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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Just witnessed my first police car chase today. Through a tiny Tudor village. Someone I know, almost got hit. I had my kids with me, I was concerned for their safety, because we were trapped in a shop front.
Guy came speeding down high street, which thins into a one lane road where drivers take turns to pass. Followed very closely by one of our boys/girls in blue in a marked 4x4. Two mins later.. he came back down the same street. Only another copper was waiting for him.. right outside our shop, blocking the road. Guy mounted the curb at 50mph, almost took out the woman I knew, sho had the wits to dive out the way just in time. Went round the police car and clipped the unmarked police car behind the first.. then carried on off up the road.
I feel pretty angry if I'm honest.
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over a year ago
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"Just witnessed my first police car chase today. Through a tiny Tudor village. Someone I know, almost got hit. I had my kids with me, I was concerned for their safety, because we were trapped in a shop front.
Guy came speeding down high street, which thins into a one lane road where drivers take turns to pass. Followed very closely by one of our boys/girls in blue in a marked 4x4. Two mins later.. he came back down the same street. Only another copper was waiting for him.. right outside our shop, blocking the road. Guy mounted the curb at 50mph, almost took out the woman I knew, sho had the wits to dive out the way just in time. Went round the police car and clipped the unmarked police car behind the first.. then carried on off up the road.
I feel pretty angry if I'm honest.
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Angry because you and you family are okay, suspect it’s a sub drop of adrenaline and endorphins. |
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The guy shouldn't have done what ever he did, but the police should have held back on the "chase" in the situation you mention. Seems pretty reckless of them. |
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"Just witnessed my first police car chase today. Through a tiny Tudor village. Someone I know, almost got hit. I had my kids with me, I was concerned for their safety, because we were trapped in a shop front.
Guy came speeding down high street, which thins into a one lane road where drivers take turns to pass. Followed very closely by one of our boys/girls in blue in a marked 4x4. Two mins later.. he came back down the same street. Only another copper was waiting for him.. right outside our shop, blocking the road. Guy mounted the curb at 50mph, almost took out the woman I knew, sho had the wits to dive out the way just in time. Went round the police car and clipped the unmarked police car behind the first.. then carried on off up the road.
I feel pretty angry if I'm honest.
sorry but my chips where getting cold
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Happened to me in Liverpool once, I was just about to cross the road and saw this car come racing towards me. Green man on but I stepped back he went racing around the corner, then I saw the Police car on his tail. What annoyed me was no siren and it was a built up area.  |
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It sounds to me that the police may have been a bit neglectful here, maybe an inexperienced police person? A 4x4 isn't usually a high speed pursuit vehicle - they're not known for being nimble or for stopping on a dime. Whatever the guy they were pursuing did, was it worth risking the lives of pedestrians to catch him? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Just witnessed my first police car chase today. Through a tiny Tudor village. Someone I know, almost got hit. I had my kids with me, I was concerned for their safety, because we were trapped in a shop front.
Guy came speeding down high street, which thins into a one lane road where drivers take turns to pass. Followed very closely by one of our boys/girls in blue in a marked 4x4. Two mins later.. he came back down the same street. Only another copper was waiting for him.. right outside our shop, blocking the road. Guy mounted the curb at 50mph, almost took out the woman I knew, sho had the wits to dive out the way just in time. Went round the police car and clipped the unmarked police car behind the first.. then carried on off up the road.
I feel pretty angry if I'm honest.
Angry because you and you family are okay, suspect it’s a sub drop of adrenaline and endorphins."
Not quite. I recognised that at the time. I am familiar with dangerous situations and near miss incidents. I wrote this a good five hours after it happened. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"That must have been scary, particularly as you had your kids there.
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That's what I was scared about. Otherwise I'd have been gawping behind a brick wall. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The guy shouldn't have done what ever he did, but the police should have held back on the "chase" in the situation you mention. Seems pretty reckless of them."
