Speeding fines drop in s.a

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Originally Posted by flappist

Because too many are becoming conditioned to "speeding is baaaad m'kay" and this is just like re-arranging the deck chairs on the titanic. Sometime speeding is DANGEROUS other time not so much but the solution of choice for all situations is "let them commit the offence and then fine them".

My favorite speeding offense is "speeding in a school zone".

If you take away the whole wowserism aspect and assume that the people who are exceeding the limit in a school zone are doing due to extraneous circumstances and not purposely endangering children then a VERY frightening aspect appears.

The police set up their LIDAR/RADAR at the end of the school zones to catch persons speeding. In order for them to achieve this the must purposely endanger children rather than stand at the incoming end and actually slow the potential speeding drivers down.

The wowsers will cry "but they will learn a lesson and not do it again" basing their sage wisdom on the assuption that the driver regularly drives on that road and purposely endangers the children. The drivers are not the ones using children as bait in a trap.

We have a large crocodile in the Mary River here at the moment that is proving to be rather hard to catch and relocate.
If we put some school kids into the river as bait that may draw out the croc so it would be easier to catch after all catching the croc is more improtant than the kids lives........isn't it?

Would a child accidentally eaten by the croc be a greater tragedy than one killed in a traffic accident in front of a school while there was a speed trap operating?

so you have 1st hand knowledge of how things work in SA with crossing speed detections or you are just using this thread to peddle your own agenda.

Regardless: monitoring the speed of cars anywhere on a 40km/h limit is is not putting the lives of children at any more risk . No the police are not putting up go faster signs to lure the public into speeding and endangering the children, your baiting the crocs comparison is ludicrous.

The idea is that we want motorists to go through crossing zones at <40km/h all the time, not just when they see a police car ahead, hopefully you appreciate the numerical logistical impossibility of putting police cars in the front of all crossings in this country

Long term behaviour modification is the key, we simply havent got enough police to be visible to make everyone do the right thing all the time, punters that speed through enough crossing will eventually get enough speeding tickets that either they will lose their licence or modify their behaviour if there is a chance of being done anywhere anytime.