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Tasmania is the latest state in Australia to add the Stinger to its vehicle fleet.
Tasmania Police add Kia Stinger
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MerlintheMad
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No, "nine, you're fine, ten, you're mine", philosophy Way Down Under, I see. 
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This may be a generalization, but .au and .ca have already become mostly socialist. The US is almost there.
AtomicGTL
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those look like gt lines
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Yes and New Zealand is noticeably worse. Don
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They are lower spec 330S, still with 3.3TT.
KAS
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Extra brownie points to whoever designed that paint scheme for also applying the blue wrap over the black-chrome trim above the windows.
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aaaand they crashed it.
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They are for the unplanned shit, big rock or stopped vehicle in the middle of the road as you come around a bend, road design and safety protections, etc. It's the idiots that speed through the residential areas that I hate the most. Never know when a dog or child might run out after a ball behind a bush or something. Speeding around these areas is like sh*tting where you eat. The less people and hazards to other (like empty desert), then you start to endanger people less with your actions.
Details? Looks like they have more right next to it in the picture?
bfglitch
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On Wednesday, police unveiled their new patrol car — on Friday, it was wrecked in a crash
A Tasmania police officer is taken to hospital after his new patrol car was involved in a highway crash with a car driven by a member of the public — two days after the vehicle was used to launch a new road safety campaign.
www.abc.net.au
JSolo
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Ouch... Too much car for the patrolman? Not visible enough? Zigged when he should have zagged?
Personally I dont think the stinger would make for a good patrol car. Not enough space inside for all the equipment unless they removed the front pass seat. Hard to tell from the pic.
Actually in the OP you can see the front pass headrest.
Personally I dont think the stinger would make for a good patrol car. Not enough space inside for all the equipment unless they removed the front pass seat. Hard to tell from the pic.
Actually in the OP you can see the front pass headrest.
MerlintheMad
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Okay, the call for dashcam evidence is telling: the officer is not being convincing in his story of how he lost control of his vehicle. And what kind of message is this? "Being 'a good driver' is irrelevant. It's time for everyone to take road safety seriously." I don't even know what she is saying. "Rhetoric speak" seems to have taken over with covid.
On Wednesday, police unveiled their new patrol car — on Friday, it was wrecked in a crash
A Tasmania police officer is taken to hospital after his new patrol car was involved in a highway crash with a car driven by a member of the public — two days after the vehicle was used to launch a new road safety campaign.
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JSolo
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It's .au... take it all with grains (kilos?) of salt.
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Wow...that was quick.On Wednesday, police unveiled their new patrol car — on Friday, it was wrecked in a crash
A Tasmania police officer is taken to hospital after his new patrol car was involved in a highway crash with a car driven by a member of the public — two days after the vehicle was used to launch a new road safety campaign.
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Ouch, that didn‘t take long.On Wednesday, police unveiled their new patrol car — on Friday, it was wrecked in a crash
A Tasmania police officer is taken to hospital after his new patrol car was involved in a highway crash with a car driven by a member of the public — two days after the vehicle was used to launch a new road safety campaign.
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Oh no! Those poor bastards!On Wednesday, police unveiled their new patrol car — on Friday, it was wrecked in a crash
A Tasmania police officer is taken to hospital after his new patrol car was involved in a highway crash with a car driven by a member of the public — two days after the vehicle was used to launch a new road safety campaign.
After only two days, and after all that fanfare, showing off their new car!
Lol!
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I don't feel this is a particularly suspicious ask. Literally every motor vehicle incident that I see reported in the news here in Australia includes a statement from police requesting any dashcam footage that members of the public may have.
Given the increase in dashcam use in the last ten years or so this seems like a quite reasonable and legitimate way to gather as many facts as possible relating to an incident. And an incident like this involving a police vehicle will likely be subject to greater interest & scrutiny by the media & public.
It would be interesting to know what occurred though. Regardless of who was at fault, no doubt there's a lot of egg on face within the ranks of the Tasmanian Highway Patrol right now.
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