, and there was a massive response at that point when the 2 cops got beat up. Burglary - yes

Hmmmm, yep, sounds like life in the Noff Island.

[spudchucka]

Charged with Dangerous....rightly so. Not above the law, is he? Extenuating circumstances?? Needed to be somewhere in a hurry?? Let Joe Public use that 'excuse' and see how far it gets him.

You don't normally sound this stupid.