yeah yeah yeah, you know what I mean

It is possible to write a vehicles number plate down and then go to the police station and make a statement in relation to the a drivers activity.

Now having said that people would be at the police station all the time if they reported every piece of stupid driving but if someone is doing full on line locker burnouts in your street of drifting along streets in built up areas in your street, write the plate down and go to the police station. Take 30mins of your time and make a statement. You will of course need to be prepared to give evidence in court.

If the burnout marks are where you said they are, police can go there and photograph them and that all goes into a brief of evidence to have the driver changed.

There are 15000 police in NSW, or there abouts, some of those are detectives, forensic scientists etc, only a portion of them are General duties police or Highway patrol and compared to the number of people in the state thats not many. As a result of this ratio they cant see everything so we do rely on the general public to help out.

The biggest problem here is that people love to whinge about it and complain but very few people want to actually get off their back side and do something about it.

matt

Do have *555? For reporting drivers?

wtf?

Been around here since the 80's. You can report dangerous drivers and in many cases people even follow them (without getting too close that is) to help Mr Plod home in. They can't be everywhere and poor drivers really p*** people off, so this gives people the opportunity to take a part instead of just whinging about it.

something like that in NSW would be good.

Everyone would be following each other around and getting nothing done except trying to get each other bookd for speaking on the phone (while calling 555)

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haha

Nah, but it is good to know that if some plonker is swerving across lanes coz they're way too drunk, or an idiot is swinging around between cars in a one man race against everyone else, then you have a way to report them then and there. You can get their details, exact location, etc., etc. Much more likely to lead to a conviction.

The only person who might be concerned would the person who thinks they might be the plonker or the idiot.