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Reply #45 - Feb 14^th, 2021 at 8:59pm

Reducing the road toll

Car slides on wet road, kills 67yr old man on footpath outside his home

https://www.9news.com.au/national/fairfield-sydney-man-killed-car-accident-own-h...

Not driving according to conditions I'd say, or not paying enough attention. The offending driver is in his 50s and should know better - slow down when the roads are wet. He now has blood on his hands

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Reply #46 - Feb 15^th, 2021 at 7:25am

How will greed cameras catch these people?????

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Couple forced to flee car-nage
OLIVIA JENKINS
TWO pedestrians were forced to run from a car that charged at them and their parked car at full speed at the weekend.
Shocking footage recorded by another driver’s dashcam at an Officeworks car park in the Melbourne suburb of Campbellfield showed a black Mazda hurtling towards a man and woman after the man tried to open the car’s passenger side door as it reversed away from them.
The Mazda driver can then be seen accelerating at the pair before crashing into their parked car, causing significant damage to both cars in the process.
The dashcam footage showed the black Mazda hit the parked car with such force that it launched the parked car over a cement divider that separated two parking spots.
The intensity forced open the Mazda’s door, with contents flying out of the car.
Victoria Police spokeswoman Nikki Ladgrove said investigators spoke to a number of witnesses before locating the driver.
“They spoke to a 44-yearold man from Coburg,” Ms Ladgrove said.
“He is expected to be charged with numerous traffic offences.”

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Bias_2012 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10766 Gender:	Re: Reducing the road toll? Reply #47 - Feb 15^th, 2021 at 9:57am Valkie wrote on Feb 15^th, 2021 at 7:25am: TWO pedestrians were forced to run from a car that charged at them and their parked car at full speed at the weekend. Yes I saw that vid. Is there zero tolerance for using a car as a weapon? Probably not
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Reply #48 - Feb 16^th, 2021 at 3:11pm

Bias_2012 wrote on Feb 15^th, 2021 at 9:57am:

Valkie wrote on Feb 15^th, 2021 at 7:25am:

TWO pedestrians were forced to run from a car that charged at them and their parked car at full speed at the weekend.

Yes I saw that vid. Is there zero tolerance for using a car as a weapon? Probably not

As long as they aren't speeding or using a mobile phone.
The grubberment can't be bothered to chase them.

Remember
Greed cameras cost little to run, work 24 hours and make the grubberment money for nothing.
Policing for profit, the new way.

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Reply #49 - Feb 16^th, 2021 at 10:22pm

Reducing the road toll

Former Thai Buddhist monk jailed for 12 years, non parole period of 6 years

High on ice and shouting abuse at other drivers, sticking his finger up at them, he veered to wrong side of road and killed elderly couple at Bulla Vic in October 2019. He had a syringe near his hand

He convinced the Judge he wouldn't touch drugs again but got caught with weed while on bail

https://www.9news.com.au/national/drug-driver-jailed-after-killing-victorian-dri...

Why do we bother?

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Bias_2012 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10766 Gender:	Re: Reducing the road toll? Reply #50 - Feb 16^th, 2021 at 10:36pm Reducing the road toll Road rage incident ... not real sure what it was all about Truck deliberately side swipes car stopped on road with car driver pinned between car and truck - lucky to be alive Truck takes off. All caught on camera https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-man-crushed-between-car-and-truck-durin...
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Reply #51 - Feb 17^th, 2021 at 12:34am

Bias_2012 wrote on Jan 13^th, 2021 at 12:01pm:

Johnnie wrote on Jan 13^th, 2021 at 12:31am:

In those millions of miles i have had a couple of very close calls.

Were the close calls your fault or the fault of some idiots who don't deserve to have a drivers license?

Close calls don't initiate CTP insurance pay-outs, only injury to other people does. Close calls are only for conversation material in the pub, unless post traumatic stress disorder can be proved. A dash-cam video of the close call would be ideal for that

Johnnie wrote on Jan 13^th, 2021 at 12:31am:

I would set fire to that Kia, get the insurance and buy something that at least drives straight.

Criminal action is not my thing, I'll just trade it in, and warn people about the poor design of the cars steering and gear ratios

Reports are coming in from all over about electric power steering warning lights coming on, with different brands, even Toyota. Yep, the steering has a warning light, a confidence booster! The steering can lock up, at the very least it can be very hard to turn the steering wheel when the electrics fail. I've tried it when the car was stationary with the engine switched off - it was extremely difficult to turn the wheel, like something would break if any more pressure was applied

The Australian Standards Department must be getting brown bags under the table, they're certainly not doing their job

I was sitting at traffic lights, got rear ended and wrote a car off.
I had a car turn in front of me and wrote a motor bike off.

I had a kangaroo jump through my windscreen at 110kph and wrote a car off and a lot of close calls.

Car insurance is not always fair to all and there are some really bad drivers out there but we are all in this together.

