Armed police on the M62

Let us know vs! It makes feel really weird when unmarked cars go like the flipping clappers up the motorway so you must have been quite scared!

Interesting! We used the M62 a lot when we lived in Hull and know it quite well.
Which direction had the white Mini come from - Manchester or Hull?

Maybe these things go on quietly all the time. Who knows? It might not have been deemed newsworthy to whoever decides.

Must have livened up a miserable journey though!

Doesn't do my heart any good when an unmarked police car suddenly sets off its sirens and lights behind me whilst sitting at the traffic lights
Don't know where he thought I was going to go, levitation instructions not included in car handbook......

I preferred it when they used to leave their sirens running, that way you could hear them coming, and plan where to pull over. Nowadays, they creep up behind you and switch the siren on when there's nowhere for you to go.

What annoys me is the drivers who step on the brakes the instant they see a blue light in the mirror, so that they're forced to a standstill until the oncoming traffic clears, only for the same to happen with the next car a few yards further up the road.

I've crossed a red light on more than one occasion to allow a police car / ambulance through - just moved forward maybe a car's length and over to the left or right to make space - I haven't actually driven across any junction. But I have read of people being booked for doing this. There is no common sense anymore - there's no way I could just sit in front of an ambulance that maybe desperate to get to someone having a heart attack, when i can safely make space for them to get through.

I agree crun, I was stuck behind an artic, bus to left and lorry to the right about 50 yards from the lights. Short of levitation zilch I could do!

At least it's only happened to me when I've been first in the queue at the lights, so I could make that decision. If you're way back behind other stuff, then forget it - the police should have given more warning as they drove towards the traffic queue, so people could take avoiding action. To just creep up behind you and expect you to move is plain daft.

A couple of months ago we were stopped at the lights with an ambulance coming towards us blues and twos going strong. All except one car got out of their way and then we heard a different, really loud noise, which made him move. I didn't know they had that facility but thought it was great.

Last week we were on the M4 and a car in front was weaving all over the road, it was so scary we didn't dare overtake. Indicators would go on and off and had no relation to whichever way the car was going. I called the police who were very understanding and assume they came out but about a mile further on he started driving normally. I just wonder if he was on his phone when he scared us.

Isn't it annoying when you see things and never find out why and what for ? There have been several arrests in our street, people led away in handcuffs but nobody knows why, they are not inquisitive enough round here.

We don't have that problem harrigran we have a neighbour across the road who knows all the ins and outs of our small avenue and beyond.
We call her Jodrell Bank.

There were three police helicopters hovering just to the right of the M11 as we drove home on Thursday night, near Duxworth, to the north of it. A whole fleet of police cars passed us going the other way, and a there were more behind them slowing the traffic. I have searched the internet but can find nothing - so exasperating, I agree!

Convicted murderer on the run, vampire?