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On 15 May 2008, Alan Braggins wrote:
> In article , Nick Finnigan wrote:
> >Alan Braggins wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I know. Any traffic order with such an exemption is unlikely
> > to specify that the emergency vehicles has to be rushing to an
> > incident.
>
> If it specifies emergency vehicles, it specifies emergency vehicles.
> Having a POLICE badge on doesn't make it an emergency vehicle if there
> is no emergency.
Indeed, but the relevant laws normally do require the vehicle to be
responding to an emergency. Hence the recent case of the lying copper
who was caught out by his mates - he had to find an emergency to
pretend to be responding to, it wasn't good enough that he was just
driving a police vehicle.
Unfortunately (for him) the emergency he claimed to be responding to
hadn't actually been broadcast on the radio.
Unfortunately for anyone that believes traffic law should be obeyed,
he was then let off anyway, despite having broken the law, then lied
about it, then systematically set out to pervert justice.
I don't know whether a traffic order would also include the
requirement, but since the laws do, there's a good chance traffic
orders would, I'd think.
regards, Ian SMith
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