Near Miss of the Day 705: Tailgating close pass driver highlights need for Highway Code change

I dunno.. his trolling triggered some pretty funny comments.

If you're so concerned about the current state of Policing you could do your bit for society and volunteer to be a Special Constable. Follow this link for further information  https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2019/09/Spe...

jaymack wrote:

If you're so concerned about the current state of Policing you could do your bit for society and volunteer to be a Special Constable. Follow this link for further information  https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2019/09/Spe...

Don't give them ideas!!

Dickhead.

Of course bailing out the banks following years of Tory inspired deregulation had nothing to do with it, if you want facyts try reading Hansard which records that David Cam,eron and Co constantly pushed for more and more derugulation of the banks to enable them to work in a less fettered and more productive enviroment. 

Whoops, sorry, real facts are not your forte are they.

Massive red herring, it's a standard joke. See outgoing (Tory) chancellor Reginald Maudling's message to Callaghan: “Good luck, old cock…. Sorry to leave it in such a mess".

Stupid note to write, but no, sorry to burst your bubble but labour spending did not cause the financial crash of 2008

The big short covers the build up to the crash giving a fair overview.

I remember being told by a member of D&C police that on one Friday night, there was a single road traffic car on duty for the whole of Devon... that's Devon, the biggest county in England. Devon, with two cities and the Torbay conturbation... one road traffic car. 

There's cuts and then there are cuts... in all fairness its a testiment to the good in British society that its not just total anarchy out there! 

I've said it before on here. I remember when I passed my driving test in 1984, the Lancashire traffic police were feared by all. The motorcycle police were hated. They were everywhere, and consequently the standard of driving was much better, because you simply could not get away with driving like a dick. And they never warned you, you always got a ticket. I'm glad to say that I never fell foul of them, but heard some hilarious stories from them,  my father had a vehicle recovery business so we knew all the traffic police very well.

 I remember when I passed my driving test in 1984

Pfff! Kids eh?!!

Surely this should encourage the police to make more use of video evidence submitted to them to issue FPNs rather than go to the expense of conducting close pass operations etc. Instead, a number of forces seem to be choosing to ignore the evidence of dangerous driving provided to them.

The problem is either that they are not doing their job or that the law (which hasn't changed as far as I can tell) needs to be changed or reinterpreted, in which case it is still their job to campaign for it.

Surely this should encourage the police to make more use of video evidence submitted to them to issue FPNs

FPNs?! I used to dream of drivers getting FPNs! Unfortunately, Lancashire Constabulary expends a great deal of time and effort in not doing anything about offences that should be quickly dealt with by FPNs.

The relevant highway code change is the one which tells us to block overtakes until we feel it is safe.

of course.. road rules won't stop punishment passes from jerks that get aggravated because a bicycle slowed their progress for a few seconds.

The one doesn't preclude the other. I think both were going on in this video.

A Range Rover like that, though?  More likely a bloke in his fifties/sixties who "could o' been a contender".