Police getting tougher on speed tolerance

[oneofsix]

Well I cannot recall any cop spokesman saying cops WILL be ticketing people for 1kph over - can somebody show me the such a quote??

MY take on it was that if you're 1kph over the limit you can expect to be stopped no mention of 'and will be issued a ticket for 1kph over the limit'.

are you suggesting that when stopped for exceeding the limit one shouldn't expect a ticket?

[awayatc]

...................?

maybe I should ride around the rivier of the south a bit more often.....?

cant even remember having been stopped by a cop in last 20 years who wasnt feverishly scribbling before even getting out of his vehicle......

police equals infringement notice.....
no exceptions........

[scumdog]

are you suggesting that when stopped for exceeding the limit one shouldn't expect a ticket?

Well certainly not for this famous '1kph over the limit'

But if your tyres are bald or your WOF is out by a year or you've been disqualified last week or if you're three parts schikkered..hmm, different story.

[speedpro]

Just got back from a drive to Wgtn and back in the car. Got cruise control and used it everywhere. A bonus is that it has this cool "radar" feature where it slows down behind slower cars and pick up when they do or if I pulled out. I so stopped checking the speedo all the time as the car took care of the whole speed thing up to the speed I chose. Soooo much more relaxing. I even found myself just lazing along behind cars doing only 85K or so as I was paying no attention to the speed at all and never noticed. Of interest is that 2 GPS enabled devices agreed that my speedo reads 4K high so I was setting the open road cruise speed to 104K. Even at 50K the speedo read 53K. It had to be safer without the need to be checking the speedo all the time as I never took my eyes off the road.

[awayatc]

Kiwi biker

B I k e s.........

Not c a r s........

no fucking doze control on bikes....

but am very proud of you snoozing under the limit behind the wheel...
please collect your smily face sticker after class.....

[Kickaha]

Police give massssssssssive tolerance to drivers who fail to keep left, police give huuuuge tolerances to drivers who fail to indicate and police give tolerances to people who cause crashes and somehow get away without a careless use of a motor vehicle charge.

How do you know that?

For all anyone here knows that's exactly what the people you see pulled up on the side of the road are getting ticketed for

[haydes55]

How do you know that?



For all anyone here knows that's exactly what the people you see pulled up on the side of the road are getting ticketed for

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[Scuba_Steve]

How do you know that?

For all anyone here knows that's exactly what the people you see pulled up on the side of the road are getting ticketed for

Well you could always send in a OIA request & after 20 working days (give or take) you should have your info (if you want more upto date data), otherwise between July 2011 & July 2012 the 2 top ticket items were "exceeded 50km/h restricted area speed camera" & "exceeded 100km/h" with 492,856 & 112,581 extortion notices respectively (out of a total 1.6mil)

Oh & to add: Failure to keep left was #75 on the list, Failure to indicate was #430 on the list with 1,362 & 15 tickets respectively

[_Shrek_]

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...But only if I can bring my own...tools!

-repeat drink drivers will become nothing but a messy memory!

we could do shift work with that baby

[oneofsix]

Well certainly not for this famous '1kph over the limit'

But if your tyres are bald or your WOF is out by a year or you've been disqualified last week or if you're three parts schikkered..hmm, different story.

keep winding but we both know it aint so. FFS I see in the media your bosses are now talking about having to do something else, the only difference is they are inflicted by the NZ popo sickness - an able to admit being wrong, it takes more strength and bravery than they have to admit they screwed up.

[pete376403]

I'm a bit late on the overtaking speed part of this thread (ie passing vehicle has +1 or 2km/hr on the overtaken) but, does anyone else recall a traffic safety ad a number of years back featuring Peter Brock advising passing cars to use a bit of extra speed to get past and get back to the correct side of the road? Seemed a bit too sensible, even way back then. Now of course it would be absolute heresy to suggest you CAN exceed the limit for a few seconds without immediately dying.

[98tls]

I'm a bit late on the overtaking speed part of this thread (ie passing vehicle has +1 or 2km/hr on the overtaken) but, does anyone else recall a traffic safety ad a number of years back featuring Peter Brock advising passing cars to use a bit of extra speed to get past and get back to the correct side of the road? Seemed a bit too sensible, even way back then. Now of course it would be absolute heresy to suggest you CAN exceed the limit for a few seconds without immediately dying.

Sadly the last time i took any notice of Brock was the time i saw him trying to flog off a box of wires amounting to fuck all,Johnson summed him up best "he believed his own bullshit".That aside point taken Pete.

[98tls]

It would be interesting to get data on how many deaths occur from not exceeding 100km/hr during an overtake as opposed to those who do not worry about the limit and spend the absolute minimum on the other side of the road. Many who could provide such data would be dead themselves maybe.

Get where your going with this but you have made no allowance for the dumb factor,as i posted earlier it would be impossible for anything remotely human to travel from Christchurch to say Oamaru at 100ks,they would simply stop at Ashburton wait for a truck and throw themselves under it to end the misery then theres other kind who want to travel the same journey but in 1/2 the time,coppers love em but somewhere in between theres a sweet spot,no data needed tis just commomsense.

[haydes55]

Get where your going with this but you have made no allowance for the dumb factor,as i posted earlier it would be impossible for anything remotely human to travel from Christchurch to say Oamaru at 100ks,they would simply stop at Ashburton wait for a truck and throw themselves under it to end the misery then theres other kind who want to travel the same journey but in 1/2 the time,coppers love em but somewhere in between theres a sweet spot,no data needed tis just commomsense.

Back to the minister of common sense suggestion..... Should give Winnie Petes an email. Twas his slogan for the election.

[Berries]

It would be interesting to get data on how many deaths occur from not exceeding 100km/hr during an overtake

Sod all.

What percentage are overtakes gone wrong

Sod all.

as opposed to tourist drivers on the wrong side of the road would be another bit of data worth knowing.

Sod all.

Falling asleep and crossing the centre line kills. Losing control and crossing the centre line kills. Being on the wrong side of the road and having a head on due to an overtaking miscalculation or being Johnny Foreigner are rare enough that they should not even be a concern, regardless of what the media portray.