10mph motorway driver given ban

[xwhatsit]

NZ drivers have no patience at all, chill out.

That's very easy to say when you live in Wanganui, but some of us don't have time to sit around, us Aucklanders need to get back to Running the Country.

[Grahameeboy]

Why should they be in a hurry, they are on holiday. Probably from overseas and paying $200+ a day. NZ drivers have no patience at all, chill out.

But, but aren't Kiwi's those laid back people south of Australia........

[Maha]

But, but aren't Kiwi's those laid back people south of Australia........

South East i think you'll find Gaggyboy....

[sunhuntin]

first time i went down south, i got stuck behind a camper on the first day. cos id only just bought the 250 and was still uncertain on it, i just kicked back, relaxed and did the same thing all tourists do... admired the beauty around me. course, it took me all day to get where i was going, but it wasnt rushed [80k steady] and was quite pleasant.
often, if i get stuck behind a slower vehicle, ill just stay there. generally there ends up being a cop up the road. unless im late for work, whats the rush? better to get there late than not get there at all.


will never forget last years trip... im crusin at about 110 or so... a 4wd thingy goes flying by. i get around the corner, and mr 'look at me cos im big, fast and use heaps of fuel" had been pulled up for a breath test. hehehehe i carried on, laughing my head off.

[Mully]

Why should they be in a hurry, they are on holiday. Probably from overseas and paying $200+ a day. NZ drivers have no patience at all, chill out.

I see your point Huck, but I need to point something out. In many countries, where getting a (cage) licence is difficult, time consuming, expensive and requires skill, people are taught that if you are holding up traffic, pull over and let them go past.

In a few European countries, it is illegal to put a slow vehicle in the fast lane, unless you are overtaking a slower vehicle. At which point you must get back into the slow lane.

The NZ road code barely makes mention of holding people up. It's what happens when you decide that high speed is the only menace on the roads. Then people get frustrated and overtake badly and have accidents, at which point the accident is attributed to high speed.

And, as an Aucklander, I can safely say that Aucklanders, wherever in the country they happen to be, are generally the worst offenders.

[Ixion]

I see your point Huck, but I need to point something out. In many countries, where getting a (cage) licence is difficult, time consuming, expensive and requires skill, people are taught that if you are holding up traffic, pull over and let them go past.

In a few European countries, it is illegal to put a slow vehicle in the fast lane, unless you are overtaking a slower vehicle. At which point you must get back into the slow lane.

Technically, is in NZ too.

Land Transport (Road User) Rule 2004
Part 2 Roads (r 2.1 to r 2.14)
Lanes
2.1Keeping left

(1)A driver, when driving, must at all times drive as near as practicable to the left side of the roadway unless this rule otherwise provides.

(2)If a driver's speed, when driving, is such as to impede the normal and reasonable flow of traffic, that driver must, as soon as is reasonably practicable, move the vehicle as far as practicable to the left side of the roadway when this is necessary to allow following traffic to pass.

(3)A driver may drive in the right lane in the direction of travel when driving on a multi-lane road if—

(a)the driver is turning right, or making a U-turn from the centre of the road, and is giving the prescribed signal of that driver's intention to turn right; or
(b)the driver is passing; or
(c)the left lane is unavailable to the driver; or
(d)the driver is required by any provision of this rule to drive in the right lane; or
(e)a variable lane control downward-facing arrow sign indicates that the driver must drive in the right lane; or
(f)the driver is avoiding an obstruction; or
(g)the traffic in all other lanes is congested; or
(h)the traffic in every lane is congested.

Try getting a cop to enforce that one, though

[Mully]

Technically, is in NZ too.

Try getting a cop to enforce that one, though

Yeah, bingo. And that's half the problem. While the Road Code mentions it in passing (and from memory, only when it talks about towing), there is little to no enforcement of that rule. I have been in convoys behind some asshat several times and seen/gone past HP cars who didn't bat an eyelid.