Thu Aug 21, 2014, 11:01 PM

Wrong-Way Motorway Smash Captured On Video

Lucky for this old man, he was in the UK:

http://news.sky.com/story/1322479/wrong-way-motorway-smash-captured-on-video

The police dashboard camera then captures the moment the officers deliberately crash into the car, being driven by a 77-year-old man with dementia.

The police driver is heard telling his colleague: "I had to mate." The officer replies: "I know you did, I know you did."

The police force has praised the bravery of the traffic officers for choosing to engineer the collision to prevent the car from hitting oncoming traffic.

The male driver, from Rowley Regis in the West Midlands, had earlier been reported missing by his family. He was not hurt in the crash on the northbound carriageway of the motorway. One of the officers suffered a minor injury in Monday's incident.
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5 replies	Author	Time	Post
Wrong-Way Motorway Smash Captured On Video (Original post)	PumpkinAle	Aug 2014	OP
And you have a problem with this, why? eom.	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2014	#1
Seems to me there's not a problem	Spider Jerusalem	Aug 2014	#2
Really? The man was LUCKY he wasn't in the States!	PumpkinAle	Aug 2014	#5
"I had to mate"?	Art_from_Ark	Aug 2014	#3
... and "copy editing failure of the year award" goes to ...	surrealAmerican	Aug 2014	#4