"And if it happens to be a loved one, or a child, or if there's no other alternative, then all I can say is that you'd better get the smack out of my way."

So you'd kill me, my family, and perhaps yourself and your loved one, to prove how macho you are? How wonderful.

Please delete wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2010 at 1:41pm:


Thats a good one! You got virtually everything wrong.

The speed limits are NOT imposed by experts. They are in fact usually put in place by a bureaucrat who, if we are lucky, uses the australian standards for speed limits which are themseves set at the LOWEST common denominator. they are NOT the maximum safe speed at all. If that were the case you wouldnt have the same 60km limit on a narrow road that you have on a 6 lane arterial road. speed limits are placed with CONSISTENCY in mind - not safety.

The idea that I (or anyone else) cannot drive above the speed limit safely is ridiculous and assumes so much as to be laughable. to imagine that 65 in a 60 zone is somehow dangerous is stupid. Oh and btw, I actually DO have the training and I also have a car that would out perform and out handle (by a long way) cop cars and certainly ambulances.

So what would you do if someone in your family was sitting in the seat next to you dying and the ONLY way to save them was to speed to the hospital. Let's say even as 'fast' as 90Km/hr in a 60 zone. Would you choose to let them die rather than speed? Please answer, because I am fascinated with what response you can come up with.

"So what would you do if someone in your family was sitting in the seat next to you dying and the ONLY way to save them was to speed to the hospital. Let's say even as 'fast' as 90Km/hr in a 60 zone. Would you choose to let them die rather than speed? Please answer, because I am fascinated with what response you can come up with. "

"Only way to save them"??? How is that measured? What are we talking about here? Decapitation?

I'd wait for the ambulance. Nothing is achieved if I crash the car, and all is lost.

At the very least I would make sure the ambulance was on it's way, and arrange to meet them somewhere (did this three years ago with a boat accident victim, so not speaking through my arse - and I didn't break any laws, or risk further accident).

This whole theoretical is based upon some third person, whom you never met, with a stake impaled in his leg - so now we need some more information - was he able to climb into the car? In which case I dispute his life was in danger, and racing him to the hospital was more of an endangerment than the accident in the first place.

So they have a neck injury, and I decide to lift them into my car and race them to hospital, and because of MY stupidity they are a quadraplegic??

Do you have NO sense?

longweekend58 wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2010 at 5:04pm:


Mind if I ask what type of vehicle longy; only out of interest?

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I would call 000 whilst underway and advise them of the situation and that I was driving the injured to hospital, I had no intention of stopping, for anything, and if they were interested in talking to me they could do so at the destination.  An escort would be ideal.

Frankly where ever possible and safe to do so I would break land speed records if required and slow at intersections until clear to proceed through; if that involved running any posted or electronic speed limit or device so be it. 

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I don't doubt that happens. But one of our local ambos is currently sitting out a 12 month good behaviour after exceeding his points while on the job.

The FPV-GT is a great car that you have.

I have to say Australians do make excellent performance cars by Ford and Holden.

If we had stayed in Melbourne, I wanted to get the Holden Commodore 6.0 V8.
Awesome car.

So any one yet come up with some good ideas about what we will do with faster internet?