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 [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in South Australia, Speeding Fines on Feb 3rd, 2010
A lawyer for independent MP Bob Such has told Adelaide Magistrates Court he wants a hand-held laser made available for independent testing to verify if they are capable of giving incorrect speed readings.
Mr Such is on trial charged with speeding after a motorbike patrol police officer used a hand-held laser gun to clock him at [...]
Read Full Post »
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
Read Full Post »
Posted in Speeding Fines on Sep 5th, 2009
Neil Mitchell
Okay – Eastlink. Now there might be a way of getting to the bottom of this because we keep getting these calls of about Eastlink specifically Wellington Road. The drivers – well, some have got cruise control, some are quite sure, some are speed limits. The others have got [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Speeding Fines on Sep 5th, 2009
A motorcyclist from Queensland won his day in court, beating an alleged speeding ticket of 92km/h in a 60km/h zone.
What was interesting about his case, was that when he questioned the police officer whom wrote him the ticket on the day, it was discovered that the NINE people before [him] and FOUR people after him [...]
Read Full Post »