Snitches get stitches… Dashcam and NIP content…

Specialist accident investigators are part of the roads policing units and can determine an awful lot from the other evidence at the scene.

As I can see from the office window as they figure out how a car and motorbike have collided and blocked the tram route south of Nottingham city centre.

So i had a couple of incidents on a ride last week

I uploaded them to the Sussex Police website last Friday and had an update on one of them earlier this week

The 1st incident was when i was close passed by a car (wing mirror felt less than 30cm from my arm) because the driver saw a gap between the oncoming van that had just passed me and the car that was following a bit further behind the van, he made it through the gap but was very close to me

2nd incident i was travelling downhill at 30mph in a 30, car behind me crosses a double white line to overtake me (gave me 2 metres of space) but they misjudged the oncoming traffic and almost had a head on collision with the oncoming car which had to brake and the overtaking car only just missed them

The police website update says

This report has been set to prosecution. This means the driver will either be offered a retraining course, given a conditional points and fine offer or sent to court.

Now im not sure what incident this is for as i never wrote down which case number relating to each incident so have no way of checking, the other incident is showing as case pending

My very limited experience is that if the video shows another vehicle having to take avoiding action, the police take it quite seriously. Otherwise they need to have driven to the pub with your as a bonnet ornament before they’ll even think about acting.