Toprivetguns
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| posted on 26/2/12 at 10:01 AM |
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If im being attacked at home or having a heart attack I want the emergency services to do 149mph, safely!
Everyday, everyone speeds and upon this occasion the officer in question was unlucky enough collide with another vehicle.
Only drive as fast as your angel can fly... !
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whitestu
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| posted on 26/2/12 at 10:31 AM |
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In these cases you have to balance two things - the risk of the speed he was doing and the urgency of getting to where he needed to be.
149mph to avert a terrorist attack is fine
149mph to get to a diesel spill perhaps is not.
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T66
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| posted on 26/2/12 at 07:14 PM |
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vanepico
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| posted on 26/2/12 at 08:39 PM |
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I personally think I should be allowed to go 149mph when my haynes roadster is build but no one else should.
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scootz
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| posted on 26/2/12 at 08:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by vanepico
I personally think I should be allowed to go 149mph when my haynes roadster is build but no one else should.
LOL... will it be rocket propelled!?
It's Evolution Baby!
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vanepico
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| posted on 26/2/12 at 09:09 PM |
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can you get 5 litre pintos? 
It'd be ironic if he hit the diesel patch at 149mph wouldn't it :p
[Edited on 27/2/12 by vanepico]
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 27/2/12 at 06:10 PM |
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I've no issue with them driving quick when needed. I just hope they do it sensibly. It's perfectly safe to drive fast safely but first you
have to drive safely. If you're going too fast to stop/avoid people etc it's not safe. If you overtake on a blind bend you're just
driving dangerously, emergency services or not. Though I suspect many people do stupid things liek stop in front of you on a blind bend.
And FWIW an appliance may be limited to 56 but having been left for dead by an ambulance in a 30 zone doing 70 it doesn't mean you can't
speed Incidentally I still had the ambulance in sight until I missed an exit on a roundabout onto the motorway. Never saw it again and it only went
12 miles down the motorway and I wasn't going slow.
[Edited on 27/2/12 by coyoteboy]
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owelly
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| posted on 27/2/12 at 06:28 PM |
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If it was safe for the copper to be doing 149mph, he wouldn't have crashed. Simple.
He's a professional driver who, as part of his job, shouldn't be taking risks that are avoidable.
But there again, lorry drivers are professional drivers and a lot if them are rubbish.
I wonder if the copper would be doing the same speed if his wife and kids were in the car with him....?
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 27/2/12 at 06:40 PM |
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And to be fair we have no idea of the scale or location of the spill. Imagine a 2 lane wide spill of huge quantities of diesel across a whole motorway
- you're going to want to get there pretty fast. A small slosh on a roundabout...slightly less of a concern.
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