But then again - the finger of blame will probably be turned towards the Police (step forward RichardH, JAG and others like you) and all focus will be lost on the real culprit here!
It's a mad mad world!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/7513123.stm
Does anyone else get seriously pee'd off with the ridiculous "punishments" handed out to idiots like this (on those rubbish but quite
watchable cars + cops TV programs)??? Personally I reckon they shouldn't arm the police but they should put machine guns on motorway cruisers
like in the A team. Wait for a quite bit of road and its say-hello-to-Mr-Gatling time.... I'm sure that would stop people refusing to stop for
the police quite quickly.....
and on the same page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7512440.stm
as there was a helicopter overhead, why was the "follow" not eased off or cancelled for fear of danger to other road users.
Don't think police drivers get adequate training in these tactics any more..............
just my humble thoughts.............
its all very different when your there at the time, i personaly wouldnt give the police any blame, just give them the power they need to cull these scum from the road
My sympathies to the innocent and now deceased 'other' driver.
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as there was a helicopter overhead, why was the "follow" not eased off or cancelled for fear of danger to other road users
He'll be charged with Causing Death by Dangerous Driving - max sentence is 14 years, so if applied properly (unlikely!), then he will face
similar jail time to someone convicted of Murder.
But then again - the finger of blame will probably be turned towards the Police (step forward RichardH, JAG and others like you) and all focus will be
lost on the real culprit here!
It's a mad mad world!
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Originally posted by graememk
its all very different when your there at the time, i personaly wouldnt give the police any blame, just give them the power they need to cull these scum from the road
Stop it Mr Jenkins - you're talking far too much common sense to be allowed to contribute to a thread such as this.
Society DEMANDS that the authorities be scrutinised and then scrutinised again until they can be blamed for some aspect of any tragedy.
why bother operating on the driver, let the sum bag suffer!!
If it flip over the barrier most likely it was a 4x4 Shogan --- also prehaps it is time we had a cull on Chelsea tractors.
Here is another horror story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1034394/Drink-driving-lap-dancer-jailed-killing-woman-hit-car-95mph--sending-text.html
100% agree real problem is lack of any traffic cars on the streets in dat time.. Yesterday I watched an idiot in a Golf Tdi just decide to ignore a
set of traffic lights, only to catch up HGV 100 yards down the road which was doing 40 in a 40 mph zone. He passed that as it was going through a
pedestrian crossing just afer the exit from a roundabout only to catch up with another HGV 50 yards futher on.
On the return journey I saw what was nearly a nasty shunt caused by a female driving a Renualt turning too fast into an industral estate using a hand
held and trying to look at her filofax.
I
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Originally posted by scootz
Stop it Mr Jenkins - you're talking far too much common sense to be allowed to contribute to a thread such as this.
More common sense observations... you really should just get your coat and go! 
Given how easily cars break down it’s quite amazing nothing has been developed to knock out an engine
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Given how easily cars break down it’s quite amazing nothing has been developed to knock out an engine
I wondered about a directed EMP to take out an ECU but I dont know how Directional they can be?
then perhaps just one cop car need get close enough behind to fire it...
just a post pub thought!!!
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Originally posted by Rek
I wondered about a directed EMP to take out an ECU but I dont know how Directional they can be?
then perhaps just one cop car need get close enough behind to fire it...
just a post pub thought!!!
Willing to bet future generation of OBD specification will have it built in OBDIII will have GPS tracking built in
see http://www.me.umn.edu/~byronr/vw/obd3.txt
The driver of the stolen vehicle ignored police instructions to stop. That's at least two offences. He then loses control and kills another
driver.
I fail to see how this is the fault of the police. The car thief killed the other driver - end of story.
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Originally posted by Macbeast
The driver of the stolen vehicle ignored police instructions to stop. That's at least two offences. He then loses control and kills another driver.
I fail to see how this is the fault of the police. The car thief killed the other driver - end of story.
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
if you could have pursued him unnoticed with a helicopter
He'll end up with a long sentence, though he'll probably get away with half of it.
From what I heard he was trying to avoid a stinger.
If you want to stop a car, emp's are nice but far too complicated. A marksman could pop a couple trough the radiator, and assuming vehicle was
being thrashed, would be dead in a couple of miles. If that didn't stop car, aim higher and to the left and take out driver instead.
ATB
Simon
Why dont they let the police do what they do in other countrys
let them use their cars to take out the crimnal before they get the chance to hurt someone else???
Do you have any idea just how complicated the risk assessments would be