Police handheld speed camera causes crash!

If it wasn’t staged (although it looks like it might have been given the cameras) then surely the 2nd guy should have just ridden round them both as it was the first guy who was clocked and was getting stopped – not him?

That road looks very like some bits of the mountain course on the TT circuit – and I’ve legally done 150mph along there on a motorbike (although not in the fog and not where there was traffic). No idea if it is there or not though, as there are also UK roads that look similar!

Entirely the fault of the second rider.

Instead of stamping on the panic pedal and trying to slow down like a massive Jessie, he should have passed on the right where there was plenty of room and caned it off into the distance.

Question of fault aside, I’m not sure you can say the policeman could know the bikes could stop in time as that clearly wasn’t the case.

What would have happened if the first rider had panicked and decked it or slipped on an unnoticed hazard and hit him? He has a duty if care for his own safety and members of the public, I would also say he failed spectacularly.

From a risk management perspective that was utter stupidity on the part of the policeman, if you did something similar in an industrial environment you would get a serious bollocking at best or put off site and I’ve seen both of those happen for far less.

Maybe the police should go out in there cars and drive along in front of traffic along motorways and then every so often slam on their brakes.  That would teach all those people who are driving too close behind each other a lesson and they would only have themselves to blame.

based on certain posts in the horse vs triathlete thread.

“surely copper shouldn’t be there in the first place”

“surely lead motor bike shouldn’t have been there”

“surely if no one was even there it wouldn’t have happened”

The policeman was the 100% the cause of the crash. end of.

the bikers were obviously crap, but traffic cops should know better and that could have evolved in to a multi car pile up in the fog without much imagination.

copper was a dicke.

The longer film is called ‘Stuarts Grand Day Out’

Glad to see everyone getting worked up over an entirely fictitious event!

Glad to see everyone getting worked up over an entirely fictitious event!

Unless its all CGI, I’m pretty sure it’s not fictitious, even if it was staged.

Stuart Peters gets it horribly wrong on a borrowed motorbike whilst filming a road safety scene for a TT Circuit Guide programme. After 30+ years driving cars, he briefly forgot that an emergency stop on a bike involves using FRONT brake too! Luckily, nothing seriously hurt but pride…and his bank balance!

Again, read the comments. This happened around 2002. An illegal edit of the crash part of this is going viral and being used to knock the cops. They were actors on a film shoot here and not in ANY way to blame for my poor riding!

No – in fairness it was ENTIRELY my fault – the cops were kindly just helping out in a sequence for the video I was making.

Cheers amplebrew.

So to clarify for the hard of reading – the stop was staged but the crash wasn’t. The second rider took full responsibility for the incident.

Stuart Peters gets it horribly wrong on a borrowed motorbike whilst filming a road safety scene for a TT Circuit Guide programme. After 30+ years driving cars, he briefly forgot that an emergency stop on a bike involves using FRONT brake too! Luckily, nothing seriously hurt but pride…and his bank balance!

Again, read the comments. This happened around 2002. An illegal edit of the crash part of this is going viral and being used to knock the cops. They were actors on a film shoot here and not in ANY way to blame for my poor riding!

No – in fairness it was ENTIRELY my fault – the cops were kindly just helping out in a sequence for the video I was making.

Cheers amplebrew.

So to clarify for the hard of reading – the stop was staged but the crash wasn’t. The second rider took full responsibility for the incident.

That’s cool, although I have sort or ruined the thread 🙂

I blame these guys

It’s obviously a left hand drive motor bike so Speedo is in kmh