In message <0vmdnWuba_59ibfVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@giganews.com>, nightjar
writes
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>"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
>news:SWOCLyBVnbKIFwZz@g3ohx.demon.co.uk...
>...
>> 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
>
I see. I was under the mistaken impression that the twos and blues were
on. That seems to explain it all.
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Ian |