by on_one_wheel » 01 Nov 2016, 8:42 pm
Try keeping within a couple of km/ph of the speed limit in a hotted up old school V8 ... forget about it, you spend more time watching the speedo than the road ahead.
I simply drive 10 under the limit everywhere unless Im in the family car that has cruise control and over speed warning.
The police seem to truly believe that " The risk of a casualty crash approximately doubles with each 5km/h increase in speed on a 60km/h speed limited road, or with each 10km/h increase in speed on 110km/h roads."
..........BULLSIHT !
I'd be dead 10 times over if that was true. I drove Bathurst style everywhere for years before I chilled out on the roads
As for SAPOL's new slogan " Towards Zero Together " what a crock of crap !
Some wasted fcuk, time wasting, money leaching, safety w@nker from BHP has obviously found itself a job with SAPOL and has cut and pasted the totally impossible, completely unrealistic, fairy tale rubbish safety goal of zero harm to sapols safety target.
Get real sapol ! When you've got vehicles traveling at 50, 60, 100, 110kph on siht roads with little or no overtaking lanes towards each other and no more than 2 meters separating them, no barriers between them, something IS going to happen.
Add to that our lack of proper driver education / training and people watching their speedometers more than the road ahead to avoid a fine of about $500 f for 10kph over.
We've now got multiple point to point speed cameras on every major highway in sa, every redlight camera is now also a speed camera, most police cars are now mobile radars, hidden cameras popping up everywhere.
The police are now the biggest and most organised self regulated mafia in the country that's writing their own laws and rules and they have almost zero time for any policing that doesn't raise revenue.
We've got a hard drug epidemic that's completely out of control and getting worse by the day AND ALL THEY WANT TO FOCUS ON IS SPEEDING (and other revenue raising rubbish) !!!!!!
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