Comments on: Queensland police to impound and sell off cars

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:34:06 +0000

“Trap the buggers and make em pay”, Your attitude is a bit harsh. Cars are expensive things to maintain and keep on the road, And being an important part of many peoples livelyhood to get to and from work. To have a massive trap like this and send people straight to court, they will be punishing good people for minor faults which they probly working to fix, Fair enough if they target sports cars. I hope they catch you for something very minor and they send you straight to court and you loose your licence because you lost a few points accidentally doing slightly over the limit, then you cant get to work, so you loose your job, and have to pay the police fines but have no income.

By: S

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:52:30 +0000

If trucks and buses have speed limeters on them so should cars and i know someone who did drive trucks interstate and was in a number of accouncents that was not his fault and he gave up interstate driving and just local driving and if cars were limmerted it would save alot of you young drivers and alot of young drivers have no idea how to drive v8 or high powered cars

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:36:09 +0000

well if you say that you have no idea what you are talking about because it looks like you have never driven one and well australian are lucky they don’t have to driving tests like they do in europe where the do a driving test in the local streets in daylight hours and one test at night time and the same on the highway and ask any one from europe who speaks english and they will tell you

By: nick

nick — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:58:50 +0000

Sean, limiting cars to 110 km/h is not only stupid and over-governing but it is also extremely dangerous if you are overtaking a truck for example. In addition to that your lack of literacy loses you a lot of credibility. I don’t understand how diesel cars are safer for young drivers than petrol cars. Also, most young drivers could not afford a diesel car for their first because it is only quite recent that diesel cars have entered the Australian market.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:33:43 +0000

I think cars should be speed limmeted to 110 km/h and push for more diesel cars. my first car was a 4wd with a big 6 a slow reving petrol but it cost to much to run and my second was a turbo diesel pajero 2.5 litre with a five speed manaul and driving on the freeway at 100 km/h it was reaving at 3000 rpm 110 was about 3500 rpm 120 km/h around 4000 rpm and it was easy to drive but the police left me alone my second diesel pajero had a 5 speed gearbox same motor but more nicer inside and my latest 4wd is a diesel automatic and a great car to drive but to any perrents wanting to get there teenager a first car look at diesel they are more souted for them and if i did it i would not let my teenagers drive petrol cars until they have a few years driving experence behind them and if want a 6 cylinder it would be only a diesel powered and on the licence it should have diesel only. and diesel manauls are easyer to drive then petrol manauls. i got into a petrol manaul v6 4wd it took me six months to get the feel of the car because petrol manauls are harder to drive then diesel because the taque is a lot lower and i hill started in 2nd gear with the hand break going up it.

By: andy

andy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:33:36 +0000

Wake up people!! All these laws do is bring in more revenue for the Government from the 99% of non-criminal citizens. If your child gets YOUR car impounded it will be sold – so all this “Get tough on crime” cr*p just means you lose your car or your child goes to jail while criminals continue to flout the law and rarely get a sentence they deserve. Bring it on because you won’t learn until your car get impounded for non-payment of fines/parking tickets.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:45:34 +0000

Here is something for you all to ponder. Whilst I agree that the police should be able to impound cars from those who have been caught driving whilst disqualified and agree with Commissioner Atkinson when he says, ‘…a fair tactic … removing risky drivers from the road,’ and the Police Minister’s quote of, ‘…these are people who generally have thousands of dollars owing to the state and are not paying off their fines …’ but get a load of this!!!!!

One of those red super cars pulled my son up yesterday on the Bruce Highway. Sirens and lights activated. He was in his work ute returning home early to celebrate his birthday. The police said that he had done nothing wrong in the driving department but their ‘check’ had revealed that his licence had expired. Together they checked, and sure enough, the licence had expired … that is, it was out of date, not cancelled or disqualified!
He apologised and fully expected an infringement notice. Not so. The vehicle was impounded for 48 hours ($260.00 for the tow truck, thank you) and he was given notice to appear in the Magistrates Court to answer the charge.

Unbelievable! Vehicles impounded because the driver’s licence had expired a short while ago. Clearly this was not the intent of the legislation and not the way the Commissioner saw it when making his statement about tactics and removing risky drivers from the road. How risky is an expired licence?

The outcome will be two days of lost work, plus a third for the court date, $260 towing fee and whatever fine the Magistrate hands down on the day.

If the legislation does allow for this then we are in serious trouble here in Qld.

The whole situation is unbelieveable.

