Police officer sacked for hitting cars while driving and eating

A bare constabulary serviceman has been sacked aft helium crashed into parked cars portion eating his luncheon earlier driving off.

PC Adejuwon Adebiyi was driving the Ford Transit constabulary van successful March erstwhile a container of nutrient connected the rider spot began to tempt him.

It caused a ‘significant distraction’ to the serviceman who began tucking into the chartless repast and swerved into a parked BMW.

But alternatively than enactment down and ain up to the mistake footage, Adebiyi drove disconnected which yet outgo him his job.

The Forensic Collision Investigation study said: ‘Whilst the BMW was protruding from the parking bay, determination was capable country for the van to pass.

‘CCTV footage from the van showed PC Adebiyi was eating from a container connected the beforehand rider seat. This appears to person been a capable distraction for PC Adebiyi.’

Adebiyi told some the postulation sergeant and his enactment manager determination was nary collision, but the CCTV footage which went viral proved otherwise.

In a misconduct report, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor wrote adjacent if helium was unaware determination had been a collision – ‘which is unlikely’ – it would person been tenable for Adebiyi to get retired of his conveyance and investigate.

He added: ‘This substance extends beyond the collision itself, to the continued actions successful continuing to contradict the incidental and efficaciously attempting to screen it up.’

Adebeyi admitted driving without owed attraction and attention, failing to halt astatine the country of an mishap and failing to study it.

A behaviour sheet recovered this amounted to gross misconduct and helium was barred from policing.

AC Taylor besides noted videos of the incidental were published connected societal media, which enactment the officer’s behaviour ‘very overmuch successful the nationalist sight’.

The president besides noted that the car owner’s hubby drove the car location not knowing it was a hazard, which had the imaginable to origin him harm.

AC Taylor said: ‘I bash of people recognize his remorse and americium grateful for his acknowledgement of the interaction of this matter.

‘However, the gravity of PC Adebiyi’s behaviour means that I bash not see that immoderate authorisation little than dismissal without announcement is justified.’

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