Sneaky cop's ...

Regardless of what you think, speeding is against the law.

But speed camera vans serve no,purpose in reducing the number of car accidents, infact most are caused due to bad driving than the speed, over a certain speed it hardly matters you will probably be killed any way.

I was caught a few years ago, steep hill, so I was in increasing speed, going down, braking like you do speed van gets me ten k over the limit, I was fully in control of the car, road conditions were perfect, not in a built up area, it was a easy place for the police to earn money from respectable drivers.

What they should crack down on is the fools who drive a inch behind the car in front. And if they really want to raise revenue have a yearly roadworthy in Qld , it's a no brainer. Money in the bank and safer cars on the roads.

Oh and why not sit at all the box junctions in brisbane on one of those chairs they have at tennis matches, every person who deliberately blocks the road snap a picture, send them a ticket, worked in the uk.

They should come up with a reverse speed camera, I.e set up opposite stop signs. So that when the vehicle stops the camera cancels, but if motion doesn't stop and the vehicle crosses the solid line the camera fires ...I'm so sick of cars in this town treating stop signs like give way, this was why I brought my " black vue " camera after nearly getting cleaned up two days in a row .

Unfortunately, next to BAC speed is about the only measurable thing in the 'road safety' hit list. Hence it will be continuously policed and used as an income stream.

We all spend time on the roads, seeing all manner of things each day that have us shaking our heads. The two things that will have the greatest reduction in collisions on the road are people re-learning risk and hazard perception as well as treating others with respect.

A respectful driver signals intent, has their vehicle safe and working properly, gives others space and thinks about others. They don't sit in the right lane, under or dead on the limit and sit there are a self-appointed pace car, they plan their journey so they don't cut across multiple lanes of traffic to take their exit etc.

A driver who appreciates hazard perception drives to the conditions and within the abilities of their vehicle and themselves. Unfortunately this falls down due to people being molly-coddled from childhood and the powers that be continually trumpeting that if you go over the posted limit you'll die and those who don't speed are automatically considered good drivers.

For all those that posted on this subject that are also hunters; now you know what it feels like to be the prey.

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Originally Posted by PhilipA

Lots of motorcycle cops have been killed like that , including a nice bloke that I knew.
IMHO this makes the truckies involved a homicidal maniac.

Regards Philip A

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Anyone who doesn't leave enough room in front to stop in the distance they can see deserves what they get. No excuse for tailgating, especially at night with no lights on. Disgraceful conduct hardly conducive to road safety.

I often ask why posted speeds haven't risen in line with car safety, driver training and road improvements.
I can remember driving around my country town as a young un with posted speeds of 60 in a HQ holden, three on the tree. Recently went back to show my kids where I lived and the street is now 50! WTF, it's got slower!
That's my main gripe these days, many roads are just too slow. Every new section of the Bruce for example should be built for 110 or even 120. Why not? We have the technology.

Ralph

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Originally Posted by juddy

Regardless of what you think, speeding is against the law.

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people will ignore the law if the law is stupid.
speed limits are too slow.

over speed is a factor in about 5% of fatalities, and in those cases, their speed was too high for the conditions, not for the speed limit.

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Originally Posted by Eevo

people will ignore the law if the law is stupid.
speed limits are too slow.

over speed is a factor in about 5% of fatalities, and in those cases, their speed was too high for the conditions, not for the speed limit.

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IMO there are to many drivers out there that do not have the skills to drive over 80kmp.
There is another lot that do not know how to adjust the speed of the car to the conditions of the road.
A clear example is the road between the Sunshine coast and Gympie. Look how many life have been lost in that few kilometers of shocking road just because drivers did not adjusted their drive behavior to the road conditions.

That bit Chucaro, is gradually being improved,thankfully,was up that way a month ago on the way to Bundaberg,and will be back up to Gympie on the 13th for a dog trial :) (dog pleading not guilty) :D

I now use the GPS in all the vehicles as my speedo (cable speedos)

That is a good news, I just wonder how many lives took for the politicians to do something about it :(
Having living in Childers for more than 5 years and a bit over 4 in Moore Park Beach I can telling you that the Bruce hwy is a shocking road and there are heaps of more black spots to improve.