Motorway Closures

Babba wrote:

Used to be? Still is. Even if you get convicted the fine will be less
than hiring a hitman.

 

I doubt, somehow, that if it had been a civilian they'd be quite so
thorough.

 

It does not have to be one of their own, all it needs to set the full
investigation in motion is for injuries assessed at the scene to be
classed as potentially fatal.


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Kevin - Basildon
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They are, at least they are within Essex, I have seen and have been
given copies of one of these reports.


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Kevin - Basildon
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I don't recall a road being closed for 18 hours for a normal person.

 

I happened to be caught up in it that night, a bit more on it here .

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3052296

and 18 hours is an unusually long time especially for a major route


but it seems that the driver did in fact did go in to see Ancient
William, that day, and was promptly arrested. although it's not
obvious what he was charged with.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3799039.stm

 

It can be quite a long while at times, sometimes even several days,
although most of the very long ones usually have other factors that
cause it.

It would be dependent on how much had to be investigated, and maybe
also how busy the accident investigation staff were when the call come
in,

Time of day can also be a factor, if they had good diversions in place
etc and traffic levels were low or dropping they would not be under so
much pressure to re-open the road.


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Kevin - Basildon
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Not that this follows on from Simian's point, but it's a convenient
place to jump in. 12 hours, 18 hours, whatever... I don't think
anyone's life is worth a motorway being closed for 6 hours during its
peak use time. I dread to think how much that cost the country.

 

Well, I think the argument made (IIRC) by JP was that isn't it worth it
for the grieving relatives to understand what went wrong.

I doubt that in most case it's a dangerous murdering criminal, probably
someone fell asleep or lost attention.

Quite. They need an economy that functions. Pull the wreckage out the
carriageway. Mop up the blood and open the fucking road.

 

Good idea.

If an accident was a lot less of an inconvienence then some of us
might take a lot less effort trying to avoid them.

<must order new RSJ (front bumper) for artic>


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Kevin - Basildon
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Well, since the closing of a motorway doesn't inconvenience the people
that had the accident I don't understand the point you're trying to
make.

Could you make it a little more clearly?

 

Time, any delay in time is an inconvienence to a commercial driver.

A minor accident can cost you hours, not only at the scene but also
all the paperwork and at times court appearances as well.

A more serious accident can cost even more time and can sometimes go
on for years.

You get all this whether you were at fault or not, one that involved a
vehicle that I was in charge of went on for about 3 years, and I was
parked and not even in the vehicle when it happened.

Driving commercially its not a case of who was at fault, but more a
case of we know he was at fault but you should have anticipated and
avoided him anyway, too many not at fault incidents and you will be
shown the door.

The down side of this is that some prats know that you will try to
avoid an accident if possible so they do do stupid and dangerous
things right under your wheels and they most of the time get away with
it, it too expensive to hit them.


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Kevin - Basildon
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You're usually quite precise, old boy, but you appear to have
overlooked the fact that 12 hours isn't 18 hours.

No, I'm saying that the police are extra meticulous, and exact, and
determined to bring the offender to justice when it's one of their own
who's been injured or killed. Which is fine - I have no argument with
that. Except that they don't extend the same courtesy to "normal"
people.