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Forum: General Chat Topic: News from the Underworld |
| jeremy555 |
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:46
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| Firstly a happy New year to all. Now that I'm back in the land of computers I thought I'd share some of the festive highlights with you. **Driver clocks 194 (120mph) in 100km/h (60mph) zone A MOTORIST has been caught doing 194km/h in a 100km/h zone, prompting Queensland police to issue further calls... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road side drugs test's |
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:22
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Replies: 55
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| I am involved in the drug testing of drivers and workers in Australia using the oral saliva swab tests that search for cannabinoids, opiates, amphetamines, cocaine and benzodiazepines. A system developed in the UK and endorsed by the Home Office. If used absolutely correctly, unlike the VIC police w... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Insane Speeding Examples |
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 12:53
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Replies: 5
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| Try this for speed saturation. Australian Touring Car Championship & The Aussie V8 Supercars, Konica V8's, GT Performance, V8 Brutes (utes), Nations Cup, Formula Ford, Formula 3, Aussie Production cars, Moto GP, Superbikes, Forumla Extreme, Drag racing, WRC & Asia Pacific & local rallys,... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The 'Sin Bin' has arrived! |
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 23:36
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| It was announced today that police in South Australia will start to use a $120,000 speed camera hidden in a household wheelie bin. Described as the next generation of camera it will be used to catch 'criminals' in narrow suburban streets, or other roads difficult to access with standard unmarked sca... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Something serious & some fun |
| jeremy555 |
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:38
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| In our state (SA) there is now a call for all intersections to be equiped with combined red light-scameras. Part of the reason for the drive was the recording of a driver in a high-powered car doing 169kph (105mph) in a 60kph (40 mph) zone down a city feeder road. It was 6.47pm on a Sunday afternoon... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Why do drivers speed? |
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Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 23:30
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Replies: 66
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| In my view drivers exceed the speed limit for the following reasons. (Random order) 1. Ignorance of the posted limit. 2. Aware of limit but feel safe doing so. 3. General traffic flow is greater than posted limit. 4. Deliberate overtaking manuvore. 5. Reckless disregard for the limit. (Boy racers!) ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Medication on the road |
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 09:26
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| Several years ago I investigated a bus crash where the driver veered off the road and hit a take-away bar. It happened at 7:300pm, was on a main road, the bus had passengers on board and there were customers in the shop. frightening stuff. Luckily no-one was badly hurt. The most frightening aspect t... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speed & Karma |
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 01:26
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| Once again the bleedy obvious is reported in our local paper. "Speed Cameras Alientae Drivers". The deputy prime minister and federal transport minister is reported as saying that the misuse of speed camaera and confusing speed zones were making honest motorists feel like criminals. he also staed th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Theives, Robbers and Politicians. |
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 01:19
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Replies: 5
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| The local governments seem to set most of the traffic laws in each state hence the great variances in enforcement strategy. The Northern territory has no speed limits so you CAN travel at 250kph if so inclined. You will however get done for danagerous or reckless driving if you are stupid. However t... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Theives, Robbers and Politicians. |
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 15:46
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Replies: 5
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| Further to the above we got informed today that $19.7 million was to be repaid to 90,000 motorists who had received scamera infringements while using the Western Ring Road in Melbourne, Victoria (next state over from South Australia). Reason given for the faulty cameras was poor installation & m... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Theives, Robbers and Politicians. |
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 11:33
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| Today in the motoring section of our daily South Australian paper was the headline SPEED DEMONS. The article went on to inform us that 1.5 million Britons had been prosecuted for speed-camera offences last year, up by 400,000 from the previous year. The Home Office figures showed that the total numb... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Cave-dwellers |
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Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 13:43
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Replies: 5
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What is it they say?
"Never argue with a fool as they only drag you down to their level and they always bet you through sheer experience" |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Combined Red Light & Speed Camera |
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Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 09:13
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Replies: 1
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| Here in Adelaide, South Australia we now have red light cameras combined with speed cameras. In the four months since December 2003 a whooping $3.7 million worth of fines have been issued to some 24,000 motorists. (There are only about 1 million people in Adelaide.) These fines were from 12 new came... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: View from Downunder |
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:20
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Replies: 1
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| The issue of looking at/for the speed camera when in the area of one becomes even more dangerous with the use of unmarked camera cars. If used ,as they do here in Australia, the car with the camera is a plain vehcile so consequentially drivers are distracted for even longer periods as they try and d... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The Downunder View |
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:01
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Replies: 2
Views: 3759
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| The issue of looking at/for the speed camera when in the area of one becomes even more dangerous with the use of unmarked camera cars. If used ,as they do here in Australia, the car with the camera is a plain vehcile so consequentially drivers are distracted for even longer periods as they try and d... |
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