You must be allowed to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sleepy
My Mrs often enters a roundabout and does at least two or three complete circuits before she makes up her mind which exit she wants to take. :p
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You must be allowed to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sleepy
My Mrs often enters a roundabout and does at least two or three complete circuits before she makes up her mind which exit she wants to take. :p
[quote=jerryd;1163693]Quote:
Originally Posted by rovercare
Now as you have to show your insurance to be able to pay the Tax (rego) on your car how can it be that according to the BBC there are 1.7m uninsured drivers on the road here in the UK . In the UK you have to name all drivers to be covered for the individual car on the policy. In the largest cities they estimate that up to 13% of drivers are uninsured. Would suggest that by definition this would also mean no car tax either. Mostly this is because insurance is too expensive - just because you attempt to price them off the road does not mean that people do not drive though.
As shown above putting young drivers in higher insurance brackets and behind the wheel of low powered 1.0 litre engine cars has not worked here in the UK.
Roundabouts are like autopilots,Quote:
Originally Posted by BMKal
If you are not sure which way to go, you just leave your wheels in the gutter,
when the car is guded out of the roundabout,
you will end up going the right way.
[quote=jerryd;1163693]High insurance is not the answer as you can bet your life it will flow onto us all. All this does is make people poorer. does not achieve anything. What happens when they have an accident/car crash that was not attributable to any illegal activity or traffic offence or someone hits them and is uninsured or takes off? Their insurance premiums become unobtainable. They are nearly at that point now. Look at the cost of insurance and rego now for low income earners and families and we wonder why so many people are uninsured? Raising insurance, crushing cars (especially if it does not belong to the driver) is not the answer but a knee jerk, simplistic approach to the problem. There needs to be some lateral thinking here. It is a problem that has no easy solution with the potential for first time offenders to pay a high price. Habitual offenders need to be dealt with on a different scale. Any way the real case in point is certain people will not learn their lesson no matter what you do and the case that is generally being refered to here has many root causes with the main one the driver had a flagrant disregard for the law. The main one it comes back to in the majority of these cases is they are alcohol related, which exacerbates the other problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by rovercare
I think this is the governments soft way out to appear to be doing something as it is an easy play. Will be interesting when some one with money and good legal representation challenges it. The governments just seem inept at tackling the real problem which is alcohol and drug driving. Then do we do the same with fatigue??
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Originally Posted by BMKal
So I;d just drive without reg? I mean, I drove probably a culminative period of well over 2 years without a licence, again, won;t workQuote:
Originally Posted by jerryd
Brian, good one mate, but I wouldn't let your Better Half see your post, LOL, Regards Frank.
On news tonight 2 more hoons crash.
Foster Vic 2 x 15 yr old girls driving along a straight stretch of road hit a concrete power pole and snap itoff at the base, estimated speed of 150 kph and they lost control.
Seen by witnesses earlier hooning!.
Foster Police ask When are they going to learn.
Hmmmmm:confused::confused::confused::confused::con fused::confused::confused:
Thats easy to answer...Quote:
Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!
WHEN they are woried about the repercussions of their actions.
It's as we grow older that we think of these things.
Ever watched children on a play ground?
The 3 year old climbs onto and over anything,
The 5 year old climbs also but is aware of falling of and getting hurt.
As for driving..respect of the car and other road users is not taught.
To much of a "give me" society that we have evolved into IMHO.
I often hear "It's my right to drive" not "I'm privileged to have a licence".
Last thought..
"If only I knew at 18 as much as my kids think they do at 18"
so what do you propose wouldve stopped these 2 girls from doing what they did? being 15, neither shouldve been driving to start with......Quote:
Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!