A Road safety expert bodly states that a crackdown on speeding is NOT the answer to reducing the road toll in Australia.
The vice-president of safety development for Mercedes-Benz, Ulrich Mellinghoff, says crash-avoidance systems, better roads and more roundabouts would do more to cut the road toll than tougher speeding laws.
The approach is in direct contrast [...]
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Posted in Victoria on Dec 3rd, 2009
The Victorian Government reaped more than $700,000 from speeding Ballarat region motorists in the first three months of this financial year, new figures reveal.
Department of Justice statistics show a 92 per cent jump in the number of fines issued by mobile speed cameras in police region 2, division 3, between July and September this year [...]
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Posted in ACT, Automotive news, New South Wales, New Zealand, Northern Territory, Queensland, Radar Detectors, South Australia, Speed Cameras, Speeding Fines, Tasmania, UK, USA, Victoria, Western Australia on Nov 6th, 2009
Alan Jones talks to Lord Monckton, British climate change sceptic, who says the Copenhagen treaty is about creating a dictatorship world government
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Posted in Victoria on Oct 16th, 2009
REDFLEX Traffic Systems has been awarded a further contract to install Redflex red-light and speed systems at a total of 25 intersections around Victoria.
According to Redflex, it will supply install and maintain the camera systems under a contract worth around $4.5m and $7m over the next year, depending on options selected by Victoria’s Department of [...]
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Posted in Victoria on Sep 18th, 2009
Melbourne’s council coffers is now raising $1 every second as parking inspectors continue to fine violators every minute all over the city.
On a report published by The Herald Sun – after getting hold of a compilation report of every ticket issued on parking violations with the first half of 2009 on the entire city of [...]
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