Police saving our lives again

[Bald Eagle]

I see the Police are going to claim credit and revenue for saving our lives again this coming long weekend. Or blame speed if it doesn't work.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...ekend-speeders

[Swoop]

Hopefully people towing trailers (and holding up a line of traffic) will not be targetted.

It's all about speed you know. (Tui time)

[dogsnbikes]

And it had nothing to do with the shite weather at Queens birthday weekend and there were alot more people staying home.... our traffric volume was less than Half of previous years on the ferry

[bogan]

Last Labour Weekend there were 8 deaths, 28 serious injuries and 104 minor injuries. The most common crash causes were losing control (34 percent), alcohol (25 percent), inattention (20 percent), and travelling too fast for conditions (14 percent).

hmmm, only 14% were travelling too fast for the conditions, yeh, lets target that

[MSTRS:Me]

That 'Losing Control' one is interesting, shall we say. Every single crash I've ever heard of involved losing control. I mean, if you didn't lose control, you wouldn't have crashed in the first place. The other types are just variations of losing control, surely.
Ergo - losing control should be targetted by DECENT FECKING TRAINING!!!

[duckonin]

That 'Losing Control' one is interesting, shall we say. Every single crash I've ever heard of involved losing control. I mean, if you didn't lose control, you wouldn't have crashed in the first place. The other types are just variations of losing control, surely.
Ergo - losing control should be targetted by DECENT FECKING TRAINING!!!

MSTRS, DECENT FECKING TRAINING equates to going even faster because they can with all that new found knowledge causing more kaos just losing control at a faster speed:

[Toaster]

That 'Losing Control' one is interesting, shall we say. Every single crash I've ever heard of involved losing control. I mean, if you didn't lose control, you wouldn't have crashed in the first place. The other types are just variations of losing control, surely.
Ergo - losing control should be targetted by DECENT FECKING TRAINING!!!

Agreed. Better training and tougher testing is required. Crap drivers and riders certainly do not help the problem.

Better roads help too, but we cant afford those with the ridiculous cost of roading in NZ - ripped off by the corporates yet again. A painted line on a road is no safety barrier. Potholes and rubbish repair-jobs like road snakes dont help either.

[Toaster]

I see the Police are going to claim credit and revenue for saving our lives again this coming long weekend. Or blame speed if it doesn't work.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...ekend-speeders

It would be good to see more targetting of speeding trucks that beast other road users and fail to follow any kind of safe following distance.

Others would be:
Following distances = the lack of.

Distracted drivers (phone, ipod, makeup, eating, reading (it happens!).

SLOW drivers failing to pull over when they have the opportunity.

Aggressive bus drivers that think they always have right of way.

Failing to indicate/cutting off other vehicles when changing lanes.

Vehicles sitting in the right lane and travelling under the speed limit.

Come on NZ Police - do all aspects of your job.

p.s. dont forget to park down the road from pubs... it was like shooting ducks. Drunk drivers have NO place on the roads.

USE MUFTI CARS to catch all of the above.... especially not holdens....

Use mufti motorcycles. Hayabusas make good chase bikes.

[Swoop]

... should be targetted by DECENT FECKING TRAINING!!!

Enough of your crazy ideas!! The gubbinment knows better.

Vehicles sitting in the right lane and travelling under the speed limit.

That would be "failure to keep left" and should be at ANY speed.



I had an interesting chat with a German fellow who sat his licence some years ago.
A minimum of 15 lessons from an instructor.
Specific areas of training (motorway, city, open road, parking, etc, etc).
NO family member allowed to train another.
The equivalent of 4 MONTHS pay to obtain the licence (reason to NOT do anything silly and lose it!).

Food for thought Mr Politician.

[MSTRS:Me]

When pollies are involved, it is well to remember...
Be careful what you wish for.

[doc]

Thin end of the wedge I think.

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/8157...abour-weekend/

Oops already a thread on this

[SVboy]

Note to self; Dust off Motard, leave gsxr in shed!

[tri boy]

Yay, more fucking coppers in ya face.
The cowards can't do police work, so become gutless lil tax collectors.
Give them side arms, so that at least a few will shoot themselves.

[pritch]

Yay, more fucking coppers in ya face.
The cowards can't do police work, so become gutless lil tax collectors.
Give them side arms, so that at least a few will shoot themselves.

Did you get out of bed the wrong side this morning or what?

Think I'll stay home this weekend...

[Latte]

I've been preparing for the long weekend, my Rego and Wof have lapsed, my tires are showing threads and I've been practising my 3rd gear , over a crest , round a blind corner, stand up wheelies........

All at 104kph, so I'm safe.