Dashcam policing is no match for proper traffic cops
'Op Snap' is on the rise as drivers gather their own footage of wrongdoing. He was suspended by the club as the North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League began an investigation.
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'Op Snap' is on the rise as drivers gather their own footage of wrongdoing.
He was suspended by the club as the North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League began an investigation.
Maybe, maybe not, but what is true is that, a few moments later, as he overtook a parked car, his footage showed him riding even closer to an oncoming vehicle.
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'Op Snap' is on the rise as drivers gather their own footage of wrongdoing. He was suspended by the club as the North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League began an investigation. Maybe, maybe not, but what is true is that, a few moments later, as he overtook a parked car, his footage showed him riding even closer to an oncoming vehicle.
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- The BBC reports that a court decided this was riding without due care and attention, and it fined him £1200 including costs.
- In both cases you could say video footage has seen justice done and that, because of the rise of cameras, you can't do silly things and expect...
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It won't have a shortage of source footage, either. Elsewhere in Yorkshire, a cyclist came a cropper after sending a video to his local police service's Operation Snap (the dashcam policing scheme that's an increasingly common way for traffic offences to be investigated and prosecuted) claiming that a passing car hadn't left him enough space.
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