Ok, why do some police drivers (well, this was a panda car..) drive like the law doesn't apply to them?

 

Picture the scene:

 

Coming out of Datchet and heading toward Langley (J5 on the M4), you go through a bit of the village that has those stupid little square sleeping policeman 'bits' - so I'm going between 20mph and 30mph..

 

I notice that there's a car glued to my back bumper, nay, trying to mate with my car in fact.. And then I notice it has lights on the roof (which weren't on, BTW :rofl: )..

 

So, you head out of Datchet, and the road widens a little as the sleeping policemen stop - it goes from a 30 limit to a 40, but.. and here's the but - at that point a hatched area in the middle starts because there's a residential turning off the road and there are those 'road narrowers' (y'know, lumps that stick out from the normal road edges with bollards on them).

 

It's at that point that Mr Policeman decides to overtake me - no indicators, no blue lights, no flashing lights, nothing.. And he does so so slowly it's painful (well, it's a diesel Astra, and I'm accellerating from 30mph to 40mph as well), making me squeeze over to the narrowing to avoid pushing him onto the bollard (although it was tempting!).

 

So I thought I'd follow him at a little distance - and watch him do 55mph through the 40 - still, no lights, no sirens..

 

We leave the 40mph and he catches up with a Golf VR5 (complete with big alloys and noisy exhaust) who had been getting away from me..

 

I laughed so hard - the Golf driver had obviously seen Mr Plod's overtaking, and sat at exactly 40mph all through the 60 limit :rofl: :rofl:

 

Got to the M4, and the police car headed off down the M4, still in no particular rush...

 

:smash:

 

Rant over! Winds me up almost as much as those people who sit at 40 in 60 limits, then carry on doing 40 through villages..

:xxx:

while he was up your arse you could have slammed your anchors on and claimed (when they'd separated themselves from your Z) that you'd seen a child about to run out in front of you, and BTW that'll be £1k for a new rear please ta. just another police accident to add to the list :mac1:

I know the feeling mate,

 

The other day I left the Shell garage in Amersham (in the ZX), entered a mini-roundabout and one of Thames Valley's finest in an Omega almost took out my left side because he didn't fancy giving way to his right!!

 

I carried on past the station at exactly 30mph with PC Piglet soooo close to my rear bumper that I could'nt see his headlights, only the insects on his windscreen!! All the way down the hill on Station Road I drove with my foot on the brake to maintain 30mph, occasionally pressing it a bit harder when the car hit 32 :rofl:

 

As he was so close I could see the look on his face as he got more pissed off :rofl:

 

Now if I'd done that to an unmarked police car you'd be watching me on one of those reality TV shows "....tailgating driver gets ticket for careless driving...." :confused:

 

Fekkers, and they wonder why they are losing the respect of the public :confused: :slap: :rofl:

 

Richard :cool:

what a twat!!

 

But there,s one thing I hate and thats the people who drive around at 40mph!!! in a 60 limit you go to over take them, and thay start to flash you and getting all angry!!!!!! So sometimes, were the time is not right to overtake you stay behind them and like you say when it gets to a 30 limit thay keep on going at 40mph WHY WHY :slap: :slap: :slap:

I would have forced him into the bollards, f^ck him.

what a twat!!

 

But there,s one thing I hate and thats the people who drive around at 40mph!!! in a 60 limit you go to over take them, and thay start to flash you and getting all angry!!!!!! So sometimes, were the time is not right to overtake you stay behind them and like you say when it gets to a 30 limit thay keep on going at 40mph WHY WHY :slap: :slap: :slap:

 

Don't get me started on this one Jay :p

 

Happened to me all over the West Country last month....

 

Virtually everyone (and there were a fair few :D ) I overtook in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall whilst on hols either flashed, hooted or made other gestures as I blasted past them.

 

I overtook on national speed limit roads safely, quickly (goes without say in the Z) and didn't cut in or brake afterwards - I just carried on my merry way :confused:

 

Then again maybe it could have been respect for the ZX (apart from the "gestures" ;) ) but it still baffled me - surely those old c**ts don't want me sitting on their tale????

 

Richard :cool:

 

PS Happy birthday Jay!

(when they'd separated themselves from your Z)

 

Ah but I was in the Roadster - the thing is so light and made out of grease proof paper, if they'd hit me the whole car would have exploded :rofl:

Just to maybe put another point of view over,sometimes plod gets called to incidents that require them to not use lights or sirens (e.g. people threatening suicide), and he may of got turned away from the incident by radio, explaining his normal driving afterwards?

 

Or he could of just been a **** driver :)

Just to maybe put another point of view over,sometimes plod gets called to incidents that require them to not use lights or sirens (e.g. people threatening suicide), and he may of got turned away from the incident by radio, explaining his normal driving afterwards?

 

He's still allowed to use his indicators though...

 

Plus we weren't really near anywhere when he started his maneuver (you leave the village bit, then there's a gap, then the turning for the big residential place), so he could have put his blues on and not been seen by anyone (aside from me)..

 

He continued to sit about 3" from the back bumper of the Golf, too..

 

 

I know what you mean though - followed another panda car back through slough, doing about 40-45 in a 30 (easy to see by his brake lights coming on every time we came across as speed camera :rofl: ), but he turned off into a carpark (the kind of place 'youths' congregate), so it was obvious he was going somewhere in stealth mode.. (Well, as stealthy as a white diesel Astra with battenbergs can be, anyway ;))

Not had any trouble with police drivers like this, but know exactly what you mean about the 40 mph brigade. Used to live in Dorset and worked in a small village - got it every day on way to/from work. Very annoying. And the flashing really got up my nose. There's one thing I'd like to say to these people (not that any of them are likely to be on this forum): if you don't like being overtaken then chuffing well DRIVE FASTER!!!!!