Got pulled over for running a red light, now lost my producer!!!

Deep_Ocean

Paul_Varjak wrote: »

An amber light means STOP! It does not mean speed up! Deliberately driving through an amber/red light makes you an UNSAFE driver. I suggest you get a copy of the Highway Code, read it and obey it!

Noted. I will go on Amazon right now and order myself a copy :beer:

Freddie_Snowbits

Deep_Ocean wrote: »

Some harsh comments. I take it everybody who has wrote negatively on here has never gone over the speed limit, or gone over on amber when u should have stopped. Get real. He without sin cast the first stone.

30 years plus driving and no points ever on licence! Now where did I put those stones.

It would be better that you give up the university degree course, as you seem to have all the experience of a barrack room lawyer already, and spend your money on an advanced driving course. Then you may at least become a better driver.

Or are you the ICE fitter who told us all of their wisdom onthe DSR and SOGA, won you case and spent the damages on improving your solictor skills?

Mark_Hewitt

Deep_Ocean wrote: »

Noted. I will go on Amazon right now and order myself a copy :beer:

No need, read online http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/

Deep_Ocean

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

30 years plus driving and no points ever on licence! Now where did I put those stones.

It would be better that you give up the university degree course, as you seem to have all the experience of a barrack room lawyer already, and spend your money on an advanced driving course. Then you may at least become a better driver.

Or are you the ICE fitter who told us all of their wisdom onthe DSR and SOGA, won you case and spent the damages on improving your solictor skills?

Thanks for the advice. I will just pop up to my tutor now and inform her of my change in direction, I will write to the student loans company and ask if they will honour my loan to pursue an advanced driving course.

However before I do this I will write to pope and put in an argument for you. Cos of course it seems we have a saint on our hands here. This has to be acknowledged. :T:T:T U must be very proud:T:T:T

Deep_Ocean

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

No need, read online http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/

excellent, oh what a joy, I will download a copy right away and print it off and read it every night before I go to bed, oh mommy will be proud of me

fid1892

adouglasmhor wrote: »

All the members of my motorcycle club have got dead friends from car drivers running red lights. I am sure their deaths are more petty that your girlfriend's stolen lipstick. Perhap you would like to come to our annnual rally and explain that.

Personally, I cannot see how the above post raised the hackles of the OP to the extent where the insults needed to fly.

As for my feelings on the matter, the OP mentioned in one post the motorway juction at Walsall .... if it was at that junction that it happened, I can confirm that the speeds were unlikely to have been much above the quoted 5mph - but that doesn't alter the fact that 'amber gambling' at that junction creates loads of problems for people approaching from the right. The lights there change pretty quickly anyway, so it wouldn't exactly have cost the OP much time to wait for the sequence to come around again.

I am not holier than thou, and I will not claim to be the 'perfect driver,' but I have utmost sympathy for the views of adouglasmhor. I also ride motorbikes myself and certain parts of the anatomy certainly twitch when you get some idiot coming out in front of you when your route is on green.

BubbleFrogette

adouglasmhor wrote: »

I think he totally deserved it, anyway my offer still stands - he can come to our bike rally in August and see how his bull poop goes down there. It's not the running the red light but his pathetic little attempts to justify it and denigrate the police for bothering him. he's a prime oxygen thief in my opinion.

I agree that the OP's trivializing of the offence and comparison to the Gf's car was incorrect, however, you citing bikers as the innocent victims of crimes like his just doesn't wash. As a biker myself, from a family of bikers, I know for a fact that bikers are not whiter than white by any stretch of the imagination. My Dad has chalked up mates lost over the years through their own reckless behaviour on motorbikes and I myself have known people lost because of their own risk taking on a bike. Trying to blame these things on 'evil red light jumping car drivers' is just a step too far. I've been overtaken one the wrong side of the road by a line of bikes wheelie-ing past into the path of oncoming traffic on the approach to Matlock!

Edited to add; However - I do appreciate that some unfortunate people lose their lives to crimes like the OPs and if you knew of anyone like that then I'm sorry for your loss.

