Monday 8 September 2014

There’s No Consideration For Any Of The Public, Mr Elsworth…

…it’s not just confined to businesses:
A restaurateur has called on police to be more considerate of local businesses when dealing with accidents on one of East Lancashire’s most notorious roads.
Karl Elsworth owns The Pack Restaurant and Bar, in Elton Road, which runs on to Grane Road, and said police close the entire road whenever there’s an accident or particularly bad weather — a move he says costs him trade.
The police won’t care – they aren’t liable, so they’ll ignore this, as they do with most other complaints from the people they inconvenience, loftily proclaiming that such overreaction is needed for ‘public safety’ (nor are they the only culprits in the overreaction stakes, as NickM points out) or ‘the investigation of a crime’.
A Lancashire Police spokesman said: “While police try to keep disruption to local residents and business owners to a minimum, road closures are put in place to ensure the safety of other road users and members of the public.
“When closures occur as a result of road traffic collisions, this is to allow a thorough investigation to take place.”
See..?

7 comments:

Ted Treen said...

Of course it's all to do with safety: if plod is wandering up and down a closed road wielding a tape measure and a notepad, they're not doing far more risky things like investigating or preventing robbery, mugging, burglary etc., where some nasty rough types might be rather unpleasant towards the stalwart guardians of the law.

Boxes ticked, innit?

Anonymous said...

Count your blessings, Mr Elsworth.
Over the Pennines, nothing draws loony armed plod faster than the combined sounds of 'packhorse' and 'wondering'.

Anonymous said...

One Sunday evening the fifty minute drive to Watford took five hours. I managed to get off the parking lot that the police had created on the M25 and took a bridge over the "accident": a car had slid off the back of a cartransporter in the far left lane, no other cars involved, no injuries, three other lanes without glass metal or blood made useless so they could take their time measuring everything. The idea that keeping traffic moving is a better way to spend an evening, is utterly alien to them.

Furor Teutonicus said...

XX Ted Treen said...

Of course it's all to do with safety: if plod is wandering up and down a closed road wielding a tape measure and a notepad, they're not doing far more risky things like investigating or preventing robbery, mugging, burglary etc.XX

Aye. So "Fuck you and your 'traffic accidents' Sort it out your fucking SELF next time laddie. And don't go crying to the courts and police when the insurance companys tell you to "fuck off!" too.

MTG said...

@ Der 'Furor' aka Ragnar von Spreuth

Such a pleasant fellow...it really is hard to imagine you as an unarmed Merseyside probationer.

Were you not given the knife?

Furor Teutonicus said...

From a "man" that does not even know my real name! HAhahahahaha!

JuliaM said...

"...a car had slid off the back of a cartransporter in the far left lane, no other cars involved, no injuries, three other lanes without glass metal or blood made useless so they could take their time measuring everything."

:/