Cop SUV and landscape van collide
(CNS): One of the RCIPS SUV’s from the Firearm Response Unit was involved in a collision with a landscaper’s van at around 11:15am Monday. The police vehicle had been travelling along West bay Road in the vicinity of Marsh Road when they received an emergency call about an incident at Governor’s Square. But as they were responding to the call-out the police SUV and the van collided.
No one was hurt and the matter is now under investigation.
Category: Local News
The other sites’s pictures show the police car was rear ended. FYI.
Were they inspectors reassinged from the department of motor vehicle?
What I truly find annoying is a police responding to something and just bleep bleep there siren when they are up on traffic I think they should be blaring it the whole time as just one or two bleeps here and there is not good then people are scrambling to try make space for them to get through whereas if they blare it coming down the road people would here and try move over
All drivers must pull over in both directions for any EMS vehicle, it’s not a “find a space”, or choose your own adventure scenario, there is only one permissible action in advance of their arrival and clearance of the area!
We need siren-activated cameras on all EMS vehicles and amendment to Traffic Regs 2017 for a mandatory loss of license for anyone who obstructs of fails to yield to an emergency response.
We need a lot of things actually.
I agree this will afford for a more transparent and accountable investigation on both sides (Public/Gov) when things like this happen. There is then real evidence to show who was at fault.
9.05 A real bugbear of mine. They ALL do it. Don’t know where they learned that nonsense. You’d think it costs them money to have the sirens on!
It seems to be ‘use the siren as much as the level of emergency justifies’. Bleep-Bleep is ‘get out of the way, please’. Siren on is ‘get out of the way now, real emergency in progress’. (Which is why the fire trucks never seem to bleep-bleep. They are always responding to significant emergencies, or not.)
From that perspective the escalation of lights to bleep-bleep to siren on makes sense. But I agree that it is frustrating to ‘suddenly’ have a police car or ambulance behind you and you are then struggling to get out of their way as you want to do. (And for the police the new low-relief lights, with the ends permanently lighted, don’t help. I find them less visible than the big lights, and less noticeable that they are flashing and not just cruising.)
One side note to the people saying ‘everyone must clear when EMS are coming through’ its everyone must clear – safely. This is what leads to the delay. If I hear a siren coming I can look ahead and plan where to pull over. If I do my regular rear-view check and there’s nothing behind me and 5 seconds later bleep-bleep then I have to ‘panic’ and find a space to get out of the EMS vehicle’s way. Which just slows them down.
Beg to differ. You shouldn’t be surprised, you should be alert and anticipating – it’s on you to be off your phone and situationally aware when behind the wheel of anything.
You do need to be aware of your surroundings while driving and be in control of your vehicle, however the police for example, there sirens do not seem loud enough, several times i have seen the lights in my rear view mirror but not until they were almost beside me could you hear the siren, the EMS are much better. I have spoken with other people who have noticed the same thing.
There is no way you cannot realise when a police car has its emergency lights on. They have 3 settings. The setting with automatic siren flashes ultra bright LEDs repeatedly, you literally cannot mistake it for a car just cruising.
Police drivers are terrible. Nothing in the news a few weeks back when a patrol vehicle driving recklessly collided with an elderly couple in their vehicle.
Yes, literally all 400ish officers are terrible drivers. Really?????
It’s like saying all jamaicans are terrible at driving…oh, okay. I see your point.
Im glad you agree
my dashcam has hundreds of incidents of police cars not following basic rules of the road. commisioner, do you want he footage?
What are waiting for? Send video to police email address.
I bet the police unit is not held responsible.
Well, there’s an investigation, so hold your horses before you jump to conclusions.
What I can say is this. I’ve driven an emergency response vehicle on a few occasions with lights and sirens. The stupidity you see on the road is actually multiplied. Idiots who cannot drive in the first instance, really don’t know how to react to blue lights and sirens. There’s the, ah let’s cruise in the right lane brigade, there’s the oblivious brigade, there’s the abrupt stop brigade, there’s the pull out in front of you brigade…etc etc etc
The stupidity you see on the road….Idiots who cannot drive…
Isn’t it time to accept that stupid idiots were, are and always will be part of our lives everywhere. No laws or other action would ever change that. Stupidity is part of human nature. And even smart people do dumb things.
We’re better off giving up the myth of perfect rationality.
Adjusting attitude towards them would give us peace. Anticipating the idiot on the road is better than seeing one and getting all stressed up. Life is short.
Having said all that, having a stupid policeman is unacceptable. An appropriate training, rigorous tests, psychological evaluations should reduce number of really stupid policemen/women.
Law enforcement requires the officer to invoke reason and critical thinking skills in order to solve intricate problems in real time, on the job. Police Academies do teach higher order and critical thinking.
Developing critical thinking is essential for reducing stupidity of humans, not just law enforcement officers.
No wonder, both police and landscapers don’t drive according to the road laws.
Thumbs down, curious as to why you disagree?
6.20am Policeman – obvious.
If there is an EMS vehicle with siren and lights on, trying to move quickly somewhere, there should not be any vehicles in its path. Period. The road should be clear of all obstructions! If you are a landscaper, in a slow-moving truck, you don’t get to pull out into it’s path at that particular moment because it pleases you to do so. You don’t get to execute a U-turn. You do not pass Go!, and do not collect $200…all you must do is pull over and yield at that moment.
But again…. they all drive like crap so who cares.
Listen kid: the patient/victim and folks with a loved one in the back of the ambulance care – we all hope we’re never one of them until we are. Grow up.
Jamaicans duh