Police soak pedestrian after driving through puddle on Leigh Road Eastleigh Hampshire
Hampshire Constabulary claim the police officer would have deemed the situation too risky to avoid the puddle.
A spokesperson for them said: "It is likely that the officer made an assessment that as they approached this junction, it was safer to continue driving through the puddle rather than stop abruptly and risk causing another vehicle to run into the back of the police car, or avoid the puddle by swerving towards the oncoming vehicle on the other side of the carriageway.
Busway clearly marked. Signs everywhere. Still drives down it, wrecks the car and blocks five buses. Some people genuinely pass a driving test and then never use their brain again
Police soak pedestrian after driving through puddle on Leigh Road Eastleigh Hampshire
Hampshire Constabulary claim the police officer would have deemed the situation too risky to avoid the puddle.
A spokesperson for them said: "It is likely that the officer made an assessment that as they approached this junction, it was safer to continue driving through the puddle rather than stop abruptly and risk causing another vehicle to run into the back of the police car, or avoid the puddle by swerving towards the oncoming vehicle on the other side of the carriageway.