Safe Speed Forums

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.
Other examples of idiots were a motorcycle doing 114pkh in a 40 zone and a car going through a red light at 157kph in a 60 zone.
Such idiocy just plays into the hands of the coppers and politicians.

In New Zealand the police have announced that they intent to dish out between 350,000 and 400,000 tickets compared with the 275 to 325,000 of this year. the government budget announced that trafic fines collected this year would have added $105.2 million to government coffers. However only a quarter of that money is going to funding road policing.

On a much lighter note four medical students in the town of Dunedin (NZ's South Island) owned a dark coloured station wagon that was the same as the local scamera car. They fronted up to where the scamera car was parked and while several of the students engaged the operator in conversation another member of the group removed the front number plate of the coppers car.
The number plate was then attached to the students car and it was photographed 17 times going through the scamera in excess of the speed limit.
University students always did have a sense of natural justice.

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Jeremy,

typical case of the 'minority wrecking it for the majority' with people doing these deadly speeds. Shame that most of the drivers doing say 5MPH over the limit will all be tarred and feathered as criminals endangering the lives of everyone and their cat, this is what is happening here and by the looks of it, there as well.

Politicians absolutely love the speed debate as it is so easy to 'mould' speed into the demon of the century, like, it is killing everyone and all drivers are reckless fools, therefore the little box on the side of the road is relentlessly clocking up more cash to waste for the scounderels and it is all in a good cause...oh I can see the halo above the local MP's head already !!

Andrew