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Originally Posted by Moldova
No the video does show quite clearly that he was actively searching for the car and then quite inexplicably he increased his speed to 94MPH on a non straight and undulating section of road with at least one crossing and some houses on it.
knowing the road as i do it does seem reasonable that the officer has come to the conclusion that the car is still on the same road and not turned off into a cul-de-sac or scotswood road and wants to catch up with the car before it gets to the roundabout a few hundred yards up the road were the there is a choice of 3 exits
Finally in the last section you see a person obviously unaware of the approaching danger start to cross the road outside of what looks like houses and the video stops because after that he impacts with the pedestrian killing her probably instantly.
If this vehicle had been double manned and the blues and twos had been on and the watch commander informed of the situation then maybe the would have been a different outcome to this sad story.
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agree 100% there ,i am sure that all officers would prefer to have a co-driver with them when engaging in pursuits of any kind ,but sadly in this case that didn't happen and the end result is a tragedy
Maybe we should also be looking at the way the police force operate in respect to these cases ,should drivers even be on there own? is it safe for drivers however well trained to operate the electronics in such cars whilst driving at high speed ,is it even legal?
the police are in a very hard position because they have to adopt a one rule for everyone attitude ,if a passing car is flagged as stolen then it must be stopped ,the officer doesn't know if that car is genuinely stolen or a error on the system ,he doesn't know if it's joy riders or a murderer escaping the scene or indeed a innocent driver who's car had been stolen ,then recovered but the system not updated quickly enough ,all of this must be taken into consideration imo and do go some way to explain the drivers actions