meelie

You don't get many cameras around here, just ar######s with radar guns hiding in bushes and behind poles and walls.

joho

Hmmmmm so let me see a car driver has so many things to look at for.......Ok so its so difficult lets add speeding to the pot to liven it up.

I agree that road safety is big must and lack of pavements here make it even more crucial. But if a child runs out infront of you and you're not speeding, its the child's fault and even though you will feel bad you will know you did what you could to avoid it. If you were speeding it will automatically become your fault, you will feel bad, guilty and have to live with that for the rest of your life especially if you kill them.

I am not a saint and my speedo has been known to go above the speed limit, but if that happened and I got caught I would be angry at myself not the policeman. Do the crime, pay the price.

This thread has just about exhausted itself now.

cresta57

I received 9 points in a 10 day period about three yrs ago. I was furious about them at the time, I believe I vented about them on here quite vocally
Since then I've learned to stick to the speed limit, I'm never really in a rush to get anywhere now, especially work.
Qld Police target speeding heavily, they do it because by far the highest number of fatalities on Qld roads involve speed related accidents. It therefore makes perfect sense to target the worst offenders.
Sure if your caught you can have a good rant about it, I did, then you can either continue to rack up sufficient points for a ban by repeatedly breaking the law or you can get up 10 mins earlier and drive a little bit slower.
The police are only doing a job, they are targeting the law breakers on the roads that statistically cause the most fatalities. We'd pan them if they didn't and we pan them when they do it's a no win situation for them in much the sam way speeding is a no win situation for motorists

Bert'n'Stella

Hiya,

Not that I can say from personally speaking but I read here many months ago that in Qld at least if you right to them and say you're sorry etc etc if it is your first ticket quite often they cancel it and the demirit points. Maybe an urban myth!

S

wmoore

I was pretty sure I was caught at the time (a couple of weeks ago) so half expected it. Yes I was a bit pissed off at getting a fine but not at anybody but me. Why would I be?

wmoore

They print the locations in the paper here

iPom

How on earth do you get fined for speeding on a pushbike when a pushbike doesn't have a speedo on it?

mashy

You always get a ***** behind a bush

fraser

wmoore

What he said

annqldau

The point is even if people are not speeding the child still runs out on the road... nobody seems to focus on getting the children to do the safe thing and get them to cross at crossings or teaching them how to cross the road when they aren't at a crossing and lastly where are the parents when they are running out on the road???

joho

No this is not the point, the point is speeding, this is how the thread started and now people are trying to move the blame onto people/children crossing the road. I was replying to someone elses comment about how much the driver has to be aware of and also if you read her thread she says she thinks most people are good at teaching road safety to kids.

I always taught my kids road safety from a very young age and was constantly reinforcing this, but one day my son who was about 8 at the time was very keen to go to a freinds house and asked me if he could and I said yes becareful crossing the road (it was a very quiet road to nowhere road) he ran down our drive and straight into the road without stopping. A car was coming down and from where I was stood I thought oh my god he only just made that and went storming out only to find that he had spotted the car at the last second, stopped and tryed to run back only to get hit by it, if he had kept going he would have been ok. I knew it wasnt the drivers fault and she was in a state and he was also very lucky cause she was only going less than 30, if she had been faster I dont even want to think what could have happened.

Kids will be kids and even with training will still slip up sometimes without thinking. Young kids I agree, where are the parents, but then even they can be escape artists and gone in a second, or wriggled free and shot out before the parent can do anything. Oh and sometimes kids have been hit on a crossing by a speeding driver or most common driver loses control and ploughs into them on a pavement.

Jo

meelie

Aww thanks for the tip but I've never heard that and have dutifully paid the fine albeit begrudgingly.:curse:

annqldau

Threads go all over and don't just stick to the first post... I was talking about the point to do with children... not trying to shift the blame at all, if you speed you do so at your own risk and risk of consequences nobody forced you to do it. But as you say your son ran out despite lots of advice not to, a lot of children now aren't even taught those basics so running out is there norm all I'm saying is as well as hammering the drivers all the time why don't they put as much effort into teaching the kids road safety alongside that. If governments really wanted to cut speeding they could bring in mandatory restriction of car speeds by use of manual or electronic means the same as used to happen to UK trucks (notice trucks here can do same speed as cars) and also make cruise control mandatory on all cars to help keep at regulated speed.... like children motorists have momentary lapses in concentration as well.

joho

Yep sometimes they do here in NSW but only if you have a clean record I believe. So you have no chance.