Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
Apr 5th 2007 | 12:16 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
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:
Apr 5th 2007 | 12:19 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
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:
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:
We got a speeding one yesterday our second, not a very pleasant thing to come home to
Apr 5th 2007 | 12:25 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
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:
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:
Apr 5th 2007 | 12:28 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
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.
Apr 5th 2007 | 12:31 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
derek got one from droping me off from a tubberware party on mount cotton road on brisbane. so there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
he said he was driving along a road that was 80 and siddenly changed to a 60 and the coppers were there to catch people so i believe him not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so derek now has 3 points on his licence . ( the first 3 points ever)
kate (derek is asleep)
he said he was driving along a road that was 80 and siddenly changed to a 60 and the coppers were there to catch people so i believe him not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so derek now has 3 points on his licence . ( the first 3 points ever)kate (derek is asleep)
Apr 5th 2007 | 12:35 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
dont know how i have posted twice. but anyway derek still has 3 points on his licence.
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Apr 5th 2007 | 12:45 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
I can see why you're cross, but as others have said the speed limit is the limit from where the sign is displayed - it doesn't mean 'start slowing down once you've gone past this sign and reach the speed limit when you're ready'.
I'm afraid if you break the law you accept the consequences. Of course you can whinge as much as you like about it, no law against that! Just don't get uppity, because you did break the rules and there is no-one else to blame.
I'm afraid if you break the law you accept the consequences. Of course you can whinge as much as you like about it, no law against that! Just don't get uppity, because you did break the rules and there is no-one else to blame.
Apr 5th 2007 | 1:03 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
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.
Apr 5th 2007 | 1:58 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
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.
You'll be feeling a whole lot worse if you had hit someone.
Apr 5th 2007 | 3:51 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
If you speed expect a fine QUITE RIGHT my nephew was killed by speeding driver so i have NO sympathy at all,all you wingers imagine a loved one obliterated and then read all the poxy excuses (doesnt sit somehow!)
Apr 5th 2007 | 7:39 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
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.
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.
Apr 5th 2007 | 10:55 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
I didn't say I was justifying speeding just saying that more time used to be spent on getting kids to realise the dangers that cars present if you do cross the road at the wrong time, rather than constantly putting all the onus on the car drivers to stop as if all the kids are innocent parties. As someone who has been in a car when someone walked out in front of it (and no we weren't speeding the exact opposite the person didn't look and just walked out) it's a lot easier for the person to stop on the path in the first place than it is for a car to stop because somebody chose the wrong time to step out, after all the car is supposed to be on the road travelling along it, that's why the roads were built if I'm not mistaken.
Apr 5th 2007 | 11:25 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
It's a constant battle to keep down to that speed on a road that's about 5km long with no turn offs and not built up. All the roads around it are 80
Apr 5th 2007 | 11:41 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
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!!!!!
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!!!!!
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
Apr 5th 2007 | 11:43 am
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Re: Got my first speeding ticket!!! (moaning thread)
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
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