Originally Posted by
Thrush
1) if you were unable to brake in time, you were either i) not paying attention to the lights sequence of green to amber to red, ii) were using exessive speed meaning covering more ground in less time, thus outbrakeing yourself, or iii) were attempting to "beat the lights" and jump through on amber.
2) I'm not advocating the police break the law anytime they so wish. I often sit behind cop "panda" cars around town and clock them at 40 in a 30 etc, but I can't say nothing, I do that also - I bet you do too. But what I am saying is if they are on an emergency call, blues and twos on, and they need to get somewhere fast, they have no problem running red lights, turning right on "no right turn" intersections, and breaking the speed limit, by however much is nesacary, so long as it is safe to do so... And with all that in mind, I have no problem with them doing that. That is not them "doing it whenever they want", thats them doing it cos thats whats required.
As for if you are worried about getting a ticket should you go in a bus lane or across white lines etc when letting a police car past - make a note of the date and time, and if anything happens, contest it, ask for photo evidence and ask for the time and date to be corralated against emergency response calls in the area. You'll get off.
been there,d one that, LOADS of times, you don't "get off" because you need the police to coroborate that they were doing a blues and twos run at the time of the offence
and they won't give you that info so you get fucked
so if you want to jump the lights to let panda pop throug and then get a nip in the post, don't come running to us saying "how do i get out of this one?" because you won't
i've got absolutly shed loads of these doing what i do, and every time the drivers ask me "can you sort it" and there is nothing i can do because the police won't help
even when there is a picture of the police car in the middle of the road straddling the centre lines and our man was half in and half out the buslane they still fucked him for £100 as all they want is the money and don't give a shit about poor old joe public
