13 yr driver!

[Roverlord off road spares]

The woman's excuse was the kid nagged her, I say bad parenting too scared to enforce the no" word like many new age parents that don't seem to be able to do these days
Child driver in Mooroopna Saturday, 29 December 2018 04:47
A 13-year-old will have to cough up some of his pocket money after being caught driving in Mooroopna last night.
Police intercepted the car on Echuca Road about 7.15pm for a random breath test and were shocked to find the boy behind the wheel with a female adult passenger accompanying him.
When police asked the woman why the young lad was allowed to drive the car she simply stated “He wanted to drive and I didn’t want to listen to the nagging”.

The boy was issued with a ticked for unlicensed driving.
This intercept was part of the state-wide Operation Roadwise, which sees police out in force to target drink and drug driving, speed, distraction, fatigue and failure to wear restraints.
Operation Roadwise will run from 14 December to 6 January, and will focus on enforcement and improving driver behaviour.
Police will be out in force to target the five leading causes of death and serious injury on our roads – speed, impairment, distraction, not wearing seatbelts and fatigue.
Senior Constable Alistair Parsons
Media Officer
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[4bee]

That'll learn him for the future.[bigrolf] You can bet your socks he will blame Mum forever for allowing him to drive

How many demerit points for that offence over there? Even before he tries for a licence. Idjits!

[Gordie]

Surprised that they could issue him an instant fine, unless they meant he is getting summons to the youth court, as would be the case in SA, or was up until a few years ago at least, in SA no one under 16 can get an infringement notice, must be diverted to youth court.

[1950landy]

I hope they fined the mother as well.
Not sure what is going on it double posted this & won't delete.

[weeds]

Er, I might have driven on roads way before I had a licence [emoji1980][emoji1980]

sometimes with dad,

sometimes without dad, I’m so glad he didn’t find about the times a drove without him

Although I was probably closer to 15 than 13

[loanrangie]

The kid shouldn't be fine, the mother is meant to be responsible for him.

[trog]

Er, I might have driven on roads way before I had a licence [emoji1980][emoji1980]

sometimes with dad,

sometimes without dad, I’m so glad he didn’t find about the times a drove without him

Although I was probably closer to 15 than 13

Your not the only one. Bet a fair few on the forum have done the same. Just easier to get caught these days

[weeds]

Your not the only one. Bet a fair few on the forum have done the same. Just easier to get caught these days

Yes just thinking....I have a 14yo and wouldn’t chance it in Brisbane...

[bee utey]

This sounds about right, 13 is a good age to start driving, that's when my older brother first let me drive his car. Just not on a major road.

[trout1105]

Most kids in their early teen drive on farms and stations But driving on a public road is another matter entirely.
Both the Mother and the kid should have to face a magistrate for this.

[Tote]

Drove home every afternoon from the bus stop when I was that age. As a parent now can sympathise with the nagging that I gave my parents to let me drive. Sounds like a similar situation, rural road with little traffic and unlucky enough to have a copper drive by.
Reminds me of the time I was riding my DT175 with my safety Akubra down the road to the river and a Highway patrol car drove by. Luckily for me they were satisfied enough with the look of sheer terror on my face and just waved and drove on. We were about 10km down a back road from the highway and that was the only time I ever saw a police car on that road.

Regards,
Tote

[JDNSW]

Many years ago, a cousin of mine fronted up to the Yanco police station to apply for a driving licence on her 17th birthday (before P-plates). The sergeant was astounded - "I thought you already had a licence - I've seen you driving round for the last five years!" He wrote out a licence on the spot without even pretending to test her.

[p38arover]

I used to drive my grandfather's Ford 300 Custom in Calamvale (Brissie) to get fuelled up when I was 13. I bought my first car when I was 12 and used to drive it to my mate's place up along Beaudesert Rd in Calamvale.

[p38arover]

I used to drive my grandfather's Ford 300 Custom in Calamvale (Brissie) to get fuelled up when I was 13. I bought my first car when I was 12 and used to drive it to my mate's place up along Beaudesert Rd in Calamvale.

My cousin and I drove my unregistered '38 Vauxhall from Brisbane (Calamvale) to Sydney (St Marys) when I was 16 (and unlicenced). We went the back way, Cunninghams Gap to Armidale then down the New England Hwy and Putty Rd (all to avoid the cops).

[V8Ian]

My cousin and I drove my unregistered '38 Vauxhall from Brisbane (Calamvale) to Sydney (St Marys) when I was 16 (and unlicenced). We went the back way, Cunninghams Gap to Armidale then down the New England Hwy and Putty Rd (all to avoid the cops).
Expect a knock at the door, Ron. There is no statute of limitations, for criminal offences, in this country. :coplight:

[p38arover]

No dates.

[V8Ian]

No dates.
On or about....[bigwhistle]

[p38arover]

I was a minor. I'd have to go to juvenile court

[trog]

Throw the book at these people . Admitting criminal behaviour, law and order is stuffed.

