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New police officer, 19, dies from crash injuries (www.bbc.com)
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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 22 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

She had been sent to the scene of a crash involving a Land Rover Freelander and Ford Explorer on the A189 Spine Road in Cramlington at 23:10 BST on Monday, but was injured when a black Mercedes crashed into a marked police car. She died in hospital on Wednesday.

A 73-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and released on bail.

If you can't avoid hitting a stationary object on the road, then you shouldn't be driving. If you drive in a situation where you shouldn't be driving, and you cause a death with your incompetence, then I don't see the difference between this and other forms of manslaughter.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 0 points 11 hours ago

I feel I should mention this is not limited to the elderly. Lots of people will get distracted by - and drift towards - blinky lights and accident scenes. I mentioned this recently in a discussion about fire trucks, their positioning on a highway (at a diagonal directing away from the scene of the accident) is due to this.

Nearly got hit myself some years back, night time accidents are worse because the lights are so visible and people are usually tired.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

In the initial crash the Ford left the road and the occupants of the Land Rover fled the area on foot before police arrived.

No serious injuries were reported at that point.

Then the Mercedes collided with a marked police car, injuring Turnbull, and the driver was arrested initially on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Also fuck drivers

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Nissan Altima needs to be there unless it’s European exclusively

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Adjacently related: 19 is too young to be a police officer.

Also, I hope that driver loses his driving privileges.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 points 13 hours ago

Also too old.

[–] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

Yeah I thought the UK had standards for their police, not that they took after Americans with such incredibly low standards a child could become one.

[–] trainsrkool@lemmy.ml 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

ACAB

[–] Headofthebored@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

You're not wrong. Police exist to serve the interests of corporations and billionaire. Joining the police force does not help your community or make it safer. It makes it safer for corporations and billionaires to extract wealth.

[–] Swaus01@piefed.social 3 points 16 hours ago

Super tragic.