Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision

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Mon 17 Sep 2007 17:31
Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision - movilogo
Story goes here

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007...l


Five people have been killed after a car chased by police turned the wrong way down a motorway before colliding head on with another vehicle.

Whom to blame for the accident, the police or the culprits?
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Mon 17 Sep 2007 17:36
Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision - Stuartli
The answer to your question lies in the claimed comment from the police: ",,,,although police insist they stopped chasing the vehicle when it joined the M4 in South Wales."

If those concerned had stopped for the police, then they and others involved would still be here.


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Mon 17 Sep 2007 17:43
Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision - Lud
It's obvious the police are to blame when people flee from them and drive the wrong way up motorways.

Stands to reason. If there weren't any police society would be perfect. Their very existence goads otherwise respectable people into committing utterly moronic offences.
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Mon 17 Sep 2007 17:47
Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision - flunky
clearly the police should not chase anyone, nor attempt to catch any criminals, just in case the criminals decide to drive the wrong way down the motorway killing people
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Mon 17 Sep 2007 18:07
Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision - gmac
I'm surprised no one has yet suggested speed cameras would have prevented this accident.
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Mon 17 Sep 2007 18:35
Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision - burpie
More detailed story here:

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6998191.stm
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Mon 17 Sep 2007 18:41
Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision - Screwloose
I'm surprised no one has yet suggested speed cameras would have prevented this accident.


For all we know; the tickets may already be in the post....

[And if the car was stolen; the police will doubtless persecute the owner to the limits of the law...]
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Mon 17 Sep 2007 20:04
Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision - Hamsafar
I will complain to the IPCA about the Police letting them go, they should have followed to warn other vehicles and hopefully ram the car into the barrier.

What use is it when lefty do-gooders make rules like this to hamper the Police and then publicise them to every turd in the land so that they know if they do this they'll get let off?
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Mon 17 Sep 2007 20:44
Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision - Baskerville
Yeah, they definitely got let off alright. What exactly can you do with people who care so little about their own safety that they will drive at speed in the wrong direction on a motorway? I really fail to see what having a police car behind them might have done to make this less serious.
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Mon 17 Sep 2007 23:49
Police pursuit ends in head-on motorway collision - Pugugly {P}
"Whom to blame for the accident, the police or the culprits?"

Well the Back Room is not a branch of the IPCC - not to be debated here. Thread locked.
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