Police motorcyclist almost causes a serious accident on the motorway
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Start Your Claim NowA car dashboard camera captures a heart stopping moment when a police motorbike swerves from the inside lane to the outside lane, in to the path of a driver.
Watch the full footage below and you can’t help but edge away from the screen as the flashing motorbike rapidly approaches and almost ends up in a crash with the car.
The police motorcyclist moves from the slip lane all the way to the outside lane rather fast. The riders do not appear to be responding to an emergency, despite blue lights being on.
The owner of the dashboard camera spoke out about the incident and expressed his concern over the manoeuvre captured in the footage:
“There was absolutely no reason that I could see for the police biker to merge immediately into outside lane. Thankfully traffic was a little bit behind me otherwise there could have been a serious crash.”
The incident happened on a busy motorway where one wrong or sudden move like this could have easily caused a serious accident.
Later on in the footage, the two motorcyclists look to be joined by another four motorcyclists and two regular police cars. The parade of officers calmly passes by in a tight formation: the motorbikes in pairs and the two cars following closely behind.
There is no indication that there is any element of urgency or necessity for the earlier manoeuvre.
The video was captured on the M8 close to Glasgow and has already been noticed by “Scotland’s Worst Drivers”. The Scottish campaigners of safe driving spoke out against the motorcyclist’s actions:
“While the police biker had his blue lights on, he nearly ended up under the wheels of the dashcam car. Bearing in mind the road conditions were damp, by merging from the slip road across the entire carriageway was reckless.”
The Scottish Police are aware of the incident and have commented to say the officer was “attending to his duties and as such it would be inappropriate to comment further about this”.
