Tickets for 4km/h over the speed limit this Queens Birthday weekend

**AD345** · 7th June 2010, 08:43

Originally Posted by scumdog

You mean you too would have to step away from your chosen career forever if you crashed or got done for drink-driving?????????

Like Air New Zealand you mean?

**scumdog** · 7th June 2010, 08:45

Originally Posted by AD345

Like Air New Zealand you mean?

Ya trying to say flying crocodile 64 flies for Air New Zealand???

**smoky** · 7th June 2010, 09:20

Imagine if airplanes had speed limits - it'd be fun pulling one of those over to give the driver a ticket

**scumdog** · 7th June 2010, 09:25

Originally Posted by smoky

Imagine if airplanes had speed limits - it'd be fun pulling one of those over to give the driver a ticket

"I have to tell you sir that this area where there are sky repairs going on has a temporary speed limit of 30kph"

**Howie** · 7th June 2010, 11:09

Originally Posted by yachtie10

really?
the notice I recieved last month says " Speeding offences incur 35 demerit points " no graduation mentioned
and it was for 20km/h over the limit

Originally Posted by Sentox

http://www.police.govt.nz/faq/items/15327

Over Here is a full list of the demerit points you can get for quite a few common offences. Study the road code, then you won't get any nasty surprises if you break the rules and get caught.

**Sentox** · 7th June 2010, 11:38

Originally Posted by Howie

Over Here is a full list of the demerit points you can get for quite a few common offences. Study the road code, then you won't get any nasty surprises if you break the rules and get caught.

I would really love it if the police would stop handing out tickets primarily to speeders and concentrate on some of those other offences listed.

**Sentox** · 7th June 2010, 11:39

Double post.

**Scuba_Steve** · 7th June 2010, 11:49

Does anyone else find it somewhat offensive that the police are telling us how to drive, yet they tend to have some of the worst drivers in their own gang?.
Hell you need look no further then the vehicles they drive to see they're not good drivers, As the fairly common saying in car enthusiast groups goes, "Those who drive Holdens, Can't!"

**Jantar** · 7th June 2010, 11:56

Originally Posted by smoky

Imagine if airplanes had speed limits - it'd be fun pulling one of those over to give the driver a ticket

They do. The speed limit is 250 kt below 10000' unless it is safer to maintain a higher speed. See, air law has this nice wee bit of pilot discretion which traffic law doesn't.

**Sentox** · 7th June 2010, 12:05

**scumdog** · 7th June 2010, 12:09

Nothing like getting punted into oncoming traffic eh!

**Sentox** · 7th June 2010, 12:13

Originally Posted by scumdog

Nothing like getting punted into oncoming traffic eh!

Yeah, I know that crash had nothing to do with speed. Well, at least not the officer's speed. More relevant to the Jeep Cherokee perhaps

Unfortunately, google was greatly reluctant to yield up police car crash photos. A mate of mine has this brilliant poster of a frame by frame crash with a cop car spearing off into a ditch. Doesn't seem to exist on the internet though.

**Max Preload** · 7th June 2010, 12:23

Originally Posted by Sentox

A mate of mine has this brilliant poster of a frame by frame crash with a cop car spearing off into a ditch. Doesn't seem to exist on the internet though.

Targa Rally - now known as "cops corner", Manawatu. It was around '06-'07 IIRC. That may help in your search. I've seen the result on a calendar and I've seen the sequence somewhere.

**FJRider** · 7th June 2010, 12:49

Originally Posted by Max Preload

Targa Rally - now known as "cops corner", Manawatu. It was around '06-'07 IIRC. That may help in your search. I've seen the result on a calendar and I've seen the sequence somewhere.

That was the one ... it was a closed road and was checking the road was clear ahead of the rally cars ... with flashing lights etc.

The rally cars had the benefit of a co-driver with pace notes .... the cop relied on memory ....