Now, I'm not suggesting that the policewoman involved in the original incident this thread spoke of, was in any way doing anything wrong. However, yesterday, I witnessed some idiotic police driving behaviour.
I mentioned in my ride report yesterday about a car who ran off a straight piece of rd into a tree and died. As I drove through the scene, the police were covering the car and the body with a tarpualin. At this point, I counted no less than 4 marked police vehicles. The weather was still horrible, with it pissing with rain. the road is almost dead straight for klms and is single lane each way.
After pssing the scene, about 2-10klms up the rd, I witnessed not one, but 3 marked police cars rushing to the scene. As mentioned, there were already 4 police vehicles in attendance at the scene, yet, ALL 3 police vehicles were travelling WELL ABOVE the speed limit. They ALL were double passing cars!!! What I mean, is they were pushing cars aside and running up the double yellow lines!! I was following a bus, so my vision was partially obscured when the first one crossed onto my side of the rd missing my bar end and mirror by inches!!!
I dropped well back from the bus immediately. Thank god I did, as the next two police vehicles who passed by, were even further over the centre line!!!
They were weaving in and out and forcing cars to the side, not waiting for the drivers to pull over! Frankly, even in dry conditions, I would have found this excessive speed and aggression to be unwarranted when going to the scene of a single fatality!!!
Remember, there were 4 other police vehicles already at the scene!! What was the hurry??? Did the other three police vehicles carry the donuts of something??????
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