Increasing speed at intersection

[mike401]

Anyone else been booked for this? Was coming up to the lights, they turned orange an i gave it some gas, easily made the red light. Nek minnit pulled up got a ticket for increasing speed at a intersection, cop was saying he could of impounded my bike an other general bullshit. Guess my noisey exhaust did'nt do me any favours ha.

[slofox]

I suspect running the orange is akin to running the red in the rule book. Stop next time might be an idea.

[pritch]

Everybody knows that orange means you speed up. Except that the police have been on TV in the past saying that the idea is you should stop if possible and that you can be fined for not stopping.

I guess we've all done it, but if caught we should just shrug the shoulders and pay up. Anyhoo, it's a fine line between running orange and running red which is potentially deadly.

[Ender EnZed]

Haven't heard of that one before.

What does it say on the infringement notice? What's the fine/demerits?

[Akzle]

i wish my car was faster so i could run down assholes like you.

[awayatc]

You for real ?
I dont agree with all the rules...
but this is not one of those...

[awa355]

Rode code states, if the light turns orange you must come to a stop.

" A yellow signal means stop, unless you are so close to the intersection that you can't stop safely. A yellow signal indicates that the lights will soon turn red. "

In the on line road code they refer to a yellow, rather than an orange light.

[mike401]

Haven't heard of that one before.

What does it say on the infringement notice? What's the fine/demerits?

Says increasing speed at intersection, $150 fine and doesn't say any demerits.

[mike401]

i wish my car was faster so i could run down assholes like you.

Cheers cunt

[Erelyes]

Ticket is fair enough based on what you've said.

Impounding your bike blah blah blah, perhaps, but only under the Thor's hammer that is the boy racer legislation, where the cops can do you for 'unnecessary display of acceleration'. If they so much as feel like it.

Loud exhaust will (for some cops) mean an automatic fail of the attitude test no matter what you do. Just suck it up and be sugar and spice

[ICE180]

if there is a SUV up ya date and you stop they wont so It's a catch 22 for bikers
either get across safely or get rammed buy some SUV on there phone..........

It sounds like this new Red Runners campaign the cops are running

[FJRider]

I avoid Traffic Lights ....



Works for me ...

[pritch]

where the cops can do you for 'unnecessary display of acceleration'. If they so much as feel like it.

Yeah funny, when they brought that legislation in the first local to be done for "sustained loss of traction" was a businessman with a 700hp late model Mercedes coupe. OK he had to have turned the traction control off to do his burnout, but he wasn't your average boy racer.

Also recall a case where the police charged a driver with sustained loss of traction, three seconds worth.
The driver said it was only one second.
The judge said split the difference make it two seconds. Two seconds isn't sustained anything. Dismissed.

I guess those particular cops will have learned their lesson. Now they think of a number then double it.

[Maha]

Never been booked for it but I am guilty for doing it on a few occasions...mainly out of frustration that the light phase lets 2-3 cars through and when vehicle at the front takes a while to register that it's a green, that's where my frustration stems from.

[FJRider]

Never been booked for it but I am guilty for doing it on a few occasions...mainly out of frustration that the light phase lets 2-3 cars through and when vehicle at the front takes a while to register that it's a green, that's where my frustration stems from.

So ... You run the orange ... but it's the fault of somebody else.



An interesting theory. The cop might not buy it though ... bring it up if you're stopped.

Let us know how you get on ...