Jump to content
SAU Community

New Traffic Laws Coming In Qld

Spook's_Skyline

By Spook's_Skyline,
in Queensland

 Share

Recommended Posts

Spook's_Skyline Mentor

Spook's_Skyline

Posted
Posted

1. What is an Additional Demerit Point Penalty?

If a driver or motorbike rider commits two or more offences of exceeding the speed limit of more than 20 km/h within a 12 month period, in addition to the standard penalty that applies for each individual offence, the driver/rider will incur either an extra four, six or eight demerit points for the subsequent offence. The additional points will appear as a separate entry on a person's traffic history.

This additional demerit point penalty is also referred to as double demerit points.

2. Who does the additional demerit point penalty apply to?

The additional demerit point penalty will apply to drivers and motorbike riders who commit the following offences in Queensland:

· Exceed the speed limit by at least 21km/h but not more than 30km/h – 4 demerit points;

· Exceed the speed limit by at least 31km/h but not more than 40km/h – 6 demerit points; and

· Exceed the speed limit by more than 40km/h – 8 demerit points

Where a driver/rider commits more than one of these offences within a 12 month period, the person will accumulate double the amount of demerit points on their traffic history for the subsequent offence. The number of demerit points that will apply will be dependent upon the subsequent offence.

Any of the above three offences can be considered a 'first offence' or 'subsequent or later offence' and do not need to be identical. For example, if a person commits an offence of speeding 31-40 km/h within 12 months of committing an offence of speeding 21-30 km/h, the second offence (that is, the 31-40 km/h offence) will incur an additional 6 demerit points.

The additional demerit points are to apply to any subsequent offence committed within 12 months of a previous offence. In other words, for normal demerit point allocations for the above speeding offences to apply, a person must not have any offence involving speeding more than 20 km/h within the previous 12 months. The following table outlines a few different scenarios:

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/112688-new-traffic-laws-coming-in-qld/
Share on other sites
Spook's_Skyline Mentor

Spook's_Skyline

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Scenario 1

Offence Date Offence Description Demerit Points

1/5/06 Speeding more than 40km/h 8

1/8/06 Speeding 21-30km/h 4

1/8/06 Additional demerit point penalty 4

Scenario 2

Offence Date Offence Description Demerit Points

1/5/06 Speeding 13-20km/h 3

1/8/06 Speeding 31-40km/h 6

1/6/07 Speeding more than 40km/h 8

1/6/07 Additional demerit point penalty 8

Scenario 3

Offence Date Offence Description Demerit Points

1/5/06 Speeding 21-30km/h 4

1/8/06 Speeding 13-20km/h 3

No additional demerit point penalty

Scenario 4 – this scenario portrays 3 relevant offences

Offence Date Offence Description Demerit Points

1/5/06 Speeding 21-30km/h 4

1/8/06 Speeding 31-40km/h 6

1/8/06 Additional demerit point penalty 6

1/6/07 Speeding 21-30km/h 4

1/6/07 Additional demerit point penalty 4

A little scary, a mate in teh transport department has just told me about all this.

I guess QLD is getting pretty serious about speeding offenses.

Two half decent offenses within 12months and you are pretty much gone!!!

Nexus9 Grand Master

Nexus9

Posted
Posted

Yep Government is definitely getting serious about road offences.

My girlfriend works as the PA for a State member of parliment and another thing in the works is the introduction of cameras on "problem roundabouts" i.e specifically roundabouts in residential areas where there are lots of complaints about people drifting around them. Penalty maximum will be loss of car!

mind you I actually think that it is a good thing, if you are the type of tosser that goes out at the first sign of rain and "drifts" in a residential neighbourhood you don't deserve to drive in the first place IMHO!

dangerous_daveo Grand Master

dangerous_daveo

Posted
Posted
Yep Government is definitely getting serious about road offences.

My girlfriend works as the PA for a State member of parliment and another thing in the works is the introduction of cameras on "problem roundabouts" i.e specifically roundabouts in residential areas where there are lots of complaints about people drifting around them. Penalty maximum will be loss of car!

mind you I actually think that it is a good thing, if you are the type of tosser that goes out at the first sign of rain and "drifts" in a residential neighbourhood you don't deserve to drive in the first place IMHO!

I reckon most of that is from school holidays and kids with bottles of oil, and the fact thats right FACT that most queenslanders have no idea how to use a round-a-bout.

Either way, wtf is the point of double points. With most of those you would have lost your licence anyway before they took the 2nd lot of points off!

Why dont they just train drivers. So they realise how speed kills. If you go too fast where you cant slow down in time, or turn properly, you crash. Simple equasion!

Slide Grand Master

Slide

Posted
Posted

These sorts of penalties are stupid.

It really doesnt matter how many points are taken if people want to speed/break laws they will.

Get rid of the penalties and start letting people die as consequence to thier actions.

Natural selection.

chaos Grand Master

chaos

Posted
Posted
These sorts of penalties are stupid.

It really doesnt matter how many points are taken if people want to speed/break laws they will.

Get rid of the penalties and start letting people die as consequence to thier actions.

Natural selection.

bahahahahahahaha.....and what if they dont die?? you still going to have an idiot...he'll just be in a lot of

pain for a while

SMR33 Grand Master

SMR33

Posted
Posted

This just reinforces the fact that speeding is teh only thing Qld Police are interested in 'policing'.

