I have been a little sceptical of the info you get on Mway gantry signs in the past, but in the wee small hours of this morning I was eastbound on the 62 near Risley and the signs flashed "Oncoming Vehicle in the Road" with a 50mph then a 20mph and I thought I'd better take this seriously and then was a little surprised to see a late plate A4 being driven at about 50mph towards me in 'my' overtaking lane, ignoring a junction which he could easily have used to come off.
No sign of Plod for about 10 miles when a patrol car came steaming down the other carriage way. I'd have thought it might have been smarter to send a car from the other direction as this patrol car was going to have give it some welly to get past the miscreant and come on at a junction ahead of him.
Any uniform here care to comment on what would have been better, assuming a car was available ahead of this nutter?
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Probably no-one available within a 100 miles to do a text book thingy.
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...text book thingy...
That must be a 'get half-a-dozen patrol cars and box it in against the central reservation and hope for the best' thingy.
I believe the constables prefer the term 'controlled stop'.
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thought they used the term "TPAC"
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Sounds like a sensible use of them unlike the M20 I was on when they kept telling me of "accident ahead"-by the time you'd passed so many of them ,you'd ignored them-then you came to the accident.
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Or 40 mph, Workmen in road, followed by lines of cones in the in/outside lane, and nothing happening, and no-one in sight, not even tucked up in the cab with the Sun, a roll-up and a flask.
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holy lord above, a gantry sign that spoke the truth! ah, a\stolen audi... wasnt black by any chance
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Black 55 plate.
How far did you get before they trapped you?
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Its illegal to smoke in a work motor nowadays.
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on a night shift you'd be amazed at how few traffic officers there will be available. Very, very few... and they are the only ones allowed to patrol or deal with incidents on motorways, because of the obvious severe hazards of a 'fast road', so there won't be any diverting of other officers....not that they'd have a high enough performance car to help anyway.
many forces have dramatically cut the numbers of traffic officers, that sort of work not being a govt priority and therefore not 'measured'... but it's ok, the cameras will sort it out, won't they?
or what about the HATO's (Highways Agency Traffic Officers) couldn't they help, they've got shiny new vehicles....er, no....not trained, qualified etc.... still, they could come along afterwards and block off the fatal traffic accident
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