By: BRISBANER

BRISBANER — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:16:18 +0000

I have an idea or two to cut the road toll in Qld. Firstly change the speed limits to a simple 50 and 80 kph limits. No 40,50,60,70,80,90,100 and 110. This will eliminate the average Joes getting pulled over for accidentally speeding and as one who travels on the notorious Gateway where trucks constantly fly along a very patchy road (like most of the badly surfaced roads in Brisbane)I find the 100kph speed limit means anything unexpected happens there is no time for a reaction and generally nowhere to go.Secondly increase the train system particularly to unis and places like the theme parks on the Gold Coast that attract young people. My daughter was involved in an accident that could have quite easily have been fatal and given time she will hopefully recover. Believe me road safety is utmost in my mind at the moment and I cannot believe how there can be an average of about 4 accidents on the road every morning when I am taking my younger children to school and this is just treated as the norm. The Brisbane roads cannot cope with the influx of people who have moved here and this leads to drivers who become impatient and take bigger risks. I noticed there were markedly less cars on the road when the price of fuel escalated which actually helped the road situation however it doesn’t help businesses that all one way or another rely on transportation of good via our roads. As for the destroying of cars of hoons I believe it would be much more effective to make driving part of the Year 12 curriculum (covering all 4 terms) and at the end of the year show them through the wards in the hospitals where the serious car accident victims are…I have been there, show them the brain injuries and rehabilitation necessary for recovery and perhaps it would give them a wake up call.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:24:08 +0000

The reason they target one time offenders is because you simply broke the law. Why should they let you go? Why are you so special? Also you\’re an example for them.. Psychological reinforcement, if for instance you are on the phone while driving, and get away, there is a high chance of doing it again, if you get booked you won\’t repeat it if you\’re such a good citizen.
Since you only had a break and enter, the robber was gone, there are more serious crimes to attend to, I don\’t know, lets say a murder scene. The police officers have a list and which is more important will be attended. Since you question the police force with such great enthusiasm, I\’d assume a person of your intelligence would have some understanding of this… But I was wrong.
Might I add, there is a reason they use unmarked police, surprise surprise, I i won\’t hind it from you, but people can spot out marked police cars, it\’s no secret. They are effective in catching these one time offenders and drag racers, with a great deal of success and your casual offender.
And (stupid laws), there is a reason why governments don\’t spend numerous amounts of tax payers money on hopeless, useless and pointless projects like building a wall around roads. Simply its too expensive and it will serve very little purpose for the amount spend. People are homeless, and you want to soften up our roads like a circus bumper car. If you\’ve done any physics, you\’d know you\’d rather have your car hit something and decelerate slowly then faster, hence the purpose of crush points in the car. If you increase time interval you crash will be less serious. If you place concrete barriers and someone happens to veer off the road into it at 100Km/h, and almost instantaneous stop, the G-force will exceed 5, and the most a human can handle is roughly 4, so his guts will be out on the wind shield and possibly his body in 2 pieces as the force applied to the seat belt will have him in 2 pieces. This obviously true on highways and freeways, smaller roads have install there barricades with high density pedestrians. So the concrete barricade will not have saved his life!
Crushing and selling cars is certainly not the way, as that will only anger and infuriate the infringed individual, leading them to do other things like abusing police officers, vandalism to government property and police officers themselves. Why is Australia, Australia? Because you can actually own something, and you have a freedom of speech etc. And for the government to take possession away from you, is something you\’d expect from a dictatorship, logical laws and plans new to be implemented, not easy quick fixes (band-aid jobs) that is the short term fix, what about the long term?!?!…
And you cannot simply pop everyone into jail for these offenses, as that is extremely expensive, 30,000-40,000 average per person per year. Mind you this does not mean kick everyone out of prison.
Another note, ACA and the other show that is shown on the other channel is absolute crap, clearly its all about ratings and only the absolute idiot would watch it, most of the evidence show is bias, completely one sided.

By: SH

SH — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:35:12 +0000

I don\’t agree with much of this, whilst the police are concerned with driver safety yes, I agree, however, why are they targeting 1 time offenders when there are many other things the police could be doing in the community instead of wasting tax payers money.

I recently had a female employee ring the police to advise of a break and enter to our office (she was on her own and advised this), 5 hrs later, the police failed to attend, I got to the office 5 hrs later and waited for the police (who said they would be there shortly), so 5 hrs, no police, i waited another 3 hrs (8hrs all up) on a Saturday, so i locked up and left.

that evening, i received a phone call from that female employee, thinking it was her telling me the police had called her to go to the office, i answered the phone, i could not pull over (there was a BIG black hummer next to me), so I answered the call to quickly find the reason for the call, immediately, I get lights and siren from a hummer (weird but hey that money could of been spent on PUBLIC SAFETY not deceit).

The police officer asked me why i answered the phone, i explained to him, i was waiting on a call from the police due to the break in and i had waited all day for them, ticket, 3 points and $280 fine or whatever it was.

He asked me why i didn\’t give the phone to my passenger, well, my daughter is 4yrs old, therefore, i don\’t think she could of answered the query.

I wrote to the head of the station and advised the situation and that my traffic history was good and no go, still proceeded to give me a ticket.

I think this is totally wrong, so they would rather issue a ticket to someone trying not to waste the police officers time then trying to investigate a robbery which i might add, i had photos of.

Where is the justice in this? i might add, the police DID NOT turn up until the Monday morning and 2 other stations were issued the job, so we are paying our taxes for the QLD Police WHY?