As usual, insufficient data other than for the highest (ie greatest shock value) speed.Originally Posted by Berries
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As usual, insufficient data other than for the highest (ie greatest shock value) speed.
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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What's all the fuss? He never even cracked the ton. Close but no prize.. Just lucky?
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Low personal B.M.E.P.
Like the fuss around the cops rushing Helen Clark to the airport some years back.
A general lack of knowledge of how straight, flat and generally pretty empty Canterbury roads are.
I tend to stick to the limits on the main roads - and I get passed a lot.
It's only when a cop is visible everyone obeys the limits.
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Haha Auntie Helen wanted to get to the Rugby ,can't remember who was playing ?
She was sat in the back reading the newspaper.....
You'd never go hungry with Nigella Gaz.
If it weren't for flashbacks...I'd have no memory at all..
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Perhaps someone could do the maths on that. For starters x amount of population would already be set to be involved in a bad crash under the old system, marked for it perhaps in some kind of Final Destination movie style sequence.
Raising speed limits will result in higher energy collisions but also will shift crash locations perhaps some that would have been marked for impact under old system might be saved as they will longer be in wrong place at wrong time.
Divided up amongst nearly five million people our current 300 people killed a year is tragic but so small in a statistical exposure that is evident in peoples attitude to road safety. So even another 50 or 100 added it’s still (and yes that would be terrible) it’s statically a small exposure risk.
One way or another at least in another five years we will have some pretty accurate data that will solve the argument properly.
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Aren’t our new speed cameras going to detect phone use like in UK? It’s kinda just like speeding though people believe too much in their own ability and don’t realise how long their attention is diverted. It’s prob more dangerous than drunk driving, at least the pissheads are watching road looking out for a checkpoint to avoid.
It will prob take same amount of time to change culture like drink driving, really it took about a solid 20 years for it to become widespread unacceptable.
Followed a lady yesterday that flagged about traffic lights could see here reaching over reading txt’s, after about a km of easy urban stopping locations she finally pulled over and made a call, I doubt she realised just how much she wasn’t looking at.
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Yep always thought those were like rally driving pace notes for average joe. The original formula involved a morris 1100 and a marble on dashboard.
Go overseas and you just don’t see them we should get rid of them.
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Amateur… mate had 3500 in linehaul truck and it got thrown out in court as cops presented it as hearsay evidence and couldn’t say where the data was stored(integrity of evidence issue).
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I was out for a ride north of Auckland yesterday and it struck me just how many roads will be affected by the rule change. One example is the old SH1 from Puhoi to Warkworth, which for some reason had the limit reduced to 80 the year before the new motorway opened. It carries almost no traffic now and should be perfectly safe at 100. It is of course heavily patrolled by the police!
It will be interesting to see what happens after the limits are reset next year. Will people drive faster again, or perhaps continue at reduced speeds?
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I'm spending my days trying to work out the school zones the new rule says we have to use.
Most of them are sensible, but the rules throw up some pretty interesting scenarios.
The new rule basically says no district has to change any limits (other than the reversions they talked about), then says we have to change the zones around schools.
It's actually interesting trying to apply a rule written in Wellington to our 27 schools. I have some sympathy with whoever drafteed the new rule, which has to suit every school in the country. There's a good deal of interpretation required.
But we can change whatever we want and put up whatever signs we want. There'll be those who insist on their right to do whatever speed they regard as safe. As a community, few of us see the need to slow down. For those folk, we are hoping there's enforcement.
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centennial highway is another south of paekakariki, with transmission gully opening why hasn't that gone back up to 100?
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