On Sun, 11 May 2008 19:59:08 +0100, Graham Murray
wrote:
>>> Driving on the pavement is an offence
>> Not if a police officer is asking you to clear the road
>Surely you only have to obey *lawful* instructions from a police
>officer, and an instruction to do something illegal is not a lawful
>instruction. Though there are cases (such as passing a red traffic
>light) where the law explicitly states instructions from a police
>officer override the 'normal' rules. Is driving onto the pavement (which
>can cause damage to the pavement and services beneath it) one of those
>cases?
Except that a police car behind you with blues & twos is *not*
explicitly instructing you to do anything that would otherwise be an
offence.
I would not cross a red light or drive in a bus lane that was
protected by cameras in order to get out of the way of an emergency
vehicle. I'd mount a pavement, as that has an extremely low
probability of resulting in a FPN arriving in the post.
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Cynic
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