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for those sure it wont...the humble jazz will fall over at 180kph... :D

*edit * :P

if only my damn computer would load faster than dial up.

Im glad to hear the actual info...as 140-160+ left a huge question in my mind.

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but AGAIN THERE IS NO CONTEXT TO THE FACTS THAT WERE GIVEN IN THE ORIGINAL POST.

Graeme, feel free to elaborate on teh story?

Could have been someone who'd had a big night and woken up with a hangover thinking they would be alright to drive etc etc.

Use your logic boz. If there were any mitigating circumstances to justify this bullshit behaviour, I don't think Graeme would have omitted them from his original post which painted this guy to be the irresponsible twat he is. For the record, waking up the next day from a night of heavy drinking and taking off thinking you're good to go no matter your BAC is just as stupid.

Peter, Have to agree with you about the drink driving and impound. That's something that should be looked at, possibly anything over 0.10 should be impound criteria.

Definitely something needs to be done as drink driving is totally out of control. My station alone probably get 3-4 a week on night shift just while driving around patrolling etc

I target it more than most and unless tied up at jobs I set up targeted road blocks every Fri/sat night and have got a drink driver EVERY time within the first 10 cars tested. Half the time it was the very first car!

I even almost got ran over last night doing a road block by person who simply couldn't see me standing in the middle of the road in a reflective vest, with torch, emergency lights on and in very well lit area. He hadn't even been drinking. Some people should NOT be on the road!!

Peter, Have to agree with you about the drink driving and impound. That's something that should be looked at, possibly anything over 0.10 should be impound criteria.

since i would like to see the limit be .00 for everyone i think anything over .05 should be impounded, and not just for 48hrs, for the whole time they have lost there license, also they have to pay storage if they want to keep it, if they dont want to keep it they sign it over and it gets auctioned off and the proceeds go to victims of crime fund or something like that.

Obviously the penaltys are not enough to make ppl think twice about drink driving so they need to be harder, bring in laws like that and maybe then ppl will have second thoughts.

Instead they bring in laws where the only evidence needed is a cops word which is wide open for abuse and your car gets impounded.

Well another bad night on the roads with yet another fatal and the Major contributing factor SPEED. RIP and feel for all those involved.

We also got another 3 XPCA overnight also. I don't know when people will learn.

There was even one XPCA that crashed threw the road block at the scene of the fatal almost running members down!

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eXceed Prescribed Concentration of Alcohol.

Was that the one on Canterbury Rd Graeme? I was driving home late lastnight and wondered what the road block was, cause it only seemed to go for 200 metres. Then my mother told me someone had a fatal in Vermont :blink:

And I don't know how people can crash through a road block when there's a big f*** off portable trailer saying detour with flashing arrows...that's some serious intoxication.

Birds, that was the one. I didn't end up going to the scene. Just heard it all over the air.

XPCA is Drink Driving. Bird's you would be surprised at how intoxicated some people we catch driving are. Some can't even stand up, or barely talk. Most of them are from accidents. Crashing into poles, fences, multiple parked cars.

Probably over the last 3-5 years 80% of the drink drivers I have caught are international students/visa's sadly it appears it's impossible to educate/prevent them from this behavior.

No shit about drink drivers, at work, i get people drinking about 3 to 4 bottles of sake, they're throwing food around, talking shit, and then they get into their cars and drive off after dinner, wtf is this shit?

a few times i've wanted to call the popo, but then if they're around when i knock off, i'm bound to get defected.

Probably over the last 3-5 years 80% of the drink drivers I have caught are international students/visa's sadly it appears it's impossible to educate/prevent them from this behavior.

Really? That's full on, never would have thought that.

Birds, that was the one. I didn't end up going to the scene. Just heard it all over the air.

XPCA is Drink Driving. Bird's you would be surprised at how intoxicated some people we catch driving are. Some can't even stand up, or barely talk. Most of them are from accidents. Crashing into poles, fences, multiple parked cars.

Probably over the last 3-5 years 80% of the drink drivers I have caught are international students/visa's sadly it appears it's impossible to educate/prevent them from this behavior.

lucky they got all those hoons off the road in that camberfield bust good use of resources... :D road laws here are such a joke i can see why people have blatant disregard for them.

since i would like to see the limit be .00 for everyone i think anything over .05 should be impounded, and not just for 48hrs, for the whole time they have lost there license, also they have to pay storage if they want to keep it, if they dont want to keep it they sign it over and it gets auctioned off and the proceeds go to victims of crime fund or something like that.

It is practically impossible to have a limit of 0.00 even though this is the limit for P platers, many things contain small amounts of alcohol which people are not aware of, including mouth wash, medication, deserts ect not to mention whilst your body processes about 1 standard drink per hr the last amount of alcohol takes much much longer. If you are going with the you cannot drink at all theory then the lowest reasonable limit is 0.02 compared with 0.05 and you can have 1 drink then drive.

(In other parts of the world the BAC is 0.08 there are studies that prove this is a very reasonable limit)

Obviously the penaltys are not enough to make ppl think twice about drink driving so they need to be harder, bring in laws like that and maybe then ppl will have second thoughts.

Instead they bring in laws where the only evidence needed is a cops word which is wide open for abuse and your car gets impounded.

Drink driving laws are quite tough IMO at least for the minnor offenses such as just over 0.05 or P platers which read under 0.05. Years ago a mate of mine was done for 0.02 hadn't consumed any alcohol for 40hrs and was not drunk of affected by alcohol. He was walking for quite a while which IMO under these circumstances this was well beyond reasonable.

But just to make this clear I believe being drunk and driving is desgraceful and should be penalised harshly.

He wants to contest it saying his Honda Jazz doesn't go that fast.

Haha what a joke, my old Daewoo Matiz Van (800cc 3cly) went that fast! Throw the book at him. Muppet..

As for a .00 BAC limit, this is a stupid idea. There goes having a glass or two of wine with dinner or a couple of beers at the football etc. It's up to the individual to make the sensible decision not ban everyone.

The real problem is repeat offenders. I know plenty of people who have been caught multiple times drink driving. It's a habit for them. In these cases it laws are too lenient.

since i would like to see the limit be .00 for everyone i think anything over .05 should be impounded, and not just for 48hrs, for the whole time they have lost there license, also they have to pay storage if they want to keep it, if they dont want to keep it they sign it over and it gets auctioned off and the proceeds go to victims of crime fund or something like that.

Obviously the penaltys are not enough to make ppl think twice about drink driving so they need to be harder, bring in laws like that and maybe then ppl will have second thoughts.

Instead they bring in laws where the only evidence needed is a cops word which is wide open for abuse and your car gets impounded.

What a crock. The problem is not people who are 0.04. The problem is people who break the current laws are not punished harshly enough. Especially the serious repeat offenders.

How is blood alcohol limit a cops word??

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