Caught Speeding !!!

over here in this great state we only allow 2 ks over if your doing 3 ks over your done.

That is a Joke $131 for 6k’s over, that’s complete chit, in WA it would be $50 depending on what the camera was set on. It really is becoming ridicules I can understand getting fined for 20+k’s over the limit but 6k’s and $131 yeah that isn’t revenue raising.

At-least there were no demerit point’s lost only some cash.

The camera’s have been know to have error’s, and can be +-2k’s out

ShnogDog it's not referred to as the nanny state for nothing mate. Just think of the fine being for your own good as our premier and also all his colleagues tell us. Even if you are the only car on the road, yes, it is for your own good.

One of the latest pieces of good done by the government is to advise work experience students with veterinarians that they should not touch animals as they are unpredictable in nature and they may get hurt............ You are not able to learn these days without nanny looking over your shoulder or smacking your hand back.

It's all just tax collection.

86 in an 80 zone is about as dangerous as farting near a campfire.

There are fools who believe in the "reduce 5" campaign of propaganda trotted out by the Vic Govt (of both colours).

The same ads showed how it takes 39 metres to stop from 60 km/h. What absolute bovine faeces. A modern car will pull up from 100km/h (not 60) in 35 to 38 metres.

Still, the great unwashed accept this propaganda. Some fool will surely respond to this and trot out some inane comment along the lines of "if you don't speed, you won't get caught".

Does anyone recall how Nazi Germany got started?

You can challenge them in court too and ask them to produce evidence as to the accuracy of the device. Of course, if you do and they produce the necessary records, you are in deeper poo because you with have the court costs awarded against you as well.

It's funny but have you noticed that the mongrels always set up their traps on a decline, where they know the law of physics will cause the vehicle to gain extra speed, even if you are using cruise, or sitting on the speed limit.

Unfortunately, we've just got to cop it sweet.

By the way, my speedometer is acurate within 2kph when compared with my GPS.

I was under the impression that the Australian design rules allow a 10% margin of error.
I stand to be corrected, ( I usually am).
80 k zone, margin of error of 10% = 88 kph.
Any body else have any thoughts along those lines?
Will

havent I read somewhere that the ADR only calls for speedo's to be =or- 10%
how the bloody hell can they do this beats me?

About the only thing I am not looking forward to in returning to Oz -- The stupid spped laws, after being able to cruise at 90mph with no worries. It really is time that the whole speed limt thing in Australia had a bit of reality about it. Funny how speeds that kill in Oz are safe in other countries, or is it all to do with revenue raising.

When we went to Perth to get the bullbar & winch, my husband was driving in the right hand lane of 3, going slowly, as we were watching for a right turn coming up (we were unfamiliar with the area). I saw the speed camera off to the left of the road but didn't see the flash. How can they say we were travelling fast with two lanes of traffic, travelling faster than us, between us and the camera? Cheaper to pay $50 than go back to Perth to even view the photo. Just revenue raising - i worked out they could have made $36,000 in one morning - I have to work hard for more than a year to achieve that. P--ed off Motherhen

I got a speeding ticket for doing 120 through the tunnel.......and I wasn't even in the state at the time.

Apparently being out of the state is not an acceptable excuse and they wanted to take me to court unless I told them who was driving the vehicle (a rental that 5 others had access to the keys for). It's a bit hard when you aren't there.

Handing speeding fines administration over to a civilian company is not right in my opinion. Atleast the Police can apply some commonsence in situations like this. Civic Compliance were like a dog with a bone.

Just my tuppence worth.
I used to have a very fast bike in Syd - and sold it when i accumulated 11points (1 point to go gulp!).

Anyway, i decided to obtain the actual manuals for the Speed Cameras, Fixed and handheld speed Lider (Spelling?), and Radar.

There is a (Syd based manuals anyway), variance of 2-3%.

But the main point of my post is that there is a condition that if the vechicle is on a decline of suffiecient gradient/angle and will accelerate without anything on the gas pedal, then they can't do you.
They are also not allowed to set up traps (can't remember the distances though), before comiining up to towns and villages.

The best thing to remember is that the fixed (mounted on tripods), manned liders, must be first setup and calibrated for the Cosine effect as it has to aim across from the side of the road to the oncoming traffic [They are really meant to be head on to measure correctly, which is of course not a good thing for the operator!]. The police should write down the calibration settings in a log BEFORE operating it.
So if you get pulled over - and you're feeling as though no exsuces or the wifes now raised dress, is not going to persuade him to give you a warning - then ask to to see the log book and see if they have indeed filled it in [Checking the time and date], if they haven't you're ok. If they have, don't blame me!
NB: I was also informed that a lot of times, they don't fill in the log book, and do it a the end of the shift.

You would also be amazed at the rules concerning the Traffic Speed Cameras - They [Police], should do something with them, but rarely VERY rarely do - and that's one way to get out of them - but i can't let you know everything :)
I know, isn't it terrible and i'm a tease,......lol

Lastly, if you have a good driving record, and had a few kids in the back, and one of them had a 'coughing fit, or going to be car sick', you would have a good 60% chance to get off just by writting this down and pleading for your life. if you did ellect to have it heard by a magistrate, then you would stand a good 95% chance of getting off. if you did lose the court costs would only be a low $50 or so.

Alan.

What a bloody hoon , 6km over the speed limit.

I never got a speeding ticket of my own, my son copped a couple drivng my car but officially I'm squeaky clean. One day I be doing what you did and have to cop it sweet cause ofthe other times I didn't get caught.

Do the crime do the time.

hahahahaha

Who's next, me probably

Regards

Just remember that when you pay the fine do not give your drivers license number. They will cash your cheque but if you don't give your drivers licemce then you don't lose points in your home state, as the various states systems are linked. If they don't have your licence then you ca't lose points.
I have been done twice in 10 years both interstate. paid the fines, not given my license number and never been follwed up for it by the state concerned and never had points deducted from my local license.

Mike

Hi there... as a person who used to repair speedometers for a living, I can tell you that most speedos are "happy" in that they show you going faster than you are.. assuming you haven't changed tyre size etc. The Ausdtrlain Design Rules call for a speedo accuracy of + or - 10%. Now up here in QLD most speed cameras and general coppers give some leeway from my experience and it's more than 2 kmh.

I was wondering however if we have a barrister in the group as commonwealth law takes precedence over state law and so it would seem to me as a layman that the 2 k over thing could be tested in court.

I have also just come back from 3 weeks in Europe where I drove a Benz Compressor all over the place at 190 plus in some areas and found that the Europeans are not so anal about speed limits on their good roads. For example the motorways in Austria which have a limit of 130 are not as good as QLD's M1 which goes from Brisbane to the Gold Coast with a limit of 110 and speed cameras everywhere. Perhaps it's a hang over from our colonial past that we are so overgoverned.

Mark T

As this is your first (?) traffic offence in this wonderful 'State of Steve Bracks Thought Police' I believe that if you write a nice letter to the authorities explaining that you are, and always have been, a safe, courteous and concientious driver who makes a concerted effort to travel below the posted speed limits, and that this was a one-off error on your behalf you stand a very good chance of having the fine and subsequent demerit point revoked.

"$131.00 . Fair is fair, I'll cop it as I deserve it"

No it's not, it's total crap. Wankers.