Yet another fatality

[Antallica]

Nice big pic on the front page of the paper.... can't tell what the bike is but it's a nice bright yellow Suzuki sport bike. Possibly a GSX-R from the look of the rear (bike is on it'side).

Eveything from the tank down is fine but the rest... is all over the place. Paj is on it's side.

It was a 4th former (15 year old) driving the Paj. Obviously on his learners... it didn't say anything about an adult in the passenger though (me thinks illegal driving from the kids part). The dudes was 28. Cops haven't figured out the crash details yet... pretty slack.

Now the school principal wants the speed limit along the road to be reduced to 50km/h instead of 70km/h. Like that is going to make a difference IMHO.

[bikerboy]

Someone mentioned the school is way off the road and sort of out of town. Perhaps he didn't know there was a school there.

I know on several rides that many of us see those little towns on main roads where the signs say reduce speed to 70 or even 50 kph and many go right through at 85 kph. There could well be someone pulling out unseen.

Also speeds of bikes in accidents always seems to be exagerated once the facts are known. Sometimes it is suggested but the actual speed is rever released. You can't judge until all the facts are known.


Notice how easily the suv tipped over.

[Coldkiwi]

yellow suzi? sounds like a TLR

must've been some impact for it to roll the SUV... although the kid may well have panicked and wrenched the wheel. What were the parents doing?

 

[What?]

Originally posted by Lou Girardin
BTW Pajero is Spanish slang for wanker. (Truth in advertising!)

Pajero (pronounced par-herrow) strictly translated means "Gripper". Sp. slang = wanker.

Very true advertising. Oughtabe compulsory

[Marmoot]

of course noone mentioned the logic behind 15 years old being Learner is impossible (age restriction is 16 minimum).....let alone Restricted.........

[Kwaka-Kid]

huh? who what where when how why? age limit? in NZ 16? its 15!!

if thats what we are talking about. if not. hah  but good 2 c u tonite Si, Mitch, and that other GS dude, oh and sharpe

[Antallica]

Yeah it's 15.

[Marmoot]

wtf? It was 16 4 years ago. When did they lower it? Why the heck did they lower it?
Where I came from it was 17 the minimum age for driving!!!
Is the government out of their minds? (well.....like if it's something new?)

[MikeL]

Are you sure Marmoot? I think it's always been 15. I remember when I moved here from Australia I was amazed to discover that a 15 yr old could get a licence. In most similar countries the minimum is 17 or 18.

[merv]

I got my car and bike licence at the beginning of 1970 when I was 15 - yeah so I've been riding a long time, and it was 15 long before that. Then before that you probably didn't need a licence in NZ in the good old pioneering days.

[Motu]

One of my daughters got her learners license on her 15th birthday,3 yrs ago,she's had a full license for ages (car - you don't think I'd let my kids ride bikes doya?)

[SPman]

Got my Full licence a week after my 15th bday waaaay back in ....um....63 - mind you I'd been driving tractors on the farm since I was 12!

[MikeL]

Originally posted by SPman
Got my Full licence a week after my 15th bday waaaay back in ....um....63

Didn't think anyone on this forum could beat my record: licence in 67.

But of course I lied about my age...

[Antallica]

By the looks of todays paper the kid is in an Auckland hospital somewhere, & the cops aren't sure whether to charge him or not (for manslaughter I would say).

Honestly, even though I am 17. I would have to say that NZ should have an 17-18 yr minimum to get a license. Kids that age are just to stupid with their vehicles, me included. Glad I am on a bike rather than some big friggin 4WD. Bloody stupid kids/hoons imho.

[Nouseforaname]

It wasnt just the young kids fault. how terrible do you think he feels right at this moment...... it's so easy to sit back and blame the cage drivers but we dont know the full extent as none of us were there to witness it. Ok so the young guy pulled out on a biker, if that guy on the bike wasnt travelling the speed he was he would most probably still be here today.

I think it's time we stopped blaming cage drivers for every time a bike rider fucks up. Sure ive had my run in's with cars, but not all were there fault, sometimes it was my own mistake that got me into that situation in the first place!

All i can say is i feel damn sorry for that young kid, he has to live with that for ever.........and as far as we know it might not have been his fault.

Worst drivers ive encountered on the roads are middle age business men driving holdens, stay very far away from them!