Riding home from work saw a type of Police vehicle I've not seen before. It was lurking in a lay-by on a fast bend on a fast stretch of road. Small-type Transit (like a big boxy people carrier) with slim yellow and blue chequer decals but mostly white with *big* (maybe 4ft square) smoked glass windows in the sides and the rear. (If your visor had that half that tint they'd pull you). My guess is its some sort of new income camera vehicle - part of the government's commitment to predate road users more efficiently - because the absence of open doors and lack of any cameras on view will make it seem innocuous for the vital couple of seconds when brakes would normally be hit decisively. So that'll not cause accidents when it *is* recognised and *real* panic breaking results, thus making the roads a safer place then. -- -- Nidge ZX6R J2 Stunning in zit yellow. KX 125 MX 'I'm snot green -fly ME'. A few bits of CB500S in Norwegian Parrot blue. BOTAFOT#63 BOMB#5 'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'. Homer (Simpson).
Was it a Renault? The London Plod have Renault peaople carriers that have blacked out/darkened windows, but they usually park them in Paddington Station, so I can't see them being revenue vehicles
Only really saw the side view, best guess would be a small version transit but ICBW. -- -- Nidge ZX6R J2 Stunning in zit yellow. KX 125 MX 'I'm snot green -fly ME'. A few bits of CB500S in Norwegian Parrot blue. BOTAFOT#63 BOMB#5 'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'. Homer (Simpson).
In uk.rec.motorcycles, dwb amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom: There was something "going down" on the M1 today. There was a police Landy on the roundabout at the first junction, then another one on the hard shoulder about a mile up and then another one on the slip road of the next junction.
Nidge says... They've had those vans for about a year in Bedfordshire. I'm surprised you haven't seen them earlier.
If your helmet had half that tint in its side and rear, you'd get away with it scott free. How heavily tinted was the windscreen?
It was almost certainly an ANPR (automated number plate reader) vehicle. Their sole purpose is to locate vehicles which have reports attached to them on the PNC, normally for very naughty things like being involved in thefts, robberies and the like. John Bandit 600S
