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From: D Walford on 18 Jun 2010 04:42 On 18/06/2010 2:10 PM, Bernd Felsche wrote: > D Walford<dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote: >> On 17/06/2010 7:28 PM, Mr.T wrote: > >>> The sad thing is that there was a road safety campaign decades >>> ago that said "Courtesy is catching". >>> Unfortunately it never caught on! > >> And sadly morons who tailgate for any reason are the worst offenders. > >>> IF it did we may have been able to have road behaviour like Germany. > >> Possibly but we also need Police willing to enforce all the rules and >> not just those relating to speed. > > They have their "rule of the day" as well. > > There are lots of unmarked cars patrolling with video cameras. > And plenty of marked cars as well. > > And in some areas, there are speed traps with no other purpose than to > generate revenue under the pretext of "law enforcement". I have yet to met anyone or even hear about someone who has been fined for failing to keep left or tailgating in Australia. A mate got booked in the US for "following too close", the person he was tailgating was his father. Daryl
From: Noddy on 18 Jun 2010 05:38 "D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message news:4c1b316e$0$28656$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > I have yet to met anyone or even hear about someone who has been fined for > failing to keep left or tailgating in Australia. I got pinched for tailgating some years ago. The official title on the ticket was "following too closely", and I wasn't tailgating. I was in one of the centre lanes of the F-19 freeway moving up on a slower car and waiting for a faster moving car on the outside to go past when a toggie on the other side of the freeway saw me and did a u-turn to pull me over and give me a ticket. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: D Walford on 18 Jun 2010 05:56 On 18/06/2010 7:38 PM, Noddy wrote: > "D Walford"<dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message > news:4c1b316e$0$28656$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > >> I have yet to met anyone or even hear about someone who has been fined for >> failing to keep left or tailgating in Australia. > > I got pinched for tailgating some years ago. > > The official title on the ticket was "following too closely", and I wasn't > tailgating. I was in one of the centre lanes of the F-19 freeway moving up > on a slower car and waiting for a faster moving car on the outside to go > past when a toggie on the other side of the freeway saw me and did a u-turn > to pull me over and give me a ticket. Now that you mention it I think you have said that before so there has been at least one:-) Daryl
From: Noddy on 18 Jun 2010 07:26 "D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message news:4c1b5815$0$14141$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > LOL, I once accused a cop of wagging school because he looked like he was > about 12, I don't think he was amused:-) Some coppers have no sense of humour, do they? :) -- Regards, Noddy.
From: D Walford on 18 Jun 2010 07:54
On 18/06/2010 9:26 PM, Noddy wrote: > "D Walford"<dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message > news:4c1b5815$0$14141$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > >> LOL, I once accused a cop of wagging school because he looked like he was >> about 12, I don't think he was amused:-) > > Some coppers have no sense of humour, do they? :) > True but experience tells me its usually less costly to humour them. Daryl |