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This should challenge a few people's solidly held beliefs...

Author: Adrian
Date: Dec 19, 2007 05:03

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7151708.stm

# Two police officers are to face charges of causing death by dangerous
# driving after a crash in which a man died.
#
# The police car was in a convoy of two vehicles on a training run to
# test an electronic speed camera device.

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Re: This should challenge a few people's solidly held beliefs...

Author: Iridium
Date: Dec 19, 2007 05:27

"Adrian" gmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7151708.stm
>
> # Two police officers are to face charges of causing death by dangerous
> # driving after a crash in which a man died.
> #
> # The police car was in a convoy of two vehicles on a training run to
> # test an electronic speed camera device.

I think DbDD would be a harsh charge to be honest. Careless maybe - at
least they weren't just drunkenly joy riding some nicked Cavalier, and still
only get a 6 month ban and a £100 fine. They did have a reason to be going
fast - obviously how good a reason you think that is is probably open to
fair bit of debate heh...

--
Dan
Clio V6

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Re: This should challenge a few people's solidly held beliefs...

Author: Brimstone
Date: Dec 19, 2007 05:29

Iridium wrote:

> "Adrian" gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:fkb4q4$3d7$23@registered.motzarella.org...

>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7151708.stm
>>
>> # Two police officers are to face charges of causing death by
>> dangerous # driving after a crash in which a man died.
>> #
>> # The police car was in a convoy of two vehicles on a training run to
>> # test an electronic speed camera device.

>
> I think DbDD would be a harsh charge to be honest. Careless maybe -
> at least they weren't just drunkenly joy riding some nicked Cavalier,
> and still only get a 6 month ban and a

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Re: This should challenge a few people's solidly held beliefs...

Author: Steve
Date: Dec 19, 2007 05:59

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:03:00 +0000 (UTC), Adrian wrote:

Why would it challenge anything? There are no facts at all in the story so
we cannot say what happened.

Steve

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Re: This should challenge a few people's solidly held beliefs...

Author: Adrian
Date: Dec 19, 2007 06:10

Steve (Steve puppet-headDOT.coDOT.uk>) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

>> # Two police officers are to face charges of causing death by dangerous
>> # driving after a crash in which a man died.
>> # The police car was in a convoy of two vehicles on a training run to
>> # test an electronic speed camera device.

> Why would it challenge anything? There are no facts at all in the story
> so we cannot say what happened.

Facts? We doan' need no steenkin' facts...

I was referring to a couple of attitudes...

"Plod can get away with anything!"
"Drivers can get away with anything!"

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Re: This should challenge a few people's solidly held beliefs...

Author: John Rowland
Date: Dec 19, 2007 06:18

Adrian wrote:

> Steve (Steve puppet-headDOT.coDOT.uk>) gurgled happily, sounding
> much like they were saying:
>

>>> # Two police officers are to face charges of causing death by
>>> dangerous # driving after a crash in which a man died.
>>> # The police car was in a convoy of two vehicles on a training run
>>> to # test an electronic speed camera device.

>> Why would it challenge anything? There are no facts at all in the
>> story so we cannot say what happened.

>
> Facts? We doan' need no steenkin' facts...
>
> I was referring to a couple of attitudes...
>
> "Plod can get away with anything!"

They will get away with it!

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Re: This should challenge a few people's solidly held beliefs...

Author: Iridium
Date: Dec 19, 2007 07:03

"Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Iridium wrote:

>> "Adrian" gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:fkb4q4$3d7$23@registered.motzarella.org...

>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7151708.stm
>>>
>>> # Two police officers are to face charges of causing death by
>>> dangerous # driving after a crash in which a man died.
>>> #
>>> # The police car was in a convoy of two vehicles on a training run to
>>> # test an electronic speed camera device.

>>
>> I think DbDD would be a harsh charge to be honest. Careless maybe -
>> at least they weren't just drunkenly joy riding some nicked Cavalier,
>> and still only get a 6 month ban and a £100 fine. They did have a
>> reason to be going fast - obviously how good a reason you think that
>> is is probably open to fair bit of debate heh...

>
> Where does it say in that report that they were going fast? ...

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Re: This should challenge a few people's solidly held beliefs...

Author: Gizmo.
Date: Dec 19, 2007 07:06

"John Rowland" journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Adrian wrote:

>> Steve (Steve puppet-headDOT.coDOT.uk>) gurgled happily, sounding
>> much like they were saying:
>>

>>>> # Two police officers are to face charges of causing death by
>>>> dangerous # driving after a crash in which a man died.
>>>> # The police car was in a convoy of two vehicles on a training run
>>>> to # test an electronic speed camera device.

>>> Why would it challenge anything? There are no facts at all in the
>>> story so we cannot say what happened.

>>
>> Facts? We doan' need no steenkin' facts...
>>
>> I was referring to a couple of attitudes...
>>
>> "Plod can get away with anything!"

> ...

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Re: This should challenge a few people's solidly held beliefs...

Date: Dec 19, 2007 07:11

"Gizmo." wrote in message
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> Yup.
> They'll get away with it through "lack of evidence".
> Or use the defence: "we were acquainting ourselves with the car /
> equipment".

"We were acquainting ourselves with our guns, in the Stockwell tube station"

Yes, that seems quite reasonable.

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Re: This should challenge a few people's solidly held beliefs...

Date: Dec 19, 2007 10:54

"Adrian" gmail.com> wrote in message
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Perhaps they had time to test the device on the deceased's car before it
'collided' with the Police car so they can bring that up in evidence.
Interesting that the deceased's car is reported as having collided with the
marked car, rather than the other way round. Is there a clue in there as to
how the Police will defend their officers in Court?

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