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| Thread ID: 127549 | 2012-10-30 04:19:00 | Stop or not | rny (6943) | PC World Chat |
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| 1309519 | 2012-10-30 04:19:00 | A close friend today was given a traffic fine for supposedly not stopping at a compulsory stop. The cop said she was not stationary for three seconds. Is this BS or the law? I was under the impression that stop meant wheels no longer rotating. Anyone able to advise. RNY |
rny (6943) | ||
| 1309520 | 2012-10-30 04:31:00 | This page (www.nzta.govt.nz) says "you must stop and then give way", nothing about having to stop for at least three seconds. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1309521 | 2012-10-30 04:47:00 | And stop means stop, not come to a crawl. Not tap the break and go. | plod (107) | ||
| 1309522 | 2012-10-30 05:11:00 | I am assured that she did actually come to a complete stop, then moved off. It was outside of a school so drivers were obviously being targeted for any misdomeanor, and it looks as if the cop may have got a bit carried away. Funny thing though, she tells me that the ticket is to be posted. Why, one wonders, was it not issued on the spot? | rny (6943) | ||
| 1309523 | 2012-10-30 05:29:00 | If you issue on the spot, you can't do many tickets, if you post them its better for the quota. Yes the filth probably are being picky. | plod (107) | ||
| 1309524 | 2012-10-30 05:41:00 | I got a ticket for that omce, years ago....he said I paused rather than stopping. He was right, but jeez, no traffic for miles...pause...stop...hmmm. | pctek (84) | ||
| 1309525 | 2012-10-30 05:53:00 | If you watch ANY Stop sign intersection anywhere in the country, you will see very few people come to a ful stop, even though if you asked them, they would vow that they had. Stop means STOP, not slow down and roll through. About bloody time the cops started clamping down on this - this is exactly how my mate Greg ended up being seriously injured on Tamaki Drive several years ago, when a silly girl rolled through a Stop sign and knocked him and three other of my mates off their bikes. Three seconds is probably not specified in the law, but it certainly would ensure that all wheels had come to a complete stop. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1309526 | 2012-10-30 05:56:00 | If you watch ANY Stop sign intersection anywhere in the country, you will see very few people come to a ful stop, even though if you asked them, they would vow that they had. Stop means STOP, not slow down and roll through. About bloody time the cops started clamping down on this - this is exactly how my mate Greg ended up being seriously injured on Tamaki Drive several years ago, when a silly girl rolled through a Stop sign and knocked him and three other of my mates off their bikes. Three seconds is probably not specified in the law, but it certainly would ensure that all wheels had come to a complete stop.never seen a cyclist come to a complete stop at a stop sign |
plod (107) | ||
| 1309527 | 2012-10-30 06:02:00 | never seen a cyclist come to a complete stop at a stop sign I have been done for that in my car supposed,y not stopping, but on my bike I avoid stop junctions like the plaque simply because most people don't stop and on my bike its easier to use give way junctions. I do agree that a lot of cyclists don't stop giving the rest of us a bad name, bit like the amount of mothers I cycling to school with their kids and the mothers are not wearing a helmet, what sort of message does that give the kids? |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1309528 | 2012-10-30 06:04:00 | It'll be one of the imported cops from England applying their rules here, I bet. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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