Ill start by stating the obvious, this is a tradgedy/an horrific accident, & my thoughts go out to all those affected, particularly the families & close friends of these poor coppers...
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As a completely seperate note to that, ill say that in this day & age of utterly stupid & over the top Occ safety etc...i am amazed that police pull cars over on the freeway...
When i was a young teenager, i was pulled over by a copper while giving my slightly warm EH a bit of a blurt up a fairly big hill in Adelaides burbs...his lights going, then sirens...
Now there was no where to pull over, so i continued on to a park off the side of the road--if id have stopped where he wanted me too, on a bloody left hand bend of all places...
, where you cannot really get a car off the road, both he & i wouldve been in danger--particularly him...
When we finally met, this guy was in absolute hysterics & pulled his bloody gun--i explained to him the logic in my not pulling over & he eventually calmed down & let me go--but not without a good bloody ribbing...
(My car was a bit of a looker & sounded nice, so often got pulled over by the coppers with them always citing "we've had reports of this car being stolen...
it was like cracked record--and not due to me being a cowboy--for various reasons i liked to avoid the boys in blue when i was younger...
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Also, coming back from a shooting trip earlier this yar, i encountered a copper having pulled a car over on our SE freeway--within the last 30 mins coming into Adelaide--now they were also on a bend--all be it with much better vision than my last example--but they had their car straddling well out into the lane, with the person pulled over obviously having stopped in a bit of a panic also part way out in the lane...now all the traffic goes into a bloody panic to slow down to this stupid "speed limit" law we have when emergency services lights are seen...
All we need is someone not paying complete attention, & this only needs to be for a split second at the critical moment, a sudden down pour, or wet roads after a long dry, one, or more semi's as they often travel in convoy down our steep decent into town, (although im aware they often have a heads up with UHF warnings from their fellow cobbers..
), afully laden semi not able to stop in time or able to change lanes because of everyone in a frantic panic to pull up, & i tell ya folks, we have a recipe for this exact kind of disaster...
I think, on freeways atleast, they shpould allow for (in design & construction) extra lanes on exits, & for emergency pull-ups, for EVERYONES safety, NOT pull people up on freeways--period...!!
Anyway...just my thoughts...i dont have all the answers, not even a fraction of them, but to my mind there is this term us smart folk use these days to make well evaluated choices, particularly in dangerous &/or occupational settings like shooting, & such as this tragic example above---its called
"risk management"...& if coppers call off hi speed chases based on "risk management principles"...it leaves me absolutely flabbergasted that some coppers will/are allowed to pull a car over on a busy section of freeway--talk about putting your faith in the gods...sheesh...
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