Speed Enforcement - New Digital Speed Camera Capability
Gwynne Pennell, Officer in Charge CVIU has also advised that there will be no change to the 5kph tolerance applicable to heavy vehicles over the holiday weekend.She has confirmed that drivers of HMV's will be ticketed if they exceed any posted speed limit by more than 5kph and this will apply to speed enforcement carried out by speed cameras as well.
henderson_guy,
Oct 19, 9:35am
Although the new speed cameras apparently weren't gong to be rolled out until 1st November.
pollymay,
Oct 19, 11:12am
I've had it with cops this weekend, I got passed by a range rover in a 50k zone that roared past a line of cars kicking up a big branch hitting my windscreen. There was a cop sitting at an intersection just up from this that would of seen it, he was oncoming to the guy. However instead he ignored it and parked back in the bushes just back from catching another "speeder", I have no idea why he ignored the guy, I was fuming. He at least needed talking to because no one was doing way under the limit, I was showing 53 clicks. Plus it was a dangerous passing manoeuvre. If the cop didn't see he had to be completely blind or distracted to the point where he shouldn't of been driving.
Then just down the road near huntly there was a young woman pulled over with a flat struggling a bit from what I could see, it was starting to get dark. If I hadn't been loaded to the rails with stuff on the trailer I'd of pulled over but I was wide and heavy with tyre slowly going flat myself so had to press on, didn't want the trailer hanging out on the highway. Cop just sailed past like it didn't matter, saw him up the road with a commodore pulled over. If he had any sense he'd of flipped the lights to keep things visible and helped the woman rather than fart about with the tolerance thing.
It was pretty poor even disregarding the whole stupid tolerance.
chebry,
Oct 19, 11:38am
Thats why they invented a trailer licence some of us actually know about towing trailers and we dont guess what its doing behind us we know.
chebry,
Oct 19, 12:02pm
Most drivers I see are at the maximum of their skill set at 100kmh and as for overtaking I will always exceed 100kmh I want to spend as little time as possible in the opposite direction lane. Are you one of those dimwits who sits at 100 in the passing lane alongside 45 tonne trucks instead of passing and going away you creep past then slow the truck down on corners and hills
sharchew,
Oct 20, 10:15am
Looks like they want more money for the christmas piss up
berg,
Oct 20, 6:27pm
Try working for them in this time of endless budgetary cuts and you will see just how stupid that comment is.
directorylist,
Oct 20, 7:34pm
Its funny how many people get upset at the police for doing their jobs. And they even have the common decency to give people a heads up.
All you have to do to stop getting a fine is slow down.
Such a bunch of unreasonable meanies!
flack88,
Oct 20, 7:49pm
Theirs no where near the traffic this weekend as in previous weekends,maybe they dont no the recessions over/!!.What is the actual tolerance !on the wireless,the government spin doctor said 4kph !is it that ,or what the TO feels like!Got caught by speed camera last year,when no tolerance was on,middle of the nite,open deserted road,lesson learned!
wrong2,
Oct 20, 10:30pm
no one here is rubbishing the cops for doing their jobs
what we rubbish them over is how they work as collection agents for the govt instead of doing their jobs
the speed cameras have nothing to do with safety
johnf_456,
Oct 20, 11:23pm
No, but good luck when speed cameras are placed at the end of a pasding lane. It makes it one expensive overtake to save a few seconds of travel time only to get stuck again by another up the road.
gardie,
Oct 20, 11:33pm
I thought that it was changed recently to 4km tolerance all of the time.If I knew it was higher, I'd probably drive a little faster.
splinter67,
Oct 20, 11:36pm
seen one yesterday in the middle of the passing lane heading south out of rotorua
morrisman1,
Oct 20, 11:42pm
My radar detector when off the other day and the only car in the vicinity was a silver mondeo station wagon. This was near invercargill. The cop may have been a couple km away but perhaps not too, the mondeo was parked in a hot spot for speeding and had its lights on.
r15,
Oct 21, 2:11am
make a video, social media adopts video really well.all you need to do is set your camera up by the passing lane, and then video the results,
create a video of the highlights, both with the speed camera and without.the public will lap it up
smac,
Oct 21, 3:32am
Have driven from Napier to Rotorua return this weekend.
Didn't see anyone being a dick (on the road).
Didn't see any cops abusing their power or being dicks.
Traffic was a bit slow in places, but I passed.no drama.
Huh.
offrd1,
Oct 21, 4:01am
O yes it does,especially if the slow drivers do not pull over and let the faster drivers through,i reckon more drivers die through impatience than any speeding drivers,nothing wrong driving slow just bloody well pull over.i have been driving all day for Fonterra today and some of the slow drivers with 20 cars behind camper vans is ridiculous.i say target slow drivers on long weekends the same as speeders.THEY ARE BLOODY DANGEROUS .unfortunately humans do get impatient especially following for long length of time,,SO yes slow drivers kill
pollymay,
Oct 21, 5:59am
I did the sensible thing and stayed in this weekend.
so when behind the muppets who sit on 95 on the straights & then brake heavily for every bend in the road we should just follow them for hour after hour cause i know of very few places where if you are the correct following distance there would be enough road to safely complete a passing manoeurve whilst staying under 100kmh . Are you one of those clowns who pulls out at the start of the passing lane & wont go over 99 so only you get past and you dont give a stuff about the other 7 cars who have been patiently waiting for a passing lane . I guess you also do that other dangerous habitat of being alongside a long vehicle as the lane runs out .
lpggas,
Oct 22, 9:59pm
agreed 100% . being involved in the heavy transport industry i have utmost respect for the likes of fonterra tankers who from what i see in my frequent travels drive very profesionally showing lots of courtesy .
lpggas,
Oct 22, 10:07pm
The attached link from police website explicitly states cameras may not be used with 250mts of end of passing lane or change of speed signs
so it should be because having somebody slam on the anchors at the end of a passing lane cause they see a camera is a recipe for a disaster
This 4kph tolerance horse manure is horse manure, and as has been proven yet again over the holiday weekend just gone it very obviously makes absolutely no difference to the holiday toll. The holiday toll is in the main due to half wits with a gizzard full of grog (because its a holiday weekend) doing things like staggering down badly lit roads at night in dark clothing, and in the process staggering into the path of 'normal' road users who due to probable circumstance do not see said half wits with a gizzard full of grog and it is all over bar the funeral. The rest in the main can be blamed on good old bad driving by bad drivers !
What the 4kph tolerance does seem to do is create enormous tail backs all over the place where no one is prepared to risk overtaking due to the presence of the fed's and their dash mounted revenue collecting devices hunting them out and pinging them for ridiculously low over the limit speeds with a device that is said to have a +/- 3kph error factor !
What I did notice over the holiday weekend just gone (where due to circumstance I was compelled to spend a considerable period on this country's main 'roads') was that wherever there were tail backs (which were everywhere) they seemed to be being caused by some plonker travelling at bang on 90kph. Which suggests to me that a lot of these holiday congestion problems seem to be connected to low speedometer readings from incorrectly calibrated speedometers.
If the powers that be are not going to do anything about improving this country??
countrypete,
Oct 23, 2:32am
Well said!
therafter1,
Oct 23, 2:32am
Oh, that??
flack88,
Oct 23, 2:51am
Was talking to a driver,that had the unfortunate experience,of been on the road to Christchurch yesterday,traffic hurtling along at speeds between,45 to 78kmh !like a line of sheep,towing vehicles not pulling over at all .But hey they safe drivers,because they are SLOW!until the passing lanes.
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