New Laws

[beyond]

Ok, read in the paper that the Police State is gearing up even more.

Seems funds must be dropping with everyone behaving themselves so to keep the "road taxes" flowing, the following changes are being brought in on January the 1st 2006.

The new blood alcohol limit is being dropped from 160 to 130.
The 50kmh over and lose your licence and have your vehicle impounded on the spot is being dropped to 40kmh over the speed limit

That means if you are blasting past a line of cage drivers and hit 140kmh in a 100kmh area or 110kmh in a 70kmh area it's $600 to $800 in fines, hand your keys over with instant licence loss for 28days, the vehicle gets towed away at your expense, impounded and 28days storage fees on top of that etc etc and of course the long walk home in all your gear.

[froggyfrenchman]

Oh well, i break their laws all the time, so whats a few more..

The consequences for speeding are pretty harsh though.

Time for a radar detector me thinks

[madboy]

Current breath alcohol is 400, blood is 80 I think. Can't remember the units of measure. I heard rumours they were proposing 50, but not sure if it went ahead.

41+ I heard was coming in on Jan 16.

But since I don't believe in being ticketed anyway (for anything) not much difference for me really.

[avgas]

So it looks like my new years resolution will have to change from "Be a good boy for another year..." to something with a piano hinge

[hazard02]

Time for a motorcycle hikoi in protest me thinks...

[inlinefour]

Won't be stopping for them from now on.

[Scouse]

hazard02Time for a motorcycle hikoi in protest me thinks...

Hikoi......Shmikoi

[hazard02]

Hikoi......Shmikoi

A couple thousand bikes parked outside parliament wouldn't go unheard (one hopes). Probably worth saving for a bigger issue though...

[sedge]

Um... If you're regularly doing 40k over and you don't have a radar detector you deserve all you get, similarly, if you don't see the cop and you're going that fast you're a dick, coz if you didn't see them you wouldn't have seen the feck in the ute pulling out by those bushes over there...

Plus, more importantly, they normally hang around guaranteed revenue sources like big straight busy roads and passing lanes, you should know that... And WTF are you doing on these on a bike, bikes are for corners.

Sigh.

I'd complain if I got YET ANOTHER ticket for doing 111, but not for doing 140-150.

Sedge.

[froggyfrenchman]

A couple thousand bikes parked outside parliament wouldn't go unheard (one hopes). Probably worth saving for a bigger issue though...

Would be heard if we ran our engines...

[beyond]

These days you are stuffed even with a detector.

They leave them off and use instant on a lot.
Hitting more than 140kmh on a nice long sweeper is real easy and if they come around another corner further away using instant on, you're stuffed even with a detector anyway.

Need a darn good detector and active radar jamming gear now.

[Highlander]

That means if you are blasting past a line of cage drivers and hit 140kmh in a 100kmh area or 110kmh in a 70kmh area it's $600 to $800 in fines, hand your keys over with instant licence loss for 28days, the vehicle gets towed away at your expense, impounded and 28days storage fees on top of that etc etc and of course the long walk home in all your gear.

How often do you see people doing 70 ish in a 30 Km temp zone - still 40 over.

[Swoop]

These days you are stuffed even with a detector.

They leave them off and use instant on a lot.
Hitting more than 140kmh on a nice long sweeper is real easy and if they come around another corner further away using instant on, you're stuffed even with a detector anyway.

Need a darn good detector and active radar jamming gear now.

The detector is to give you extra time to wind up to warp-speed 3 for runners...

[spudchucka]

Ok, read in the paper that the Police State is gearing up even more.

Seems funds must be dropping with everyone behaving themselves so to keep the "road taxes" flowing, the following changes are being brought in on January the 1st 2006.

The new blood alcohol limit is being dropped from 160 to 130.
The 50kmh over and lose your licence and have your vehicle impounded on the spot is being dropped to 40kmh over the speed limit

That means if you are blasting past a line of cage drivers and hit 140kmh in a 100kmh area or 110kmh in a 70kmh area it's $600 to $800 in fines, hand your keys over with instant licence loss for 28days, the vehicle gets towed away at your expense, impounded and 28days storage fees on top of that etc etc and of course the long walk home in all your gear.

Partly right.

The alcohol limit remains the same (400 breath or 80 blood) but the threshold for instant licence removal is lowered from 800 to 600 (breath).

At the moment 51 kph above the posted speed limit will cost you your licence for 28 days and earn you a court appearance. There isn't any instant fine because the matter is going to court. As of 1 January the licence snatch threshold comes down to +41 kph. I don't know at this stage if there will still be an instant fine for up to +50 kph or if +41 kph will now equal a court appearance. I guess we'll find out soon enough.

There is no vehicle impoundment for basic speeding offences. The law says police MUST impound the vehicle when the driver is disqualified, forbidden to drive or suspended. The boy racer ammendments to the LTA give the police the option of impounding vehicles for boy racer offences. As far as I'm aware this doesn't change except for new powers to impound vehicles of recidivist drink drivers.

But of course you can avoid all this by simply not speeding or at least not being stupid enough to do it somewhere that you will get caught.

[WINJA]

won't be stopping for them from now on.

see this , even normal people are starting to do it my way