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Thread ID: 90874	2008-06-18 23:52:00	Third Party Insurance	johcar (6283)	PC World Chat

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680050	2008-06-20 01:23:00	Back in the 1950/1960's third party insurance was compulsory and one nominated the insurance company on the registration form each year. The firm I worked for was agent for and I also worked for the Head Office of one of the New Zealand companies involved in third party insurance. Those with insurance will still be paying for those without any cover, so what's new about it!. Lurking.	Lurking (218)
680051	2008-06-20 01:55:00	Crush the car yes, but crushing the driver is unneccessarily harsh. That should be reserved for the second offence. And the reason that premiums will be pretty fierce is that certain groups may well be running into each other to get both vehicles fixed up under the insurance. Insurance companies are not that dim witted, if the car is too old unrepairable etc they will not repair it and anyway we are talking insurance companies here they will always look for the way out to avoid paying.	gary67 (56)
680052	2008-06-20 02:01:00	Come and drive in Nelson where the local drivers ignore the road code that says mirror, signal, manoeuvre and instead go manoeuvre, maybe mirror only signal if you see a police car, and then only let the indicator flash once. Don't believe me come here and find out. I didn't install a gps in our car but a chrystal ball on the dashboard	gary67 (56)
680053	2008-06-20 02:09:00	Yep, it's almost as bad as chch. At least people use indicators there though!	wratterus (105)
680054	2008-06-20 02:36:00	Come and drive in Nelson where the local drivers ignore the road code that says mirror, signal, manoeuvre and instead go manoeuvre, maybe mirror only signal if you see a police car, and then only let the indicator flash once. Don't believe me come here and find out. I didn't install a gps in our car but a chrystal ball on the dashboard nelson drivers know how mirrors work? dude i'm moving to nelson! the only people i see using mirrors are those you're about to rear end after the pulled/turned infront of you, and those doing their makeup (it's the same all over the country it would seem) (just remembered the near miss i witness the other day - car slams brakes, turns left into sidestreet, indicates - car which was following too close behind slams brakes, swerves right - car indicatin to turn right into same sidestreet picks now as the moment to drive across the path of the straight through traffic which is already trying to avoid an accident - dunno if the two vehicles then bumped into each other in the sidestreet but i speculate one had to drive on the wrong side of the road as they both tried to pull infront in spite of oncoming traffic)	motorbyclist (188)
680055	2008-06-20 03:24:00	Let's see some evidence that the completely unlicensed vehicles are being removed before bringing in something else that won't be policed. There are some claims that up to 20% of vehicles aren't licensed. These drivers won't worry about insurance either. Yep. The laws have to be policed and they are not being so. Then again some Police are not trained but the laws need a complete makeover. There are too many amendments etc so therefore nobody knows what the full law is and how parliament may change it.	Sweep (90)
680056	2008-06-20 03:43:00	Yep. The laws have to be policed and they are not being so. i reckon if they had a rush hour blitz that'd make things interesting rather than targeting drunks/speed, they could just wait for the traffic to come to a crawl and set up on the motorway offramps - most of them stop for lights anyway so have some serious manpower and check all the cars in each phase for reg/wof/licence either that or set up on the onramps - those stupid lights they installed because driver's can't merge could come to some use sure to do half a motorway in each rush hour would take about 20-30 men per ramp, so up to 500 officers (remember they only have to do one ramp per junction) - but surely they have that many that would oblige to an extra shift in the morning/afternoon expensive? think of all the revenue they'd gather! do it once every few weeks and see how many cars come off the road if people believe they'll get caught they'll stop flouting the rules (with exceptions of course) i know a recent series of blitzes/sneaky hiding places on my commute has effectively curbed my "there's no traffic at this hour" 20k over the limit habit - they didn't ticket me once, but 3 warnings each of which could've taken your 70 demerit point licence really gets the message through. now i'm so paranoid when doing 60 or 110 it's not worth doing it	motorbyclist (188)
680057	2008-06-20 04:22:00	Yep. The laws have to be policed and they are not being so. Then again some Police are not trained but the laws need a complete makeover. There are too many amendments etc so therefore nobody knows what the full law is and how parliament may change it. How about those people who are uninsurable, will they not be able to drive a car?	robbyp (2751)
680058	2008-06-20 04:28:00	How about those people who are uninsurable, will they not be able to drive a car? If they are uninsurable, they are uninsurable for a reason. Hell yes, let's get them off the road!!!	johcar (6283)
680059	2008-06-20 04:52:00	it'll price them off the road - or rather force them to drive uninsured fact is driving is a privilege, not a right	motorbyclist (188)
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