near miss

[brightspark]

i remember one i knew years ago put his blues on to get home in trafic as his fish and chips were getting cold no kid

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Iv only ever seen police chasing two cars in all my life

In the good old days there were chases every Saturday night in my local town centre! Back then the teenagers all had RS2000/Astra GTE/RS Turbos....and the police had those funny austin metro things. Most of their chases were...unsurprisingly....not very successful .

Kids these days are too busy saving the planet I guess....or playing on their xbox....what has the world come to!

 

[stuvy]

In the good old days there were chases every Saturday night in my local town centre! Back then the teenagers all had RS2000/Astra GTE/RS Turbos....and the police had those funny austin metro things. Most of their chases were...unsurprisingly....not very successful .

Kids these days are too busy saving the planet I guess....or playing on their xbox....what has the world come to!

So iv never lived a life and been a pratt in my youth. I may have borrowed a car once or twice but I was never caught

The benefit of being a gold top champ in mini

 

[ukracer]

funny really. I was just thinking this morning how a set of circumstances can influence what you do rest of your life and wonder if one thing changed how you would end up and what would you be doing different

Yes thats for sure....

 

[ukracer]

Its long been talked about but isnt about time a police radio operable vehicle kill switch was fitted to new cars. Despite police decrying car thieves putting innocent people at risk, the police enjoy these chases & the fact they chase stolen or crime involved vehicles they themselves put innocent people at risk. A kill switch would stop police needing to chase criminals dead.
RonA

To be fair they cant even stop cars being nicked when the card is in the house. So it would not take them long to get round that.

 

[RonA]

To be fair they cant even stop cars being nicked when the card is in the house. So it would not take them long to get round that.

Well they're going to have to do something & rethink their strategy. TPAC is hardly a step in the right direction, chasing after cars at multiples of the speed limit puts the Police, criminals & most importantly innocent by standers at risk. Stopping the chases before they get going is the only acceptable & safest way forward.
Perhaps we should the scientist loose on the problem.
RonA

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Is it America where they can stop a vehicle by using electro-magnetic pulses or similar already? Iirc it 'fries' the electronics in the pursued vehicle.

 

[ukracer]

Well they're going to have to do something & rethink their strategy. TPAC is hardly a step in the right direction, chasing after cars at multiples of the speed limit puts the Police, criminals & most importantly innocent by standers at risk. Stopping the chases before they get going is the only acceptable & safest way forward.
Perhaps we should the scientist loose on the problem.
RonA

But my point is it would only inconvience the law abiding...criminals would soon get round it.

 

[jimbo84]

Saw something this morning about new EU cars having speed limiters fitted in a few years.

Seems a long way off in reality and open to bypassing.

Guess the crims will start nicking older cars if it ever happened.

Edit: the link, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47715415

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Its long been talked about but isnt about time a police radio operable vehicle kill switch was fitted to new cars. Despite police decrying car thieves putting innocent people at risk, the police enjoy these chases & the fact they chase stolen or crime involved vehicles they themselves put innocent people at risk. A kill switch would stop police needing to chase criminals dead.
RonA

While there at it Jam mobile signals.

Nice idea but needs coding to reg plates and can bet it will be abused for car jacking