Fined For Driving To Slow!

Macca23 · 04-04-2008, 02:24 PM

No not me :togo:

Leader Newspaper, Slow Driving Fine

Just a article in my local paper. ->

WHEN Cronulla P-plater Richard Ossington, 18, decided to listen to his mum's advice to take it easy on the roads, he didn't expect to be pulled over by the police.
The bottle shop attendant was fined $238 and stands to lose four points from his licence after he was pulled over for driving too slow in a right-hand lane.

Mr Ossington was driving at 65kmh in a 90kmh speed zone on the Princes Highway at Loftus/Royal National Park, near Farnell Avenue, on Easter Saturday when officers from Sutherland Highway Patrol stopped his car and issued him with an infringement.

Whats your opinion?

For me, This is one of my pet hates, Right lane camper's! 65kms in a 90kms zone is silly if its in good weather conditions!

I think its good the police are booking for it, I havent herd of it happen very much. I travel this stection of road alot and there really is no need to slow to that speed (unless its peakhour 20kms/hr haha). The right turn is a few hundred meters into the 70 zone after the 90kms anyway. There is lots of signs there saying "KEEP LEFT unless overtaking" as well! But its normal along this section of raod to be held up by people doing slow speeds(as with all high speed roads

: ) Not really and good excuse for his slowness. Mum excuse dosnt count!

Smoke Pursuit · 04-04-2008, 02:25 PM

should have lost his licence.. Nothing worse then someone in the right lane who isnt overtaking let alone doing 65 in a 90 zone.. Complete idiot.

BA-GT · 04-04-2008, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by LSTerritoryGhia

should have lost his licence.. Nothing worse then someone in the right lane who isnt overtaking let alone doing 65 in a 90 zone.. Complete idiot.

Totally agree

lostdude · 04-04-2008, 05:09 PM

i also hate those idiots who drive 100 in 110 zone in the left lane, but when you go to over take them they decide that they don't like it and speed up and just stay next to you all the way till about 120, then as i don't like to stay on the right lane when i'm not over taking i usually either drop back when theres no cars behind me or hit about 130 to get infront of them.

i don't want to race you I JUST Want to GET HOME within the speed limit but NOT DRIVE like a brainless pickle....

blueoval · 04-04-2008, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by lostdude

i also hate those idiots who drive 100 in 110 zone in the left lane, but when you go to over take them they decide that they don't like it and speed up and just stay next to you all the way till about 120, then as i don't like to stay on the right lane when i'm not over taking i usually either drop back when theres no cars behind me or hit about 130 to get infront of them.

i don't want to race you I JUST Want to GET HOME within the speed limit but NOT DRIVE like a brainless pickle....

oh man you got it in one. I feel like ramming them off the road when they do that. Its like they dont want to be made an example of when they are the ones holding up multiple amounts of cars in the right lane, so they think by speeding up in the left lane and not letting you in front of them is the best thing to do. Fuggin tossers they are.

AWD Chaser · 04-04-2008, 07:07 PM

He ignored a sign (and a written road rule) and got fined for it. The same goes for speeding too - ignore the posted limit and get fined.

He says he was just doing the right thing - well obviously not. Does he realise what could have happened if a truckie doing 90 didn't see him till the last minute....

Moral of the story - Don't take driving advice from old ladies!

(The above comment was just a bit of a joke and not to be taken seriously for those whom it might offend)

Mitch-BA · 05-04-2008, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by lostdude

i also hate those idiots who drive 100 in 110 zone in the left lane, but when you go to over take them they decide that they don't like it and speed up and just stay next to you all the way till about 120, then as i don't like to stay on the right lane when i'm not over taking i usually either drop back when theres no cars behind me or hit about 130 to get infront of them.

i don't want to race you I JUST Want to GET HOME within the speed limit but NOT DRIVE like a brainless pickle....

welcome to the life of the P Plater, torn between having to go 10 kms slower than everbody else on the highway and damage your ego by letting everybod pass you, or look cool and speed up, living up to the rep as a typical "p plater"

i can stand people that speed up when u go pass them and they realise they are going slow. and slow right hand lane drivers, bring those cops to adelaide
cos they would have a field day on out majors like main north and north east peak hours lol

