Originally Posted by fraser (Post 4605427)

Hello mate it's 12 same as the UK.

Sorry to hear about that. Hope you're well otherwise :)

Originally Posted by Spikey (Post 4605443)

Thought it was something like that, he thought the camera had got him but didn't think fine would be this excessive! As he said, if he'd braked sharply for the red light he would have ended up being rear ended.

We're ok thanks, spent the morning in hospital with my daughter with suspected fractured elbow (she's fine, just bruised ligaments they think) so the infringement rounded off a not very good day :curse:

Originally Posted by Spikey (Post 4605443)

Thought it was something like that, he thought the camera had got him but didn't think fine would be this excessive! As he said, if he'd braked sharply for the red light he would have ended up being rear ended.

We're ok thanks, spent the morning in hospital with my daughter with suspected fractured elbow (she's fine, just bruised ligaments they think) so the infringement rounded off a not very good day :curse:

Originally Posted by moneypen20 (Post 4605471)

Sorry about your daughter.. If I could point out one thing though - shouldn't you (or whoever) have been braking on the Orange light anyway - there's no reason why you should be "braking sharply for the red". Presumably the fine was higher because it's a fairly dangerous maneuver going through red lights as some other numpty could well be pre-empting their green light and you would have caused a major collision.

Originally Posted by annqldau (Post 4600839)

Yes cruise control is a blessing over here, but still think we could cruise a little higher than the present limits over here, you could almost walk to work faster which is why some of us have been caught and are not ashamed to admit it despite the 'holier than thou' element of some fellow posters.

Originally Posted by 007 (Post 4599609)

Meelie, legally in oz you have something like 200-250 metres to reduce your speed to the limit when it changes.

So if you're traveling along at 90km/h and the speed changes to 70km/h, you had atleast 200 metres within the 70km/h zone, after the sign, to reduce your speed from 90 to 70.

The cops can't ping you in this area.

You don't need to reduce your speed on approach, although people often do.

So in other words, you had atleast 200 metres to reduce your speed. Thats just a matter of taking the foot of the accelerator.

You obviously didn't

You lowered your speed, but not by enough.

If, for some reason, the cop pulled you over in the first 200 metres of the change of speed zone, the ticket is not valid and you have grounds to fight it. The judge would throw this out of court and call the cop a knob for wasting everyones times.

I highly doubt this occured though, as the cops usually have these spots well worked out.

Originally Posted by moneypen20 (Post 4604869)

Did children not get hit by cars years ago:confused:

Originally Posted by joho (Post 4604907)

You know this dosen't even warrant an answer because its a pathetic excuse to justify speeding.

Originally Posted by Fat Bloke (Post 4605394)

WTF are you saying??? If a child gets hit then it is their fault???

(Shakes head in utter disbelief)

Originally Posted by CasG (Post 4605729)

Why are people getting mad about getting a ticket?? If you break the law, and get caught - then tough shit.

You'll be feeling a whole lot worse if you had hit someone.

Originally Posted by meelie (Post 4599052)

Not a copper are you?
And how many drivers do that, including the police cos I have seen them do exactly the same as I did. As for hiding behind bushes and at the bottom of hills where cars have naturally speeded up because of the descent, aren't they supposed to display that they are monitoring speeders? All I can say is that this type of sneaky behaviour is a nice revenue earner for them! Its no wonder the police here get BIG discounts at restaurants and other places, its because they make so much money out of us lot.
Its not fair, I'm going off to sulk!!!!! :frown:

Originally Posted by kateandderek2 (Post 4607544)

they got me on mount cotton road(brisneyland) where the limit drops to 60 from 80 just after a roundabout and after about 25k of it being 80. the cops were hiding too and when i saw them in my mirror i pulled over to let them pass, not thinking for a minute that they were after me. he asked me why i was going so fast (83) and i said i thought it was an 80 limit. he said it ws clearly signed as 60 just after the roundabout. i was going to start arguing that i was maybe looking in my mirror as i'd just exited said roundabout but i let it go. he did however mark me down to the next level by recording my speed as 80 so i only got 3 points and a $150 fine.

derek