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  1. Burnsy2023

    Sleep Apnea & Driving license

    I have a pile of driving licences ready to send back to the DVLA that have been revoked due to circumstances like this. Unfortunately, some are from very preventable collisions.
  2. Burnsy2023

    Sleep Apnea & Driving license

    I'm glad the DVLA were notified. Here's a scenario of some of the potential consequences: Diagro is out driving a short journey, he doesn't feel any tiredness symptoms. Another driver rear-ends him at speed whilst he's changing lanes, crushing his vehicle against a concrete bollard, this...
  3. Burnsy2023

    Should assisted suicide be legal (for everyone)?

    This is one of the best arguments for assisted death, from an NHS Consultant:
  4. Burnsy2023

    What would you do if you saw a 20mph variable speed limit on a motorway?

    They can't without National Highways or Police running a rolling road block. If they're not close, they can't stop all lanes purely with signs.
  5. Burnsy2023

    What would you do if you saw a 20mph variable speed limit on a motorway?

    Do you have any links? Edit: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/variable-signs-and-signal-policy Oncoming vehicle A vehicle travelling against the flow of traffic creates extreme danger, so it shall be treated as a confirmed incident no matter the information source. A blanket 20mph...
  6. Burnsy2023

    The Police Application Thread

    This required a different sort of application but the result was I got these today.
  7. Burnsy2023

    What would you do if you saw a 20mph variable speed limit on a motorway?

    As far as I can tell, it's not documented publicly.
  8. Burnsy2023

    What would you do if you saw a 20mph variable speed limit on a motorway?

    I was in a training course and the instructor said that if you see 20mph on a variable speed limit motorway, it means oncoming traffic in your carriageway - a vehicle going the wrong way. That might be many 10s of miles away due to needing to create a sterile area but might be over before you...
  9. Burnsy2023

    What would you do if you saw a 20mph variable speed limit on a motorway?

    What would you think was going on? Would you do anything other than reduce your speed? Do you know the circumstances in which a 20mph limit would be imposed?
  10. Burnsy2023

    This is why people are losing respect for the police...

    Policing is never "that simple". But sure, you go on believing what you want and make loads of uninformed comments with all the confidence of someone in the first peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve - let's not break a habit.
  11. Burnsy2023

    This is why people are losing respect for the police...

    And the initial call may have been in a house and escalated to the railway. The point that the railway stop call could and should have been put in from the initial call is based on a load of uninformed assumptions.
  12. Burnsy2023

    This is why people are losing respect for the police...

    Ah, apologies, I didn't realise you knew all the details of the initial call. It is worth noting that the initial press release says: Which may have been away from any railway on initial attendence.
  13. Burnsy2023

    This is why people are losing respect for the police...

    Which takes minutes when you have mere seconds.
  14. Burnsy2023

    This is why people are losing respect for the police...

    There are some important points here. The fact that Police Officers do a lot of things that Police Staff used to do hides the fact we're not in the same place as we were in 2010 despite the whole Police Uplift programme that Boris was championing. Crime is also more complicated and...
  15. Burnsy2023

    This is why people are losing respect for the police...

    Just to be clear, 1 and 6 is a serial. 3 serials plus a PSU commander is a PSU although drivers and medics are usually included. I've seen some officers refer to single serials as a PSU which isn't correct. The other thing to mention is that this is a death after police contact, which means...
  16. Burnsy2023

    This is why people are losing respect for the police...

    Because rioting doesn't rely on knowing the truth? I bet all sorts of rumours and misinformation were floating about that evening. The facts don't matter when you've got people riled up and wanting to cause mayhem. I'm a little surprised I'm having to explain this in a world of so much...
  17. Burnsy2023

    This is why people are losing respect for the police...

    That's not what they said. Their statements and the CCTV don't contradict each other. Initially: And in the updated statement: It's perfectly reasonable that the police van spotted teenagers on illegal motor vehicles and followed them long enough to give the control room descriptions and...
  18. Burnsy2023

    This is why people are losing respect for the police...

    Section 136 of the Mental Health Act allows a constable to detain a person (in a place other than a dwelling) they believe is suffering from a mental disorder and to be in immediate need of care or control and convey them to a place of safety - in this case, A&E. When they're at the place of...
  19. Burnsy2023

    Missing forum member

    I only occasionally end up on here these days - usually for the MM now. The forum changed a lot, felt like it ended up really right-wing. It's a shame, I miss the old days.
  20. Burnsy2023

    Burnsy2023 - it is now 2023!

    I chose the number randomly when in college (Jesus that feels like a lifetime ago) and the relevance this year hasn't been lost on me :)
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