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by rev » Sun Sep 10, 2017 2:52 pm
It doesn't cost anything extra, or involve extra training or anything, to have police target a specific area for specific things, like hoon driving, or using mobiles while driving. Police are being paid already. Their duties may include a specific thing like targeting hoon driving during their shift in a certain area, or during part of their shift, or it may include general patrol duties. It may even include being sent to attend an event being held, say in Elder Park, where the event it self has to request the police attendance and then pay for it.
They don't just authorize overtime because they feel like coming after people for using their mobiles. They have a budget to work within first.
If they wanted to revenue raise, then we would all be getting pulled over and have our vehicles inspected on the side of the road, where we'd be fined for minor things that we didn't even know were a problem, and then sent to Regency to have our car put over the pits, where they would find even more things to fine us for.
Going 0.5 km/h over the speed limit would be a fineable offense as well. Now you tell me how to read 0.5km/h on your speedo. You can't. It's all a guess.
Speeding is a major factor in fatality car crashes. And not even only fatalities, but significant injuries as well.
Enforcing the speed limits ensures people are doing the safe speed limit for the roads, as well as enforcing other road safety laws.
Now if we have less people ending up in hospital with motor vehicle related traumas, how much does that save our health care system? A lot.
Complain all you want about speed limits being enforced, but the next time a speeding driver kills or leaves one of your loved ones a vegetable for life, don't complain about that driver breaking the law or you'll be a hypocrite.
All major roads should have speed cameras installed and all intersections with traffic lights should have red light cameras.
Every major back street thoroughfare should have mobile speed cameras deployed at least once a week.
The fact is there's too many dick heads on our roads who think the roads are their personal race tracks.
There's too many dick heads who don't indicate, while speeding through intersections, who cut across lanes of traffic cutting off incoming traffic, who go through round abouts without indicators to notify others where they are turning, who then get irate and abusive when you say anything or beep your horn at them.
You sound like one of those people.
People like that should not be on the road.
I don't really give a shit if they put their own lives at risk. You want to act like a dick head without a care for your own safety then good luck to you.
But on public roads acting like a dick head without consideration of other peoples safety, without consideration for other road users, means you're a dick head whose putting peoples lives at risk.
Such people, who kill other road users, or leave them permanently disabled, should be treated and convicted for murder and attempted murder.
We all know the potential lethality of such behaviour. So you know the consequences. You can't plead ignorance or it was unintentional.
Throw drugs like ice into the mix, and the problems on our roads have gotten much worse.
Actions like yours can lead to devastating consequences for others. You were doing 10km/h over the speed limit. It may not seem like much to you, but go do some research and see how much longer it takes to stop. You didn't indicate exiting a round about? What if a parent and their two toddlers were riding their bikes, saw that you weren't indicating to enter the path they were going to take, road out and you hit one of the toddlers?
Who would you blame, your self or the toddler?
What if while you were speeding down Woodville Road, one of the kids from Woodville High School thought he had time to cross the road, you know being 13 or 14 years old and not having any life experience, misjudged the time they had, and you hit them?
There was a young boy who was killed a couple years back on Hanson road, and the car that hit him wasn't speeding from memory. He was doing 60km/h I believe.
You think it's no big deal.
Go and ask the police who are the first responders to motor vehicle accidents involving fatalities or severe injuries if it's no big deal.
Ask them what it's like when the families turn up to the scene.
Sometimes I wonder if people like you will only ever learn when you kill someone.
Now with Beer Garden for our smoking patrons.
