Can you get fined for following too close?

[peasea]

we dont want speed jockies down here
go back to ya bombey hills and leave us alone here in paradise.
remember, it is the journey not the destination

Bloody northisland speed freak!

110kph makes me a speed freak/speed jockey/whatever huh? What a crackup. I still get overtaken (with monotonous regularity) by sportsbike riders who are obviously bigger speed freaks than me

[peasea]

Shirley you mean 100Kph?

If they're gonna give you ten percent; take it!

[duckonin]

Sure can

Road User Rule 2004 5.9.3 (5.9.1-4 are all applicable ) : "Drive too close to vehicle in front". $150 fine

And if you actually hit them, probably a careless driving charge.

And maybe a dead motorcyclist if on a bike....

[crazyhorse]

s there any law that says you can get fined for following too close.

I know that they talk about the 2 second rule in the road code but is there any legislation to back this up?

Yes, its called tail-gating. One of our guys did it to a cop - hmmm, not a good idea!

[varminter]

Tailgating, I think I can tell the gender of the person tailgating. If they sit real close but make no attempt to overtake until there is an overtaking lane they're female, up your arse and flash by at the first chance if not before, it's a bloke. Try it, it works.

[newbould]

"Umm, do you think you were following 'that van back there' a bit close?"

I said no?? ....what van??

"The van back there...."

Back where I replied??

" The van back there... in that bit " he said....

I said I was sorry and could not remember any van or any time I came close to another vehicle. I then identified the thing closest to a van on my hill ride was a red canter truck on the wellington side.. who i passed when i first lost the cop (this manouvre was textbook due to the cop being up my arse!!)

His reply was.... "Well I think you were... and have broken the 28 meter rule so I am going to ticket you" (and 30 minute fuck around.... hahaha

( the words spoken between me and cop are to the word.. as i was building something up to send through our amazing court system)

Fucking hypocrite!!

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I think you should have ranted on a lot more - to the guy's boss. he was a complete dick. Taking your side of the story as gospel he goaded you into going faster than you would otherwise and when you did that without incident he invented an infringement. If this had been a drugs charge he had just planted some green on you. He issued the ticket - argueing it wouldn't have increased your risk - he couldn't turn around and add further charges. And for sure you would be one in a line of complaints about him - maybe first in line but more likely already had a few so he would be well known to the system - probably overlooked for promotion yet again that morning.
I have a friend who was pulled over for being maori and driving a merc. that's all. Complained to the guys boss and was told "off the record" that the guy was known to have issues.

Having said all that, I think I would have pulled over and stopped altogether to try to get the guy off my tail.

[DEATH_INC.]

What grates me is it's ok to wobble along the motorway in the right lane at 80kph holding everyone up, but if ya tailgate the wankers to try to get them to move over you get a f*cken ticket????

[The Stranger:Me]

this manouvre was textbook due to the cop being up my arse!!

Standard operating procedure in hazard county, the cops tailgate to try and encourage you to speed.

[doc]

What grates me is it's ok to wobble along the motorway in the right lane at 80kph holding everyone up, but if ya tailgate the wankers to try to get them to move over you get a f*cken ticket????

Buts thats the problem tailgating the wankers to try to get them to move over . They can see further ahead than you can. You weren't the bastard that caused me to be delayed by the four car shunt on the motorway last week were ya.

Overseas with the no undertaking rule, they enforce the slow pricks to keep left. It becomes quite obvious with the chaos slow drivers cause in the fast lane. So it gets enforced

What annoys me is in these gridlock situations from 4 car type shunts the pricks that constantly change lanes to keep moving then end up 1 car in front of me once the obstruction is cleared.

[bikerboy011]

Yes and it is unsafe, you wont have time to react if the person infront of you decides to break suddenly.

[NDORFN]

Tailgating is easily dealt with by means of a sharp jab on the brakes and an evil grin in the rearview mirror indicating to the tailgater that you can care less about the back of your car than he/she can about the front of thiers. Don't try this on a bike, just pull over a bit.

[Jantar]

I hate tailgaters. When someone is following me too close, I slow down to allow double the normal gap to the vehicle in front. That allows to react for both myself and the tailgater. If the reason he/she was tailgating in the first place was because they considered I was going too slow, then they have just made their problem worse.

[BiK3RChiK]

I hate tailgaters. When someone is following me too close, I slow down to allow double the normal gap to the vehicle in front. That allows to react for both myself and the tailgater. If the reason he/she was tailgating in the first place was because they considered I was going too slow, then they have just made their problem worse.

I think this is the logical thing to do. If they are in such a hurry, they'll pass soon enough and the problem is gone.

However, it amazes me lately just how many people think that travelling 80-90km/hr on the road is how it should be, slowing even further on hills and in corners, and they just won't pull to the left and let the HUGE stream of cars that have built up behind them pass, even when there is an opportunity to do so! Morons like this should be targeted by the cops because it just causes people to become frustrated to the extreme, and pull some dangerous manoeuvre, endangering both themselves and others in the process.

[BiK3RChiK]

Tailgating is easily dealt with by means of a sharp jab on the brakes and an evil grin in the rearview mirror indicating to the tailgater that you can care less about the back of your car than he/she can about the front of thiers. Don't try this on a bike, just pull over a bit.

Why don't you pull to the left? This manoeuvre you have just described is downright dangerous! I agree tail-gating is dangerous, but why amp it up? Do you like living on the edge? Someone might reward you one day with a wheel spanner through your drivers door window as they roar past or run you off the road...

[Jizah]

I think this is the logical thing to do. If they are in such a hurry, they'll pass soon enough and the problem is gone.

However, it amazes me lately just how many people think that travelling 80-90km/hr on the road is how it should be, slowing even further on hills and in corners, and they just won't pull to the left and let the HUGE stream of cars that have built up behind them pass, even when there is an opportunity to do so! Morons like this should be targeted by the cops because it just causes people to become frustrated to the extreme, and pull some dangerous manoeuvre, endangering both themselves and others in the process.

I remember them talking about policing the slow moving traffic over one of the last holiday periods. I think even helicopters were mentioned. Does anyone know if this actually happened?