Thread: Hoon caught doing 170 in 100 zone.

Originally Posted by Sprint

and how long before the hoons armed themselves? its easier to get hold of illegal firearms than the government wants you to believe

After about a month there wouldnt be any hoons

Maybe just ban Turbo petrol engines, low profile tyres, any sort of safety restraint system that is not OEM and have a big spike coming out ot the steering wheel insead of an airbag, maybe that would deter them

Originally Posted by mcrover

After about a month there wouldnt be any hoons

Maybe just ban Turbo petrol engines, low profile tyres, any sort of safety restraint system that is not OEM and have a big spike coming out ot the steering wheel insead of an airbag, maybe that would deter them

You need therepy


It is funny, but not funny hoo hoo, tis funny har har. The serial killer type of funny (you know the, I am not a man dressed like a woman, I am an evolved being) I am the impetomy of evolution, I am what Darwin seeked, eve olution is my name. The type of scary funny Dianna speaks of in the Darwin awards.

Nothing like a topic like this to fire the board up hey!!!

But excessive speed isnt the only problem...

Excessive slowness is also a major danger......


Nothing like cruising around a curve at 115km/h only to be confronted by a geriatric old fart towing a caravan at 80km/h on Highway 1

Originally Posted by Tombie2

Nothing like a topic like this to fire the board up hey!!!

But excessive speed isnt the only problem...

Excessive slowness is also a major danger......


Nothing like cruising around a curve at 115km/h only to be confronted by a geriatric old fart towing a caravan at 80km/h on Highway 1

But you have to expect slow vehicles anywhere - after all, NSW learners are not allowed to do over 80 anywhere, even interstate. And it is perfectly legal to drive vehicles with a maximum speed below this on any road (e.g. vintage or veteran cars, tractors, heavily loaded Series 1s on hills etc.). And the "geriatric old fart" may be in no hurry and just keeping fuel consumption down.

John
"G.O.F."

Originally Posted by JDNSW

And the "geriatric old fart" may be in no hurry and just keeping fuel consumption down.

so you're saying that the GOF cant afford to do the grey nomad thing? why is he doing it then?

Originally Posted by JDNSW

But you have to expect slow vehicles anywhere - after all, NSW learners are not allowed to do over 80 anywhere, even interstate. And it is perfectly legal to drive vehicles with a maximum speed below this on any road (e.g. vintage or veteran cars, tractors, heavily loaded Series 1s on hills etc.). And the "geriatric old fart" may be in no hurry and just keeping fuel consumption down.

John
"G.O.F."

Actually John there are LAWS against this (unless the vehicle is restricted to a lower speed)...

Its called "impeding the flow of traffic"

Any vehicle rated to tow a large van should be able to sit close to the speed limit and therefore should do same!

A vintage vehicle etc, that cannot maintain speeds of a zone must by law YIELD and allow all traffic to pass when safe to do so...
This legally means he has to pull off the highway every time someone gets stuck behind him and there is a shoulder on the road.

To give you some further evidence of this law...

South Eastern Freeway...
My mate and I left Hahndorf back in 1998 heading to adelaide and drove side by side at 140km/h blocking the ability of an aggravated Porsche driver to pass us.

He finally slipped up the emergency lane and got past! And was promptly pursued and pulled over the by Cops that had been watching all of this.

We were also pulled over...

The Porsche got improper use of emergency lane, dangerous driving charges..

Both my mate and I were charged with 'Impeding the flow of traffic'

When we argued that we were above the speed limit (110 zone) by a decent margin, how could it be impeding traffic? The friendly officer advised us that the speed made no difference, we still impeded the flow





So yes, I hate slow moving vehicles... And Grey Nomads are some of the worst....

Originally Posted by Sprint

so you're saying that the GOF cant afford to do the grey nomad thing? why is he doing it then?

Nothing to do with "afford" - if you are not in a hurry why waste fuel? Particularly if you are looking at the countryside, perhaps reminiscing about how much it has/has not changed in the last fifty years. And in any case many people of all ages do things they can't afford, scraping pennies to manage it.

John

I think that just because someone is in no hurry (half their luck!) irrespective of who they are, that it isn't an excuse to hold up the traffic. Its just plain rude and frustrating for other road users and encourages less safe practices such as overtaking.