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Todays titbit from down under

  • 22-07-2013 3:41pm
    #1
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭




    The report explains everything note the absence of any brake lights before the red light intersection.

    Warning this video contains a serious crash. (No blood no gore)

    Could have been so much worse


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  • #2
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Not that bad of a crash. Could have been a lot worse.

    I love the part at the end where the police have to justify the chase in the first place. It will never cease to amaze me that being chased by police can be used as a defence against the person speeding/driving dangerously/crashing. "If my client wasn't being chased he would not have crashed". If your client didn't break the law he wouldn't have been chased. If he pulled in, the chase wouldn't have happened!!! If i'm not mistaken, that defence was used on a case in Dublin.


  • #3
    TheNog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭TheNog


    Also note the driver had little or no control of the car. Everyone was lucky


  • #4
    timmywex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭timmywex


    In other news from Australia

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2374962/Banned-driver-attempting-control-car-steering-wheel-PLIERS.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


  • #5
    angelfire9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭angelfire9


    What do the mean 'charged with driving a high powered vehicle as a P plater" ??


  • #6
    hawkelady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭hawkelady


    angelfire9 wrote: »
    What do the mean 'charged with driving a high powered vehicle as a P plater" ??

    P plate is provisional or probationary licence. Same as a learner driver here.


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  • #7
    angelfire9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭angelfire9


    And there are vehicle restrictions??


  • #8
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    angelfire9 wrote: »
    And there are vehicle restrictions??

    Oh yes
    A vehicle that:
    • has an engine with eight cylinders or more, or
    • has an engine that is turbocharged or supercharged (except those listed in the probationary vehicle database). There are also some lower powered turbocharged or supercharged vehicles which have been exempted and can be operated by a probationary driver who has been given an exemption by VicRoads. Refer to lower performance turbocharged or supercharged vehicles and the probationary vehicle database for more information
    • has an engine that has been modified to increase the vehicle's performance (other than a modification made by the manufacturer in the course of the manufacture of the vehicle, or
    • a nominated high performance six cylinder engine (refer to the probationary vehicle database).

    http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/Licences/GetYourPs/RestrictionsOnPs/Pplatedriversandprobationaryprohibitedvehicles.htm


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