Feral Ford · 06-04-2008, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by lostdude

i also hate those idiots who drive 100 in 110 zone in the left lane, but when you go to over take them they decide that they don't like it and speed up and just stay next to you all the way till about 120, then as i don't like to stay on the right lane when i'm not over taking i usually either drop back when theres no cars behind me or hit about 130 to get infront of them.

i don't want to race you I JUST Want to GET HOME within the speed limit but NOT DRIVE like a brainless pickle....

This is the biggest issue for me, I don’t know If some people are jealous of the cars I drive or are just complete a##holes to people who drive the cars I do.
Since buying my “bright yellow V8 with the in your face front end” I have encountered so many, many more of these people than I ever have in all my previous years of driving who see me coming up behind will drop back or speed up to stay in front of me or block me in,

I also have a Toyota landcruiser as my work car and this gets the same sort of attention from these sort of d--kwits.

The other day on the way home from work a bloke was doing about 85 or 90 along roe highway in the RHS, (posted 100), as I was coming up in the LHS this idiot sped up to the next car & matched speed with it, when the car in front of me turned off the pr--k in the right took off again until he got alongside another person, (a few occasions the people in the LHS in front of me would be doing less than 80, (but that’s their prerogative & at least they were in the left lane. In these occasion this idiot would speed off until he matched a car doing the speed he wanted, still 10 to 15 kmph under the limit.

Anyway this went on from the roe / Tonkin interchange until the great eastern bypass turnoff, on 1 of the occasions when he took off to catch up with the next car where he would slow down again I matched his speed, (I’m in a diesel landcruiser and was left far behind but he was speeding up to about 130 just to keep in front of me & when he would catch up to another car doing 80 to 90 he would slow down & match speeds with them.

Now I was not doing anything silly, (I was in a work car with sign work on the sides & I don’t want anyone phoning my boss & complaining about my driving), but I did want to drive AT the speed limit & get home.

As we were getting to the exit at Clayton St I was going to go to my folks, I indicated left, this idiot saw I was turning off so forgot about me, anyway I remembered I had a video on me to drop off at the store around the next corner so I turned the indicator off & drove to the corner at Great eastern highway, in doing this I drove pass this idiot who was still idling along in the right hand lane.
All of a sudden this idiot pulled in to LHS behind me and started flashing his lights at me.
I pulled up to turn left at the intersection and this idiot pulled up behind me honking his horn & still flashing his lights.
This was starting to get me mad and I was about to jump out & have a chat with him, but common sense took over so I drove off, the video store was only a corner up, (now a bit of the common sense had worn off), as I pulled up I did so slowly and gave the bloke a good stare as if to say COME ON, if he wanted he could of pulled up with me to explain his reasons for not liking landcruiser drivers. But sadly no instead he took off.

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It’s times like this I wish driving in Australia was really like the Mad Max films as I would have smashed the f#%&@ idiot off the road with the big steel bull bar on the front of the landcruiser.

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PS. this happens often in the XR8 & landcruiser but it never happens if I happen to be driving my old work townace van or one of the utes & it rearly occurs when Im driving the LTD

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lostdude · 06-04-2008, 12:57 AM

^^

i can tell how ****ed you are, thats a long rant lol.

**Peuty** · 04-04-2008, 02:26 PM

Yep, if only he kept to the left. Serves him right.

ingall9 · 04-04-2008, 02:28 PM

its about time, more people should get hit with this. I get sick of freeway driving being impeded by morons who dont know how to keep left. My own grandfather does it. He sits on 90 everywhere he goes, regardless of the speed limit, so yes on the M4 ins sydney, middle lane at 90km/hr regardless of the fact that the left lane is completely empty. The amount of people who move immediately into the overtaking lane when one begins and then procede to sit there until the end of the lane regardless of whether they are overtaking anyone or not is infuriating.

