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| Thread ID: 110208 | 2010-06-07 19:40:00 | Lowest Road Toll in 50 Years! Good Policing or Good Luck? | xyz823 (13649) | PC World Chat |
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| 1107807 | 2010-06-07 22:33:00 | Shame on you New Zealand. Only 1 road death. What is going to happen when we have a "Zero" count? Never will happen.:groan: |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1107808 | 2010-06-07 23:17:00 | I thought there would be more idiots try to drive through the flooded roads too fast. Perhaps the crap weather kept everyone at home. I expect all the warnings about strict enforcement of speed limits helped. If only they didn't let little old ladies drive at 70kph on the open road (60 whenever there was a slight bend in the road). She didn't even pull over in the little towns. I thought they said they were also going to watch for those driving too slow, without pulling over at the first safe opportunity. I am not sure whether it's an inferiority complex or something, but a lot of New Zealand drivers want to push the boundaries in their vehicle. "110! Ok, then I'll do 115 or 120". I wish they'd employ the same thinking to bettering other parts of their lives that don't put others at risk. More policing, lousy weather, reducing speed tolerance? Whatever the reason, I am glad the result was a good one. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1107809 | 2010-06-07 23:31:00 | i'll see if i can find some figures but i suspect traffic will be way down due to weather. but what i saw on the road everyone was going slow, yes some ridiculously slow but unknown road in wet and slippery conditions i can live with that. so much for heavy police presence. there was meant to be a big crackdown in rodney, yeah right ! didn't see any of them except the usual motorway patrol car. not one police car in some of the countries worst back spots. unfortunately while you may think being tight on speed won't do much, when it comes to injures and deaths resulting from crashes, what speed they where doing makes a big difference. a little bit faster turns an oops into a minor crash, or a minor crash into a big one, or a big crash into a fatal one. which is why places like dome valley and now brydewen hill has been dropped from 100km/h to 80km/h. but end of the day people will always push the limits because theres simply no traffic enforcement. once they get used to pushing the limits then they will push a bit more, and more, untill one day...... |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1107810 | 2010-06-08 00:17:00 | Could have been worse apparently? home.nzcity.co.nz Just good luck maybe. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 1107811 | 2010-06-08 00:39:00 | The total number of deaths would probably have been zero if the lady had been following the law and wearing a seat belt. | Pato (2463) | ||
| 1107812 | 2010-06-08 00:50:00 | Here in WA where I am now, at public holidays they have a zero tolerance for speed and double demerits . WA police, right or wrong, can give you a ticket for being 1k over the speed limit, seen it done . And they pop up in the strangest of places, while they will always be targeting main roads, they will also pop up in some more remote country roads where you would have thought it might be safe to speed . The low road toll for NZ this weekend would probably be more a case of good luck rather than good managerment, the crappy weather probably saw less people out for Sunday drives than better weather might have . |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 1107813 | 2010-06-08 00:50:00 | Good luck, bad weather and no MPV crashes. Lets just say this weekend there was one fatal crash between two MPV's each carrying 6 people, all die. After one accident 12 people dead. |
wmoore (6009) | ||
| 1107814 | 2010-06-08 01:08:00 | The total number of deaths would probably have been zero if the lady had been following the law and wearing a seat belt. Or if the driver of the vehicle had not left the road perhaps? |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 1107815 | 2010-06-08 01:29:00 | The open road 100 kph should not be treated as a target speed, one must drive to the conditions. Thank god if there is one for the *555 system for dobbing in nutcase drivers. What I think needs to happen is if you drive 10 kph over the limit your car is towed from the side of the road or driven only to a nominated destination. Then the car woulds be towed and impounded and crushed (except vintage, rare. classic cars) I thinks its despicable people who have been caught speeding can just get in their cars and drive off again. I would hate to see you ever in charge of legislation in the country. Firing squads at the side of the road if you do 1Km over the limit?? |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1107816 | 2010-06-08 01:38:00 | I would hate to see you ever in charge of legislation in the country. Firing squads at the side of the road if you do 1Km over the limit?? Reminds me of when I worked for the MOT in Mt Wellington. We had a number of complaints re speeding down a certain street from a person so I was told to go do a little enforcement. The first person I ticketed was the complainant at close to double the speed limit of 30 MPH. |
Sweep (90) | ||
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