Driving Offences - What have you been done for???

[sewid]

I have never been pulled over in any Skyline i have owned. Except once for an RBT.

Touch wood!

[predator]

If your insurance company doesn't know about your offences and you have a crash, they could refuse to pay you out. I've seen it happen unfortunately.

I hardly think them reading it in here is going to be any different to them doing a bit of research and simply asking your local transport department - which they do anyhow in case of a claim I am sure anyhow.

[JH32]

yeah so i think you quoted the wrong person

[Jimbo2000]

nada

i'm great

[Frunknmont]

Got 2 15km speeding fines about 10 years ago in my old crappy '74 Corona. How it could get over the limit is still a mystery to me :burnout:

[martydaman]

But I have been done for:

Unregistered/uninsured: Moving car from one driveway to the other at my house. Total distance: 10m. Cost: $480.

how the hell did you get done for that one??

[johnnyr31]

got done speeding today 83 in a 60 got $208 and 3 points

[leb]

Speeding's stupid

[Remix-]

Currently on my 4th license suspension.

- Driving with no license.

- 141km/hr + x 3 = 6 points each time.

- Various random speeds 10/20/30kms over.

Copped nearly 5k of fines in 3 years.

Some were unlucky, most I deserved.

[JAPCAB]

Speeding - various; 2 fines for 4 km over, 2 for 15kms over

driving without licence

driving in breach of minor defect

driving in breach of major defect

fail to obey lights

fail to indicate

not have licence on person whilst driving

driving unroadworthy vehicle x6

[Revhead]

how the hell did you get done for that one??

My brother was a very bad boy (by 18 he'd racked up something like $15k in fines), they must have been watching the house waiting for him to slip up. Unfortunately I did something extremely minor but that I could technically be booked for, and by the time they realised I wasn't him (he used my name a fair bit I found out later), it was either too late as they'd already started writing the tickets, or they thought "woohoo, we've just made $500, who cares who we've caught". I wrote letters and everything but ended up having to pay it anyway.

The people up the road reckon the pursuit car was waiting outside their house (hiding behind parked cars) for around 30 mins, then it valve-bounced down the street after me. Effective use of resources I was always brought up to respect police, but from that day on I lost almost all respect I ever had for traffic cops. A couple of decent ones have restored a bit of it (like the undue noise one), but on the whole I don't have much time for them.

[martydaman]

damn... what a bunch of wankers

must be a pain being on the police hit list if they are watching your house

[krzysiu]

My brother was a very bad boy (by 18 he'd racked up something like $15k in fines), they must have been watching the house waiting for him to slip up. Unfortunately I did something extremely minor but that I could technically be booked for, and by the time they realised I wasn't him (he used my name a fair bit I found out later), it was either too late as they'd already started writing the tickets, or they thought "woohoo, we've just made $500, who cares who we've caught". I wrote letters and everything but ended up having to pay it anyway.

The people up the road reckon the pursuit car was waiting outside their house (hiding behind parked cars) for around 30 mins, then it valve-bounced down the street after me. Effective use of resources I was always brought up to respect police, but from that day on I lost almost all respect I ever had for traffic cops. A couple of decent ones have restored a bit of it (like the undue noise one), but on the whole I don't have much time for them.

Did you file a complaint against the Police?

[sammus]

bones thugs 'n harmony - **** the police

that's unlucky revhead

[martydaman]

what strikes me is the $15k in fines by 18... jeez, that enough for a car

[Revhead]

Yes, but as absolutely ridiculous as it was, technically I was in the wrong as the car was unregistered, and by the letter of the law, I was driving it on the road.

Also, being (I think) 18 at the time, and the fact that I was related to someone with a horrendous driving history (despite having an absolutely clean record myself), they probably felt like they had to teach me a lesson. Either way, the whole experience left a sour taste in my mouth. They waiting at least half an hour for me to do something wrong, yet took 4 hours+ to turn up after our house was broken into, 2 hours to arrive when a guy was closed-fist bashing the crap out of a woman in the middle of the street (we stepped in and broke it up, but that's not the point), wouldn't take action when every house in our street except one was broken into, and the house that was left had stolen equipment visible through windows, etc etc. Seems kind of lop-sided to me.

[martydaman]

wouldn't take action when every house in our street except one was broken into, and the house that was left had stolen equipment visible through windows, etc etc. Seems kind of lop-sided to me.

theres a brain buster for ya, but technically cops cant do anything unless they suspect something. Are you serious about every house on your street getting robbed or is it an exaggeration??

[Revhead]

Well ok, it's an exaggeration, but it's not far off The street I'm in crosses a main road, so it's split into eastern and western sides. On the eastern side, which I'm on, the police that (eventually) arrived at our house said that we were most definitely not the first. I don't remember the exact figures (it was a while ago) but something like 85% of houses on the eastern end of the street had been hit, and something like 60% of houses within a few blocks. But regardless, we could identify our curtains in one window (yes, the maggots stole them ) and our mower was sitting in the front yard. As soon as this family moved out, crime in our suburb dropped to almost nothing (like it was before they moved in). One officer we spoke to about it said that basically them investigating would be a waste of time, because due to them being of a particular racial background, they'd get a slap on the wrist, and that's if the process made it through the mountains of extra paperwork and red tape and eventually made it to prosecution. If that's not racist, I don't know what is.

[fane]

me and my house mate, i have 33 and he has 32 and we are in the top 10 hitlist for our city.....i dont think i have to say more.

i aint proud of it, they just hate imports.

[MLCrisis]

Speeding's stupid

I would suggest that it depends on where, when and by how much!

Meanwhile, I am not sure whether public confession can be painted as being helpful to others, but I don't think it is worthy of flaming by others who are holier-than-thou. :innocent:

For what it's worth, my driving record over 21 years had a fairly inauspicious start:

DUI - 5 weeks after passing driving test. I was half a sip over the limit, at a time when everyone drank aiming to just stay under the limit. I missed!

Speeding - which is what they pulled me over for in the first place. 55 mph in a 30 mph limit (big wide, empty road, late at night). Exuberant, misguided youth!

Since then:

Using a vehicle with no road tax (UK) - it was left on the road outside my house for a week, while I was away, and it had terminal starting problems. WPC Eva Braun didn't see it that way. The neighbours who reported it knew which house it was from, but didn't bother knocking on the door to ask my mate about it. They just called the cops! We had just moved in, too!

Speeding - 48 mph in a 40 mph limit. (UK)

Then in Oz:

Ran a red light - just arrived, not used to timing - went through 0.1 seconds after it went red!

Nothing for 7 years. Then 137 km/hr in 110 limit (overtaking a truck south of Bunbury - in a Commodore Wagon).

Failed to stop at Stop sign (PC Goebels & PC Mussolini said I had to stop completely at the line. Apparently 2 km/hr after waiting stopped behind another car isn't good enough.)

Two more $50 dollar speeding ones.

Then 126km/hr in 110 zone in the Commodore Wagon again (Country cops with nothing better to do than fine city types on their holidays).

Only one in 18 months in the Skyline, just a month or so ago, 74 in a 60 zone (big wide dual carriageway, with no traffic - just pulled out from a side road and booted it a little - I was actually slowing down!).

And everything had been going so well!

Fairly average for the period, I reckon. It is interesting how times have changed. If I was 17 now, I wouldn't dream of drinking when I was driving.

And I always drive around Mandurah in the Skyline - never through it! :Paranoid:

Cheers.