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Title: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: waspy on 10 February 2008, 09:27:08
Last night at around 9ish i was sat at some traffic lights waiting for green & i noticed a car sat waiting when their side was on green, then when their lights changed to red they drove through, ok i thought, my lights changed to green so i started to follow said driver (at a distance) who was braking heavily for no reason then speeding up, braking, speeding up & wandering from curb to white line.
He took the left lane to take the third exit from the roundabout, which is basically turning right on to the A38 towards Derby, the driver speeded up on the slip road, then braked heavily, speeded up.
We got onto the A38 & for no reason at all braked heavily & slowed to 35mph, there was just me & the other driver, at this point handsfree was in ear & i was onto the Derbyshire police, because his driving was like that of someone on drink or drugs, he then speeded up to around 50mph before pulling into a layby, the driver sat for 15ish mins with the engine running, headlights on & his indicater flashing whilst i gave a complete description of their vehicle & driving to the police.
The operator ask me to stay with said vehicle until the police arrived, the police didn't arrive & the driver pulled out of the layby, so i waited for him to get a good distance before i gave pursuit again, at this point i was about 1/4 of a mile behind & giving chase, the driver then decided to speed upto 115mph, no probs, i still kept my 1/4 of a mile distance while still talking to police & giving a full description of his where abouts, the operator said there was a marked car on its way, as we approached the Kilburn slip road the operater said you should see a marked car very soon, the marked car was on the slipway waiting for us & as soon as the driver saw the poilce he slowed right down to about 60mph with me just a little behind him, the marked car came past me with blue's & two's & pulled over the driver into a layby. The operator said thank you for assistance & i went on my way.
I would love to know the reason for his very bad driving, i was given a crime ref No, do you think if i enquire in a few days they'll tell me?
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: vauxnut1 on 10 February 2008, 09:31:12
Be good to know what happened ............. you will have to wait and see it on police camera action lol  ;D :y
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: zippo on 10 February 2008, 09:33:04
if they gave you a crime number i don't see why they wouldn't tell you what had happened
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: zippo on 10 February 2008, 09:38:40
then again they might have given you the crn to quote if you had been gatso'd
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: waspy on 10 February 2008, 09:45:15
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then again they might have given you the crn to quote if you had been gatso'd

I know the road very well, must have driven it thousands of times. No worries of them, you have to look out for the helicopter, it conveniently
uses the A38 as a reference  :(
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: Jim on 10 February 2008, 09:51:34
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Be good to know what happened ............. you will have to wait and see it on police camera action lol  ;D :y
Or Road Wars!!! ;D ;D
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: tunnie on 10 February 2008, 09:52:28
whoo sounds like a fun night  :y
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: zippo on 10 February 2008, 09:53:02
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Last night at around 9ish i was sat at some traffic lights waiting for green & i noticed a car sat waiting when their side was on green, then when their lights changed to red they drove through, ok i thought, my lights changed to green so i started to follow said driver (at a distance) who was braking heavily for no reason then speeding up, braking, speeding up & wandering from curb to white line.
He took the left lane to take the third exit from the roundabout, which is basically turning right on to the A38 towards Derby, the driver speeded up on the slip road, then braked heavily, speeded up.
We got onto the A38 & for no reason at all braked heavily & slowed to 35mph, there was just me & the other driver, at this point handsfree was in ear & i was onto the Derbyshire police, because his driving was like that of someone on drink or drugs, he then speeded up to around 50mph before pulling into a layby, the driver sat for 15ish mins with the engine running, headlights on & his indicater flashing whilst i gave a complete description of their vehicle & driving to the police.
The operator ask me to stay with said vehicle until the police arrived, the police didn't arrive & the driver pulled out of the layby, so i waited for him to get a good distance before i gave pursuit again, at this point i was about 1/4 of a mile behind & giving chase, the driver then decided to speed upto 115mph, no probs, i still kept my 1/4 of a mile distance while still talking to police & giving a full description of his where abouts, the operator said there was a marked car on its way, as we approached the Kilburn slip road the operater said you should see a marked car very soon, the marked car was on the slipway waiting for us & as soon as the driver saw the poilce he slowed right down to about 60mph with me just a little behind him, the marked car came past me with blue's & two's & pulled over the driver into a layby. The operator said thank you for assistance & i went on my way.
I would love to know the reason for his very bad driving, i was given a crime ref No, do you think if i enquire in a few days they'll tell me?
drunk, drugs, or just a prat >:(
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: Crazydad on 10 February 2008, 10:57:43
I just hope you didnt ruin his night, imagine if you were in the car with a very good looking blond that wanted to do you a "Favour" you too would of been driving rather irraticly even the speeding up to get to the lay by would be explainable   LMAO ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: zippo on 10 February 2008, 11:00:32
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I just hope you didnt ruin his night, imagine if you were in the car with a very good looking blond that wanted to do you a "Favour" you too would of been driving rather irraticly even the speeding up to get to the lay by would be explainable   LMAO ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
you really crack me up  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D lmao
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: motmann on 10 February 2008, 11:31:50
they will contact you if your needed to give background or evidence if a crime was commited.......well done bud! :y
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: STMO123 on 10 February 2008, 11:45:18
Sounds perfectly normal to me. I drive like that all the time. :D
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: zippo on 10 February 2008, 11:49:16
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Sounds perfectly normal to me. I drive like that all the time. :D

