British Cop Hits 16-yr old Girl at 90mph - at Night, with No Flashing Lights or Siren

[Facial_King]

Re: British Cop Hits 16-yr old Girl at 90mph - at Night, with No Flashing Lights or S

Unfortunatly mistakes happen and the police officer didn't mean it to happen, he saw it appropriate to take the silent approach to the suspected car, do we know if the officer was trying to get any further information whilst in pursuit?

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He made a mistake and took a life, that will stick with him forever, we can debate the facts of this over and over but we wern't there and can't say exactly what happened especially as it's reported by the media. But all i can say is that the officer tried to do his duty, and some point throughout his career there will more than likely be a mistake and it is just unfortunate that this time it was a young girl.

Well, he obviously strayed too far from the rules in trying to do his duty as, again, Northumbria "Police officers driving in marked patrol cars are instructed to use their sirens and flashing lights when responding to a 999 call or attempting to pull over a motorist." He failed to do just that (as did the cop behind him).

Without some level of risks it would be hard for the police to work efficiently, we can't always say that the Police are 100% responsible for us, we need some form of foresight and awareness in everyday life to help aid the police and ourselves. They aren't just an arm of the law they're people, just like you and me who have taken on a difficut job and get alot of abuse for it, how can they protect society if what they try to defend hates them for it because they can make mistakes. We hardly ever hear of perfectly executed operations on the part of police just the constant bad thanks to the media, and to no suprise they've done it again.

Right, they aren't just "an arm of the law they're people, just like you and me" - so take a guess for a second what would happen if you or I - non-police people -tried to do something good (drive your child to the hospital after a bullet came through the car window, get your pregnant wife to the hospital with blood running down her leg, driving fast to escape some maniac who showed his pistol to you and the family back at the last traffic light, etc.) and had an oopsie like this in the process. Especially if we just had our dim lights on and we weren't honking the horn the entire time.

This is negligent homicide.

 

[robbbanc]

Re: British Cop Hits 16-yr old Girl at 90mph - at Night, with No Flashing Lights or S

the police sucks

 

[SonOfSparda]

Re: British Cop Hits 16-yr old Girl at 90mph - at Night, with No Flashing Lights or S

Right, they aren't just "an arm of the law they're people, just like you and me" - so take a guess for a second what would happen if you or I - non-police people -tried to do something good (drive your child to the hospital after a bullet came through the car window, get your pregnant wife to the hospital with blood running down her leg, driving fast to escape some maniac who showed his pistol to you and the family back at the last traffic light, etc.) and had an oopsie like this in the process. Especially if we just had our dim lights on and we weren't honking the horn the entire time.

This is negligent homicide.

All of this yes you'll get taken to court but can stand up and be quashed by Duress of Circumstances. If your wife is in a state where she is about to give birth and you have to speed there is duress, if you are assaulted by someone in your car and you speed away there is duress, and that bullet that came from the window assault all of these factors can be covered by duress for the traffic offence. If they were to hit somebody then they may be able to cover it with Mistake, or it could be down to the threatener or shooter who had created the chain of causation and will be charged with manslaughter. I can't say i know for definate what the outcome would be if under those circumstances you were to hit or kill someone but there is an ergency and could be seen as a lesser of two evils there being two (or three lives in pregnancy) in danger and the unfortunate one person is the lesser evil and quash any convictions towards the driver.

 

[ChefChiTown]

Re: British Cop Hits 16-yr old Girl at 90mph - at Night, with No Flashing Lights or S

...and civilians should just hope that they never happen to be between the officer driving and the suspect (again, see what I quoted above - sounds like the "suspect" turned out to be nobody of significance - as in guilty of little or nothing)??? Seems pretty obvious that even if this girl WAS in a crosswalk, she wouldn't have stood a chance. Article mentions a witness describing the officer cresting a hill before hitting the girl.

I'm not defending the police officer here and I'm also not putting all of the blame on the girl who was crossing the street, but...

Since I was like 4 years old, I was told to "look both ways before you cross the street". When you're crossing the street, you shouldn't just assume that everybody driving a car is going to see you and follow all of the traffic signs. Just like when you're driving, you shouldn't assume that all pedestrians are going to see you and follow all of the traffic signs.

the police sucks

The band? With Sting? :dunno:

 

[Facial_King]

Re: British Cop Hits 16-yr old Girl at 90mph - at Night, with No Flashing Lights or S

So, the cop was found guilty. He got 3 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/8028666.stm

and here's the vid from his car, which runs right up to about a split-sec before the impact (pretty sure it's the girl in sight as he comes over that crest of sorts):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7990188.stm

 

[Ravenholm]

Re: British Cop Hits 16-yr old Girl at 90mph - at Night, with No Flashing Lights or S

This is the Police [aka Thatcher's Bully Boys] at their VERY BEST.