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Thread ID: 144179 2017-08-02 10:02:00 Traffic Speeding ticket bk T (215) PC World Chat
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1437904 2017-08-10 06:11:00 Come on, you fight that?!

Husband never speeds, in fact, when he had the old diesel ute it wasn't capable of speeding. (so he says)

Yet he was snapped doing 65 in a 50k zone.
Impossible he said to anyone who would hold still long enough, and then he paid it.
pctek (84)
1437905 2017-08-10 07:09:00 She was not sure but most likely she was speeding, if you consider 62 km as speeding. :D

How many drivers observing strictly the 50 km speed limit?

Me for a start.
prefect (6291)
1437906 2017-08-10 07:12:00 How many drivers observing strictly the 50 km speed limit?

None in Christchurch, in the 2 years we lived there if you didn't drive 10km over the limit the locals got aggressive and verbal
gary67 (56)
1437907 2017-08-10 08:35:00 The speed cameras in Christchurch are for 'show' only? :D bk T (215)
1437908 2017-08-10 22:56:00 She was not sure but most likely she was speeding, if you consider 62 km as speeding. :D
How many drivers observing strictly the 50 km speed limit?

62Km is well & truly speeding. Speeding yes, excessive & unsafe , NO

I often drive as close as I can to 50kmh speed limit. I'll get a huge line of impatient drivers behind me though.
When the traffic cops start telling us they'll give tickets for going even a few kmh over 50, thats when it becomes a nonsense . If I have to constantly
watch my speedo instead of the road , so I dont go 3kmh over, thats hardly safe driving is it.

Modern cars simply dont feel like they are speeding at 62kmh , thats another issue I guess. Unless constantly looking down at the speedo, you wont know
your at 62khm. And some manuals arnt happy at 50kmh
1101 (13337)
1437909 2017-08-11 00:00:00 Have you checked your speedo agains the roadside LED panels or using GPS on your phone? Our school van (Toyota Hi Ace) is 10K out so to do 50K, I drive at 60KPH.

Our Econovan is spot on and I got a ticket for doing 60K one morning in it, when the Toyota had a faulty battery, bummer that was! :mad::mad:

Ken :banana
kenj (9738)
1437910 2017-08-11 00:35:00 Always fight tickets, always
Make sure you get the report, there might be a reason it was not included the first time.

@Gary You had better not be in front of me at "50" :)
DeSade (984)
1437911 2017-08-11 01:51:00 Always fight tickets, always
Make sure you get the report, there might be a reason it was not included the first time.

@Gary You had better not be in front of me at "50" :)

Good advice. If it's a fair cop then I'd pay. However, when you get a ticket for speeding in New Zealand and at the time 'you' were clocked you happened to be in a plane on the runway leaving Brisbane then it's gloves on.
It was a rental car we had previously used to get us to the Auckland airport. Even though we had undeniable proof, the department kept telling us again and again to pay up or else!! I began to see what it must be like to be charged for a crime I didn't do.
It finally took a friend, who is a JP, to sort them out. It should never have come to that.
Turned out the speedster was an employee of the rental car company who didn't want to own up.:mad:
Marnie (4574)
1437912 2017-08-11 02:50:00 Given most speedos read a few kms over the true speed, your speedo probably showed somewhere between 65-70. Tough sh*t mate, follow the road rules.
If you got done for 54 or 55kms that's another story, but 10+ over around town, you're fair game.
Nick G (16709)
1437913 2017-08-11 02:50:00 Modern cars simply dont feel like they are speeding at 62kmh , thats another issue I guess.

Cruise control :p
Nick G (16709)
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