Sadly this subject has come up before and it will always develop into an emotive bun-fight. This kind of subject simply can't be discussed in a cold and frank way; these are people's loved ones we are dealing with. Thread locked before it gets unpleasant.
ND
Today, the A64 was closed for (at the last count 3 hours) because of a fatal accident. Clearing the road would have taken all of 5 minutes once a tow truck arrived...but no...the plod have to 'investigate' and while they do the road ceases to be our right of way while they slowly, carefully make sure that someone is to blame and that it will hold up in court. Result is that we travelled a round trip (back home again) of 16 miles in 3 hours. My wife's new car will have to wait till tomorrow.
Way I see it is that driving carries a risk of death just like flying or other 'hazardous' activities. If you die doing it, so be it. Once I'm dead I don't suppose I could care less who was 'responsible'. However, I would like to sleep in my own house without being woken by a shot in the head and go for a walk on a country lane without being knifed because I'd like to feel that these should be non-hazardous activities.
'bout time the plod got their priorities right.
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God forbid the Police investigate the scene of a crime!
Whatever next?
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Adam
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Or maybe its not the 'plod who are out of step? Your new car was delayed: well tough luck. Trolling again I see.
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How inconsiderate of someone to get themselves killed when you had a new car to collect!
I take it if someone important to you was unfortunate enough to die in a road accident, you would want them scooped up and moved out the way instantly so that people could get on their way, and on no account should there be any sort of investigation as to how the accident occured?
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I am glad the police do investigate.
Few years back we had a road fatality at night. Road was closed for hours.
Long and short is that the driver was done for murder. He deliberately ran over a pedestrian. It could have so easily have been put down as an accident though and we would still have a murderer on the loose.
Good to the plod I say.
Surley its now time to lock or close this tread?
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Unfortunately (and unavoidably considering the tone of the original post) this thread has been very emotive.
This topic has been discussed on here before, and very good arguments in both directions have been put forward (although to be honest, a lot of emotive posts were made then too).
To be honest, I don't know which way I lean, but it isn't necessarily as straightforward as the reasction to this thread suggests, I think.
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I obviously expressed myself badly.
The difference between someone getting killed, with consequent mayhem, and 'just a crumpled motor' is often just a few inches difference in the point of impact. Yet one is pretty well ignored and the other impacts the lives of thousands of people. This does not seem entirely logical? The likelihood of either being the result anything worse than a lapse of concentration is very very small.
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