Deep_Ocean

fid1892 wrote: »

Personally, I cannot see how the above post raised the hackles of the OP to the extent where the insults needed to fly.

As for my feelings on the matter, the OP mentioned in one post the motorway juction at Walsall .... if it was at that junction that it happened, I can confirm that the speeds were unlikely to have been much above the quoted 5mph - but that doesn't alter the fact that 'amber gambling' at that junction creates loads of problems for people approaching from the right. The lights there change pretty quickly anyway, so it wouldn't exactly have cost the OP much time to wait for the sequence to come around again.

I am not holier than thou, and I will not claim to be the 'perfect driver,' but I have utmost sympathy for the views of adouglasmhor. I also ride motorbikes myself and certain parts of the anatomy certainly twitch when you get some idiot coming out in front of you when your route is on green.

As for saving me time, it certainly didn't do that. I was asked to pull over down a turn off where I didn't want to be going, and all the sxtra time consuming inconveniences, not to mention financial, I will certainly be more inclined to hit the middle peddle in future.

I know what u mean about the twitching of the anatomy, the turtle certainly went into its shell when the old plod were tapping on my window

Deep_Ocean

BubbleFrogette wrote: »

I agree that the OP's trivializing of the offence and comparison to the Gf's car was incorrect, however, you citing bikers as the innocent victims of crimes like his just doesn't wash. As a biker myself, from a family of bikers, I know for a fact that bikers are not whiter than white by any stretch of the imagination. My Dad has chalked up mates lost over the years through their own reckless behaviour on motorbikes and I myself have known people lost because of their own risk taking on a bike. Trying to blame these things on 'evil red light jumping car drivers' is just a step too far. I've been overtaken one the wrong side of the road by a line of bikes wheelie-ing past into the path of oncoming traffic on the approach to Matlock!

Edited to add; However - I do appreciate that some unfortunate people lose their lives to crimes like the OPs and if you knew of anyone like that then I'm sorry for your loss.

Unfortunately mororbikes do appear to be a dangerous hobby. I mentioned earlier in this thread that I was witness to a policeman pulling out of a lane onto the (A449 in Himley if anybody knows it). He was on his was to a RTA, the bike hit him and it was an unfortunate fatality. The police were not found guilty of any offence. The biker was in his 20's and had just been to visit his nan for her birthday.

My brother has been talking of getting a bike and I dread the day he gets one. It's a game of russian roulette, and all the banter aside I must agree with the honourable gentleman that a large percentage of fatalities are sure to be from incompitant drivers.

I would never get a bike for that exact reason, I will not put my life in the hands of other road users as I see horrendous driving far too often.

adouglasmhor

BubbleFrogette wrote: »

I agree that the OP's trivializing of the offence and comparison to the Gf's car was incorrect, however, you citing bikers as the innocent victims of crimes like his just doesn't wash. As a biker myself, from a family of bikers, I know for a fact that bikers are not whiter than white by any stretch of the imagination. My Dad has chalked up mates lost over the years through their own reckless behaviour on motorbikes and I myself have known people lost because of their own risk taking on a bike. Trying to blame these things on 'evil red light jumping car drivers' is just a step too far. I've been overtaken one the wrong side of the road by a line of bikes wheelie-ing past into the path of oncoming traffic on the approach to Matlock!

Edited to add; However - I do appreciate that some unfortunate people lose their lives to crimes like the OPs and if you knew of anyone like that then I'm sorry for your loss.

Never said we were all whiter than white - but my labouring a point is a direct responce to his "it's nothing" attitude. I have lost mates from risk taking too, but when it's the real safety riders, the family guys not the hotheads you find yourself asking why? We lost one guy to a red light jumper who shunted him into the path of an HGV lorry coming the other way, one guy died of complications after a saab just about went over him, one guy in a wheelchair now from a similar accident. It's not trivial by any means. I do drive as well as ride my bikes - I am too old for everyday riding in a Scottish winter now.

Edited to add - it is only the internet though - I doubt either of us is losing any sleep over posts on here. I am pretty sure away from the artificial environment of the net we would be at least civil to each other.