Last Wednesday i had a crash on my bus....a good crash, i wiped out a Land rover freelander after walloping it in the back. Anyway, the crash was caused by a black Peugeot 306 going through a red light at about 40 mph and the land rover slamming on so it never got broad sided. I found out that a bus doesn't stop as quickly as a car!! the police werent going to come as they considered it not worthy enough, until the chap in the land rover told them that he wanted them down as there were injuries and he also mentioned he was an ex high ranking police officer. When the police came we told them that the passenger in the land rover had managed to get the number of the peugeot, they checked it out and it was local to Hull. I was informed that as he had made off it was an arrestable offence for him as there were injuries and he hadnt left any details.
The police telephoned me on the night to say that they had been round to his house but he wasnt in(suprise suprise, i wonder if he had had a drink) and they had left a letter for him to contact them.giving him time to get his story together. yesterday i gets a call back, he had contacted them and told them that it was a momentary lack of concentration and he must have seen the green filter light and thought this was the light for him to proceed so they werent going to prosecute him but just ask him to take a driver improvement course. the good news came next........................I was also going to be sent on one too as in their opinion i hadnt left enough room to stop!!! I was going through a traffic light which was on green, the car infront had no hazards infront of him so i had no reason to think he would perform an emergency stop, the road was greasy and some twat had just come through a red light, but NO im in the wrong. summat stinks me thinks. the guy in the peugeot has FAILED TO STOP AFTER AN ACCIDENT, FAILED TO OBSERVE A TRAFFIC SIGNAL, and by his own admission never saw the red light, which to my mind is DRIVING WITHOUT DUE CARE AND ATTENTION. i wonder what he does for a living? police officer maybe? I also want to know how i can be sent on a course when they never took any measurements at the scene so how do they know wha\t my distance or speed was as the police themselves said that there were contributing factors as to why i never stopped in time.
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Yea, but you're an easy target to get their statistics up! You don't expect them to have time for policing when they have targets to meet do you?
Was it a particularly posh looking Peugeot? If it was it mioght have been someone with a bit of influence. Especially when you say the Freelander driver was ex police. You'll have to tell us about the course thing. My old man had to go on a speeding one and he said what a bloody waste of time it was as well. He got a copy of the highway code and a key ring and that. Must cost a bloody fortune when you thing how many go to these things. Hope youre ok!
i have been on the speeding course and that key ring was never worth 50 bloody quid!! I have just sent a letter in to the police station asking for a copy of the accident report cos im still not sure if i am going to accept the course or if im just going to tell them to prosecute me and i will have my day in court, the union pay any fine i might get so all i have to lose is my clean licence.
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