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[STEMO]

With all the technology and databases available to the police, I find it incredible that they can't trace this driver:


M62 'road rage' driver attacks lorry with shovel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-38148811

[Ever Ready]

Reminds me of the incident on the M25 when a young man died over a road rage incident

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Killed by Ken Noye iirc ?

[Bigron]

STEMO, how naive of you: they only bother to use technology chase motorists for revenue collection - anything else involves too much work (sorry Jason)!

Ron.

[Crazycarzowner]

STEMO, how naive of you: they only bother to use technology chase motorists for revenue collection - anything else involves too much work (sorry Jason)!

Ron.

Complete and utter 'dangle berries'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And that's all I'm saying on this 

[2boxerdogs]

I don't think it will be very long before this driver will be identified & charged over this incident.

[YZ250]

STEMO, how naive of you: they only bother to use technology chase motorists for revenue collection - anything else involves too much work (sorry Jason)!

Ron.

Complete and utter 'dangle berries'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And that's all I'm saying on this 

It pains me to say but I'm with Ron on this one, and I speak from first hand experience. Left hand drive truck rips the side off the stationery car at a junction and does not stop. Immediately phone the police as the vehicle is trashed and all they were interested in was our documents.    When the Police (in our case Kidlington Police) inform you that they have 'exhausted all avenues of enquiry', of finding the truck owner but you manage to track down said vehicle yourself with minimal detective work, it does not inspire confidence. I still have the letter that I sent and their pathetic reply and I have posted on here many times regarding their lack of interest, even though we had the registration number of the offending vehicle and dash cam footage.
The reason we believe the police weren't interested........... it was a foreign truck.     As I said to the police at the time, I can only assume that they would have had the same negative response if this truck had killed someone.   
We did eventually get it sorted, thanks to Admiral getting loss chasers involved.    My blood pressure has just shot up a notch just thinking about it. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I don't think it will be very long before this driver will be identified & charged over this incident.

Not now the media have got hold of the story, but the incident was 3 weeks ago......

[Kevin Wood]

STEMO, how naive of you: they only bother to use technology chase motorists for revenue collection - anything else involves too much work (sorry Jason)!

Ron.

Complete and utter 'dangle berries'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And that's all I'm saying on this 

It pains me to say but I'm with Ron on this one, and I speak from first hand experience. Left hand drive truck rips the side off the stationery car at a junction and does not stop. Immediately phone the police as the vehicle is trashed and all they were interested in was our documents.    When the Police (in our case Kidlington Police) inform you that they have 'exhausted all avenues of enquiry', of finding the truck owner but you manage to track down said vehicle yourself with minimal detective work, it does not inspire confidence. I still have the letter that I sent and their pathetic reply and I have posted on here many times regarding their lack of interest, even though we had the registration number of the offending vehicle and dash cam footage.
The reason we believe the police weren't interested........... it was a foreign truck.     As I said to the police at the time, I can only assume that they would have had the same negative response if this truck had killed someone.   
We did eventually get it sorted, thanks to Admiral getting loss chasers involved.    My blood pressure has just shot up a notch just thinking about it. 

Yep, Mrs. KW had her car damaged by a pikey in a Transit pickup. Submitted registration number, business card left by the driver at a local business and a security video of said incident occurring. Result? Mrs. KW got a producer and Police "Unable to trace" the third party. The Police seriously have to start making an effort on the hearts and minds front even if their hands are tied legally in some of these cases. Why immediately waste time processing the innocent party as a criminal, for a start?

[tunnie]

Sorry to say Jason, it's a similar experience here. Since we had a car slide into and crash into our garden fence, we've been aware the car park behind us is often used for donuts and drifting type stuff. About once every 2 weeks or so, some idiot in a BMW arrives and does a donut of two then speeds off.

I've caught them on camera doing this, then driving off, clearly capturing the number plate. Police are not interested, they say they can do nothing 

Unless they can stop him there and then, prove who was the driver. Even with the reg supplied, they refused to even visit the driver. 

However they are quite happy to sit on the London Road 40MPH area, just south of Heathrow with a speed gun. On a road than can easily be 60 and nab people doing 50!!!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I agree with all of the above.

It is not beyond the wit of man to catch this guy.

[Andy B]

I agree with all of the above.

It is not beyond the wit of man to catch this guy.

It was on Radio 2  ... Jeremy Vine. Manchester Plod say that although they can trace the owner, they can't prove who the driver was because the owner won't tell them. 
So .... when the speeding ticket/whatever arrives through the door addressed to the owner of a car, he/she can say 'no idea who was driving' and that's that! 

[STEMO]

So..'I'm not telling' is not withholding information then?
Jack Reagan would have got it out of him.

[Andy B]

So..'I'm not telling' is not withholding information then?

Seems not

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

So..'I'm not telling' is not withholding information then?

Seems not

Insane....and frustrating.