Road toll - Police stupid obsession blaming speed

[Navy Boy]

WHilst I agree with MD and George Formby, driving standards in this country are pretty poor overall and what makes matters worse are the apparently low expectations of the authorities. Unless we address the root cause, it's rather a lost cause. Of course, raising standards with some vigour will be seen as draconian, so no politician is going to grasp that nettle. That leaves ambulance at the bottom of the cliff solutions such as speed restrictions, increased insurance premiums etc which all have limited impact.

Depressing, innit?

I'm with you BB. In addition is the apparent haste with which the media jump to the wrong conclusion when it comes to the causes (And there'll be many for each case I'm sure) in the vain hope of selling papers/gathering viewers etc.

My personal bugbear is the rampant use of social media devices by drivers whilst they are on the move. I use the word rampant quite deliberately as here in AKL it is nothing short of rife. The whole gamut of activity is catered for from old fashioned talking to texting and everything inbetween. A purge on this would be relatively easy to do as well, that's the depressing bit for me...

In the meantime I guess one simply has to ensure that one's own driving/riding is at as good a standard as it can practically be.

Stay safe out there people.

[Akzle]

You're a deeply flawed and cynical individual. Possibly why I enjoy you so much. That and the mad buttsecks.

awwwwwww. thanks mum.

[neels]

I'm keen for self driving car. Will be able to watch pr0nz and have a wank on the way into work.... I mean I do that most days anyway, it'll just be easier then

There's a win-win, as long as you get a commission on any income from the in-car voyeur webcam.

[Drew]

Only those with a history for being at fault should fund all those things otherwise what incentive is there to improve?

Fuck off you stupid cunt.

Most drivers and riders in this country are fucking useless at it.

In all mathematical probability you and I are in all.

I don't mind if it costs me a lot to prove I can drive and am safe to do it amongst others.

[Ocean1]

If you think that's high - and it's certainly much higher than NZ - have a look at their vehicle standards regs.

Sorry sir, your tyre is the wrong size/brake lines aren't OE/lightbulb is wrong/mufflers aren't OE.....off the road immediately and pay danegeld NOW...

Yep, we've already traveled way too far in the direction of too many fucking bureaucratic wankers telling everyone else what they can't to. Fuckem. Really. Stop encouraging them by incessantly complaining about shit, just kneecap the pricks, they've got far too much to say for themselves.

Re the road toll thingy, we are, in fact doing unbelievably, spectacularly well. When you consider the millions of kiwis that come within a couple of meters of millions of other kiwis traveling at a closing velocity of a couple of hundred kph every single fucking day and COMPLETELY FAIL TO HIT THEM how can you claim the extraordinarily rare exception is some sort of catastrophe?

For fuxache give it a rest, how close to perfect do they expect to get with this shit? Seriously? The point where common sense, costs, benefits and the laws of diminishing returns collide is way, way over our left shoulder, until the fuckwits grow some sort of a sense of proportion they can fuck off with all the faux horror and righteously indignant bullshit.

[AllanB]

One odd thing among the cries for lower speed limits, I read recently statistically the high end performance cars are selling very well in NZ. I see a lot more on our roads as well.

So if lower speeds are 'good' fit speed governors to every vehicle. Lets see how that works.................

[Murray]

The only thing we can individually do about it is buy maybe a 4WD over a bike/car to give us a chance of coming off better if a muppet screws up. Many on here would say that "at fault" car drivers should be made to attend the equivalent of riding school maybe.

You really are a dick = so maybe everyone should be driving trucks as it seems most accidents involving trucks the truck driver seems to be better off

I think with your logic only Tanks should be allowed on the road

[JimO]

i did a 400k round trip in a fast car last weekend, on the pretty good main roads most traffic was sitting between 85 to 95 ks.......get past one arsehat holding up traffic and you soon come across another one, perhaps the police could do something about the slow drivers, not slow at passing lanes though, i tailed one geezer who was doing a religious 90 until we hit the passing lane he sped up to 120 till we got to the end then back to 90, cunts like that we could do without

[Murray]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11932482

80% of accidents caused by vehicles under the speed limit

[caspernz]

nothing to do with safety

Seat belts and cell phone use are safety items. Seat belts are passive safety. Using a cell phone makes the average drivers' skill/ability/attention to driving diminish significantly.

[awayatc]

Maybe it will take ..blah blah..understand my logic. .

Logic...logic....?

Woman you are a ranting raving lunatic....

You wouldn't know the meaning of the word "logic"

A malnourished flea of the arse of a dehydrated old camel has more logic then you....

[caspernz]

I'm keen for self driving car. Will be able to watch pr0nz and have a wank on the way into work.... I mean I do that most days anyway, it'll just be easier then

Thank you for sharing

In the meantime I guess one simply has to ensure that one's own driving/riding is at as good a standard as it can practically be.

The old maxim is "time to react" and it's one I subscribe to, whilst we wait for officialdom to steer us in the right direction

Only those with a history for being at fault should fund all those things otherwise what incentive is there to improve?

Or you could just make the standard required to get the license a bit higher, that seems to work in quite a few countries.

80% of accidents caused by vehicles under the speed limit

Now there's a surprise, not!

[granstar]

One odd thing among the cries for lower speed limits, I read recently statistically the high end performance cars are selling very well in NZ. I see a lot more on our roads as well.

So if lower speeds are 'good' fit speed governors to every vehicle. Lets see how that works.................

Information is a bit vague too..



Cassina [QUOTE With passing lanes what I do when I get near the end is check my rear view mirror if they are not close I just speed up to ensure they dont try and overtake me at the last minute. This approach has always worked for me. ][/QUOTE] Fuxkin dangerous practice and what right have you be a traffic enforcer? You'll get it wrong one day.

[Scuba_Steve]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11932482

80% of accidents caused by vehicles under the speed limit

Extremely targeted view of the "speeders" that do have accidents above the speed limit tho

"Of the 20 per cent of accidents that occur above the speed limit, almost all are caused by either yobbos, impaired drivers or outlaw motorcyclists."

[Akzle]

Seat belts and cell phone use are safety items. Seat belts are passive safety. Using a cell phone makes the average drivers' skill/ability/attention to driving diminish significantly.

noooooooope.

well, obviously shit drivers aren't improved by... anything.

but cellphones are no more inherently dangerous than any other distracto bullshit.
get with the times old fulla. the next generation live on the fucken things.