TheBoatman
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I have a 50-year-old brother who drives a motorcycle into London every day to work. A couple of months back he is happily driving home on the A2 at 7 pm when in his words “I woke up laying on my back in the road, I don’t remember anything else until I came round in Dartford hospital having had my shattered right hand screwed and plated back together”
The police arranged for the bike to be removed. They never went near him to interview him or to tell him where the bike was being stored. In fact I went to a couple of police stations and finally found the bike in Swanley.
So you can imagine his surprise when he recently received a summons from the police to appear before the beak for failing to produce his documents. He duly phoned the fuzz to say he had never been given any bits of paper to produce anything and anyway his licence, insurance and MOT was in his biker’s jacket!
He asked when this bit of paper (I think they call it a HOT1, or something similar) was issued, only to be told that the officer had issued it in the back of the ambulance.
The interesting thing is he was unconscious and had a shattered right hand and he’s right handed which would have made signing a bit of paper somewhat difficult on both counts!!
The upshot is, he has applied for the records from both the ambulance service and the hospital and also contacted a solicitor who rubbed his hands together and said, “they have got to be joking, and I smell compo here”.
Do you think that this is good PR for our over burdened police force or is it just another case of pursuing the motorist?
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The police arranged for the bike to be removed. They never went near him to interview him or to tell him where the bike was being stored. In fact I went to a couple of police stations and finally found the bike in Swanley.
So you can imagine his surprise when he recently received a summons from the police to appear before the beak for failing to produce his documents. He duly phoned the fuzz to say he had never been given any bits of paper to produce anything and anyway his licence, insurance and MOT was in his biker’s jacket!
He asked when this bit of paper (I think they call it a HOT1, or something similar) was issued, only to be told that the officer had issued it in the back of the ambulance.
The interesting thing is he was unconscious and had a shattered right hand and he’s right handed which would have made signing a bit of paper somewhat difficult on both counts!!
The upshot is, he has applied for the records from both the ambulance service and the hospital and also contacted a solicitor who rubbed his hands together and said, “they have got to be joking, and I smell compo here”.
Do you think that this is good PR for our over burdened police force or is it just another case of pursuing the motorist?
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