ShootingEither there's something they're not telling us or the Humberside Safety Camera Partnership are taking things way too far. from A man has been shot dead by police officers in East Yorkshire after they...
No, but it's common.
I turned out of the city yeasterday and headed home the long way around which takes me via the watercress beds. The road is narrow and at one poitn it goes through a railway arch that is only wide enough for one vehicle at a time.
The speed limit on the approach to the arch is NSL, immediately after the arch it is 40. As I turned into the lane about a mile from the arch, off a dual carriageway, a police car (BMW 320 estate) cut me up, ignoring the give way sign on the filter lane and simply carving out in front of me (no siren, no lights). He then caned it down the lane. I was doing 60 dead on and he was pulling away from me like there was no stopping him. At the arch, did he slow, anticipating the possibility fo traffic coming the other way? No he put his foot down and shot through, narowly missing a van coming the other way. The van driver stopped and as I pbutted he was waving at me. I stopped and he asked me if I got the number of the police car, sadly I hadn't.
The police car then carved on through the 40 limit without slowing. I heard it make a sharp turn but didn't see it again. I know where it was going though, that route leads into the back of the area where the police have a secondary site for traffic vehicles. There's a sharp right hand turning to negotiate to get onto the route leading to the compound.
One law for us, no law for them.
There is a justice at timesOr Erik Carlsson. Former Saab rally driver, now factory test driver. In his own admission, "I drive better than I can walk these...
-- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
