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If and only if you really wanted to use a blue light to slip through traffic you would follow it, not impede it - why else would you do this?
Driver sentenced for blocking ambulance on 999 call
Albert Butler, 38, received a suspended prison sentence for impeding the ambulance.
www.bbc.co.uk
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If and only if you really wanted to use a blue light to slip through traffic you would follow it, not impede it - why else would you do this?
Driver sentenced for blocking ambulance on 999 call
Albert Butler, 38, received a suspended prison sentence for impeding the ambulance.www.bbc.co.uk
Stupid fucking cunt. His sentence shouldn't have been suspended.
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Normally such an article would mention the attempt at mitigation given by the defending solicitor, e.g. he'd just been expelled from police training, or his dog had been run over by a paramedic car six years ago or something.
existentialist
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I'd like to see a lot more "and has to take an extended test" in the sentencing of people like these. If they are to drive at all, they need to go back and learn how to do it properly. Which he clearly doesn't.If and only if you really wanted to use a blue light to slip through traffic you would follow it, not impede it - why else would you do this?
Driver sentenced for blocking ambulance on 999 call
Albert Butler, 38, received a suspended prison sentence for impeding the ambulance.www.bbc.co.uk
ETA: I just looked it up, and if the ban is longer than 56 days, you have to reapply for your licence, and may have to take a test. But it seems to be at the discretion of the court.
existentialist
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There's a bit more detail on what happened here: https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/...and-obstructing-emergency-worker--maidenhead/
What a tosser. Sounds like he got the red mist because <gasp> someone OVERTOOK him.
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overly competitive alpha male.
existentialist
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If he needs to prove himself that badly, he's no alpha male.
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Plastic Paddy
After years of research I finally now know which country has the worst drivers in the world. The answer is Turkey. Absolute dog shit standard of driving and it's not a minority of fuckwits like most other places, it's the vast majority. Really stupid, dangerous shit is considered perfectly normal.
8ball
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Might surprise you, but Turkey’s rate for deaths on the roads is substantially better than the USA.
(Way more than double ours, though).
dessiato
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Have you ever been to Sudan? It’s the only place where I’ve been in fear of my life on nearly every journey. My regular driver started to drive reasonably after a constant nagging, but the one who used to take me to/from the university at which I taught was the most dangerous I’ve had to travel with. He thought nothing of going the wrong way down a busy dual carriageway because it saved time. Speeding through Khartoum was the rule. One driver as on the phone, applying her make up, and making notes while driving at about 100kph to the airport.
As for the taxi, amjad, and rickshaws, the drivers were far worse.
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Nicked by police in Wandsworth.
"Using a mobile phone in any way is a distraction.
"Without any doubt it impairs people's ability to drive."
"I would expect you to set a good example for the rest of us."
"Using a mobile phone in any way is a distraction.
"Without any doubt it impairs people's ability to drive."
"I would expect you to set a good example for the rest of us."
Security minister Tom Tugendhat banned from driving over phone use
Kent MP Tom Tugendhat was caught driving his 4x4 with his phone in his hand in London.
www.bbc.co.uk
sim667
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People intentionally block us on lights more often than you think. He went a step further and intentionally tried to cause and accident by break checking etc.
I’ve no idea why road users block us intentionally, it’s always men in high powered saloons or white vans who clearly do it on purpose, people in smaller cars do it by accident more commonly, motorcyclists are pretty good generally, bus and lorry drivers are fab…… I’ve seen a few sport cyclists intentionally blocking us too, but they’ve all be in the same area so it might be the same one or two doing it, again many cyclists are really good too.
We also get ambulance spotters which I love, they know which call signs are assigned to which bases, their maintenance schedules, when and where each one was purchased….. I think the only thing the don’t really know is what personnel numbers are manning them on shifts.
8ball
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Thanks for the info. From your experiences it seems to me like there is some wounded sense of entitlement / status underlying it.
Do you hand dashcam footage to the police whenever this happens, and does it get followed up?
sim667
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Nah, not really unless there’s someone specifically trying to cause an accident or an accident has occurred. The cameras on our trucks I doubt even work particularly reliably.
At the end of the day blue light drivers still have to follow the rules of the road and the Highway Code, but they just have 13 exemptions they can claim from the law, and half of those are parking ones anyway. We don’t have an ultimate right over other road users (although many think they do, there’s plenty of bad and entitled blue light drivers around too)
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I've not seen it this deep before - 3ft.
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I find it fascinating that this spot has been known for many years to be as nearly impassable when flooded for most cars, complete with locals coming to watch proceedings as a brilliant piece of free street theatre, and laugh at you when you fail, and yet there’s no shortage of fucking idiots willing to risk hundreds or even thousands of quid in repair costs to cross it
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That's my current major peeve with motorway driving and I swear its got worse recently. I flashed at a Tesla that was sat in the middle lane of a completely empty M40 the other day and the bloke was furious as I went past him. Then he started trying to get up my arse and started flashing me. He looked like a proper psycho too.
existentialist
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I grumble that the emphasis on speeding seems more likely to be based on ease of enforcement (it can be almost entirely machine-based), but it doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility to have gantry cameras that spot middle lane hoggers.
If I had my way, there'd be a big sign on the next gantry saying "XYZ 123P, stop hogging the middle lane, you twat", followed, if they continue, by a NIP in the post.
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Despite being an offence now
Bahnhof Strasse
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Surrey filth have been boasting that they've been nicking people for middle-lane-hogging on the A3 recently, doesn't seem to make any difference at all, on Saturday I went from the M25 to Guildford and I was the only person who used the driving lane, every other car was in the first overtaking lane, in spite of there being nothing to overtake.
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Fortunately, I rarely see police on the A3
Bahnhof Strasse
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Toyota driver hogging A3 middle lane gets comeuppance
Surrey Police caught the driver in Guildford
Apparently you can get 3 points and £100 fine issued at the roadside for it.
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Toyota driver hogging A3 middle lane gets comeuppance
Surrey Police caught the driver in Guildfordwww.getsurrey.co.uk
Apparently you can get 3 points and £100 fine issued at the roadside for it.
Good.
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Get a Hummer and punt them on to the verge.
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