When i seem to head towards Hull on the M18 when i pass the rotherham junction a traffic cop drives past in lane 3, then just before you get to the m18/a1 split they are either crawling very slowly on the h/s or today they were sat under the motorway bridge. no blue lights just the light bar at the top had red lights going in a right direction building up by one bar at a time then goes back to the start again, have seen this a couple of times, always about 1pm, just wondering what they are doing.
bigvern1:
They practice a lot of the rolling road road blocks there. Watched them a few times.
I find myself agreeing with a lot of people today (must be an age thing) but bigvern is correct. When the surface repairs were being carried out at the old Retford roundabout I was living on the h/s doing free recovery and the cops did that practice thing daily. You could almost set your clock by them.
We practice rolling road blocks on a mock motorway during training, it’s not the same as a live motorway so we practice with real traffic during our live lane designation assessments.
they were praticing one day when i was going into hull & i saw the mondeo coming down the hard shoulder at some speed & i was wondering what would happen if someone had to pull onto hard shoulder sharpish & the mondeo unmarked & police cars had a pile up,who’s to blame.?
also i was tempted to pull onto hard shoulder myself & let the unmarked mondeo run into the back of me & say to the officer’s he’ll not try getting away from you again will he,
Yeah regular training exercises. Normally if there’s a few of them sat behind the bridges either side of the M18/M62 junction they’re waiting for the senior driver to come along in an unmarked car doing 100+ for them to chase down. I quite often see them just bombing along at way above 100 in groups of 3-5 cars.
But I think they were actually doing some work today, saw one that had pulled a scaffold truck over this morning near Pollington (looked to be pointing out that his poles weren’t strapped down, are they ever?), and this afternoon one was sat behind a transit a bit further up nearer Ferrybridge.
lightweight_mikey:
Yeah regular training exercises. Normally if there’s a few of them sat behind the bridges either side of the M18/M62 junction they’re waiting for the senior driver to come along in an unmarked car doing 100+ for them to chase down. I quite often see them just bombing along at way above 100 in groups of 3-5 cars.
But I think they were actually doing some work today, saw one that had pulled a scaffold truck over this morning near Pollington (looked to be pointing out that his poles weren’t strapped down, are they ever?), and this afternoon one was sat behind a transit a bit further up nearer Ferrybridge.
Going back a few months I saw a couple of Traffic Cars ‘chasing’ an old Avensis (80-90mph hard shoulder) and fly off into the distance. A couple of weeks later I saw the same Avensis in bits across 3 lanes of the M62 !! (Go Figure )
lightweight_mikey:
Yeah regular training exercises. Normally if there’s a few of them sat behind the bridges either side of the M18/M62 junction they’re waiting for the senior driver to come along in an unmarked car doing 100+ for them to chase down. I quite often see them just bombing along at way above 100 in groups of 3-5 cars.
But I think they were actually doing some work today, saw one that had pulled a scaffold truck over this morning near Pollington (looked to be pointing out that his poles weren’t strapped down, are they ever?), and this afternoon one was sat behind a transit a bit further up nearer Ferrybridge.
Going back a few months I saw a couple of Traffic Cars ‘chasing’ an old Avensis (80-90mph hard shoulder) and fly off into the distance. A couple of weeks later I saw the same Avensis in bits across 3 lanes of the M62 !! (Go Figure )
Sounds about right if it was around east yorks.
A1079 Beverley bypass for example, mixture of single and dual pretty much straight. When it first opened speed limit was national all the way, ie became the local drag strip. Roll on a few years and now it’s signed 50 for the single carriageway sections. The reason? Too many accidents. The only accidents I know of on there have either been police cars flipping over into fields (after swerving to avoid on-coming traffic when overtaking at stupid speeds) or people being punted into fields by, yeah, police cars.
I think you will find that road is national speeed limit (60mph single lane and 70mph dual) apart from a short section where they are building a new roundabout for Swift Caravans at the Dunswell Road bridge where the limit is 30mph.
Dean.
