A British police officer is licking his wounds after balling up his Ford Galaxy patrol car. That fact alone wouldn't be terribly noteworthy, except for the spectacular manner in which he crashed. As the story goes, PC Scott Warburton was doing 91 mph in a 30 mph zone in Lancaster when he spotted a speed camera, panicked and grabbed his Galaxy's brakes in full measure, subsequently losing control and crashing. As he was not responding to official business at the time, Warburton was subsiquently convicted of "driving without due care or attention."
[Source: Lancashire Evening Post; psni.police.uk]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
gbh @ May 20th 2006 1:07PM
Orwell had it right, he was just a bit of on the date.
Scott @ May 20th 2006 1:22PM
Further proof that speed isn't dangerous, but having your head wedged up your ass is.
Joe @ May 20th 2006 2:20PM
There is nothing about was he on duty or off... Maybe he was in speed chase, albeit if he was on duty there wouldn't be this post. Yap, and this people guard us
syadasti @ May 20th 2006 2:37PM
Joe can't read, lol:
"As he was not responding to official business at the time, Warburton was subsiquently convicted of "driving without due care or attention.""
cowboy bob @ May 20th 2006 3:23PM
We see cops crash at speed here in upstate New York all the time. These guys think because they are cops they can do about anything. Wait...they do. I have one down the road from me who has crashed his own car twice while "under the weather". His buddies just drive him home, and nothing ever happens. The local police have an average of five cars demolished every year out of a total car count of about fifty. My tax dollar at work!
Dr. Smoke Crack @ May 20th 2006 3:37PM
He may have a brain tumor or an ischemic infarct, and was disoriented. He thought he was on a highway on ramp, and was slow to come to the realization that he has turned onto a regular street.
Poor thing.
That One Person @ May 20th 2006 7:03PM
Cops around here are notorious of being idiots. They really are. Even when they are on duty, they pull stupid ass stunts like turning their lights on just to go through an intersection...no siren, just lights. This ends up almost causing an accident. When they get through the intersection...the lights are turned off and they keep going. Hell, cops from other cities do it in my city, too.
Off duty cops around here think they can do whatever. I know a few in my neighborhood and I see them speeding constantly. Not in squad cars but in their own vehicles. They will pull up to a red light, stop for a couple seconds, then proceed through.
This guy should get a heavy fine and a beating. You just dont do 91 in a freakin 30 mph zone!
verdegrrl @ May 21st 2006 12:36AM
So much for speed cameras being a safety enhancing device.
Glenn A. @ May 21st 2006 7:27AM
Well, this is pretty insane, but the news two days ago about a young couple who got lost after a ballgame in Baltimore who stopped and asked directions of a police officer who refused to help them takes the cake. They then asked a second police officer who stopped in a second cruiser who also refused to help stating they they got themselves into that area of the city and they could find their way out, plus, since her cop-colleague had already refused to assist, she was not going to either. Oh, almost forgot the worst bit.
These two cops then arrested the couple, who spent a night on a concrete floor (no beds) in jail, but were released without charges in the morning.
I hope they sue the cops individually, the police department, the city, the county and the state for millions, despite my usual hatred of liars/lawyers and lawsuits. Perhaps that will send a wake-up call to the powers-that-be that we are not going to take this sh!t from them or the police.
The ironic thing was after they gave up on trying to get help from the police ("serve and protect" - yeah, right - about like the Stazi and KGB by the look of things) they were actually on a cell phone to his father who is also a cop in another town.
Maybe they forgot to put their "Policeman's Benevolent Fund" sticker on their rear window, huh?
MikeW @ May 23rd 2006 9:35AM
ABS? stability assist?
Tires? Brain?