this used to be my old stomping ground – whilst it was a good party I do think the area’s a bit rinsed – and the RTC is going to have repercussions.
Glad that Soek and friends got back safe – its a long mission and the A12 is one of the most fucking boring roads in the country, easy for your driver to nod off if he/she is a bit sketchy and tired..
the reason there weren’t many cops there is that only certain TVP units are trusted to get their vehicles to the Ridgeway without trashing them too badly – they are the “Tango Victor’s” – if any of you watch the Road Wars telly programme you might have seen them.
In the early-mid 2000s when my friends were organising events in this area we actually got on OK with these cops; they are specialist Roads Policing officers and their priority is keeping the roads safe.
What they did say they would take action against was wanton damage to buildings (I think one went from Traffic to CID and took a big interest in bringing people to justice for damage to venues), and also anything dodgy on the roads like people driving badly due to sleep deprivation or drugs.
Unfortunately now this has happened – and even if it didn’t occur in TVP area (I did check the press office website but couldn’t find any 100% similar incidents although there is one possible) eventually it will be fed back to TVP that this prang was a consequence of the rave being held in their area.