I'm suspecting the police did hold back a bit. They didn't trap him. Left him room to escape town. So they could stop him safely elsewhere. I wondered at the time why the second car didn't broadside across the road blocking him entirely. I wasn't privy to how potentially dangerous or armed the guy may have been. Perhaps it was the coppers mistake.. perhaps it was his standard operating procedure, direct orders or a snap call to stop straight on instead of broad.
I've not done that job, so cant say for sure, but I've comparable experience and not the sort to judge too harshly the mistakes made by people making snap calls about difficult things with very little time to do it in. Especially when stakes are so high. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Just witnessed my first police car chase today. Through a tiny Tudor village. Someone I know, almost got hit. I had my kids with me, I was concerned for their safety, because we were trapped in a shop front.
Guy came speeding down high street, which thins into a one lane road where drivers take turns to pass. Followed very closely by one of our boys/girls in blue in a marked 4x4. Two mins later.. he came back down the same street. Only another copper was waiting for him.. right outside our shop, blocking the road. Guy mounted the curb at 50mph, almost took out the woman I knew, sho had the wits to dive out the way just in time. Went round the police car and clipped the unmarked police car behind the first.. then carried on off up the road.
I feel pretty angry if I'm honest.
sorry but my chips where getting cold
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Glad you and your sproglets are ok GK! It's never people that drive like wankers who get caught, always the innocent people around them, boils my piss!"
Thankyou xx I think God wanders get their fair share of horrendous accidents. Only difference is they cause them. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Happened to me in Liverpool once, I was just about to cross the road and saw this car come racing towards me. Green man on but I stepped back he went racing around the corner, then I saw the Police car on his tail. What annoyed me was no siren and it was a built up area. "
That's not clever at all. Why a siren woudng be on in a chase is a bit bizarre! Glad you took that step back though. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I'd be angry too. A police car practicing high speed pursuit tactics almost took me out on an empty road early one morning. That made me cross "
I'm not angry with the police. I can see why you were in your situation though. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"It sounds to me that the police may have been a bit neglectful here, maybe an inexperienced police person? A 4x4 isn't usually a high speed pursuit vehicle - they're not known for being nimble or for stopping on a dime. Whatever the guy they were pursuing did, was it worth risking the lives of pedestrians to catch him?"
They were bmw type 4x4s I think. Go like shit off a stick and carry the gear they need. Perfect vehicles for area I live in. Fast on road, can go off road if needed, better tan most they're chasing at least.
High speed for a town 40-50mph that's usually strumming along at 10-15mph because of the bottleneck.
I think they'd set up a stinger outside of town.. down the road and he was forced to Uturn. Hence coming back two mins later.
Ran into the rest of support units falling in behind the lead pursuit vehicle. Police didn't have much time to react to be fair to them.
I dont think they risked the pedestrians lives. I starting to think that by not broad siding the vehicles in town and trapping him.. theh could have avoided a hostage situation of a shootout in a populated area.
I don't know the facts though. Never saw a stinger. Dont know if he was armed. He was desperate. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"OP
If your kids where not by your side but in the back off the rogue car would you encourage the police to go softly softly..
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Yes. Good point. I don't know the facts. I've no problem with the police response. I never said I was angry with the Police. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I can understand why you're angry. A friend from primary school was killed by a police car during a high speed chase during her fresher's week at uni. "
Yes. Someone has fucked up so badly that there are at least three police cars following you. Yet you have the arrogance to think you have the skill to outrun them.. In broad daylight.
So scared of the consequences of your own actions, that instead of being a man and admitting defeat. You shit yourself and run, risking everyone else's lives in the process.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"If your child had been hit by the rogue car would you blame the rogue car or the police ?"
Why would you put a question like that to me.. after what just happened? I'd really rather not imagine that thankyou very much.
I'd blame the cunt who drove through a built up area instead of stopping when they first flashed their lights. Game is up. Stop you're fucking car! This isn't GTA. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"That’s shitty, OP, especially with your kids there.
Hopefully it didn’t phase them too much.  "
Not at all.. they were as bad as me.. gawping and gossiping. I was just hyper aware as I watched it unfold that they were with me. Behind me.. within arms reach.. incase it all went tits up quickly. |
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