Police investigate pursuit death

• John Chan
• November 8, 2008

Police are investigating the events leading up to the death of a 25-year-old man who was involved in a police chase overnight.

Police spokesman Ian Hasleby said the man was riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle when he failed to stop for police around 10pm last night.

A second police car could not keep up with the man as he sped away at high speed on Hamilton Road.

He eluded two police patrols before losing control of his vehicle at a roundabout and crashing at the intersection of Phoenix Road and Hamilton Road.

Police found the man on the verge and spoke to him before he collapsed from his injuries. He was taken to Fremantle Hospital where he later died.

Officers from the Major Crash squad and police internal affairs are investigating the events leading up the fatal accident.

Shit, not good.

Hey I agree nobody can stop you from being free however these guys within the force make individuals feel like they can’t win and that's why they run. Let's ask the question, how would the cops feel if they are held resonsible for every indisrection they make. Why couldn't we have a legal reresentative to apply the law in everyones case. I bring this up as I'm studing to be a lawyer and I can see a case here.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a no brainer?
If you are chased and called to pull over by the cops, just do it.
If you decide to pull on a chase and not pull over, whatever happens as a result of the chase is your own fault, surely.

Fatboy, are you saying the cops should have called the chase off because it was only a speeding infringement? You wouldn't run if it was purely that.
How do you, or anyone know what was done by this guy prior to the accident as unfortunate as it may be?
I know the cops can make arses of themselves and in fact, I have been on the receiving end of some hefty point losses and fines due to fucking around but I didn't run and why would I? I know what I did was wrong and I copped it sweet. It's only going to make things worse if you do a runner..............(if you have nothing to hide)

The story from my copper inlaw is that the cops had ceased the chase before the rider crashed his bike and where patroling trying to find where he went when they came across him.

The cops have a similar saying to "Sonny" - When we do right, we ram it down ya throat via all possible media, when we do wrong, say nuttin' cept "it was the Bikers fault"...

you run & die it's your own fault plain & simple. good chance they will come knock on your door anyway. the cops have a job to do as do most of us. roll the dice everytime you see a cop & it's going to end in tears. if the cops had run him over to get him off his bike then i would be pissed off but it would appear they were no where near him. more fool him

I hear your point, Fatboy.
Probably closer to the point for me is, if you decide to run and come off in the meantime, you have to take responsibility for your own actions.

They should have let him go, they probably already had the rego, so all it was going to take was a knock on his door later on. You only run at high speed if you are getting chased(not speaking from experience). When they stop chasing you slow down and think about your options of where to go and hide. I feel sorry for the innocent people that get killed or hurt in these cases, but you dont seem to think of these thngs when you are young and dumb and think that you are immortal.

Would you be kind enough and elaborate a little on that subject ZED?

Obviously all the crime in this beautiful country of ours is the combined lie by cops and media. In fact there is no crime at all, no rapes, murders, drugs, burgs, stealings, frauds etc.

People do not die on the roads at all. Traffic offences do not happen, there are no hoons, drunk drivers do not kill innocent people - and so on and so on

ALL THIS IS A LIE. BLOODY COPS DO NOTHING BUT LIE. (In between dougnuts and coffies)

 

Bike, car, skateboard, bicycle, on foot......you can run all you like but you will be found dead or alive. So why run, your chances of getting away are stacked up against you even before you think that you will get away.

It's the same eveywhere, you get good cops and bad ones. You get good bikies and bad ones. You get good mechanics and bad ones. There are always bad ones in among the good ones. Cops should always be good because they are the owns who take an oath to protect, serve, and uphold the law, and some dont do that. You have to be born to be a cop, i am one who could not do their job and face drunk dickheads and domestics everyday, i would end up shooting too many people. As they say "some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill them".

not many times is a bike crash responsible for multi deaths its usually the biker who comes off worse .he probably had a few and reacted to flashin lights fuckin off is usual the 1st reaction ,he might of had lights off and gonna hide in a house or yard but hit the roundabout .no revenue from him .rip

Surly if your asked to pull over by the law do so for your own safety...one thing I will say pull over where it's safe even if you need to ride a few more k's at a slow pace.

WC