[bee utey]

I was a minor. I'd have to go to juvenile court

A minor detail. At least you weren't a minor in a Minor. [bigsmile1]

[DiscoClax]

I remember being a minor in a Minor. Different world back then... but still wouldn't have tried it on a significant road.

[Geedublya]

I was driving my father home from the pub at 13-14 from the Pier Hotel in Coffs Harbour up through Bruxner Park. The worst part was through the banana plantations as it is a winding road and there wasn't a lot of room if there was an on-coming car and it made for anxious moments at night. I did learn a lot about night driving from those drives.

I had been driving farm vehicles and tractors for some time before that and of course riding dirt bikes all over the place with the only proviso from my father that I wasn't to get caught.

[DiscoMick]

I think I was about 8 when I started driving on the farm. When I went for the driving test the sergeant and dad, who played cricket together, had a little yarn, I drove the cop around the block, and had my licence. Those were the days!

[mick88]

The other morning when I read that about the 13 year old driving and the **** weak excuse as to why he was allowed to drive...…
what ever happened to good old fashioned discipline.
I am not against kids learning to drive at a young age, actually I am all for so that when they finally get on the road they can perfect their roadcraft, instead of having to think about how to change gears etc..
But this incident was on a very major road during one of the busiest and most dangerous times of the year.

Cheers, Mick.

[hodgo]

My uncle was a keen shooter and every opitunity he was some where in the mid lands of Tassie shooting his vehicle was an ex army WW 2 jeep, spot lighting and shooting from the Jeep was a specilaty and at the age of about 12 I soon became his driver low range 1st gear with more practise I was able change up to 2nd I did many mile in 1st and 2nd then one night he stoped at the Maypole hotel and came out a couple of hours later and said I could drive home which was at the top of a very steep hill in Moonah and we were in a twin spinner ford coustomline I have been driving ever since When the Tasman Bridge was built he had 4 x 8 ton tippers and 1x 12 ton working out of the Hobart quarries many a time I was allowed to drive from Montagu Bay back to the quarry during school holidays Twice we were picked up by poilce with me driving once near Campania and out the back of Oatland but we never were charged to my knowledge One SAturday morning I went to his place and no one was home so I took the jeep for a drive up the bush behind Springfield when he came home the engine was still hot It was the only time that I got into trouble from him They were great days.

Hodgo

[RobMichelle]

I think I was about 8 when I started driving on the farm. When I went for the driving test the sergeant and dad, who played cricket together, had a little yarn, I drove the cop around the block, and had my licence. Those were the days!Gotta be a record, license at 8 [emoji6] [emoji6] [emoji482]⛟

[trog]

Gotta be a record, license at 8 [emoji6] [emoji6] [emoji482]⛟

Perhaps he was born on Feb 29 and therefore only was able to celebrate a birthday every four years !

[bblaze]

I was 14 yo when I rode my Yamaha 200 to a country pup, just finishing a beer when the local copper come in,sat at the bar and brought me a beer, had one himself. Then told me he was heading out the road and would be back in 10 minutes. I never went in that pup again until I was eighteen. Also used to drive the tractor between farms when about 10yo onward. started driving cars on country rounds with dad when about 13 when we used to go shooting.

[AK83]

I have to go against the grain here and say I wouldn't worry about a 13 yo driving .. with his mum as a passenger.
In fact, I think kids should be learning at a earlier age, even down to 13, if they want(or feel the urge) and learn for longer.
I reckon at 13 they're easier to 'brainwash' .. or teach them the perils of being stupid whilst driving.
a 13 year old is much more impressionable, and hence more open to learning, than a normally rebellious 16 yo is!

Of course (at the risk of being the devils advocate here) I also started joy driving at 13(actually very late 12) .. dads SIIa first(hence my LR tragic-ness!) and then his Caddies!.. 67 Coupe Calais, and then the 73 Sedan Deville.
I drove illegally on and off till about 16, preferred the SIIa over the caddy, the caddy was a fun cruiser, but boring.
Dad hated my guts .. drove him insane. I had my own keys cut .. but he never did anything about it.
Mainly drove to the local '40 acres' for a bit of fun in the IIa. Not far from Bohica, as I grew up in Williamstown.

At 15, one trip back from Adelaide in the 73 DeVille, dad got tired and got me to drive home from Horsham back to about Laverton, he had a sleep in the back.
My brother(the D2 owner) my front passenger, and mum with dad in the back dad sleeping off the night before party.
I think he just resigned to the fact that no matter what he tried, I'd still find a way to drive, so he eventually caved in!

In all the times I joyrided, I never ever did anything stupid.
All I wanted was to drive around .. 40 years later still do! [biggrin]
Used to take my school mates for trips to the 40 acres, in the IIa, sometimes in the Caddy .. for a cruise.

