We were on our way home from the gold coast today (in the tin top) and got held up in traffic, nothing unusual, except that an accident had just occured no more than half a kilometre ahead of us. I said to my wife that the accident is only metres from where the roadside camera usually operates near the boondall exit on the freeway. We continued on to find a car half way up a tree and flipped on it's side and police cars , ambulance etc,etc. It would seem that someone had panicked and slammed on the brakes when they saw the roadside camera and caused themself or some poor bugger to have one scary accident. Of course now that the police have witnessed first hand what a hazard roadside cameras can be, and what carnage they can cause, It would be logical to assume that there will be no more cameras of this sort on the road from now on, because we know that they care about saving our lives and not just raising revenue. RIGHT ??
For future reference - if you panic when you see a speed camera and you find yourself getting out of control like the poor bugger previously mentioned, just try and steer your car/bike into the roadside camera instead of a tree, that way you won't have a speeding fine waiting for you when you get out of hospital.
It's just an assumption, but for an accident to occur 40 meters past a roadside camera on a perfectly good stretch of highway with light flowing traffic, i reckon it's a pretty good assumption. Regardless, the amount of times i have seen a car slam on it's brakes in front of someone (it happened to me once) because of a roadside camera and cause another driver to take evasive action is enough for me to see them as a danger to road users. If "you" placed something on the side of a highway that could cause a drivers attention to be averted, and the police spotted you doing it, do you think they would pat you on the back and say goodonya and by the way, here's some money for ya trouble.
Seen a 4x4 and camera at Mt Larcom and the dill had tried to lean some branches against the vehicle to camouflage it! True as I sit here. No 6 x 4 signs here in qld.
On a run recently and mate gets nabbed for excess speed trying to catch up. Perfectly straight bit of back road favoured by bikers about 5 kms long, 100m+ run off either side but fortunately for him he was nabbed by constable. Bloody good thing too, saving him from himself like that!
Digital cameras for Qld coming, zero tolerance, gonna save lives, "it's not about revenue", (mind you the state is in bad shape after the traveston dam fiasco) how many lives will be saved from people doing 0-10 over the limit as opposed to the revenue raised from the same group of offenders? Most cages have a gps that tells you where the fixed cameras are. Go fast, slow down go fast again then crash? What am I missing?
Why don't ALL vehicles have speed limiters?
Maybe we should all do the right thing for a month (week?) and see what impact it has on government coffers.
Best anti speed deterrent I seen was in vic 30 yrs ago. Lifesize cutout of a police vehicle; now that made people slow down.
Sorry, wrong thread.
hey I received an email about this topic and clicked on the link and the reply is gone. What gives? Surely it cant have been removed by the moderator, can it?
Well i rode past the spot where the radar usually sits on saturday and sunday and it wasn't there. Maybe they thought it would be a good idea to give it a rest for a while ??