I feel better now after getting that off my chest

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Fev · 04-04-2008, 02:32 PM

That was just dangerous and incredibly stupid..

lets start a movement! every time you see some moron doing 20 under in the right hand lane, tailgate, flash lights and honk the horn!

VIVA LA REVOLUTIONE!!!(sp lol)

Buddy 1 · 05-04-2008, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Fev

That was just dangerous and incredibly stupid..

lets start a movement! every time you see some moron doing 20 under in the right hand lane, tailgate, flash lights and honk the horn!

VIVA LA REVOLUTIONE!!!(sp lol)

I already do this

why though do they then go slower

: or even worse jam their brakes on

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fmc351 · 04-04-2008, 02:35 PM

He was probably doing so deliberately in a foolish attempt to make fun of 'hoon laws'.

No, I dont know, just putting it out there.

FGII-XR6 · 04-04-2008, 02:37 PM

about time he deserves what he got. if he is not a good enough driver to maintain the spoeed limit in reasonable trafic and weather conditions his licence should be reviewed he is obviously not confident on the road. and to make things worse he was sitting in the right lane no warning needed there are signs all over the place in nsw warning about this and that fines apply

rick'o · 04-04-2008, 02:38 PM

Actually, a funny example was Spencer Howson on 612 ABC Brisbane, who got done for doing 6k's (or something as silly) over the limit along Coronation Drive.

He then drove back and forth infront of the manned trap, driving well under the limit and was pinged for driving to slow by an irate cop!

Very funny...

RogueDriver · 04-04-2008, 02:46 PM

Any chance we can ship the cops involved to Adelaide? They would come in handy on Main North Road!

blueoval · 04-04-2008, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by RogueDriver

Any chance we can ship the cops involved to Adelaide? They would come in handy on Main North Road!

They wouldnt just be useful there. Try the southern expressway too.

IF YOUR NOT GOING TO KEEP UP WITH THE TRAFFIC, STAY IN THE LEFT HAND LANE!!!

This kid got what he deserved.

lostdude · 04-04-2008, 03:35 PM

what a hoon....

but my biggest greatest hatest hate of all time is idiots who can't judge a gap and pull out from the left into the right lane , then i have slam my brakes on just so i don't help them along. this is on the m5.

The G6ET Spot · 04-04-2008, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by lostdude

what a hoon....

Now. crush his car

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TEaaron · 06-04-2008, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by lostdude

what a hoon....

but my biggest greatest hatest hate of all time is idiots who can't judge a gap and pull out from the left into the right lane , then i have slam my brakes on just so i don't help them along. this is on the m5.

That's something I hate the most as well, I dunno how people with such poor judgment get their licance.

The day I picked up my jag I was comming home on a 2 lane wide 70 zone, there was a road to the left entering at 90 degrees connected by a slip lane. I see this VW absolutly hammering down the road, well fast enough to make it into the road I was on before I got past the slip lane.

Anyway this person in the vw suddenly panicks and slams the brakes on and stops right in my lane, basicicly 90 degrees across the road, I have to brake relitivly hard, p1ssed off I was I flashed my lights then once their 5 second hesitation was over I sat half a meter away from em flashing my lights and holding my horn down in this big 2 ton jaguar.

I can honestly say I've never seen anyone crap them selfs as much as that person did.

Pinch · 04-04-2008, 03:49 PM

I posted this topic in the P-platers what are they taught this morning as well.

Here is my response to the paper that published the 'article' (hardly journalism in my view). They have posted this reply on their site this morning though:

Absolute support for the highway patrol on this one. Mr Ossington was not fined for driving slowly, he was fined for failing to keep left unless overtaking on a high speed dual carriageway. A driving licence is a privilege not a right (supposedly). For Mr Ossington who studied and got his licence so recently to completely disregard or fail to know the road rules so soon after is a sad indictment of either the testing process or Mr Ossington's attitude to driving. What make matters even worse is that this 'mad mile' (as it is known to regular users) is notorious for this dangerous behaviour and accordingly signs reminding of the road rule Mr Ossington broke are posted all along that area. Turning right somewhere in the next few kilometres is as much as an excuse to this offense as going through a red light and claiming immunity 'as nothing was coming'. This is simply a beat up and hardly worthy of press attention. Instead Mr Ossington should show remorse, accept responsibility for his offending and learn from and and better his driving. Congratulations to the Police for actually enforcing the road rules.

