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Is It Really Worth The Risk.
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Just seen a police program on tv, in short a police officer was traveling at 150mp on the M6 to catch up with a reported stolen Range Rover.The RR was not speeding it was just picked up on camara a good way ahead. The RR proved not to be stolen when they caught up with it stuck at road works.One false move by another driver and that police car could have caused carnage at that speed. Your thoughts?
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It is not necessarily an offence for emergency services to exceed the speed limit.
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
Section 87(1)
"No statutory provision imposing a speed limit on motor vehicles shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or for or in connection with the exercise of any function of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, if the observance of that provision would be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used on that occasion."
It is not necessarily an offence for emergency services to exceed the speed limit.
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
Section 87(1)
"No statutory provision imposing a speed limit on motor vehicles shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or for or in connection with the exercise of any function of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, if the observance of that provision would be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used on that occasion."
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11.39.All the training in the world don't stop you having a blow out.All the training a traffic cop has don't stop someone up ahead pulling into their path because at 150 mph its a split second before they know that the police car is on top of them.If they had been hunting down a real nasty then fair enough. 11.05 I think it was a BMW, there was already 2 cop cars behind the Range Rover by the time he had finished his 150mph dash. Madness in my view.