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Reply #52 - Feb 17^th, 2021 at 12:40pm

Johnnie wrote on Feb 17^th, 2021 at 12:34am:

I was sitting at traffic lights, got rear ended and wrote a car off.
I had a car turn in front of me and wrote a motor bike off.

I had a kangaroo jump through my windscreen at 110kph and wrote a car off and a lot of close calls.

Car insurance is not always fair to all and there are some really bad drivers out there but we are all in this together.

Well let's stay on-topic, it's about reducing the road toll, not about CTP insurance

Are you saying we shouldn't try to reduce the road-toll?

Do you support drug addicts, to be granted a drivers license to drive on public roads?

What about drunk unlicensed drivers in stolen cars?

Drivers who speed, lose control of vehicles and kill pedestrians?

Drivers who intentionally run into other vehicles?

Do you reckon penalties are harsh enough, or do you think every incident is just an "accident"

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Reply #54 - Feb 17^th, 2021 at 12:55pm

I love that the fine for obstructing your number plate is a couple of thousand bucks.

But driving on 4 bald tyres cops you a couple of hundred at most.

Call me confused, but isn't driving on 4 bald tyres slightly more Dangerious than covering up your number plates.

But one must consider this from the parasitic grubberments perspective.

If they can't see your plates
TGEY can't use the greed cameras to automatically book you.
Thus making their job at the revenue department a bit harder.

F$%king thieving, parasitical grubberment.

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Bias_2012 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10766 Gender:	Re: Reducing the road toll? Reply #55 - Feb 20^th, 2021 at 8:43pm Reducing the road toll One child dead, one injured. Car hit power pole, NSW Central Coast. Driver in his forties https://www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-central-coast-child-dead-second-child-hosp... Blame the power pole
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Reply #56 - Feb 24^th, 2021 at 2:31pm

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No link for this one. I saw it on Channel Nine News. Not on-line that I could see

B double on M1 near Newcastle NSW merges from multi-lane section to narrower-laned section, clips innocent small black car in front, spinning it violently, smashing it into guard rails, did complete roll and landed back on it's wheels

Viewing the TV footage several times (I record the news every night), it seems this B double driver didn't properly to check the traffic to his left before merging, which he left till the last second, right at the last few "merging" arrows marked on the road, and his speed was far too great for safe merging

His excuse will be: "I couldn't see the car to my left, it should have taken avoiding action so I wouldn't hit it, I drive a big truck you know, not easy to stop them"

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Bias_2012 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10766 Gender:	Re: Reducing the road toll? Reply #57 - Mar 3^rd, 2021 at 8:03pm Reducing the road toll Small sedan fails to give way to large double decker bus in Liverpool NSW. Six people taken to hospital https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-crash-doubledecker-bus-crashes-into-car... Don't argue with big buses
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Reply #58 - Mar 6^th, 2021 at 10:36am

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Two vehicles traveling in the same direction collide on the M1 Princes Highway. One hit a median strip before crashing into a tree. Female driver died, three children taken to hospital

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-06/princes-highway-crash-figtree-kills-woman...

Appears to be a case of losing control of vehicle momentarily and crashing into vehicle next to it ... or changing lanes and clipped another vehicle.

(Lately, news reports have very little details about serious road crashes. We can only speculate how they happen. Knowing how they happen helps us avoid the same predicaments and become safer drivers)

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Reply #59 - Mar 7^th, 2021 at 7:37am

Bias_2012 wrote on Mar 6^th, 2021 at 10:36am:

Reducing the road toll

Two vehicles traveling in the same direction collide on the M1 Princes Highway. One hit a median strip before crashing into a tree. Female driver died, three children taken to hospital

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-06/princes-highway-crash-figtree-kills-woman...

Appears to be a case of losing control of vehicle momentarily and crashing into vehicle next to it ... or changing lanes and clipped another vehicle.

(Lately, news reports have very little details about serious road crashes. We can only speculate how they happen. Knowing how they happen helps us avoid the same predicaments and become safer drivers)

Unless they can blame speed, there is no value, in the grubberments eyes, of reporting the facts.

There have been far too many (for the grubberments liking) of accidents that are due to other factors than speed.
It makes justifying the cash grab roll out of the greed $cameras a little harder.

The grubberment plan is to remove all police vehicles off the road (they cost too much)
And replace them with a multitude of greed $cameras.
Mobile phone $cameras
Speed $Cameras
Smoke $Cameras
Unregistered vehicle $Cameras (but they need some police cars to chase them down)
Point to point $Cameras
Transit lane $Cameras

Pretty soon every pole and overpass, every tree and every second vehicle will have a $camera fitted to it.
And when people start doing everything right, they will make some adjustments .
Like speed limit changes willy nilly
continually varying speed limits
faster yellow lights so that they catch more red light runners (dont laugh, they have done it before)
Hell, they might even change the direction of one way streets occasionally, just to catch people out.

With the mac bank involved, nothing is out of the question, its just a matter of time before the most draconian rules will be implemented and enforced.

Greedy grubberment and the greedy, illegal Mac Bank make a terrifying pair.

They dont care where and how they get the money, as long as they can keep getting it.

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