The very people who urge drivers to use more caution are not immune to driving errors themselves, as the video here shows.
Speed is sometimes involved and so is simply lack of due care. A speeding police car with its lights flashing and horns blaring may have the right of way, in law or by courtesy, but in many cases the police driver should take note of dangerous situations.
At times police drivers also can make a simply mistake, as recently happened in the Spanish Mediterranean city of Barcelona. A small police car being used to patrol the port ended up in the sea itself.
According to a report in the English edition of the newspaper <%$Linker:2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal El Pais Visit El Pais web page false http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/16/inenglish/1442388036_735453.html false false %>, the car was new and the two officers were not familiar with the automatic gearbox. When the car approached the breakwater to get a better view of the seafront, “the driver confused the brake with the accelerator,” a police spokesperson said.
The officers got a better-than-expected and up-front-close-and-personal view of the sea.
A crane was drafted in to haul the half-submerged car out of the drink. The police officers were unhurt.
Speed is sometimes involved and so is simply lack of due care. A speeding police car with its lights flashing and horns blaring may have the right of way, in law or by courtesy, but in many cases the police driver should take note of dangerous situations.
At times police drivers also can make a simply mistake, as recently happened in the Spanish Mediterranean city of Barcelona. A small police car being used to patrol the port ended up in the sea itself.
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The officers got a better-than-expected and up-front-close-and-personal view of the sea.
A crane was drafted in to haul the half-submerged car out of the drink. The police officers were unhurt.
