Police Officer with Personal Vendetta?!?

[GrumpyToSayTheLeast]

Yellow light, off duty officer, personal visit???

He's having a laugh.

Tell him that you recall the incident whereby a car (his) had been tailgating you and you couldn't have stopped safely at the yellow light.

I agree that a complaint should be made.

 

You talk some crap sometimes.

Amber light. Its an offence to drive through it. Read here

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/light-signals-controlling-traffic

 

A cop is still a cop, on duty or off.

He witnessed a criminal offence, and when back in uniform, pursued it.

 

Dash cam is perfectly legal to use as evidence in ANY court proceedings or prosecution.

Whether the judge allows it is a different matter.

 

And finally, you state that he should lie, to a cop taking notes, on an official visit? Are you serious?

 

Maybe the personal visit was just to make a point,

and attitudes were not to his liking,

lessons were not being learned,

so the cop though, screw it, see you in court.

 

Essentially, the driver broke the law (if the cop and dash cam are to be believed) and he needs to deal with it if it goes to court.

 

To the OP, I would seriously ignore King.

 

Your defence could be on the grounds that you tried to stop and it was unsafe to do so,

but if they watch the cam footage and you clearly had plenty of time and slammed on and then went through anyway,

you might find this worse than running a red light.

Thats a bit of careless driving there.

 

 

Maybe even dangerous if other road users were close enough to be affected by your driving.

[GrumpyToSayTheLeast]

Let me see if I've got this straight in my own mind. You're advising the OP to (potentially) lie?

 

So that if it goes to court and if the dashcam footage is admitted as evidence, the OP could possibly be convicted of perjury instead of a minor traffic light offence.

 

That can't be right surely?

 

Welcome to the world as king sees it.

[GrumpyToSayTheLeast]

lol

 

You can laugh, but eventually someone will be gullible enough to listen to your bulls**t and land themselves in more trouble. Whilst you sit back lolling at them.