Louise Bailey

“before officers begin their response to an emergency call, they should go through a process of risk assessment. That includes consideration of whether other units are closer. However, in this case the driver and operator did not know the answer to that question. In part that was due to the fact that officers are encouraged to avoid assigning themselves over the radio during an ongoing incident to prevent clogging up of airwaves. However, I heard evidence that several units did in fact assign the”

“The police car crossed to the contraflow to avoid traffic and collided with the deceased, who was running across the road to catch a bus. She was not visible to the driver as she entered the road behind a bus”

“Chapter 13 of Roadcraft, the Police Driver's Handbook, provides that before officers begin their response to an emergency call, they should go through a process of risk assessment”