Would you report this to the police?

[BadgerUK]

"No" is perfectly valid, since he didn't offer a dilemma in his mind to discuss, as far as I could see, simply asked whether we'd report it to the Police in his position. I could have explained why I wouldn't, but I didn't think it worthwhile, to be honest, and others have followed up with the same basic reasoning I had, so it seems irrelevant to go back and explain it now.

The OP has, like everyone, made his own decision and that's fine. I can see both arguments, but my experience is that it'll be an utter waste of effort. If (and it's a big if, actually) he goes onto kill someone later, how is feeling that you told the Police any kind of consolation?

I'll be interested to hear what the Police do (or indeed could do).

M.

Absolutely correct, the OP asked a question that simply sought a yes or no answer.
No explanation of a person's answer was requested.

[relaxer7]

Lets see the footage then

[oldoakknives]

Yes. .

[cbh]

Send it to mailonline, make a few quid from it, the police will then take notice of it because it'll be all over social media.

[Bry1975]

Imo CALL him a blah blah and forget it.

[Kingstepper]

No, I wouldn't.

[Mj2k]

57 posts and still no video :sigh:


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[VDG]

Yes, I would and would be prepared to go to court to testify if necessary.

[slever]

No, police are too busy painting their finger nails. https://twitter.com/defendevropa/sta...01962571714560


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[Steve27752]

No I would not bother.

[Griswold]

Well, I got a phone call from the Police saying that, rather a meeting and taking the video in to the Police Station, would I email it to them. This I tried to do, but the video, at original quality, was way too large to email.

So I advised the officer that, without lowering the image quality, I couldn't email it to them, (and at lower quality they wouldn't be able to read number plates, road signs etc anyway). I also said that I didn't want to be seen to be tampering with the video in any way.

The officer then asked me to take the memory card into my local Police Station and they would forward it to the investigating officer, (based at a different police station). So they do seem to be interested in the incident.

I took it in to them yesterday.

To those asking me to post online. I'm reluctant to do this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I don't want to be seen to be interfering with a police investigation and secondly, the footage contains and displays my cars registration number and I don't want that plastering all over the internet for obvious reasons.

I'll let you know what happens next.

[adrianw]

last year a lorry backed into one of our buildings and drove off, it caused about £20k of damage, no one was hurt, the whole thing was recorded on CCTV, the number plate was clear as was the company name and logo, we called the company and they flatly denied that they had a lorry in the area, initially the police did not want to know as there were no injuries, after we caused a fuss they agreed to investigate, we had to send the CCTV to the casualty reduction officer who would allocate resource we sent them DVD's from three cameras from different companies. that was the last we heard from the police.

[speedish]

Sounds like a amateur..

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[speedish]

No room for dangerous driving..


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[speedish]

Then again people judge fast driving for dangerous driving.

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[Pardalis]

NO hes paid the price for his stupidity

[Kingstepper]

NO hes paid the price for his stupidity

What price?

[Steve27752]

What price?

Cleaning his underpants to start with!

[aa388]

Consider your daughter and her kids on the footpath then ask yourself the same question. Get them of the road before they kill someone!!

[Pardalis]

What price?

Im presuming the car was written off and police arrived??
I would not get involved he may have some hard mates

[Kingstepper]

Im presuming the car was written off and police arrived??
I would not get involved he may have some hard mates

Why is the OP then asking should he report it to the police?

[PJdB]

If I got his number plate, I would call 999 and tell them straight away (anonymously, - simply to save time telling them what race I am, where I work and what my favour colour is).

If there is a local unit he could well be picked up, so I think it would be worth alerting them at the time ASAP.

As for convicting him of careless driving for what you witnessed, - then I would not bother unless it was video recorded.

[Onelasttime]

Im presuming the car was written off and police arrived??
I would not get involved he may have some hard mates

You haven't actually read the OP have you? Until you do, don't bother commenting - waste of bandwidth.

[relaxer7]

Well done OP. The phrase 'investigating officer' sounds promising

[fraggle42]

Report it, upload video to YouTube (after blanking out my number plate and possibly other innocent parties), post link to here, Pistonheads, daily fail, local papers.


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[Steve27752]

Consider your daughter and her kids on the footpath then ask yourself the same question. Get them of the road before they kill someone!!

But they were not there....We cannot live on 'What if's'.

[Steve27752]

If I got his number plate, I would call 999 and tell them straight away (anonymously, - simply to save time telling them what race I am, where I work and what my favour colour is).

If there is a local unit he could well be picked up, so I think it would be worth alerting them at the time ASAP.

As for convicting him of careless driving for what you witnessed, - then I would not bother unless it was video recorded.

Do not call 999 it is NOT an emergency.

[francoop100]

Do not call 999 it is NOT an emergency.

I agree with this calling 911 is pointless and is taking valuable time away from someone who could be helping saving lives.