What the hell are the police playing at!? (Cars)

[Feasty]

Okay, picture this.
Yesterday about 4.30pm we were in the car, my wife driving, down the M1 about a junction or 2 before Meadowhall aiming to get off at J33. We were in the middle lane overtaking slower traffic in the inside lane and approaching the next car that was in the inside lane. My wife says there's a car right on our tail and being downright dangerous, next thing we know it's flashing it's lights and blinding her. She starts slowing down when this car then puts its blue lights on and it's a marked police car! We check the speed but aren't speeding and haven't been, so wonder if we're being pulled over or what the hell is going on. She then pulls into the inside lane and the police car then zooms off past us in the middle - the whole time this takes place there is no traffic at all in the outside lane.
Totally puzzled we then see the police car do the same to another car ahead of us also in the middle lane, only this time the car is overtaking someone in the inside lane and also coming upto a slip road that joins the motorway, and on that slip road is an HGV indicating to join the motorway.

The actions of this police car were just crazy and plain dangerous, I have no idea what their intentions were and wished I had taken their reg plate so I could report them. I could only guess the police driver had some personal vendetta against middle lane drivers wether or not they were using it properly! My wife and I have always hated middle lane hoggers and set out to avoid doing this ourselves, and this is just another incident that puts the police even lower down in my estimation!

(Edited from below!)
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[garyd]

Reckon you need a ticket just for not knowing your inside from outside lanes ........read again
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[Bendy]

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[Cigaro]

Nearside = the side nearest to the kerb (left in this country, right everywhere else )

[Bendy]

I always had it in my head that it was the side nearest the driver, ie. the right (unless you had a lhd car). And the other is 'that side off over there' eg. passenger.

WTF is wrong with 'left' and 'right' anyway.

[MattHirst]

[10 pence Short]

How about lanes 1,2 and 3 ?

Lane 1 is the lane you should drive in unless overtaking, and lane 3 is just for Audi drivers?
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

And lane 2.5 is for bikes
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[Finglonga]

[Visitor Q]

To be fair, I've had something similar.

Got pulled by an unmarked who decided to follow me after a bit of speeding, then saw a giant wheelie, then decided they should aggressively tailgate me. So I merrily fucked off (as you would when an estate is trying to park on you), only to get the blues a bit further.

Long story short, they didn't pursue it when they realised they had caused a risk of an accident. This is despite two officers witnessing 100+ speeding and a big wheelie before the event. However they were pushing for dangerous driving until I pointed out to them that the only dangerous riding followed them aggressively following me.

So I'm fairly certain they're aware they shouldn't do it. They just like doing it the jumped up cocks, and weren't expecting a logical debate on the roadside.

Give em hell if you can mate
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[Skudd]

It sounds like he was having a purge on lane 2 hoggers.
I was doing about 80 in lane 1 on an empty motorway. i came up behind a car in lane 2 over took him in lane 3 and went back to lane one. the car stayed in lane 2. a few moments later a second car came up from behind and put his blues on, didn't pull me for doing 80 but pulled the guy hogging lane 2 doing 70.
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