"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
news:SWOCLyBVnbKIFwZz@g3ohx.demon.co.uk...
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> Surely a police car sitting behind you with the twos and blues going is
> tantamount to being given a direction by a police officer. But it seemed
> to carry no weight when that driver got nicked for driving through the
> lights so he could move out of the way...
Except that, according to the reports of the case, the Police car was NOT
using blues and twos, nor had the officers inside made any indication to the
driver. It was on a routine missing person enquiry and had simply drawn up
behind the car at the red light. The car then crossed the red light and
accelerated off; which is not quite the normal behaviour of someone who was
genuinely trying to make way for an emergency vehicle. The Police car only
turned on the blues and two to stop the driver after they caught up with
him. His claim was that, because he had been overtaken earlier by a Police
car with blues and twos going, he assumed that the one behind him would also
want to overtake. It reads to me as if he had just not seen that the car
behind him was a Police car when he decided to jump a red light.
Colin Bignell
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