Re: Victorian Speed Traps ( was: 3801/30 to ararat )

[Greg Triplett <triplett@hotkey.net.au>]

Hi Paul,

> Two groups of NSW caders, running in convey on Tuesday night after the days
> proceedings were over, were flashed by the speed camera about 40km outside
> Hamilton. 

Police in hamilton are dynamite . In 1988 I used to drive
from Macedon to Millicent every Sunday night and they were
always out there in the dark somewhere between Hamilton and
Dunkeld. They nailed one night doing 126 and that was the
last ticket I've had before the one last week.

> The mistake we made was assuming the same degree of leniency as shown in
> NSW, where you generally don't get booked up to 10km/h over the posted
> limit. 

I suspect it's about 5 clicks.

> I consider this practice to be purely a revenue raising exercise, and highly
> questionable in terms of driver safety. What if we had been startled by the
> flash sufficiently to run off the road? And where are the Police on poorly
> surfaced and winding sections of highway, where speeding drivers really are
> a hazard?

It amke you wonder what good it does but the law is the law.

> Back to trains, we were talking to a local at Vite Vite on Monday, and found
> out the reason for the extraordinary schemozzle between Inverleigh and
> Cressy on Monday. As well as the huge number of motorcaders, it seems we
> unwittingly became entangled in a funeral procession, on its way to
> Berrybank! 

Didn't see any of this because I was so far behind from
having to wait whilst the man in blue wrote out the
paperwork. I then had to proceed very legally after the
train and caught it up by Berrybank.

Regards

GT