For example if you swere unnecessarily, cut people off, fail to use indicators, drive the wrong way up a one way street, reading a novel, have a dog on your lap whilst talking on teh phone and eating a bowl of cereal, you are perfectly safe as long as you're not speeding.

hefer81 Collaborator

hefer81

Posted
Posted

speeding is not the main factor in accidents its people who drive like dickheads and dont pay any attention to the conditions around them. Speeding is one of the lowest factors in accidents below inatentive driving, drink driving and fatigue. The traffic laws in queensland are f**ked and the law has nothing better to do with there time then bust people on stupid little offences and pick on the majority of us. For starters a drink driver can get a work licence but a person who looses there licence in a suspension, through demerit points etc where is the justice in that.f**k normal people they say we will just let the drink drivers go hey

hrd-hr30 Grand Master

hrd-hr30

Posted
Posted
...a drink driver can get a work licence but a person who looses there licence in a suspension, through demerit points etc where is the justice in that...

I believe if you loose your licence on accumulated demerit points, you are given the option of a 3mth suspension or 6mth 1pt licence.

The Dan Grand Master

The Dan

Posted
Posted
I reckon most of that is from school holidays and kids with bottles of oil, and the fact thats right FACT that most queenslanders have no idea how to use a round-a-bout.

Either way, wtf is the point of double points. With most of those you would have lost your licence anyway before they took the 2nd lot of points off!

Why dont they just train drivers. So they realise how speed kills. If you go too fast where you cant slow down in time, or turn properly, you crash. Simple equasion!

I believe the roundabout cowboys you are referring to actually have their own website.

www.nissansilvia.com

Col-GTSX Grand Master

Col-GTSX

Posted
Posted

"I have a dream"

:cough:

I believe that if you don't break any laws then you have nothing to worry about.

On the other hand if you are me, then you are above the law so it does not matter.

:cough:

Foot Note: I am joking

Col-GTSX Grand Master

Col-GTSX

Posted
Posted

On a postive and constructive note...

I think these laws will help decrease people speeding and thats what they are trying to do.

I also think they need to police my road at about 3am in the morning to stop the trucks from rat running to sandgate rd.

Some of them are going 90-100kph

Thats about as bad as a car doing 300kph....

Even then i reckon the truck would do more damage...

33GTT Collaborator

33GTT

Posted
Posted (edited)
I believe if you loose your licence on accumulated demerit points, you are given the option of a 3mth suspension or 6mth 1pt licence.

It's 12 months on one point,,

I've had two of those licence's

But, if you lose that one point, then it is and automatic 6 month disqualification,,

I've had one of those too,, lol

:P

cheers

John

Edited by 33GTT

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • soviet_merlin
      Duncan's V37.......race car?

      By soviet_merlin · Posted

      Thanks for doing that Duncan! Makes you a good person in my books. We don't get kangaroos or wombats here. But we have bats and it's similar. AFAIK it's often the mums with a baby attached that get hit because they drop lower when starting from a tree. If you hit an animal, check on it. https://www.ifaw.org/au/resources/wildlife-rescue-app An app to get the closest wildlife rescue contact.
    • Murray_Calavera
      Jacks that fit under GTR lips that can reach the subframe?

      By Murray_Calavera · Posted

      My dream is also to have a proper hoist, but I don't think it will ever happen. My quickjack is probably as close as I'll ever get, it really is very good though. 
    • Duncan
      Duncan's V37.......race car?

      By Duncan · Posted

      Yeah we keep on in the dailies, it is pretty poor how many animals get hit and the driver leaves without checking....have saved a couple of little ones over the years. Bit of a gruesome job though, pouches generally need to be cut open because they are so tight and often the joey doesn't realise mum is gone so they are still locked onto the teat. I checked the modules in front of the DS wheel where an oil cooler should go.... There is the radar unit - that can go for race use) One of the 2 HX water pumps, the silver cylinder. That needs to be kept but might be able to be relocated But the bad news, the big computer mounted vertically in front of the wheel (blocking any potential air exit) is the electric steering computer. That is required until/unless i do a hydraulic steering conversion, and in CAD based modern car design it is not like I can just pop a big unit like that somewhere else (plus the loom would be too short anywhere else too). So, the passenger side is OK to clear out (just use a smaller washer reservoir, potentially elsewhere), but the DS no beuno
    • Duncan
      Chris' Toyota Mark ii JZX110

      By Duncan · Posted

      Well, all the best with the new camry It was interesting to hear about the UK process, it is generally a lot more streamlined here with a shipping agent looking after all the import side (noting the exact final price can still be a surprise.....) and I've used a few different brokers on the japan (or US) side, and never had any trouble with any of them....luck of the draw I guess. You mentioned you didn't get the auction sheet (understandable since you bought it from a dealer, not auction), but I always try and get hold of that because they are pretty thorough. I've imported 2x R grade vehicles over the years and both were fine, repairs in Japan are pretty thorough compared to here in Oz.
    • Duncan
      Jacks that fit under GTR lips that can reach the subframe?

      By Duncan · Posted

      BTW I measured the jack I have, it is 70mm at the saddle but you only have about 700 until it returns to 150mm high at the cylinder so it is good but no magic bullet.
×
×
  • Create New...