Bogged 4WD Onkaparinga Rivermouth, SA

sorry last par should read "out on the wet sand".

J

The boat ramp at Pt. Noarlunga is used by the surf life saving club to access that part of the beach, public access is not allowed. Don't believe being sober would have made much difference, sand there is very soft.
Cheers
Krakka

Alcohol is a bit like diff locks. Get you further in, but no guarantee of getting out.

Someone drives a vehicle into the ocean. Sounds like the driver was incapable of making sound, logical, responsible decision. You question the integrity of Police because they pinched him for P.C.A. Come on get real. Thank goodness it wasn't head-on into another vehicle, pedestrian, house etc. Could have ended VERY UGLY. 'Play the sailor - pay the price' !!! The vehicle will be a write off. It is being dragged out tonight by an excavator.

no "Mistake" about it
gawd knows how he drove there as theres no public access.

there might be access via the SLSC from memory but thats through gates

Ive never seen a vehicle there

Pretty draconian stuff eh !

Ive got this habit, when camped out woopwoop way, of laying on the roof rack looking at the stars through a empty Johnnie Walker bottle.
The campfire embers throwing shadows around the adjacent bush, the missus retired, planning tomorrows drive to the next camp site [probably still half cut] lol, and your saying some tosser can come along and book me.

Its UN-AUSTRALIAN,



Cheers......Lionel.

Dat called a kalideascope Lionel, When you fall off the car you kalide with the ground, blurry hurt's next day.

Did I see that Aust had the lowest road fatality total since 1949 last year? May be draconian is the only way to keep us alive.

And yes I have four points up for what I saw as an honest mistake, but am prepared to wear it for the huge reduction in the road toll (read: Reduction in cost to the taxpayer in spades).

One thing that shook me many years ago. We were living in New Zulund, and the first oil shock hit (?about November 1974 I think), the first time world only had thirty years of oil left. The NZ Guvmint simply could not afford the oil import bill.

One of the things they did (among many) was slap an 80 kph speed limit on the open road. Even though distances are much less than here, that was draconian. But ... over the holiday period, the ambos, cops, hospitals etc had nothing to do. The road toll dived even faster than the balance of payments.

After that, I decided that sometimes thing have to change, even when we don't like them.

Max

Guess you'd have to ask why, really?

Fish don't cause chips, tho they often go together ;-}

So we have ...

Better roads
Better tyres
Better suspension and anti-slide systems
Better protective gear inside vehicles

All up, we have much better defensive and protective systems, so why the moral panic about speeding and the general lowering of speed limits?

FWIW, I ride a sportsbike to the conditions, not the posted limits.

Have done 70k km that way.

Usually close to double the advisories on the twisties.

Only crash was due to unmarked roadworks, at about 30 kph. Sand left on a curving road at the end of a bridge drop-off.

Whose fault?

K, rant over.

Pics would be nice. If ya could post em