Cars & Motorbikes Speeding fine nsw

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  1. HD_ACE

    HD_ACE Game-Changer

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    Don't they always send the photo?
    Borrowed the misus car once, happend to go past a camera. If she hadn't of looked closely at the photo to see my mug there, I would have got away with it and she would of paid it and took the points :).
    Justice was served.
     
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  2. Dylan33

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    A lot of perfect drivers on here today eh?

    I had the initial notice and dobbed her in. She was in my car at the time and I would gladly have put my hand up for it but I don't have too many points left myself and if my licence goes so does the household income. So nah officer it weren't me.
     
  3. D.T.

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    Only in WA I believe. Other states you have to request it.
     
  4. Perthguy

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    I haven't had a speeding fine for about 14 years. Not perfect but I learn from my mistakes :D
     
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  5. Ed Barton

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    My grandfather managed to miraculously accumulate a lot of points after he stopped driving but still had a license.
     
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  6. Ed Barton

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    I was thinking about that today. Our legal system works because the majority fear or respect it and the system has the resources to apply the law to the few that do not fear or respect it. If we all 'stood up to them' the system would crumble and we'd end up with a dictator running the show.
     
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  7. Ed Barton

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    You used to get the happy snap with the fine in QLD. Been a long time since I got one so not sure if you still do. I now drive like a pensioner!
     
  8. Xenia

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    finally - thank you for looking at the vision beyond the immediate consequence.
     
  9. Ed Barton

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    You're welcome, but I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

    You get the bayonets and I'll get the pistols and we'll overthrow 'them'.
     
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  10. Xenia

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    lol
     
  11. Xenia

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    need more of US to get it
     
  12. Ed Barton

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    Can I be dictator?

    Edit - what a silly question. I will be dictator.
     
  13. Xenia

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    you will?
     
  14. Ed Barton

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    Off with your head with even suggesting that I will not be dictator. Oh wait that's so french revolution - I'll have you stoned to death.

    I hope the readers appreciate our weird sense of humour.
     
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    I would say you now drive like a responsible person who:
    a) doesn't like to waste money
    b) doesn't want to kill or injure yourself or others...

    Look, the reality is this; whatever the speed limit gets set at; humans will want to go faster than it.

    If the speed limit past my son's school was removed from 40km/h during drop-off and pick-up times, guess what would happen?

    As it, the cops sit down the bottom of the street in an unmarked car, and pull over a handful of deeheads every single week - and that is with a speed limit in place. :eek:

    If we were all responsible, used our intelligence and didn't drive fast, then we wouldn't need speed limits.

    But go ahead; feel free to think like a victim.
     
  16. geoffw

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    I have no objection to speed limits in schools being closely monitored. I'm a boring speed limit observer myself, with, I think, two speeding fines in 40 years of driving.

    However I thought it was a low act one year when there were speed cameras which were monitoring the 40 zone outside the private school which had already started vacation. There were no cameras outside the still open school where I dropped off my daughter.

    I didn't get caught, so that's not the reason I was upset.
     
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    It actually can be easy to lose multiple points. Yesterday driving back from Gosford as a passenger I note 4 marked police cars along a 20 minute stretch of road. They were hidden where a driver concentrating on the road would never have noticed them.

    If the police wanted people to slow down then one highly visible marked car would have done the job.

    Note: Only 6 points lost during my driving history and those were for my husband.:(
     
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    Agree; there are places where the cameras are set up to get a few "easy" victims; which I don't agree with...simply a blatant money grab if you ask me.

    We have a number of them around our area which I've observed over the years...in spots which make no sense...60km/h zones where there are no pedestrians and wide open roadways for example.

    Of course; in your example above - to give them the benefit of the doubt; they might have genuinely not known about the school on hols, and they can't monitor every school. The speed camera outside the other school might have been set to ping those folks doing more than 60km'h, rather than the 40km/h during school times?

    I reckon every school crossing should have speed humps either side - and decent sized ones to really be an impediment....no need for cameras or unmarked cars then.
     
  19. Ed Barton

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    In QLD at least, the lower speed limit in school zones only applies during school days.
     
  20. geoffw

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    It us the same in the ACT. However, private schools have an extra week of winter vacation. So this was while the lower speed limit applied by law, but at a school with no students.