On balance I'd just about back the bobby, but it's a close-run thing. Patch of diesel, or a freaked-out car driver, and there could be two bikers down and maybe dead.
lol, true Xk....
Karey - it is only human nature I guess! If you have seen any of these documentaries involving chases, be it vehicular or on foot, afterwards the pursuing agents are almost high on adrenalin! Unfortunately this process also releases chemicals into the brain (the name of which escapes me) which inhibits thought processes. This has been proven in cases of police officers under fire and I think can be seen by a couple of manouvres the pursuing police rider carries out in that video...
Hmmmm a case of the hunter/hunted ... like u say, TC..tis human nature.
I haven't listened to any of the soundtracks yet (fort best not to as I'm at work, lol) but I imagine that the officer would have been pretty high on adrenalin.. as wud the 'biker' being pursued.
The method of riding was considered so extreme by investigating officers from the Sussex Road Policing Unit that normal stopping procedures were not considered appropriate. Instead, the rider was safely tracked using unmarked cars and an unmarked motorcycle in order to gather evidence to support a prosecution.
But surely.. by using unmarked vehicles they were just making a dangerous situation even more so?
I can't see how the rider was being 'safely tracked' when other road users were put in danger...
There are too many 'What if' situations that could have happened... surely clocking him breaking the speed limit/dangerously riding on one occasion shud have been enuff to stop the pursuit?!?
I would have thought the placement of a big inflatable castle around one of the beds should have done the trick....
Then watch as the policeman sit down and take off their shoes before jumping on and apprehending the offender...
"I am arresting you for dangerous driving"...boing.. "You do not have to say anything"...boing..."but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court."... backflip...
The rider's road positioning and forward planning skills are pretty minimal to be fair. I would suggest (as a partially trained rider only) that out of the two, the copper certainly was thinking far more about his riding plan.
Do I think the pursuit was safe though? No. Yes, the copper was thinking better and taking better lines, but his proximity and speed differential to other vehicles was certainly, in my opinion, unsafe.
It doesn't matter how good a rider you are, you can't filter through slow moving traffic at 80mph!! You only need one vehicle to move over by as little as ten centimetres and earth, sky, earth, sky!
From what I saw they had more than enough evidence to ban the guy and throw a hefty fine at him within the first couple of minutes ... so why maintain the pursuit for over ten minutes. After all, we don't know how long exactly the pursuit went on for.
As someone else says earlier, the video does make for a perfect anti-speeding campaign .... coincidentally??
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