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Sure, sure - big vehicles don't crash http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11923779
I posted this on farce book yesterday it was parked in the carpark outside work. If you are in one of these I think you ARE invincible. I was lambasting it for taking up three carparks and generally being a waste of space and so forth. Turns out its owned by a client and tows an equally large and ostentatious boat about with it for fishing purposes. Or porpoises. Something aquatic anyway.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
one at least of these crashes (some fucktard named Moccasin McFuckface) was a fuckwit in a stolen car trying to evade pleece. I am glad he is dead and hope that more of his ilk do likewise - the only caveat being the kill themselves and their like and not decent right thinking taxpayers such as myself. Because fuck those clowns. Steal a car, drive the wrong way down the motorway, try and drive like GTA San An then find out the hard way that real world physics dont work like that. Their deaths are a net benefit for our species and we should celebrate them. I am, in my own special way.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
I'd love to know what his qualifications are for commenting on road safety......as those muttonchops aren't much chop in the safety stakes
The sad part is that if one first obtained their drivers license in a first world country, it's easy to spot the difference to NZ standards. Politics stops the progress. Boys in blue haven't got the numbers to keep poor habits in check. The focus on speed, or at least the perception thereof, doesn't help the overall problem. Enforce the basics is all I'd like to see for starters. Lane discipline, tailgating, indicating, red light running, seat belt use, cell phone use, speed thru roadworks etc.
My home country runs with third party insurance being part of your rego, so rego is quite expensive. Get sprung without rego, you lose the vehicle. Instantly, no messing about with the wet bus ticket. Same for no drivers license, get sprung, you lose the vehicle there and then. Drivers license is seen as a privilege, whereas here it's seen as a right. Still too damn easy to get a license here. Penalty for driving without seems of no consequence.
The tourist driver topic is a separate issue, and the media have done a sterling job at blowing it out of proportion. For every tourist I've seen doing something dodgy, there's a shitload of locals doing even dodgier stuff. The stats don't stack up. But we're not allowed to talk about China and the IDP scheme, which they're not a member of...
Seeing as Highway Cops and the like are so popular, put some actual crashes on them with all the graphic detail instead. Why should the Emergency Services
people have to see the publics 'accidents".
They post up crash pics on billboards in Vietnam.
I still like the idea of a large spike sticking out of the steering wheel pointing at the driver.
Leaving passing until after the sign saying ending in x metres is pretty common.
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
I mentioned vegetables once, but I think I got away with it...........
The cops are in something of a slow tailspin. The anti-speed campaign has effectively criminalised just about everyone in NZ; it's set the average Kiwi against their own police force.
The public and the cops in this country used to have one of the best working relationships in the world. That's gone... it's now very definitely an us-vs-them situation.
End result is lots of cops leaving the job, because who'd want a job where just about everyone hates you?
This isn't a good thing for us bikers. I mean that. There are cage drivers out there who are very real threats to our physical safety and we need the cops to keep a lid on that for us. Yes, we'll get nicked speeding. We'll have to live with it. The alternative (of increasing anarchy) is worse.
As to fixing the situation - until the top cops publicly eat some humble pie and admit that there's more to it than just speed, I can't see things getting better.
Speeding contributes to accidents only from the point of view that at some point your speed will exceed your skill and/or the physics that keep your vehicle where you want it to be. Unfortunately the police aren't able to measure poor judgement with a radar gun, so they focus on what they can actually measure and not have to argue in court to prove their case.
One of my family is a traffic police officer, he doesn't get too bothered with speed unless it's really excessive for the particular road. He does however bother with no seat belts, unrestrained children in cars, people using cellphones, and dodgy courier drivers.
Pinging people for 10k over the limit on straight roads, or at the end of passing lanes, does nothing to improve road safety.
Riding cheap crappy old bikes badly since 1987
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no but judges are, put cameras in our police cars and let them deal with all offences,
pinging someone for speed means they don't have to spend time in court off the road, if they had footage to accompany a ticket then the courts can deal with that and they can stay on the road.
If they were serious about reducing the road toll they would:
1: Upgrade all our major inter-city aeterial routes to dual carriage ways, with a central divider
2: Change our licence testing procedures to include a bigger focus on open-road, Motorway and back-road driving (especially for full license car drivers)
3: Introduce defensive driving/Hazard Awareness type education as mandatory at a Highschool level
4: Scheduled re-testing of licensed drivers
5: Really crack down on Drink Driving, especially habitual drink driving (on your 3rd offence, you should be shot)
6: Work on re-engineering major roads, that still have 20-30 kph hairpins in them - great for back roads and having fun, retarded for main access roads.
Do all of the above - and our road toll would practically vanish over night.
But that would mean several things:
- Spending lots of Money
- Admitting that Speed is not and never really was the major factor
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
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