Was doing 65kph in a 50kph zone. $80. SERVES ME RIGHT! But my anger is not for getting a fine, it's because it takes 14 days for me to find out I was speeding. I dont see why, in this technological age, I couldnt receive notification that day by email. It would speed-up the whole process, save on printing & postage. Best of all, I'd be able to modify my behavior immediately.
morrisman1,
Nov 29, 8:40pm
they dont give a crap about you modifying you behaviour, otherwise there wouldnt be speed cameras. Speed cameras are revenue gathering. Road police I believe are far more effective in reducing speeds (if that even matters)
tom-tk,
Nov 29, 8:41pm
Not meaning to sound smart, but how would they know you email, or that it was still up to date? many people don't have emails or change them frequently
Posting them out, although slower, is more certain
r.g.nixon,
Nov 29, 8:41pm
They didn't have your email address. And if you changed it, they would still just have your old one.
How about fill out and send them a Direct Debit Authority form? Then they can just take it from your bank account each time you offend.
mack77,
Nov 29, 8:45pm
It's very pleasing to "hear" that you're prepared to modify your behaviour. The rest of the speedsters don't see anything wrong with speeding on our public roads and have no intention of changing their behaviour. They just say something silly like "speed doesn't kill".
dr.doolittle,
Nov 29, 8:45pm
Thats not such a bad idea. IRD, Bank, Police, lots of people have my email address. And for the more transient type, email is less likely to change than a postal address. They could even text you a link to your infringement notice.
alfred011,
Nov 29, 9:19pm
If you are lucky john key might send you a Christmas card thanking you for the donation to to consolidated fund.
franc123,
Nov 29, 9:25pm
You must be forgetting that Govt depts are involved here, why is speed, efficiency and deployment of latest technology being expected with respect to these transactions? Its more important that the MBIE has big screen TV's in the waiting room first.
saxman99,
Nov 29, 9:58pm
The other day a cop decided he didn't like my driving but instead of pulling me over, he phoned me later that day. How he linked my number plate to my mobile is anyone's guess. I reckon they could get your email easy as.
2get1,
Nov 29, 10:02pm
if on any form relating to licencing, owning a vehicle RUC or anything of the like, you have put your phone number. then they have direct access to that. let alone the access they have via various computer programmes to phone records and accounts from various teleco's
saxman99,
Nov 29, 10:20pm
Don't think I have ever put it on a form but possibly. Also I wonder if he cross-checked my name and popped up my firearms license, that will have my number for sure. Wasn't sure if he was allowed to do that or not.
2get1,
Nov 29, 10:34pm
information held by Police in regard to one aspect of your life, is yes viewable by all with access to their systems and it is allowed.
mortluby,
Nov 30, 5:37am
For all the major EQ's I was on call and had to go into town to secure quite a few buildings. Rather than taking the sign written work wagon I took my Cherokee (fishing hack). Was in town for 10 minutes meeting up with property owners/managers when I got a call from police on my work cell asking what I was doing in those areas. The only info they started with was my personal reg.
dr.doolittle,
Nov 30, 6:48am
You dont tell off a child or kick a dog(so to speak) for something it did 2x weeks ago if you want to change it's behavior.
gazzat22,
Nov 30, 7:23am
Well it is 2015,thats 31 years from" !984 " by George Orwell.
skiff1,
Nov 30, 7:32am
do they have your email?
skiff1,
Nov 30, 7:32am
are you a child or a dog?
lookoutas,
Nov 30, 8:04am
It takes about 2 weeks mate. I know - Just suck it up.
2get1,
Nov 30, 9:15am
he perhaps is a child wearing a dog suit and driving fast so get the f. out of his way lol
but I agree with the point being made.I ticket in the mail does nothing to change your habits at the time you offended,so it cant have been so much a safety hazard in the first place. Until camera tickets have demerit points attached to them, they will be seen as purely revenue collection and will do little to change driver habits. People only really start to slow down once the points are getting up there. and that's the people that actually care. Those that totally don't, will never slow down and will drive regardless of it they have a licence or not.
lookoutas,
Nov 30, 12:27pm
So you must have plenty points up your sleeve if you travel at the speeds you mentioned.
Must admit, it slowed me down when I had 95, and 12 months before any started falling off. Now I've got none, it does give a bit more room for cocky'ness. Probably wouldn't have done 110 the other day to pass a truck'n'trailer. And if you sort out what car I was driving, you will understand:-) But I will deny it.
2get1,
Nov 30, 12:40pm
haha the speeds I mentioned in another topic where a few years ago and done in the guise of employement :)
I currently have zero points :) granted I have had maybe 2 camera tickets for nuisance value amounts and speeds this year. But that ticket in the mail as has been pointed out does little to change your behaviour nor does it change the danger or lack there of at the time the offence was committed. Its only the points that make you slow down. I think most people get that aspect.I never complain about the dollar value of a ticket,nor get on a MB and bitch and moan when I do get pinged. I take it on the chin and view the fine in a similar way to tolls on a toll road. Toll roads generally allow you to get to your destination quicker. but they cost some money. Driving abit faster than the posted limit also allows me to get to my destination quicker and the fine is like the toll. And that's if you get caught. Most drivers don't get caught every time they speed so when you average it out over say a year you just take the camera ticket on the chin as the maybe 1 in 10 times you actually got snapped.
rpvr,
Dec 1, 11:15am
If they really wanted to change driving behaviour instaed of just revenue gathering, then the way to do it would be to abolish fines, and instead suspend licences, ie. 10k over the limit, 7 days suspension. The inconvenience would be give a greater incentive to keep within the limit. Similarly, people caught without current rego or WOF should have to stop driving the vehicle on the spot until it complies. The vehicle would go home on a towtruck at the owner's expense.
lugee,
Dec 1, 1:24pm
Doesn't really fit the drime. 7 days suspension for what could be a $30 fine? What about people who have to get to work, or take kids to school? Appeal to the courts for an essential travel permit for the duration of a 1 week suspension?
Administering that would also likely cost huge amounts to the taxpayer, because there's no 'revenue,' but all the costs associated with suspending licenses.
People will just continue to drive anyway as what are the chances of getting pulled over again in a week.
klrider,
Dec 2, 6:20am
If speed cameras do not modify behaviour then you would expect the OP to be driving in the same area at speed again without a care in the world right? But clearly that is not the case. So maybe the fine is a deterant. I would probably travel faster more often if there was no chance of being caught by a speed camera somewhere. I never speed in areas I know there are speed cameras, do you?
hamhonda,
Dec 2, 7:38am
Did the OP not know before they got the ticket that doing 65 in a 50km area was wrong?
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