I sent this to the paper - and they have posted it on their website under the article.

A bit of background that those in the Shire will well know.

The area in question is known locally as the 'mad mile'. It is a cesspool of simmering road rage due to the prolific right lane hogging and bad driving that goes on.

Don't get me wrong, I grew up in Engadine, but Engadine drivers generally cannot drive to save their lives.

The reason right lane hogging is such an issue here is twofold (and probably why it is actually policed to some extent):

1. This is the first 'open' part of the Princes Hwy heading out of Sydney. It is the first dual carriageway with a limit of 90km/h. Most people are still in mind-neutral city driving mode and forget they have entered a major, higher speed arterial dual carriageway and the difference in driving technique and legality that that brings.

2. There are major turn off's at both ends of the approx 5 k carriageway. Southbound is the turn off to Engadine, one of Sydney's southern-most suburbs with a largely car based population, and northbound - the first access from the south to Cronulla, Miranda shopping precinct and the entire east part of the Shire. Most drivers are so lazy they just sit in the right lane the entire way just because they have to turn right at some time in the not-too distant future of their lives.

This isn't the first case in the media claiming foul over prosecution of a mad mile right lane hogger. An ex member of parliament (for the area no less) took a similar fine to court and lost claiming he needed to turn right (on a motorbike) within 3 km. Now in my mind, if it takes you 3km to change lanes, then its time for a bus ticket.

The resultant road rage along here along with tailgating and undertaking is almost as abhorrent.

Three cheers for the Sutherland Highway Patrol. Champions. Now if that example could be followed on the other of Sydney's major arterials then there would be a whole topic of threads that would be avoided.

Yep - this whole thing fire's me up as you can tell.

The G6ET Spot · 04-04-2008, 04:03 PM

Serves himself right, being a P plater makes it worse as he should have the road rules fresh in his memory.

I certainly hope that the police are going to start cracking down on this more often. As was said earlier,it is a pet hate for a lot of people.

Try coming back from up north on the F3 on a weekend, you have no hope in the right lane. 90% of the time the left lane is moving faster. Grrrrrrrr

TOASTED · 04-04-2008, 02:49 PM

he deserved it for sure. it makes me friggin mad when this happens to me

||| · 04-04-2008, 02:53 PM

they should impound his car then crush it

Wretched · 04-04-2008, 02:55 PM

Well done to the cops involved, more of this to happen the better.
Now all we need them is on every Melbourne freeway.

XR8putts · 04-04-2008, 03:43 PM

Despite the fact he's a moron (for driving that slow, and in the RHS lane FFS), good on him for listening to his mum but more so for trying (unsuccesfully) to be responsible. Someone had to say it.

Don't get me wrong, I can't stand fastlane campers, but I'd rather encounter (maybe not whilst following him) this guy than another car in another situation doing 140kph.

Go on, call me a keyboard warrior for going against the trend.

FordACE · 04-04-2008, 04:08 PM

I agree with everyone here, he deserves what he got. The amount of times I've been flashed by people who I overtake on the left and then go in front of them.. It drives me insane. This is the perfect thread to show off my sticker on my car. These people outrage me.

sfr rob · 04-04-2008, 04:11 PM

The police should have suspended his licence and crushed his car on the spot.

Being a truck driver and dealing with this day in and day out, it drives me bonkers and have seen so many people nabbed for: " " " doing the right thing " " " .

JC · 05-04-2008, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sfr rob

The police should have suspended his licence and crushed his car on the spot.

Being a truck driver and dealing with this day in and day out, it drives me bonkers and have seen so many people nabbed for: " " " doing the right thing " " " .

Yeh, because trucks never do that do they?