Traffic offence phone number?

[McWild]

Sorry for making a new thread but am in a hurry to get out and need to report a car driver I just saw on Dyer's pass.
Need to know the number to call (I think there's a hotline right?) very quickly.

So you know, this genious decided to overtake 2 cyclists by going completely onto the wrong side of the road a metre before a blind bend... in sunstrike.

[Virago]

*555 is the number (from a cell phone).

[McWild]

Ok thank you, feel free to burn this thread or whatever now.

[Virago]

Anyone got any matches...?

[McWild]

All reported, hope this prick burns too!

[James Deuce]

You have to follow up a *555 by going into a Police Station and making a written statement.

Off you go.

Go on.

Shoo!

[slofox]

You can also file bad driver reports online...try the link below.

http://www.police.govt.nz/service/road/roadwatch.html

[James Deuce]

*555 and the Online form don't do anything except generate a "naughty boy" letter.

If you want action taken you'll need to go into the Police Station and make a formal complaint.

[McWild]

If I even annoy them just a little bit with that letter, I will have gotten a result!

[mark247]

*555 and the Online form don't do anything except generate a "naughty boy" letter.

If you want action taken you'll need to go into the Police Station and make a formal complaint.

I was lead to believe if someone got 3 different complaints in a certain time space they could get prosecuted.. or something simular.. guess not.

[Devil]

*555 and the Online form don't do anything except generate a "naughty boy" letter.

If you want action taken you'll need to go into the Police Station and make a formal complaint.

*555 gets the comms centre. If you're following the person and they've done somethign dodgy AND there's a cop in the area they can get someone there straight away. Have done this 3 times. Stay on the phone following the person till the cop caught up and pulled them over and buttsecksed them on the spot.

Online form is just a reporting tool. However, I did get get a call after submitting one saying that it sounded pretty serious, would I like to take it to a formal complaint, or just leave it recorded in the system.

[gegvasco]

*555 gets the comms centre. If you're following the person and they've done somethign dodgy AND there's a cop in the area they can get someone there straight away. Have done this 3 times. Stay on the phone following the person till the cop caught up and pulled them over and buttsecksed them on the spot.

Online form is just a reporting tool. However, I did get get a call after submitting one saying that it sounded pretty serious, would I like to take it to a formal complaint, or just leave it recorded in the system.
Sorry for the uninformed Aussie question, but this *555 thing has me intrigued, especially as I am planning on coming over for a months riding later in the year. What is the deal? Can the cops issue infringements based on someone else's say so? Even if you made a formal complaint at a Police Station, how can they prosecute if it is your word against theirs? I'm curious as this has come up many times in Australia, especially where a rider has almost been killed by the stupidity of a driver, reported it formally at a cop shop, and the response was "Sorry, can't do anything about it without proof". In one case where a bloke almost side swiped me while he was trying to filter in a car(!!!), I reported the guy, along with his rego, and the cops said they would alert Police in the direction he was travelling and have a word to him if they saw him. Why bother!

[AllanB]

So you know, this genious decided to overtake 2 cyclists by going completely onto the wrong side of the road a metre before a blind bend... in sunstrike.


Meh - sounds like standard Christchurch Sunday driving to me.

Those farking cyclists are seriously pissing me off in CHCH - it amazes me how someone who drives are car to and from work all week can get dressed up in a skin-tight suit resembling a licorice all-sort in the weekend and then ride like they own the road. :2guns:


To find out if the online complaint works - fill in your own number plate and complain about the 160 kph wheelie that 'you' did through a school zone at 3.00pm........:shifty:

Any takers - let us know how it works out. :laugh:

[James Deuce]

Sorry for the uninformed Aussie question, but this *555 thing has me intrigued, especially as I am planning on coming over for a months riding later in the year. What is the deal? Can the cops issue infringements based on someone else's say so? Even if you made a formal complaint at a Police Station, how can they prosecute if it is your word against theirs? I'm curious as this has come up many times in Australia, especially where a rider has almost been killed by the stupidity of a driver, reported it formally at a cop shop, and the response was "Sorry, can't do anything about it without proof". In one case where a bloke almost side swiped me while he was trying to filter in a car(!!!), I reported the guy, along with his rego, and the cops said they would alert Police in the direction he was travelling and have a word to him if they saw him. Why bother!


NZ is the ultimate narking nanny state. That's why the recording and film industries wanted to trial the "ban anyone who downloads something illegal by making it legal for someone to say you did without proof and then make your ISP dump you" law in the form of S92a in NZ rather than a Police State like the UK.

Personally, I think 101% of NZ road users live in glass houses, so to speak, and have no room or moral imperative to ever bitch about anyone else's driving. I will make an exception for cyclists though and am hoping that John Key's cycleway will run from one end of the country to the other without going near a roading network or anywhere useful. It's best if people practice being smug bastards out of public view IMO.