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Q: When is a police car not a police car


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A: When it's a security van, a roadside assistance vehicle or a freakin' plumber.

 

I dunno how many times I slow down for these things when I see their flashy dayglo graphics and their roof lights in the distance, only to realise close up that I could have just zoomed past. I am not the only one, sometimes traffic slows to a crawl when going past them, only for it to speed up once everyone realises it's not plod but some van with a lary advert with dayglo zig zags down the back.

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what about highway maintenance and ambulances (bikes, jeeps)

 

Highway Maintenance..... Now the lads in those jeeps do my head in. Parked up at the side of motorways, on bridges and just driving about at 50-60mph on motorways. They always make you brake as you think it's the cops :D

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Surely this is a good thing. I recently slowed down due to a motorway maintenance van on the hard shoulder and then spotted a copper on the next bridge on the M6. Saved me 3 points and £60..!!

 

H.

 

Highway Maintenance..... Now the lads in those jeeps do my head in. Parked up at the side of motorways, on bridges and just driving about at 50-60mph on motorways. They always make you brake as you think it's the cops :D

 

EDIT- In your case they were a God send for once :D

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on a similar note, what really gets me going is plod cars in the middle of three lane traffic! usually going 5/10mph below the limit (nowt wrong), but then no one will pass it. instead they'll stay a car length behind. I've always driven past on the limit or needle just above without any issues, why are people so scared?

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on a similar note, what really gets me going is plod cars in the middle of three lane traffic! usually going 5/10mph below the limit (nowt wrong), but then no one will pass it. instead they'll stay a car length behind. I've always driven past on the limit or needle just above without any issues, why are people so scared?

 

i still go past them about 75-80mph

 

what the worst thing as that there are more under cover police cars on the road then marked! so seeing all the other vans,cars and bikes and slowing down may still save you any trouble from the plod

 

better safe then sorry !

i was caught by a unmarked m3 about 2 in the morning i didnt have a fcd and was checking boost cut so flew upto 145mph got fuel cut slowed down and the m3 now come right up behind me so i thought owh yeah as i went to plant the throttle blue lights come from behind the grill, went to court a couple of months latter and got a 2 month ban and a £500 fine when reinsuring the car it cost £2,600 and stayed like that for a good couple of years.

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i still go past them about 75-80mph

 

what the worst thing as that there are more under cover police cars on the road then marked! so seeing all the other vans,cars and bikes and slowing down may still save you any trouble from the plod

 

better safe then sorry !

i was caught by a unmarked m3 about 2 in the morning i didnt have a fcd and was checking boost cut so flew upto 145mph got fuel cut slowed down and the m3 now come right up behind me so i thought owh yeah as i went to plant the throttle blue lights come from behind the grill, went to court a couple of months latter and got a 2 month ban and a £500 fine when reinsuring the car it cost £2,600 and stayed like that for a good couple of years.

 

You got off very lightly there. At that sort of speed they could easily have given you a 12 month ban. A friend of mine recently got caught doing 102mph. He got a 2 month ban and a £1000 fine. The fine was increased as he pleaded a fine over time on the ban because he needed the car for work. He also got 6 points.

 

At the end of the day we take our own chances when speeding. We all know it's wrong even if we don't agree. If you get caught by whatever means you only have yourself to blame.

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i didnt think you could get points if you was taking a straight ban? maybe he got the points that took him up to making a ban?

 

i did get off lightly and have been to court couple of times for my sins, had the job thing and knew what to say too, i was on my way back from a emergancy lift entrapment so maybe they went lighly on me because of that

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It is frustrating but better safe than sorry and all that.

 

Yeah, agreed.

 

 

... got a 2 month ban and a £500 fine when reinsuring the car it cost £2,600 and stayed like that for a good couple of years.

 

Ouch!!!

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well i work as a mobile engineer and i have a merc sprinter with all the markings, there doing their job slowing drivers down and making them aware of you...

 

what would be better a black van no markings attending to a car say on m27 with a mum and kid in car??? at night you hit the van then you got a pile up etc...

find something better to moan about than stickers, its there for a reason, so you get slowed sometimes idiots rubber neck, then causes a crash but thats due to the driver not paying attention!!

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well i work as a mobile engineer and i have a merc sprinter with all the markings, there doing their job slowing drivers down and making them aware of you...

 

what would be better a black van no markings attending to a car say on m27 with a mum and kid in car??? at night you hit the van then you got a pile up etc...

find something better to moan about than stickers, its there for a reason, so you get slowed sometimes idiots rubber neck, then causes a crash but thats due to the driver not paying attention!!

 

I think the point he is making is that some people deliberatly try and make their vehicle look like a police car/van. AA trucks are highly visible but do not look like police vehicles, Dyno-Rod vans are even more so and look nothing like police vehicles, same as the saddos who wear Hi Viz in the car or put it on the parcel shelf hoping you think they are plod.

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I think the point he is making is that some people deliberatly try and make their vehicle look like a police car/van. AA trucks are highly visible but do not look like police vehicles, Dyno-Rod vans are even more so and look nothing like police vehicles, same as the saddos who wear Hi Viz in the car or put it on the parcel shelf hoping you think they are plod.

 

I'm with you here John. If the car needs the chevrons and amber lights because they work in hazardous situations then that's fine. There a number of companies and idiots who like to dress thier vehicle up in the hope they either can gain exclusive road privileges, like driving on the hard should in traffic, or they thinknit makes people think they are important.

 

Wierd!!

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