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Thread ID: 114000 2010-11-14 05:30:00 What a hideuos road toll this weekend... beetle (243) PC World Chat
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1152709 2010-11-14 05:30:00 What can one say, those poor people, families..... :(

hope you are all safe and sound......

beetle
beetle (243)
1152710 2010-11-14 06:37:00 Yes and the silly season is fast approaching.
:(
Trev (427)
1152711 2010-11-14 07:45:00 I am quite sure it means we are in for a renewed onslaught of TV advertising. R2x1 (4628)
1152712 2010-11-14 08:42:00 Yes and the silly season is fast approaching.
:(

nah that started a month ago. suicide season is about to begin.
tweak'e (69)
1152713 2010-11-14 09:53:00 I am quite sure it means we are in for a renewed onslaught of TV advertising.
Yes started today. Saw a couple of them while watching V8 Supercars.
:)
Trev (427)
1152714 2010-11-14 20:59:00 If these idiots want to kill themselves on the road that's fine. It's when they take out innocent road users that it makes me angry. Very angry.

It's not surprising that NZ has such a shocking road toll with the care-free lax attitude to driver training. It's far too easy to get a licence here with little or no formal training whatsoever. Bad habits are passed through generations.

Time to make a driving licence a privilege, not a right. And time to increase the minimum driving age. (It was actually time years ago but successive governments have procrastinated on the issue because us Kiwis think we are all experts when it comes to driving).
legod (4626)
1152715 2010-11-14 21:13:00 Get these little spikes in the road deaths but we are 18 less than last year at same time.
Driving is a right any government that says otherwise and does something stupid will be on their ear because a lot of voters drive.
You can make people jump thru flaming hoops to get their licence wont make an iota of difference to road deaths.
Analyse them and you find pissed drivers,driving too fast for the conditions and not obeying rules. They will still do that after an exhaustive driving test.
I think its all good at the moment but I would like jail time for people who dont stop at stop signs.
prefect (6291)
1152716 2010-11-14 21:14:00 And time to increase the minimum driving age. (It was actually time years ago but successive governments have procrastinated on the issue because us Kiwis think we are all experts when it comes to driving).
I thought it was because farm kids didn't want to have to apply for a license to drive the tractor...? :p
SoniKalien (792)
1152717 2010-11-14 22:08:00 Driving is a right .

Really? Who says? It's common but......
pctek (84)
1152718 2010-11-14 22:45:00 Get these little spikes in the road deaths but we are 18 less than last year at same time .
Driving is a right any government that says otherwise and does something stupid will be on their ear because a lot of voters drive .
You can make people jump thru flaming hoops to get their licence wont make an iota of difference to road deaths .
Analyse them and you find pissed drivers,driving too fast for the conditions and not obeying rules . They will still do that after an exhaustive driving test .
I think its all good at the moment but I would like jail time for people who dont stop at stop signs .

I would back that proposal .

But also make penalties imposed for breaking laws dependent on the consequences to the victims . The more it affects a victim, the greater the penalty .

And mandatory CONSECUTIVE penalties, rather than concurrent ones . Why should a perpetrator get a bulk discount if there are multiple victims?
johcar (6283)
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