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Accident during police chase in Dartmouth Road 16/12/08
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19-12-2008 12:22 AM

Unusually this doesn't seem to have been reported anywhere. I knew something had happened as the road was blocked off for several hours on Tuesday but only found out what happened from the staff at Boots today.

On Tuesday morning 16th Dec a police car thought to be involved in chasing another vehicle along Dartmouth Road crashed headlong into an oncoming car carrying a pregnant woman and her children . Apparently the woman and her children were not hurt however one of the police officers was seriously injured having had to have been cut out of the car during an lengthy operation by the fire brigade. The police car, I understand , had turned over onto its roof and the officers were trapped inside until cut free.

I am sure our sympathies go out to the injured officers and to everyone involved- thats a given. And no doubt we would all like to police to get to us pretty fast whenever we need them.
However from the perspective of a local pedestrian rather than a ghoulish onlooker I would like to know more about how the accident occured and whether going at speed down such a fairly narrow road with so many obstacles is inevitably going to result in an accident.

I'm surprised and very thankful that given the road layout the police car did not end up crashing into a shop/passing pedestrians and causing more carnage. After all its only two years ago that a child was seriously injured by a car in Dartmouth Road when a car travelling at speed mounted the pavement near the library and there have been other serious RTAs in the past.

Does anyone have any more information? Clearly there could be a number of factors involved here ie police driving, road layout, or just bad luck but I think as a community we should know what exactly happened on this occasion on a road frequented by many school children and Christmas shoppers.

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Accident during police chase in Dartmouth Road 16/12/08 - roz - 19-12-2008 12:22 AM

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