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    Law on wearing mc helmet inside a cage?

    I've tried searching on Google for the answer but with no luck.

    Do you know if it is legal to wear a motorcycle helmet whilst driving a car? Not really planning on doing it just interested. I think I read somewhere that people had gotten out of speeding tickets in a certain country because speed cameras need to prove who was driving at the time of the offense and because a MC helmet obscured the view obviously people got out of tickets.

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    I'm pretty sure it's illegal to wear a helmet while driving on the road here. I'm not sure if this is right but isn't it that if the face of the driver is obscured, the fine goes to the owner of the car? The owner of the car is then told to be more careful who they lend their car to and to seek reparation directly from that person.
    Or have I gone nuts?
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    I dont think it is legal to wear a helemt while driving.

    Whats the worst that will happen, they give you a ticket for looking like a plonker while you drive
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    Would have thought if the driver of the vehicle couldnt be identified they would simply send the ticket to the owner with a "we dont care whos driving your paying" note attached.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 98tls View Post
    Would have thought if the driver of the vehicle couldnt be identified they would simply send the ticket to the owner with a "we dont care whos driving your paying" note attached.
    They tried that on with me once when I had put a car into auction...some arse took it out for a test drive and got camered. They sent me the ticket. I told them to get fucked. They did - eventually....
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    You can do it but you will be pulled over every 30 seconds

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    I'm not aware of any law forbidding the wearing of a helmet while driving. As for identifying the driver from speed camera photos, the ticket always goes to the owner of the vehicle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by slofox View Post
    They tried that on with me once when I had put a car into auction...some arse took it out for a test drive and got camered. They sent me the ticket. I told them to get fucked. They did - eventually....
    Yep under those circumstances rightly so.
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    How can it not be legal??????

    You must wear one on a bike and your visibility is pretty much the same wearing one in a car apart from a roof column or two.

    Hearing would be irrelevant as I can drive along with by CD player blasting, so thats out as a argument.

    I could wear a balaclava while driving.

    Looking like a plonker - unfortunately this is not illegal or comb-overs would be banned........ and muffin tops......... and .......

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    Re speed camera photos - the fine goes to the registered driver, if said owner was not the driver then it is their responsibility to notify the police as to whom was driving, or pay-up as the registered driver.

    I know this as my wife was driving, got a camera ticket, I wrote telling them it was not me and I proved it with a work time sheet - they told me it's registered in my name so provide the driver or pay-up.
    Technically the car is joint registered between the two of us but I left that alone .........

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    Yeah its perfectly legal to wear one,

    who knows maybe in the future they will be compulasary in cars - just like bikes.

    Would save a ton of lifes if everyone in a crash had one on.
    Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot

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    No argument against open face helmets then.

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    I was TOLD it was not legal to wear a helmet in a car. Just what I was told.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DangerousBastard View Post
    I was TOLD it was not legal to wear a helmet in a car. Just what I was told.

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    So it is legal, but the question is why would you want to? Other than hide your identity from the cops?

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    Quote Originally Posted by McDuck View Post
    So it is legal, but the question is why would you want to? Other than hide your identity from the cops?
    Even if you are wearing one I suspect the police have the right to ask you to remove it if you are stopped by them, ditto on a motorcycle. Last thing they want is someone head-butting them wearing a lid.

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