Harry's police rider tboned by a taxi

[kawakid]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2752691/Harry-crash-drama-Prince-s-shock-motorobike-outrider-smashes-head-taxi.html

Typical taxi.

Ffs police bike with lights on and right turn on to him.

For once the driver came off worse and well done for the bike for remaining standing up.
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Interesting as Henry Cole on that motorcycle show did a piece on the special escort. He showed the bikes race ahead and stop opposite junctions to stop traffic turning out. I have even come across that when normal police bikers stopped traffic for a charity event. So why not on this occasion?

I think staying upright has more to do with the crumple zones on the Prius. Still, got to applaud vfr1200 build quality, no sign of rust or flux.
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Speeding, wrong side of the road. Tut tut

Sources say that a Mr. P. Newman has been in touch with The Met concerning a salvage value for the bike.
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[J.M.]

I saw these bikes (not necessarily the same riders) doing another escort through central London yesterday evening, around 6:20pm. I found their riding pretty crazily aggressive - they were flying out in front of moving traffic and stopping, forcing the traffic to stop and pave way for the black car. They were flying in to the junctions/roundabouts at pretty high speed and coming to an abrupt stop. Seemed pretty reckless unless they were urgently on the way somewhere.

Haven't watched the video on the website.
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Not one single mention of a "speeding biker" in the whole article, not what you expect from the "Fail"!
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[Quornholio]

If the rider has been catapulted 30', I must have a two foot cock.
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Not a surprise that it was a minicab. They are truly the worst drivers on the road, in fact I'd go so far as to say more than half of them have driving standards so low they should not be allowed to drive.


I've a friend whose work sometimes involves him & superiors having police outrider escort through the city, and he says he's surprised by the reaction of a lot of other drivers, they panic and tend to do really fucking stupid things.



Good to hear that the rider has been discharged already. Can't have been too badly injured.

I do hope whoever removed his helmet and put him in the recovery position knows how to clear a c-spine though. If it was some "everyone move back I'm first aid trained" member of the public then they wouldn't have a fucking clue, and lucky he didn't have any spinal injuries or that could have resulted in paralysis or worse. If it was someone with relevant training then that is redundant.
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[covent.gardens]

Well, a head on accident with a motorcycle and the car really does look like it's come off worse - and the driver is more badly injured to boot... not a good advert for Prius.

[Rogerborg]

Inappropriate speed for the conditions, overtaking at a junction, what an absolute raging cock, deserved worse than he got.

Totes SRS. Bunch of overgrown Boy Scouts giving if "Must protect God-Emperor Junior from terrorrrrrr! Gor bless yer, sire! Make way or die, worthless peons!"
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[groovylee]

im with Roger on this one (happening a lot recently lol)

things i never do - speed through london, overtake at junctions, overtake at junctions in london, whilst speeding.

the guy should have known better, after all, he has had extensive police training and used to ride a 'blade..............

that said, hope all involved make a full recovery
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[chris-red]

I always fancied a go at this, ragging round london tooled up shouting at traffic sounds brilliant



I'd like to think inappropriate speed would be cancelled out by the flashing sirens but there you go.

Regardless cops with get the blame IIRC they always do on blues and twos.
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[LustyLew]

As soon as I saw this, I thought mini-cab...

I was expecting Addison Lee, but I think not even they are that retarded!

Probably an 'Executive' private hire company. They drive like cunts and have no place on the UKs roads.
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The taxi driver didn't look to see if there was a motorbike travelling at high speed on the wrong side of the road when he pulled out.

No shit, I'm sure he didn't look lots of places where traffic shouldn't be coming from
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[stinkwheel]

Gotta say, I feel sorry for the taxi driver in this case, even if he was driving a prius.

I wonder if the police rider will be done for driving without due care?

As a driver, my asessment of someone riding along the wrong side of the road, while overtaking at a junction at a high enough speed to bury a motorcycle three feet into the bonnet of a Prius in a built-up area falls below that expected of a reasonably competant driver. As a police rider, he has an exemption for speeding if he can justify it was necessary but NO driver has an exemption for careless driving.

If that case came before me in a Jury trial, I'd have to convict him.

Of course, he was probably actually just testing the capabilities of his vehicle...
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