Coming up the M6 today, travelling at exactly 70mph (according to sat-nav) in the left-hand lane.
Noticed an HA vehicle, similar to a Navarra, doing well over 70 in the right-hand lane. I’d estimate his speed between 80 and 85.
Also noticed him driving fairly close to a vehicle in the same lane; not close enough to be considered tailgating, but certainly close enough to be hinting that he wanted past.
I am prepared to be wrong on this one. I was once told that the only vehicles which can legally break the speed limit have dispensation from the queen and are duly painted red.
Fire engines are the first for obvious reasons and the second, wait for it, are post office vehicles, delivering the queens mail.
In the reality of the today’s age, I suspect this is utter tosh, but it is apparently one of those old laws which has not yet been changed.
I am prepared to be wrong on this one. I was once told that the only vehicles which can legally break the speed limit have dispensation from the queen and are duly painted red.
Fire engines are the first for obvious reasons and the second, wait for it, are post office vehicles, delivering the queens mail.
In the reality of the today’s age, I suspect this is utter tosh, but it is apparently one of those old laws which has not yet been changed.
On QI, I think the Sirens would be sounding quite loudly 😉
Yep, nothing wrong with breaking the law, apparently. I assume he was aiming for “speeds that would make your eyes bleed” so he could boast about it somewhere.
I’m sure we’ll see someone come along to defend this type of activity. I am surprised that the Navarra can reach these kinds of speeds though, still cockish behaviour.
My mate who is a traffic cop took great pride in doing one of those guys for speeding.
He was on his way to an RTA in an unmarked BMW & apparently the Wombles flashed him to move over..
He just waited till they all met up at the RTA, then had a quiet word.
😆
or just an idiot driving a company van pretending to be a traffic policeman, paid for out of taxes.in a pointless fake 4×4 when a van would be better and cheaper
But it’s supposed to look like a cop car because there’s so few of them actually patrolling our roads these days!
Like an automotive equivalent of a community support officer- at first glance in passing you’d be fooled (possibly) but if you look for more than 5 secs you see through the maskirova..
Thankfully the traffic cops still seem to value reliability and quality when procuring new vehicles, unlike the Ambulance service up here- I mean Peugeot van conversions- FFS!
Thankfully the traffic cops still seem to value reliability and quality when procuring new vehicles, unlike the Ambulance service up here- I mean Peugeot van conversions- FFS!
Sadly we don’t get the same discounts that Police get on new vehicles, some services buy through the Police or Military to get the discounts they do. Then there’s the ambulance services buying together in a job lot to get discount on Sprinters, some opted out of this and well you can see what has happened.
I have no problem with the traffic wombles having 4x4s. If they need to tow a big vehicle out of the way quickly, which they might, then that’s a perfectly valid vehicle to use.
When they go all lights-a-blazing and close lanes of a motorway just because someone has a flat, now that’s a different matter…! Grrrr.
I got banned once for two days for insinuating that you were an idiot, and that was despite you presenting plenty evidence on a daily basis to demonstrate the truth behind that insinuation 😉
When they go all lights-a-blazing and close lanes of a motorway just because someone has a flat, now that’s a different matter…! Grrrr.
Safety tho innit.
Vehicle might have got a drivers side flat on a bit of hard shoulder that is too narrow to safely change it otherwise.
We had 2 guys killed by a lorry that side swiped them when doing exactly that just last year.
By virtue of s.87 of the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984 (as amended by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005), no statutory provision imposing a speed limit on motor vehicles shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire, ambulance or police purposes, or for Serious Crime Agency purposes (including driver training) if the observance of that provision will be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used on that occasion.
lights and sirens are at the discretion of the driver.
Legally, certainly, however Brigade/Trust policy usually dictates their use unless specifically directed otherwise. (not talking about police, I would imagine that driver discretion is the rule there; enough rope and hanging springs to mind)
