5km/hr speed tolerance

[Oakie]

Cheers, thanks for the heads up.
But how many people slow down to 20 km/h when they see a schoolbus on the side of the road? If someone is doing 60 they walk.

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Good point ... but it's probably walkies if yer doing 70km/h not 60 km/h because I think the law was '40 km/h over a posted limit and 50km/h over a temporary limit' and I guess a bus could only be classed as a temporary limit ... if it's even classed as a limit.
I do slow down but only as far as my personal safety will allow (like if there's a 20 tonne truck doing 50 km/h right behind me I'm not going to slow down to 20km/h)

Is it suspension of licence for 28 days or loss of vehicle for 28 days?

[roogazza]

Don't mind increasing awareness around schools !

But whats next ? ... minus 5 road death target and shooting motorists on sight ! that should lower the toll ? G.

[MSTRS:Me]

On the face of it it seems a nice politically correct tightening up. Who could complain, protecting kids and all that. Until we realise that this will also apply to someone tootling past at 2 am in the morning, with not a kiddy in sight. And vicinity is so vague that a motorist might be pinged for 5kph over "in the vicinity" of a school several streets and a kilometre away. In fact there are very few places in cities that are more than a couple of kilometres from a school or some sort or other. So is this really an underhand way of effectively reducing the 10kph tolerance universally?

Ixion is absolutely right. Same with the 'new' excessive noise exhaust law - another subjective rule that's open to 'abuse'.
In saying tho, I agree that all care should be taken around schools during the appropriate times and would be better if a temporary limit of 20/30k within those times was the law.
Another case of poor decision making from the top??

[Slingshot]

So we can't yell at em, can't smack em, now we're not even allowed to run the little shits over?

The rule says nothing about not running 'em over, just run 'em over within the 5kmph speed tolerance.

[Marmoot]

Didn't it say on that restraining order they gave you? :eyepoke:

bloody smart-arse.......

[Grahameeboy]

The rule says nothing about not running 'em over, just run 'em over within the 5kmph speed tolerance.

He he...........

[R1madness]

Personaly i think its a fantastic law. Good on them for trying to do something positive. I have 3 kids and the traffic is hell around the schools. I have seen one kid killed when he stepped out in front of a car after getting off a bus. The car was doing 50k when it should have been doing 20k. Yea the kid should have looked but he was only 8 years old. I feel sorry for the driver, he had kids at the school as well. Poor bastard now he has to live with the guilt forever.
I like the school zones here in CHCH that have a 40k speed limit during the hours the schools have kids comming and leaving. Awsome.

[riffer]

As a father of four, three of whom go to school, I back this initiative.

I have seen many cars exceeding 60, and at times exceeding 70 on the main streets of our local school, even while school patrols are operating.

Whilst I don't necessarily agree with most anti-speed policies, this is a good one. But they need to define how close to a school this "lack of tolerance" should operate.

The 50km/hr restriction in built-up areas is a good one.

20km/hr or 30km/hr in streets immediately adjoining schools would be a better one.

[sAsLEX]

Is it suspension of licence for 28 days or loss of vehicle for 28 days?

Fairly certain both! Fun aye

[spudchucka]

0-10km over = $30
Speed camera = no demerits
WTF do they hope to achieve

Protect the lives of our / your children?

[spudchucka]

What is the radius of "around school"?
1km? 500m? 200m?
It would be really helpful to know.

Thanks BC

Btw, the normal 10km/h tolerance still applies everywhere else, right?

Most schools have signs on the roadside some distance before you reach the school, I'd be paying attention to those signs.

[spudchucka]

That's a good point about speedo error, say your speedo is reading a tad slow, the cops Stalker has a 3 km/h margin of error and bingo! $20 thanks.

Just slow down to 45 near schools, problem solved and everbody's happy.

[Beemer]

I'm not a fan of ankle biters so tend to avoid schools in the first place, but one thing I would like clarification on is the slowing down around school buses rule.

When driving to Palmerston North there is often a school bus in front of me, stopping to pick up kids on the side of the road in 100kph zones. No one has ever been able to tell me if this "slow to 20kph" rule only applies in 50kph zones or in every speed zone. If it does, then I'm surprised there haven't been numerous accidents when a driver sees a school bus in a situation like this and jams on their brakes to slow to 20kph while the driver of the fully-laden truck and trailer unit behind them jack-knifes and wipes out an oncoming car.

I am always aware of the possibility of children running out from behind a school bus no matter where it is, but am I risking losing my licence for travelling at 80kph over the limit in this instance?

[DMNTD:Me]

Just slow down to 45 near schools, problem solved and everbody's happy.

Agreed but as mentioned earlier you'd be doing "well" to get up to that speed anyway. 20kms sounds better immediately around schools
As long as there's a time period on this,ie 7:30am to say 5:00pm I support it 100%. Infact the best "improvement" I've heard of.

[sAsLEX]

Just slow down to 45 near schools, problem solved and everbody's happy.

I tried to go past one of those speed indicating trailers the other day doing 40ish in my truck and it said " slow down" rather than telling me how far out my speedo was, how fuckin helpful!