Ony ever issue was one of my last joyrides in the IIa, where coming back home, it ran out of brakes. I had to drive through the main shopping street in Willy with no brakes.
Luckily dad had a old slow diesel engine fitted to it with made it stop better with engine compression braking then it did via the brakes!
But the hard bit was coming to a stop at home.... where dad parked it. Had to be in the exact spot, or he'd know I drive it .. even tho he always kept a track of the odo.
But sisters boyfriend had parked his Valiant too close, and the only way I thought I could bring the Landy to a dead stop was to rub the curb guttering.
Almost worked, but I didn't factor the 750 tyres running up the gutter and not just against, and just clipped the back of the valiant with the flat steel bullbar it had. .. oops!

May sound stupid, what I did, but having not only survived it, I reckon I was quite 'mature' in being immature(in what I did).
BUT! .. I still reckon getting them out and into it early will help to reduce two things.
Over a 5 year period, they'll probably get it out of their system .. the need to drive. They'll experience more crap/carnage/stupid idiots doing the stupid things we see them do every day.
Hopefully they'll learn not to do those stupid things themselves.
And the second thing it'll hopefully reduce is the 13 yo joyrider .. we hear about so often. If they're allowed to start earlier, maybe they'll just do it in a more legal manner.

Some folks are just not cut out to drive, and my older sister is a classic example of this: She totally destroyed the Caddy's passenger side running into a wooden light pole. She had the idea if younger brother can do it, she could!
She still drives like an idiot .. 40+ years later! [bighmmm]

Funnily I was well known as the 13 yo driver in my family circle, and one day we were 'laughing' about it at a family gathering. An uncle then told me the story how in Greece back in the 30's 40's they all drove, where they could, or had the means, and he started at 9, driving my grandfather's old 1903 Chevy pickup! .. he had too to get the job done ... moving stuff to the farm paddock and so forth.
he never saw it as joyriding .. it was his job, give to him by his father to go do it.

I've always found it strange that this arbitrary limitation for driving in Aus.
In the USA they drive at 16 .. only 3 years later than this kid did.

I'm like Geedubla .. I reckon I learnt more having driven so early in life, than I may have having done the 'right thing'.

[donh54]

In the "Good Old Days" in Un Zud, you went for your licence at 15. I'd already been driving the Triumph Mayflower for a month or more before I sat the test.

[DiscoMick]

Gotta be a record, license at 8 [emoji6] [emoji6] [emoji482]⛟No I said I started driving at 8 on the farm, but I was the usual age when I sat the test.

[4bee]

minor detail. At least you weren't a minor in a Minor.
Ah, but he could have been conceived in one Jilden, albeit with some difficulty. [biggrin]

[DiscoMick]

I just met a bloke who was born in Series Landy.

[RobMichelle]

I just met a bloke who was born in Series Landy.Is that on foxtel [emoji12] [emoji12]

[RobMichelle]

No I said I started driving at 8 on the farm, but I was the usual age when I sat the test.It's just the way I read it Disco Mick all good [emoji2]

[4bee]

I just met a bloke who was born in Series Landy.

[bigsmile1] My youngest was nearly born in the front of a Morris 8/40 van due to the awful road/tramline surface in St Peters at the time.

Fortunately we just made the Hospital front entrance just in the nick of time.[happycry] Ppffweeeeeeeeewwwww!

[LRT]

No I said I started driving at 8 on the farm, but I was the usual age when I sat the test.

I started driving the old Bedford J1 308V8 around the farm when I was 8. I remember having to stand on the clutch to get it into first and then change up & down without the clutch.

[4bee]

I started driving the old Bedford J1 308V8 around the farm when I was 8. I remember having to stand on the clutch to get it into first and then change up & down without the clutch.


And if you needed to double de-clutch you would have been jumping up & down like a Pogo Stick, with both feet. [biggrin]

[LRT]

And if you needed to double de-clutch you would have been jumping up & down like a Pogo Stick, with both feet. [biggrin]

Yes that would be a challenge! [emoji16]

[Roverlord off road spares]

I just met a bloke who was born in Series Landy.

He might of been conceived in a Series Landy also?

[DiscoMick]

I didn't ask that - thought maybe rude.

[4bee]

Not really an 8 year old driver post but for those of you who know Greenhill Road in the Adelaide Hills, well I just drove up & on the way, on the worst ARMCO protected bend overlooking the Adelaide Plains I saw when rounding said bend a cyclist coming down hill & around the bend at a rate of knots, riding no hands & either taking a selfie &/or a selfie of him going through/over the ARMCO down a a long drop of probably several hundred ft, or a view to send his mates..



IDIOT!!


I would have taken a snap of him had I had my phone handy & had he not come around the bend so quickly.[bighmmm] Oh hang on. Deeeerrrrrr.[tonguewink]



D1, 3.9, Manual, all the way up in top (4th) gear until I got into my gate maintaining a little over 1100 RPM as the lowest & gentle on the pedal.


Just sayin' [smilebigeye]