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You'd all have different opinions if the police were rushing to come and assist you when your in trouble yet whenever a accident happens the police get slated to hell by the very people they're trying to protect.

Book em Danno. Murder 1.

as with all blue light drivers, the police are required to treat red lights as "give way" signs, this means they should only proceed at slow speed and only when they are sure that all drivers are aware that they are there and are about to cross the junction. There are occasions when blue light drivers have abused this rule (look up fire appliance crash luton on youtube), but these are rare cases. The aim of being under blue light conditions is to get to the incident (a cry for help at the end of the day) safely in the quickest possible time without putting yourself & equipment (potentially life saving equipment) or other road users at risk. Whatever happened at this incident, I firstly hope all involved are ok and secondly doubt that the police driver set out to cause a crash (too much paperwork if nothing else!)
btw I am not nor ever have been a police officer nor do i always support them!

They should have common sense at least, there's no reason to t-bone a car because a police officer assumed a car wasn't coming the other way. That's what this thread is about.

No offence to anyone involved, but who knows, for fact that the driver/vehicle was using its blue lights when it crashed. Whose to say they weren't activated after the crash to warn others of the hazard?

I won't take sides until there a video or something of the crash occuring, as those crossroads are a pain in the backside for crashes. It could be the person turning right onto breck road jumped the light/didn't see the police vehicle, or it could be the bobby has driven too fast/jumped the light. Who knows at this stage.

Scare the #$%^ out of me the way the local bobbies zoom up and down Wallasey Village past my parents' house several times a day at very high speeds, sirens blaring. It's one thing if the Traffic boys do that (at least they have very advanced driver skills training, and even then, only if in hot pursuit!) - but the local bobbies? NO WAY they should be doing that.

IMNSHO it was only a matter of time before they took someone out. No-one minds them blue-lighting their way to an urgent call and not wasting any time but the way some of them drive is just way out of order. Running a red light at any time is liable to get someone killed including themselves so they should simply not be doing it, period.

Would you expect an ambulance or the fire brigade to stop at a red light on an emergency call out? No! Thought not.

No - but as already said here, they should either treat it as a give-way or at least slow down enough to be sure it's OK to proceed - in other words, use appropriate caution.
Better to get there a few seconds later than (as in this case) not at all (and at worst, to kill or maim anyone) isn't it?

I know for all the people saying police should stop at red lights, I can go one better, if you can make it to a phone, you don't need the police, so if your house is being robbed and they stab you and set your house on fire, go to the first aid box put tape on the cut, and get the hose from the greenhouse put it on the tap and shop crying. coz every police car with its lights on is a cop going for a donut, ffs