is that because you drive an astra  :P
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: STMO123 on 10 February 2008, 11:51:19
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Sounds perfectly normal to me. I drive like that all the time. :D

is that because you drive an astra  :P

No. I do it in case Martin Imber is around, I'm sure of a chase then. ;D
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: zippo on 10 February 2008, 12:05:25
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Sounds perfectly normal to me. I drive like that all the time. :D

is that because you drive an astra  :P

No. I do it in case Martin Imber is around, I'm sure of a chase then. ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: Andy B on 10 February 2008, 13:51:09
Was it Debs bedding her brakes in?  ;D  ;D  :y
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: Gaffers on 10 February 2008, 16:45:26
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Last night at around 9ish i was sat at some traffic lights waiting for green & i noticed a car sat waiting when their side was on green, then when their lights changed to red they drove through, ok i thought, my lights changed to green so i started to follow said driver (at a distance) who was braking heavily for no reason then speeding up, braking, speeding up & wandering from curb to white line.
He took the left lane to take the third exit from the roundabout, which is basically turning right on to the A38 towards Derby, the driver speeded up on the slip road, then braked heavily, speeded up.
We got onto the A38 & for no reason at all braked heavily & slowed to 35mph, there was just me & the other driver, at this point handsfree was in ear & i was onto the Derbyshire police, because his driving was like that of someone on drink or drugs, he then speeded up to around 50mph before pulling into a layby, the driver sat for 15ish mins with the engine running, headlights on & his indicater flashing whilst i gave a complete description of their vehicle & driving to the police.
The operator ask me to stay with said vehicle until the police arrived, the police didn't arrive & the driver pulled out of the layby, so i waited for him to get a good distance before i gave pursuit again, at this point i was about 1/4 of a mile behind & giving chase, the driver then decided to speed upto 115mph, no probs, i still kept my 1/4 of a mile distance while still talking to police & giving a full description of his where abouts, the operator said there was a marked car on its way, as we approached the Kilburn slip road the operater said you should see a marked car very soon, the marked car was on the slipway waiting for us & as soon as the driver saw the poilce he slowed right down to about 60mph with me just a little behind him, the marked car came past me with blue's & two's & pulled over the driver into a layby. The operator said thank you for assistance & i went on my way.
I would love to know the reason for his very bad driving, i was given a crime ref No, do you think if i enquire in a few days they'll tell me?

I had a similar thing happen to me once but the pissed up b"£$% got all the way home.

You can do a request under the freedom of Information act, quote the crime number and they will have 30 days to reply.  They wont give you names but they can tell you what happened.
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: waspy on 25 March 2008, 19:18:39
An update to this incident.
I've just rung Derbyshire Police to see what the out come of this was.
Apparently the driver checked out as normal & was asked to produce his documents at a station.
So why did he person drive like they did :-? :-? :-? :-?
I just can't think of a reason, very strange  :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: Del Boy on 25 March 2008, 19:31:47
Well done mate seems strange that everything was normal :-?
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: HolyCount on 25 March 2008, 19:39:15
He'd probably just had the car serviced at his local Halfords and couldn't get it to run right!!!!!
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: Gaffers on 25 March 2008, 20:21:32
did you see a nice looking lady in there with him.......  ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: I was involved in police pursuit last night
Post by: Bacon Butty Man on 25 March 2008, 20:21:46
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Sounds perfectly normal to me. I drive like that all the time. :D

get in touch n find out, the police may wish to honour you :y