Crash on A66 that killed two police officers and 5 others…

[bookworm1982]

Am I correct that the other victims were 5 lads travelling in one car the wrong way up the motorway? EXACTLY the same as the 5 Irish lads who died a few days ago travelling the wrong way up a motorway too? Surely not twice in a week? Is there some sort of mental social media thing going on, telling kids to drive up the wrong way? Like a dare? Just cannot believe it happened once, let alone twice. Just devastating.

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Is there any evidence that the five involved in the crash near Middleborough are Irish?

So its being reported that two of them were aged 23, not 13!

She was angry that the Romany children at the school where I worked referred to themselves as "Gypsies". According to the Traveller, only Travellers were gypsies.

But Gypsies have always been identified with Romanys, haven't they?

.....However, he was obliged to carry an Alien Card until the early 1960s

My British born grandmother had one of those from the First World War because she was married to a foreign national - who was away fighting in the army of one of our allies. It was kept up with all her changes of address until after the Second World War. I have it now, and it has been useful in family history research.

I mind once being told in Ireland,that travellers were considered to be 'Cromwell's brigrants' and thus very likely to have English and Welsh surnames,the implication being they were camp followers or servants who went on to cause havoc in the wake of Cromwell's invasion and shunned for this role in Irish history.

Brigands*

I said this somewhere up thread, but why weren't they locked up already? The one who drove over the motorcyclist, surely that should have resulted in jail time? And that's without getting started on the many other offences they had committed between them.

Yes, to your question. The young lady concerned seemed to be unaware of this.

I still have Dad's Alien Card. I always thought that his first British DP camp was in Scotland, but it turns out that he was in Cambridgeshire first.

Oh indeed they do. Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly condemned their behaviour. Minister for Justic Jim O'Callaghan strongly condemned them, he didn't even mention their families in his statement. Get your facts right. You sound as if you don't even know the facts surrounding this.

She posted twice on X yesterday.

The first was before it was publicly known that police officers had died, so just referred to the 7 deaths. The second was after, so had far more detail around that.

I have no idea why, beyond that, because I’m not Anna Turley and I don’t know her. But I do know the area, and do know that it’s absolutely her business/place to comment.

Rest in peace PC Blades and PC Clough. Rest assured Theo, Cole, Jacob, Michael and Makai, you won’t be seeing any angels where you’re going.

I didn't think you were Turley, it was a rhetorical question. One statement would suffice.

She shouldn't have laid flowers and paid respects 'to the seven people whose lives were so tragically cut short yesterday'. She knew, as did many people locally the circumstances of the incident before public announcements. She could have held off and then appropriately paid respects for the police officers killed in the line of duty when it was made public.

I wonder if there'll be any objection from this MP to the 'baloon' releases at the various venues on Mon? She might attend and make another statement who knows.

Sadly there isn’t enough time.
The police were pictured on ring camera chasing at 03.36. They called off the chase seconds later.
The VW ploughed 8nto the police car @ 03.40.
When the fuckimg morons are doing 100mph there simply isn’t the time to get a helicopter up.
Ithink it’s about time we bought a nice big prison in El Salvador and sent all of the rapists, pedos, cop killers, idiots who drive the wrong way down motorways to evade the police and drug dealers.
I think we would see a drop in crime.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Ill sleep better tonight knowing these little fuckers can’t hurt anyone else.

RIP to the police officers and my thoughts are with their families.

As for the families of the 5 boys, I hope they are proud of the scum they raised 👍🏻

I am sick of this chav culture, no respect and think they can do what they like. It’s rife in our area mainly with off road bikes, so apologies if you think my comments are harsh but I seriously couldn’t give two hoots about 5 scroats who just killed themselves.

This is unnecessarily mean spirited. The first statement came out at a time when not all the info had been made public, although of course we knew more than was being released.
She would be criticised even more if she didn’t say something straight away.
I’ve asked about the balloon release and if anything can be done. 🤞

What an interesting post. Your dad was obviously bloody grateful to be here and wanted to fit in and contribute to the his adopted country. So many of today's arrivals, and those born here, simply don't have that attitude.

As for the bus stations, it will be interesting to see hoe Burnham's bus plans work out in practice.

@Taytocrisps thanks for that explanation it does make sense why there might be a reluctance to try to set any boundaries.

'This is unnecessarily mean spirited. The first statement came out at a time when not all the info had been made public, although of course we knew more than was being released'
Mean spirited?! imo laying flowers and paying respects for 7 deaths was incredibly inappropriate. She knew the circumstances.

2 deaths of course. Or all she had to say was this was a horrific incident, fullstop.

Sorry, I'm not into this laying flowers thing. Especially for people I don't know. I think it's odd. Not many people send flowers to funerals now, so why do they put them on street corners for random strangers.
If I happened to see the police officers' funeral cortege, I would stand and bow my head in respect.

They can't win. Another local MP has posted about a lack of prisons being a reason crimes like this happen. They are getting a slating.

The A66 runs through the Redcar and Cleveland area. One of the policeman had links to sports clubs in that area too.

It's a tough day seeing everything on social media. Emotions are high.

The parents are giving tributes to their sons in the media. Can’t bear to read them. Best if they kept their thoughts private in the circumstances.,

I live locally. A few months ago my hairdresser’s car was stolen from her drive. Apparently the perpetrators were 14 years old. They were chased on the A66 ar 3am, by cop cars and a helicopter - they didn’t stop, turned around and headed back to the area by hairdresser lives. Not Pally Park, not Winney Bank, not Brambles Farm - a ‘naice’ place, which led us to believe that’s where they live. It was a weeknight so you gotta wonder where the parents were and their punishment was writing a letter of apology?!

I work in Middlesbrough and all summer long we’ve had to deal with absolute losers sitting outside my office block, fighting, drinking, drugging. And I - and you pay for that. As I sit in my office, working away, the fights of drunks hit my ears and I’m assaulted by the smell of skunk. They’ve never worked a day in their lives and we pay for them to get drunk and high all day long.

This shit needs to end. This scum killed police officers on the job, but they could have killed anyone of us. Maybe if they didn’t make being idle and getting money off the government a career they wouldn’t be able to procreate. And ban the SM platforms that allow these kids to feel famous for 10 minutes do8ng something criminal.

In Ireland they were not age 13, there are 3 women with life changing injuries and a 7 year old still in hospital. That’s who I have sympathy for. And the two UK police officers killed.

The 5 dead Irish are well known for robbing, terrorising, stealing cars, doing U-turns on the motorway near Dublin. Filming it all and putting it up on Tik Tok. All you have to do is look at the funeral reporting on one of them to be very clear as to how these types of young men are brought up with no respect for anybody or anything.

She can’t win, if she’d only mentioned the police officers she’d have been criticised.

I don't think the balloon releases etc for the 5 in the Passat are going to go down well in the local community, I am fairly local and there's - surprisingly for this area - an awful lot of support for the police (rightly so too) and disgust at what happened on Saturday morning.

A statement has been released saying that the Passat was being pursued and the pursuit called off when the Passat took the wrong side of the A66, the collision was around 10 seconds later and the officers involved in the collision were responding to an ANPR ping for the plates of the Passat, on the right side of the A66.

I was in Middlesbrough last night and there's a really uneasy feeling, with most people feeling like enough is enough with the way some people in the communities are causing misery and suffering with their behaviour, I can't see any memorials to the people in the car being accepted gracefully tbh.