40 demerits is it worth it?

[Big Dog]

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Originally Posted by Wkid1 Rubbish - don't believe that

And why not? They can ticket you for 1km over, if they want to.
Perhaps he was behind in his quota.

To be fair they have to be able to show that the driver posed a hazard with their speed if they are allowing for less than ten percent margin of error.

It is possible to get a ticket for "excessive speed" where ther is no record of the actual speed or where the speed is less than the posted limit if it caused an avoidable and predictable hazard and it was witnessed by two or more police officers.

The only instances I am aware of this being enforced are traffic light racers and trucks that almost tip or lose traction. My old instructor warned us that a previous student had had one for 40 in a fifty because the tractor unit came up on one side (acceletating around a anticambered corner.).

If they want you they will get you ..... somehow.

[Redstar]

Sure than can legally do you for 1klm over a posted limit but most dont expect a ticket for 1klm over a breakpoint you hear often that 109klm hr on open road would be ignored but 110klm will get you toasted.
on that basis my 81 was fined for 80 no percentage applied for speedo error.
I'de have taken 79 and $80 less and 10 demerits less without a winge as I hate wingers like the next man. yes the Traffic police are constrained by instruction but its getting silly. before the last general election Joe Public said we want more police and tougher panalties applied. we were not specific enough. what we got was more traffic police and more regulation of good people while the real crims get soft options. that why Im pissed off.
this is endemic in Aus same problem wrong targeting.
the road toll has not dropped in fact it grows YOY so this policy is flawed did you know that they have imported 100's of cops from the UK while ours go to AUS for money (nurses the same) why dont we invest in our Police? put the traffic back in Black and white cars and pay them the wages they really deserve?.
Where I live the place is crawling with traffic police and road checks I've had more stops in the last year than the last twenty 8
I might as well buy a moped with a restrictor.
I may well lead this winge but you will follow given time

[sAsLEX]

And you have to love them policing the most dangerous straight wide pieces of road in the country oh and passing lanes and steep downhill sections

[Lou Girardin]

Big dog, you're thinking of carless driving. Only speeds over the legal limit will carry a charge of exceeding the speed limit.
I've just spent a week in Cairns/Port Douglas and didn't see ONE cop, I thought Oz was worse than us for Police harassment.
Lou

[James Deuce]

Big dog, you're thinking of carless driving. Only speeds over the legal limit will carry a charge of exceeding the speed limit.
I've just spent a week in Cairns/Port Douglas and didn't see ONE cop, I thought Oz was worse than us for Police harassment.
Lou

NT has no speed limit and a common sense approach to life. I'd move there if it wasn't so stinking HOT!

[Lou Girardin]

That's right, but I was in Queensland. (Sorry, I couldn't resist that)
Lou

[Hitcher]

NT has no speed limit and a common sense approach to life. I'd move there if it wasn't so stinking HOT!

No open road speed limit...

[James Deuce]

That's right, but I was in Queensland. (Sorry, I couldn't resist that)
Lou

No worries - was rambling anyway.

[James Deuce]

No open road speed limit...

Bah - there's no population to speak of so who would notice.

[Hitcher]

Bah - there's no population to speak of so who would notice.

Dobbed in by a croc... Bugger!

[Lou Girardin]

Apparently the wildlife does speed enforcement in NT. Hitting a 'roo at 250 plus tends to slow you down.
Lou

[denill]

I intend to write a letter though because my detector didn't go off and there is a vague chance he was lazy and simply booked me for the offence of the previous driver.

Yeah, you may well be right.
I got the lights put on me on the Rangaitaiki Plains, no other traffic around and was told that I was doing 124KPH But when I told him he can't have zapped me as the detector (in the WRX) never let off a single beep, he told me to "slow down" and walked away?????

BillW

[denill]

Apparently the wildlife does speed enforcement in NT. Hitting a 'roo at 250 plus tends to slow you down.
Lou

Not wrong.......

Riding in Queensland last year and AFTER being told about the Emus and Kangaroos etc. the speed dropped dramatically...........

Scary stuff.

Thank god that Moas are extinct. How would you like to be dodging those mothers????

BillW

[Gixxer 4 ever]

so I recon I was real hard done by this time but is it worth writing to the police and point out the sillyness of it all?

With out reading all the reply as I should be at work I would write the letter but as I work along the road sides from time to time it is a very scary place when people will not slow down. I bitch here from time to time about the tickets as well but the truth is my bitch is really with the lack of other police work that is going with out time spent. Things like live stock being shot theft etc but stick your nose out on the road and bam thank you for your money. But truly if it said 50 and it is in work hours please slow down. Some of the people working the road side ride as well and it is not uncommon for shingle to be in the work area..

[Cleve]

I got off by writing a ticket. Was done for riding in bus lane in downtown Auckland. Wrote to expain that it was my understanding that motobikes could now ride in a bus lane (am I right) but that it was ridiculous in light of traffic issues in Auckland that a motorbike couldn't (but a bicycle could).
Cleve