Cop car narrowly avoids colliding with Darwin motorist on the Stuart Hwy
DASHCAM footage has revealed the frightening moment a Darwin motorist was nearly run off the road by an NT Police vehicle
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A DARWIN motorist has nearly been run off the road by an NT Police vehicle as it merged on the Stuart Hwy.
Motorist Brett Perry was driving on the highway at Stuart Park this morning when the paddy wagon turned onto the road way from Goyder Rd.
The police wagon can be seen on dashcam footage turning successfully into the right hand lane, before it continued to drift towards Mr Perry’s car, travelling in the left lane.
However the police vehicle continues to merge and misses the motorist’s car by the narrowest of margins.
He said the police officers didn’t stop to offer an explanation for their driving despite the near miss.
“People cut me off all the time from that turn-off. That’s one of the reasons I’ve got the dash cam,” he said.
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“(After) I sort of assumed maybe they were trying to signal they wanted me to pull off, I followed them for a bit down a side street and pulled over and they kept driving … I thought they wanted to apologise because they clearly stuffed it up.”
Mr Perry said the officers needed to be appropriately reprimanded and was concerned about how police monitored other drivers if that was how they behaved on the road themselves.
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“They at least need to be held accountable. As much as I hate to say it, if they’re doing that they obviously don’t care about it when others do it,” he said.
“If they see a civilian doing that are they going to pull them over and do anything about it?”
NT Police have been contacted for comment.
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